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  1. Re:This sounds like a money grab on How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Uh, have you actually tried to use RS? It already seems as tho the interface was designed by insane, autistic children. For this alone, people have stopped using it in droves.

  2. Re:Tired of the IE hate... on Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day · · Score: 1

    "What is everyone addiction to setting the homepage?" Guessing you meant 'why' there. Pretty much the first thing I want to go to when the browser comes up is email, so it is handy for it to be there. But if I am feeling more paranoid, I just set it to blank page.

  3. Re:incoherent summary on Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Rather than Chrome, which has a nasty tendency to phone home, mention Chromium which one can now easily install (used to be kind of a bitch) for Windows. I find I need this because for some time now Firefox and flash have not played well together. It's sort of hit or miss. Sometimes flash works; sometimes it stutters or worse, freezes. Newish update; we'll see what that does, but it looks very incremental. And yes, I realize that Firefox has that problem with the address bar. But, basically I've never really gotten to like Chromium/Chrome. Nice to have a backup however since I really do dislike IE. I gather it works fairly well now, but I just hate how it looks. It just uses up FAR too much real estate which is idiotically dumb and should have been fixed ages ago.

  4. Re:Abiword, Openoffice, Libreoffice on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    This I have to reply to. I left OpenOffice the moment I realized it was now enslaved by Oracle. LibreOffice was freaking created by all those former OpenOffice people that had just realized they were now enslaved by Oracle. [and if you happen to like Oracle, just let me refer you to the recent Java debacles] LibreOffice had a bit a a rough start (not surprisingly), but they have consistently and often updated it with improvements. Oracle simply sloughed OpenOffice over to Apache when they found it couldn't be monetized. As far as M$ Office is concerned I've never seen any point in paying for it when these free versions let me do what I needed. The $100 annual price point for HOME users is just M$ shooting themselves in the foot. Again.That said, I can why business might have to use it. But since I am not a business, there is no way I am paying for this. LibreOffice allowed me to take Charles Dicken's 'Pickwick Papers' that I got as a really ugly .txt file from the Gutenberg project and turn it into a really lovely .odt (and .doc and even docx) file. That must be legal since I'm the only one who has even seen them; the Gutenberg people never got back to me about offering it. I also use calc mainly as a simply data base. Works fine for me.

  5. move to/copy to on GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions · · Score: 1

    Why it has taken so long to have 'move to' and 'copy to' implemented has always been a mystery to me. That has really been a major reason I have kept using Windows and even then you have to hack the registry to get that.

  6. Re:Only in America... on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    In the US, you betcha!! You can always get another house, but guns are sacred. And, sorry 'bout those deaths, but ya know, yer gonna die anyways so what's the big deal?

  7. Bad argument on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    "Congress was criticized for not being tech savvy, but from a lot of the comments we got it became clear that the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did." What kind of an argument is that??

  8. Re:SO related on Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    I liked it better when they first called it Operation Iraqi Liberation. So much accidental truth to that acronym.

  9. Spell check not working? on 'Legitimized' Cyberwar Opens Pandora's Box of Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1

    It's 'Gerrymander', not 'jerrymander'. Named after the Mass. Governor Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814).

  10. Dogs and TV (mostly OT) on Book Review: Fitness For Geeks · · Score: 1

    That comment about dogs not being interested in TV made me think that they don't respond to music reproductions either. Except for one interesting album that I know of: Live Peace at Toronto 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band. Side one is just John jamming out some tunes, but side 2 is where he sez, "Uh, now Yoko's gonna do her thing." By the time Yoko gets really revved up I can pretty much guarantee that any dog in the room will be yelping and trying to hide. Seen this effect on more than one dog. Actually, seen this effect on most people. Me, I thought it was the most raw form of rock n roll EVAH and still like it. Years ahead of its time :) Uh, carry on.....

  11. idiots on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    OK, here's an idea: Why don't we just collectively sue ourselves for being stupid. Would that cover everything?

  12. Re:Amazing on Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access · · Score: 1

    1) When you publish in an academic journal, you transfer the copyright for your paper to the publisher. 2) As a reviewer, if I see you published your paper elsewhere, I will immediately reject it. Publishing a paper more than once is called self plagiarism, and it's unethical. The purpose of publishing is to disseminate your research to the community. Publishing your work in more than one journal is counter to that goal because your research is already in the community, and you're taking up space in the journal for research that hasn't yet been published.

    Dear Lord what you said is so fucked up in so many ways. Exactly whose payroll are you on?

  13. future news on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    In the future, the University of Florida will drop all physics courses. But they will continue with a mathematics curriculum since paper and blackboards are fairly cheap.

  14. Re:Boo hoo for the dinosaurs on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2

  15. Stupidity to the nth degree on Facebook Asserts Trademark On "Book" In New User Agreement · · Score: 1

    I sorta thought maybe God held the trademark on 'book' seeing that that is what The Bible translates as.....

  16. Re:Everything old is new again. on Microsoft's Lifebrowser Is a Prosthetic For Memory · · Score: 1

    Didn't I just read somewhere that they are building in Utah from which they they either can or will be able to track any digital data from anywhere in the world? And, yes your landlines are also included in this data grab. I swear, it has gotten to the point where all normal news now reads like the Onion.

  17. Shortcut keys on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    Love knowing these, but instead of CNTL-F I have always used the F3 key. One less button to punch :)

  18. So it took a long time.....?? on George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons · · Score: 1

    Be thankful that there is a book coming. Also, have any of you complaining morons ever tried to actually write a long form novel?? Have any of you even tried to freaking EDIT a novel?? Thought not.