Comment: Re:How is it misleading? (Score 1) 103
If someone in Germany downloaded Nazi stuff from you who should be liable under German law you or them? Your action was in your home nation and that is where you should be liable
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Comment: Re:But *are* there enough eyes? (Score 1) 255
You would submit a problem ticket. If enough people submit them, it becomes a priority for a paid developer to address the issue.
It becomes a priority to fix for the next paid for release. For a patch to the current release? Only if they must.
Comment: Re:catholics actually do contracept (Score 2) 289
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Indeed - the page actually mentions the rhythm method, the Catholic's favoured method.
Someone please help me understand. How is the rhythm method not a form of contraception and as such just as much a sin as any other method of contraception?
Because they have faith that it isn't. Facts don't matter when you have faith.
Comment: Re:Imagine if it grows up and starts talking (Score 2) 187
No problem so long as it says "Eat ME!"
Comment: Re:So? (Score 1) 271
A search is not unreasonable if it yields evidence of a crime. This case, if any, is a shining beacon for why we need ubiquitous surveillance, including private property. If it saves just one life, it's worth the effort.
Incomplete
A search is not unreasonable if there are FACTS known that make it PROBABLE that it will yield evidence of a crime AND that judgement is made by a judge not by the one advocating the search.
Read 1984 by Orwell for a view of where "ubiquitous surveillance" leads. Note that novel is not a "How to manual" though it seems politicians disagree.
Comment: Re:Discover life? (Score 1) 221
Plants do have respiration and excretion.
Only if you creatively redefine both of the terms to mean something they don't in a colloquial usage. Which, in turn, would make the great-grandparent's definition of life useless — because it did not contain the necessary (re)definitions of the terms it used.
Since the terms are used here in a scientific context colloquial definitions do not apply but scientific ones do.
Comment: Re:Not a Fan of Google Glass, But... (Score 1) 357
Yeah, fuck them! How dare they try to protect themselves from theft on PRIVATE property that no one is REQUIRED to go to. Fuck them indeed.
The MPAA does not own the copyrights. (Copyright misappropriation is also not theft). The MPAA also does not own the theatres. So they don't really get to set the rules as they are also not the government.
Comment: Re:For the rest of us (Score 1) 299
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
http://freebasic.net/
Official Website
FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux.
When used in its "QB" language mode, FreeBASIC provides a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode with no changes needed. However, for compilation in the FreeBASIC default language mode, most substantial programs will require changes.
FreeBASIC is a self-hosting compiler which makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends and can produce console, graphical/GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries. FreeBASIC fully supports the use of C libraries and has partial C++ library support. This lets programmers use and create libraries for C and many other languages. It supports a C style preprocessor, capable of multiline macros, conditional compiling and file inclusion.
FreeBASIC has been rated close in speed with mainstream tools, such as GCC.
Comment: Re:It makes you uneasy? (Score 1) 1007
Put your "new atheism" away and grant them equal respect;.
Ok. So what respect do they grant others? They condemn them to eternal suffering for having the audacity to not believe as they are told to believe without evidence. They assume that they are superior due to their faith and any unbeliever or other believer is automatically wrong. I don't think they want to be treated that badly. I've had a bible thumper tell me that I should be burnt at the stake. Don't think he wants that for himself though.
They want to be treated better than they want to treat others. Doesn't work well.
Just because they are religious doesn't entitle them to respect. Otherwise they would respect the Taliban and honour killing and genital mutilation etc etc.
Comment: Re:Spiritual Needs (Score 1) 268
The No True Scotsman fallacy has been replaced by the Pure Enkaran fallacy courtesy of Babylon 5.
Comment: Re:Bull (Score 1) 55
WinCE and the "Jupiter Machines" were a precursor of Netbooks but too early and too expensive. When the Netbook finally arrived they set out to destroy it because it ran Linux (like the Netbook Im posting from)
Comment: Re:Just make it fast (Score -1, Offtopic) 77
They did need a design overhaul. Windows Phone with it's tile layout was way superior.
That of course is why Windows Phone is the market dominator right?
Comment: Re:Prison population (Score 1) 407
So it's Leaded Gasoline's fault that I download pirated movies? That's a relief.
No. It is the fault of leaded gasoline that your parents named you Anonymous Coward.
Comment: Windows is ... (Score 1) 367
Windows is for the MS peeping toms to spy on you and everything you do.
Comment: Re:Nevertheless, Microsoft is doomed (Score 1) 93
NOT in a corp environment, they don't! 2 or 3 yrs, tops. corps do a 'refresh' and buy new gear (cheaper than supporting older stuff).
Really? I'm glad that you have made it so clear that the Windows 98 machines that I see at work are not really there because the custom apps that would be difficult/impossible to be updated to more modern Windows are not a problem. The other machines that I see with Win XP clearly don't exist either only the very few Win 7 machines exist. Glad you cleared that up.
