Comment Or maybe just annexed part of Georgia ? (Score 1) 496
Defended a massacre... or maybe just annexed that part of Georgia ? And nobody said a word...
Comment Which justifies killing their opponents !? (Score 1) 496
How exactly the fact that they were democratically elected justifies killing their political opponents and civilians of another country !?
If you see no difference between "crazy" evangelicals and people who fire rockets at civilians I see no reason to continue this discussion with you.
Comment Resistance to what !? Democracy in Lebanon... (Score 1) 496
Call it what you want, but nowadays Hezbollah resistance is against democracy in Lebanon (see Rafic Hariri assassination). For me this and killing other civilians in other countries is terrorism.
Comment They finance a terrorist organization (Score 1) 496
They actively support Hezbollah, which is defined as a terrorist organization by many countries including US. I don't know about you, but I think that would is a better place when terrorists do not have an access to nuclear weapons.
Comment supporting terrorist!=supporting would be terroris (Score 2, Insightful) 496
There is a big difference between supporting a terrorist organization and supporting somebody who would eventually become a terrorist, unless you claim to be able to predict the future for a few decades.
In addition, Noam Chomsky is not exactly an unbiased source in a matters related to Israel
Comment Re:Another point of view (Score 1) 677
Don't you think there is a reason to the fact that you here much more about radical muslims than radical christians ?
Submission + - "Hurt Locker" torrent lawsuit (reuters.com)
demiurg writes: The producers of "The Hurt Locker" are preparing a massive lawsuit. Voltage Pictures, the film's financier, has signed up with the U.S. Copyright Group, a Washington D.C.-based venture that has begun a litigation campaign targeting users of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) service.
Comment At the same time slashdot growd does not grow much (Score 1) 742
While kernel team is getting older, the time does not seem to affect the Slashdot crowd - it still seems to be ruled by teenagers
Comment But... they get the job done (Score 1) 426
Maybe you are right. But in the end, they get the job done... and cheap.
Submission + - Russian largest torrent tracker shut down (themoscowtimes.com)
demiurg writes: It appears that Russian authorities attempted to shut down Russia's largest torrent tracker torrents.ru. Apparently without prior notice the registrar blocked the domain, citing some court order. There are speculations that the timing of this sudden move is somehow related a US delegation visit to Russia. However, the tracker quickly resurfaced under a new name rutracker.org. This English article has an official story, while this one in Russian has what looks like a real one.
Comment Anything in the stores already ? (Score 1) 59
I'd like to buy one. Any idea if there is anything similar in the stores already ?
Submission + - Google Android is not so open after all (linuxjournal.com) 1
demiurg writes: "It looks like Google Anroid is neither fully open source nor fully open. The bulk of the Android telephony API cannot be easily accessed by 3rd party applications. There is a lot of important functionality in the com.android.internal.telephony package. For instance, the Phone application uses this internal API to make/answer a call and access the SIM. This API is not documented. It can and probably will change in the future, and generally, it is not intended for use by applications that are not part of the Android platform--so much for the "All applications are created equal" motto."
Comment Pyramid != Ponzi (Score 2, Insightful) 346
Ponzi scheme is not the same as pyramid scheme.
One important difference is that with Ponzi scheme you do not receive any real, i.e. not on paper, profit immediately.
Comment Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something (Score 1) 101
Because mobile phone hardware architecture is far from being standard. There are too many options and no standards to speak off. It can have two processors (application and baseband), or one, or the two can reside on the same die. There multitude of buses and interfaces. It takes many man years to create a decent mobile phone (Openmoko anyone ?)
Comment Re:This bother anyone else? (Score 1) 37
I bet you did not invest into cell phone either ?
