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  1. Re:No. on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 1

    but have they tried Murmur, or Mumble, or Hrrumph?

  2. inevitably... on Meet the Programmer Behind Social Fixer · · Score: 2

    Prepare for this to quit working in 3... 2... 1...

  3. Re:Let's see what happens... on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 2

    You probably have a good imagination, it would seem.

    This guy has a plan and it has nothing to do with actually succeeding with the auction... for the intended audience (maybe just one person) this is a shot across the bow, in a public forum, and the most important information (to the right person) is what is not said. 90% of this story (if it's not a hoax, which it probably is) will never be told, which may be the whole point here.

  4. Re:Well on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any company that wants to start a taxi company can start a service

    You're really naive. Why don't you start Shavano's Taxi in NYC? Think you can? Taxi service is highly regulated everywhere. The prices are set by the local authorities, who have the ability to deny licensing to anybody they want to. It's a rigged game.

  5. Re: Government Regulation on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    U mad bro?

  6. Re:They WILL kill you... on Famed ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Black Hat Conference · · Score: 1

    That's a really self-serving definition of "collateral damage". You're a tool.

  7. Re:Bury on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    If you work for Microsoft marketing, and I assume do, the marketing problem is obvious.

    a bright one indeed

    Guffaw. It's so bright its gotta wear shades. It's so bright its mommy calls it "sunny". It's so .ODdj8sj ... sorry I threw up in my mouth a little.

  8. Re:Airbus CEO was on hand for a comment on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 2

    there is another that follows along about 100 feet behind. it looks like a chrome toaster or the gas tank from a 1972 hodaka super rat.

  9. Re:It's not JUST EE's. . . on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Most security gigs are tailored around having a military background. You might not have noticed yet but give it another 10 years and you'll start to get the picture. (Sort of like being ex-military is an unwritten prerequisite for a lot of police forces now.) That's why the TLA agencies (and cops for that matter) all have that "kill dem all, let gwad sort 'em out" attitude. (see sig below)

  10. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    It depends on the industry. EE's at power generation or distribution entities generally need to have their PE. I imagine most areas that are regulated and buried in paperwork will require a PE stamp on much of it.

  11. Re:This just in... on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Because one of those is criminal and the other is merely unethical.

  12. Re: Uncomfortable Relationship on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 1

    My only knowledge of this subject came from a 45 minute long class I had to take before getting my concealed carry permit. It was a pretty casual overview of Florida law.

    Here's the actual relevant Flarda law, and it appears to my non-lawyer eyes that having a posted sign is sufficient grounds for having someone arrested. Your state is likely different, but we are pretty liberal here with regard to guns, so if your state is different, it's probably MORE stringent, not less.

    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0800-0899/0810/Sections/0810.09.html

  13. Re: Uncomfortable Relationship on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 2

    You can't just define an arbitrary access list in your head and call something private. It is or isn't.

    Wrong.

    You can have public access but still limit that access in any way you want (unless you are some sort of entity which is required to conform to equal opportunity laws.) Next time you go get your pork skins at walmart, take a look by the door, and you'll see a sign that says something like "no firearms allowed on premises". They can do that. If you're caught violating that private policy, you can be arrested for trespassing.

    Same thing at disney world.

  14. Re:the return of the Start button on Hands-On With Windows 8.1 Preview · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is not the start button you were looking for.

  15. Re:Popcorn time! on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

  16. Re:Random is hard. on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Lava Lamp. Back in the day, all we had to look at on the web was the cambridge coffee pot, the SGI random-number-generating lava lamp and the application to date Sonic. Nostalgia.

  17. Re:Impossible? on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    It's only a One Time Pad if you use it only once. Just sayin'.

  18. Re:How about cutting Notes? on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kniggots. Thppppt!

  19. Re:Cartoon Face Generation on Microsoft Patents "Cartoon Face Generation" · · Score: 2

    get cancelled?

  20. That's 8 drumettes per critter, y'all on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have been told that roasted spiders taste just like shrimp.

    I will never know first hand of course.

  21. Ironport blacklisted my mail server because I was in the same class C address space as a "suspected" spammer, despite the fact that no spam had ever been reported from my IP's. There is (or wasn't at that time) ANY REMEDY for getting off of their blacklist.

  22. Re: Good on Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators · · Score: 1

    It was bad apples talking about getting rid of the lawyers who made their criminal enterprises difficult. Keep up.

  23. Re:Once upon a qwest on CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions · · Score: 0

    You're just bitter because you're stuck astroturfing for uncle sugar after wasting two years at corey. Hey at least you can get that jixxer with your allotment. guffaw.

  24. Glitch on CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions · · Score: 1

    That always happens when they turn up the pipe to Bluffdale.

  25. Re:Implies? "Can't really"? on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 2

    Silence doesn't get you funding.