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Comment Re:They're still lawbreakers. (Score 1) 467

Sorry, it was a typo on my part. I meant to say there is no legal process that will allow them to become an American citizen.

I completely agree with what you say, and am well aware of it. Thank you for spelling it out for everyone because I think things need to change and most people don't understand the problem.

Comment Re:Avatar pains (Score 1) 532

I got headaches only with the Imax version because of the linear polarization which meant if my head was tilted even slightly to the side, there would be ghosting.

It's meant to keep you awake during boring movies by keeping your head up.

Comment Re:$1.4 Billion (Score 1) 467

As a legal immigrant I can tell you that the hassle to be legal is so high that sometimes I wonder if I should just stop bothering and become illegal

I was recently legally living in Spain and had the same problem. Being legal was a major pain in the ass, and everyone I knew that was not a native was illegal and it was completely painless and easy. The immigration office finally told me I had to leave, even though I had proven to them that I was transferring 3X the average wage into the country (and spending it legally!) every year and was not taking any Spanish job. And at a time when the unemployment rate in Spain is the highest in Europe. They were afraid I might go out and take a job even though I didn't need one.

Comment Re:They're still lawbreakers. (Score 1) 467

There is a legal process for becoming an American citizen. These Mexicans know this, too. They just choose to put their own interests first, and in doing so they willing violate American law.

For the vast majority of them, there is legal process that will allow them to become an American citizen.

And as for these laws you speak so highly of - they aren't the 10 commandments handed down by some supreme being. Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe they should be changed?

Comment Re:How does he know it's unique? (Score 1) 544

How does your case get to the jury without following applicable law for proper procedure with respect to probable cause determination for allowing the use of the DNS fingerprint in the first place?

A grand jury decides it. Same problem, but requires much less evidence and no determination of guilt.

Comment Re:Why not all electronic? No really, why not? (Score 1) 494

Yes. We still have the freedom to own a firearm, choose where to live, express religious and political opinions without being jailed, choose our own doctors, choose whether to buy health insurance, and choose where to go to college-- this week anyway. Next week? Who knows.

What the hell are you talking about? Do you know anything about Europe? Do you really think these things don't exist there?

Comment Re:How does he know it's unique? (Score 1) 544

You forget that guilt is decided by a jury. As soon as you tell them about the DNA match, the rest of the weak evidence suddenly becomes very strong evidence. There is no absolute measurement of the strength of evidence, and no formula to apply to determine guilt or not. If they think you're guilty, you're guilty. The DNA evidence is going to be very convincing. How are you going to know whether there was enough burden of proof without the DNA evidence? It's all subjective.
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:I'm going to go out on a limb, and say.... (Score 2, Insightful) 405

Not that Opera doesn't have serious funding... but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this javascript would be more expensive, most of the time . .

if (is.explorer) { window.location.href="config/error.htm"; }

It would cut our UI development time by at least half!

It typically comes down to developing the UI once for IE, and once for all others.

Comment Re:not surprising.. (Score 1) 422

the only advantage the gps units had over smartphones is the fact they still worked on trips that take out them out of signal range.

Now most smartphones include actual GPS so that disadvantage has gone away, as per the original poster's comment.

Except that mobile phones at this point do not contain the maps on the phone (none that I know of anyway), so you still need internet connectivity for it to be useful. I have an iPhone from Spain, and I can't use the GPS functionality in the US unless I am connected via WiFi because there is no 3G sharing between AT&T and Movistar in Spain.

Comment Re:I fear that pretty soon... (Score 1) 532

..and of course, no sales tax.

You mean "it's easy to not pay sales tax and get away with it".

You are required to pay the sales tax to the local government where you live. The only reason that online retailers don't charge you is because they would need to know and keep up with the tax laws of hundreds or thousands of locations, and set up payments to them. It would be prohibitively complicated.

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