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Comment: Re:You mean this? (Score 2, Informative) 650

by themacks on Saturday August 28, 2010 @12:21AM (#33400826) Attached to: Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?

Yes, now click the button marked 'Search Maps' and see what all of the fuss is about.

Hint: You will now be looking at 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial'

Comment: Re:Nothing on Mac OS X (Score 1) 175

by themacks on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @10:35AM (#32964192) Attached to: MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum

/Developer/Examples/Sketch/

All of the files should be in there for you to build it.

Comment: Re:Perversion of the law's intent (Score 1) 371

by themacks on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @08:53AM (#32824736) Attached to: AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra'

They can generate ongoing income because they created something of value to others. Artists most definitely can get royalties if they produce something that others license from them. More than likely if you buy a painting in a store it isn't an original but a licensed reproduction. Joe Taxi-driver is making money from providing a service, if he stops providing the service he stops making money.

Comment: Re:e-Tickets in Switzerland and Germany (Score 1) 425

by themacks on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @09:57AM (#32810174) Attached to: Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem'

Presumably their ID would be tied the the legitimate ticket they purchased and after presenting it they would be allowed to enter.

+ - Google reveals government data requests-> 0

Submitted by

themacks

on Thursday April 22, 2010 @08:14AM

themacks writes "From the article: "Google has released details about how often countries around the world ask it to hand over user data or to censor information. Brazil tops the list with 3,663 data requests while the US made 3,580 and the UK came a distant third with 1,166.""
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer (Score 4, Informative) 256

by themacks on Thursday April 22, 2010 @08:02AM (#31937396) Attached to: More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux

the interesting bits from the script:

UNAME=`uname`
if [ "$UNAME" == "Darwin" ]; then
PLATFORM=osx32 # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

Comment: Re:Can't write HTML.... (Score 2, Informative) 207

by themacks on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @06:38PM (#29292551) Attached to: Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov?

and this makes it ok to write sloppy code? amazon's site doesn't even declare a doctype.

in case you were wondering its my second time on the internet

Comment: Re:Can't write HTML.... (Score 4, Informative) 207

by themacks on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @10:38AM (#29285355) Attached to: Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov?

Not to mention the 253 errors from the W3C Validation site.

Comment: Re:Commercial applications (Score 1) 208

by themacks on Sunday August 02, 2009 @03:39PM (#28919171) Attached to: Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000

It would be nice for a company to be able to test satellite equipment (long term uses) in a short run, inexpensive, environment. 8000 is pretty reasonable compared to the cost of putting a full size satellite in orbit then realizing something doesn't work quite right.

Comment: Re:He has no case (Score 1) 646

by themacks on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:36PM (#28901757) Attached to: Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

I agree that the right to change the service would be found to be legal, however there are still stipulations to that clause. For some changes the provider has to provide a notice in advance to the changes. There also isn't anyway to know that courts would see the removal of the book as a change to the service. That being the case, this clause is irrelevant.

Comment: Re:He has no case (Score 2, Interesting) 646

by themacks on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:24PM (#28898515) Attached to: Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

The question here is whether they can legally reserve that right. Just because it is in the EULA doesn't make it legal. If they can reserve that right, then is this particular action covered by that? This is definitely still debatable.

Comment: Re:screenshots? (Score 3, Funny) 871

by themacks on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:49AM (#27701853) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

hey, he could have made a really awesome animated gif, but nooooo

Comment: Re:screenshots? (Score 4, Funny) 871

by themacks on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:39AM (#27701711) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

eh, that's just a pretty way of saying, "I'm lazy"

Comment: screenshots? (Score 5, Insightful) 871

by themacks on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:24AM (#27701503) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface

and the link is to an article without a single screenshot....

Comment: Re:the idiocies of religions are only matched (Score 5, Insightful) 247

by themacks on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:21AM (#27701453) Attached to: Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Black-Hats

nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace

I think that contains a subset of the real problem. The real problem is people thinking that, because they belong to a certain group (country, religion, secret club), they are somehow better than people not in the same group. Nations and religions are not the problem, it's the idea that "I'm better than you" because of some group.