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Comment Re:Careful you don't run afoul (Score 1) 299

Do chefs have to have a special license now or is everyone moving to straight razor one of knives that just flip around and such, for cooking?

It's carry for no other reason then 'it may be useful' that is banned. Edged tools are not illegal to possess. You can carry chef knives to your cooking class or a machete to the woods, but if you carry a blade for every day task it has to be non-locking and under 3 inch as I understand it. eg: You may not carry your sword to the pub.

Comment Re:Careful you don't run afoul (Score 4, Informative) 299

Doesn't the U.K. have a "knife crime" problem. Hence the seemingly ridicules laws about carrying edged weapons?

I carry my Buck Knife (3" blade) everywhere with me. It's a tool. But I believe that could land me in jail in the U.K.?

Please confirm or refute.

If it lock, yes. All fix blade are banned, they consider a locked blade to be the equivalent of a fix blade. Slip join are fine, under 3 inch. eg: Laguiole, sak, spyderco uk.

IANAL. If you travel, buy a knife locally and ask the shop owner about local custom eg: It may be legal but inappropriate. A locally brought knife also make a great travel souvenirs.

Comment Re:Self restraint (Score 2) 678

How about international collaboration on having some self restraint and not causing others physical harm to others any time something in the world doesn't go your way?

You can't debate or find compromise with peoples that believe there is only one true God and that anyone not sharing that faith is wrong and unworthy of life. The only appropriate response to Saudi Arabia is to fuck off.

Comment Re:Pay for Ubuntu? (Score 1) 280

enjoy your playskool interface i will stick one that works without hiding everything

Nothing is hidden, you can access every part using the gnome terminal. Oh i get it, you need clicky interface with dozen of check box. It turn out that you aren't the 'power user' you thought you were. Enjoy your playskool interface...

Comment Re:Counterproposal to the UN (Score 3, Insightful) 957

We should remove freedom of religion. Anything acceptable* a religious person or group do is already covered by freedom of expression and assembly. Religion don't need a special case any more then Trekkies; both groups are obsesses with work of fiction.

* the extra right of mutilating babies under freedom of religion is not acceptable.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 4, Insightful) 957

Christianity has evolved and we should expect the same from other religions.

Christianity did not evolve(eg: listen to the current pope's message for example), we simply mocked the shit out of it. Christianity learn it's place and is no longer a threat to the civilized world. The void its demise left in our societies was left empty on purpose. It is not a opportunity for Islam to take over and we must make that very clear by mocking the shit out of their religion too.

Comment Re:What is Mesa? (Score 3, Informative) 80

I never really understood what Mesa was. I thought it was what you installed if you wanted software rendering of OpenGL. If you wanted hardware rendering, you installed drivers for your hardware. But now Mesa is providing hardware accelerated OpenGL? What's the point if we have open source Intel drivers?

I don't get it.

Mesa is the user-space API that talk to the driver. Some driver(eg: nvidia) may provide their own libGL.so, other may use libGL.so from mesa(eg: open source drivers). Also mesa can be use to render in software and even off-screen(eg: batch processing images files or video).

Comment Re:And in countries where it's legal? (Score 1) 498

Been tried. It didn't work so well except as a way of employing a bunch of feds by making 'organised crime' flourish.

And so is this. If peoples are not willing to legalize other psychoactive drugs maybe prohibition of alcohol should be brought back to the table until these anti-drugs ass-holes finally get enlightened.

Comment Steam vs Wine (Score 1) 580

Steam will do much for software freedom, maybe enough to undo all the harm cause by gaming on Wine. Proprietary Internet marketplace will always be proprietary and large choice of popular games on Linux will spread the use of free software. Also it will bring native ports, something Wine never did (eg; native port that link with native libwine was never use with any success).

Comment Re:Next time .. (Score 1) 318

You forgot the rest of it:

"Sir, I've obtained a search warrant for all digital storage devices in your residence..."

Exactly, let them try to get a search warrant. After a few denied requests they will learn to not abuse powers. In fact, I doubt they are willing to go further then intimidate peoples with empty threats. When high-school bullies graduate they enrol the police academy...

Comment Re:If only they knew how to even use a hammer (Score 2) 62

It was only a matter of time before leak or misuse happen. Sure 'anonymous' also committed a crime here, but the real criminal responsibility lies with the ISP and the Australian government for hoarding data they had no business to collect.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought this was explicit enough in the original message.

Comment Re:If only they knew how to even use a hammer (Score 1) 62

Except in this case the victims are the innocent people who's data has been released.

That crime was committed by the ISP, who collected the data in the first place, and the state for mandating the data to be stored for 2 years. Anonymous can only be blamed for the embarrassment the ISP suffered and everything else is not their fault. Put the blame where it is due, the ISP and the Australian government should be sued and damage should be paid to the affected customers.

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