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  1. Re:Doesn't help that Steam client is poorly writte on Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains · · Score: 2

    It's definitely a bit on the clunky side with a Mac... Never mind that half the games they advertise to you don't run on your current system. Look at all these games on sale! XCOM: Enemy Unknown is on sale. You click it. Oh look, this doesn't work on your system. Want to discover a RPG or strategy game? Well you can't filter by OS X client and RPG. I'm sure you'd get less windows users if you treated them the same way. 342 games supporting OS X, unsortable... 1859 PC games, 38 Linux games.

  2. Re:Yawn on Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    Kind of like a salesperson almost... Look how our one product is better than this one other product in this very narrow set of comparisons. Don't look at the less than shiny details, and especially don't look at the ASUS transformer pads.

  3. I said no to alcohol, because my granddady's an alcoholic. I said no to weed, because I hate stoners and I don't buy into that non-addictive nonsense. Then I was given the opportunity to free-base crack cocaine and I just said take all my money I need my CRACK!!!

  4. Re:I have an organ donor card... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    There's absolutely NO POINT in banning compensation to the donor, because as soon as the organs are harvested, the people who have them can sell them. What do you think would change if organ donors received $500k in the US, except that the shortage of organs would fall?

    This could actually be a giant boon to making life insurance affordable. There's no guarantee any given death will usable organs at the time of death, but if it's mandatory to donate to get low cost - high pay out life insurance, you not only have a clear way of managing where the money will go but you can hedge your valuable organs with the rest of society.

  5. Re:Violates human rights? on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So if we shut down television, radio, and all digital networks - we haven't violated free speech, because people can still speak. If we ban printing presses, we haven't violated free speech because people can still speak. If we ban all writing and recordings, because recorded information allows piracy, we haven't violated free speech because people can still speak. If we ban words and ideas, we haven't violated free speech, because people can still speak. If we ban speech entirely, we haven't violated free speech, because we can still use grunts and gestures. We don't need to be more advanced than dolphins, that's why we should only use grunts and gestures.

  6. Re:It's not lying on Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University · · Score: 2

    they documented ALL interaction with Oracle

    With a bigger multimillion dollar budget to have document drones documenting everything? I'm not saying Oracle is in the right here, but I believe the article said they initially made a spec with 3200 items, which apparently became a moving target. Perhaps the school should have contemplated a bit more before biting into a massive ERP cookie provided by Oracle. Caveat Emptor.

  7. Re:Teach it to yourself. TIY? on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 1

    Sure stack overflow is a great place for people who teach themselves, but I think it's funny to assume stack overflow is the best place to learn a language for oneself online. It seems to me more like the languages best represented there lack sufficient documentation and other means of getting answers. Java, for example, has some nice beginner forums, sites like JavaRanch for more stack-overflow like questions, good free documentation and tutorials, various open source project forums, etc... I mean, we may as well be asking - who is best represented on expertsexchange... I think it just shows a lack of a better open community to get answers from.

  8. Re:His is this any different from other TLDs? on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the holders of trademarks will really like having a cheap obvious porno parody site where all you have to do is change dot com to dot xxx. MyLittlePony.xxx... It's way too obvious of a thing. Basically the .xxx domain sounds like an excuse to have a massive shakedown of companies.

  9. Re:Annnnd? on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 1

    The better question would be *Why the hell do you want to start developing something so heavyweight you would need to use these servers?" What are you going to achieve that can't be done faster with Spring, and/or Struts2 on Tomcat? Tomcat can host a ton of web apps, but it's nicer to hook a ton of them through Apache server.

  10. Re:This defense is deplorable on Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    Self defense is murder.

  11. Re:Still violates the 5th on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 2

    There is no such thing as a physical lock that cannot be forced. Warrants don't force you to give a key up, they give cops permission to do whatever is necessary to search. I don't see how a warrant requires anyone to help the police do their work. Anyhow, what if you don't have a key to your unbreakable lock? Should you be compelled to reveal who does? I plea the 5th... I plea the 5th... I don't know it. I don't have it. The criminal I paid has it.

  12. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    A competitive market has higher anarchic potential than democracy. Democracy without limits is more tyrannical than the worst of fascist monarchies. Unlike a democracy, your dollar is much more your power than any diluted power you may receive from a vote. By voting with your dollar in a competitive market, you are influencing other people's behaviors. Certainly, non-competition and over concentration of wealth erode this liberty to tyranny, but at its very core - Democracy is no means to attain personal power but instead a means to subject the individual to the collective regional preference. I find it curious that to escape deleterious laws and cable providers your best bet would be to move.

  13. Re:Can someone tell me how "form stealing" works? on OS X Crimeware Kit Emerges · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like a CSRF, a sort of link-jack you might say. I believe the damage would be contained to the browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery I suppose the whole grab part means there's an additional ability to scrub whatever the user is doing for other sites.

  14. Re:What a bunch of dummies on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Go ahead and remake SAP on your 8086 while you're at it... I'm sure your employers won't mind you rebuilding an ERP whee you're supposed to work on. Heck, if you make your algorithms correctly, you can do everything with pencil and paper! You don't even need a computer!

  15. Re:Checkpoints on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 1

    I'm with you here... How in the world is it reasonable to stop every last person passing by on the road? They might as well let cops randomly search blocks of houses for possession of contraband or tax evasion. I say it's unreasonable, and I appreciate the app. Statistical probability says that someone in this town isn't paying their fair share, and we're going to search every last home until we find out who's cheating the system!

  16. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    good != liberty
    patent != liberty
    BSD < patent
    GPL.patent != Apache.patent

  17. Re:Not gonna lie on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    I left Cingular when it was bought by AT&T for T-Mobile...

  18. Re:Why do certs cost $$$? on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    Now imagine a bunch of SSL websites which don't have an admin who will update an expired certificate on the same day. What do you think the users are going to do with those expired and self signed certs? Joe Sixpack is going to be trained to click "OK"...

  19. Re:App-ification on Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps · · Score: 1

    I think the article is kind of misses the target a bit, and completely fails to mention Mozilla Labs Chromeless, which is how it will be done. Maybe you've never looked at what Adobe Air or applications like Steam or LoL, but there's a demand and need for the app-ification in terms of web development, including both consumer ended applications I have mentioned and business solutions such as Zimbra or in-house applications. Tabbed browsing is great and all, but I'm glad Mozilla is once again pushing the envelope. This is to say, it might be best to have one tab / menu for a given website, and it might be best for that website to be allowed a higher level of control for the components within that site... Take web-chat for example... Yes gmail and facebook have a little fancy javascript object that they maintain through nasty tricks like page-anchor "hijax" (a type of AJAX), but really there's no reason it should be that complex to make a broad spectrum of integrated features into any given website. It's more that developers need ways to integrate multiple websites / website components / user data into one streamlined "application", and trying to dump all of that into a what was meant to the single-document page view style of websites is not an optimal experience for the user, developer, and network... I want a google app with my google browsing tabs in an app. I want slashdot in its own app, and my browsing from there separate. I want facebook, gmail, fark, stumbleupon, etc... to run in their own separate process flow and I don't want to have to deal with 50 different tabs. There's no reason people shouldn't be able to choose an optimal sandbox for each of their favorite sites. There's no reason web developers shouldn't make their own application sandbox to make for a nice experience for those browsing there. "The network is the computer." -John Gage

  20. Re:We worship the blowhard on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Ah yes! It's almost as though the other party is not paying attention to the same things as our party does. How dare they tolerate ideological diversity that's stupid! So what if we by and large tolerate people who ignore studies that seem slightly racist in the party? At least we're not crazy!

  21. Re:blocking facts and research on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Heck, Obama's a Libertarian too! He's all about that God morality that tells people how to live their lives, just like Glen Beck and the Libertarians. Obama is against open borders and for starting wars with dangerous nations, just like Glen Beck, and just like the Libertarians!

  22. Re:We worship the blowhard on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    I know, isn't it awesome being a part of the party of intelligence? I can't believe how stupid the right is. This kind of crazy rhetoric on the right only helps justify our great leader's executive commands for assassination. Mata Guantanamera!

  23. Re:Response from Another VP on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    I think the most significant thing your missing is that on frequently miss-spelled terms, Bing is returning Google's search result, not their own. Think about that long and hard. Think about how much *weight* is needed for Bing to return a Google result. How are Google's original search results ranking ***HIGHER*** than Bing's original search results for these common terms? The cat is out of the bag, and now SEO spammer cunts have a powerful mechanism to game Bing.

  24. Re:Response from Another VP on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    I'd point out that Microsoft can't return the favor because Google doesn't monitor users using Bing search with their toolbar or other means. The key here you're missing is that the Bing Toolbar spies on their users making Google searches, then tracks where they click. I guess what is surprising here is that either the Bing toolbar is letting users do Google searches through it, or that the Bing Toolbar is actively monitoring pretty much everything the user is doing in internet explorer. It would be very plausible and interesting to see what is actually being transmitted via the Bing toolbar.

  25. Re:Response from Another VP on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 2

    Here's what I don't get.... How the heck does Bing go about grabbing Google's search results vicariously through users? Even if you tracked a user's click-through activities, it would only increase the strength of the webpages they go to, not correlate that data with unrelated topics. The results should not have been showing up on Bing's pages at all. To re-iterate, how is Bing associating webpages that have no reason to match search terms to those specific terms? I suppose they could monitor searches through the search bar, then track what results the user's clicked (sounds like a powerful way for spammers to spam Bing's results - spam search plugin anyone?). I have to really wonder if stealing everyone else's results through drone users is really what makes a "smart" search engine. You'd probably have to add *weight* to the results based on the plug-in used.