Comment Re:I guess... (Score 1) 251
I guess they need a blue penguin.
They have one.
Comment Re:Church of Scientology (Score 1) 328
Spamming doesn't ruin lives.
Eddie Davidson's family would disagree with you.
Furthermore, the increased costs in labor, bandwidth, storage and filtering technology to combat the actions of greedy, thieving spammers count as ruining lives in my book.
Comment Re:One word: Enron (Score 1) 359
Most incidents of gun violence are domestic &/or perpetrated by someone you know.
That claim is based on the flawed Kellermann study which has been repeatedly debunked.
There is far more anecdotal evidence that supports the validity of the defensive use of firearms by the armed citizen.
Comment Re:One flaw (Score 1) 316
My landlord has keys to my apartment. Does that mean I have no expectation of privacy in my own apartment, just because a third party theoretically has access to it? Even if I haven't given permission for my landlord to enter my apartment?
In Tennessee a landlord can override your 2nd Amendment rights, so what you suggest may not be that far fetched.
Comment Re:GUI Code Only (Score 1) 175
It wouldn't work at all. Nearly all voip, and I'm sure Skype is no exception, uses lossy compression for the audio. If you stuff encrypted data in, you'll just get garbage out.
How would that be any different than unencrypted Skype for Linux?
Ever since upgrading to the recent Linux client, all I get is garbage out.
Comment Re:people are spoiled these days (Score 1) 152
There were even SST sticker books for the kids.
SST stickers for the kids? Cool!
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs? 306
jfruhlinger writes "Over the weekend there's been a bit of controversy over the fact that Apple has effectively shut indie artists out of the iTunes LP market by charging $10,000 in design fees. But the real question is why Apple is in charge of designing the new iTunes LP at all, since the format is based on open Web design technologies. There's at least one iTunes LP already available outside the iTunes store. Why won't Apple sell it?"
Facebook User Arrested For a Poke 394
nk497 writes "A woman in Tennessee has been arrested for poking someone over Facebook. Sharon Jackson had been banned by courts from 'telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating' with the apparent poke recipient, but just couldn't hold back from clicking the 'poke' button. She now faces a sentence of up to a year in prison."
Comment Re:Windows Mobile (Score 1) 332
Back in the "good old days" of palm before the pre, there WAS NO over the air app store installed on the treo. You had to google for someplace to find apps for your treo, you had to go there, you had to down load them, and you had to install them using the hot sync program.
You certainly did not have install over a hot sync. PRC files have been installable via HTTP download for years.
Comment Re:Well, kind of obvious... (Score 2, Insightful) 167
SuSE 5.1 had KDE as the default DE back in 1997.
Comment Link for those not looking for deb packages (Score 0, Redundant) 325
Comment Re:speaking of paypal..... (Score 1) 309
"you're a little too liberal for my inbred nationalist sensibilities" fees
I find it hard to fathom that the PayPal that refuses to accept payments on any transactions remotely related to firearms could find anything to be "too liberal".
Comment Re:Color Blind audience? (Score 1) 869
Um, what the hell is 'whiteface'? I know what 'blackface' is (putting on black makeup to imitate a black person, which is considered racist), but I have never heard of 'whiteface'.
You really need to watch more Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle.
Comment Re:Forget the books - Mod parent up! (Score 1) 1146
Mod parent up!
Comment Re:Why M&M? (Score 1) 324
Why are M&Ms getting attached to this story?
Possibly because at one time you could bribe your favorite computer geek with a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew Code Red and a bowl of blue M&Ms.
News for nerds and all that.
