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  1. Re:About time on Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law · · Score: 1

    I agree. I have a friend who works, I think, for Office Max. He can't get promoted because of some stupid felony charge from before he ever worked for Office Max. And this is a Navy veteran, to boot.

  2. Re:Openess on How Nokia Learned To Love Openness · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Advertisement and good/honest are rather extreme opposites.

    And apparently intelligence and Hurricane78 share the same relationship.

  3. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is nothing incorrect about having a web server whose hostname does not start with www. To imply that there is shows a lack of understanding about what a hostname is.

  4. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    The prefix of www is only a required part of the hostname in a URL when either the only hostname of the box starts with www or if the web server is configured to only respond to requests when the hostname starts with www.

    There is nothing at all magical about www in a hostname. You could easily setup a web server that only responds to a hostname starting with ftp or gopher.

    On the flip side, if a server is not configured to respond to a hostname starting with www, it won't ever work.

  5. Re:Perfectly valid on EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    If you buy a piece of hardware, you are entitled to use every single transistor in the package. It is 100% legal to change or replace the software in order to enable bits that the stock software does not enable.

    Hardware cannot be copyrighted. If you own the hardware, you are free to do anything you like with it. You are not licensing it. You cannot "steal" "content" by enabling bits of it.

  6. Re:Somewhat backwards logic on Game Development On Android · · Score: 1

    Objective C's garbage collection is not available on the iPhone, and hopefully never will be.

  7. Re:Java??!!?? on Game Development On Android · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Any programmer who prefers Java to Objective C or C is an idiot.

    But I say that because I think Java is the worst language to be created since C++.

  8. Re:Seems a trifle disingenuous to me on Game Development On Android · · Score: 1

    The PC gaming platform does not represent recurring revenue for Microsoft.

  9. Re:Ummm...NOT Open Source on Android Application Development · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't be an unmitigated idiot and asshole, but you are.

    Sometimes shit happens.

  10. Re:Well, all are illegal... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    Chances are you were the only one working on your online business, so chances are that you were indeed the only one not to claim benefits.

  11. Re:TBB works wonders for threading on Platform Independent C++ OS Library? · · Score: 1

    I understand where you are coming from on this, but either the CPU is Intel-compatible or its not. Unless TBB includes assembly code, it's rather unlikely they could write C++ that is intentionally crippled on AMD CPUs.

  12. Re:I'll second the call for examples. on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1

    Well, the real problem I have with sexism is that its definition has been expanded to include anything that points out a difference between genders, whether real or imagined.

    Men and women are different. Physically, physiologically, biologically and even logically! Men and women don't think the same ways. This is all proven science.

    The notion of sexism is practically sexism itself.

  13. Re:More attractive for you... on Decoding Adobe's Big Device Push · · Score: 1

    PC games have, for decades now, been written to use locally available hardware when present and to handle different screen resolutions. Why must Flash be any different?

  14. Re:Think on Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music · · Score: 1

    The real question is why WB doesn't owe him several billion dollars for piracy.

  15. Re:Bad deal for AT&T on AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do have this freedom with the iPhone. Apple does not make it easy, they don't support or sanction it. But it is possible.

  16. Re:Typical Linux fanbois on Windows Mobile 6.5 Launched, Panned · · Score: 1

    You have an odd definition for "failure". Mine places it as the opposite of success. BeOS does not exist in the market. It is a failure.

    You have listed what may be the primary reason for its failure, but that doesn't change the fact that it failed.

  17. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    How is it perfectly clear that Israel started the war? Oh right, it's perfectly OK to violate a sovereign border and kidnap, torture and kill soldiers. That's not an act of war.

    Fucking idiot.

  18. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    According to the "Palestinians", the war never ended, so it's not actually possible for Israel to strike first. In a current sense. I don't know who actually struck first 80 years ago, and I bet no one alive does.

  19. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Ignoring those that convert, being Jewish requires being born of a Jewish mother. It's really that simple.

    Of course the Reform movement within Judaism has been trying to redefine "Jewishness" as having either parent be Jewish, but that is not the historical definition.

  20. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Historically, as in going back to the furthest source to talk about the issue (the Talmud), being Jewish requires a valid Conversion or birth from a Jewish mother. That's it. Just because modern pieces of shit make up their own rules doesn't mean one is religious when one ignores those "rules".

    Most states in the US limit or ban the sale of wine on Sundays and Christmas is a legal national holiday. Is the US a religious country too?

  21. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Far more is said about Israeli "atrocities" than "Palestinian".

    And I put "Palestinian" in quotes because there has NEVER in history been a nation called Palestine. They are Arabs. That's it.

    The state called Palestine was the JEWISH state of Israel, which was named Palestine by the Roman conquerors. So Palestinians are either Jews or Romans. Certainly not Arabs, who did not live in the area at all, except as nomads.

  22. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Israel cannot end the war except by ceasing to exist. So you do actually support genocide and you are just lying.

    You have never been to Israel, so you have no idea how people live there. Arabs, Christians, Jews and secular peoples of all kinds live peacefully together in many places in the country. You only hear of the conflict along the borders and you think that represents the entire country.

    That would be like saying the US is comprised of murderous gangs if all you hear are reports of inner-city violence.

  23. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 0, Troll

    You deserve to die, painfully, for your sheer, unmitigated stupidity.

    First of all, the USB IF is not enforcing anything. They are, however, upset with Palm for LYING. I hope you fucking die because someone lies to you about something important. You are an unethical piece of shit and don't deserve to exist.

  24. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Palm is crippling themselves. Apple is doing nothing more than making sure that devices are not lying to iTunes. I guess in your world it's OK to lie.

  25. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Apple does not have anything close to a monopoly on anything. Amazon started their music store well after Apple. It seems to be doing well. Prices are pretty much the same anywhere you go, and certainly Apple is not the cheapest. So obviously Apple is not able to dictate the prices for online music sales. Apple has no real control over the market of online music sales, and certainly no control that harms consumers in any way.

    Majority share is not the same as having a monopoly. Once shit-heads like you understand this, slashdot might be a better place.