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  1. Re:Boycott on 1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws · · Score: 1

    Background music to the reality shows? Music streaming from the new stereo in the "Pimp my Ride" car?

  2. Re:Legal Weight? on 1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws · · Score: 1

    Maybe it should have been a kiwi law: "This won't fly".

  3. Re:A though on why the iPhone 4 does not have Siri on iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    It's a beta. This reduces the initial load until they can tune the servers.

    You know, the same way Google limited the early beta test of Google+... but I guess betas from Google = good, getas from Apple = bad...

  4. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    Wrong, launching DDoS attacks using a testing tool like LOIC which does not even try to sppof your IP is exactly the way to compromise anonymity.

    FTFY.

  5. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    On on a bag of glass marbles: "Not for human consumption". Which would not prevent a kid from feeding a marble to their dog and lawsuits ensue anyway...

  6. Re:"Post Tech or GTFO!" on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Ah, didn't check that part. Yeah, then it does not make sense unless everything that has to do with planes is considered tech.

  7. Re:how many schools did they close to pay for this on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 1

    this is madness.

    THIS! IS! TEXAS!

    *kicks Presto into bottomless shaft*

  8. Re:DAMN YOU GEORGE BUSH!!!! on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 1

    George H. W. Bush Sr.
    George W. Bush Jr.
    Barack H. Obama Bush Copycat.

  9. Re:What the hell is wrong with this country? on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 2

    But are the bad apples and the screw-ups ever punished? That's the real question here: Will the good cops arrest the bad cops, or will they just look the other way?

  10. Re:How it should be on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Does that also include the top-paid jobs? After all, you can easily save a lot by replacing the million-dollar-salary receiving non-pilot with some beggar from Bangladesh, it's not like he's needed to transport passengers...

    I am sure Australians will flock to an airline just pretending to be Australian. If they want to see the consequences of running airlines too cheaply, look to Africa.

  11. Re:wtf? on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    It's not. Does it need to be?

  12. Re:Suspend the industrial action? on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 2

    1) A "private company" only exists as a fiat of Government: Without laws defining the rights and responsibilities of companies, the term would be meaningless.
    2) Planes do not fly themselves. So they own the planes, but you do not "own" people. They are doing what they want with "theirs" by grounding the planes.
    3) The third thing they have is a responsibility to their customers. And that is what is being broken hardest here.

  13. Re:There's no good guys here on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Don't you know the CEO is very important? The reason planes fly is that airline CEOs do magical rituals in their offices. No rituals == no flying. That is why CEOs are paid more than the people we think are necessary to the airplane's operation.

  14. Re:"Post Tech or GTFO!" on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 2

    The word "technology" is curiously absent from the phrase "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."

  15. Re:This makes my skin crawl on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 2

    Pledge change to "With freedom and pat-downs for all" in 3... 2... :)

  16. Re:Subsidies inflate pricing. on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: There is a high demand - from outside America. If the subsidies go away then I guess also do the "quotas", meaning they can take in more foreign, paying students than before.

  17. Re:FP on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    The profit falls on the well-educated foreigners out here. When Americans have degenerated to TV-watching slobs who make a living selling burgers to each other, we can send over tourists to watch them degenerate, as a stern warning to the rest of the world.

  18. Re:Siri,Are you kidding me? Android Rules! on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 1

    1) iOS had voice command support for years before Siri was added.
    2) Vilingo was released for iOS before Android
    3) Google also "buy up other companies" - like the guys who made Android...

    But hey, if lying about a company you seem to hate pleases you, just keep going at it.

  19. Re:and so the rewriting of history begins again on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 1

    Bullshit much? iOS had voice recognition before Siri (a year before it was added to Android), Siri is not an Apple "copy" but the result of a research project that Apple bought a company using and built further on. Even your example, Vilingo, was out on iOS before it was on Android.

  20. Re:Just like Siri... on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 1

    Um, simple voice commands have been in iOS since at least version 3.2 (the 3GS) too. But that doesn't make it Siri any more than getting from point A to B makes a Fiat 500 a Bugatti Veyron.

  21. Re:Vigilances on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    ... and then you would spend 25 to life as someone's bitch. Because you, too, would have broken the law.

  22. Re:Key word is "in the app store". on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    They can use a modified GPL (after all it's just a license) like the Linux kernel does (the "linking exception"). The modification can be e.g. to allow third-party agreements for distribution where the third-party defers source distribution to the first party - thus removing Apple's requirement to do so.

  23. Re:I'm the Project Lead for Growl on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe broader access to the live branch leads to more overhead from feedback than they need? Remember, open source licenses like the GPL only mandates you make source available when you distribute a binary, not at any other point in the lifecycle. Access to VCS systems is a neat extra, but not mandatory in any way.

  24. Re:Whoever posted this "news" should be shot on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    So it became as closed as Android "Honeycomb" then...

  25. Re:I hate open source names on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Explain what a "powerpoint" is. Measure of electricity? Closed source names are worse since there is no source to check what the hell it is doing.