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  1. Re:better yet on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well, the Nazis sailed into power on a wave of fear and hate brought on by the "freedom" to print a shed load of books blaming the Jews for all that was wrong...

  2. Re:better yet on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    That's "never" as in "as soon as the war started, propaganda posters appeared showing poor Germany in a squeeze between blood-thirsty Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and the Jewish capitalists in Britain"... but hey.

  3. Re:October Surprise on China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful · · Score: 1

    I am sure if a part of your country declared independence with Russian help you would sort of get annoyed and send in some soldiers, too. In fact, wasn't there this "Confederate States" for a little while? 1860-ish? Ring a bell? No Russians, though.

  4. Re:So.... on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heh, I can see the future of research reports:

    Bibliography
    Just google it.

  5. In Novo-Soviet Russia... on Russia's Internet Blacklist Law Takes Effect · · Score: 0

    ... you are all children of Tsar Vladimir.

  6. Re:Ballmer doesn't understand the point of tablets on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want · · Score: 1

    Domain joining would not only be good it would be critical. Partly because admins want to use GPOs to manage features. BYOD can only go so far. Who wants an expensive RDP client in order to conform to IT security policies?

  7. Re:one caveat on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 1

    Bah, meant Kindle Fire of course. Damn inability to edit posts, you would think it's 1992 not 2012.

  8. Re:one caveat on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 1

    Android has been forked. See: Amazon Kindle.

  9. Re:Huh? on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's a Halloween thing, they try to scare us...

  10. Re:UN can control the internet when they build one on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    Why should place of invention matter? It does not matter for any other technologies. And the countries that established their infrastructure certainly implemented it. Also, there is not really a "whole", just a collection of subnets.

  11. Re:Disgousting behaviour on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1

    Whew! Since Islam does not have a formal church organization to match the Catholic Church, then "Islam" cannot perform acts of terrorism either. Also, Vatican not representative of all Christians.

  12. Re:Disgousting behaviour on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1

    Heck, the United States even harbored a few IRA suspects back in the day and refused extradition to the UK. Also, the ETA could be called Catholic in a sense... though both pretend to be mostly nationalist. And for all practical purposes, the Mexican drug gangs are terrorists as good as any group.

  13. Re:Disgousting behaviour on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1

    From a Nicaraguan perspective, the Contras were terrorists, from a right-wing American perspective they were "freedom fighters" financed via illegal drug and arm sales. Po-tah-to, po-tay-to.

  14. Re:Unfair moderation is not nice on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    Suck it up you big wuss.

  15. Re:UN can control the internet when they build one on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    The American part of the Internet was funded by the U.S. taxpayer, the rest of the world paid for their own thank you very much. It's not like Italy gets to dictate world radio frequencies because of Marconi either...

  16. Re:Let them build their own on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "your own"? The Internet in Europe is Europe's, the Internet in Africa is Africa's etc. to the extent that it is not that of the U.S. at least. Do you think Detroit asks Germany for permission when they want to make a new car, just because Germans invented the damn thing? The United States generally only controls their particular fraction of the Internet, but they also sit with the administrations of most non-country TLDs. But the rest of the Internet could just fire up their own set of DNS root servers etc. if they really wanted to lose U.S. control. But then they would also lose U.S.-based services, and some of those are pretty keen...

  17. Re:Putting anything under UN control is scary on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ask them which won, their beloved X.400 or the Internet's SMTP and friends...

  18. Re:On the one hand... on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    What damn bill? Each country/network in the huge interacting mass of individual nets that constitute the Internet pay their own part, except the U.S. got much of the money thanks to hardware from Motorola, Cisco, 3Com etc. over the years. There is not a "the bill" here, it is a sharing of costs via peering agreements.

  19. Re:On the one hand... on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    Well, the excuse trotted out for giving corporations "rights" like First Amendment protection etc. is that they consists of persons. I guess the same would hold for governments.

  20. Yes, but what apps for which platforms? Even the "portlets" you put on SharePoint pages are called "apps" in SharePoint 2013, and they intend to have an "app store" for them.

  21. Re:Ballmer doesn't understand the point of tablets on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you would think he didn't know that Microsoft makes another device that is decidedly "non-work": the XBox 360.

    Ballmer, wake me up when you can use the Surface in a corporate environment. And when you finalize Office for RT in a version that can be used for commercial use (the beta they include can not). Until then, the Surface is not a "work" tablet.

  22. Yeah, I've seen people stand trying to balance a laptop on their arm while using the touchpad or keyboard without tipping it over. It looks stupid.

    Only a non-owner would say a tablet has no uses. "I take the subway, a car has no uses".

    People buy Apple products because they are actually quality hardware, with responsive and user-friendly UIs. People who think people buy Apple products just because of "vogue" are deluded.

  23. Re:fail often, fail quick?! on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want · · Score: 1

    Well, it is almost three years since Ballmer was on stage at CES singing the praises for HP Slate as the next coming of the Tablet PC... it is about time for another non-iPad-killer...

  24. Re:No Strings Attached? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: -1

    As long as you check "Enable gaping security hole" in the options. :)

  25. Re:Google's Biz Model on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    I live in a country where TVs have a yearly fee, but I assure you that physical presence is not sufficient: you also need to have a TV. People without one do not pay. Why should they?