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  1. Re:I like paying taxes on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    Or, you kill civilization: "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy" -- Chief Justice John Marshall

  2. the usual anti-freedom/DRM-worshipping boneheads on Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill · · Score: 1

    .. especially Franken, Schumer, Kyl, Hatch, and Feinstein.

  3. Wow on Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill · · Score: 1

    ... a Senator with a clue and some balls. What a rare combination these days.

  4. Exhibit number 23 ... on Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... of why Apple is correct in keeping this steaming pile of insecurity off of their devices.

  5. Another round of "draft N"-type compliance .... on ITU Rules That WiMax, LTE Don't Qualify As 4G · · Score: 1

    ... and the marketeers are going to have a field day.

  6. Conference awarded "best troll ever" ... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    ... by The Onion. They might also win an Ig Nobel.

  7. Probably because any decent web designer ... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    ... would laugh hysterically when presented with the copy for the web site. So, they had to go with someone who had heard of "FrontPage" sometime during the last decade.

  8. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    I think most of us would agree that, in this case, the 9th Circuit has an immediate need for a sound Dope-Slap from SCOTUS.

  9. Look what it did for the Great Leader on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... he still hits a hole-in-one every day!

  10. Re:Quit Whining on German Publishers Want Censorship Talks With Apple · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you think you can dictate terms to those you do business with, and renege on terms that you already agreed to. And that some slick lawyer can save you from your poor judgment.

    Do let us know when your ivory tower crumbles. And since you declared your intent to violate contract terms here, your violation of the contract terms may be seen as willful, and will create a bigger penalty for you.

  11. Quit Whining on German Publishers Want Censorship Talks With Apple · · Score: 1

    You accepted the iPad/iPhone/iPod restrictions (which are no secret, by the way) when you bought the device, and again when you accepted the license agreement. If you don't want to honor your contractual commitment, buy something else.

  12. Indeed on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 1

    Where was the much-vaunted Security Development Lifecycle process (http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/)? I guess the threat model consisted of a six month old baby pounding on a keyboard. The responsible engineer(s), PMs, and VP should be fired.

  13. Re:Privacy laws on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    You've got to be kidding me -- Google collected "private" data that was being _broadcast_ by people's Wireless Access Points, and it's Google's fault? Any idiot within ~100m or so could do the same thing.

    If Europeans really "take privacy seriously", they would configure their equipment correctly.

  14. Not only Apple has the "use only our tools" stance on Apple May Face Antitrust Inquiry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you develop for xbox, you must use the Microsoft tool chain; if you develop for the playstation 3, you must use the Sony tool chain.

    There's nothing new here, save a bit of Apple-hater rambling, and government cluelessness.

  15. Re:Opera Software -- good track record? on Opera Acquires Fastmail.fm · · Score: 1

    Nope. This is the same clueless management team who couldn't compete on the desktop with Microsoft (while, of course, Firefox does, and commands ~30% market share), and whined to the EU to give them an undeserved placement on the desktop. Given their poor performance, I predict they'll screw up fastmail.

  16. I so wanted to short these bozos in 2004 ... on SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright · · Score: 1

    .. but sadly there were no shares available.

  17. Chicago?!? You've got to be effing kidding me! on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 1

    The land of numerous indicted and convicted politicians, machine politics, and the home of a mayor who found an aviation icon "inconvenient" (Meigs field) and tore it up under the cover of darkness to pay off his developer buddies. Another Daley might destroy the shuttle for his political advantage. Thanks, but no.

  18. Re:SC has plenty of ground to stand on on Is the Tide Turning On Patents? · · Score: 1

    Take two cases -- the RSA algorithm implemented in an FPGA, and the same algorithm implemented in software. Both are (or were, at the time of the invention) innovative and nonobvious. In the hardware version, the algorithm is the selection and interconnections between the hardware components; in the software version, the algorithm is in the code. Tell me why the hardware invention is deserving of patent protection, and the equivalent invention in software is not.

  19. Re:Jee-Hovah on Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian · · Score: 2, Funny

    "No one, is to stone anyone, until I blow this whistle ..."

  20. Kindle iPhone app will probably work on iPad on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    ... so that is probably the best play right now if you want a color screen, Amazon content, and pdf.

  21. unfairly burdened by Microsoft management on Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if Windows Phone 7 (or whatever cute name marketing comes up with) is the best thing since sliced bread, Apple and Google will continue to release three software versions for Microsoft's one, ensuring that MS will once again be left in the dust.

    You have to wonder why MS continues to try their hand in areas where has no advantage -- or clue, really. The best engineers on the planet can't win in the face of poor management and squabbling VPs.

    Ballmer's arrogance knows no bounds.

  22. Re:No flash support on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that it is a steaming pile of insecurity.

  23. Re:Importance of Competitive Choices on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. No action of the EC granted Firefox its ~30% market share -- the mozilla folks earned it, competing head-to-head with Microsoft. There is no monopoly in browsers, no matter what the whining management of Opera and the EC claim.

    "Free market", at least in the EC, typically means "giving unearned advantages to anyone but Microsoft".

  24. Re:In other news on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Hell, there aren't any blind drivers of any sort as far as I know, but there is still braille on the drive-up ATMs.

  25. Guess that Xenu guy isn't all powerful on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 1

    ... you'd think he/she/it could keep these simple attacks from a puny unenlightened human at bay.