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  1. Re:They speak of "copies" on Microsoft Attempts To Clarify the Windows 10 For Everyone Rumor · · Score: 1

    I should have said Windows 8 "personal use" license. It is unique among Windows licenses. Microshit nuked the "personal use" for Windows 8.1 system builder copies.

  2. Re:They speak of "copies" on Microsoft Attempts To Clarify the Windows 10 For Everyone Rumor · · Score: 1

    My old license is "consumed"? I can't activate on newer hardware? Fuck that. At least when Microshit made my Windows 8 installation upgrade to 8.1, the my license terms for my original software didn't disappear. My system builder Windows 8 can be moved to any computer I choose as long as I nuke the old copy.

  3. Re:SSN as an ID not password on US Health Insurer Anthem Suffers Massive Data Breach · · Score: 2

    The silly part is that knowing an SSN and a few other pieces of publicly available information is enough for someone to grant credit, and then for collections of such credit to be enforceable in court against the supposed borrower.

  4. Re:ASLR anyone? hype? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    Did you read the code? The exploit does not allow the attacker to choose an arbitrary offset. Only an arbitrary size up to 64k (i.e. not unbounded, either). The memory obtained is always adjacent to where the heartbeat request packet was stored.

  5. Re:Alternatives on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    They already have your MAC address anyway if you are sending packets to them. The address is only valid on the link.

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

  6. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    And then? Others?

    English is not one of your fields of expertise.

  7. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can justify spending that much money on a dual Xeon server.

  8. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    And everybody must have the same usage patterns as you right? Unless you're "stress testing the latest and greatest PC games"? LOL

    Just because you don't have demanding applications doesn't mean other people don't. Games aren't the only scenario.

  9. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    LOL. Let me know how long your laptop can sustain my desktop clock frequencies before throttling. It may have the same chip, but it sure doesn't have the same POWER.

  10. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    I also strongly support the right of individuals to decide what they do and do not want to support with their money.

    Including when it comes to taxes?

    Made my day.

  11. Re:Apple makes money either way... on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    ... phone that provide ...

    Thanks for playing. Better luck next time.

  12. Re:No relationship, not negative relationship on Study Suggests Violent Video Games May Make Teens Less Violent · · Score: 1

    I can't parse this sentence. The authors badly needed an editor.

    "Finally, with the sample once again of children with clinically elevated attention decit symptoms and with regards to bullying behavior only trait aggression (b = .41) was predictive of bullying behaviors along with the interaction between trait aggression and exposure to violent games did approach signicance (b = -.22) suggesting that highly trait aggressive children who also played violent video games were less likely to engage in bullying behaviors"

    My brain seg-faults after "along with".

  13. Re:Life without coffee? on Excess Coffee May Be Linked To Early Death · · Score: 2

    Buy coffee now AND later. When you have no retirement savings, someone ELSE will pay for it, guaranteed!

  14. Re:FSF questions on Finance Firm Bloomberg Goes In For $80,000 On Ubuntu Edge Project · · Score: 1

    The part about encrypted radio firmware is lame. If you can't make calls from Ubuntu, it's not an "Ubuntu" phone, it's a phone that can also be turned into a less useful tablet-style device.

  15. Re:FSF questions on Finance Firm Bloomberg Goes In For $80,000 On Ubuntu Edge Project · · Score: 1

    I don't care so much if the FSF doesn't like the Ubuntu Edge. I'm OK with closed-source software being on the phone.

    I never cared much for smart phones, and I didn't even own one until last year when a friend gave me a bricked LG model. It really bothered me that a modern computer could be "bricked" and I couldn't even fix it without importing a Medusa jtag box with illegal software (under the DMCA).

    This is why I was interested in the Ubuntu Edge. An open source boot loader would be awesome.

  16. FSF questions on Finance Firm Bloomberg Goes In For $80,000 On Ubuntu Edge Project · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Were the following questions by the FSF ever answered?

    "Will the Ubuntu Edge versions of both Android and Ubuntu contain or rely on any proprietary software or proprietary firmware?"

    "Will the Ubuntu Edge include any Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) software?"

    "Will the device's bootloader be free software?"

    "Will the device have Restricted Boot, or will users be able to replace the operating system with a free one of their choice?"

    "Will Ubuntu Edge include F-Droid, the free software Android application repository, as part of a commitment to promote and recommend only free software?"

  17. Re:Russia? Please... they were amateurs. on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    Learn the difference between effect and affect. It will make people take the rest of your tripe more seriously.

  18. Re:I do believe it because it based on sound scien on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    You think wrong. If you bothered to read the source, it says all of the abstracts included in the study matched "the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'."

  19. Re:I do believe it because it based on sound scien on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    Except that all of the "11944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 [match] the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'."

  20. Re:no, telcos 20+ years old don't get same conditi on How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers · · Score: 0

    HELL YES!

  21. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Taxes on 71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 · · Score: 1

    Most operate under the impression that the government just has all this free money to send where it wants with no clue that those resources and funds have to actually come from somewhere.

    Most in the government operate under that assumption. But, hey, we can always print more money.

  23. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Even Better. on Microsoft Surface Pro Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    What is this I don't even...
    You realize that the Surface Pro doesn't run Windows RT?

  25. Re:Small screen, Needs Flat Surface on Microsoft Surface Pro Reviews Arrive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Commas don't go, where you think they go.