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Comment Whoa. Someone feels elite.. (Score 0) 607

"But if we believe in free speech, we ought to keep control of the Internet away from foreign governments that value it far less than we do."

Oh. Sorry. Yeah, I forgot that for a moment. The last (and the current..) administration of the US of A certainly showed that they value freedom, and personal rights, on a really high level. Now - mod me troll for this all you want. I would always stand up against any single country claiming to be better (Yeah, it's not the country that claims the thing, it's just a lousy CS student). The whole idea is flawed. Who's right or wrong isn't a question that can be answered easily.
The current model just "solves" this issue by favoring one country, for historical reasons. That doesn't change the fact that the decisions (from the article) taken are hard and that they are made arbitrary.

The whole point of the story is: If someone needs to arbitrary decide about the internet, it should be us (We have the First Amendment! Hail us!).

I argue that an international body would be less biased and more "free". Isn't that what the constitution over there is about?

Comment Re:just doing their job (Score 0) 323

The worst part for me (Disclaimer: Not from the US) is, that you just think of the protocol and law first. It seems you don't think about the effects, consequences and you seem to be consent.
I (hard a hard time to resist writing "for one" after this) won't ever, in my whole life, visit a country that treats me as a criminal at the border. Yeah, I never visited the states and never will unless this is rectified.
Funny sidenote: Israel is a borderline country regarding any rights. Boarding a plane to IL involves annoying people asking you for your intentions and connections to the country, reasons to travel there. Armed guards with UMPs guard the room after you check in (twice, because you have to work yourself through the usual checkin first and then the Israeli guys think they can do it better). Everything in your luggage is taken apart (most/all of it in front of you, though). My fingerprints and personal details aren't recorded though.
See - I HATE going through that procedure and I wouldn't visit Israel if the job wouldn't require it. I feel insulted everytime I have to go through this.
But - and here's the catch - the procedure doesn't involve me giving something unalterable personal details to strangers. US of A, you fail.

Comment Re:German "CIA" are still enraged (Score 0) 430

It's a poor "Alliance", where _offensive_ actions have to be backed up by all members of the treaty.
See - there are good reasons to call that action "necessary", but about the same number of reasons to call this a major mistake.
Sidenote: You DO understand that the NATO treaty is about _defense_, right? Invading a country for immoral/suspicious reasons is not covered. Sorry.

Comment Re:"Geek girl" that doesn't know how to screw righ (Score 0, Troll) 100

That @ is not useful.
I don't want to use memes now, but I'm tempted to ask if "you are new here" and perhaps refer to your ID.
More seriously though, since you seem to take it seriously anyway: You DO realize that we've tons of "Nerds don't get laid" comments here? Lots of humor using the male nerd stereotype? I pull the following numbers out of my ass, you decide:
80 %of the jokes here involve young male nerds living in a basement, no pubic but lots of facial/* hair never getting out and never even getting in touch with the opposite sex.
20 % are an amalgam of different stuff, one if it is the "There are no female geeks".

Really, stop being tightassed like that. Without knowing here I hope SHE can laugh here. In fact, most girls that are into nerdstuff are quite resistant to all those jokes. You're overprotective and don't need to protect here in the first place.

Programming

Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools 742

jexrand recommends an interview with John De Goes in which he argues: "The tools market is dead. Open source killed it." The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of UNA free of charge. According to De Goes, selling a source-code editor, even a very good one, is all but impossible in the post-open source era, especially given that, "Some developers would rather quit their job than be forced to use a new editor or IDE." N-BRAIN's decision is but one in a string of similar announcements from tools companies announcing the free release of their previously commercial development tools.
Censorship

UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" 995

An anonymous reader writes "A 15-year-old in the UK is facing prosecution for using the word 'cult' to describe the Church of Scientology at an anti-Scientology demonstration in London earlier this month. According to the City of London police at the scene, the teen was violating the Public Order Act, which 'prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting.' There's a video of the teen receiving the summons from the City of London police at the demonstration (starting about 1 minute in), and now he's asking for advice on how to handle the court case."
Graphics

Asus Crams Three GPUs onto a Single Graphics Card 115

Barence writes "PC Pro has up a look at Asus' concept triple-GPU graphics card. It's a tech demo, so it's not going to see release at any point in the future, but it's an interesting look at how far manufacturers can push technology, as well as just how inefficient multi-GPU graphics cards currently are. 'Asus has spaced [the GPUs] out, placing one on the top of the card and two on the underside. This creates its own problem, though: attaching heatsinks and fans to both sides of the card would prevent it from fitting into some case arrangements, and defeat access to neighbouring expansion slots. So instead, Asus has used a low-profile heat-pipe system that channels the heat to a heatsink at the back of the card, from where it's dissipated by externally-powered fluid cooling pipes.'"
Communications

Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' 162

Open Standard Lover writes "XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has been getting a lot of attention during the last month and it seems that the protocol is finally taking off as a general purpose glue to build distributed web applications. It has been covered that AOL was experimenting with an XMPP gateway for its instant messaging platform. XMPP has been designed since the beginning as an open technology for generalized XML routing. However, the idea of an XMPP application server is taking shape and getting supporters. A recent example shows that ejabberd XMPP server can be used to develop a distributed Twitter-like system."

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