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  1. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could ... perhaps boost the company's ad targeting.

    Imagine how much better the world might be if all the researching being done to target us with ads was put to something useful.

  2. Re:prosumer? on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    nearly 40 years ago, I mean.

  3. Re:Email did it on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Â amusingly, when I was using the T300 as a spare, it was identified as an iPhone by friends of mine with such devices.

    Are they legally blind?

  4. Re:prosumer? on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    No. The term has meaning and was coined 40 years ago.

  5. Re: Errata: If they'd only released an vanilla And on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 2

    Why do you refer to yourself as we? How many people exist in your head?

  6. Re:prosumer? on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Putting 'For Sale' sign on company was dumb mov on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Yeah yeah. We've been hearing that line every year by the BB fanbois about how big the installed base was and yet apparently that installed base doesn't give two shits about current products.

  8. Re:Putting 'For Sale' sign on company was dumb mov on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Second, by announcing to the world that they're for sale they instantly froze the decision process of every corporation that was considering an upgrade to BB10.

    Because those 5 sales were going to save the company?

  9. Not really on Is HTML5 the Future of Book Authorship? · · Score: 1

    Unless the two dominant sources of e-books (Amazon and Apple) support it: no.

  10. Re:True Bummer for our friends in Russia on Russian Government Takes Over Country's 289-year Old Scientific Academy · · Score: 1

    +1 funny.

  11. Re:One question on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 1

    If they attempt to restrict this use however, it will result in a phone basically being blacklisted by anybody that does anything outside of the ordinary, and personally, I would not buy the phone, or advise others to as well.

    So they'd lose about 10 sales?

  12. Re:What? on IBM VP Talks About Another $1 Billion for Linux Development (Video) · · Score: 1

    None on that stat alone. Your credit worthiness has nothing to do with your market cap.

  13. when a company has more than $200 billion in market capitalization, there are lots of ways to spread it around.

    What does this even mean? Does Timothy actually think market cap is money that IBM has on hand? How exactly would IBM "spread around" their market cap value?

  14. Re:i look forward to the liquidation announcement on BlackBerry Reportedly Prepping To Slash Workforce By 40 Percent · · Score: 1

    Amateur hour is over, bitches!!

    -RIM

  15. Re:they have a girl!!!!!!! on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah! Let's also flog them in Times Square and have them thrown in jail too!

    Or instead of being a bootlicking authoritarian who can't handle free speech, you simply dispute them with facts rather than trying to shut them out. Censorship doesn't change minds. It simply means those thoughts remain but are simply hidden away behind feigned politeness.

  16. Re:This could be a good thing. on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 2

    The only part of AOSP that is GPL is the kernel. The rest is APLv2.

  17. Re:One question on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Adults? The second post making the homophobic post? The third post by the social retard virgin who probably scares off any woman within hundreds of feet around him?

  18. Re:Why would they hire engineers? on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    But anything that doesn't worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan is clearly nothing but a leftist loon fest. Rush Limbaugh told me so.

  19. Re:It's about liberty, stupid on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    Very few newspapers were really about doing investigative journalism. Many newspapers in the "generations in the past" were spreaders of propaganda and yellow journalism such as that propagated by such famous newsmen as William Randolph Hearst.

  20. Re:Right tool, wrong managers on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    Why would you distribute static news content through a peer-to-peer system over just using a web site? What exactly would the Times have gained by the former over the latter? Or were you thinking you'd sound really smart to the mouth breather crowd by throwing in a "distributed peer-to-peer" buzz phrase??

  21. Re:uChat? WeJail! on WeChat IM Application Could Disclose Your Password To Attackers · · Score: 1

    Why would you have been surprised? Never heard of the Great Firewall of China?

  22. Re:But in fact it's NOT properly supported. on GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland · · Score: 1

    "Properly Supported" means functional parity

    New to Gnome development, eh?

  23. Re:Welcome to Linux on Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? · · Score: 0

    So where's the source code link for GApps?

  24. Re:Do the math on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 2, Insightful

    9ms average access times on a 7200RPM spinning drive == ~100 IOPS.
    High-end SSD: 100K IOPS.

    The SSD that most consumers are using are neither high end nor have such IOPS ratings.

  25. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    Since these warrants tend to be used for national security investigations, such as into spying and terrorism, how to you think that telling people they are being investigated isn't a bad thing?

    Because there is no oversight that the warrants are only for those purposes?