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  1. Re:Please.... on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    I have two children and I agree with arth1. App browsing and purchasing is reserved for after the kids go to bed; the day is too busy without having to go fuck around in Google Play anyway. Yeah, the older one gets to play with the phone every now and then but it's not a pacifier. Maybe I'm lucky and have moderately good kids who don't scream (too much) when it's time for Dino Day to go away, and have some capacity to entertain themselves by playing with other toys, reading books, or wrestling on the floor. I dunno. Call me crazy.

  2. Re:Why'd he sign the agreement? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IANAL so maybe I'm missing something.

    Yes. The law part. Are you really saying 'Because they settled they must've been in the wrong so it's OK to break the agreement they settled on'? Do you realise how even more fucked up the world would be if everyone operated like that?

  3. Re:What? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    It matters what she said because somebody told her about it, which violates the confidentiality agreement. All she had to do was not say anything. That's how confidentiality agreements work. The father even admitted to telling her, so it's pretty much cut and dry here. I think there's probably an implied acceptable breach ('Well, I guess it's OK if you tell your family') but if that leeway is abused, well, tough shit. You can't use that excuse as a way to circumvent your agreement.

  4. Doubtful. on Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "...'because a world with universal access and 100 times faster internet could mean 100 times the learning."

    Oh, you funny crazy optimistic Google guys. You confused 'learning' with 'pornography and memes'.

    Besides that, what about people in rural areas? What about people who still rely on dialup? They're already in existence but because some rich people in certain cities will have stupid fast Internet, there's suddenly an Internet class divide?

  5. Re:I called it. on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    That's 'kosmology'.

  6. Re:Really good question on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    Psychophysiology is about psychos, right? And Herpetology is... well, yeah.

  7. Re:Really good question on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    You can't paint them all with that brush. I'm pretty sure I have a decent concept of English, and even a decent understanding of English (you used 'concept' wrong there, for what you obviously intended it to mean) and sometimes I have to stop and look twice to see if 'astronomy' or 'astrology' is being used where it's meant to be. It's just one of those weird word pairings that trip people up: two similar words relating to two broadly similar things. It's not like people insisting Austria is Australia.

  8. That was very interesting... on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right up until the end when GLOBAL WARMING.

  9. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that costs money.

  10. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    At least you found a way to comment on it.

  11. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    Cue 'We can save money by getting rid of the 50% of our navy doing nothing!'

  12. Re:Need to regulate fracking on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 1

    Can we have some hard data on how many restaurant-goers in fracking areas died because they drank frackwater the restaurant served?

  13. Re:No Problem on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 1

    What, do you get it on sale or something?

  14. Re:Can't directly compare PC and phone sales ... on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I've been in a few offices that because of HQ's purchasing policy now have nearly 100% laptops, locked to their workstation. Purpose defeated,

  15. Re:Units sold or already out? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is still the overarching problem with this whole article. It's Apple mobile devices vs Windows PCs. Different products, different lifecycles. Of course you're going to have more sales when you're replacing your device three or four times as often. I need a picture of Inigo Montoya telling people 'parity' doesn't mean what they think it means (or rather, in this context, what they want it to mean).

  16. Re:Units sold or already out? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Bro, do you even geek?

  17. Re:@$$? Really? on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 2

    So then don't you have some tea or Guinness to be drinking then.

    (I kid, 'arse' is perfectly acceptable.)

  18. Re:Follow the money on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    I LOVE diesel particulates.

  19. So, let's make the circle complete... on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    Back to MySpace we go.

  20. Re:Good news on Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    Or you could just try Bodhi.

  21. Re:Lame on Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I commonly see Enlightenment referred to as 17 and 18 without the decimal. Those are nice big fat numbers. :)

  22. Re:So upgrade already on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Not if the software you need to run is a device driver for special hardware.

    If it's USB, at least, the driver will work in an XP VM without the device being recognised in the host OS. My anecdotal evidence: old HP scanner with XP being the latest driver. No functioning driver in Win8, passed through and recognised and used in VirtualBox XP VM with zero issue.

    Other pinned interfaces I can't vouch for but that's my cool story bro for USB.

  23. Re:Anyone Who Talks About Deflation...... on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    My first guess would be someone who hates Libertarians.

  24. Re:Music and muzack... on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    I think part of the problem is 'classical' is so broad that some good old music gets lumped in with the boring late-century styles. =) There's a station on Live365 called Musica Antiquior. It leapfrogs the bland classical and gets right to the crazy Dark Ages choral and similar, there's some really epic stuff down there. That is the sort of 'classical' music I can get into. =)

  25. Re:Brought to you by... on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 1

    TIL there's an EverQuest CCG. Thankyou, mysterious AC. =)