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  1. Re:Same as postal mail on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    I receive a lot of letters with sensitive informations (credit cards bills, bank communication, a mortgage contract copy once!) addressed to someone else all the time. Either because the person forgot to change their address or because the postal service made a mistake. I usually send them back with a wrong address notice but an evil person could do a lot with those.

    This is not a new phenomenon at all...

  2. love is irrational and a waste of time on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 1

    Why would such highly intelligent people would let "love", an highly irrational feeling, waste their precious existence time. Aren't they way too busy finding a cure for cancer or making nuclear fusion works?

  3. Flat-out lie on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    Tell them there is some magical device on you network that prevent all secuity issues that can happen. They are safe and they can keep working in peace. Rainbows and unicorns bla bla bla...

  4. "most social platform ever" on Did Facebook Buy Oculus To Counter Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    The "most social platform ever" already exist. It is called real life.

  5. Re:Fuck the NANNY STATE on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: -1, Troll

    I won't pay shit and watch you burn like the piece of crap you are.
    --
    roman_mir

  6. Re:Name on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    My name is Francis you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:and then again how long are US bills and laws? on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 1

    Think of citizenship like a license to live in a country and laws are the EULA you accept to get that "license".

    Who read and understand all the laws of the country he reside in?

  8. Re:I have never.. on Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 · · Score: 2

    Sure they say that, and then they can go to the store and buy a better android phone from a different manufacturer and reuse all their accessories, get back their purchased apps, etc...

  9. Re:Apologies to Lionel Richie on Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Sue you, sue me, sue it for always,
    That’s the way it should be.
    Sue you, sue me, sue it together, naturally.

    I had a dream, I had an awesome dream.
    People in the park,
    Playin' games in the dark.
    And what they played was a masquerade,
    From behind the walls of doubt,
    A voice was crying out.

    Sue you, sue me, sue it for always,
    That’s the way it should be.
    Sue you, sue me, sue it together, naturally.

    As we go down life’s lonesome highway,
    Seems the hardest thing to do,
    Is to find a friend or two.
    That helping hand, someone who understands.
    You’ve got someone there to sue, "I’ll show you."

    Ooo-oooo.
    Sue you, sue me, sue it for always,
    Aw, that’s the way it should be.
    Sue you, sue me, sue it together, naturally.

    (So you think you know the answer, oh, no.)
    Well, the whole world’s got you dancin'.
    (That’s right, I’m telling you.)
    (It’s time to start believin', oh, yes,)
    (Believe in who you are,
    (You are a shining star.)

    Sue you, sue me, sue it for always,
    Aw, that’s the way it should be.
    Sue you, sue me, sue it together, naturally.
    Sue it together, naturally.

  10. Better use on Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines · · Score: 1

    They could have use that electricity for something useful, like giving free electricity to the neighbourhood.

  11. not here on French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Correcting bad modding error, ignore me!

  12. Re:Inflammatory headline anyone? on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    "According to the Guardian, another (since deleted) tweet threatened Daley with drowning, but the law doesn't require threats of violence for an arrest to be made."

    It is like saying:

    Well the summary is all wrong but it could have been true.

  13. Re:How did he make a mistake? on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 1

    I guess he is still laughing at the "dumb fucks" who "trusted him" once again.

  14. Re:Billionaire. on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 0

    He made billions by luring thousands of unsuspecting investors (including home 'mom and pop' type investors) into buying his overvalued bubble stock

    I thought that getting shares from an IPO like the Facebook's one was very difficult for small investors, because the big banks or brokerage firms responsible of the IPO kept the stocks for their big clients. I guess the people who had enough money to be one of those clients had a clue of what they were buying.

    Can you elaborate on those "thousands of unsuspecting investors (including home 'mom and pop' type investors)" ?

  15. Re:What's new? on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 1

    I really don't see what's news here.

    There is nothing new. This is Apple business model applied here: to take a preexisting concept, add a couple feature to it, wrap it in a white case with round corners and find a "cool" name for it.

    Apple is 95% marketing and 5% innovation.

  16. Re:algorithms, third-party sources, or complaints. on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could make a prostitute detector and equip it on cars so they don't start when they detect a prostitute in it. That way you can't bring one home and contract viruses.

  17. Re:Right on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    Don't most companies ban using company funds to buy competitors' products for operational staff?

    Especially, when said company produce products that can be used instead of competitor product. That is common sense in my opinion.

  18. Re:Jennicam 2.0? on Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras · · Score: 1

    Basically three reasons :

    1.Money
    2.Money
    3.Money

  19. Did something similar... on Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone · · Score: 1

    I've put a ferrari motor on my lawnmower. Now it can go superfast and I could do races with it, but I still use it mainly for what it was design for, mow the lawn...

  20. Re:If only there was some way to avoid this! on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Yeah, great solution.

    "Hey, I just got robbed!"

    "So? Don't live in that house any more if you don't like people robbing it."

    Since a license generally give you the right to use an application. A more appropriate analogy would be:

    "Hey, I just got robbed!"

    "So? Don't live in that apartment any more if you don't like people robbing it."

  21. Re:Dell Next? on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    or unlicensed copies of Windows.

    Do you know you can buy Windows license in a box? You can transfer a license from a computer (no longer functional) to another. That school employees and students have access to educational licenses? And their is plenty other ways to obtain a legal Windows license other than getting it bundled with a new computer.

  22. Re:1.3M? Why Not All? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1

    Should be the optimal number for x in this equation:

    Profit = revenue from data collected - x phones * quantities of data * cost of maintenance of those data

  23. Re:It shocks me on Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion · · Score: 1

    While it can be shocking that this guy was stupid enough to believe he was getting what he asked, something else in this story shocks me more.

    So an idiot hacker get into the Marriot system and try to extort them a job. In response, the Mariott instead of fixing their system and telling this guy from the other side of the ocean to go fuck himself, involve the USA secret services. Then the secret service lure this guy with a paid plane ticket and a double agent and pick the guy at the airport to prosecute him. This guy will have the right to a fair trial and because he certainly don't have money to hire a lawyer (since he was trying to extort a job), he will have a paid lawyer from the state. The guy will be judged guilty and he will end up in jail for some time, before being send back in Hungary with another state paid ticket. I guess it add up to a pretty large bill.

    What it is shocking is how USA like to waste tax payers money on their idiotic security theatre show. You should be shocked to have to pay this bill with your taxes.

  24. Seeing the situation positively on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    On an other sight, she can see this as an add campaign that costed 20k pounds and that bring more than 8500 customers to her bakery. In those 8500 there might be a lot of new customers and of those there will be a part that may become new regular customers. So if this loss traduce in a sale increase in the long term, what appear here as bad move now may become a good one later.

    Does anybody working in publicity could us tell if a 40k add campaing that bring 8500 customers to a bakery would have done well for the price?

  25. Re:Whats wrong with that? on US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon · · Score: 1

    The price tag is that the rest of the world thinks you're an asshole, so you get people adding their body fluids to your food when you dine abroad.

    Speaking by experience?