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  1. Re:not the first story on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    Strange; my former boss used it with his HP laptop, and I use mine with my PS3. Apple probably want to focus on their own products though.

  2. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Very few things are rights. For instance, the Government could mandate that all cars should have breathalyzer locks to cut down on drunk driving, and speed blockers to prevent speeding. Because driving a car freely is not a right either.

  3. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    The IATA (the International Air Traffic Agency). Who say that on the plane the captain is king. And that is one of the international bodies the U.S. bows to, otherwise we would still be getting to and from your country by boat...

  4. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    They did not. Delta Airlines, a private company, did. Because on the plane, the captain is the dictator.

  5. Re:seriously? on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    The red hair and shamrock lapel pin gives them away, though.

  6. Re:It's even worse on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Delta Airlines is a private company. Another problem is that when you enter an airplane or ship you leave the Republic and enter the Kingdom of the sovereign captain. Which sucks, but shows that sometimes a dictatorship is considered keen.

    Then again: This comes back to the old "you do not have a right to fly" semi-argument of the TSA apologists who crop up from time to time. Sure, but that applies to almost any form of transportation, yet the same (usually conservative) defenders of screening and airline King-of-the-hilling start to snort derisively if you point out that that also applies to driving a car. Maybe flying from A to B is as important to someone as the "freedom of the road" is to them? If so, flying should be just as much a "right".

  7. Re:KKK to TSA on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 2

    Businesses claim First amendment rights (regarding marketing and so on) though, so it would be hypocritical of them to deny that to their paying customers.

  8. Re:not the first story on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    Eh, it's a fucking Bluetooth keyboard. It works with everything that uses Bluetooth keyboards. What the fuck made you think it only works with Apple devices? FUDster.

  9. Re:not the first story on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    Bonjour is Apple's implementation of the principles of zeroconf. Other implementations exist too.

    But I guess you will want to wait for a public standard before you commit to anything.

  10. Re:not the first story on Polish MP Returns iPad Citing Lack of Control · · Score: 1

    You mean rooting to bypass the limitations you had agreed to when you signed up with the cellular service provider?

    Tethering works fine on any un-rooted iOs device where the service provider includes it in your contract.

  11. Re:Trolls on Android Piracy Sites Seized By US Government · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the commie Linux users do understand the /. scoring system since they have already downloaded the Slashcode source and read it. They don't understand user interfaces though so they did not connect the source they read with the elements in the web page.

  12. Re:But... on Android Piracy Sites Seized By US Government · · Score: 1

    The moment you used the word "copies" you implicitly denied is is stealing. Stealing is taking something from someone - note the "from" part as in they no longer have it - and while unlicensed copying is also illegal, it is not theft any more than it is rape (another illegal act).

  13. Re:Strange direction on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    Design patents != idea patents. Still.

  14. Re:States on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 2

    Preventing teachers from turning students into less than stir fry operator material by refusing to teach science can be called protecting the country.

  15. Re:gritn (guy raised in the north) on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    You mean alternative theories in general? Like white supremacy? NAMBLA views on man-boy "luv"? "The Jews are running the world" conspiracy theories? Man, KY students are going to be so whacked in the head.

  16. Re:Ermahgerd evolution!! on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Ah, posting to undo mis-mod

  17. Re:Spend money in infrastructure on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    Same applies to the USA. You need to spread the wealth around...

  18. Re:Yes. Ditto Israel. on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is necessary for their mythology that the Jews assemble in Israel and rebuild the Temple (they are behind on that part) so that Jesus can return and convert those heathens to Chriostianity. The Jews, that is...

  19. Re:Strange direction on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    Adobe makes its money on tools, not free Flash players. And now they make tools that let people produce for other platforms.

    (The RDF does not exist. It never did. It was just something called "marketing", something Linux fans have no experience with.)

  20. Re:How will Apple survive the price drop in tablet on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 1

    It's like asking how BMW stays in business in a world where you can buy a cheap Fiat that can get you anywhere the BMW can go. In other words, it is missing the point.

  21. Re:Who cares? on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 1

    I think you use the word "is" in a different sense than most people. It indicates "present tense", but you apply it to a non-existing product. The verb form you are looking for looks like this:

    There will be an x86 Surface (next year) ...

  22. Re:Who cares? on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 0

    All these falsehoods and absurdities regarding this non-existent "cult" is indicative of someone who have not one single clue about business. I understand why you post as AC: After all, who would hire someone who prefers to insult the customers of their competition?

  23. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    Strange, the two times I had to call them up because I had forgotten one of the answers, they picked one other I had answered as a verification test. Luckily I remembered that.

    Do you mean a non-answered question comes up after login?

  24. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    Exactly: But it should be wrong answers you can remember. E.g. a Babylon 5 fan could answer "Psi Corps" for "What was your mother's name?" because of the "corps is mother, corps is father" line from that show. Or a physicist could put "Radioactivity" for "What is your favorite activity?" Etc.

    The real solution is n-factor authentication: Something you are, something you have, something you know, something they know...

  25. Re:Or WikiLeaks Pulled Its Own Plug... on Wikileaks DDoSed Again · · Score: 1

    The Guardian is just biting the hand that once fed them. Maybe they expected their exclusive access to last longer than it did? And then someone leaked the whole shebang.