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  1. Re:also Autodesk software needs local admin to run on AutoCAD Worm Medre.A Stealing Designs, Blueprints · · Score: 1

    Well my copy of 2012 does, otherwise it won't work at all. I don't know if 2013 does. Maybe someone who's company has sprung for the new version can chime in. Nothing like "gaping ass wide security hole" to make your day is there? Err never mind...that could probably lead to a 13 year old joke.

  2. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What you mean enforcing federal law? Nonsense. OH GOD THE HORRORS! Even worse, it might just be like Japan, where you've got to carry your fucking card all the time if you're a foreigner? Wow imagine that.

  3. Re:Dear Canada: on Canadian DOJ Warned About Unconstitutionality of Copyright Digital Lock Rules · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hockey and the internet are the only thing people in Canada really care about. Maybe poutine, if they're in the mood for it. I kid, though you seem to forget that "Canadians" shut down the country in 1981 over wage and price controls instituted by the-then liberals(Whoo Trudeau) in power. If you think that we're still too polite to "sit back and not complain" then you know far too little about our own history. Let's not forget either more recently that we've managed to buckle various government agencies on other things as well. Including the levy, various CRTC proposals which would have made the country an internet back-water. What you missed the part where the federal government itself got involved?

    Hey let's not forget either that our SCC actually will listen to "citizens arguments" via letter. It's free, you just need to address it like your MP or MPP and drop it right in the mailbox. Canada post will deliver it free of charge.

  4. Re:The current Canadian Government are ... on Canadian DOJ Warned About Unconstitutionality of Copyright Digital Lock Rules · · Score: 0

    Yeah, don't forget that it was the liberals who proposed the original law in the first place or anything.

  5. Re:The only thing this will achieve on Sonic.net's CEO On Why ISPs Should Only Keep User Logs Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    Considering the EU is screaming full-headon towards it's own destruction right now, Europe may very well be a more "free place" once it get's it's fiscal house in order in 10 or 15 years and the EU is dissolved. If not, it'll simply become another China. The bureaucrats are by-and-far pushing for a police state, and removing the power from the governments of the elected state.

  6. Re:Stimulus on Tech Manufacturing Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen · · Score: 1

    The American's were boycotting Canadian lumber because the Canadian rules are different. Because the logging companies didn't have to pay (more than an administrative fee) to log the land, whereas in the US, they auction off the logging rights to the highest bidder.

    That's not really true in Canada. Logging companies have to return logged areas to their natural state when they're finished logging the land per the law. Which can be expensive depending on the area. This also applies to things like oil/tar sands mining, lime(for concrete) and other things.

    But just remember, NAFTA is not free trade. It's fair trade, if it was free trade. We'd see what we see between states and provinces. No damn busy bodies getting their panties in a knot over wood being shipped across the border. But a competitive industry or industries working against each other but being profitable at the same time.

  7. Re:Where's Japan? on A Look At the "Information Superhighway," As It Looked In 1985 · · Score: 1

    yEngineers yes(and programming included). But I've had enough of the "engineering gig" aka programming. And am looking at something at some place to retire too and am looking specifically at my father's homeland. If I want to fall back on my mechanics ticket which I also have for an easy job once I quit my current gig, pain in the ass. But they're hurting for mechanics. Hell they're hurting for anyone who can even pick up a wrench, just like us here in Canada and the US.

    I do like the culture, my father's brother always looked at it as worker-bee centric. If you can handle it, you'll fit right in. If not, you'll burn out in about 5 weeks and probably commit suicide.

    Don't worry you're preaching to the choir, and I'm replying to one. It's just a pain in the ass, though I will say there are some people that have a really huge stick up their ass over hafu's. Then again, half the hafu in me doesn't mine. The other hafu goes bug-eyed over it. It's a lovely discussion they have. :D It's not as bad as brazillian-japanese go through though.

  8. Re:Where's Japan? on A Look At the "Information Superhighway," As It Looked In 1985 · · Score: 1

    Yes, because they have really tough rules on migrant workers, and really hard ass rules on immigration in particular. If I could pack up today, and move there I would. The real problem though is the job climb, Japan though is suffering from the same issue that Europe is. Too many people entrenched, and everyone entering are stuck in temp jobs.

  9. Re:Where's China? on A Look At the "Information Superhighway," As It Looked In 1985 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the 90's was Japan's fall. Oddly enough if the 2000's were China's rise, this decade will probably be China's fall.

  10. Re:In other words on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 1

    Well they sure don't have any clue. I agree with that, but back a few years ago when oil was $80/BBL we were paying around $0.82/L for fuel here in Canada. It's still right up around $1.19 where I live. Of course, now that the provincial government(which is the liberal party) allowed two companies to buyout the majority of the distributors I'm sure you can figure out what's happened.

  11. Re:Wow you still don't get it on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 1

    Due process and freedom of speech get in the way of maximizing the bottom line.

    Nope. Both work just fine, cronyism is what gets in the way of the bottom line. When capitalism is working properly companies rise and fall on their own merits, ideas fail and fall on their own merits. When people force and select ideas though, and try to roughshod them through, that's when you get a problem.

    Due process and freedom only get in the way when someone who profits from cronyism(like the RIAA or MPAA or legacy media) has their oldy-timey club threatened by something new. Like digital downloads, online publications, etc.

  12. Re:Apparently it's you who doesn't understand. on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 0

    Yeah good luck with that. Liberals are hard of hearing when you point out that cronyism is the cause of the debt, especially when they use crony-capitalism for their pet projects like solyindra.

  13. Re:Environmental Impact? on Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans · · Score: 0

    Don't worry. The environmentalists will be coming along any time now screaming about how your hydro generation plants are hurting the fish, or something and demanding that they be torn down or blown up. Just like they've done in other places, particularly in Washington State and California.

  14. Re:Only fair on ICANN Names New CEO, Will Pay Him $800,000 To Run the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yep. And that either makes me either 10 years behind the times. Or 25 years ahead of my time. Either one is possible.

  15. Hey know what worked for me? on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    Lot's of booze. Not really kidding, of course the PTSD flashbacks are a bitch at times.

  16. Re:Only fair on ICANN Names New CEO, Will Pay Him $800,000 To Run the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To to be honest, I always thought that it would be a good idea if you could have a carname.gm or carname.ford or item.microsoft, or routername.cisco, siri.apple instead of .com. It just makes sense outside of a tech circle. Doesn't it make sense when you think about it? Governments should have a country.gov though, and same for countries. Yeah it might seem like a pain in the ass, and it is. But for the average person it's simple, it makes sense.

    But then again, for duplicate companies and all that there'd be hell to pay.

  17. Re:Just need a couple amendments on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 1

    Can we add in support for fertilizers, chemical precursor agents too? Dupont, Firestone, and Daewoo just to name a few companies. Let's ban civilization while we're at it. Then the granola munchers can go back to living in caves and leave us alone.

  18. Re:Half of it's functionality STILL won't work! on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1

    Might have something to do with developers you know having a bug up their ass, and still developing for consoles. You know 10 year old hardware. Nah couldn't be...

  19. Good that you know this. Too bad there's an entire generation out there that's been raised by government, and are now happily bricking out at the age of 18. Enjoy!

  20. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    Yeah thanks for catching that man. Can't wait myself.

  21. Re:SSD on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 2

    Doesn't seem to really hold true. Here's an example from my first generation SSD which is 97% full using AS SSD. If what you said was true, that would be reflected like a traditional drive. But it's not, even with benchmarks. It's speeds are nearly in stock bench wise still, even using other tools it's the same.

    http://i46.tinypic.com/1zbcg43.png

  22. Re:They speak the truth on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    I've got a first generation OCZ Vertex, that I've been running pretty close to non-stop for 3 years with the 1.16 firmware on it. Nearly continuous reads/writes including a pagefile. I know a lot of the first generation drives had some problems they're still pretty good even first generation wise. I've also got an agility 3, really nice. Good boost over the Vertex, I'm quite happy with both. I can't wait for the traditional drives to die. Now they just need to get up into the TB range, and be cheap enough.

  23. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    Actually the price $/GB is now around $1.42/GB, which means that SSD's are outpacing the rate at which HDD's were growing in size 12 years ago into the multi-gigabyte range. I can go down to my local Canadacomputers and get a 120GB SSD from OCZ for $83. Or 240GB for $169. Round about 12 years ago, you were still paying $1.83/GB up here.

  24. Re:where are you Anonymous? on Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted State-Sponsored Attacks · · Score: 1

    We all know Israel just want to keep those dictators so it sent out her idiots to spread propaganda. ....

    That makes even less sense than what you usually see from the average Israel hater. So let me see if I get this straight, Israel, and in turn Jews, the most prosecuted religious and ethnic group that we've seen in the last 2000 years, has a vested interest in...oppressing themselves? Okay there. That's why in every defensive war they've ever fought, they've given up more than what they've gained in order to secure peace.

    Yeah, just a few bricks short of a full load there.

  25. Re:where are you Anonymous? on Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted State-Sponsored Attacks · · Score: 2

    AHahaha...yeah the script kiddies. Oh sure. Yep they're out doing good stuff again. So anyway, I mean the rebels are out doing things like trying to get reporters killed too. But hey, whatever. Pallywood everywhere!