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Re:Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það... by pg on Saturday February 09, 2008 @01:27PM (#112750)
You know, that would actually be an amusing hardware-hacking project.

If you made a keyboard that had every character in every language spoken in the EU, you could even file to make it a standard with whatever earnest standards body is in charge of such things. No linguistic minority should have to use control keys! It would be like giving peanut butter to a dog.

Re:Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það... by ivankirigin on Saturday February 09, 2008 @09:56PM (#112867)
A smart bureaucrat might mandate dynamically rewritable keys and get the Optimus http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.

Re:Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það... by Xichekolas on Monday February 11, 2008 @12:07PM (#113448)
But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.

I think you just implied that all politicians are dumb. I agree.