Comment: Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score 1) 591
Movies in 16:9 aspect are also best seen on a screen that is 16:10 or higher. You would want the seek-bar to appear below the movie , not on top of the movie, covering it.
Or you could use a viewer that hides the controls. I would have thought they all did that.
Comment: Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score 1) 591
If you turn a wide screen sideways you get an awesome document view.
Of course you have to be able to do that functionally, so shop wisely.
Comment: Re:Need some more info. (Score 2) 172
You will need lots and lots of security guards. "Developing countries" is Liberal-speak code word for "lots and lots of niggers". They're violent and they steal.
I totally agree. Those developing countries are full of crime. You'd think that CIA installed fascist governments would have a better handle on things, but noooo.
US ghettos, same thing, you keep sending the cops in to fuck them over, but they never learn to behave.
Here in Canada we educate our niggers. If it weren't for the colour of their skin, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were an inferior race. Sly bastards.
Comment: My trusty towel (Score 1) 303
Comment: Re:Conspiracy! (Score 2) 659
Comment: Re:The site is down, what's the point (Score 1) 95
What makes you think that Canada would be more likely to extradite him?
If there isn't enough evidence to turn over server data there likely isn't enough evidence to arrest him and send him to a country with draconian laws.
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
I don't believe in Jesus, and I do celebrate Christmas.
And while I've been to Heathrow dozens of times, I've never been to England. No desire to visit there at all.
Comment: Re:Congratulations (Score 1) 120
When I moved to Ottawa, I got a connection with Rogers. They were pretty good back then. Let me have a dedicated IP, they had a news server. Actually they farmed to Giganews, but that's cool.
It stopped working one day. Man, it just stopped!
Imagine my amusement when I phoned up and the techie (I use the term loosley) told me that you can't get on the Internet with Linux? I had a few choice words for him.
It turns out they switched to DHCP and I lost my static IP. Oh well. Anyway, I don't think the issue has ever come up again. If you can handle Linux, do you really need support from your ISP?
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
Comment: Re:Wake up call (Score 5, Insightful) 346
Yes but.... if he broke into her home, stole physical photos, and released them.... most people would easily consider it as much, if not more, of a violation.... but would he ever face nearly the jail time for that as he did for this? I doubt it strongly.
10 years is a fucking joke. Bankers destroyed the world economy and no one, except Iceland, charged any of them. There is no justice.
Comment: I used it. Once. (Score 5, Interesting) 263
I wrote an app in Perl once. It was the only language that I could get to reliably connect to MSSQL from Linux.
It was fun to write, but I go back and look at the code now and it looks like Greek.
On the upside it's been running for over 5 years and having no problems at all.
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3321879&cid=42326929
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 2) 304
As if A. isn't a troll statement.
A is my opinion, based on the complete lack of evidence.
A. God is a loving omniscient being
That is the troll statement, and what I was replying to.
Similarly Jesus is undocumented by the journalists of the time. Yeah he's in the bible and the gospels. In his gospel, Mark steals a lot of what he writes from writers of the period. Those same writers that don't mention Jesus at all. Yes there are references to Jesus, but they are all suspect church writings. Some references that could fill the gaps I'm talking about have been exposed as forgeries. Even biblical scholars agree with that. For someone who did so many interesting things in an age where people were writing about prophets, Jesus, surprisingly, goes unmentioned.
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
No, I'm a militant agnostic if anything. In the country where I live and in the language I speak, this repurposing of an old solstice festival is called "Christmas". If you want to come and live here, you can call it Christmas too. If you don't like it, feel free to leave.
It's nice to know that I'm free to leave.
However, if I want to say Happy Holidays, and I don't want to leave, what are you going to do to me?