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  1. Re:Seems fair... on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 5, Funny

    NOOOO!!! I demand to be able to risk my children's lives due to my personal ignorance and FUD over retardation inducing vaccinations!!!

    If any country forces parents to vaccinate their children, my personal freedom is violated!!! How can Obama allow this to happen in any country?! Why did we vote for him?!

    I need people to know my child's retardation is inherited and not forced by a doctor's vaccines!!!!! AAAAERGGGGG!!! :P

  2. Re:Do this in Chess... on The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV · · Score: 1

    Do that, plus give those pieces holographic animations as they destroy the pieces they "defeat", add some blood too, and give the player an electric shock with fake smoke (for drama) and you will actually get people to watch broadcasted chess matches.

  3. Re:Corporate Dead Pool 2012 on AT&T Stops T-Mobile Merger Bid With the FCC · · Score: 1

    Yet, if you go to the myTouch 4G Slide, the only place you will see a note of the cpu being dual core is deep in the Specs page (last page out of 14 pages of marketing material) and even there it's a single mention by the CPU name.

    Heck sometimes the guy at the store has no clue what cores do. They will just answer "that one is faster" when asked about the differences between two models.

    Cores is irrelevant to the masses, and marketting knows it's not something that sells phones. Such stats are only useful for geeks like us, and most of us really wont bother looking at a phone with slide out keyboards. Now... if they standarized slide out gamepads....

  4. Re:Corporate Dead Pool 2012 on AT&T Stops T-Mobile Merger Bid With the FCC · · Score: 1

    ATT's goal, from what I gathered based off media coverage, was not really to "aquire" TMobile, but to prevent Sprint from doing so.

    With these actions, they may have "won". You see, for one there is the veredict. This veredict where they say "it would become the single largest provider" would also apply to Sprint. It's likely Sprint's aquisition would not had sparked this controversy, but now that the cards are in the table and the excuse is "they would be too big", ATT can use that same card againt any attempt by Sprint to aquire Tmobile.

    There is also the 4 billion dollar thing. By handing over those "pennies", TMobile will find itself in a way healthier position than it was before. This may delay any need to sell by at least another year.

    They may even be able to use that money to go back to Apple and agree to any terms they may impose to be able to not only carry the iPhone 4 and 4s, but maybe even the 3Gs for free. My theory is TMobile did not jump into the iPhone this year due to Apple's demands on minimum inventory contracts for the next few years. Without a certain company outcome of this aquisition, they were just in no position to agree to such a deal. Now they will be in the position and have 4 billion to toss at the whole thing while at it.

  5. Re:expensive cupcakes on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    Even buying an import car helps local economy, as the car dealer employs locals and agencies dedicated to the import of these cars employ man power to move the vehicles, not to mention local storage, etc etc.

    WoW may be a different case, unless the copy was bought at a local store. But I'm certain the $15 per month are nothing compared to the rest of the money spent locally.

    We live in a global economy. Frankly, expecting 100% of the money spent anywhere to stay local is a bit naive.

  6. Re:expensive cupcakes on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In these case they do. These are baked same day, thats part of the "gourmet" deal. The specfic article seems to list the woman managing the store as the owner too, so yea it seems to be entirely local.

    With the business being local, it means all the luxuries that business owner endulges in, will spread money (building new home? gardner? restaurants? buying a car? etc.)

  7. Re:Wow... on South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act · · Score: 4, Funny

    3) Save us from cyber-terroist children!

  8. Re:Follow up should be on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 1

    Right, we all know apple would never spend a penny building anything.
    http://gigaom.com/apple/apples-new-north-carolina-data-center-ready-to-roll-2/

    what's wrong with non-entry level engineers anyhow? that they want to get paid something else than mcd pays?)

    The same thing that is wrong with heart surgeons accepting a nurse position.

  9. Re:HIPAA uber-violation on Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School · · Score: 1

    Not ignored, if that is the case the hospital has to provide record of said permission. It's part of "explain even why paralegals had access to PHI."

  10. Re:HIPAA uber-violation on Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School · · Score: 1

    Someone should be fired immediately. And was there no one at the school that noticed this?

    Someone at the hospital should be fired immediately.

    I have experience handling medical data, and I have seen how aggressive HIPAA violations are pursued. The slightest mistake can result in fines that are so large that the parent company HAS closed down entire branches only due to some moron's mistake. And although I wont say names, I'm talking about one LARGE company with money to bribe senators and push laws. Yet they never get to avoid repercusions of HIPAA violations.

    The hospital in responsible for this is in big trouble. Paralegal excuses wont help them. An investigation would, for one, force the hospital to explain even why paralegals had access to PHI, in a record by record basis.

  11. Re:Why did everyone else pay? on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 1

    I would argue it still not user friendly enough, based off personal experienc (instalation can be a snap with Ubuntu, provided you already have another OS installed.)

    However, do notice "was" in my post.

  12. Re:Why did everyone else pay? on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They know that wont stop Android manufacturers.

    What they want is for Android to lose it's "free" advantage by encoumbering it with patent licesning costs.

    They dont want it to fail off their own merits, just to lose that advantage. A world were some one can get a user friendly OS for free is a world that scares Microsoft. Was true with Linux despite it not being too user friendly, and is even more so with Android, due to it being much more user friendly.

  13. Re:Why did everyone else pay? on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 1

    Samsung stood up only after offering to bend over and being rejected by Apple.
    Apple does not want Samsung to compromise by bending over, it wanted to kill Android and discourage others from sharing their bed swith Google.

  14. Re:Why did everyone else pay? on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 1

    Its a complex mess where MS would not even reveal the details of the patents in question to the victims without them signing an NDA and an agreement not to use the information to litigate back, etc etc.

    Basically, revelation of the key patents was only going to happen if you already signed away your rights to fight.

    I do ponder exactly what legal loophole did B&N managed to use to get out of that contract and be able to use the information in court.

    I also ponder why on Earth would the court system allow a patent lawsuit to go on without providing specific information on the frigging pattents!!!

  15. Re:Follow up should be on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bit of a derrail here but an interesting point on Job's biography is that Jobs wanted to manufacture their products here, but no one was able to get the high numbers of entry level engeniers needed to operate the factories. He personally told Obama disapointing education standards are to blame. He even stated he was not talking about engeniers with BAs, simply vocational school levels of engeniering education. (Certain regulations were also blamed but only as delay factors, not roadblocks.)

    It is sad when China beats us at a contract not due to cheap labor, but due to higher numbers of educated workforce.

    Anyways, back to patent trolling!

  16. Re:I'm sure they'll stop on Report on Web-Surfing Speeds Finds Pervasive Throttling · · Score: 1

    But when was the last time any ISP or phone offered unlimited speed?

    They offer Unlimited Data left and right, but they always state a speed limit, and never even claim that speed limit will be consistant, they always say "up to X MbPS".

  17. Re:but but but... Apple on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    No it wasnt. RTFA.

  18. Re:Doesn't Matter on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    Ironically, the process of jailbreaking iOS to allow such removals is generaly easier to than the process of installing a new virgin version of the Android.

  19. Re:Doesn't Matter on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'll tell my grandma to go do that right away! She is always paranoid about her privacy, I'll tell her all she needs to do is get cyanogen and replace her OS!

  20. Term of service on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Even gazing at this post is an agreement with it's terms of service.

    If you looked at it, you agree to contact me directly and setup a payment fee of 20 per character read*. As now dictated by law, should you not comply you will be labeled a criminal an go to jail!!!!

    *For the context of this post, "character read" is defined as an alphanumeric character within the post, regardless of it actually being read or not. :P

  21. Re:Honor system on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 1

    Not just the honor system. Now that apple allows users to re-download music at any time, there is no way for you to get rid of a song you purchased. You will forever own it unless you completely transfer your itunes account. That point alone may make the case fall appart in court.

  22. Re:BAD TITLE on Logitech Calls Google TV a 'Big Mistake' · · Score: 1

    "We lost 100 million dollars" sounds like a rather big mistake if you ask me.

  23. Re:It was part of his job on Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    HA!

  24. Re:Challenge for tablet makers on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    The page you requested may no longer exist on Dell.com :-/

  25. Re:Challenge for tablet makers on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    I know of those.

    But I dont need the high resolution capabilities of a Cintiq, nor presure sensitivity (the real expense drivers on those products) and the computing pieces dont have to be any more powerful than a mid range computer shipped 3-4 years ago.

    Mind you, I love Wacom products and if they managed to somehow pull out a completely wireless Cintiq, i'd be all over it.