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  1. Re:Drastically reduced profits? on The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers · · Score: 1

    It's no longer acceptable to just make money hand over fist.

    You have to have a constantly increasing growth rate, or your failing.

    Of course, this is not possible, but that's how stocks work these days....

  2. Re:News flash: It's what we pay them to do on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Given the potential consequences, they'd better have a pretty damn good theory on what to do when the fecal matter hits the fan.

  3. Re:They should have worked out... on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: 1

    If a car (or a thousand) crash, you don't have consequences that span time measured in millenia.

  4. Re:Republican Bashing? on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: -1, Troll

    Any excuse to get an anonymous first post, no matter how moronic it makes one look. Though, what the glory in posting AC is, I really don't know.

    PS: I'm gonna guess Perry supporter here...

  5. They should have worked out... on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... every single possible scenario that they could imagine long ago, and then kept looking for more scenarios.

    But - just like they cut corners to reduce construction costs, they really didn't have all their contingency ducks lined up.

    You'd think that this would be one area where sanity at least had a place at the table with business and profit, but I guess not.

  6. Re:Um... on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 1

    But... your Facebook page could help you with your feelings about coding... /snark

  7. Re:Not good. on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Google fills a definite niche. If they leave it, I have no doubt that someone else will swoop in to fill it.

  8. I don't buy it. on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Maybe as a part of the pie - but I think the pie is growing faster, and doubt the absolute volume is shrinking. Too bad TFAs don't have, you know, actual numbers.

    One might ask one's friends about what phone to buy, or what's good in music, or what Joe Schmoe's phone number is; one might query a professional network for the answer to an complex algorithm or how many pineapples were exported from Hawaii last year, but at the end of the day, each of these questions is likely to be followed up by a Google type search.

    Throw in smart phone use, and no, I just don't see the absolute volume shrinking.

  9. Re:Overdue on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    The only problem with your argument is that it is DHS that is doing the regulation, which is for all intents and purposes (especially with the TSA) becoming more and more a paramilitary police entity (getting around Posse Comitatus), and not a purely civilian entity.

    Therein lies the real problem.

  10. Re:Who is going to decide what "improved" means? on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Or if you're a Big Boy, just open up the cash flow ala Citizen's United.

  11. Re:What laws are proposed that reduces power? on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    The last one was Net Neutrality, which has been overwhelmed by all this.

  12. Re:"Censorship" on Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News? · · Score: 1

    If you don't see the difference between your employee paying you and the students paying the university when it comes to what is available on the network, then there is no point in arguing with you at all.

  13. Re:Dont like it? on Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News? · · Score: 1

    They did. It's included in their tuition.

  14. Re:Please tell me why.... on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Re:Oh yawn on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 2

    Did it occur to you that maybe Somalia and Afghanistan didn't start out evil, but had to allow certain things to happen to become so?

    And that maybe we're allowing those same things to start happening here?

  16. Re:Better option for the title on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 1

    Symantec Eschews Success Assaying Stingy Sting

  17. Re:I realize I'm taking this out of context on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 1

    Let's be honest - even a 2022 version of Norton Internet Security is outdated. And yes, I realize the context of the quote is referring to customer data, but it had to be said.

    FTFY.

  18. Well... on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 1

    ... if it wasn't the case before, it sure is now that as distasteful as payoffs may be, they are no longer going to be an option, even if they might have been the best possible option for some corporation/entity.

  19. Re:Her two crimes on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    (1) does not matter in this discussion. The fifth amendment lets people walk free who are guilty as hell. But that is the price you pay not to have testimony given under threat of punishment, as was historically the case for many centuries.

    (2) This one is a joke, right?

    Honestly, she may be a Very Bad Person. But if we are to be a nation of laws, then we need to be in all cases. Otherwise it's not law.

  20. MIcrosoft And Arm on Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM · · Score: 1

    This could make MIcrosoft's demand that OEM's make ARM based hardware Microsoft exclusive a bit more interesting...

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/0236244/microsoft-taking-aggressive-steps-against-linux-on-arm

  21. Re:What actually happened? on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 2

    Openly gay, which led to one of the greatest logicians of all time being chemically castrated when England was done using him to keep Germany from having a London garrison.

  22. Re:UK Government needs the pardon, not Alan Turing on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    UK government not worthy of a pardon on this one.

  23. Well, speaking as an insensitive American... on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    ... let 'em do it. It'll help stifle the free and Western thought processes that are necessary to build the architect level portion of a technological middle class and will help keep my high end development job from getting outsourced.

    Now off to spam stackoverflow with comments about the steamy affair between Kali, Vishnu and Krishna from a McDonnalds without washing my hands...

  24. Re:Reasonable decision on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    I consider it an offense to my offended offendedness that you're offended by my offensive offense.

    We've now passed through the Plaid Event Horizon, and gone fully recursive.

  25. Re:Reasonable decision on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    This.

    The only sort of speech worth preserving is that which is unpleasant to some. That which all accept needs no preservation.