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Comment Re:Steam Still Locked to One Concurrent User (Score 1) 298

by SteamedPenguin on Sunday December 09, 2012 @04:59AM (#42231983) Attached to: Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell

Give the poster a break. Given the 7-digit UID the poster probably doesn't know better.

Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US 1142

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 06, 2009 @09:18AM from the tax-schmax dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is threatening to move Microsoft employees offshore if Congress enacts President Obama's plans to curb tax avoidance by US corporations. 'It makes US jobs more expensive,' complained billionaire Ballmer. 'We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the US as opposed to keeping them inside the US.' According to 2006 reports, Microsoft transferred $16 billion in assets to secretive Dublin subsidiaries to shave billions off its US tax bill. 'Corporate tax is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland,' acknowledged Ballmer in 2005. 'It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.'"

Comment Re:Use choqoK for you microblogging needs Re:Cool (Score 1) 199

by SteamedPenguin on Sunday May 03, 2009 @12:57PM (#27807091) Attached to: Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

It isn't as advanced as other Twitter clients like Twitdroid for my G1, but if you are investing the time writing a Twitter client for KDE I am sure the choqok developers are open to ideas. For example, choqok as of version 0.5 doesn't have Follow/Unfollow functionality as far as I can tell.

Comment Use choqoK for you microblogging needs Re:Cool (Score 2, Informative) 199

by SteamedPenguin on Sunday May 03, 2009 @12:25PM (#27806865) Attached to: Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

Are there features in choqok that you are missing? http://choqok.gnufolks.org/

Comment Donate old USB drives to help victims of torture (Score 5, Informative) 546

by SteamedPenguin on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @01:18PM (#27137069) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

I am collecting old USB flash drives for the Center for Victims of Torture's 2009 Sneakernet Campaign.

If you are looking to get rid of old Flash drives you can go ahead and send them to:

Beth Wickum
Director of Volunteer Services
The Center for Victims of Torture
717 E. River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455

After hearing about a lack of networks in many places where CVT operates we discussed the use of flash drives to transfer information. At this point my inner geek jumped up and screamed: "It's a sneakernet!" My co-workers hadn't heard the term before and thought it catchy enough to make part of the marketing for a campaign to solicit used flash drives to send to CVT locations overseas as well as partner organizations. The idea is simple, send CVT your tired, poor, and old flash drives. I'll scrub them and clean them up and make them ready to give away. No personal information will stay on a donated drive.

Comment Re:Ambitious Maritius (Score 2, Insightful) 333

by SteamedPenguin on Monday June 20, 2005 @04:12AM (#12861146) Attached to: Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation

Rather, it languishes in tribal warfare made all the worse by the relatively recent influx of Islam which has torn the northern countries of Chad and Sudan to shreds.

How the hell do you qualify recent? islam came to North Africa oh back in the 8th and 9th centuries. Thats 1200 years.

Or by 'recent' do you mean you just heard about Chad and Sudan three weeks ago on the news and looked some factois on wikipedia and now are authoritative on North African history and politics?

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