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  1. Probably the part where GP said "You see, Finland is a socialist country"

  2. Re:Yes, blocking on FCC Posts Its 400-Page Net Neutrality Order · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in that document does it say "an ISP must not rape your dog". That, of course, means it's unstated but required that the ISPs will now do that. Oh no! Poor Fido!

  3. Re: Google please stop removing features on Google Announces Android 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Fine, your car has had features removed, but it still has an engine.
    Curious, what software isn't working with ART at this point?

  4. Re:Google please stop removing features on Google Announces Android 5.1 · · Score: 1

    In your car analogy your car still has an engine, so don't imply you're driving without one. What, exactly, is the disadvantage of ART vs Dalvik other than "it's different"?

  5. Re:Funny thing... on Listen To a Microsoft Support Scam As It Happened · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows are a horrible magnet for this because they're popular, not because they're difficult to use. If Macs had the same market share, they would get targeted too.

  6. Re:Money on Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps? · · Score: 1

    You mean the shitshow browsing experience they get for using Mobile Safari?

  7. Re:Legislation? on Has the Supreme Court Made Patent Reform Legislation Unnecessary? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you mean "...Through Uprooting..."

  8. Re:Monoculture for the web on Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    No rendering engine is 100% with CSS3 and HTML5 and that's what they're all gearing towards so I don't really care if it's WebKIt, Blink, or Gecko. Also, while a lot of browsers may use WebKit, they don't all neccesarily use the same version so you're in the boat of X being compatible with one browser, but not the other, anyway.

    Also, I am a Web Dev.

  9. Re:Monoculture for the web on Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine · · Score: 0

    Microsoft wants a monoculture (with Trident) and that's bad.
    Microsoft avoids a monoculture (by not using Webkit) and that's bad too

    I really pity the Spartan developers. To people like you, there is literally nothing they can do 'right'.

  10. Re:If you hate Change so much...... on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 0

    "Change for the sake of it" is just a hand-wavy way of saying "change I don't like".

  11. Re:Hey Apple, here's some free consulting on Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service · · Score: 2

    Enjoy your $500/mo bill, or do you think that you could have the same shows with their large budgets without advertising?

  12. Re:My God... on Four Facepalm Bugs In USPS Label-Printing Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's he getting out of this?

    Attention

  13. Re:I probably would upgrade if I could, but... on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    Toggling Wifi is fine, data is what is different.

  14. Re:freedom 2 b a moron on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    what if GP has a child that can't get vaccinated due to an allergic reaction and therefore relies on the herd immunity?

  15. Re:They should've gone to 11 on Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0 · · Score: 1

    That's Apple's move.

    Latest version is 10.10.1. they seem rather reluctant to go to 11.

  16. Negative, that's how you should feel.
    {tech company} did something new? ARRRG change is bad!
    {tech company} stayed the course? ARRRG it's stagnating!

  17. Re:Market Share in 2019? on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I think AC is saying Mozilla is making Firefox work for the majority of its users which may not include you.

  18. Re:"Net Neutraility" a cover for regulating Intern on FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics · · Score: 0

    Who would you rather control the Internet? Government or Big Business (who pays off Government)
    I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that it's inevitable to be one or the other.

  19. Re:Gnome did the same thing to KDE, even worse on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 1

    So as GNOME behaves in an antisocial manner that entitles Groupon to use their Trademark?

  20. Re:Can't wait for this! on Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads · · Score: 1

    They'd probably be fine with that. Those kind of users are self-entitled whiners who believe people should work on Firefox completely for free because gimme. Also that work is always wrong because it's either a change and change is bad, or it's no change and that's also bad because then they're clearly just wasting their time.

  21. Re:Gnome did the same thing to KDE, even worse on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 2

    Did KDE have a registered Trademark for "Activities"?

  22. Re:the model for Tony Stark in the Ironman Series on Tesla Delays Launch of Model X Until Q3 2015 · · Score: 1

    Not a Tesla, but Elon Musk did appear, as himself, in Iron Man 2.

  23. Re:Typical muslims on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 1

    That won't solve all of it though, in every case of a person carrying out a violent threat, it's a human. We should just exclude humans from human rights.

  24. Re: Did he leave or was he invited to leave? on Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google · · Score: 2

    Those settings in iOS, while they might not be the level of control you are looking for, are more than what Android offers. So that answers your orignal question of "In what way is Android playing catch up with iOS? Are they features people actually use or even know about?"

  25. Re: How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    That's right, Linux is monolithic, but on the other hand--and this is a crucial difference--Linus is hugely concerned about preventing breakage. Of all the large packages I use, the kernel is the one that gives me the least worry when it comes to upgrade time.

    L. Poettering, on the other hand, seems to relish in breaking things. He sure isn't big on commiserating with people whose systems his code has broken.

    OK, well then let's do what Linus says is best. What's that? He has [no] particularly strong opinions on systemd itself”? Systemd it is then!