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  1. Re:I do the opposite on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 1

    Angry customers don't tend to come back, and they spread the word about their anger. That means even fewer customers, which means fewer dollars going to the store, which means lower ratings of the store inside the company, which means they allocate fewer employees. Retail workers should be good with that idea.

    That's a little too Big Picture. At the bottom, it mostly boils down to not liking it when people get upset at you for something you have no control over.

  2. Re:WTF? on 1st 'Super Wi-Fi' Net Goes Live In North Carolina · · Score: 1

    More like they'll have their first orange harvest a year earlier than the neighbors because they tore out the old apple orchard early enough.

  3. Re:Cool! on Pirate Party Releases Book of Pirate Politics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The primary goal is copyright reform, not abolishment.
    Copyright isn't evil; it's just being abused heavily.

  4. Re:Teens do a lot of dumb stuff. on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    What stops you from changing password upon break-up?

    Her changing the passwords before telling you about the break-up.

  5. Re:You don't understand, I LOVE HIM!!! on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't put it past a teen to not actually screw up the emoticon because they never saw why it's supposed to be a heart.

  6. Re:How is it different from a play? on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 1

    I doubt the estate has any claim to a photo of Mr. King. A video recording, however, contains the entire copywritten text of his speech.

  7. Re:Not again! on Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart · · Score: 1

    IIRC, a lot of the HTML5 stuff was based on stuff people had started doing outside the spec since HTML 4 was so limited. What, is all progress supposed to cease until the W3C gets its collective act together and makes an executive decision about what the web wants?

    They still haven't finalized it. Don't plan to until at least 2014, last I read.

  8. Re:Waste and Bloat on IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable · · Score: 1

    Over 8 years. My phones last longer than 1 year, but not everybody actually takes care of theirs. Especially not if it is still under warranty when the next generation is released.

  9. Re:Not sure if serious on IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable · · Score: 1

    All DNS does is allow you to type "google.com" into your browser rather than http://74.125.224.82/

  10. Re:Simple solution...no more Russian taxis to ISS on Russian Official Implies Foul Play In Mars Probe Failure · · Score: 1

    When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem

    I googled to check whether I understand this right, but I'm not finding anything useful.
    Is it "Your Mom"?

  11. Re:"Progress"? on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Arguably they've simply returned back to the level of CLI functionality they had - then threw away - with Xenix.

    I would assume they'd go with PowerShell.

  12. Re:first on Chinese Lab Speeds Through Genome Processing With GPUs · · Score: 1
    So why not:

    "The world's largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is servers built with...GPUs — a term coined by chip giant Nvidia. This fall, BGI — a mega lab headquartered in Shenzhen, China — switched to servers that use GPUs built by Nvidia, and this slashed its genome analysis time by more than an order of magnitude."

  13. Re:Fucking ground this fleet. on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    And yet the GP was trying to take the moral high ground by claiming it was better to disrupt the economy than allow people to take such a negligible risk.

  14. Re:Fucking ground this fleet. on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    There is always a risk of catastrophic failure. Every flight is a game of Russian Roulette.
    All this means is that the Airbus revolver might have fewer chambers than other planes.

    But people still fly; apparently the convenience of saving several hours/days worth of travel time is worth the risk.

  15. Re:Popcorn loaded, commence fanatical BS... on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but my browser keeps a history of which files I've downloaded.

    But if you know so little about the PDF that you can't find it again, then it obviously wasn't that important to you.

  16. Re:Joke on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Without copyright law, there'd be nothing preventing us from decompiling everything. Yeah the source would be nice, but in the end it isn't necessary.

  17. Re:Is Google trying to fragment web? on MAME Running In Chrome · · Score: 1

    NativeClient programs = ChromeOS programs NativeClient support in the Chrome browser creates incentive to write NativeClient apps: write once, run everywhere.

  18. Re:I never got why this became so big on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    But in any case, there is a difference between correcting the words with the squiggly red lines under them, and not correcting them.

    Does Internet Explorer have spellcheck yet?

  19. Re:Not a bad idea but... on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    The military has one other advantage: control over their personnel.

    Civilians need to be sold on the idea. It doesn't matter what recruits think; if the CO says to use metric, you use metric.

  20. Re:This is wrong! on PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade · · Score: 2

    But to post these private messages without permission and set a mob on the guy is completely unethical.

    The guy (Ocean Marketing) was acting in his capacity as a Customer Service representative. Nothing he says is private if the customer doesn't want it to be.

  21. Re:Dave with a V on PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whatever you say, Dan.

  22. Re:curious case on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 2

    For example, mockups of vehicles or boats, or their interiors, are frequently used on film sets as stand-ins for the real thing, usually for practical reasons. Should that be illegal?

    They usually avoid calling the props by a brand name unless it's product placement. In this case, they were just using "Louis Vuitton" as a synonym for "expensive".

  23. Re:First post!! on ISO Updates C Standard · · Score: 1

    If, I mean WHEN, they want an authoritative answer to some question about the language, they need the standard. Anything else is just an opinion.

    Usually the compiler's opinion is all that matters to developers.
    If the compiler is wrong, it's a bug for the compiler writers to fix.

  24. Re:Spellink chekers. Duh! on The Curious Case of Increasing Misspelling Rates On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    In America, it's not uncommon to say either, "He got off the bus," or, "He got off of the bus," but the latter...

    Correct. Chromium apparently doesn't acknowledge the <strong> tag, so it took me a few re-reads to even spot the difference.

  25. Re:Valued by Results on Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    Gaaaahhhh! Mod points expired.