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mongrol

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    Comment #40518724

    Cool. I didn't know Scotland had a federal police force though.

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    Comment #36832456

    Looked at it for 20 seconds and seen 3 mistakes already. It's a good idea, but others should be wary of taking this as gospel.

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    Comment #16261736

    I read it as AL Finney who played a character in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus who had himself cryopreserved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus

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    Comment #12861253

    Actually it's almost entirely white space, which does give a sense of the actual KDE ui.

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    Comment #10855413

    Yeah you can. I was in a cinema last week in Maloolaba for $9. Brisbane has 3 low cost cinemas around the same price, one in Southbank in the city. Just avoid event cinemas and sup…

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    Comment #8890043

    That phone will never exist.

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    Comment #8601004

    This article isn't really about old software, it's about software that's current, built on current webapp technology, that will eventually become old. Meanwhile, real "old" softwar…

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    Comment #8593442

    Yep, first up. Replaceing elisp with javascript!

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    Comment #8359225

    It's the correct attitude. They are not responsible for you having the nouse to install a GTK Theme application like lxappearance and fixing how your Firefox looks.

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    Comment #8260921

    Everyone knows that this transmission is for containing the power of a demon possessed victorian doll in a cylindrical display case.

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    Comment #8129512

    I've been using mu4e for over a year now and have been very happy with it. For some reason I just couldn't get my head around GNUS workflow and concepts. mu4e just seemed more norm…

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    Comment #8099976

    How does this compare to Ansible? It appears to be operate in the same space/level.

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    Comment #7934975

    Looking forward to the new Pheonix when someone gets fed up enough with the current heavyweight Firefox to write it.

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    Comment #7893994

    Agreed, and as a comic enthusiast I avoid all mainstream DC and Marvel. It's just one big marketing scam. Stick to Image, Dark Horse, IDW, some Vertigo stuff and you'll be much mor…

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    Comment #7892573

    and while we're waiting there's www.oolite.org and www.pioneerspacesim.net

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    Comment #7813510

    Beaglebone Black all the way. Low powered, more grunt than a Rpi and can run with no binary blobs whatsoever.

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    Comment #7795282

    If you're using email then various governments (UK, USA) have it no matter where it's hosted. It's not under your control while in transit. At best you can encrypt it, but they'll …

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    Comment #7754518

    Every citizen of every country is fair game for every government, especially their own.

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    Comment #7747149

    Nonsense. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

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    Comment #7731747

    Which they can't prove since it's closed source.

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    Comment #7441520

    The maker community is important. It does fluke no favours to piss them off. Nice to see a switched on company.