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  1. The obligatory: on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hate beta? soylentnews.org is the solution.

  2. Re:Two kids, one cake on What If the "Sharing Economy" Organized a Strike, and Nobody Came? · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how a "better way" for books led to a cottage industry in the creation of positive book reviews...

    Books, mind you, have the distinct advantage of not having a large knife in the glove box.

  3. Re:OMG enough on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    "Let's just go forward with what we know"

    Urgh. Frankly I prefer hypotheses and the scientific method.

  4. Working conditions on Fire At Hynix FAB May Bump DRAM Prices · · Score: 1

    the damage is not as severe as it seems as the smoke created was because the fire was concentrated in the air purification facilities that are linked to the rooftop of the fab

    Heck, filling the building with smoke might even *improve* the quality of the air for the workers in those facilities!

  5. Re:Watch phones are nothing new. on Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required · · Score: 2

    http://www.imsmart.com/en

    The reviews are not flattering.

  6. Re:Depends on your users on How Do You Get Better Bug Reports From Users? · · Score: 1

    You ignore the Bush paradox: if you elevate your idiots above their ken, they become more dangerous idiots.

  7. Re:because desktop linux is a toy and novelty on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    I quite like my Windows applications - Photoshop, MS Office, Matlab, Winamp... even ACDSee Pro.

    You're living in the past, dude.

    Have you not been introduced to streaming video for your porn needs?

  8. Ballmering on In Praise of the King: 1.7M Social Media Comments In Thailand · · Score: 0

    It reminds me of the comments that understand my frustration with unusable things, but personally find that Windows 8 is an incredibly usable operating system and I just don't understand how usable it truly is.

  9. Re:Reckless Cops on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Techno-homoerotic fantasy on Wired Writer Imagines Google Island · · Score: 1

    Just be thankful that the Moderate Safe Search was switched on - the bit where he and Google's Larry Page went to Erection Cove together was clearly inappropriate...

  11. Yuk! Last time I RTFA on Ubuntu Touch Developers Aim for Daily Phone Usability Before June · · Score: 1

    "Wait. Other Linux developers don't eat their own dogfood?" That's right.

    Hubris much?

    You do realise that a large percentage of open source projects are started with the intention of filling a need that is currently not satisified by other software? (Novel concept, I know!). And therefore, there is an imperative to "dogfood" as soon as possible.

    Granted, those open source projects weren't led by an asshole dictator with a commercial imperative. And hey, I've been unfortunate enough to try Unity. Given that precedent for "usability", dog-fooding in this case may well be a painful process

  12. Re:Oh for Christ's sake on Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept 'Bitcoin-Ware' Apps? · · Score: 1

    It isn't a scheme at all - until it collapses. Then, and only then, can we know what type of scheme it was. Until that day, it could be a ponzi scheme. It could be all kind of things!

    The structure you describe (pump-and-dump) beautifully encapsulates the behavior of the feeder funds who delivered Madoff a large portion of his billions. But we don't remember that as a pump-and-dump now.

    And: bitcoin was created by a well known and reputable entity (cough), with security methodologies ensuring value that are thoroughly understood by it's investors (cough) and are traded on open, transparent exchanges (cough). Why, the chances of that being a ponzi scheme would be like that of a stock certificate sold by the chairman of the Nasdaq himself being fraudulent!

  13. Make fingers smaller. on Carnegie Mellon Offers Wee QWERTY Texting Tech For Impossibly Tiny Devices · · Score: 1

    Just suprised no-one has thought of this solution before. Acedemics, pfft!

  14. Re:Crack on An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API · · Score: 2

    Sold one million to one customer alone in North America, that should be.

    Given that no-one is admitting to that purchase, is it beyond the realm of belief that they brought those themselves?

  15. Re:Could someone with privacy concerns please resp on Google Releases Glass Kernel Source Code · · Score: 1

    Because the mark of the beast is now available not just on your right hand, but also on your forehead!

    And so, it becomes clearer why the Google Chrome logo has the "666" hidden in it - so you can have not only the name of the beast on your chosen device... but also.. the number of his name!

    Kind of a shame really, cause I was totally sure that Steve Jobs was the Anti-Christ. Eric Schmidt is a bit of a let down.

  16. Re:B.S. on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    This is premature BS. This info is based on the first tests, which were not conclusive. That's why your "source" says they are "waiting for further tests results"!!!

    Yeah, I've made this mistake before .... Lily of the Valley.... *cough*...

  17. Re:Thankyou Putin! on Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort · · Score: 1

    It sure would be nice if this served as a wake up call to Congress. Our space program could use some attention too (...the good kind).

    I doubted this was Newt Gingrich, too... until I saw the 33333. Total money.

  18. Re:Yes, I'm sure that will do on Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1

    Obviously, they misread "Microsoft will have to settle for a small share of the tablet market" as "Microsoft will have to settle for a share of the small tablet market".

  19. Story is obviously untrue! on Microsoft, Partners Probed Over Bribery Claims · · Score: 1

    Here's how it ACTUALLY went down:

    Ballmer walks into room, wielding chair.

    "You know, there's a lot of not-nice things that can happen when you standardize around a non-Microsoft office format..."

  20. Re:Canonical lately on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend dumping ubuntu and moving to mint as the base for kubuntu.

    The new name (first two letters from kubuntu, last two letters from mint) would pay an appropriate tribute to Mark Shuttleworth.

  21. The converse of the "If people want that content, your site will automatically work" argument is well proven by Truemors and Alltop.

    Why would Google would hire this two-bit hack...?

  22. Re:That's his right on Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance · · Score: 2

    Actually, most variations of pluralism have claims: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Representing_plurals_and_possessives

    You think it's messy now? Just wait until a Mormon joins this conversation!

  23. For a guy who claims he doesn't record... on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 1

    ...he sure has a sticky "memory buffer":

    From the current article:
    "The impact and fall injured my leg and also broke my wearable computing system, which normally overwrites its memory buffers and doesn’t permanently record images. But as a result of the damage, it retained pictures of the car’s license plate and driver, who was later identified and arrested thanks to this record of the incident."

    From his blog, in relation to an incident at McDonalds (http://eyetap.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/unanswered-letter-to-mcdonalds-head-of.html)
    "With all the video surveillance cameras that you have in your establishment you should be able to do better than merely "witness statements" as the only evidence to stand against the solid evidence that your employees generated in my wearable computing system by damaging it and thus preventing it from overwriting its circular buffer"

  24. Re:Enough on New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    If you apply that philosophy to all software that has had or will have more than one zero day vulnerability, your computer will end up being pretty useless.

  25. Ummm... on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 2

    So Judge Koh said 'It is not the proper role of the court to second-guess the jury’s factual determination as to the proper amount of compensation,'.

    And then proceeded... to second-guess the jury’s factual determination as to the proper amount of compensation by $450,000,000?

    Am I missing something here? I would prefer to not RTFA if at all possible..