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  1. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: -1

    I hate siri 1.0 because it removed the standard apple voice control that was in the 3GS and 4.0 that works when you dont have a internet connection.

    So turn it off. Bamm, Voice Control.

  2. Re:Not related on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: -1

    Some of us prefer not to degrade individual liberties for the sake of a brand fetish or corporate power.

    And that's why you defend the GPL violating Psystar gangsters. Figures.

  3. Re:What's wrong with GCC? on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: -1

    Try asking Microsoft for the source code of their OS (particularly Winsock which is a ripoff of BSD sockets) and see how far you get. Even if you get the source you will not be able to modify it and redistribute the changes.

    Yeah, you are much better off when some GPL developer takes BSD code and puts it into a GPLed project - that way you still have full access to the source code. Of course you can't put back the improvements into the BSD project, because that would violate the GPL. That way the only BSD users that can benefit from them are those that keep the code to themselves. Can't prove anything - GPL violation for the win!

  4. Re:What's wrong with GCC? on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: -1

    Clang and FreeBSD aren't proprietary software. They're BSD-licensed open source. That code doesn't magically disappear when a company uses it.

    But the contributors do.

    No they don't - but thanks for proving what is worst about the GPL. Hint: it's the hyperbolic proponents.

  5. Re:Consumers need to do some research too ... on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: -1

    It has real meaning:

    This article uses 4G to refer to IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced), as defined by ITU-R. An IMT-Advanced cellular system must fulfill the following requirements:[5]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

    Funny you should quote an article saying that LTE isn't really 4G either.

  6. Re:What if I dont know I am radioactive ? on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: -1

    If your nuke radiates as much as your body after a medical exam, then you either got ripped off by the arms dealer or should probably get a different doctor.

    One word: shielding.

  7. Re:Imagine on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: -1

    I think a notification/warning would be nice prior to purging it from the system. Maybe it does, I don't know. But at least let the owner of the computer know that...

    It doesn't - purge that is: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5271?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

    If Safari 5.1.7 detects an out-of-date version of Flash Player on your system, you will see a dialog informing you that Flash Player has been disabled. The dialog provides the option to go directly to Adobe's website, where you can download and install an updated version of Flash Player. Additional Information If you need to re-enable an out-of-date version of Flash Player, you can do the following:
    Navigate to the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins (Disabled) folder.
    Drag "Flash Player.plugin" into /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
    If the browser is running, quit and restart it.

  8. Re:Can someone explain to me on Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany · · Score: -1

    They don't seem to have an overt foreign policy platform; but I'm going to take the wild guess that they aren't particularly hawkish.

    Piss poor pirates they arrrrgh.

  9. Re:Or on Apple Quietly Updates iPad 2's Processor · · Score: -1

    My XOOM has been a 12 hour tablet for a long time.

    And the iPad 2 always had a better battery-time than the Xoom http://www.anandtech.com/show/4225/the-ipad-2-review/6

  10. Re:Just the WiFi version on Apple Quietly Updates iPad 2's Processor · · Score: -1

    And like most apple users I support as an AT&T employee you are clueless. There has never been a stop on the the ipad 2..... Just the Iphone 4 because it was crap, and still is crap.

    And yet, the iPhone 4 still outsells most Android phones combined. Despite your expert claim of them not selling them any longer.

  11. Re:How dare they... on Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK · · Score: -1

    >>>If apple's business doesnt suit you, dont buy

    Done and done (and modded minus one).

    So either you are dumb (well, you are an Apple Hater, so that's a given) for wasting your mod point - or you use multiple sockpuppet accounts. Class act.

  12. Re:How dare they... on Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK · · Score: -1

    Yes, that Apple involved 3rd parties in the dispute off the bat by cutting off access. It was a great disservice to people who rely on it and have nothing to do with the dispute.

    Apple can do what they want to do. That's why I went to Android.

    Because you don't actually know what is going on? Best reason ever to switch to Android. Nobody's access to Dropbox has been cut off. New Apps or versions of Apps have not made it through screening. Old versions still work as before. Thanks for proving that you and everyone modding you up is a clueless moron.

  13. Re:Ummm on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: -1

    ... saying that's the same plant that's threatening to strike. Which is not surprising, considering it's the only plant they have in Brazil. I'm wondering if the GGP is misinformed or just providing an information disservice.

    Considering they have several different plants in Jundiaí alone, that's hard to buy. http://g.co/maps/vsd7d

  14. Re:Apple unwilling to insulate itself from bad pre on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: -1

    If Apple wants to insulate itself from bad press related to the employment practices of its contract manufacturers, it could buy its own factories and employ the workers who make its products.

    Which would result in the Apple haters complaining that Apple was responsible for the worsening working conditions of those Foxconn workers who didn't lose their jobs.

  15. On eBay on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 0

    The item picture is a transparent GIF.

  16. Re:Demystification on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: -1

    Probably the point was that both things are bad, and people ignores that bit of info about it, which in turns ends up making a substantial amount of damage

    Sorry, whenever somebody needs to use a Nazi comparison to prove "how bad something is" - you can be certain he is lying through his teeth. Just take the all-time favorite: Abortions are bad, proof is that the Nazis loved them - yeah, that's why abortion was a capital offense in Nazi Germany.

  17. Re:No , sorry on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: -1

    You're not going to get away with a fatuous statement like that. The communist idea that all should work for the good of the state and put the good of the state above their own wellbeing is indelibly part of the way places such as North Korea work.

    Interesting point - I'm sure you can show us where exactly Marx claimed something like that.

  18. Duped on Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS · · Score: 0
  19. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: -1

    "Will searching the Internet become less useful in the future, when people have small personal chochkies that know all of their personal preferences, their habits, location and can give them exactly what they want, instead of 400 things that might be, interspersed with dozens of ads."

    If you use Google Search while logged in with a Google account they're doing the same thing for you.

    The difference between Siri and what this author is referencing as "Google" is query entry by voice or query entry by keyboard.

    *** News flash, you can enter your query in Google Search with your voice as well. ***

    Are we really back at "Siri is just Google voice search, and we had that first". Really? Are Fandroids really that stupid?

  20. Compare that to the "observations" by the skeptics on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: -1

    For decades they have said they clearly see the dropping temperatures. The reality just doesn't agree: http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

  21. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: -1

    Oh, and it should be noted that security types outlined this type of 'carpetbomb' attack to Apple, and they fixed it for Safari/Windows, but not for the Mac. Shows you how little Apple actually cares about end-user security.

    They didn't fix it for Mac, because nobody found a way to exploit it, even Charlie Miller of Pwn2Own fame saw no problem. On Windows however several programs would execute files (like .DLLs) from the desktop without any questions asked - including IE and Firefox. Which is why Apple fixed it for Windows - because other programs had bugs that were fixed (much) later. Talk about fixing later - the same carpet bomb feature was found it Google Chrome (then still "beta") 3 months later.

  22. Re:My first computer on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Anniversary · · Score: -1

    What? What does Microsoft have to do with BASIC? Do you think Microsoft invented it or something? You are probably thinking Visual Basic. That has no relation to Commodore's implementation. You fall victim to Microsoft's marketing practice of calling their products generic names.

    What a dumb fuck. When you use a Commodore, Apple, or most any other 8/16 bit computer of the 70s/80s, you see "BASIC" splashed across the screen. Sometimes with "copyright Microsoft" as well.

    Atari is probably the only company that didn't use MS Basic, because they couldn't squeeze it into their limited ROM space.

    "Probably" - apart of course from the Sinclairs one of which this is all about.

  23. Re:In the end, it's better that it happened on Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs · · Score: -1

    At it's height it was never as bad as some of the windows viruses have been, but it plants the seed that macs aren't safe and are just as vulnerable as any other OS.

    But for some reason people here don't want to admit that it proves that Wordpress admins (many of them running Linux) either don't keep their servers updated, or were duped into installing a Trojan plug-in - and thus Linux is just as vulnerable as any other OS.

  24. Re:In the end, it's better that it happened on Mac Flashback Attack Began With Wordpress Blogs · · Score: 0

    Where did you hear this? At the cooler in Redmond?

    From the numbers it doesn't seem like an unlikely claim actually (single virus compromising percentage of installed base), though a citation would be nice so it made me check (source for numbers below):

    The Mach Flashback virus compromised around 600.000 Macs, which is around 1% of installed base. The single largest Windows-based infection ever was Conficker. At its peak in 2009, it infected about 0.7% of the total Windows installed base.

    But the original source (Ed Bott from ZDNet) for those numbers is wrong - Conficker was only the worst PC infection in recent times. The ILOVEYOU mail virus infected 50 million PCs in 2000 - far more than 1%.

  25. Re:makes more sense on A Week After Apple's Fix, Flashback Still Infects Half a Million Macs · · Score: -1

    Wow...10.5 was released in 2007 and its ALREADY unsupported according to the wiki? damn maybe folks shouldn't have marked the AC a troll that made the joke about buying a new Mac every year. I thought the big selling point on the Mac was how "high quality" Macs were? Yet the support drops after less than 5 years? I guess that's why I never really got into macs, i just don't get it.

    10.5 was the last version that ran on PowerPC machines. People with older PowerPC machines who wanted to keep up to date with the OS needed to upgrade to Intel hardware to run 10.6.

    It's not like Apple was the first to stop support for PPC - many apps did before 10.6 came out. Including of course Flashback.