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  1. Re:Impact? on Senate Passes Bill Making Internet Tax Ban Permanent (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    No, because this has nothing to do with sales tax.

  2. Re:Not only am I bothred by the phone-home, on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    Attempts to access a Microsoft Teredo server (and sometimes failing)? That sounds broken, turn it off.

    They were failing because the person doing this test made it impossible for Windows 10 to reach it.

  3. Re: Ok, what's a VC? on The Way VCs Think About Open Source: Mostly Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like ATM.

    Of course, why would anyone need Asynchronous Transfer Mode to be spelled out?

  4. Re:Geez, it's like clamydia on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Speedy trial doesn't have anything to do with length of the trial itself. It has to do with being guaranteed that the trial starts within a timely period after being indicted.

  5. Re: I was able to successfully use a docx on LibreOffice 5.1 Officially Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only way nowadays to open old doc and docx files that were created with ancient versions of MS Office is to use LibreOffice since MS likes to drop support for its own file formats.

    I've heard this repeated time and time again on Slashdot and in other nerd circles without a single example of such a document file ever posted to back up the claims. Do you actually have one to back up your claims? I routinely open doc files created back in Office 97 that open just fine in 2010 and beyond. Even saved back out and work perfectly fine in the older versions of Office as well.

  6. Re:Prisoninmate, didya really have a need for .doc on LibreOffice 5.1 Officially Released · · Score: 2

    It's also not necessarily a good thing. There's good reason that almost no one jabs knives into their eyes. It's not because their "sheeple".

  7. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, a tiny minority of people. In fact, many Linux applications can't even be launched that way and next-to-no-one cares.

  8. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Many" people in a tiny minority.

  9. Re:Noooooooooo on Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses · · Score: 1

    Exactly. All the innovation of Opera was thrown out long ago when it just became a Chrome reskin.

  10. Re:Noooooooooo on Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses · · Score: 1

    Right. Because you can tell how an app will perform by the looks of its interface...

    So then what are these innovative features that I'm not seeing?

  11. Re:Noooooooooo on Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses · · Score: 0

    Telling the truth is flamebait? Downmodding Opera fangirl, please do tell what is innovative about current Opera? It looks 95% like Chrome.

  12. Re:Noooooooooo on Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, making a reskinned Chrome is super innovative.

  13. Re:No problem on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or just block the ad-blocker blocker script. Just like one can do for most of these sites trying to block ad blockers.

  14. Re:No transit costs. on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Verizon has peering agreements to cover costs the wider Internet. Secondly, the ISPs have always argued that the last mile (in fiber or spectrum) is the bottleneck and why they need data caps. So it's amusing watching you try to flip the argument now that we see that Verizon has no real bandwidth bottleneck for its wireless service if it can zero-rate streaming as long as you pay the piper.

  15. Re:It's their network, they should be able to on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because AT&T is better, right?

  16. Re:Customer-centric? on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 2

    It's Jeff Bezos-centric.

  17. Yeah, right... on UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    British authorities would not have access to records of U.S. citizens if they emerged in the British investigations.

    Riiiiight. They would never do that and hand it over to its Five Eyes brethren in the NSA. That's just crazy talk!

  18. Re: Excellent! on Canonical Reveals the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would I "try" that date? That's the release date of the Air 2, idiot.

  19. Re:Fundamentals on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The government might have to prove their charges in a court of law? My god, how evil that idea is. Clearly they must be bad guys if its claimed they are so.

  20. Re:a clue: Half as much as Clinton on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    So being a corporate shill is okay as long as someone else is a bigger one? lolwut?

  21. Re:Cats & dogs living together on Samsung's AdBlock Fast Removed From the Play Store (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 2

    You're surprised that an advertising company pulls an ad blocker from their app store?

  22. Re: Excellent! on Canonical Reveals the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    What tablet would have bought with a 64 bit ARM processor 2 years ago.

    iPad Air back in November of 2013.

  23. Re:Since when ... on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It hasn't. Hence the end of the summary where an Interpol report said the same thing.

  24. Except ISPs only advertise an *up to* speed. Nowhere does any ISP so you can get maximum bandwidth 24/7.

  25. Re:Yeah, automated tweeting to PR mouthpiece... on How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How so? Even if you got the maximum throughput that doesn't mean anything with respect to data caps n