tomjen

A DNS server - that is all it takes to beat the Danish version anyway. Or you can use the hugely innovative OpenDNS.

Just get an android, then you don't have to depend on Apple to be allowed to use your own device.

Whoever designed that homepage needs to be taken out back and shoot. Also a Manifesto isn't 6 pages full of corporate bullshit.

If you let it react with water it gets to be even more fun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid)

The same can be said for youtube. I doubt that justin.tv have more pirates that youtube.

The problem is that Apple can behave as they want since they can prevent him from ever making a sale again if they want.

It pisses me off when I am being treated differently on the internet based on where I am in the real word. It is one of the reasons Hulu won't get my patronage even if they extend to other countries outside the us.

In this case it didn't matter much, I won't sign up (or pay) just to _hear_ music that I can't even choose my self.

To bad the SMS is US only. I have for the longest time been looking for a way to send SMS from a computer.

I will exercise the day I can check my body into a version control system. Until that day exercise is a waste of time since you must do it over and over again.

Then go after paypal. I would absolutely love if you did.

It is an interesting thesis, but some of your points, such as the one that people with spam filters gets as much spam as those without, seem a little dated. Since I switched to GMail I have gotten practically no spam.

That for exist so people on slashdot can write a post before they loose interest. Half of your points assume _everybody_ is going to use this system and the other points are simply wrong.

Apparently, he want this to be open. I was hoping for a secret cabal since then we could make programming mystical and perhaps attract more people.

Alex Jones.

And it is not like the newspapers are aggressive against the government, they let them get away with way too much.

Perhaps, but isn't Australia generally very racist? That would definitely be something that would hamper immigration.

If we are going to count on hope and virtue to get us out of this mess, then we might as well give up because it will only be an exercise in wasting time.

Lawmakers don't care about protests unless they make them look bad, so don't waste your time. Now blackmail on the other hand... (handy hint, it will have no effect unless it is illegal or require a ridiculously high number of people)

It is more socially acceptable to have a nice holiday in Europe than it is to seem rich (by having _lots_ of stuff), and I can't seem to find the place where they talk about that so I am pretty skeptical of their claim.

Certainly it is faster to develop a program in Ruby than the equivalent program in 86 asm. On the other hand it is still the same mind that is needed to produce the results (at least for anything that is not trivial).

I can't belive this has not been instituted before. Not only does this provide advantages for the army, but the it provides away to get conservatives to accept immigrants more easily.

With that much money in 1900, you could buy a housemaid. That means you would never have to clean another toilet. I take that.

The average user won't pay no matter how high the quality is if they can get it for free otherwise.

The animals are free to find other sources of food, if they so desire. This is exploitation of the animals only to the extend that you don't believe in free will.

The problem isn't that the shell isn't userfriendly, but that the term userfriendly have been morphed to mean "easy to start working with", which is just one part (and often the least important).

I argue that the shell is great and very userfriendly. It has a few rules, which can be composed logically without too many gotchas, and if you cannot remember the name of a particulary feature then it is easy to press the tap key and get a hint.

I have come to hate how stuff is judged based on superficiallity (how soon can the user use this program) and not on substance (how much benefit will the user eventually derive from this program, even if it takes a week to learn to use it?)

It is the same problem with people who don't make the effort to learn to type on their keyboard without looking. Unless you are never going to use a computer, have the respect and decency to yourself and learn to use the tools you have at your disposal.

Or blow it when it stops receiving signals.

On the contrary, we have them all the time. Sometimes companies are even valuaed based on how many followers they have.

The most interesting thing that has been lost to history, would properly be some of the works of Aristotle, as the western worlds understanding of science was bootstrapped from his works during the reformation.

I read that as wife debugging tool. Might be more useful.

My school used BCC to keep the name of the all student mailing list secret. Wise decision until the secretary forgot to put in in the right field.

Really - adding a doctag is faster than not adding it? That seems incorrect to me.