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  1. Re:Google is suffering from success on Chrome OS and Android "Will Likely Converge" In the Future · · Score: 1

    The goog is driving to bring everyone under their sphere at all times. I think the only competitor to them is sites like facebook. The targeting of ads available for social networking is beyond what even google can do with all the information they have on you.

  2. Re:Is she really sure it was locked? on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    I take offense at that! They're just as often a balding fat female sitting in their mom's basement.

  3. Re:Is she really sure it was locked? on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    In the United States, our insurers will pay for about 6 30 minute sessions for psychiatric care, I believe. Anything beyond that and you're written off.

  4. Re:Is she really sure it was locked? on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    Better to be dead and not paying premiums than to be alive with a chronic case.

  5. Re:Is she really sure it was locked? on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that the county organizations in Sweden very much had the powers to create that sort of sub-body.

  6. Re:Wait a second on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Not saying the sweat is what broke it. They're saying the sweat triggered the litmus paper on the headphone jack, regardless of what broke it. Ions+Water=Science! The litmus paper change voids the warranty.

  7. Re:Lawsuits are really getting asinine on iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you didn't expect your device to be maliciously targeted. Its one thing to have an update that creates an unforeseen bug. Its a completely different thing to have an update that maliciously, and purposefully, destroys data. For an analogy, if I'm balancing on a railing and fall, its my fault I fell. If I'm balancing on a railing, you walk up and shove me, the fact that I'm balancing on the railing doesn't make it okay for you to shove me.

  8. Re:Sci-fi not predicting far enough? on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    Oi, comeon, the positronic brain was just a plot device for the ramifications of an Intelligence governed by the laws.

  9. Re:nuts on China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games · · Score: 1

    Its an unfounded view, you're comparing a gaming trend amongst a very western oriented Asian country(South Korea) with China. If anything some light thought would make you think there would be some great differences there.

    The very existence of a mental block that causes you to associate disparate groups of people due to an occidental view is in direct conflict with the history and cultures of said people.

    The point of the matter is, when you have no idea what you're talking about, and you base unfounded observations on pure occidentalism, you would be much better served by keeping your mouth shut. Contributing bullshit to a conversation in order to make you feel like you have something important to say just makes you look like an asshole.

  10. Re:Wait a second on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    It is strange to see a company advocate using a device for a workout, but having that device break in response to some sweat.

  11. Re:Have you ever looked inside a smoker's computer on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    No kidding, I've been chain smoking next to my computer for years and I don't get shit like that.

  12. Re:Ridiculous on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    The argument is as to safety of the workers, not damage to the parts due to smoke.

  13. Re:nuts on China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games · · Score: 1

    For one, touched in the head means of diminished mental faculties, usually saying they're stupid, crazy, or both. For two, if you're asking if making ignorant(as in, you admit you don't know) statements based purely on the idea that Asian cultures are the same because the people are located in a large geographical region that you lump together, and the people look similar is quite crazy, and the definition of having an occidental view. That, of course, is stupid because you base your conclusion purely on your inability to distinguish that there may be grand differences between various Asian cultures. It is one of those situations where you should just keep your mouth shut.

  14. Re:nuts on China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you, if that dollar sinks, so does China's growth. Theres a reason why they buy so many reserves of dollars, and it ain't because they like the pictures. They are very dependent on the United States demand for their product.

  15. Re:Oh please on Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan · · Score: 2, Informative

    What the hell is wrong with lucky strikes! Its toasted!

  16. Re:Time for an Amendment? on When a DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Data? · · Score: 2

    Monozygotic and Dizygotic is a much better way to say it.

  17. Re:Not Really on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Or alternatively, by buying the expensive gear you feel a need to hear more things.

  18. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because they were under the impression that one was better than the other, so they chose the one they thought would be better as per random chance. I'd actually like to see some real testing done to find a statistically significant difference with a large enough sample size. The audiophile shit has always been tainted by a sense of superiority. The thing with the MP3s however is that chances are there is at least some subset of the population that can tell the difference.

  19. False Sense of Security on Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines · · Score: 2, Informative

    Detecting mines is great, I'd be pretty damn worried about the ones that arn't detected however.

  20. Re:Puppets! on Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members · · Score: 1

    Actually that's not even the half of it. Money is considered freedom of speech by the supreme court, so there are constitutionally enshrined ways you can't go about restricting things.

  21. Re:Are you trolling? on The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit · · Score: 1

    Or a black hat heard about it due to the reporting, and the reporting happened the same day, thus zero day. Taking advantage of research information before anyone else can act.

  22. Re:Dont blame Libbyst but The Congrescritters on Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members · · Score: 1

    A great deal of us would agree with you, but our supreme court considers money a part of freedom of speech.

  23. Re:Puppets! on Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members · · Score: 1

    who are apparently so busy "raising funds"

    The sad part is, that actually is a good deal of what they do. Whenever they get a break out of session, they truck back to the home state to try and get donations for the next election. Its a fundamentally broken part of our system, and why we need some real campaign finance reform. The only way to get elected is to get those funds, anyone who doesn't get them gets replaced by someone who can by the voters.

  24. Re:Bubby? Is that you? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Not if such name changes are tracked by websites such as wikipedia.

  25. Re:Bubby? Is that you? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Well put, the debate is between that argument and the argument that the government is attempting to control people's thoughts.