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  1. Re:rapid-release on Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yea, the versioning makes it look likes its something from the 90s considering firefox is on 9 now I think, but ya, firefox's versioning system is still non-intuitive and according to the dev team everybody has to live w it.

  2. Re:I approve! on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTW,

    when they see workers dozing off they should be able to initiate thunder and lightning. A bucket rain shower in an extreme case.

  3. Re:Freedom on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't you think the RIAA lawsuits have done something to this effect?

    There's actual tangible value in piracy, it's not just a convenience feature of the internet. Robbing banks is illegal and they have spent hundreds of millions in securing them in that industry, but guess what I hear on the news a few months ago? Yep, bank STILL got robbed.

    I imagine a serious increase in wifi hacking and a lot of misdirected finger pointing.

  4. Re:Free2play in games... on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Where a few make good decent money, but most struggle to make any money. I instead use Open Source to solve other problems. Makes things good for me though, but I am not creating base infrastructure software like I did in the 90's. It is what it is, and freemium is the same thing...

    Have you ever considered programmers are tiered?

    Also, guy in the article is dumber than nails (thus the simple site? :P), as a web admin you always get 5 figures worth of mail, most spam some is not. And why would anybody pay for something they can make in MS word (or openoffice)? I also doubt his site was unique in its service by a long shot. *shrug* some people w no understanding of marketing or dev skills speaking from underneath a rock imho.

    It's an ok model, can be easily abused though..

  5. Re:Freedom on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 1

    Not right at all, SOPA can still be worked around.

  6. Re:Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, kinda hard to forget w the recession and wars that was brought about via that tally.

  7. Re:MS on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Your mortgage professional, your credit card company, and your institution of higher education, have, do, and will.

    Whether the SSN is stored on a server is irrelevant to traffic intercepting malware.

    The processors are pretty f'in stupid too usually.

    Your fucked.

  8. Re:Cure worse than disease? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    Interesting, what about something like a skin mold then?

    Then again if it's anything like my alienware cam login, the technology is only moderately far along and a pain in the ass to use. It does work sometimes though under ideal conditions. I'm sure the feds prolly have something better.

  9. Re:Cure worse than disease? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 2

    Fake mustaches, wigs on short hair, for once Hollywood might actually be educational here in how they dress up their actors. The question is why bother? This needs to be addressed at the government level, as to why they feel they need to monitor their citizens (superiority complex???) and what the limitations are.

  10. Re:Be careful ... on Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data · · Score: 1

    We already have international committees for resolving disputes between countries such as NATO. Sounds exactly the same with the best of intent by participation. While we're on the subject, we can take away a lot from "The Republic" by Plato as to what at least some aspects of a perfect government would be. Free read on google.

  11. Re:Be careful ... on Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data · · Score: 1

    Or revert back to our instincts...

    Tribalism

  12. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    Or.. the buyer (the only one getting screwed) hires the expert, pays him and then takes the seller to court /arbitration for value + expert fees. Paypal should have nothing to do in an authenticity dispute IMHO. They are just a money service.

  13. Writing Viruses for AV on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    FreeDOS is surely #1 on the list to require AV, I'd say it's safer than mac in regards to security through obscurity. AV not to be confused w a firewall, the latter helps quite a bit.

  14. Re:Signs of death on Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO · · Score: 1

    In their defense, they're competing w MS & Google, MS was previously established and google has dominated the search market (gmail is good 2) almost since inception. It would make sense for them to branch away / restructure, or throw in the towel.

  15. Classic ASP? on One Million Web Pages Attacked By Lilupophilupop · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering...

    classic asp + mssql combos aren't that common? It's usually iis (asp.net) + mssql or asp + mysql. Coldfusion isn't that large either.

    As other people have said not even close to 1 million sites, point being there's probably not a million sites that run these combos.

  16. Re:What is the real motivation? on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 0

    In the end it works out in this thing called life, cause if your an idiot, your still an idiot once you get your degree. He's trying to teach people life skills, not the broken university teaching model. If you can't think on your feet, your at a disadvantage regardless of your learning style, and to think on your feet, you have to understand why, not how.

      Have any of you replying ever considered colleges and universities aren't for everybody? There's sales people out there that score well into the top % of grads incomes without having gone through the bs. There are CEOs at the top tier of that percentile in similar shoes. Could it be there's something more to being smart and resourceful than the # of textbooks you've read? HMMM

  17. Re:Such an option is going to cause panic... on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    Most of the politicians have a few of those themselves. Yes SOPA is a pretty ignorant bill, but... who proposed it? Lobbyists, if the RIAA can change the world by passing something like SOPA, what else can they pass and who else can try and pass shit like this? Do my taxes go to the government or the corporations?

    What we really need to do is create a system that isn't the RIAA and MPAA that can enforce fairness and copyright in a fair manner rather than pushing their absolute agenda to congress. I'm all down for this being a government agency that doesn't benefit the aforementioned entities in any possible way. It might sound crazy but what if we caught a 13 year old pirating a cd, we charged him/her the price of the cd, and not 5 figures, would society be better or worse?

    How about paying for an RIAA exec to take a trip to Thailand? Is that why we buy music?

  18. Re:What is the real motivation? on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    Haha, ironic, certifications are nothing but memorization. I've met so many retards who are certified up the ass, who have their head up there as well. Ex. guy w 12 MS certs asking how our vmware network works, less than useless, I figured that stuff out as part of the job and got a lot better at it w time where I can set up from scratch. Based on the prof. teaching theory, certifications can't exist in such theory. People who are tools (95% of corporate employees) would struggle too, so this learning style isn't good for corporate America at all, but rather for entrepreneurs, r&d, self-employment, cornering niches, stuff that requires thinking and innovation and *shock* common sense.

  19. Re:Both is needed on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    They probably don't care too much about math, can't change somebody who doesn't want to. To me though, I'm a kinetic learner, lectures are a real bore. I've been out of hs a while now and guess what, I haven't used a calculus formula yet! (Maybe to impress the opposite sex once or twice :P). I knew I wouldn't care going into IT or w/e so I learned the formulas, but never the underlying stuff, I can get back into it pretty quick this way, I used the book and a worksheet though, the teacher was great for questions but it was sheer volume of doing hw that let me pass the AP test. W a computer on the other hand, I can explain the IO& mechanical functions that let your keyboard work, so to each his own.

  20. Re:This is a wise idea on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 2

    Also memorizing something doesn't mean you understand it, when people memorize things and draw conclusions from them that's different from just looking for a grade, but those people tend to be self-motivated to learn, thus the theory is better for them anyways, they'll learn the details themselves if interested. Also helps keep people who don't belong out of fields they wouldn't be happy in to begin with. Then again some people are just looking for a paycheck to feed their family, but still what about advancing society for future families?

  21. Re:What is the real motivation? on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He's trying to teach you how to think rather than what to think. Fail.

  22. Re:MS on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    My point is some people will be greatly affected by this, OP's statement seemed devoid of that. XP runs on a computer and a computer is used for many more things than playing game, such as processing OP's SSN for forms.

  23. Re:If It's Not Broken... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 2

    Nobody said there's anything wrong with it, nor does anybody have to quit using it, but MS isn't making $ off it anymore, patches cost money, its a business decision, nothing to do w xp or win 7 users at all. Linux is the same way in that it doesn't support its old kernel builds after a while (it might have at some point for some distros), the difference of course is cost.

  24. Re:MS on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not acceptable for any business environment, how'd you feel if I was processing your SSN off that xp sp1 box?

  25. Re:First show getting great reviews on China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel · · Score: 1

    Do you really have to ask the obvious?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/3d-tv-health-risks-7-peop_n_540227.html#s81731&title=People_Who_Are

    Smell a class action from these ppl? It would need an opt out / in kind of service, so a dedicated channel, can't opt out of hbo 10:30 pm to 12:00 AM, so we can't do it like the Chinese period.