Comment Re:Not more safe (Score 1) 611
Not if you're using Fedora 12, that is :P
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 1040
As a Brazilian living in Rio myself, I agree with you.
But I see matters even simplier:
USAÂhad the Olympics 4 times already. Wouldn't be them.
London's already in Europe and it's the next one. This vettoes Madrid.
Rio de Janeiro is the most beutiful city on Earth. Politically, it's good, 'cause we need one in South America (and Africa, for that matter). Also, Tokyo already had Olympics there.
Simple.
Comment Re:No, it's perfectly possible (Score 1) 903
Makes sense to me..
Comment Re:Let the porn industry take the lead... (Score 1) 370
rms says you ought to 'help your neighbor'... that's kinda kinky if you ask me... :P
Comment Re:other... (Score 1) 460
as a wife, that is really sweet.
Haha, you can't fool us!
We know there ain't no females around.
Comment Re:Pedant Warning! (Score 1) 394
Rio de Janeiro
Comment Obligatory: ACHTUNG ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS (Score 5, Funny) 330
Das computenmachine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springwerk, blownfusen, und poppenoorken mit spittzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen.
Das rubbernecken signtseeren keepen hands in das pockets--relaxen und watch das blinkenlights.
Comment Re:Pedant Warning! (Score 0, Troll) 394
He likes to reflect on how, of all the countries he's travelled to in the world (most of which do not have English as a local language), the one he had the hardest trouble finding a toilet in (due to comprehension problems) was America.
America isn't a country tough, you know, it's a continent. I'm pretty sure all these questions wouldn't get him to a restroom in the part of America I live, unless spoken in Portuguese.
Inventor Builds Robot Wife
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Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 423
"P", "O", and "N" are not on the left side of the keyboard.
If I did understood, that was the joke. The other hand would be holding the penis... Although that personally wouldn't work for me
Comment Re:Don't take technology for granted (Score 1) 411
That's because you're taking technology for granted. If you weren't there, that technology couldn't be deployed to help people get their jobs done. Which means no servers, no desktops, no laptops, no networks, no printers, nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero.
Probably no Zip either, friend...
Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK 388
David Gerard points out a Times Online story that says:
"Everyone [in the UK] who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society. A compulsory national register for the owners of all 72m mobile phones in Britain would be part of a much bigger database to combat terrorism and crime. Whitehall officials have raised the idea of a register containing the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone in recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies, insiders say."
We've recently discussed other methods the UK government is using to keep track of people within its borders, such as ID cards for foreigners and comprehensive email surveillance.
