Right. Snapdeal.com didn't have any friendly lobbyists "suggesting" anything. No way.

> Modern books aren't designed to last hundreds of years.

Really? That's an interesting statement. Of course they're not "designed" to last for hundreds of years, but all new books I've bought the last 20 years or so seems to be of higher quality than the still-very-readable books I have from the 19th and 20th century, and I would expect my new books to last at least a few hundred years.

The Netherlands is truly a developed country. Too bad it's so overcrowded.

Both I guess. There are religious politicians in the US and the EU too, but companies run by normal people wanting to make money still operate in the real world.

Hm. I *own" 3 cameras, but since I work in the surveillance business I usually have around 5-6 network cameras from Axis/Sony/etc at home for testing. Mostly use them to keep an eye on my cats, and the one by the kitchen sink sprays water (via a relay) if a cat is detected by the motion detection function in the camera.

It's an ugly solution though, if someone wants to partner up with me to make some kind of integrated camera+waterspraying thing for cats, feel free to contact me. I'm sure all cat-owners would want to buy something like that if it was affordable and easy to use!

It's not a UK court, it's an English court - which means that newspapers in Scotland are free to publish his name. Media in the US should be able to do the same.

Helmond is in North Brabant, not Holland. Both are provinces in The Netherlands.

Most likely not. And why do you have Muslims in you?

Exactly which top Nazis were engineers? Not Hitler, GÃring, GÃbbels, Himmler, Bormann, Hess or even DÃnitz.

Instead of trying to find simplistic explanations, you might want to read Modernity and the Holocaust.

Footnote: I see slashdot still can't handle UTF8. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, SLASHDOT! Rent some indian to fix it in 15 minutes if you don't have any inhouse coders.

I think it's an important issue (answer #1), but on the other hand I've copied / downloaded whatever I wanted since 1985 (answer #4). And yes, I do pay for the stuff I need/use if it's commercial software. However, I will never ever again buy anything before "pirating" it first, not after buying Civ 5 untested.

What's wrong with the first Amiga mouse or the 1351? Sure, they're not as good as today's mice, but they're not failures. Also, the Commodore joystick might look a bit sad, but it's actually quite decent and durable.

> I don't know about other parts of the world, but up here
> in Canada we generally only have one choice of power provider.

Uhm, any reason for this? Shouldn't be any technical problem in the developed world, and I don't understand why politicians would prevent it.

I live in sweden and can currently choose between about 80 different providers. Some get their electricity from hyrdo dams, some from wind turbines and some from Belorussian coal plants operated by child laborers (or whatever it is that lets them offer the lowest price). AFAIK it's been like this for at least 15 years, since I got my first apartment.

Well, the rest of us (Star Trek-fans) probably already have all Star Trek:* episodes on the HD, downloaded from tpb or the thing on port 443/563 that should not be named, so it's not a big deal. Still, yes, annoying. But don't blame slashdot, blame netlfix and the copyright holder who still believe in national boundaries. In the year 2011 :-)

Morons.

> here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone

Just out of curiosity, where is that? Not being able to be home alone until the age of 12 sounds like mental torture to me.

This is not a Commodore 64, it's not in any way related to a C64, it has nothing to do with Commodore (don't care if they "own" the name) and we've seen it "featured" on slashdot before.

The only positive thing to say about this is that fake-Commodore has a very good marketing department, congratulations on another free slashvertisement.