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  1. Re:It's about time on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    Actually outside of indie game companies it really isn't. No big game company is going to be swayed by those figures.

  2. Re:It's about time on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 0

    Perhaps you need to learn something about fallacy of extrapolating from a single data point?

  3. Re:It's about time on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    Because it's going to be anywhere near Windows' 90%+ market share on desktops? Yeah, right.

  4. Re:make you pay tax for that in game cash! on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    Huh? That doesn't make sense. In-game cash is not a form of income. Apparently you were trying to make a joke, but it was just stupid.

  5. Re:Any objections? on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul would be a good example.

    Sure, if you like right-wing loon jobs.

  6. Re:Question: on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Seriously, when is the last time you ever heard anyone do that publicly?

    Less than a month? You can easily find numerous references not just from this year but from last of politicians and posters on the internet talking about how a woman invited raped on themselves. Then just take a trip to the Islamic world and any rape is assumed to be the woman's fault and that she invited it.

    A lot of feminists claim this to be the case, and it's true that it might have once been more acceptable (and it was NEVER fully acceptable, BTW). But no one would dare say this sort of thing anymore today (certainly not openly, and even only reluctantly in private).

    And yet despite this assertion it's trivially easy to do a google search and find people making public statements that say this exactly.

  7. Re:nice on Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Does an Afghan civilian prefer to die from a US missile or a Taliban bullet?

    Neither.

  8. Re:The IRS does not think that way! on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    And what is the IRS going to do?

  9. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 1

    Thankfully I don't pay for my cable, it is included in my rent.

    How does that mean you don't pay for it?

  10. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 1

    Discovery itself is only interested in, well, eyeballs.

    What TV channel isn't? Can you name a single TV channel that exists in absence of viewers?

  11. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Protip: TLC and Discovery are owned by the same people and sister stations. This is why you see shows swap between showing on one and then the other (such as the American Chopper/Hot Rod shows).

  12. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 1

    Yeah but TLC lets you learn about a dysfunctional white trash family building shitty, overpriced motorcycles!! zOMG!!! Oh and you can watch American Hot Rod to see a bunch of reject mechanics build cars that are 75% bondo.

  13. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 1

    The novelization of The Deadliest Catch?

  14. Re:Possible backers on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    simply lift the anchor and sail away to a more tax friendly locale, or country.

    And lose all your customers as your latency spikes through the roof and your throughput sinks while you're out to sea?

  15. Re: tethering? on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    I wonder though if anyone has thought of building land based data centers in the far northern climates to take advantage of the -40 degree arctic cold fronts.

    Yes they have.

  16. Re:When you're tired of hiring one, become one. on Google & Verizon's Real Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    it's simply Google saying they'd rather provide their own line into the major networks rather than paying somebody else to do it for them.

    They've already been doing that for quite a while now. They have peering agreements with the other major ISPs.

  17. Re:WHY??? on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Because Google doesn't yet have patents filed for those things?

  18. Re:Moot because of tethering? on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Of course, a good tsunami could wipe 'em out just fine...

    Only if it's a pretty poorly built ship.

  19. Re:"pirate" flag of convenience ? on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    It's even easier than that. A stray missile from submarine "accidentally" sunk the data center.

  20. Re:Jailbreakme on Flash Ported To iOS and iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Believe me, rooting iPhones at an Apple store isn't being done to be nice. It is done to be a jerk and revel in someone else's unhappiness.

    Wow you're pretty hardcore, bro. Secondly, it takes the people in the Apple Store probably like 10 seconds to restore the phone and undo what you did. At the same time they are laughing at your pasty, obese ass for even wasting your time thinking your doing some big "stickin it to da man!!!" thing.

  21. Re:Jailbreakme on Flash Ported To iOS and iPhone 4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny because if they didn't fix such an exploit the people like you would be whining and crying about how long these exploits continue to exist without being fixed.

  22. Re:Guess Wal-mart's not so bad after all on Inside the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop · · Score: 1

    And for anyone interested here is a story about this. Glad to see there is still a company here and their willing to stand up for their workers rather than sell them out for the bottom line.

  23. Re:It's not for you on Inside the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop · · Score: 1

    Yes but it's a highly irregular paycheck and you aren't necessarily guaranteed a steady rate of .60/hour. Adding in to the fact that in some cases for these services you have to accumulate 50-100 bucks in order for them to cut the check (plus who knows how ungodly long to get the check) the worker isn't really winning in this deal.

  24. Re:TrueCrypt? on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    You would still have to explain why you have TrueCrypt on your system. Unless you purge all traces of having downloaded it and installed it on the PC it's not like they won't be able to find that you've been encrypting things on the computer.

  25. Re:Is the Amiga OS on AmigaOS Twenty-Five Years of Check-Ins Visualized · · Score: 1

    I can imagine the the possible boost in Amiga popularity (not sales, but at least interest and usage) would be a lot higher if it could be ran on commodity x86-64 hardware and was freely available for development.

    Yes but such a thing is vehemently opposed by the Amiga snobs.