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  1. Re: I like this guy but... on Rand Paul Moves To Block New "Net Neutrality" Rules · · Score: 1

    People are very, very dumb and short in memory. Recently in my country the state governor ordered the police to attack thousands of protesters, who in the last election voted for this governor and will continue voting for this same governor in the upcoming election. How? He just have to blame the workers 'party (the opposition) and the people here are indoctrinated to hate the workers' party in any situation.

  2. Re:Subs as aircraft carriers on Submersible Photographs WW2 Japanese Sub's Long-Lost Airplane Hangar · · Score: 1

    In fact submarine aircraft carriers is a good idea, but the technology to make a pratical one is not ready yet (they shoud be a lot bigger to carry many aircrafts and have a way to fast launch / fast recovery to minimize time in the surface)

  3. Re:This move is rational for a public company on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    The little problem with this plan is that in the long run you will create a big mass of people unable to buy the products you manufacture, and without buyers what happens to your company? Consumers are not created from the void, they are the exact same people who work to raise money and so they can afford buying products. With no employees earning well you do not have customers.

  4. Re:I like Ken... on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    find me another country that offers anything close to this h1b bullshit to foreigners coming to their shores to work. name one country - just one - that thinks its own citizens should be 2nd to 'guest workers'.

    Brazil. Here whe have a thing called "terceirização" (outsourcing, more or less). The primary employer pays to a third party who has a group of employees working on demand, where these employees receive as little as possible to maximize profits for the third party employing them. And like the H1B, if the employee complains he is fired with any pratical protections

  5. Google+ is a privacy nigthmare on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google+ failed miserably because no one wants every single video you saw listed for the whole world, 90% of the population does not want to show to the whole world what books you read, what pages you have visited or Android applications that you use. Hell, I'm not even sure if the hangout messages are really reserved for participants! Add it the fact that the interface is shit apparently made by trainees (probably the same idiots who made the "material style" on the Android Lollipop), and it's clear why this crap failed.

  6. Re:This never works on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    I'm in this situation. The only way I can watch the Avatar Blu-ray I bought is using AnyDVD to remove the DRM, because even the "official" players can't play the movie. Ridiculous.

  7. Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It! on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 1

    When you need more performance and/or new features. But this said, I also agree that it is stupid to change code just to meet the latest fad from brats of today.

  8. Re:Lies, bullshit, and more lies ... on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 1

    I was also thinking of going to work in Canada (professional with years of experience but living in a shithole country)... You could tell me if it's worth all the trouble of moving? Because by the standards of my country (Brazil) I earn more or less well, but the country is such a mess that I would go away forever and never come back if I can.

  9. Re:XOR is useless on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    Correct, the trick here is the method to build a good key and then the way it is applied.

  10. Re: Strong public relations on NZ Customs Wants Power To Require Passwords · · Score: 2

    As a citizen of a shithole country, I am concerned about worse things that border guards can do with my password and full access to my phone. Like planting "evidence" of crimes on my phone and then require a bribe to not arrest me. In these cases the options are shoot to kill, or the best one that is not to travel to countries which have such absurd laws.

  11. Most important question for me: Films? on First AMD FreeSync Capable Gaming Displays and Drivers Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    Is nice to using that for games, but... This monitor can also work on 24fps films?

  12. I don't get it on Why Apple Won't Adopt a Wireless Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Why all this hype around a technology that involves applying electric fields strong enough to induce electrical currents high enough to recharge an electronic device, which is DANGEROUS to do with electronic equipment (you can fry the device)? Not to mention the serious problem of electromagnetic interference in what is around? It is not much safer simply connect a cable to the device?

  13. Re:price? on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you live. Here in Brazil lamps that use LEDs are still only a "curiosity" and which are charged as a luxury item as any decent electronic around here.

  14. Re:No more downtime on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, it seems clear to me that you really should use a Linux server, if it's not what you already do. So why not stick with your server rather than offend others like a crybaby who was upset, crybaby?

  15. Re:Maybe becuase google's marketing skewed its sea on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    I have noticed that too. More and more I get results that simply have nothing to do with what I'm searching, even when I use quotation marks and the minus sign to make it clear what I want.

  16. Re:flattened growth?! on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    THIS. Exactly, the original idea of the stock market was distorted. When you buy shares of a company you are becoming her partner, but the assholes from Wall Street decided to make the stock in a casino where no one remembers what is the reality and everyone ignores that is plain impossible to grow forever.

  17. Re:No more downtime on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, let me see... Having to restart a desktop computer is not a problem, after all you supposedly are not running a server. And if despite being a desktop you keeps it on 24/7 then you are wasting electricity, because you are not using your computer 24 hours a day non stop right? Then he be occasionally off is not a problem. And when Windows asks to restart it does not require you to do so immediately, you can finish what you was doing and then restart. What's the big problem with doing this?

  18. Re:No more downtime on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    Uptime is irrelevant for a desktop.

  19. Re:Frame-interpolation. on VLC Acquiring Lots of New Features · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the tip, I will see how the result is when I go back to home

  20. Re:Audiophile market on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, a company that charges ten thousand US dollars for a network cable may easily pay very good money to have favorable "reviews" and "professional physicists" endorsing the "magical properties" of the product. As a non-American I am surprised as you Americans allow criminals freely sell products that are clearly scams like this.

  21. Re:Artists often get little on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 1

    "personally I find it somewhat insulting calling many of them artists. yes without a doubt many have a gifted voice or work hard to produce excellent sounds, but they aren't artists."

    The performer is just as important as the composer for a good music, I dont know from which planet you came to think such nonsense.

  22. .NET applications on Linux? on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: 1

    So, I will be able to run pure .NET applications on Linux desktop? Interesting

  23. Re:its Nvidia FREESYNC on Mobile G-SYNC Confirmed and Tested With Leaked Driver · · Score: 1

    Dammit. Although is indeed possible to enable gsync on the hardware described (asus laptop), the author of the site is a liar. The driver is not his work, is merely a file for a beta version of the nVidia driver inadvertently leaked as described in the article. MAY work with just the right desktop monitor (able to use eDP and Display Port 1.2a), but is not his work as he claims.

  24. Re:Since when is AMT controversial? on FSF-Endorsed Libreboot X200 Laptop Comes With Intel's AMT Removed · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it is a too powerful tool that if used for evil can cause impressive havoc and no one would know until too late. And a too powerful tool where you are not sure if you have the control you should have. Usefull, yes, but a too big security risk for my taste.

  25. Re:Amateurs... on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    In the second that a "poor" bandit get caught by this system, human rights guys would fly in the ATM manufacturer's neck. And note that when the deceased is an ordinary citizen like you or me, you do not find the human rights guys anywhere.