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Comment Monetary damages (Score 1) 66

The suits are seeking monetary damages on behalf of potentially millions of users of the three companies.

Cool! I'm a user of google and facebook, so if they win, I'll get some mone... oh, wait...

I simply don't understand how this idiotic flood of lawsuits from everyone suing everyone else is still allowed. I mean, has anyone stopped to think of how much time and money is wasted on stupid cases? Not that this subject isn't important but come on, seeking monetary damages on behalf of the users?! WTF?!

Submission + - Gmail Video Chat now available on Linux

borfast writes: If you use Gmail on Linux, you may have wondered when would you be able to use the voice&video chat that Windows and Mac users have enjoyed for quite some time. The wait is finally over; Google yesterday announced video support for Linux browsers. Now if only Pidgin could get their act together and provide a solid video chat functionality in their client...

Comment Re:Nature, red in tooth and claw. (Score 1) 249

We are natural, indeed. Unless someone else created us (I don't believe in a god or a "superior entity", btw).

So we're either a glitch in Nature's seemingly perfect system, or a far technologically superior alien race made us.

That's actually a thought that crossed my mind a few times. Not that I give it any credibility or much thought at all but sometimes I imagine that we're nothing but tiny little particles in someone else's universe. Kind of like the galaxy in MIB 1 :)

Comment Re:Nature, red in tooth and claw. (Score 1) 249

Again, as I said in the comment I replied to a few minutes ago, those are not naturally occurring situations, those are situations created by man.

Rats didn't swim to easter island and cats were introduced in some regions by humans, too - not to mention that the latter are a species created by humans.

Look folks, it's quite simple: species don't anihilate each other just like that, because it would disrupt the whole ecosystem around them. This isn't rocket science and even farmers (no disrespect meant, it's just that farmers are not biologists, just as biologists wouldn't know how to grow corn) know what happens when some animal species gets wiped out from a region. The effects can be invisible or can be catastrophic. And Nature doesn't "let" such things happen just like that. The whole system is "built" on a very delicate balance.

Enough babling, I think I made my point.

Comment Re:Nature, red in tooth and claw. (Score 2) 249

Actually, Bananatree3 is right: we are the only species that destroy our own world and lead other species to extinction.

What you are talking about is natural selection, something that occurs naturally; what Bananatree3 was talking about is doing it on purpose, in a unnatural way.

Comment Re:Stupid on both sides (Score 1) 286

The domain owner is not stupid. He possibly bought the domain because he had other plans for it. The web is full of sites with "cool" and "funny" domain names like this one. Why should this be different? What he should do is let the banks and companies sue him for having their private documents, and then counter-sue and make a big pile of money. That would probably teach something to those stupid admins. But even if it didn't, at least he'd be rich. I know I'd hope that it would go on, if I were him.
Portables

Submission + - Not a Thinkpad 1

An anonymous reader writes: As a very happy Thinkpad T20 user (still working after 7 years) I always planned on replacing it with another Thinkpad T-series. However, Thinkpads are now produced by Lenovo, a Chinese company, and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. Maybe this is silly, as whatever I buy is likely to be made (at least in part) in China... but still, what are my options for something as well built as the Thinkpad T-series?
Censorship

Submission + - How to silence free speech silently (washingtonpost.com) 1

quizzicus writes: "The Washington Post writes today about a sensitive White House document detailing how to screen for, silence, and remove protesters who show up at the President's public appearances. Obtained by an ACLU subpoena in the Rank v. Jenkins case, the Presidential Advance Manual (pdf) lays out strategies such as searching audience members at the door for hidden protest material, strategically placing "rally squads" throughout the crowd to intercept and shout down hecklers, and forcefully removing dissenters who cannot be squelched. The manual advises, however, that staff should "decide if the solution would cause more negative publicity than if the demonstrators were simply left alone.""
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Debunking reasons not to open source game projects (blogspot.com)

FreeGamer writes: "There are many significant indie game projects that are committed to creating a quality free game where the developers are afraid of the consequences of making the development public by publishing the project under an open source license. The reasons for declining to open source a project are usually bogus. Over the years I've tried to change the minds of several game project developers, usually met with stubborn resistance. Hopefully this article can help projects earlier on in their development cycle before people have committed themselves to keeping their free game project as a closed source one."

A Free XML-Based Operating System 175

Dotnaught writes "For the past five years, Xcerion has been working on an XML-based Internet operating system (XIOS) that runs inside a Web browser and promises radically reduced development time. To provide developers with an incentive to write for the platform, Xcerion's back-end system is designed to route revenue, either from subscription fees or from ads served to users of free programs, to application authors. Think of it as Google AdSense, except for programmers rather than publishers. Is it absurd to think this poses a threat to Google and Microsoft?"

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