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  1. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Absolute RUBBISH. If you want to actually get any exposure, it's You Tube or nothing. Saying you can aleways go elsewhere, like Vimeo, is like saying , "who needs ebay, you can always sell on ebid". Like, sure, if you don't need money that bad... Items can languish on ebid for a whole year instead of a month on ebay.. and I have NEVER found what I was looking for there. And I'm a lifetime member! Fiurthermore, Vimeo has a bad repiutation with being attached to popup pages, and people just click them away as fast as possible. Even if you might have listened to a track otherwise, being connected to a popup page smply means your exposure counts are fraudulent, becaus people are more interested in the page they're attempting to open instead, and if they recall your video at all, it will be in the context of "that annoying popup page".

  2. Re:White collar prison on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    "We lost it in a crash" ok "we didn't lose it but it was unretreivable" ok "maybe it was retreivable but we threw it in the recycle bin" ok "it was fully retreivable so we got rid of it as fast as you would a triggered grenade.. and no more of that sodium pentothal, please!"

  3. So blame the user rather than the Google Play store for listing the app?

    Apple manages to keen their app store malware free, why can't Google?

    Well, who'd be dumb enough to think that "googl app stoy" is a legit app?

    Just noticed someone else mentioned it's name as well.. Well, I suppose if downaroder have rearry bad engrish it's possible...

  4. So blame the user rather than the Google Play store for listing the app?

    Apple manages to keen their app store malware free, why can't Google?

    Well, who'd be dumb enough to think that "googl app stoy" is a legit app?

  5. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    As a Catholic I see the humor, AND as a "redskin" I wish they'd asked us FIRST before helping us with our "rights". I am really quite sick of do gooders 'helping" us and I wish they'd FO. We can do it ourselves if we feel "offended". Now we've lost a football team and a little bit of our dignity, all in one fell swoop.

  6. Re:Well, so much for slashdot on Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice · · Score: 1

    Jenny McCarthy will be devasted

    Because we can now cure autism in mice?

  7. Re:People pay for music? on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Alternatives? Not really.. And the whole idea that if you post some music you've made, and it gets piulled down because you haven't "signed up".. I have some friends that just do it for fun.. And post it upo on YT with essentially no accompanying video.. And what about people that post album cuts with a picture of the LP? I think that THIS is the real target...

    An additional thought.. how do they decide what's a "music video"? I think this is wasy more serious than people are realizing... What about an expose of corruption with a "music score"? Is THIS classed as a "Music Video"? BAsically, they can apply this rule to wipe out every single bit of free speech... Somebody better inform the EFF.. please!

  8. Re:People pay for music? on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Alternatives? Not really.. And the whole idea that if you post some music you've made, and it gets piulled down because you haven't "signed up".. I have some friends that just do it for fun.. And post it upo on YT with essentially no accompanying video.. And what about people that post album cuts with a picture of the LP? I think that THIS is the real target...

  9. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    Aw man people are so fussy about little things like genetic modification , and it's time we took a step up from square tomatoes with pig genes in them. We're obviously smart enough to have figured out all the possible ramifications 50 years down the line of such engineering. I mean, look at how we've been able to cure cancer and aids, and even the common cold...

  10. Re:HFS reliability on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    Stuff disappears on me all the time ;-)

  11. I thought bitrot.. on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    was what happened to Microsoft coder's socks.. I have that on good authority from someone at Apple..

  12. Re:I've also had this happen with HFS+ on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    The problem with unreadable JPEGs usually comes from how decoders handle the errors, or rather can't handle the errors. Windows Picture Viewer is the worst often simply flat out failing to render anything at all. Most other viewers will render down to the flip bit then render the rest either garbage or grey. There are however tools to fix the resulting data.

    I suspect Windows Picture Viewer isn't so terribly much an issue on HFS+

  13. Re:No on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everybody that commented above here was right. That's why court cases take so long ;-)

  14. Re:UV on Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks · · Score: 1

    Well, they have them for crude oil, and plastics are made of oil. It's a certainty. The question is, what will the metabolites be? We can't assume that they would definitely be harmless..

  15. Re:Is this basically VNC? on Valve In-Home Game Streaming Supports Windows, OS X & Linux · · Score: 1

    Don't think you understand. I don't need more evidence than I have. I'm not proving it to *anyone but myself*. And it's not my faith I'm, fp[toving, but the consequencses of it. If , say, you don't drink, you can be sure there's none in your mug. Maybe nobody else is sure, but that's their problem...

  16. Re:Apple such a shame on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Er... It was posted by Timothy..not a noob..

  17. Apple..... on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    ...LIES! (Rhymes with Apple pies)

  18. Re:Ye Gods, an Ad on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    Could be.. since the "special pricing" seems to be on par with all the rest...

  19. Re:Is this basically VNC? on Valve In-Home Game Streaming Supports Windows, OS X & Linux · · Score: 1

    It's not a guarantee to someone else. It's a certainty. If I had any on my computer I could possibly have been fooled, but because I do not, I KNOW it's false. My faith does not allow for any. Pehaps yours does, but I am dealing specifically with mine, and not trying to convince or prove this to anyone else, nor do I need to.

  20. Point well made on Author Charles Stross: Is Amazon a Malignant Monopoly, Or Just Plain Evil? · · Score: 1

    Publishers that can't make money don't sign authors. Authors that can't get published get day jobs and you never see their books. THat leaves only old stuff, and absolutely nothing new, and no motivation for authors to write anything but cheezy "womens pxxn" setting the bar so low we'll become a nation of complete and total dumasses...

  21. Re:Use confiscated drugs on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Although I can see how it could look like I was agreeing , In fact I was taking offense to the requirement for surffering being necessary

  22. Re:Use confiscated drugs on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    No I was agreeing with the previous point. not the response re the consensus.

  23. And here's the rub.. on Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Publishers · · Score: 1

    Before Amazon's web store for Kindle books, you needed to buy the book at a "bookstore". That way if one didmn't have it you could get it somewhere else. Huh? What d'ya mean, what's a bookstore? Ok.. I'll describe what that is, for y'all.. A "Book store" is a real store like a... well, what have you all seen that looks like a real "store" ?. No,wrong! NOT like Walmart ;-) A, well, a store. Oh yeah.. an "Apple store". Like that. Except it had "Books". Great. now you want to know if all the books come on iPads. NO! I mean PAPER books. What do you mean "isnt that immoral making paper books out of a limited resource like trees?" Look you can make paper out of.. of hemp.. Ah! That got your attention! Ok well a book store was a littler store that you went in ans it was full of books, and you could sit there and read them, first to see if you liked them.. What? "arent they worried that food stains from a macronniesburger would get on them?" No! These stores didn't sell underwear, condoms, and have hamburger stalls too! They JUST sold books! What? "why didn't they just sell kindles instead?" *sigh* good question.. here have mine.. Im going to the library... silence..what? . "Whats a library?" ........*sigh*

  24. Re:Use confiscated drugs on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    The consensus was that the problem with using nitrogen asphyxiation was that it didn't cause enough suffering.

    It's a lame consensus. If they want the prisoner to feel extra pain before they die, they can apply some traditional torture technique that doesn't create excruciating pain like a botched injection does..... such as shooting the prisoner in the foot, or dumping boiling water on their back/abdomen, before applying the nitrogen mask.

    No I think the original point is precisely the truth. There is no way a patient could survive a one gram dose of heroin plus pentobarbital, for instance, but he would die a little bit less traumatically than with cyanide, let's say. Drugs given to euthanise animals always are sucessful in causing death, so given to humans would also be, as we also are animals . One hour looking at life in your typical nightclub should surely prove that...

  25. Re:Never used this keystroke on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. some programs still use "save as" some use "duplicate" some have an integreated toolbar and some use the Apple one .. hell it's sounding a lot more like linux. The Apple human interface guidelines rulebook has truly been burned to shreds by 2014..