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

    Is now.

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

    You forgot to mention that they are always in groups and using assault rifles. They are doing it so often in my city that soon we will have no usable ATM anymore, maybe not even banks given the lack of concern of them to leave the building intact.

  3. Re:The tortoise lays on its back on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    "What's wrong with iTunes?", "you don't need to use iTunes if you don't need/want to" (really?), " MKV is not a popular format "

    What the hell you smoked?? What's wrong with you?

    For those who still have a functioning brain ... You see here in Dimeglio an obscenely clear example of the reality distortion field in action :-/

  4. Re:Status sells on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Good question. My best guess so far is an very aggressive marketing campaign ("every computer in a movie is a Mac", remember?) combined with a device that, despite having a lower hardware to that of competitors, do the work that target audience wants. And perhaps the most important part, is charged as a luxury item in such a way that the public believes that only wealthy and successful people can have one, so anyone who wants to look wealthy and successful do anything to get one too.

  5. Re:The tortoise lays on its back on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Just one from many possible examples: Try watching a movie in 1080p on the IPhone6. Without having to crop the image. And, the film uses the Matroska (MKV) container. Add on your "overall experience" the "delightful experience" that is dealing with iTunes... Between the touchwizard (which I can disable anytime I want and exchange it for something else) and deal with iTunes for everything (You're stuck with it, good luck), I prefer the touchwizard. And recall that this is just one example of many.

  6. Re:The tortoise lays on its back on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 0

    Ahhh... The typical fanboy nonsense rebuttal. For the hardware part, see the specs from a recent Apple product and from one competitor. Not convinced? So check the specifications for this one. Still not convinced? Try this. The reality distortion field from the late Jobs only works on dumbass guys like you.

  7. Status sells on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your product can be clearly inferior hardware and be much more expensive than the competition, but if your product is considered a status symbol that lets you win rich partners, so it sells no matter the price.

  8. Re:Hmmm ... on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Unless the entire production chain involved to create the product you want to buy with bitcoins has also been paid with bitcoins, it will be virtually impossible to buy the product you want using the same 200 bitcoins for a long time. That is why I consider the bitcoin useless, its value in real currency varies way too much.

  9. Still useless to Brazilian portuguese on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    A Brazilian like me will have to do a good effort to make sense from what you wrote if you do not know brazilian portuguese and try to use Google translate.

  10. Re:PCs are still awesome imo on PC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering · · Score: 1

    I agree with the case of animes. They have a freedom of subjects and stories that American filmmakers can only dream of doing the same.

  11. Re:PCs are still awesome imo on PC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering · · Score: 1

    I must admit I also build my computers largely for the fun of doing it and doing hardware experiments like any good mad scientist. And being able to build your own computer in my country in particular is very important, otherwise you become hostage to crooks who loves to sell shit as if it was a luxury item.

  12. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    You have a pretty low ID to have forgotten already how is an proper created MSI package or installer. These rogue installers are a recent thing, few years ago I only saw these installers with "irresistible deals" on really questionable applications with very shitty vendors.

  13. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Full stop. Really.

    A proper Windows installer is way, way better than the amateurish Linux "installers". But, real serious, pay attention to the subtle detail that the problem is not the installer idea, is who is making the installer. An installer works perfectly well when they have no one wanting to use it as "trojan horse" to fill your computer with trash, and if the developer of this installer decided to go rogue changing the way of installation will not magically solve the problem.

    And more, the "click, click, click" have a good reason to be: Options. If your application has several installation options is perfectly normal to have several buttons "next", what the criminals who make these rogue bundles do is abuse this option to purposely try to trick you. It is not a failure of the idea itself, is a character flaw of who uses the idea.

  14. Re:FTL communications? on Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier, Says Quantum Theorist · · Score: 1

    Well, the idea is transmitting a message. If I understand correctly what you wrote, then the problem is that scientists do not have a method to assign a specific polarization to the entangled photon, I am correct? And if they can "read" the photon but still can not "write" on it, but someone finds the method of "writing" without interrupting the entlangment, then sending messages would be possible right?

  15. Re:FTL communications? on Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier, Says Quantum Theorist · · Score: 1

    Sorry but the no-communication theorem seems BS. If you are able to obtain the polarization of the photon and you are also able to force this photon in a given polarization, and the photon is in an entangled state (existing in two places at once), so I do not see what would prevent the transmission of information using this effect and the theorem fails to explain what would be a good reason for this communication be impossible.

  16. "They didn't publish a retort from a respected scientist after publishing a some complete woo by a charlatan."

    In Brazil this is the norm. And believe me, the "newspapers" here still make a huge effort to make you believe that they are "neutral" and "unbiased".

  17. Useless site on "Disco Clam" Lights Up To Scare Predators Away · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why nowadays these useless sites require javascript to to display even the most basic content?

  18. Today's movie theaters are crap on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    My experience on actual movie theaters, ignoring the question of the film itself be good or not:

    - The picture quality is ridiculously bad , I have seen only one movie theater years ago where the image was reasonably good;
    - Popcorn is ridiculously expensive and bad;
    - The sound is always too high and always exaggerates in the bass (ohhh explosions!);


    These days I can buy a big quality TV at an affordable price, a home theater and so I can watch the movie I want whenever I want and with hot, quality popcorn. Why in hell I would go to the theather?

  19. Gene Marks is VERY dumb on The One Mistake Google Keeps Making · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How this guy writes to Forbes? He is either incredibly naive or stupid to think that Google shound have to stop having ideas just because some of them are not paying off instantly as the new generation of investors demands.

  20. Re:Pegatron vs Foxconn on Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    Pegatron = Megatron?

    Perhaps this explains.

  21. Re:One annoyance... on Ars Reviews Skype Translator · · Score: 1

    Knowing that you work on Skype, could you please ask the folks responsible for the instant text messaging code to remove that stupid idea of converting *text* in text? Or at least make this feature can be disabled permanently by the user (the actual hack is lost when Skype is closed)?

  22. Re:Next step: on Berkeley Lab Builds World Record Tabletop-Size Particle Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Punny details... Working on this, do not worry :-D

  23. Re: All for poisioning the well on AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads · · Score: 1

    Dude, almost all ads are ALREADY worthless.

  24. Next step: on Berkeley Lab Builds World Record Tabletop-Size Particle Accelerator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ghostbusters proton weapon

  25. Re:Why only women? on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    Well, I was not talking about domestic violence, but violence in general. Then expanding my previous question: Why only violence against women is unacceptable when any violence against anyone (women, men, children, etc) should be unacceptable?