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  1. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 2

    He hurt someones feelings.

    Thats not exactly a crime AFAIK. Maybe people will learn to keep things private online. If you open everything up to the wider internet, thats going to come with the good and the bad.

    My response: Deal with it, or make it a private page.

  2. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yea like anything you say will be used to drop the case. You can say nothing that helps your case, only things that can hurt your case.

  3. Re:That's funny... on theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles · · Score: 1

    lmao

  4. Re:Really? First accepted Story? on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I was under the impression that if you get rid of the physical media you are also supposed to delete any "backup" copies.

    I may be wrong though, so if you know better please do correct me.

  5. Re:"checkpoint smurf?" on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    Lol didn't see that coming.

  6. Re:Cyber stalked too on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    Complaining about the way someone used a word? Then you promptly forget that there is a shift key, and punctuation keys on your keyboard! I always figured grammar nazis and punctuation nazis were the same animal.

    I was wrong I guess.
    Most people (myself included) here aren't perfect with punctuation, but they at least try.

  7. Re:Rough Decisions on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    I don't know but if you want a pissing contest on the number of dems who didnt pay and repubs who didnt pay, then I'm sure it will be an interesting match.

    Frankly both of you are trolls.

  8. Comment goes elsewhere, subject goes here. on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its a shame that we had to figure out that you started your comment in the subject, because most of us move on if your post doesn't make sense right away. The first half of the sentence in the title does just that.

    If you don't like the "Re:" feel free to change the subject of your post. If you want us to care what you are saying then don't place part of the comment there.

    I'm guessing your the same type of person who doesn't follow naming conventions.

  9. Re:Low prices or pollution in China. on Apple's Chinese Suppliers Accused of Causing Significant Environmental Damage · · Score: 1

    Lies, Lies, and Damnable Lies. It is lies like these that give life to the fallacious arguments that Americans are grossly overpaid.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/how-much-would-the-ipad-2-cost-if-it-were-made-in-the-us-about-1-140/238508/

    Average U.S. manufacturing/mining/construction compensation is $32.53/hour as of December, according to the BLS. Research firm iSuppli estimates the iPad 2 costs $10 to manufacture, which - using the $1.11/hour rate - works out to about 9 hours each to complete. If assembly and manufacture took the same amount of time in the U.S. as it does in China (another possibly unrealistic assumption), the cost of making each iPad 2 comes out to $292.77!

            Again, according to iSupply, the material cost for the 32gb iPad 2 WiFi + 3g - which sells for $729 - is about $325, or $335 including labor, which puts Apple's gross margin (ex shipping/handling) at 54%. Just using the simple math above, if the iPad 2 was made in the U.S it would cost $617.77, bringing Apple's gross margin down to 15.25%! Of course, Apple is not in the business of self-immolation, and given their relatively substantial pricing power, they could just make the iPad 2 more expensive, let's say, increasing the price to the point where their gross margins stayed intact, from $729 to $1,144.02!

  10. Re:Security concerns on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 2

    Like a pig he'll roll around in it and enjoy it.

  11. Re:First Red Light! on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1

    The application tells you how fast to go if you want to catch every green light. It is not there to tell you that one is coming up.

    But that level of understanding would require at least reading the summary.

  12. Re:Expensive Fatigues on Antenna-Clothing Outperforms Regular Antennas · · Score: 2

    Sounds about right in the price department.

    Anyways enlisted men/women only have to pay for their own gear if they loose what they were issued.

  13. Re:No a river, it's called an Aquifer on Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon · · Score: 1

    Yet you still miss the point.
    Those flow arrows indicate how the water gets into and out of the aquifer. Yes, this is a "flow". It is not the same type of flow that one thinks of when one thinks about rivers. Think aquifer = lake and underground river = river. They all have flows and currents, but only the rivers move the water "downstream".

  14. Re:I "guess" it's "probably" it on New Oil Slick In Gulf Waters Linked To BP Well · · Score: 0

    Fucking apologist. There is nothing else to say.

  15. Re:I "guess" it's "probably" it on New Oil Slick In Gulf Waters Linked To BP Well · · Score: 0

    Fucking apologist. You can sit there and do your best to make it sound like its a fucking wild guess, when the scientist sounds like hes pretty damn sure.

    This doesnt sound at all like a wild guess if you read the article.

    The guys who did the testing this time, wetre the ones who fingerprinted the oil the first time.

    The pair did much of the chemical work used by federal officials to fingerprint the BP oil, known as MC252.

    Or that the coast guard said this:

    He said knowing that the oil matches with the BP well was useful, as it ruled out the possibility of other sources, such as the pipelines that crisscross the Gulf floor.

    Oh wait yet another scientist wades in with his opinion:

    Robert Bea, a prominent University of California petroleum engineer studying the BP spill, was not surprised that oil was seen away from the well head. Bea said he believed there was a high probability that the oil originated from the BP well.

    High Probability huh? Doesnt sound like a wild guess to me.

    So you paint the entire thing as something overblown, implying the scientist are only guessing.. but yet they seem a hell of a lot more certain then that. Then of course they are all fucking petroleum scientist. You know just the fucking guys who have studied this shit for years. Where did you get your petroleum engineer diploma from?

  16. Re:I "guess" it's "probably" it on New Oil Slick In Gulf Waters Linked To BP Well · · Score: 0

    it's a dead ringer for the MC252 oil, as good a match as I've seen

    No but that's slightly more assured then the two words you picked out of context.

  17. Re:Sigh... on Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    Yes, the wooden clad ones have earned high praise in my book today.

  18. Re:Translation: Religion is born .... on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    If we are going to use specious arguments, and faulty logic, then where did god come from?

  19. Re:NO ONE CARES on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: 1

    Trying to take out the root of the problem. Lobbyists.

  20. Re:weird on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    If the consul wasn't there, then there would be no protestors. Did you really not catch that?

  21. Re:Do we... on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    That's cool.

    Hey Germany, buddy, pal. How have you been?
    Hows Poland and Chech doing?
    Good, good.
    Hey, you think we could borrow 20 billion?

  22. Re:Script kiddies, seriously China? on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    If you had ever been to war you would understand that it says that, so you don't blow yourself up in vast amount of confusion that accompanies war. Bombs, dirt, gunfire, explosions, yelling, screaming, etc. make it extremely easy to accidentally install the damn thing backwards.

  23. Re:Or Apple on HP's Shift On PCs Could Boost Acer, Dell and Lenovo · · Score: 0

    I chose to look at that argument.
    I went to apple.com clicked the first apple computer I saw (Macbook air) and went to the configuration page to get a look.
    It has:
    13-inch : 256GB

            1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
            processor
            4GB memory
            256GB flash storage1
            Intel HD Graphics 3000

    For 1,600 dollars.

    I then went to dell and clicked on the 11 to 14 inch laptops.
    I found the first one with comparable specs.
    Processor 2nd Generation Intel® Core i5-2410M processor 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz
    Operating System Genuine Windows® Home Premium, 64-Bit, English
    Display 14.0" High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLife
    Memory3 4GB3 Single Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
    Hard Drive 640GB4 SATA hard drive (5400RPM)

    It costs 600 dollars.

    The only spec that apple wins with is the fact its using a ssd (I think thats what the mean when they say flash storage.) In fact the dell's processor is better I believe.

    The apple is therefore 2.667 times more expensive then the dell.

    Its not a damn myth, apple is overpriced. (If you only consider the specs, I don't feel like arguing about the "experience")

  24. Re:Increased costs on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    http://www.zappos.com/ugg-hats-accessories~1?gclid=CJ-YpZGj26oCFWFjTAodm2W86A

    These things?

    Looks like my grandmother made em, wouldn't wear the damn things.

  25. Re:Well of course products in Oz are more expensiv on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    You mad bro?