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  1. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    In many areas, if you can't afford a mortgage, you can't afford rent.

  2. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 2

    1) your monthly payment varies based on the cost of your phone
    2) it drops after 20 months (the time they let you spread the payments over, appears to be 24 months now)
    3) your "penalty" is based on the price left on your phone, not arbitrary

    I think if they are not advertising phones at discounted rates it's all clean, you can, and they will even encourage you to if you want low rates, buy a phone outright and not have any penalty. A galaxy S refurb is under $200, they had some even cheaper phones (some little, but usable huawei phone) at the store last I was there, this was a while ago, but $99 outright.

  3. Re:what are you even saying? on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree on principal with what you're saying, but think rather than saying stop standardizing HTML, I think it makes more sense to have a very stripped down, but existing standard, and then use all of the other standards to extend it. Even if browsers support it, do they support these things well? I know that XHTML used to be supported, but it wouldn't display as parsing or loading, making it a poor experience (I assume this is fixed now, just an example).

    Even now, HTML is basically a set of tags that all browsers are expected to have similar defaults for display, I don't see how this is a terrible bad thing. Trying to force everone to use the canvas widget is good, making it part of the HTML standard encourages that.

  4. Re:what are you even saying? on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    Without an html standard, how do we know what the display property means?

  5. Re:HTML isn't anymore on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    I agree, one could argue that of it requires a separate program to run it, rather than being compiled to a program, it could be called something else. Though personally, I believe that of It's Turing complete it is a programming language. The language remains the same whether compiled or interpreted, so I'd think that's a silly distinction to classify a language (additionally, a language can have a compiler or interpreter built, or even exist without either (though it wouldn't be so useful in the last case).

  6. Re:Experience keeping your number? on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 1

    Within a day, with no downtime. There was a period of time when I didn't know which phone would ring, or which I cold call out from (and for a short time.I could only do the calling on one while receiving on the other), but keeping both phones with me for 24 hours handled it.

    my friend moved to Alaska, and after his contract was up, they made him get a local number.

  7. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    They did pay, they claimed it was one instance, that matches both my recollection of working on the trial, and all but one sentence in your paragraph.

    I worked on the losing side, but it do believe in the court system, it was totally reasonable to argue that it was a single incident, and not two, not obviously right, which is why a trial is needed, but arguable.

    the issue was do they pay 3.5 Billion (policy max for an incident), or 7 Billion, not whether or not they paid.

  8. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 0

    I believe this is one of the main things Obama Care was supposed to fix, they will only be allowed to use zipcode to set rates, therefore small and large companies/individuals will be on an even footing. I think this is VERY important, as small business has the government stack the cards against them severely (sales tax being a major way), and this is one of the things making it much harder for people to go independent or start small businesses that fill a need (as your example shows, the large business has a 10k advantage on hiring with equal compensation). Small business gets the shaft, and is vitally important to fill small undeveloped needs, and hire people that are otherwise unhireable (drug checks, past crimes etc.), yet government self-fellates to give Target a competitive advantage, makes me sick.

  9. Re:Service provider != End User on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    I would almost certainly think the terms and conditions to an API are a "License Agreement" (giving license to the use of resources), but they are also obviously not the end user (as they are making things for other users)

  10. Re:remote desktop vs windows on Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support · · Score: 1

    The vectors aren't the type drawn by X.

    This is covered in talks. QT renders the vector (including anti-aliased fonts), and then sends a bitmap to the X server. What you propose is a remote backend to QT (and another for GTK, etc etc). That still bypasses X (and yes, I personally think it would be awesome if all KDE apps were remotable at the QT level, sending commands to be drawn on the user side).

  11. Re:In the mean time... on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 1

    Yes, you ate correct, for this year you may only have 3 9s of uptime, but ll of these partial downs we hear about are small percentages, It's not like every year everyone loses a half day or so, most people haven't suffered through and outage at all since the inception of apps for.business. a small percentage have had only 3 9s of uptime for a year, and totally up otherwise.

    the story told is very high reliability, not omg, its down every year.

  12. Re:In the mean time... on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 2

    It's .007% of their users, and last time it was a different small percentage. If you assume all of google is down when 1 in 10000 users are, it sounds bad. The reality of it is that It's not.

  13. Re:In the mean time... on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 1

    .007% is down for one day.

    what percentage of in house email users do you think are having trouble today?

  14. Re:remote desktop vs windows on Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support · · Score: 1

    Wayland is trying to bring "do one thing, and do it well" to the GUI in Linux.

  15. Re:KDE and lightweight. on KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making · · Score: 1

    Isn't this where the APUs shine? Or at least are trying to?

  16. Re:KDE and lightweight. on KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making · · Score: 2

    Lxde is terrible IMO. The menus just don't feel like they work right. I had similar issues with black box.

    xfce though is fantastic, buy I wouldn't want to run it with 2001 ram levels (though I can't think of any apps I use that'd I'd want to do that with).

  17. Re:Is Nintendo starting to close up shop? on Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June · · Score: 5, Informative

    The voting was fun though.

  18. To point 3, do liberals really want any more than equal rights and prohibited discrimination for the queer community? I ask, because I've seen no.attempts to create quotas etc for them.

    to point 4, I am.not pro gun control, and there are already too many guns out there in private hands for anybodies opinion on the issue to.make a difference, but when the mad men started stabbing students recently (in country with a history of controlling the populace) nobody was killed, even though 17 were stabbed, also, non gun weapons have a lot less bystander damage (which is why I would support less guns for authority). I personally think the constitution trumps desire, ans nobody should be discussing gun control outside of an amendment, but valid points are to.be made, even if people will.continue to murder.

    random periods are spaces, and words are autocunty messing with me, typed on a phone drunk...

  19. Re:Eh? on Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers · · Score: 2

    Wayland is pretty heavily represented here, but Jolla and sailfish I remember only seeing once, and it was a while ago, and I didn't remember.

    but, I personally like this site because I don't need to wade through parenthetocals while reading summaries of tech stories, I would of benefited from context here, but It's the price I pay for all the countless times I benefit from lack of such.

  20. Re:it's been a week thus far? on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    They have plenty of artillery that can hit SK population. They would be able to many injuries and deaths, and lots of infrastructure damage.

    They wouldn't last, but they aren't harmless.

  21. Re:no problem on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 1

    It should be tagged by It's purpose, and then appearance described in CSS.

    your argument could apply to blink.

  22. Re:Probably Bought with Laundered Tax Free Income on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the laws surrounding salvage allow for a hell of a lot more than that for rescuing a ship in peril.

    I can totally see it as appropriate for the government to use those laws for ships that are not registered under its jurisdiction. It;d still be beneficial on the average to use the tax haven, but at least the government would get compensated for its protection of those not paying the taxes.

  23. Re:Probably Bought with Laundered Tax Free Income on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    How is income tax relevant to a thread about avoiding non-income taxes?

    Or perhaps those 47% pay a significant wage tax (which is regressive), as well as all sorts of local taxes, so for this context it's completely wrong to use?

  24. Re:What about illegal immigrants on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    I've worked with people of dubious legality, I promise you, they make more than minimum wage, by a pretty significant margin even.

  25. Re:Civillian cyber-casualties on S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines · · Score: 1

    I assumed they simply had more script kiddies than anonymous not fearing retribution.