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  1. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 2

    This person's statements are total bunk. Pop music is very popular in a number of Asian countries and CD and DVD sales are huge too.

  2. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    Yes and we all know that pop music is completely absent from Japan, China, South Korea, etc.

  3. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 2

    So if 'Asians' only go out and listen to live bands as their entertainment why are CD and DVD so huge in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, etc.? Also, how do you explain away the vast amount of CD and DVD bootlegging in the region? Oh and lets not forget the more than a billion 'asians' who live in rural areas without the entertainment you list. Basically, you're full of it.

  4. Re:Something to ponder on Researchers Identify Genetic Systems Disrupted In Autistic Brain · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They only seem prevalent because of the vast amount of social retards who self-diagnose themselves as having Aspergers rather than taking the blame themselves.

  5. Re:Idiots on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 1

    I guess it would be beyond expectation for someone to tell anyone complaining their data was "stolen" that they should have been pumping it into the local atmosphere for all to read without any encryption or other basic protection.

    Most people didn't set up their home network and probably had expected that it wasn't publicly accessible. In most cases, these people had their WiFi setup done by whoever came from their ISP to set it up. They had an expectation of privacy. This is really no different than the fact that you can't just record phone calls without consent either.

    Yeah, holding people accountable for their own idiotic actions would make too much sense.

    Like holding Google accountable for someone purposefully going around sniffing people's traffic?

  6. Re:If you have something that you don't want on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 0

    The people they were snooping on weren't intentionally running an open WiFi and had an expectation of privacy. Google, also, wasn't "accidentally" connecting and grabbing data. IT WAS ENTIRELY INTENTIONAL to be sniffing people's traffic.

  7. Re:If you have something that you don't want on Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified · · Score: 1

    https is your friend. Seriously on any wifi network you should use https for anything secure.

    MITM attacks on public wifi hotspots are mostly trivial. Yeah, keep believing that using HTTPS is securing anything.

  8. Re:Coincidentally, I watch all my early BBC video on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    The point wasn't that it didn't look better. They were complaining that it looked TOO real.

  9. Re:Lost an amazon customer on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You would only pay this if you lived in Texas...

  10. Re:Location based? on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 2

    So you're gping to pay a middleman and double shipping costs just to save on sales tax? Have fun buying that TV from Amazon and then having to pay your middleman a couple hundred bucks to ship it to you which, along with their fee, will cost more than you would have paid in tax.

  11. Re:Complain or act? on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 1

    Because a different set of politicians will make any difference? That they are somehow magically incorruptable?

  12. Re:HOLY SHIT! on Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't Bjork's music malware?

  13. Re:Sucker born every minute. on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is 'real' money. I can pay any debts with it, pretty much every business in the US accepts it, it is also accepted in places internationally, people price oil in terms of it, etc. Buttcoins have none of that and are useful for buying drugs, laundering money and other shady dealings.

  14. Re:Conversely, on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that, but the default behavior especially in both Debian and Ubuntu, which I just checked, didn't stop me from setting my password to 'password' or '123456'.

  15. Re:Why are we still using passwords? on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And when you start doing that the user will then just write their password on a sticky note since it'll be complex to remember. And if other sites have the same policies they will just duplicate that password around. So, you've just made things more insecure.

  16. Re:Why are we still using passwords? on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 2

    I hope you aren't referring to SecurID tokens...

  17. Re:Conversely, on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 2

    Because you can't use poor passwords on Linux or any other *nix system? Oh wait, you can. And when I've set my password using anything from Ubuntu to Slackware there was no educational text telling me not to use bad passwords or anything of the sort. But don't let facts get in the way...

  18. Re:Why are we still using passwords? on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 1

    They must be since otherwise what was the point of your snotty post? They might not be 'bothering' to deploy them because they aren't ncessarily better nor easy to deploy.

  19. Re:Case in point on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    Yeah only because the mean is skewed by people using a purchase for Linux as a donation.

  20. Re:lol overhyped shit on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    Wow all valve games? So that's like 7? OMG!

  21. Re:What games? on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    The Mac version has only 7% of the games for Windows.

  22. Enough already on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    So then we will stop getting a post about it every 6 weeks? If version numbers don't matter like Asa claims then why such a big fuss and fanfare over their ridiculous version inflation?

  23. Re:he was giving out business cards.... on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    What does that link have to do with what I said? Yes, I know about incorporation. Once again, the post I responded to only mentioned the Federal government not a state agency like you were blasting me about.

  24. Re:Good news! on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't it be? The only reasons I see against it can be chalked up to ignorance and knowledge of C++ and it's available libraries that are either intentionally misleading or decades out-of-date. The state of C++ has moved on well past that of the mid 90s where most people's knowledge of the language seems stuck in. There are also enterprise frameworks for C++ to do web development in.

  25. Re:he was giving out business cards.... on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    Great but nowhere in the post I replied to mentioned a 'state agency'. You mentioned 'the government' and 'Congress'.