Tomte

> What does Dylan do? I'm totally unfair here, because I really don't know much about Dylan, but my view maybe explains a bit why Dylan does not even "win" with people like me, …

Don't forget genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (perhaps surprisingly, you can commit genocide without killing a single person). Easily overlooked because it's not in the Straf…

Fortunately I only ask people who understand that it's a joke.

I sometimes ask new parents if they'll choose English or C as the first foreign language. So far nobody has opted for C.

Because you need to come up with a design for the cursive variant and then draw all those glyphs. So the time needed is probably shorter than the time spent on the regular variant, but only by a small…

I guess, military personnel (that astronauts so far have basically been) are less skittish in that regard than civilians. Especially since it is understood that space travel is dangerous, while air tr…

Please... see http://practicaltypography.com/justified-text.html for the author's opinion. Personally I believe that Matthew is wrong there. There's no justification for jus…

The author's only real point is about "progress from left to the right". But unlike in his "Next" example, "OK" does not imply any progressive series of dialog boxes…

But most people are not interested in the source code, they'd like to get a binary. Seems to work for XChat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat#Shareware_controversy …

No, he isn't. Can the old urban legend about exteritoriality please already die? The difference is that noone forces Ms. Knox to Italy, because the USA don't extraditre their citizens, I gue…

He is in the UK and is wanted for arrest in the UK. What's difficult to understand?

I think she'd be stupid to go there. But the difference is: no one in their right mind expected Italy to let Ms. Knox leave for the United States when she was in custody. Only when she was acquit…

You're wrong. "Questioning" is an awkward translation and does not mean what you think it means. It has been debated to death in all those Assange threads. Please read the article in Ne…

Because European law says so. Read the New Statesman article linked somewhere in this thread. You'll find that most of what people on the Internet say about the legal issues is factually wrong.

How gracious! You might have missed that the venue of a trial is usually pre-determined, certainly not chosen at the whim of the defendant.

See also http://xkcd.com/1392/large/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as... Is that absolute proof? No. Is it better than some unknown guy claiming whatever? I think…

In the case of Bitlocker we know that Niels Ferguson is behind it. The name might ring a bell.

Aren't submissions folded to the last one, if the URL is the same? I could swear I have seen that even when the prior submission was a few years old. Does the algorithm to decide that take commen…

It is not banned in Germany, though there obviously exists a stromg social stigma if you chose to display it in your living room. The legal situation is this: The free state of Bavaria has inherited H…

No version is illegal in Germany. You may buy it, you may own it, you may read it, you may sell it.