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  1. So I would be a fraud... on Machine Learning Susses Out Social-Network Fraud · · Score: 1

    ... If I had a facebook account. Using my Orkut account as an example, the software would find that I only use a single device to access (desktop pc), have few friends (but genuine) and post few reviews and comments (only what I consider important).


    In conclusion, as I do not access facebook even from my watch, do not comment on every single thing I do in my day and not have "thousands of followers", so I can only be a fraud :-)

  2. Re:My Little Politicians. on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    I agree, your post is pretty serious. The problem is that I do not believe that such ideas are applicable to homo sapiens in general, the majority is only interested in power (absolute power, when possible), and females. And to such beings, the welfare of those who are around them is the last concern.

  3. Re:wince on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    As I wrote earlier, part of the problem is you have to pay to prove that the troll is lying with a bogus patent. My country have a practically useless justice system, but here if a patent troll try to sue you and he lost, he is obliged to pay all court costs he caused, including your court costs.

  4. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    The value of all existing currencies fluctuates. The big problem is how much fluctuates. I could not use bitcoins to go to the supermarket, when the value of it can be $ 50 today and $ 1 tomorrow.

  5. Re:wince on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem occurs when their patents are pretty vague and broad, saying roughly that "I invented the wheel" when it is clearly a lie. And it becomes even worse in a ridiculous justice system as the USA, where you have to pay dearly for proving that the crook is lying.

  6. Re:The protection racket is still going on ... on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 2

    When you enter the lawyers game, you have already lost.

  7. Re:Dead on arrival? on Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support · · Score: 1

    Every week I read "The desktop is dead", written by some retarded CEO or "guru". I am hopeful that the Wayland make things right (aka, desktop), but ... Where are the distros using then? Or he will be forever a curiosity?

  8. Re:If Windows is dead, then we're in deep shit on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Exactly. What albeit I dare say that if by accident the Windows "cease to exist" tomorrow, then maybe the massive increase of necessity would force Linux GUIs developers to act as professionals and do a professional job instead of current "freetard" (shiny and new is more important than bug-free, feature-complete and consistent) mindset.

  9. Re:A smart watch? on Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device · · Score: 1

    In my country nobody uses wristwatch anymore, but for a different reason. If you go out in the street with a wristwatch, you are quickly stolen by a criminal.

  10. Re:Oh man. on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Not exactly. I would say that the study is about how to find these "people who care enough to do something right". And is not a easy job.

  11. Re:Oh man. on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they are measuring the adaptability / ability of decision-making from individual. A guy who only uses what is available, even when what is available is bad, is different from a guy who tries to change the bad situation to better.

  12. Re:I wish that were true in the corporate space on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Bad Google translation. The "things" are software, like web-based systems

  13. Re:I wish that were true in the corporate space on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Uhh ... I work with both Java and Javascript. And making things using Javascript is even worse than Java. Both in the question of CPU time and in memory usage.

  14. Re:10,000 times faster than the speed of light? on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  15. Re:Look beyond Home on Facebook Home Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    Is difficult to correctly translate a sentence from Brazilian portuguese to English. "Call someone" is, or should be translated as "to establish voice communication between two people," case the meaning has not been made clear.

    P.S: If you have understood and are only joking, yes, still exists people using voice communications instead of this facebook garbage.

  16. Re:Look beyond Home on Facebook Home Reviews Arrive · · Score: 2

    You'll probably find it funny, but I still prefer a "dumbphone" to do things like call someone, and a desktop computer for everything else.

    PS: The only feature that would be useful to me in a smartphone would be able to use google maps on the street, but the cost / benefit ratio is too bad on my country (mobile internet - 3G/4G/EDGE/LTE/etc - is a luxury item here).

  17. You are playing the wrong way on Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    If you play the game according to the rules of the trolls (ie lawyers), you have already lost.


    Around here, the troll would have received a "corrective", and in the next morning his lawyers would appear floating downriver.

  18. Re:Honestly on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    You fail in one small detail:

    supposed terrorist: "I've got a bomb, you know."
    security officer: "Oh, ha ha... go on through..."

    Luggage goes to scanner and security officer checks the guy anyway


    The joke is no reason to let the guy go without being searched.

  19. And... on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 2

    I want to know on what planet - or alternate reality - Adam Orth lives. Because many things on my planet does not need to be "always on", and under no circumstances I can assume that I will always have a internet connection available.

  20. Servers are not eternal on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sooner or later every server is shut down. When the DRM server goes down, I'll be unable to use the console and the games for which I paid a expensive price? No thanks.

  21. Re:Dark matter on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1

    I got it. Well, thanks again, I will search for better (primary if possible) sources about the dark matter subject

  22. Re:Honestly on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    Hum... Good point. Glad I did not tell then that I had a whole bomber full of nukes in my luggage.

  23. Re:Honestly on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    They pass you through the scanner anyway, then quickly would become clear if it was a joke or not. What surprise me is taking so seriously something that can only be a joke.

  24. Re:But what is it? on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... So, in resume the answer to my question is "Already attempted this but little is reported about the attempt", thanks. And yes, what I thought would be forgetting is the hypothesis that the missing matter was in the form of gas

  25. Re:Dark matter on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1

    Why posting as AC? Your reply is a good one. It means so I'm just looking for the "why dark matter" in the wrong places.