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  1. Re:High Certainty. on Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades · · Score: 1

    Other than creating a parallel universe where we say to one Earth "pollute all you want" and the other Earth "don't pollute" and then check on them in 50 years, what sort of model would be satisfactory? I'm not saying I do(not) believe in Climate Change, just wondering what everyone would agree on for a method.

  2. Re:so who is doing the polluting? on Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades · · Score: 1

    Makes sense to not see Scotland there, after all, No True Scotsman would be worse than the US.

  3. Re:Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: -1

    ok, give me your credit card information, so I can order a bunch of stuff. What? You won't give me that information? but... but... you're limiting what i can do with my computer!

  4. Re:Compatibility on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    How about the ones that perform better than Windows? http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

  5. Re:Fail on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 1

    Did you say the same thing when Apple switch to x86 and started offering Bootcamp for people to use Windows on their Macs?

    They still come with Mac OS X preinstalled.

  6. How many programs do you guys run? on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    I know there is all this hate about the Windows 8 UI, I have it in a VM. If you make the launcher the smallest size of a 1080p screen you can fit 294 icons on the screen without even scrolling. (actually another 16 on the far right edge so 310). If for some reason you use more than that you can click the little down arrow and get all your applications in categories just like the Start Menu you're used to, with the exception of not having to click for categories, so actually better.

    Call me shill even though I run Linux at home, at least I look at new UIs and don't just say it's bad because it's different/Microsoft.

  7. Re:Its dead Jim! on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    Good thing that makes other software to correctly open PSDs magically appear. Oh wait no.

    ...and before you say GIMP, I said "correctly" open, it stil has issues with rasterizing fonts and some filters.

  8. Re:Wrong way around on Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Which explains why the Apple App Store is so unpopular...
    oh wait

  9. Re:Completely useless... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Even if that happened, there would be devices/software that didn't have the PRISM logo and people would still think they were being spied on (even if they weren't).

  10. Re:Down the line... on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    At best they have control over the TYPE of commercials, not the AMOUNT. If $channel makes $show 22min, leaving the other 8 for advertising, it really doesn't matter what cable provider you're on, you're getting 8min of commercials.

  11. Re:U.S., cough, international pressure much? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: -1, Troll

    The solution is it should be legal to copy things in perpetuity without giving the content creators a dime because I'm an entitled baby, gimme gimme gimme.

  12. Re:What deal? on Former Microsoft Exec Ray Ozzie Named To HP Board · · Score: 1

    Yes because ~your party~ is a special little snowflake and not prone to the same sort of buy-out corruption of any politician regardless of it's party affiliation.

  13. Re:Conflict of interest? on Android Master Key Vulnerability Checker Now Live · · Score: 1

    The flaw doesn't affect 3rd party app stores any more than it does Google's. The issue is that an app store could host an app that takes advantage of said bug. As the Play Store is the most trustworthy to not do this, it is the recommended store.

  14. Re:Good... on Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' · · Score: 1

    Not the 'r' as well? If they only forgot the C then it'd be a "cap store". So maybe LIDS would sue them?

  15. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    "Easy to pick up" doesn't necessarily mean "exactly like Windows"

  16. Re:Unless you have a 1st gen iPad ... on iOS 7 Beta 3 Now Available For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Please educate us and those plebs on the one true way to right an operating system.

  17. Re:Why not promote a Dvorak keyboard instead? on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    To GP's point, is there any definite proof dvorak is 'easier and more comfortable'?

  18. Re: Patents cause progress stoppage on FTC Chairwoman Speaks On Growing US Patent Problem · · Score: 0

    No he didn't, the article is about patents, Mickey Mouse is copyright. Disagree all you want about the merits of either, but they are two different things.

  19. Re:Why stop there? on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    Cars, skis, swimming pools, common cold, corners of furniture that seem designed for you to stub your toe on, LEGO bricks... Millions get killed or injured by those EVERY DAY!

    Don't be silly, he means many people killed/injured at once


    Like an airplane

  20. Re:Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Good job ignoring the second, more important, part. "... no content producer would be {for that}. Without content Netflix is useless."

  21. Re:Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    And what do you propose then? No DRM at all? Just tag and that's it? Even if Netflix was all gung ho about it, no content producer would be. Without content Netflix is useless.

  22. Re:Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 2

    In April, XP won't be supported by Microsoft after a 13 year run. I really wouldn't blame Netflix for not supporting it.

  23. Re:Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls on Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls · · Score: 1

    So... back before CSS3 and HTML5 existed?

  24. Re:Sounds like BS to me on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Fine, then it should follow the law of the land where the servers are...

  25. Re:Uh on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the point is it's the equivalent of sending a Cease and Desist order to the W3C over a malicious website, or maybe to Microsoft about a malicious program that happens to run on Windows.