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thrownaway122

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    Comment #10332406

    The propensity to fight pointless wars is a human problem not specific to any particular grouping of humans.

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    Comment #10332392

    I haven't found the functionality to change the value of ability voxels in Slicer yet -- in particular for sheets with corners supplied by the user. Is it there and I'm just being …

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    Comment #10330882

    I know that this is a long shot... Is there any chance of having the sort of features that would be needed to manually tidy up the results of segmentations of 3D images (from CT sc…

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    Comment #9743269

    Please define stolen here? I highly doubt that most GPL code is 'stolen' according to the actual terms laid out in the GPL.

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    Comment #9743256

    Except that not all judges strike things. A lot just rubber stamp whatever the Big Co rights holders has submitted.

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    Comment #9743176

    On the other hand a lot of the time they need £40 for a hit of their drug of choice and it is unlikely you have nothing that can't be sold for £40.

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    Comment #9712663

    Because apple don't have to contribute OSx stuff back to the BSDs (nor did Microsoft when they used a BSD networking stack in windows 95) but e.g. google do have to contribute andr…

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    Comment #9712577

    > We bag commercial licenses for stealing developer freedom, You have completely missed the point of the F in FOSS. It is not just about developer freedom but user freedom as in al…

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    Comment #9710281

    This depends upon how you use the second screen! If you keep your email client open at all times and in view then of course it will distract you. However, if you keep several sourc…

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    Comment #9710036

    Does this not lose the major advantage of a traditional package manager? Namely that I update openssh in one location and all my packages are now secure. Rather than having to upda…

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    Comment #9710024

    See my other post.

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    Comment #9710020

    > Why would they also be a monopoly? Because otherwise there would be a proliferation of licensing companies. This would lead to competition on price (good!) but also on standards/…

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    Comment #9710005

    I guess that traditional package managers could install a helper script or a config file early in the build system before the main package is finished.

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    Comment #9709982

    The government is the trusted 3rd party. They price gouge because it turns out that they have a monopoly. The private company would also price gouge because they would also be a mo…

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    Comment #9709971

    For a traditional package manager the drawback is that your version of python is now tied to your email client and can't be upgraded separately. As I understand it this is the valu…

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    Comment #9685605

    And where does your data get paid for?

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    Comment #9684940

    Does this work with evil mode?

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    Comment #9684934

    Possibly. I do not claim to have ever driven social media traffic or made a trending hashtag or a viral video or even shared a "top 10 reasons why" article with anyone. However, I …

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    Comment #9681012

    Thanks. I guess anyone that does not enable javascript is running a anti-tracking plugin anyway...

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    Comment #9679919

    So start light. I mean really light. Like lying flat on you back working your core by tensing only specific muscles light. This is how rehab programs start. Then progress. Slowly. …

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    Comment #9678925

    Yes but that 0.001% are within the influencial 1% of users. I've literally had people see what webpages look like in my browser and then ask for no script installed. I didn't under…

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    Comment #9678879

    So in reponse to all the javascript brigade here I just tried to view some websites I commonly visit without blocking to see what I'm mising... I do not know how you browse with ja…

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    Comment #9678786

    Well there is an addon for firefox (no script) that assists with it... I guess that that only has 100 users?

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    Comment #9678781

    For text and images and videos (which is what a webpage is for after all) if one sticks to a simple html and simple set of css do you need to worry about all those issues? Or do th…