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  1. fix this! on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 2

    Microsoft! nobody wants your stupid touch-everything bullshit. Dump your overpriced mobile devices, dump the Metro crap, and release what your customers ACTUALLY WANT! Seriously!

  2. far better idea on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    If they want to make some money and blow away the competition, they should demand that Microsoft sell them unlimited numbers of Windows 7 licenses. Toshiba, Lenovo, and HP are all selling Win 7 pro as a downgrade but only Toshiba (as far as I know) actually got away with buying like a million or so Windows 7 bulk licenses prior to its discontinuation so they're still selling low end models with Windows 7 Home Premium. There's a C850 with a new ivy bridge 2020M for $400 w/Win 7!

  3. who really works there on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I worked for $8/hr at a graphics company on top a heat press in July without air conditioning and had to stand up for 8 hours straight with one crappy break and very little water when I was 18. Guess who I worked with from the staffing agency? People with criminal records. People who were chain smokers. People with gambling problems. People who had been divorced 3 times. And I guarantee, people who didn't have college degrees. So if you make stupid life choices, you end up at a crap job like that. As for me, someone else made the job sound better than it was and made a referral commission and I only worked there 1 month lol.

  4. just write your own damn code on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    3rd party code is a fucking disaster no matter where you get it, who wrote it, or who sold it to you. When my company needed a supplemental CRM utility, I wrote it. It works perfectly and is still on version 1.0.0. Our current CRM software is so poorly laid out and coded that they people responsible would get a D if they're lucky in my 2-year technical college advanced programming course. I got the only perfect 105% score in that class in the college's history. What's the difference? In labor hours, it cost my company about $200 for me to write it. The main CRM cost about $45,000.

  5. add it to the list on Bahrain Activists Battered By IP Tracking Attacks · · Score: 2

    So now, since I'm from the US, I'm up to:
    The Thailand royal party sucks
    The queen of England sucks
    The king of Bahrain sucks
    Are there any I missed insulting where it's legal in the US but illegal in their own country?
    Anyway, anyone with a brain should be using TOR. They can track that all the way to a known exit node and that's it. Most smaller countries like this can't block every known TOR exit node either. Even China has problems blocking every single one.

  6. Let me see... on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Ohhhhh maybe that they're disease-prone, disgusting, universally despised creatures where anyone with a working brain has an aversion to them for genetic/survival reasons since some are dangerous. Also I doubt our digestive system can process the thick-walled cells that make up their shell.

  7. Re: This has forced the company to indefinitely su on Thailand Government Declares Bitcoin Illegal · · Score: 2

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now it makes sense! Bitcoin for years has been using the Bhat symbol on the keyboard to represent Bitcoin similar to $ for dollars. That explains why they're not thrilled.

  8. I've got one on 22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Starts Thursday 1 Aug 2013 · · Score: 2

    I should send a co-worker of mine. Nobody can ever tell what the hell his code does.

  9. Re:The only solution on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    Or we could let the children fly the planes. They'd probably do better than these clueless pilots, especially given their skills at video games. In fact, I once got a perfect star run of Starfox 64.

  10. Re: This has forced the company to indefinitely su on Thailand Government Declares Bitcoin Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was thinking the same thing. There are no Thailand-based bitcoin companies at all. And they say "trading activities related to the electronic currently have been suspended indefinitely." Um, no, it's encrypted and mostly unblockable. So unless they inspect every computer and remove the bitcoin client software, they can't block it.

    I think the BS news that they're puffing up is that the Bank of Thailand is no longer accepting electronic fund transfers from the bitcoin exchanges. As for "stopping trading or use" all I have to say is lol, no.

  11. Re:the cause on Australian Government Releases Report Into IT Price Fixing · · Score: 3, Funny

    OMG why is your text right side up? It should be upside down if you're posting it from Australia in the southern hemisphere!

  12. Re:Wow on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It takes me about 5 minutes to change all our software to a new tax rate and that's in 5 different software suite. If they're all such a great IT consulting firms, maybe they should be able to as well.

  13. Re:Will it pan out? on New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude. · · Score: 1

    They probably realized that CPUs rarely fail because of high temps. The board around it fails because of high temps. So the diamond chip would kill its board.

  14. Which Lenovo are they talking about? Because the Lenovo I see all the time are the piece of crap that are 3rd worst in laptop failure rates and have cheap buttons, awful builds, terrible batteries, and low quality screens. I think they have them confused with Toshiba.

  15. the cause on Australian Government Releases Report Into IT Price Fixing · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's obvious what the price difference is. It's really expensive for Adobe to have a support call center that's fluent in Australian.

  16. WTF? on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Apple fanboys, GET OUT OF SCHOOL IT DEPARTMENTS! There are $80-150 tablets that function just as well if not better than an ipad for student-related uses. It's one giant waste of money. Schools should not be buying overpriced luxury editions of any hardware.

  17. So tell the auto makers then wait 24 hours then tell everyone. Then it's one day.

  18. Re:The moral of the story is... on DoJ Alleges Cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem with Broadcom (mostly Asus then), Realtek, or Trendnet. Why does everyone assume big names = best choice as businesses? That's how business end up with Dell and HP PCs and we all know that's a huge mistake.

  19. This is impossible on DoJ Alleges Cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment · · Score: 2

    So one single piece of fake gear breaks and you call cisco about it with the serial #. They say it's made up and they or you report the vendor to the FBI. They're in jail within days. How the hell would a fake cisco gear racket possibly work given that situation?

  20. better idea on Nokia: Microsoft Must Evolve To Make Windows Phone a Success · · Score: 1

    They really need to adopt "Fire Balmer" and "Fire everyone responsible for Windows 8" and "abandon mobile" and "release a Windows 9 that doesn't suck" or they're bankrupt. "Time is of the essence" just means rush something and release a half done, half thought out product.

  21. Re:interesting on Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's 50% HR's fault for hiring and unqualified programmer and 50% the programmer's fault for writing it like crap.

  22. Wow on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    So now we're doing redundant text in a summary that references a redundant story that was an accidental dupe of another redundant story. It's slash-ception!

  23. interesting on Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A monkey could write code that's not vulnerable to SQL injections. You'd almost have to try to add that vulnerability to your software these days because even my intern knows how they work and how to use stored procedures or even regex filters. So all they really did was point out companies that are completely inept when it comes to security.

  24. I have an idea on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe he should sneak into the US. Then they'd have to sanction themselves, which would be the ultimate troll.

  25. Hey US... on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mad, bro? You seem mad, bro. (I'm from the US by the way)