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  1. Re:Cut cost? on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    COming up: Batboy makes an escape, does he us linux?

  2. Re:Choice is good on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    This has always been the agreement. It's not new, hidden, or a surprise.
    Fortunately you have a choice.

    I suspect Apple hasn't done this because they are the only channel of consumers, and if they started charging for transaction it would cause regulatory investigation regard improper use of a monopoly. Thus forcing them to allow other app stores to sell apps onto Apple devices.

  3. Re:How am I supposed to feel about this? on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    Good. I look forward to the day where I no longer carry a billfold...I do suspect I went adapt well. It would be weird not having my billfold with me.

  4. Re:How am I supposed to feel about this? on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    You are a liar and an asswipe.

    You didn't back up your statement, so I don't think I need to back up my statement.

  5. Re:Google's payment options on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    Yes, the the ignorant ill speaking slobs of the world just make the language incomprehensible gibberish.

    I went to your homepage link, it is is utter crap*. I found this dickish** piece of a flightless*** to be especially crappy http://palaeo.jconway.co.uk/object.php?title=Anhanguera_piscator&objectid=41

    So, fuck you****

    *which means 'really nice' // languages evolve!
    **Artwork -- EVOLVE!
    *** Can fly-EVOLVE
    *****You are extremely talented and I enjoy your work-EVOLVE!!!

  6. Re:Google's payment options on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    They evolve; but that is no excuse for improper use. There is a difference, learn it.

  7. Re:Google's payment options on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    Please explain to me how this locks in the customer base?

    In-Q-Tel invests in most tech start ups. It's not a secret, nor is it mysterious or evil.
    However, they invested in Keyhole inc; which Google bought. That is how In-Q-Tel got 'associated' with Google.

    They sold their 5000 shares of Google stocks in '05. wow 5000 shares! what a powerhouse~

    http://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/history.html

  8. Re:Google's payment options on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1

    SO you want the user to us any currency any time at any place?

    No, that won't happen. Banks won't do business with you. I implemented a system that allowed for something similar in a country that has several currency moving through its economy. The banks where not pleased that people could effectively remove them form the cycles.

    I have know idea how you think the is unfair, or that there s a lack of competition.

  9. Re:Google Wallet vs PayPal on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry. but this is the internet. If there is just 1 thing we should have learned is that you can't trust single sources.
    I would like to see that email telling them to ""They told people that if they used other payment services they would be breaking the terms of use,""

    So, grain of salt.
    Oh wait, here is some clarification:
    http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/09/google-wallet-android-in-app-payments/

  10. Re:Americans Cannot Own Moonrocks - Remove this la on NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only · · Score: 1

    "...the logical stepping stone is the Moon."

    why? I can think of a lot of research that can be done on the moon, but it doesn't have to be a step.

    When Columbus stumbled upon the Americas, the Spain owned every rock and item. That falls to the side with colonization

  11. Fire him on NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only · · Score: 1

    Exactly what NASA doesn't need. Yes, start offering LEO to corporate entities. There is not enough guarantee or immediate return for Mars, asteroids, etc.

    However, private companies are involved whenever NASA does do things, because Private companies generally build the stuff NASA specifies.

    It doesn't seem like he gets that. It took government money for the Christopher Columbus mission; which was needed to lay the path..as it were.

  12. Re:They're fucked. on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    so This is the year of the MS collapse? cause I here that more often then I hear this is the year of the Linux desktop. Both prediction have been equally accurate.

  13. Re:True meaning of "Post-PC World" on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    because MS want's people to buy an iPad?

  14. Re:You can have my PC on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    As percentages, yes. But only because people aren't buy PC. In real dollars? no.

  15. Re:You can have my PC on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't reply to AC, they are either trolls or idiots, neither is worth your time.

  16. Re:Ruhroh on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    It's not as good as the PS3. The interface is slower, they push adds to any empty box, the controllers require more motion to use. i.e. fingers need to move farther, and it's ridiculous to have an ongoing cost to play a game you bought.

    What it DOES have is board games.

    And I have an Xbox, ps3, and a wii

  17. Re:Ruhroh on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: -1

    Vista was in the works before OSX was. I know ignorant Apple fan boys like to spread shit.

  18. More medical break throughs please on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    cause I don't want to die.... ever.

  19. Re:Wait a minute there... on Ford Tests DIY Firmware Updates · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would argue that if gave an unreasonable deadly for a hello world program, many of them would have a bug of some sort.

    "You have 1 minute to write a hello world program...45 seconds of which will be in a meeting to be sure every one knows what is taking place.

  20. Re:Patch Tuesday... on Ford Tests DIY Firmware Updates · · Score: 2

    Or the sensor is fine, it's just getting bad data from a faulty transmission.

  21. Re:A noun a verb and terrorism on FBI Warns Congress of Terrorist Hacking · · Score: 1

    I like how you keep the number short for one, but then write it long form for another. Bias much?

  22. Re:A noun a verb and terrorism on FBI Warns Congress of Terrorist Hacking · · Score: 1

    It's not a scam, but it has gained unreasonable power; something it has been slowly loosing over the last 3 years.
    Terrorism is real, at it happens. Being prepared for it, and on the look out for it is a good thing.

    Like the cold war. Did you do some stupid things in the name of the cold war? Yes. Where the Russians a threat? Yes.

  23. Re:Depends on definition of terrorist on FBI Warns Congress of Terrorist Hacking · · Score: 1

    Yep, think of all the freedom Ben Lost when the government forced him to give up slavery.

  24. Re:The big boogeyman: the Terrorist! on FBI Warns Congress of Terrorist Hacking · · Score: 1

    IT's alla counted for, and rather tightly. You are suffering from the keyhole effect.

  25. Re:Read: on FBI Warns Congress of Terrorist Hacking · · Score: -1

    They are terrorist because they are a large organization that attack infrastructure, and the use fear as a form of coercion.

    Like or not, they fit the very definition of terrorist.

    While the broader definition of terrrorize is debated, Anon is center, far away from the gray edges.

    ineluctably political in aims and motives
    violent – or, equally important, threatens violence
    designed to have far-reaching psychological repercussions beyond the immediate victim or target
    conducted by an organization with an identifiable chain of command or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia) and
    perpetrated by a subnational group or non-state entity.