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  1. Re:U.N. and Human Rights... on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    And did you know the "true" ruler of America is the Queen of England? It's just been a while since she was kicked out, but she still has first dibs!

  2. Re:I sympathize, but to an extent... on Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Actually, he mentions false arrests in his videos, that is arresting those he knows are innocent. It hardly matters what division he's in if he's ordered to run around arresting innocent people.

  3. Re:How about another programming language? on Commodore 64 Runs Again On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Apple, that's what. It seems they will refuse any alternative to running code on the device except through their app store, and that's unlikely to change. I think there's a brainfuck interpreter though, so severely crippled languages can slip through.

  4. Re:why? what is the point? on In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Neither word is useful in describing the twisted new regime in Britain. They are not communists or dictators, but they are tyrannical opressive big government types.

    Orwell envisioned them as socialists, but socialism run amok doesn't explain it all. It's capitalism running amok alogside that Orwell missed.

  5. Re:Black Isle on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    Followed by: "the game justs asks that you register or log in to your account so that you can download the content. And THEN they tell you that you need to buy it."

    He's disappointed in that if he wants the extra content which appears to be a free download he is in fact required to buy it.

    It also states: "You don't need the extra special content at all."

    Try reading the whole post before dismissing it as a troll.

  6. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Comparing insured Americans to Brits in the NHS is very misleading. Compare private health coverage in both countries, and uninsured health coverage in both and the UK (and almost everywhere else) wins hands down.

  7. Re:Note: on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    Also, if you play the game for about 48 hours in a single run your reactions start to take longer and longer and eventually the brain just crashes. Hopefully that was just that one time though, also it might be my specific body.

  8. Re:New and more disgusting DLC abuses... on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    I think "Will you assist me to unlock untold fortunes (CLICK HERE TO PAY FOR MORE CONTENT THAT WAS AVALIABLE AT RELEASE)" is fairly ironic.

  9. Re:not true. on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    So in other words it is true in every way, but there is a complicated workaround that only works on a PC.

  10. Re:Black Isle on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    They never said it was required. They said it was pushed in their face and they were dissapointed by this, but it's still a great game. Who's the troll?

  11. Re:Depends on who you ask on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    Now if only doctors, trainers, statisticians and other 'experts' would do the same, there wouldn't be so many lies and FUD spread about weight and only weight as a health indicator.

  12. Re:Same here on Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? · · Score: 1

    Well I guess it's just wrong to call Barbaras impediment an impediment because it certainly didn't impede her any. A PC term would be 'different' or some other watered down insult but the truth is simpler, it's a dialect, and there are thousands of those for any language. Those that need speech doctors have serious trouble communicating, Barbara just has a strange accent. Calling her accent an impediment is an insult to those with real difficulties. It just seems that the OP is also trying to affect accent, not real difficulty, which is a waste his efforts and the real help that those in difficulty need.

  13. Re:How do they define "reasonable suspicion"? on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 1

    I've often pondered the will behind that. I guess the simplest one, well if I were Machiavelli I would want to stir up fear of foreigners so I could use them as scapegoats when the domestic situation turned to shit. Plus the bonus fear for fears sake. Now to work out how or why it works in a nation that's 98%+ immigrant families...

  14. Re:Read the blog itself on Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning · · Score: 1

    Well you still have some truly excellent publications like the Christian Science Monitor, so it's not all complete drivel. Just most.

  15. Re:Same here on Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Talking about Walters, doesn't her carreer as a wildly successful news anchor contradict the OPs statement 'The issue is it can obviously inhibit options for jobs/other aspects of life etc.'. I don't think that it's obvious at all. The need for adult speech pathology seems massively overrated for most people in most professions if even news anchors can get away with having an impediment.

  16. It's not bunk, just unexplained on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're right that NOx is a tiny fraction of the output, still N2 makes up over 75% of the fumes. It is thought diesel particulates can act as microscopic sponges and help soil absorbtion of nitrogen and other compounds. Still, little is known as to why this works which is why it is in a controlled trial development stage so scientists can study it. They've found reduced soil pH, increased nitrogen absorbtion and other good things, so the question isn't if it works but why it works.

  17. Re:Doesn't really matter beeing a geek on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, he's more an illusionist than a con-artist, a confidence trickster who can weave quite the spell on his entralled subjects using his patented Reality Distortion Field(TM) which completley masks the true nature of his overpriced overhyped locked down crippled toys, while Ballmer is just the boring vanilla '3-card Monte' sort of con artist.

  18. Re:Bill Gates is a geek? on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So he's not a geek, he just wrote a compiler in machine code on an 8080 interpreter Allen had written for the PDP-10 targetting the kit-form hobbyist computer credited for starting the personal computer revolution.

  19. Re:Bill Gates is a geek? on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think instead he appreciated the NDA he had to sign to gain access to the source(*), which coincidentally is how Microsoft operates. Except their recent open source offerings, but we can't mention those here, they're obviously a trap or something.

    (*) Yes, this is pure speculation, much like the parent.

  20. Re:Prior art on Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words · · Score: 1

    So, it's not a bug, it's a watermark?

  21. NERD ALERT!!! on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pffft, who's gonna listen to this pathetic, whinging, scrawny little dweeb?

  22. Lies and damn lies. on How To Stretch Your Security Dollar · · Score: 1

    Aspirin can be addictive and dangerous to your health if taken in inappropriate doses. Curiously enough, the rest of what they have to say is complete bullshit also.

  23. Re:Sounds good to me on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Oh, it does far more than play movies. Quicktime invasively installs itself into browers where I don't want it and takes over file associations without asking, eats my resources with its shitty updater and is a PITA to remove from a system. I have more reasons for disliking it, but that's enough for me to never use it or want it. If I wanted Safari and the Quicktime player I would have fucking well downloaded them, not iTunes. They can all go to hell.

  24. Re:too bad the proceeds came from stifling progres on CSIRO Reinvests Patent Earnings · · Score: 1

    Not quite. CSIRO was granted the patent '96. IEEE 802.11 was released in '97.

    The standards comittee and all involved partners knew of the CSIRO patent and requested that they promise not to sue. They didn't promise. The IEEE went ahead anyway. Those that implemented it and did not pay royalties got sued. No submarining involved, only knowledgable parties who happily used but refused to respect the patented technology.

    No subterfuge, no trickery, just a bunch of companies not paying royalties to a legitimate patent holder. However slashdot feels about that (I personally think intellectual property is a misnomer, ideas are etheral to start, and common goods of all humanity) the courts tend to frown.

  25. Re:and here in USA... on CSIRO Reinvests Patent Earnings · · Score: 1

    Just turn capitalism into a religion. There's already billions of worshippers, it shouldn't be too hard.