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  1. Re:He raises a valid concern and offers a solution on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    Because googling ""Joomla $x " would never work.

  2. Re:1997 on Linux Video Tutorials From 1995 · · Score: 2

    No it is a nightmare....

    Why? because most people had 14" or 15" monitors and most X software was written for 1024X768 or larger screens, which only started at 17" monitors that cost an arm and 12 legs.

    Netrek on anything smaller than a 17" was impossible.

  3. Re:Yeah Right.... on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    "Your competition will do it, and it will cost them just a fraction of what you will have to pay for your in-house solution. "

    really? so the money I already spent will magically continue to remove it's self?

    Paying monthly to a service that says in their contract that " if we lose your data or it get's stolen from us, well it sucks to be you as we are not liable for that" is only for the short sighted or the uninformed.

    Not jumping on trendy bandwagons kept us here and in business over the past 25 year,s while it seems my competition.... well they all filed for bankruptcy and went out of business over the past 3 years.... I used to have 10 competitors in my state... now there is only one left and they are looking desperate.

    It seems that what I have been doing works, and what "they" have been doing.... well I hope they enjoy their dirt nap.

    Mr Schmidt is a sales man, not a business man.

    Come on back when you have ran a business through TWO recessions and survived.

  4. The supporters are Lying on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 2

    IF they are not Lying, then change the bill to close that loophole.

    If they refuse to then they are bold faced liars. It really is as simple as that.

  5. Re:Unenforceable should be Illegal. on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    It's very enforceable. Laws like this have a very specific purpose. it gives the law a way to arrest you at any moment. It's a way to make all the citizens a criminal so that they can be picked up at any time without recourse.

    Seat belt law is unenforceable, but it allows the cops to write you an additional $150.00 ticket when they pull you over for speeding.
    Downloading music law is unenforceable, but if they get legal access to your computer, it's another tool to nail you with.

    Police love these kinds of laws, it gives them even more tools to attack the citizens with.

  6. Glad to see... on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    Tennessee government is bought and paid for.

    Sorry kids, but sharing an account is NOT STEALING. The RIAA and MPAA have desperately been trying for decades to make it illegal for you to loan someone a song or movie... well using a friends account is the same thing as loaning.

  7. Re:Choices are good, but... on Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The need to desperately rename it though. LibreOffice is dorky as hell sounding in English countries. at Least OpenOffice sounded professional and made it easier for someone to convince the CTO to at least try it in a small group. LibreOffice might as well be called "little yellowducky Office"

  8. Re:But... on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 1

    only if you lick it.

  9. Re:The summary is, of course, wrong. on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 2

    Therefore toilets cause colon cancer!

    100% of all colon cancer victims use a toilet on a daily basis!

  10. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 1

    Why lead? My phones don't emit beta and gamma radiation... Where the hell are you getting your cellphones? The corner dealer in Chernobyl?

  11. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 1

    You should read up on what they do to other foods. the ONLY place you can get real food is the farmers market from a small grower (not the mexican in his truck with mangoes and kiwi fruit, that's all supermarket seconds) that is foods that are grown locally. Anything else has been processed... yes even the lettuce in winter.

  12. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Banananaaaaaaas are Radioactive! AHHHHHHH! AAAARRRGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

    Yup, humans are idiots.

  13. Yeah Right.... on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No company worth their salt will put all the company data "on the cloud" No way in HELL is my customer DB and accounting DB going on the cloud.

  14. Re:Ah well. on A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm posting Anon so my brothers will not know it was me that let the secret out. You see Steve Jackson stole the domain from us Masons years ago. We were setting it up for secret online meetings and to hold the secret Mason Wiki for Master Mason access to find out what other Worshipful Masters were up to and to see live camera feeds of the holy grail as it toured the world as well as the other lesser artifacts like water from the fountain of youth, and the secret film of Kennedy being kidnapped by our secret mason strike squad and replaced with a life like dummy. etc...

    WE now have it back once again! Our power is now complete! Unite my brothers!

    I am glad to let the secret out, They would kill me if I posted this under my real account and traced it back to me!

  15. Dear Nokia.... on Free Software Faces a Test With Qt · · Score: 1

    Dont be Douches...

    LGPL the whole thing. free it to the world completely. If you want to make a difference do this.

    If you want to be jerks... kill it and keep it in a safe forever to rot away.

    Because you either can gain great credit and renown, or become that company that squirreled away something you though had value, but was made value-less by the OSS version that will be created within moments of you doing the jerk move.

  16. Re:Speaking volumes on Jonathan Coulton Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Trent Reznor releases a lot of his songs as rockband format of tracks that allow you to remix. he even listens to what you did and will comment. He loved my country version of "the hand that feeds"...

  17. Re:Cost of solar cells on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Search more. the marine industry has a fix for that. they are separate cells in the flexible design. only the cells that are shaded produce no output, all the rest work just fine. they had to do this for sailboats because of the lines and cables everywhere.

  18. Re:I was waiting for it, and you did not deliver on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    NO Giant TV? yes. a reasonable 32" LCD tv using OTA antenna or wait for the 30 minute boot-up time of your satellite receiver? YES. DVD is also an option... A 10,000 watt surround sound system in a home theater is not though... sorry you cant live without that.
    No Typical Fridge? yes. efficient Fridge? you bet! maybe read again what I mentioned because it seems you cant read English well.
    No AC/ No heat? if your choice is the wasteful junk in most homes? yes. Climate control with a heat pump and passive heat/ac? YES
    not computer? Yup you're right I said no computer at all.. got anything else you want to make up?

    Let me add some... your electric heated floor is out, no towel warmer, you have to live without the restaurant ice maker that constantly melts the ice so it's fresh in there. Sorry but the walk in freezer is also out. as well as the special outdoor lighting to make sure the neighbors enjoy your expensive home. Oh and you will have to get out and open the garage door or get yourself a butler or servant to do it for you your majesty...

    You seem to be horribly uneducated about how a home and appliances work let alone incapable of reading. Please go and look outside the word of Best Buy to see that there are plenty of choices that are not energy hogs. It is called energy conservation and has been around for decades..

    It amazes me how incredibly dumb people like you not only lack the ability to read and comprehend something, but lack the ability to create a thoughtful or slightly correct response to it.

    You sir not only fail logic, you fail the IQ test.

  19. Re:Really? on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Yes I have not had a Solar home for over 10 years now... ex wife ensured that, I really miss that property... we had a dome on a lake with a 16 large panel array on manual jack arms so I could readjust for seasonal angle changes, never went with sun tracking. I also am in the upper midwest and 2 hours of peak on average is typical. in winter, I was sweeping off the panels daily in hopes of making power.(I added a windmill to make up the difference in winter) Part of it was because I did undersize the system I only had enough money to buy 110% of what I needed in PV arrays. for my location I really needed 180%-210% because of the weather patterns and northern location. I would have utterly KILLED to have then what is available now. even the garbage Harbor Freight panels are twice as good as the state of the art ones I had in the late 90's.

    Most people will not buy enough panels because they don't realize how many you need to do complete off the grid power levels. and Intertie were expensive as hell although I switched to it in 1999 when my battery bank was nearing replacement time.

  20. Re:Inspiring and selfless on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tried to stiff them? the republicans blocked giving them aid at EVERY TURN! democrats asked for stupid as hell restrictions... and in the end... they flipped a giant fuck you to every 9/11 responder....

    to get your aid, you haveto have a background check to see if you are a terrorist... WTF is that?

  21. Re:How on Earth... on Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War · · Score: 1

    4) Complete Moron supervisors and managers of these plants demand they can remote access the systems from their home or the main office over the internet.

    That one is what undermines more security than any other. The retarded manager or CEO.

    They dont want to pay for a secure point to point T1 line to a hardened and secure dedicated PC at that location. they cant justify the expense... so they want it anyways and half ass it by using "pc anywhere" or another half assed solution and put it on the internet with a firewall to protect it.

  22. Re:The only way to win on Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt! Wrong....

    The only way to play is to target and fire at the hostiles with a orbital mass driver platform. solid steel projectiles shot at the target at 9000 miles per hour would be a very eco friendly way of fighting a war. you get the desired effect of a nuclear bomb with no fallout and the projectile is earth friendly! or you could simply aim and focus your orbital solar mirror at the offending country and do the ants under a magnifying glass trick..

    Honestly the USA needs to weaponize space with the Russians and simply take over this rock. China would happily join the alliance quickly after the demonstration of the orbital system was completed. Suddenly things like drug cartels seem like insects waiting to be squished.... ohh look pot farms... smoke em from orbit. oh look a drug lord.,..... smoke em from orbit.

    That is the way you play. stop spending on wars against terror, put all that cash into weapons that make the world shit themselves.

  23. Do they want to open that box? on Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War · · Score: 1

    Because that means we performed an act of war against Iran with the release of that Virus...

    When you open a box, it's not a one way street... Your enemies get to use your excuses as well.

  24. Re:Dumb statement on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Problem is that most people have zero clue about solar.... I've lived with solar installs. Here are some facts..

    peak power generation is about 2 hours each day IF you have sunny skies. so if you need 1000 watts of solar you better buy 5000 watts of it.
    solar is not a install it and forget it. 99% of all home owners will NOT get out there every 2 weeks to wash off the solar panels. Solar also requires the homeowner to understand electricity... maintain that battery pack or understand the back feed inverter and know to go downstairs to re-set it after a power failure because it will drop off when power is lost to protect line workers and unexpected backfeed.

    It will not happen. solar for the typical dumb homeowner will never happen. IT's not like paying for power where you can ignore it. it has maintenance and knowledge requirements that most people are unwilling to invest in.

  25. Re:3 degree change on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    The country's midsection has ALWAYS had lots of tornadoes.... just like how idiots that live along the Mississippi get flooded every year. News is slow, they are simply reporting on it because there is not a bigger thing to report on.