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  1. Re:As the world collapses around us... on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    Well, duh, yes, of course you can. It's called an election. You don't have to vote the incumbents in, you know.

    Elections stopped working years ago. It's time for an Article V convention.

  2. How dare you, sir! on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    You are dangerously close to having your geek credentials revoked for saying IE is a good browser.

  3. Re:You must be kidding on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 0

    Perhaps, but any mortal software would need to be reinstalled. Or did T(u)FA leave that part out?

  4. Re:This on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 2

    Out of all the tier 1 US carriers, Sprint's plans are IMO the best. Except for the stupid $10/month "smartphone data" fee, which is bullshit.

    Unfortunately I live in the taint of the country, and don't have any hope of actually getting 4G data on my 4G phone until Sprint completes their LTE network vision and I get an LTE capable phone.

    Hopefully Gingerbread will finally go OTA this week and make me forget these things.

  5. Re:Same old Ballmer smack talk on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    Ballmer's crystal ball doesn't function the way you might expect. Why? Because it's actually a Palantir.

    Which begs the question: is Ballmer Sauron, Saruman, or Denethor? Hmm, maybe he's actually Pippin...

  6. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Because last I checked (over a year ago), Kubuntu was flaky as hell.

  7. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use Mint KDE because GNOME is

    • Chasing a userbase that doesn't exist (computer illiterates not on Windows), thereby making actual users suffer
    • Infecting itself with a disease called Mono

    I like Mint. It's easy to install and I can do what I want to the desktop. As long as there is a KDE version of Mint I'll keep using it. If there isn't, I'll go looking for another distro where KDE is used (it won't be Kubuntu).

    I used to be a GNOME user back in my RedHat/Gentoo days, along With E.16. E.17 is teh seksi, but I haven't tried it yet.

  8. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that Samsung and their lawyers all have a vested interest in being able to differentiate the two products, since that's the crux of the case.

  9. Obligatory Napster comment on Rhapsody To Acquire Napster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Screw you, Lars.

  10. Fifty times? on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 0

    Well, MS has to pay somehow for scraping Google for Bing results.

  11. Re:Not so sure that Bing makes M$ money elsehwere on Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Since 2009 · · Score: 2

    Skype already ruined Skype.

  12. Players do bad things because: on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are no consequences. Make the players endure a court martial and maybe their actions would change.

    This is another reason why the Elder Scrolls series is so incredibly good: if you're seen killing an innocent, you instantly get a bounty on your head, guards chase you relentlessly, and you have to pay the price (although there are ways around it for cheaters).

    But I suspect developers of FPS games aren't that interested in moral realism, just graphics and sound.

  13. Re:Does Anon realize on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    Just about any act can be used to legitimize another act. Whether the legitimization is rational or logical is another matter.

    Personally, I think one of these groups should adopt "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" as their slogan.

  14. Re:Sprint and T-Mo should merge on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Sprint is the only major carrier left that offers unlimited data plans.

    And as for crappy phones, I quite like my Epic 4G (although I'm still waiting for Gingerbread before I root it). I've heard rumor that the iPhone 5 will be dual band (GSM and CDMA) and that it is coming to Sprint in October.

  15. Re:AT&T's Response on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Since you brought it up, no, it hasn't. They pocketed that money so their quarterly reports would look better.

  16. Re:Did you notice... on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    And if they thought the stock would dive, they would have waited until friday evening to announce it.

  17. So what's the convenience charge for this? on Ticketmaster Lets You Sit With Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it'll be somewhere around $11.95 per ticket.

  18. Re:It's nothing new on Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    And when everybody freaks about LocalStorage and the browsers hamstring or disable it, the trackers will just fall back to using the HTML5 ping attribute which is near perfect for tracking people without cookies. It's one of the many reasons why HTML5 is broken and flawed, but nobody seems to care when there's video, audio, and canvas elements. The only inarguably good thing about HTML5 is the forms improvements.

  19. Re:Wrong Name on Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    No functional difference there.

  20. Re:Logical contradiction on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mods, please irrevocably suspend user account MyCleanAss (#2444274) as an obvious spammer. Also, please pursue legal action against this person who is clearly violating the Geeknet terms of use.

  21. Re:Why would they go anywhere? on Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones · · Score: 1

    From what I can see, most of the people who are snatching up the cheap TouchPads are developers/modders who realize:

    • What a steal they are are $99 and $149
    • They won't last long (if they're not gone already)

    Android will be ported to TouchPad well before the end of the year. HP's exit from the tablet market only damaged Motorola and Samsung tablet sales, and only for a short while. What they should learn from this is that they can't sell non-iPads tablets at iPad prices.

  22. Re:Since text messages cost sooooo much to carry on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Remember that SMS rides on an allocated but otherwise unused slice of spectrum (I forget the details), so this is pure profit for them.

  23. Re:Another photo app, document app, music app?! on Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann · · Score: 1

    If these are the types of apps Gnome is focusing on, they clearly are chasing after a market that they don't have (and won't get anytime soon) while abandoning the market they do have.

  24. Re:Don't Listen! on Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann · · Score: 2

    Nah, that's Miguel de Icaza.

  25. Amazing on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    Now we know the Reality Distortion Field can perform basic image processing.