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  1. Re:All in the data on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1

    And good luck financing that without voice tolls to subsidize the data plan.

    I really love it when VoIP users complain about our crappy infrastructure. Yes, let's do everything we can to not pay the tolls that would go into the pools that would pay for upgrades and then complain loudly about not getting upgrades.

  2. Re:Yeah right on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone knows that a male babysitter would have raped the kids, the family dog and a few inanimate objects before you even got out of your driveway. It should be criminal to even suggest using a male babysitter! </sarcasm>

  3. Social Contract on Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So would be this be the social contract where it is A-OK for power gamers to abuse and exploit the game because if they can do it they are supposed to be doing because otherwise they wouldn't be able to do it and then the game company gets to try to crack down on the power gamers which doesn't work except for pissing off the normal players, correct? And then the power gamers get all indignant when anyone tells them they shouldn't be doing something because it is the power gamer's responsibility to not be responsible for anything but doing what is most advantageous for them no matter the cost to everyone else?

    I've seen this statement popping up a lot recently but this is exactly why we can't have nice things.

  4. Re:Oh fuck no on Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make a burn folder. Drop files in burn folder. Put in blank [CD|DVD]. Hit Burn.

    I've had my mac since 2006 and it has always had the ability to burn discs built in.

    I'm sorry the world has moved on from storing music in [artist]_[album]-[track#]-[trackname].mp3 but metadata is a wee bit more handy and convenient for sorting music collections and playlists.

  5. Re:Friday, December 19? 2014? nah... on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    Piffle. The 5th world ends, not 'the' world, and it happens in December 2011, not 2012.

    I'd suggest making travel plans to be near Mt. Fuji to catch sight of Ryumyo.

  6. Re:Conveniently forgetting the details on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    I've never been to Israel or flown on an El Al flight but I've always thought it was common knowledge that you do not screw around with any of Israel's security forces.

    They aren't the (tragically) comically inept TSA.

  7. Re:Shooting bombs? No bombs trigger when shot? on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    Putting the laptop downrange and pulling a trigger is pretty damn easy and safe if you give the 'bomb' enough distance.

    It's cheap too. Especially compared to calling in a bomb squad.

    Militaries do the same thing for some explosive ordinance disposal.

  8. I say we... on BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    Or we give Texas back to Mexico with a no backsies clause.

  9. Re:Permian Mass Extinction.... on Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    For something on the scale of that event just being on the planet is sufficient.

    Just google it. Of course looking something up takes time away from being snarky.

  10. Re:Release Some Steam on Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    Even if we converted 100% of the land above it to geothermal power plants it'd be about as effective as throwing a normal ice cube into the Sun.

    Heat is already being released. What do you think powers all the geysers and hot springs Yellowstone is famous for?

  11. Re:Is this really a problem? on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    "Long links in twitter messages significantly reduce the amount of available characters."

    Maybe someone should suggest to twitter that they drop the one tweet limit per user so you could put the link in one tweet and then put the rest of the message in the next.

  12. Re:Free Cell Connection? "Yes, but don't do that." on B&N Nook Successfully Opened · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it seems culture these days follows the "if it can be exploited for my own gain I must exploit it and should not be held responsible for exploiting it no matter what damages my actions cause" mentality.

    I don't own either of those readers but if I did I'd really appreciate the planless cellular connection. I'd be very annoyed if some people lacking in self restraint caused the companies to disable the cellular connection or force a data plan on someone who wanted to continue using the cellular connection.

  13. Re:If you want broadband, live where it's availabl on Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 · · Score: 1

    If you're going to talk about rural areas you shouldn't use the very developed East coast where you can't throw a stone without hitting urban sprawl as the the example of rural.

    Taxes are high in NY state because of the proximity to NYC and the very high population density and the fact that all the rich fat cats in NYC want their "little" idyllic farm out in NYS. If you're going to talk rural (and not just non-metro) use the Mid-West.

  14. Re:Underground maps? Easy? Blimey... on Are Sat-Nav Systems Becoming Information Overload? · · Score: 1

    Getting around London with the Underground was rather easy for me and I've never dealt with subways before that trip nor had I been to London (or England) before.

    Route to entrance station, route from exit station, the actual physical path in between didn't matter. And this was with the free brochure map and I didn't ask for directions.

    It did get interesting when they started shutting stations down due to some bomb threats so I had to adjust some routes on the fly but that was an issue of certain lines shutting down, not getting lost.

  15. Re:Do what we say, not what we do on EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    They should really stop printing the expiration dates in braille only so the cops don't have to try to trade paint to read them or at least give the cops a refresher course so it doesn't take them ten miles of constant contact to figure the tags out.

  16. Re:Remove the Internet. on Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label · · Score: 2, Insightful

    99.999% of the time a lawyer's ethic is entirely "If I'm being paid by the client it is ethical to act in his self described best interests".

  17. Re:They posted what was released on Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The "crime" is that they made the TSA look stupid(er)."

    Is that even possible?

    I thought the TSA was a constant like the speed of light.

    The TSA going beyond 1.0 TSA would require more than infinite stupidity and the universe would implode itself to put itself out of its misery.

  18. Re:Or parents... on FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors · · Score: 2, Informative

    Diesel will burn but getting it to go boom requires a bit more effort than a firecracker.

  19. Who needs terrorists... on FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs terrorists when children are doing such a great job of destroying our society?

  20. Re:Old on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    "You can always try again, without being set back at all."

    This is true only if you assign no value to your time.

    Did someone stand in the fire, cause a wipe after repops, and force the entire raid to have to reclear the instance or call it a night and waste another night's learning attempt? I call that a setback. Of course, I value my time.

  21. Re:Pile it on on Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Go tell that to Congress.

    They've let the Executive branch send that many troops to foreign soil without a declaration of war. Obviously they don't believe that the current number of troops means it is a war.

    Vietnam saw almost a half million troops deployed at one point and that wasn't enough to be a war.

  22. Re:Pile it on on Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Third front? We'd need a first front first. We aren't at war and haven't been since WWII. We've had lots of police actions since then, but no wars.

  23. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Don't open cockpit door.
    2. Light fasten seatbelt sign.
    3. ????? (do a barrel roll, steep climb/dive/banking or parabolic arcs)
    4. Don't fly into skyscraper, do collect badly injured terr'ists.
    5. Profit.

  24. Re:Price on CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo · · Score: 1

    It may have only been 4GB but I doubt Nanos were the size of the JooJo/JuJu/Crunchpad and as you stated did not cost $500 nor was it intended to be much more than an MP3 player.

  25. Re:Shun strange children. on Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense · · Score: 1

    If you're dead, it's game over, nothing more to worry about.

    If you get sex-offender status your life is basically over but you're still alive (for the moment at least). Depending on where you *used* to live, you may now be homeless, living under a bridge with other sex-offenders, and unemployable. And may $DEITY have mercy on you if you get sent to prison. They really like pedophiles.

    So the chance may be minuscule, but the cost is astronomically high.