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Comment Re:It's a space "RACE" because that's what US want (Score 1) 283

Umm ...

I didn't say anything about democracy, did I?

I was saying that Russia remains a communist country - and it still is , in more ways than one - despite being a so-called "democracy"

BTW, "Federal Republic" doesn't really mean anything other than it has no "king"

Are you trolling? How can a democracy, even one where the incumbent party uses dirty tricks to stay in power, ever be communist? I don't think you know what the word means, apart from some sort of "like the evil old USSR" attribution. Please go and read something about politics before spouting off on subjects you are clearly extremely ignorant of.

As for democratic politicians using dirty tricks, if I can assume you are a US citizen for a moment, you may want to look back at Fox calling votes for Bush Jr when in fact no such thing had occurred. Corruption and dirty tricks happen wherever there is power, not just under communism and certainly not just in Russia.

Comment Re:Well you can slap Apple for that crap (Score 1) 255

Speak for yourself. Sunbathing here in Sweden is absolutely not unhealthy at reasonable levels (IE - not without sunblock at 1PM). I also like to have a good book with me to read in the sun (on the beach/in the park or wherever) and so back-lighting *is* a problem. Also - why the hell wouldn't I take my device to the beach? Are you too clumsy to keep your stuff out of the sand?

Google

Submission + - Google releases VP8 video codec

atamido writes: Google has released On2's VP8 video codec to the world, royalty free. They are packaging in with Vorbis audio, in a subset of the Matroska container, and calling it WebM. It's not branded as an exclusively Google project — Mozilla and Opera are also contributors. Builds of your favorite browsers with full support are available here.

Comment Re:No, PNG was primarily created to be patent-free (Score 1) 473

"Wikipedia (the admins, really) is notorious for this false belief. They protect it like a religious dogma. Because they know that it would make their whole false reality break down. (Just like with religious people.)"

I don't wish to defend Wikipedia, which is often a hive of scum and villainy, but referencing your sources is absolutely *vital* and *required* practice in writing academic papers, and so should it be for all logical reasoning which is based on earlier works. You can't reasonably expect someone arguing about climate change to explain how convection and condensation work as part of their argument can you? Previous research exists which can be referred to and used - it's up to the reader to check it out and see if the sources stick, but I'd definitely agree that an argument with references is likely to be at least slightly better researched than a random stream of groundless opinion.

For more on the above see the References section at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation

Comment Re:Greasing the wheels (Score 1) 619

It's impossible to compete on quality and price when your competition is converting their dollars into pesos. Your argument works better in reverse anyway, since companies' "right" to have high profits built on low wages even if it means breaking the law and hiring illegals or cooperating with foreign governments is obviously suspect.

Comment Oh For god's sake. (Score 0, Flamebait) 251

Oh for god's sake. It's a linux box, of COURSE it runs Pear PC.

However, it's a total waste of everyone's time. Who cares? Really? This is only interesting for twitter and digg retards. When did this sort of crap become news?! Arghh. Yes I know. I'm not new here. I'll be quiet and go back to rocking back and forth in a corner.

Science

Submission + - American Geophysical Union Climate Science Q&A (google.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The American Geophysical Union has coordinated scientists from literally around the world to staff a Climate Science Q&A email address for journalists 24x7 during the Copenhagen Negotiations. If you ever wanted to give Slashdotters a chance to assemble and pose questions to climate science's best and brightest, this is a great opportunity — perhaps for an Ask Slashdot session or something. Contact organizers@agu.emailcenterpro.com with questions or to pursue a specific Q&A session.
Science

Submission + - Dark Matter Found (Maybe). (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: ScienceNOW reports a rumor making the rounds on the physics blogosphere: the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), a small array of particle detectors lurking in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, has uncovered direct evidence of dark matter. This is the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to hold galaxies together, making the discovery — if it is confirmed — potentially one of the most important of all time. But given the same team's previously published negative results and the relatively modest increase in the size of their data set, experts think a true signal is unlikely. We will find out in ten days, when the results are published in Nature.
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Microsoft finally open sources Windows 7 tool

Krystalo writes: Ars Technica reports:

Microsoft has open sourced the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) by releasing it under the GPLv2 license. The code is now available on CodePlex, Microsoft's Open Source software project hosting repository, over at wudt.codeplex.com. The actual installer for the tool is now again available for download at the Microsoft Store (2.59MB). Last month, the company pulled the tool after GPL violation claims, started an investigation, and then took responsibility for the violation.
Linux

Submission + - Linux users show their love for indie game (koonsolo.com) 2

kwitters writes: "Indie game developer Koonsolo just revealed some surprising sales statistics on the Linux version of their game. 7 months ago they released their game 'Mystic Mine', and in that time the Linux version sold more copies than the version for Windows. Yet they get plenty more website visits from Windows users. Koen Witters, the founder of the company, explains: 'For every 232 Linux visitors we get on our website, one of them buys our game. If you compare that to the Windows users, we need 526 of them to get a single sale.'
So it seems Linux users are more eager to buy downloadable games than Windows or even Mac OS X users. This data definitely asks the question if Linux is a more viable platform for game developers than anyone currently assumes."

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