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  1. and then they broke it even worse on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 2

    "In Windows 8.1, the Search charm will provide global search results powered by Bing in a rich, simple-to-read, aggregated view of many content sources (the web, apps, files, SkyDrive, actions you can take) to provide the best “answer” for your query."

    So Windows Vista had a passive indexer that killed your hard drive speed and didn't include system settings like "screen saver" as results. Windows 7 indexed locations in realtime and included system settings and was absolutely flawless. Windows 8 split it into 3 vague categories so you have to click multiple times to find what you're looking for and the prompt you start typing in is actually far off the screen completely to the right. You have to just know it's there. 8.1 arrives and now we get a possibly re-combined search but then you get web results from a search engine that nobody wants to use. Yay! I know when I'm looking for my resume, I definitely want to sort through a billion bullshit Bing web results about resumes before finding my resume.doc file. What a pathetic attempt to force people to use a garbage service. I hope Europe sues their asses off. This alone is going to force me to keep boycotting Windows 8 and 8.1 at my computer repair and sales store.

  2. even better on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    You know what does window sharing and open application management even better than the new and improved Metro? Windows fucking explorer! I set everything on client machines to open in desktop-only software like picture and fax viewer and media player and leave it like that. Why would I learn some touch-friendly, ugly, barely labeled, horribly designed hellscape like Metro when I already know how to use the modern explorer UI? And bring back flip 3d, damn it!

  3. pointless on EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 0

    If I post a video on youtube to make a bit of money, I am sick of people ripping it off and reuploading it to other sites or even just youtube again to steal my money. If you think amateur youtube enthusiasts like me are mad, try MPAA and RIAA member mega-corporations. So basically if they don't add DRM to HTML5 natively, here comes Silverlight or some other similar bullshit with DRM because there's a market for DRM. The only question is do you want a security nightmare like Flash and Reader and Java running on every computer in the world or DRM natively supported in HTML5?

  4. hurray for World Of Starcraft! on Blizzard's Unannounced 'Titan' MMO Rebooted, Development Team Reduced · · Score: 2

    Well, I can hope at least

  5. Re:Why don't businesses get it? on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 2

    Hey genius, it's a federal law actually.

  6. Oh that makes sense on Mozilla Teams Up With Foxconn; Tablet On the Way? · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, that really makes sense because Mozilla makes good products and Foxconn makes ultra low quality crap like for example MP3 players that fail within a month and the world's worst motherboards.

  7. fundraiser on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we need to hold a fundraiser so we can finally take these awesome PETA fanatics and give them what they've always wanted; a life in and around happy, free animals...lions specifically. A big field full of lions. Lions are also known for their ethical treatment of other animals.

  8. Re:This is really simple on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    They're doing it for a relatively constructive reason compared to some random jackass on the street. They're also not posting my face to their Facebook account (unless I make the FBI's top 10 most wanted but I'm just not quite there yet, lol).

  9. This is really simple on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't have a Facebook account. I have a fake name on my Google accounts and Twitter. I don't ever use my real name on forums. I even gave Blizzard a fake name. I take GREAT care to leave my personal life off the internet and preserve my privacy. So now what do we have? Some asshole walking around taking videos or pictures in complete stealth mode with no LED to tell you it's recording or in use. Early adopters are also usually the tech-addicted people that put a picture of everything moderately interesting on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram. If I start saying something funny or interesting to a glass user and they stealthy hit record, I don't want that video of myself out on their 1000-friend Facebook page without my knowledge.

    For those of you about to say any video recording is public and the law says I can be video recorded at any time in public because that's the reasonable expectation of privacy, you're missing the logic of that. I want some basic privacy so then I guess I'll just never go out in public ever. Wait, no, it would be easier to just make Glass and other covert recording devices illegal everywhere.

  10. anyone with a brain... on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    Anyone with a brain can tell that this level of mobile computer usage is ridiculous. It's bad for memory, concentration, social skill development, social interactions in general. Nobody should be able to have that much information streaming that quickly whenever they want. Then the stress of battery phobia combined with a growing dependence on the device equals a very stressed out user. It's a very, very stupid idea that's detrimental to humans in general.

    It's exactly like Segways. It's convenient and a good idea on the surface but in reality it isn't practical or a good idea at all and it makes the user fat, unhealthy, and causes hip and knee problems. This is a device that seems nice on the surface but actually causes concentration and social problems and likely vision problems too plus an addictive dependence on technology that makes the user unable to function without it.

  11. hilarious on Yahoo Joins Growing List of Bidders For Hulu · · Score: 2

    So whenever Yahoo buys something, they stuff it full of 10x the ads then kills it. Unfortunately, Hulu does actually need "more" ads. I mean a higher variety. If I see that stupid Nokia Lumina ad one more fucking time, my head is going to explode. What moron actually thinks forcing me to watch it 50 times while watching a Hell's Kitchen marathon is going to make me buy it? It's just fucking annoying!!! Yahoo cannot possibly do any worse.

  12. not actually true on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    This isn't actually true though, since nobody is going to buy the Xbox One due its lack of any improvements whatsoever, game incompatibility, and used game policy from hell. Without anyone buying it, the cloud won't really do anything.

  13. bitcoin story on LibertyReserve.com Shuttered, Founder Arrested In Spain · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is 100% because of bitcoins. It's probably realistically 50% because of money laundering and 50% because feds in multiple countries want bitcoin to go away. Unfortunately LR and Dwolla were the two major ways to fund bitcoin exchanges without using EFTs. I think the other major way is Bit Instant and I'm not completely sure how they work exactly. I know they're super protected and designed with anonymity and anti-shutdown designs from the get go.

  14. Finally! on Judge Thinks Apple Will Lose E-Book Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    A judge without a pro-Apple bias! It's a miracle. Hey, maybe Samsung should counter-sue for more patent violations with this guy so they might actually get a fair trial for once.

  15. flaw in logic on Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale · · Score: 1

    The publishers actually aren't going to make a penny because nobody's going to buy the stupid Xbox One in the first place for this exact reason. They might as well install Windows 8 on it and pack a Zune inside because nobody's touching this stupid thing.

  16. hilarious on WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Hey Ron Paul, you can have the domain for free.
    Oh hell no, I hate open and free stuff! I looove the legal system! Let's do this!

    Does that seem odd to anyone?

  17. another untruthful bitcoin article on Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters · · Score: 1

    Yay, another one. This is one side of the story. They're getting shut down by the feds EVERYWHERE. There's the banking secrecy act that killed some big time operators. MTGox is even getting screwed with with Dwolla lately and they're around 85% of all exchange transactions. Small little operations don't attract attention. The big ones are under so much scrutiny, it's like the feds are just waiting for any reason to shut them down (they actually are by the way). It's so hilariously stupid too because by design, it's stoppable. They could throw $50 billion at it and not destroy the network unless they literally but all bitcoins with it and then delete them, lol. Actually, that wouldn't "destroy" the network either.

  18. Re:in my class on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 1

    It was KNO3, sulfur, carbon, and sugar if I remember correctly.

  19. Re:in my class on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 1

    As it has been stated, all other media coverage of the initial incident weasel-word-suggested that it was because of race. Some actually just plain stated it even.

  20. Re:in my class on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 1

    Bingo! Lol, Wisconsin.

  21. in my class on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In my high school chemistry class, we made gunpowder (which someone accidentally shattered a mortar and pestle with) and hydrogen mini-rockets (we filled ours with butane and put a hole in the ceiling tiles) and that was called a chapter in the book, not a crime. Though unlike the media, I think the difference isn't that I'm white, it's that that school district and police department is full of complete morons.

  22. slight barrier on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    I'm definitely on the spectrum and I outscored almost the entire country on a standard Tek Systems programming assessment and my college instructors said I'm the best programmer they've ever seen and yet I still can't get a job because I only have a 2-year degree (two 2 year degrees actually). Until HR pulls their heads out of their asses and treating resumes like baseball cards instead of people, inferior programmers will keep getting hired over me and crappy software will continue to be the norm.

  23. how this happened on Thousands of Whistle Blowers Vulnerable After Anonymous Hacks SAPS · · Score: 1

    I have 2 theories. One is Anonymous didn't do this and someone else is lying. Two is anonymous is just as stupid as they seem and just as stupid as any other hacker. Defacement, data stealing, database leaking, causing downtime, they're all considered some pretend major victory by those mostly incompetent morons and script kiddies. They pretend like they can do anything but back in real life you need vulnerable system and specific security flaws to get into something. So if they can't bring the site down and can't deface it or modify it but they found an SQL injection vulnerability in the database so they went with that because at least it's something. Also, they just wouldn't feel special and amazing in their little pretend world if they weren't able to do anything at all to SAPS. So without thinking, they leaked all the data just to prove how "awesome and all powerful" they are. Ugh, give me a break. It's no wonder most of them don't have professional IT jobs. Set aside the clear lack of skill, they have no common sense or planning ability.

  24. Re:a slight break in logic on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like "Joe wants to remain anonymous. Here's the full name and location of the guy he worked with." Well then Joe's not going to be anonymous for long, lol.

  25. Re:here's a question on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I assume you could download gun plans and hand them to a metal CNC operator to make each part as well.