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  1. Re:Wait on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even better! They had 1063.8297872340425531914893617021 employees, according to the summary.

  2. Re:Dumb question on Microsoft Looking Into Windows Phone 7's 'Excessive' Data Use · · Score: 1

    Because XP in no way satisfies any of the requirements for a mobile consumer OS.

  3. Re:Well shit on Final Fantasy XIV Launches To Scathing Reviews · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, but what you fail to realize that the psychology is the entire problem! People enjoy being rewarded, they dislike being penalized. Therefore, people enjoy WoW's experience system, and dislike FFXIV's system, even if they result in the same net experience point total.

    WoW has done this for all of its existence - making players feel rewarded, and minimizing penalties for death, mistakes, etc. Look where it is now.

  4. Re:You can have my coffee... on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    YOUR PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE

    *waaaaaagh* *om nom nom*

    Man, I sure love my new BobMcD suit!

  5. Re:A naive question on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    What we have here is a failure to standardize on one signal, and one type of signal processor.

    Fortunately, it looks like most everybody is going to make the switch to similar tech with the future jump to LTE, including most of the largest US carriers - AT&T, VZW, T-Mo, etc (Source). I'm personally very excited about the prospect of one phone working on any carrier, because they'd have two choices - lock customers down so hard they CAN'T move, or actually compete with each other like real companies.

  6. Re:No Purchase Required? on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the word 'customer' does not necessarily imply that money must be spent. What the sign actually means is said person must be making use of or receiving a product or service of McDonald's. Since the free WiFi is offered by McDonald's, that would be a service offered by that company. QED, you may park.

  7. Re:Wow on Why Open Source Phones Still Fail · · Score: 1

    First of all, Android doesn't use Java. It uses a subset of Java APIs, and its syntax. It's VM is called Dalvik, and does not execute Java bytecode, but is all its own.

    Anyways, the VM model for Android is a fantastic idea, and I'll tell you why. Easy to develop for and hardware agnostic. This allows Android to easily do exactly what it is doing right now - taking over the mobile OS market (Ahem). Google has the muscle to ram it down carriers' throats, and they are ramming with gusto. It's a pretty damn easy sell to manufacturers too. They're offering an enterprise-quality, easily deployed mobile OS, scalable to nearly any device, FOR FREE? Also, you can modify whatever the hell you want about it. What self-respecting businessman would ignore that offer? HTC, for example, is taking huge advantage of Android's openness with its Sense UI and countless apps, widgets, and such. Sure, a VM model is certainly slower, but is it worth it? Absolutely.

    Also, Google recently released a Native Development Kit for Android. So, now you can have ARM apps, hooray!

  8. Re:A great reason to choose Firefox on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 2

    It sounds like the root flaw actually lies in your own login implementation. I guarantee that IE is capable of handling sessions. If you have a website that makes you money, you should realize a couple points: First, most of your userbase runs IE. Having the site unusable in said browser is very bad. Second, special casing code for IE is a fact of life in the web development world, and you should just get used to it.

  9. Re:Not News!! on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Out of curiosity, how exactly do you verify that you are infection free without a scanner? Sure, you probably don't have anything overt, like a botnet hijack, but what about less obvious things like rootkits?

    You should probably take your magical ninja virus detection powers and do some consulting for those poor bastards who run Norton....

  10. Re:Sooo on Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing we'll have all those robots to do all our work for us, then!

  11. Re:Only One Account on Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not quite - IIRC, the new Battle.net has one unified account for ALL your Blizzard games. This does indeed sound like effective banning of resale.

  12. Re:You haven't seen the parking prices where I liv on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    If you think he was being serious, then you clearly DIDN'T get the joke.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

  13. Re:Not good at dinner. on BrainPort Lets the Blind "See" With Their Tongues · · Score: 1

    People who have been blind for a long time are very good at remembering where things are. I'm willing to bet that a guy can remember which bit of food was where on his plate after having looked at it once.
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    Of course, this is totally irrelevant anyway. Oh no! I can't see my food while I'm eating it! THE HORROR!

  14. Re:Only one problem... on Yahoo Filing Reveals Details of Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    OP was being facetious, guys! Just thought I'd let you know...

  15. And I quote: on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 1

    War is peace!
    Freedom is slavery!
    Ignorance is strength!

  16. This is why... on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    This is why I do my own tech support. And tech support for everyone I know...

  17. I love that movie! on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Nothing but the Truth, except his motives were a heck of a lot different. Furthermore, Kate Beckinsale is ridiculously hot.

    Never give up the source

  18. Re:a hack on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a TERRIBLE idea... Like, HOLY SHIT terrible.

    Full disk encryption gets my vote as well - Truecrypt will do the job quite nicely, and relatively pain-free.

  19. Re:With what? on WoW Gamer Earns Federal Investigation Achievement · · Score: 3, Funny

    orly? Or he could just pop a Flask of Pure Death and chuck some mad fireballs. I'm pretty sure a plane is worth flasking for.

  20. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'd have a point, except for the fact that said over the top fiction is becoming more real every day.

  21. Re:This is what happens... on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Brilliant plan! Let us untie the hands of police, and give these super-civilians the power to shit all over us peon-civilians to an even larger degree than is already possible. This way, we can eliminate all our violent crime, and replace it with violent justice. But then, there wouldn't really be much of a difference between crime and justice, would there?

  22. Re:Limit Calories on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Me too - found that place via the Android Market. They have a very excellent app for tracking all kinds of things - calories, exercise, and a huge searchable database of foods. So far, so good.

  23. Re:Economy on Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts · · Score: 1

    Well let's just say this study has the potential to stimulate MY package...

  24. Re:Android just won't catch up with iPhone on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    Seeing as I actually own a G1, I enjoy the ability to make my interface whatever the hell I want it to be. On the Market alone are several complete Home screen replacement apps, offering a plethora of features including iPhone-style dock bars, skinnability, and more. And once you break out of the one-click comfort zone and check out xda-developers, the opportunities abound. Custom roms, roms for other phones that are ported to the G1, and so much more.

    So, the G1 ends up being a delightfully hackable, surprisingly polished platform. Considering Apple has a year's head start on them, the Android platform is doing superbly. Further considering that there are many, many phones on many carriers slated for release that run Android, I'm fairly confident in saying that the platform will be taken to a whole new level this time next year. Once carriers start learning that Android makes them money, they will throw their support behind it, and that'll be the game.

  25. Great! on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This could actually be really awesome if it's truly production ready. What's that? 100% uptime?! AWRIGHT!