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  1. Re:I'm Sorry, China on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    Sure, let me just print this special 100 trillion banknote just for you.

  2. Re: Oh, I totally agree... on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    How many people seriously travel with just one charger? Nobody. You still tow around one charger per device, even if those are all USB charging devices because unless you're towing around a laptop with the ability to charge multiple devices (most laptops have 2-3 USB ports) all of those toys are going to need their own outlet.

    I usually take just one charger (one I got with HTC phone as it is smallest) and multiple cables. For what possible reason would I drag more than one charger? Devices has their internal batteries, so they don't need to be charged all at once.

  3. Re:The end is nigh on JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland · · Score: 1

    Obviously they need to write JavaScript in JavaScript.

  4. Re:Android is worse than Windows on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 1

    Seriously? If need separate laptop just to handle printing then why even bother buying this Android "laptop" from Lenovo? Oh, and don't forget that you are sending all your documents to google and whoever google chooses to share them with.

  5. Re:Android is worse than Windows on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when you can print from Android without problems.

  6. No native API on Firefox OS 1.1 Released, Mozilla Prepares For 2nd Round of Device Launches · · Score: 0

    Mozilla is making the same mistake as Apple did when iPhone first came out.

  7. Re:Silly on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 2

    During most flights, about half of the cell phones remain turned on because passengers don't really give a damn.

    FTFY

  8. Re:Seems simple enough on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no need wear anything red (or whatever colour you hate), so the FAA should play it safe.
    There is no need to allow electronic devices, books or any other forms of entertainment for duration of whole flight, so the FAA should play it safe.
    There is no need to fly without my patented 'crash averting' rocks, so the FAA should play it safe.

  9. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    I can agree with you that this process cannot be stopped and that we are transitioning into new economic order - which means that current order will stop working soon. However I don't see any beginnings of that 'brave new world' - right now world is slowly sliding into system where rich 1% gets all benefits of increased efficiency, 5% of highly competent specialists at least get to stay in middle class without sliding into poverty and rest is completely screwed. So unless we start moving in another direction or I expect quite a lot of bloodshed within my lifetime.

  10. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 2

    And if we pretend that nothing is wrong, then it will come anyway - just a little later and much more bloody.

  11. Re:Just wondering... on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 1

    Probably because foreigners continue to use US based web services without any convincing.

  12. Re:A lot of this is not aversion to risk on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    I would say it actually promotes being passive. Hide behind rules, do only what you are told, cover your arse well because otherwise someone will manage to put blame for their own faults on you. Then only 'pro-active' approach allowed is to create more rules to hide behind.

  13. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    If richest exterminate everybody else, then they are not 'richest' anymore. At this point survivors would once again divide into 'poor', 'average' and 'rich' and we are back at the beginning just with drastically smaller population.

  14. Re:Short version on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    It is going that way. Everybody is pushing: press makes a living from making mountains out of molehills, congressman hopes to get some votes by showing that he is 'dealing with the issue', common man loves being absolved of personal responsibility (i was running with scissors and injured myself? Sue scissors manufacturer!) and lawyers are counting money generated by lawsuits that are sure to happen anytime anyone accepts even a slight risk and gets burned. And every opponent can be trivially silenced by appeal to emotions (so you DON'T want the children to be safe?!)

  15. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because appeal to emotions trumps cost-benefit analysis anytime.

  16. Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mitigate biggest risk and immediately something else becomes biggest. At some points you have to stop because every next risk is smaller and more has to be sacrificed for smaller piece of safety.

  17. Re:Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    Yes. Just please include at least one that is relevant this time.

  18. Re:A cynic's view on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 1

    No, it is management failure. It is not coder's responsibility to sit on analysts and make sure they do their job. It also not coder's job to make sure others teams actually work.

  19. Re:Kettle, pot on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    Courtship, CIA boss edition: kidnap random girl, brutally rape her then be very offended when someone calls it rape instead of 'enhanced sex technique'. Oh and keep her in basement for years after that.

  20. Kettle, pot on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's from guy who instead of talking to person of opposite sex would tap her phone, read her journal and search her underwear drawer?

  21. Another word game on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This "recreating the investigative trail" sounds like a fancy way to describe perjury.

  22. Re:WTF? on Snowden and the Fate of the Internet As a Global Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget to return HTML/WWW to CERN first. Then you can talk about 'very little outside help'.

  23. Re: Did you bidet? on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do you do if a bird craps on your head?
    1) Wash your hair
    2) Smear the shit around with piece of paper

  24. Re:Is this what they really want? on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    Hopefully yes. Having dozen more companies simply grabbing bits of GPL stuff and closing it because nobody dares to do anything is a loss. If you are still in 'OMG an actualy company looked at my code and wants to sell it! I am so honored!' phase, then by all means choose BSD for all your stuff.

  25. Re:FOSS license compliance is difficult for many on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But they magically understand proprietary licenses? And somehow fact that every proprietary license is different and may contain different pitfalls is not a problem?