User: shadow349

Re:Like a kind of technological Jesus Christ

On: Top Ten Apple Rumors of All Time

He never has to worry about losing an important paper due to a power failure because:

Jesus saves.

Re:On a very busy road...

On: Chaos and Your Everyday Traffic Jam

That's the funny thing about being a bastard ... you are predictable and easy to manipulate.

By speeding up and tailgating, you open up an oversized spot just behind you.

Re:It was old before Apple started

On: Mac OS X May Go Embedded?

Don't you remember the late 90's? There was eThis and iThat all over the fucking place.

You mean like eWorld (1994) and iMac (1998), for example?

Re:on the highway.

On: HR 5252 Bill Dies

Net neutrality in a nutshell:

The Home Shopping Network gets telephone service for its ordering call center from AT&T.
John Smith gets his home telephone service from Comcast.

Net neutrality prevents Comcast's extortion of HSN by making it illegal for Comcast to tell HSN: "If you want calls from John Smith or any other Comcast customers to come through, you have to pay us".

...except on the Internet.

Re:Advertising attacks?

On: U.S. Warns of Possible Cyber Biz Attack

How seriously can you take would be crackers who go around blabbing about an upcoming attack?

I think this quote from Sneakers sums it up nicely:

Cosmo: Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky.
Martin Bishop: Consequence: People start to withdraw their money.
Cosmo: Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky.
Martin Bishop: Conclusion: You can make banks fail.
Cosmo: Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Martin Bishop: Stock market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Currency market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Commodities market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Small countries?