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  1. Re:is google any different? on Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or else he did a search for Acura to find the dealerships. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

  2. Lie Lie Lie on Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO? · · Score: 2

    I fill my profile with lots of fake data (such as the wrong city and birthday). Or just leave it blank (don't list my workplace or career).

  3. Re:Is this one going to be LTS? on LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing · · Score: 1

    And what are the system requirements? I can't find them on the website.

  4. Re:Is this one going to be LTS? on LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing · · Score: 0

    What is LinuxMint? Why abandon Ubuntu for this? Is it FREE (as in liberty) software? Or merely open source like Ubuntu.

  5. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 2

    Perhaps is you explained WHY "web browser best" is better than "best web browser", we would understand better. Aren't all the words weighted equally, regardless of position?

  6. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 2

    I just get a bunch of paid advertisements (both bing and google), followed by general reviews.

  7. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (shrug). Google and Bing always come-up with different results.

    What concerns me more is that Apple deliberately made Siri less-useful to the owner. What happens if you ask, "What is the best computer?" Or "What is the best MP3 player?" Or "What is the best tablet for reading books?" Now I have to wonder if Apple will censor those answers too. I buy a computer, or laptop, or phone, to help ME out with attaining knowledge not to serve the corporate master who built the computer/laptop/phone.

  8. Re:zzzzzzzzz on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    No. I need piratebay so I can download Mythbusters season 1, not take a "sundive'. (Is that like a nosedive, but sun first.)

  9. Re:Anonymous Manifesto on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    +1 Insightful.

    This attack on piratebay makes anonymous look like hypocrites (since they are doing RIAA/MPAA's desired goal). Also childish.

  10. Re:Mirrors, magnet links on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 0

    Where?

    And what's a magnet link? Will it erase my floppies? (Just kidding.)

  11. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    No I retract.

  12. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No anonymous is likely the U.S. government..... either they invented anonymous or they hijacked it, in order to setup false flags to justify why they need cyberwarfare and a locked-down internet.

  13. Re:What does it matter on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Recently a judge ruled upto 10% copying of textbooks == fair use.
    Same here with code.

  14. Re:Google needs to stop this on HTC One X Phone Held by Customs Due to ITC Ruling · · Score: 1

    >>>Why anyone still uses Android, I don't know - maybe it would be good time to switch to proper Linux-based mobile OS like MeeGo.

    Do they sell them on my VirginMobile provider?

    >>>Or they could go with Windows Phone 7 :-o
    I'd rather use open-source Android.

  15. Re:Wrong on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    >>>If the free market really works, wouldn't such a station topple all the existing lamestream media?

    Radio and TV stations aren't really a free market. They are granted exclusive monopolies (licenses) by the government who, as most have come to realize, serve the entrenched interests of megacorps like CBS, NBC/comcast, Clearchannel, and so on.

    The rise of a new TV/radio company has about as much chance of success as a new company installing cable lines to compete against Comcast Cable (which is forbidden by government statute) or the Libertarian Party defeating the Dempublican Duopoly in the presidential race. The closest we've come to an "awesome new media company" is Glenn Beck's Mercury Radio (which is dominant on radio and Internet TV), plus Alex Jones' Infowars (which is dominant on radio and youtube). That's about it.

    Oh and the idea of "unbiased reporting" is as mythological as unicorns. Every reporter has a bias and that affects how he reports the news..... even if it's just deciding "Ron Paul can't win, so I won't talk about him."

  16. Re:A new FF story every day on New Firefox For Android Beta Released · · Score: 1

    >>>Seamonkey is just what you get when a firefox and a thunderbird get freaky on a friday night...

    You have it backwards.
    Seamonkey existed first (originally called Mozilla/Netscape Communicator).
    Firefox, Thunderbird were split off from it.

  17. Re:Too bad, really on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 1

    So the original poster who claimed "Apple doesn't sell full OSes on disc" was wrong. You could buy OS 10.7 and install it on your Hackintosh. You don't need any of the previous OSes.

  18. Re:CGI wishes on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    Yes he's subject to being sued in a court of law by his ripped-off customer, but it's still not illegal to lie right from the get go. Ebay, Amazon, and other individual sellers do it all the time, and the government never fines them for it.

  19. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Wow. The doublespeak is as thick as listening to a John Edwards se'ance. Two possibilities:

    (a) A humanlike being with huge IQ and virtually unlimited power suddenly sprang into existence from nowhere. (Or alternatively, has always existed.)
    (b) A chaotic universe sprang into being from nowhere. (Or alternatively, has always existed.)

    Choice b is the more likely event. A chaotic universe is more likely to BE than a fully-formed individual with wizard-like powers. Believing in god is like believing human beings just suddenly appeared on earth out of nowhere, and with no genesis. Unlikely.

  20. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    >>>you will only advocate thinking your way... 50/50 split

    More like 99.9/0.1 split. I advocate my way of thinking (that a random, chaotic universe popped into existence), because I'm sitting in it. It's right here in front of my big nose.

    Where's the omniscient creator?

    I think I've won the debate.

  21. Re:"calls for strict adherence to the constitution on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    You either believe in freedom, or you don't. If a black person is allowed to keep whites from attending his restaurant, church, or home, then he is a freeman. If a black person is not allowed to do that, and forced to let whites into his private buildings, then he is just a serf to the government.

  22. Re:Take it off the Internet? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 2

    If the flaw is some person sticking a virus-laden USB stick into a unconnected power plant or other gadget, then we don't need a "cybersecurity military" to lockdown the web (and takeaway our online freedoms). We need to stop employees from doing stupid stuff, like sticking USB sticks into power plants/mission-critical gadgets.

    "Fear is the mind killer."
    - Dune

  23. Re:Fearmongering??? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 2

    Let me correct that for you (again):

    If the sensitive systems are connected to the internet (then you must be fucking stupid & should be fired). The easiest fix to remove a cyberthreat is to remove the "cyber" part of the equation. Hence you've cut off the threat from access.

    Duh. I don't worry about cyberthreats when I'm using my old Commodore Amiga. Ya know why? Because I pulled it off the net ~10 years ago!!! (Wow what a shocking solution.)

  24. Re:Fearmongering??? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    >>>I've seen it, the cybersecurity threat is real.

    No you haven't. All you have to do is remove the vulnerable device (power generator, damn flood control, whatever) off the internet, and the cybersecurity threat disappears. What you have then is just your standard run-of-the-mill threat of a spy sneaking-in and sabotaging the equipment..... a problem we've been dealing with for ~200 years. Nothing new.

  25. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Some people think Anonymous was either an invention of the U.S. government, or was hijacked by the government, in order to sell the story that websites need to be protected by a military cybersecurity initiative (and thus justify their billion-dollar defense budgets).