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  1. Re:Sounds like a strategy to hold others sells... on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Holy fuck, a tenth of a percent. I hope Wall Street is selling.

  2. Re:iPhone - NOT on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    If you'd actually read the article, you'd notice that the breakdown photos are from Gizmodo, not Engadget. Engadget had some weak photos and Giz are the ones who showed the "many parts inside branded APPLE."

  3. Re:FAIL! on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Greatest competitor? Who? EA or Sega in the older days? Redwood City isn't that big... Are you smokin the good stuff?

  4. Re:FAIL! on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    What carrier gave you the owner's information? I'd like to know so I can avoid whichever company apparently doesn't give a damn about privacy.

    Or did you just give it to the store and they tossed it out with the nightly garbage?

  5. Re:FAIL! on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    More bars in more places?

    AT&T sucks in the bay, so they've resorted to drinking establishments.

  6. Re:Remind? on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

  7. Re:I've got a genius idea on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    We would be far, far better off if everyone just put money into a savings account and used that money to pay medical bills. And hospitals and doctors were required to treat the people that didn't have the savings account and cost-shift it all over to the people that did.

    Was this paragraph sarcasm? Cause that is basically what is going on with insurance and the rest of your post supports that the people with insurance pay for the people that don't. How would a savings account be any different?

  8. Re:News Flash: Apple limits app store! on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    The mere mention of the word censorship implies that you believe your rights have been stepped on 1st amendment or otherwise.

    Please read the first word of the amendment. Congress. How does that apply to a private company? If I was a bookstore and didn't like you or the books you've theoretically authored, it'd be the same scenario.

  9. Re:some technology that already exists on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    Your third point has solely to do with the payment processing bank of the retailer. They often let the retailer determine the amount of verifications, I've had stuff shipped to previous address with an incorrect billing address on the receipt because the web forms kept messing up. I never understood it till I was setting up a payment service with a local bank and they asked me what verifications I wanted in place. It's amazing what little that you can do because they don't give a damn. Chargebacks go back to the retailer, with fees.

  10. Re:Get a new bank on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    Discover does the same thing. A random number calling you from an automated system and asking you to call a 800 number that isn't their main number. No wonder people fall for phishing attacks via e-mail if this is how national banks act over the phone.

  11. Re:What can be done? Nothing. on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We should control the banks in the US, since we basically own them via bailouts anyway.

  12. Re:Network effects on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    Just like all the wonderful stuff they did with the CARD Act? Whatever they do will bite the consumer in the ass.

  13. Re:Your tax dollars at work... on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    No, I can't rebut that accusation...

  14. Re:Your tax dollars at work... on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    California, but I'd say that it's closer to 40 (more if we include skeptics that attend church services just to appease someone else). And maybe it's due to the 20s-30s age group too.

    In WI, I am actually surprised at 20%. I've always felt like an outsider (admittedly not urban areas).

  15. Re:hmm... on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    drunks, crossdressing and hitting people with swords.

    So you're saying that we should archive /b/?

  16. Re:Why? on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    brought to you by Carl's Jr.

  17. Re:Your tax dollars at work... on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    Depending on the geographical region of your anecdote, I'd peg it much higher.

  18. Re:I'll Bet on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, according to daytime TV commercials, I'm pretty sure I can get rich for nearly any fraudulent lawsuit. All it takes is getting a sleazebag to see the potential. They won't get investigated and after barely passing the bar, no, they don't have brains.

  19. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 4, Funny

    That happened to you too? I smell class action.

  20. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can also get a drunk person at a bar who failed chemistry to put salt on their hand and then put an ice cube on top.

    Not that I have any direct knowledge or anything...

  21. Re:Goodbye home server! on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 1

    It may have been trollish, but that wasn't my intention. He's complaining about a speed metric impacting his ranking, so I didn't consider VDSL.

  22. Re:Goodbye home server! on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't worry, if you hosted it on your own DSL line and it worked, the traffic was so low that nobody went to it anyways. Or you could read the part where it says the less than 1% of searches are being impacted.

  23. Re:Bait and Switch Bastards on PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS" · · Score: 1

    The quoted second definition still doesn't apply and neither does the first:

    a sales tactic in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced item but is then encouraged to buy a higher-priced one

    This one was one the times that wiki was right, chill.

  24. Re:Car analogy. on PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS" · · Score: 1

    Have you?

  25. Re:Plug 'em both in on PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS" · · Score: 1

    But it's a single form factor and a single purchase using PS3 for both.