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  1. Re:Samsung and Tizen? on Tizen Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Brought to you from the same ppl who lock smartphone boot loaders and specialize in TVs.

  2. Re:We produce 29 billion tons per year of CO2 on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    Lol, you can be the first to give up your house to the new reforestation act then. I think rather than trying to reduce the carbon, how about we stop producing it? Somewhere between nuclear power & electric cars fueled off that power.

  3. Am I the only one...? on US Congressmen: Facebook Evading Privacy Questions · · Score: 1

    Who thinks these congressmen are so vigorous to get up off their asses cause they have something extremely incriminating to hide? (That facebook might have?)

  4. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    Speech to command?

  5. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    This isn't the 90s anymore. "Geeks" wear business casual just like everybody else. The only ones that look down on others are the 15 year olds on here, and seriously if you let a 15 year f up your day then lol. Most "Geeks" are professional and at least on the surface friendly and professional. The complex you describe doesn't get anybody anywhere and geeks being known for their intelligence tend to realize this, I've seen this unfold before my eyes :)

    In terms of GUI design, a dedicated designer can do a better job sometimes, but its really the user who should dictate how the UI looks. As in paper copies should be approved by the customer or at least the customer should have a heavy say in the process. I'll be perfectly honest, what looks good to me, may not look good to you. That doesn't mean what looks good to me is bad, or that your stupid, it means we have a difference of opinion, but if you (the customer) doesn't give an opinion, it's not something that can deciphered.

  6. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    Lol, you have a choice here, make your own imaging software and name it w/e you want?

  7. Re:I applaud his efforts... on Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if the politician catches a wiff of bad ratings based on their decisions on SOPA, that is where PR can help stop SOPA.

  8. Re:first post! on Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone · · Score: 1

    EMP'ed

  9. Re:Only a threat in multiple computer households on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 2

    Hmm, at least in IT, a laptop is usually highly desirable so most ppl have em, but a lot of people especially recently have acquired tablets as well, the tablet is more convenient for some stuff, especially network related, where local cpu doesn't matter. It's also great for taking notes, keeping organized, etc...

    I guess it can be compared to a laptop / netbook (more the latter), but I think it's more to supplement the former. Also try comparing an ipad to an ibook to better picture it, the former is not a replacement for the latter.

  10. Re:Agile strikes again! on FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    I think...

    But now performance issues have arisen in testing and deployment has been pushed out to May

    Sum its up real nicely, it might seem infinitely complex, but there's actually several common reasons for this, and I'm sure I don't know all of them either...

    1. third party libraries that suck to begin w (ex. nhibernate)
    2. Dev time requirement changes: yep code on top of code has performance issues a lot, suits will NEVER figure this one out.
    3. No QC / under funded QC / bad QC process: some ppl nowadays expect the coder to QC their own work, please reference quote for typical result (only applies to massive projects like this).
    4. The FBI pissed lockheed off: Lockheed skeletons the dev project.
    5. Initial requires were a mess: self explanatory

  11. Re:My college did it easier on Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking · · Score: 1

    But... but, if you have an unlisted / unknown proxy server that accepts YOUR connections, wtf is the point of TOR lol? Just start channeling through it over the designated ports. I mean it just uses SOCKS along w the other proxies, tor's gold lies in obfuscating your connection by sending it through relays around the world. Not sure what else is going on that would prevent the above. Either way you set with what tor calls a bridged node :)

  12. Re:Um... on Salmon DNA Used In Data Storage Device · · Score: 1

    Cod's more economical.

  13. Re:yeah on Data Hogs: the Monsters Carriers Created · · Score: 1

    Even when this whole thing started, Verizon dropped customers they suspected of "torrenting", how did they determine this? Your montly data usage of course, so if your moving large chunks of data across their network, you got banned along w the torrenters. There was a class action in regards to this a while ago, and suddenly we started seeing new "data cap" plans.

  14. Re:yeah on Data Hogs: the Monsters Carriers Created · · Score: 0

    Perhaps the real issue is Android isn't really for you and you need an iPhone :)

    Because before I got my phone I knew about http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ is all I'm sayin, at&t can go f itself.

    You can also get free texts (across data) haven't looked at that one too hard though. $10 a month ($10x24=$240 over 2 years) > teaching the people on my plan how to do so and then be stuck accountable for at&t's inconsistent broadband.

  15. Re:Tolkien's prose on JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep this what exactly they mean when they call a work "timeless" .

    Now, perhaps I'm completely wrong, but I remember hearing somewhere that LOTR didn't pick up popularity until much later, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Reception . As in it was mostly discarded at first and then was rediscovered and remains popular to date.

  16. Re:Why is /. repeating Iran's propaganda for them? on Video Games As Propaganda · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's not at all suspicious after they banned battlefield 3 . Not at all, these people are just asking for a US invasion, or is it our media that's telling us? :)

  17. Re:And conveniently enough on What Does Sunset On an Alien World Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Click the 2nd link.

  18. Re:Not only domains on Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I'll have to do that, thanks.

  19. Re:Find precious metals on Mars on The Challenges of Building a Mars Base · · Score: 2

    Hmm? Shipping it back would involve exiting the atmosphere (a lot less fuel since Mars has a lot less) and a trajectory calculation w respect to gravitational pull, letting momentum do the rest, unless of course I'm missing something. My point is for us to build a base on Mars practically, something tangible needs to exist there, that way it's an over fattened production budget for building the base, as opposed to a usually meager science budget.

  20. Find precious metals on Mars on The Challenges of Building a Mars Base · · Score: 4, Funny

    The base will build itself with corporate sponsorship. Problem solved.

  21. Re:Again on WURFL Founders Fire Off DMCA Takedown Against Fork · · Score: 2

    Well, it moves a lot of copyright cases out of civil into criminal court. So your dealing with a DA instead of an RIAA lawyer. Basically it's the RIAA's request to the US government to do its policing work, so they get paid, - the extra lawyer fees.

  22. Re:Again on WURFL Founders Fire Off DMCA Takedown Against Fork · · Score: 1

    How is this different from if they were to take out a DMCA against you?

  23. Re:Not only domains on Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    They advertise their own games usually, but it's a pop up in the middle of your screen while steam is running in the background stating news updates. Even it's steam relevant, it's still advertising.

  24. Re:"If this was Microsoft" on Google Accused of Interfering With South Korean FTC Investigation · · Score: 1

    I think part of the difference between MS anti-trust and google is that MS directly hits your pocket book, when you HAVE TO buy windows for $XXX, while all google services are free. The ads come with them. In that sense it's very very tough to call google a monopoly because technically they're not directly making money off their search from the consumer standpoint. If Linux broke through on a feature and started strangling MS, and became available on MOST devices, would you call it a monopoly like you can w MS?

    You are 100% right though, google changed when they went public, as do most companies. They are in a slightly different position, their data + government = insta 1984. So idk, best bet is to not worry about it I guess. I'd still recommend blocking google when possible w noscript though. A solution useless to most of the non-IT crowd.

  25. Re:Not only domains on Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Sadly enough, Skyrim from tpb = no steam, Skyrim pre-order = mass steam. For those that don't know steam is a game launcher that likes to advertise whenever it feels like it, the equivalent of some of the android apps that use ads to make money, but a little bit more annoying. It's not a deal breaker, but better w/o. I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in all this mess ;)