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  1. Probably highly inflated on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    Google is boasting that more than 90 million people have signed up for its Google+.

    What would be more interesting is how many people are actually voluntarily signing up for a G+ account versus the accounts that are just autocreated for you for, for example, opening up a Gmail account. I'd be willing to bet a huge chunk of those accounts probably have seen no activity.

  2. Re:Finest engineer? on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 2

    So a bunch of toys that no one uses and none of which is vital to running the Internet. Also, fetchmail is a steaming pile of fail and is routinely mocked as being a shitty program.

  3. Re:Finest engineer? on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would anyone actually take credit for having written fetchmail? It's a steaming pile...

  4. Re:To Which the Reaction Will Be on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And how do you suppose you're going to do so? You don't own the backbone, you don't own any of the fiber connecting you to your ISP, you don't own any of the switches and routers, you don't own any of the software (since most of what runs the internet is BSD and is easily forked). So exactly how are you going to "take it back" when all the infrastructure is owned by others?

  5. Re:Hate crimes... on Dharun Ravi Trial: Hate Crime Or Stupidity? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Clearly different from the sort of hate that many African Americans have against white people because they have been brought up to believe that all white people are slavers and want nothing more than to re-enslave the black race.

    Is that what they tell you at the Klan meetings every Tuesday?

  6. Re:Hate crimes... on Dharun Ravi Trial: Hate Crime Or Stupidity? · · Score: 1

    No, the funny thing is is that you're wrong. I can accidentally kill someone in a car accident and there is no hate behind it at all yet it is still a crime. There are plenty of other examples. This is just a Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity/etc nonsense excuse.

  7. Re:Can't change contract without compensation on User Successfully Sues AT&T For Throttling iPhone Data · · Score: 1

    How is it false advertising? TMobile never guarantees a minimum bandwidth. They only guarantee a constant connection.

  8. Re:Free and Fragmented? on Mozilla Partners Up With LG To Combat Apple and Google · · Score: 1

    How is it FUD? Motorola, Samsung, HTC, etc all slap on their proprietary skins and crapware on their phones.

  9. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    There are cases where states are allowed to do more, for example in Oregon their definition of free speech is much wider and more inclusive than the federal definition.

    Great, no one would claim that is a supremacy clause case. On the other hand, States legislating over a Federal department is clearly going to get struck down.

  10. Re:Defaults still insane? on Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx · · Score: 1

    Newegg. You can buy 16GB (2x8) pairs from 150 to 190.

  11. Re:misleading/wrong question on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah how dare they implement the P3P standard as it tells them to! Google is using a loophole in the standard to bypass the privacy protection.

  12. Re:Why research this? on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    Because "focusing on Captchas" is dealing with image recognition directly? Besides, improving OCR to break Captchas directly helps improve the ability to OCR old and badly scanned works. Also, do you think that if these people did stop working on it that no one else will? Isn't it better for the good guys to be showing us the weaknesses rather than the bad guys exploiting it due to everyone being ignorant of the flaws? You can't fix flaws if you stop people from researching into them.

  13. Re:Why research this? on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    Because image recognition research is beneficial in many areas. Also, Captchas are mostly snake oil as there are tons of Indians willing to be paid next to nothing to break thousands and thousands of Captchas for the spammers anyway.

  14. Re:Aren't all CAPTCHAs doomed to fail eventually? on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    They were joking... *facepalm*

  15. Re:Aren't all CAPTCHAs doomed to fail eventually? on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    Maybe not but Apu sure can and he'll do it for peanuts.

  16. Re:Real pictures on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    And after all that effort, the spammers will hire some Indians for pennies to figure them out. You'll be out lots of time and effort, they'll be out a couple dozen bucks.

  17. Re:Unmitigated greed on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 1

    So LORAX is now repeating this nonsense as AC? The GPS makers were only going by the FCC's rule which is that users of adjacent bands would transmit at similar low levels. LS is trying to transmit at 10000 times the allowed power levels. They are in the wrong, not the GPS makers.

  18. Re:What an arrogant ass... on LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle · · Score: 1

    You would have a point if this idiot wasn't broadcasting at 10000 times the power level that the FCC allowed for that band of spectrum.

  19. Re:Hello - WebKit? JavaScript? on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 1

    You mean blazed by Netscape, right?

  20. Re:Futile on Book Review: Java Performance · · Score: 1

    Sure if you can stand the pain and ugliness of using JNI.

  21. Re:4TB limit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    That was my point. He was trying to disapprove the quote by using a device that does not disprove the quote since it doesn't use 1 chip.

  22. Re:Ob. Moe on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 2

    Or don't make broad statements that you can't guarantee are correct and when being wrong can cost lives?

  23. Re:Scientists Charged For Not Being Psychic on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    No they are being charged for telling people there was no danger when it wasn't true. It's like an auto mechanic telling you your car is safe to drive and then you get into an accident based on a flaw they missed.

  24. Re:4TB limit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 2

    I hate to break it to you but that is 8 drives in one device. Hence the "octal" name.

  25. Re:LCD's also started like that on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    Except that older flash is actually much better than the more recent multi level kind. So it's the opposite of LCD.