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  1. Re:Errr ... on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's the [Windows] with the lowest additional value"

    That sentence scares me.

    There are dark places in the universe. Depths of irrationality where mathematics are just rituals and sorcery. A chaos where what should never be is fighting to escape. In that place there's a pit that even the horrors avoid. A tear where the tapestry of reality is at its weakest point.

    That's where they store "the Windows with the lowest additional value". And that's where it should stay. Watching us. Hungry.

  2. Re:Why on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 0

    Why is Ferrari selling its cars for so much more than Ford? For most uses it's not significantly better....... /irony
    Actually. I can't think of an example of item that's sold most because of it being significantly better instead of because of a better marketing.

  3. Re:I have some bad news and some good news on Two Million Passwords Compromised By Keylogger Virus · · Score: 1

    That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!

  4. Re:Going to change everything on Andy Rubin Is Heading a Secret Robotics Project At Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    They haven't thought about what a tool which completely replaces a human and which costs less than a human salary means.

    That tool already exists. It's called "junior IT consultant".

    Of course it's still unable to socialize with humans, but we're working on it.

  5. Re:And they wonder why... on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are plenty of people who trust the Justice system. Those who have lawyers in retinue.

  6. Re:Importance on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    You are completely right?

    That's why we need snipers in every building, ready to take down anyone who breaks any law!

    You spit a chewing gum on a public street? BAM! HEADSHOT!

  7. Re:Sounds so wrong on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    it's distasteful, but our constitution only fully protects us.

    One problem that applies even for the most egotistical point of view, is when the definition of "us" changes.

  8. Re:I listened to Marylyn Manson... on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    I listened to Freddy Mercury and while I don't feel gay, I must surely be.

    Unless the gay soundwaves were countered by the manly music of AC/DC!

    We need Germany to tell us the precise effect of each style, so we can decide what to hear to be the people we want to be.

  9. Re:Sounds so wrong on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    but as an American the idea of just making the expression of ideas, or listening to certain music illegal sounds worse than the ideas they are oppressing

    Because America is the bastion of freedom where nobody has ever been sent to a concentration camp without trial. Ever. At least not in recent history. Well, not in the last... five months.

  10. Re:Even worse... on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn it, Jim, a spin-1/2 connector!

    USB connections are quantum entangled. At the other side of the wormhole there's a reality where you've spent your entire life getting the usb in in the first try.

    In that reality you're rich and powerful.

  11. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    nope, modern laptops are just as good as desktops now.

    You forgot to add the "except for gaming" at the end of that.

  12. Re: Just imagine on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Well. If it's revenge you want, you can always burn down the building. It's cheap and not very hard to do without leaving any proof.

    Not the way justice works, though.

  13. Re:Just imagine on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but the business has the full right to refuse service and ask him to leave for any reason they want.

    Are you sure of that? Can they refuse the service because they only serve Caucasians? Or only men? Or only nationals? Or only non-Jews? Or...

  14. Re:Expected on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 1

    I don't expect my blender to turn into something much better in 20 years. I do expect my computer to do exactly that and I'd be very unhappy if it didn't.

  15. Re:Bashing European Made Cars? on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    I would call this a case of driver error, not car. If you slap a bear, don't act all surprised if it mauls you.

    You must live in the same county of the guy that's talking about cars biting your head off when you make a mistake.

    I have news for you two. Cars aren't supposed to be furry.

  16. Re:Wrong subject on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Unless they are driverless cars.

  17. Re:No question? on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    An actor that made his millions staring in films about illegal street racing dies in a high speed car crash. Poetic justice I suppose. I wonder how many impressionable youths or their innocent victims have died trying to emulate him.

    I partially agree. He was a wonderful force of evolution, but it was only thanks to the efforts of a great team that he managed to reach so many.

    Who will now take the responsibility of culling the herd?

  18. Re:Expected on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 1

    That's the problem.

    There's nothing where there should be the first of a large chain of toys, each one being a large improvement from the previous one.

  19. Re:Expected on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 1

    I see the failure to make machines obsolete as a terrible sign.

    I still don't have a fully immersive "holodeck" at home. To reach that point before I die I need the world to be able to make computers obsolete every year at the very least.

  20. Attitude Control on Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    Why use a Station Wagon? Why not a 747?

    $/GB

  22. Re:Huh? on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably not.

    Studies suggest that news about studies are only vaguely related to the studies themselves.

  23. Re:People really need to get a life on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    There are normal and civil ways to handle these kind of problems

    Which are...

  24. Re:Google is a pile of shit on CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store · · Score: 1

    The solution to your problem lies on the foundations of it.

    i.e.: Ask yourself why you want to block all Google hosts and open your mind to a new solution to that same problem. One that while less evident may well be more feasible.

  25. Re:Porn browsing? on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 2

    It's even stupider than that, as whoever accuses first would instantly become an incredibly juicy target for any magazine to publish the "true story behind the accuser".

    Unless the NSA have someone who's never, ever seen a porn site, which would be a feat beyond miraculous.