of course there is room for improvement with the kindle - but not with any of the things suggested in TFS. the reason why apple and other don't make a competitor is because the margins are low. the profit is in the books.

They are "human rights" organisations because they seek to have governments held accountable for upholding their legally binding international treaties that compel governments to offer basics human rights to their citizens. They are not representing any political ideology, but are independent and international, not seeking to be elected for any personal gain. The closest thing we have to elected officials with such a mandate is the UN. Like all organisations relying on donations, political and non-political, they have a natural incentive to behave in such a way that will increase their donations. There are few organisations in the world independently wealthy enough to allow that kind of absolute freedom.

can we please stop posting this asshole's diarrhea?

except that TFA includes the quoted title from the summary...

seriously, he's complaining about 80ms ping times? i just pinged google.com and it is over 1000ms. life goes on.

Even if they are have not signed, it is considered customary international law. the trick is getting them to the hague.

an oil pipeline that would pass through Syria on its way to europe is blocked because of russian influence. while interested parties are keen to see the demise of Syria's government for many understandable, if not compelling, reasons, this is a major issue of economic competition. Russian has never been so good at economic competition and much prefers the monopoly.

syncing

why do these stupid surveys only ever ask 1500 people? is that the minimum number set?

seriously, it is full of mistakes. why is it so hard for editors to edit?

I wish I had mod points today. This is hilarious!

agreed!

It implies that one is going from say Windows to OS X repeatedly.

For me, with some overlapping such as windows when provided by employers, I went DOS - OS/2 - Windows - Linux - OS X.

Satellite connection in the middle of afghanistan. I expected worse... Pinging slashdot.org [216.34.181.45] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=865ms TTL=235 Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=980ms TTL=235 Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=1083ms TTL=235 Reply from 216.34.181.45: bytes=32 time=804ms TTL=235 Ping statistics for 216.34.181.45: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 804ms, Maximum = 1083ms, Average = 933ms

cultural difference of a dirt bag politician.