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  1. Wow, what great spin on such a lame submission on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 2

    Wow, it's amazing how an article title of "Video: Israeli Landspeeder (Sorta) Takes Flight" becomes "Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here" when the thing look and functions nothing like a Star Wars Landspeeder. Nor would you be shooting womprats in one you fucking poseur since it has no weapons.

  2. Re:Awesome on The Uzebox: an Open Source Hardware Games Console · · Score: 1

    and should work equally well for Americans with a SCART TV.

    Yeah, the 3 people in the US that have a SCART TV will most likely be thrilled.

  3. Re:Can it scale? on Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US · · Score: 1

    Yeah considering most wind farms or solar farms take more a couple of magnitudes more space to produce less energy per square mile, it really doesn't.

  4. Re:Citation needed on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    Yes and by "reportedly receives" he means that he's just made up that figure out of whole cloth since he has no actual figures to go by.

  5. Re:The legal and patent system are broken. on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    You know that your legal and patent system are broken when a company is making more money from a competitor product in the making of which they had no part than from their own product.

    Except that no one actually knows that they are making more money that way. And no, some link where a guy basically makes up figures is not an actual reliable source of information. Secondly, their mobile division is a drop in the bucket compared to the revenues from their OS, Office suite and tools divisions.

  6. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    And for additional names you can read a story here you can add in House Democrat Chris Van Hollen and he has support from other Democrats in the house as well. So basically you've shown yourself to be quite uninformed and ignorant.

  7. Re:Citation needed on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    Which is a pretty shitty link since it's just figures that some guy basically makes up.

  8. Re:Don't try to paint this as a Democratic thing on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    Fact: Barnie Frank called for a 25% reduction in defense spending in 2008 was thencalled a traitor by wackos in the right wing.

  9. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    Oh no I know what I'm talking about. Just read this reaction from right-wingers when Barney Frank proposed a 25% reduction in military spending back in 2008. These were not the only people to say the same thing about him as well.

  10. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    Just as a note, the second link was reaction from 2008 when he originally proposed the 25% defense spending cuts.

  11. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 2

    Barney Frank for one. He was also subsequently lambasted from tons of right-wingers do to that. And after proposing so you can find numerous examples such as this to see that he was lambasted by right wingers for being a traitor.

  12. Re:Terrific on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I didn't know companies had a right to be mentioned on wikipedia.

    Never said they had a right to be on Wikipedia. On the other hand, Wikipedia is not for company shills to be using for the advancement of their company above others.

    Now it is enforced by the government?

    No. Once again, constructing a strawman. This was not the government stepping in completely on their own attempting to police Wikipedia. This was a civil suit involving one company disliking the practice of the shills from another company trying to game Wikipedia to gain competitive advancement at their expense.

  13. Re:Google what? on Google To Rebrand Blogger & Picasa For Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    Just like Google Wave and that turned out to be a monstrous success, right?

  14. Re:That's a bit presumptuous on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Why else would someone from their work computer be editing Wikipedia to remove names of competitors for anything but malicious reasoning? Oh, the poor shill got caught! Oh the humanity!!!

  15. Re:Terrific on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    No, this is about a shill from one company trying to edit Wikipedia to remove references to their competitor. It has nothing to do with your strawman.

  16. Re:That's a bit presumptuous on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    Yes, a chilling effect on company shills from using public resources to help their business and hurt their competitors. In the end, no big loss.

  17. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    quick quiz, how many of the 5 current wars did congress officially declare, vs how many were executive actions of the commander in chief?

    Completely irrelevant since Congress controls both the military and the purse strings. Without complicity from Congress in relegating their authority none of these wars could have happened at all.

  18. Re:Costs on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 1

    They're not worried. $9.5 trillion is owed to the US public anyway who will buy up more bonds and treasuries whenever needed so that the interest from the foreign debt can be paid.

  19. Re:Typical... on US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Democrats don't want to cut defense spending either.

    Yes, because the ones that do get called traitors by the same blowhards who whine about how the government isn't fiscally responsible enough.

  20. Re:So Wikipedia is a marketing website now? on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when is Wikipedia an appropriate place to advertise?

    Since Jimbo needed money?

  21. Re:MVC on Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux · · Score: 2

    One common pattern is a Java front-end made especially for Android that runs in Dalvik, combined with a C++ back-end shared with other platforms that runs in the NDK.

    Except that your C++ code is still executed from within the Dalvik VM.

    The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when programming in C or C++. If you write native code, your applications are still packaged into an .apk file and they still run inside of a virtual machine on the device. The fundamental Android application model does not change.

    So no it doesn't run in the "NDK" considering that statement makes absolutely no sense.

  22. You mean the irrelevant minority that drove Firefox to, what, 40%+ adoption rate?

    Yes, I do. Just because some group may have (and your assertion is highly questionable due to the high usage of Netscape among non-techies before Firefox even came out) helped push the adoption of one piece of software in no way hold any sway over the adoption of some other product or service.

    Seriously, non-techies can often be heavily influenced by what their techie friends tell them, since they realize they don't know computers and techies do. Hence, techies can have a disproportionate influence on adoption.

    Great, now prove that the huge userbase of Facebook had anything at all to do with hardcore techies.

  23. And you also think Google should face antitrust trial for blocking Facebook from getting Gmail contacts, right?

  24. Smart move by Facebook -- pissing off their hardcore techie users.

    So an irrelevant minority that they will never miss?

  25. Re:false flag! on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the government is unable to prevent people leaking sensitive diplomatic cables and embarrassing videos and documents yet they can pull off massive false flag operations without a single person leaking the fact that it's a government operation? Umm, yeah right.