Posts by Ron Murray

They can demand all they like

> governments had the right to demand access to communications

Whether they should get it or not is, of course, quite another matter ...

So if it worked they'd be all for it?

The point, you nitwit, is not that it won't work (although, of course, it won't). It's wrong because it's censorship. It's wrong because we're not even allowed to know what you're censoring. And it's wrong because we trust neither you nor the other lot to resist the temptation to suppress anything you find "inconvenient".

Glad I don't live in Australia any longer.

Aaaarrrggghhh!!!!

You could at least have marked that NSFW!

A small number of users??

"Mono would be used by just a small number of users."

I don't know about that. I've been running Debian on several boxes for years, and I've spent quite a lot of time trying to get rid of Mono on all of them. I've never installed Tomboy, but it seems that every third innocent-looking package insists on installing Mono.

And that means spending half an hour removing every package that contains the string "mono" (and ignoring packages like monotone), after going through dependency hell first, trying to find and remove the packages that depend on them (and, before that, the packages that depend on _them_, etc. etc.).

I wish the thing would just go away. I refuse to have it on my machines.

It would help if Debian had a "do not install mono under any circumstances" switch.

Delusions, delusions ...

... and they try to tell us that DNA evidence is infallible?

Looks like it's not much better than a "lie detector".

Calendars

> (Recall that there's no zero year in the Gregorian calendar before going commental.

No, there wasn't. Nor was there a 1, nor a 2, nor a 3, nor ......

0, had there been one, would have been in the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian. The Gregorian calendar was introduced at varying times depending on where you were, but never before the 1580's.

Twwetie?

Don't know about Tweetie, because I've not tried it. I have, however, had an app called "Twitter Trend" on my iPhone for several weeks now, and it displays, you guessed it, Twitter trends. And it's free.

Don't get too excited, though. Not only have I never seen the F word on it (although I must confess that I don't look at the app very often), not even the A word, but if you're looking for something interesting, you're going to be sadly disappointed. As i write, these are the top few entries on the "Hot" list:

American Idol

app store

Blogs Losing Chris Brown

full moon

Happy Holi (sic)

iPhone app

iPod Touch

Jimmy Fallon

Jon Stewart

Mind-boggling stuff, I'm sure. And it doesn't get any better, believe me.

Got to be illegal

Surely playing Barry Manilow at people would violate the Geneva Convention?

At least one would hope so.

This is just plain *wrong*

As an Australian (although not actually living there these days), I have to say I'm disappointed by the whole idea of such content blocking. Actually, "disappointed" doesn't quite cut it, but I'm at a loss for words for a change.

I've always been a Labor voter -- I come from a family of solid Labor voters -- but I wouldn't vote for them in a pink fit after this outrage. It appears that the party's been hijacked by an unholy alliance of Christian d**kheads, prudes, and just-plain-power-freaks.

I really wish there was something I could do.

Signed,

Depressed of Boston.

Harry Lime?

> from Harry Lime to Jason Bourne.

Assuming you mean the Harry Lime from "The Third Man", the movie was produced in 1949, or so IMDB tells me. Graham Greene probably wrote the book well before that. Somehow I doubt that he was influenced by Danger Man.

Sorry to hear about Patrick, tho.

Shakespeare said it first...

Out, damned SPOT!

Mine's the black-and-white furry one.