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by mahrain 15y ago
A rare display where the far left (socialist and green party) are joined by the far right PVV party, normally voting with the current administration of christian democrats and liberal-conservatives under an agreement giving the minority gov
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by mahrain 15y ago
In this case convenience trumps freedom, it seems. I find Richard Stallman's arguments against what he calls the "Swindle" being defective by design, and taking essential freedoms away from readers, such as the ability to buy a book anonymo
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by mahrain 15y ago
...and did you know that 78% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
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by mahrain 15y ago
One thing I like about John Kabat-Zinn's meditation instructions is that, while firmly rooted in Buddhism, he uses the techniques and insights without religious undertones. This text seems to advocate the same way. This was very helpful for
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by mahrain 15y ago
I think he could run for president!
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by mahrain 15y ago
Is there any way to connect a display/keyboard/mouse (the input devices perhaps over bluetooth) so it can even be a desktop?
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by mahrain 15y ago
Same goes for Holland, this, and TV is very unreliable and a year behind the USA. Plus movies are usually released a few months after the USA.
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by mahrain 15y ago
The main source of frustration with this is the fact that they see music as a physical product, while using "intellectual property" laws to prevent any other form. If it were up to "them" the only way to listen to music is either commercial
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by mahrain 15y ago
Been using this for a year now, there's also a hack to use it in the Chrome bar by entering a custom search engine. Very handy and works nice. Only miss is that I can't immediately click through to image searches, they're only available ove
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by mahrain 15y ago
This is going to be very useful when the EU instates their internet filter...
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by mahrain 15y ago
This should put some pressure on Google to allow international customers into Google Voice. They have an opportunity now to take on all customers this deal might alienate, but since I don't live in the US I can't use Google Voice.
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by mahrain 15y ago
I feel the same way. I've already looked for an alternative Voip solution and found Nimbuzz to be a good candidate. I'm probably not going to buy any new Skype credit.
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by mahrain 15y ago
One of the issues is that "we" as internet community tend to protest online, for instance by blocking a site (DDOS) or sending tweets to politicians. Europe doesn't realise this and might mistake the lack of angry people in the streets for
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by mahrain 15y ago
Microsoft is actually not too bad at Mac support, their Office is usually one year later than the Windows version (Office 2011 vs 2010 for PC, all the way back to Office 98 for Mac vs 97 for PC). And then they make the Expression suite, Mic
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by mahrain 15y ago
Laundry detergent used to contain "STPP" TSP is not common https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sodium_tripol...
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by mahrain 15y ago
Since I work for a producer of STPP (the phosphate ingredient in detergents, usually not TSP) I can agree on the whole with this article. Governments around the world are banning phosphates from domestic detergents to prevent water eutrophi
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by mahrain 15y ago
Another scary thing here is that, since Skype 5.0 sucks so badly, many people downgraded to 2.x and Skype probably will ignore that release when they fix the vulnerability.
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by mahrain 15y ago
Apple was on Motorola 68k for some 10 years, then on PowerPC for some 10 years and now they're five years on Intel. If this is a pattern, they may be working on the "next big thing" in a lab somewhere. We know that OSX is very welcoming to
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by mahrain 15y ago
My Philips 9404H has a "movie mode" which tones down the colors (contrast), switches to 24p where available and turns off all smoothing. It's set to be activated automatically on my Xtreamer and Blu-Ray, and the local-dimming LED's provide
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by mahrain 15y ago
Still no matte display option, I'm sticking with a Mini + Dell display combo. To explain a bit more: I have owned a 27" iMac for about four days. The machine was great but I couldn't handle looking at it for more than five minutes until get
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by mahrain 15y ago
Not surprising that Assange doesn't do much social networking, it seems all he publishes is through Wikileaks, which does have a Twitter account. This explains why. He used to have a blog which can only be found through archive.org.
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by mahrain 15y ago
It sure seems like the new South Park episode got people to read terms and conditions ;-)
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by mahrain 15y ago
Not only do we need an open wireless movement, we need mesh networking amongst mobile internet devices and all wireless routers within reach of each other hooking up to form a carrier-independent infrastructure. There are a few projects wor
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by mahrain 16y ago
Wow, this is almost exactly like the "Spider" in Kevil Guillefoile's "The Thousand" novel!
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by mahrain 16y ago
To the author: "GNU/Linux, have you heard of it?"
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by mahrain 16y ago
Thunderbolt minus the "thunder" ;-)
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by mahrain 16y ago
This article reminded me of "Catcher in the Rye"
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by mahrain 16y ago
I have used the Feedback function to complain, and they fixed the spacing a bit from beta to release. I can "fix" the windows version by turning off a lot of the "Today screen" and superfluous information bars everywhere. To make it look mo
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by mahrain 16y ago
Nice, this is what I've been looking for for a while now. Would it be possible to add an Export to PDF without relying on a local PDF distiller?
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by mahrain 16y ago
I feel more and more that Stallman has a point. Everything that's in the cloud is there for the taking. Not to sound like a luddite but if he'd have cashed checks instead of paypal or hosted his own website this wouldn't be possible, right?

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