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  1. Re:Wussies on IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard · · Score: 1

    pff i will except nothing less then a closed time like curve between my neural implant and every server in existence. information delivered straight to my brain just before i ask for it

  2. Re:A new version of Super Mario Bros 2? on Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Illustrates Nintendo's Greatest Problem · · Score: 1

    that was my thought too. i guess game play isn't the only thing they come up with anything new for.

  3. Re:"wrath of shareholders"? on CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials · · Score: 1

    someone should start a kickstart to buy all of the old SCO stock and donate to the Linux foundation. mean if its like a $0.25 it should be easy and cheap enough to get most if not all of it. Just think of the Sweat poetic justice of Linux then owning SCO.

  4. Re:Sue ALL the things! on CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials · · Score: 1

    What put a saying on a t-shirt well i am waring a t-shirt with writing on it so yup they can.
    Or did you mean sue everything?
    To answer that just look at the mobile world and android they are having their own SCO moment brought to them by Apple which happens to be another company bailed out at one time by Microsoft (back during the MS anti-monopoly case they bailed out apple and ported office to keep apple afloat so they could say the weren't a monopoly) apple like SCO (caldera linux) used to be a linux contributer ( mklinux)
    Also Nokia is suing everyone but MS and Apple. Nokia is getting lots of money from Microsoft to be a Windows phone shop. They also a have a former MS executive as their CEO now.
    This makes me wonder is it a requirement of taking money from Microsoft to sell your soul to the evil pattent troll gods? if so How did poor bungie get out alive?

  5. Re:9 Years on CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials · · Score: 2

    Lets just hope those involved remember to double tap.

  6. Re:My God on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No genocide is when you try to systematically kill of a whole racial ethnic, or religious/political group. What happened in WWII against the people of japan was not genocide. We were at war and during war some civilians will died. that is the nature, unfortunately, of war. The US never tried to kill japans entire populous. We fought them until they surrendered. (If we had not the would have gone right back on the offensive.) Then we rebuilt their country. Had we been engaging in genocide we would not have stopped killing them. If you want to know what genocide is look at the other side of the war what happened in the Philippians and Manchuria. Or look over in Europe where the Germans most definitely pursued genocide killing any and all jews, roma, poles, gays, masons, J.W.'s, soviets, and serbs.

  7. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    um isn't the changes to the host file the topic of this whole thread? if you are sick of the discussion as you said you could just move on to another

  8. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    another possible reason is so that they could sell more licenses for windows dns server software if you currently have a small shop with a simple work group you don't need a server and server license to run dns i can simply alter the host. now you would need one.

  9. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    in the case of the host file you could simply require administrator permission. If the malware has admin access you have already lost. And if the malware is affecting the host file currently then the problem is still not in the host file or its implementation it is that the malware is on the system to begin with and the hole it exploited to do so in the first place is what need fixed.

  10. Re:Staying with gnome2 on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 1

    Did they give a exstension system or were they forced grudgingly to do so? Remember back when it came out and people started to scream. there was no exstension system the mint crew wrote the mint gnome extensions which it eventually forked into a whole new shell cinnamon. And as for the claim that it was a good thing that they ignored users request for additional features, many of those requests where for simple things like applets, the ability to pin apps to the panel, have multiply apps on one desktop, use an alternate window manager ( kwin, compiz, etc) or oh maybe have a close minumize and maximize buttons, while some of these have been fixed or have been repaired with workarounds and hacks these were not just features requests they were present before. Those are therefor regression's. Then there is the horrible ideas made by the gnome team, like giving gnome a windows like registry. Gnome had some good ideas true but they did not run any of their ideas by any one else and for a major project like this is a horrible idea. Gnome has traditionally changed thing by small incriments so as to judge and evalluate them. They did not fallow proper protocol and it has backfired on them.

  11. Re:Staying with gnome2 on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or you can try actually learning the new system - it really is better. I personally do not want to go back to the days of GNOME 2 or Windows XP. Have you actually tried it for any meaningful lenght of time? I mean seriously. You can get to all of your regular applications with a gesture to the left of the screen and a click. Another gesture gets you into a list of all of applications that you can then filter. Switching desktops is also trivial. Move forward, not back.

    People put a lot of time into engineering and designing GNOME3 to be an elegant desktop solution that works great. What they did not account for was pig headed, stubborn, unwilling to learn users who wanted their knock-off of Windows XP back. Microsoft is going through this same backlash now for innovating with Windows 8. Same thing - you can now get to almost everything in a click - seemless UI. How do people react? "Give merh mah AXE PEE back!!!".

    Seriously, people suck. I am grateful for both the GNOME and Microsoft people actually trying to innovate in the desktop area.

    I see we have gnome dev here.
    just because we can get to all of the programs does not mean anything i can get all of them through a terminal as well. it is only moving forward if it is better.
    Gnome three may look elegant and may be useful on tablet but it is not used there. It is used on desktops. Just because lots of time was put into engineering it does not make it good. Users in the case of linux desktop are not gibbering morons or merely stubborn they have brains and know a thing or to about the computers they are using . Seamless is not the same as powerful. simple is. gnome three is not simple.

  12. Re:Possible buyers on Electronic Arts Up For Sale? · · Score: 1

    no wrong type of evil.
    Company evil type 101
    EA is kinda of a general bastardy evil,
    while Oracle is more along the lines of lex luther evil. their ceo lives on a private island and probably has a hairless cat and set on chair above an tank of sharks (possibly with lasers that he won't share the source code to)
    Facebook and zynga and like the master and torgo form manos hand of fate, both evil but there true horrer is not from being evil but from being forced to watch them.
    telecoms are like the sith slowly gaining power and consent to the general populace while those with brains scream no and will soon take over with an iron fist.

  13. Re:Don't go it alone... on Electronic Arts Up For Sale? · · Score: 1

    or just keep the IP, contracts, and kill the company, or spin off the studio.

  14. Re:Stuggling versus mediocrity actually on Electronic Arts Up For Sale? · · Score: 1

    or maybe not all of us have another job to fall back on so we have to keep our work

  15. Re:Buzzword compliance on Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Cloud Computing" Still on Hype Wave · · Score: 3, Funny

    for web 2.0 cloud compliance all mods are to be replaced with "like"

  16. Re:opening for Google? on Gov't Approves Parts of Verizon-Cable Spectrum Sale · · Score: 1

    Hannah Montana? I think you may be ill.

  17. Re:It was me! on Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed · · Score: 1

    Difference is you own a Cd you don't rent them. (Usually)

  18. Re:Kickstarter on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    or the higher quality product is not available legally.

  19. Re:free = you are the product being sold on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    thats why you use a disposable email account let them spam a dead address

  20. Re:free = you are the product being sold on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    not if you are talking RMS Free.

  21. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    they could put him in a embassy car while in the embassy garage so they don't know who is in the vehicle drive to the airport and hell they could have him in a box if they wanted and it being marked with embassy papers it could get past the security, or they could load the vehical on to a plane large enough c130 or similar and bring him to Ecuador without anyone being able to do anything about it (unless they want to cause a international indecent of epic proportions). if diplomatic immunity means nothing than no ambassador or government agent is safe outside of national borders.

  22. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    The celebs want the attention and there picture in the news so people remember them other wise they would not make money off of their name appearing in a movie.
    normal people don't want stalked. we have law against people doing so.
    the gov seems to think that its okay if they do, because they would never do anything to you unless you were doing something wrong, why are you afraid unless your feeling guilty? what did you do? i think you need to come in for interigation.

  23. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    so should i ware as mask and look like a serial killer/anonymous-occupy member?

  24. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 0

    I live out in the country there is no mass transit near me. It takes twenty minutes by car to get to work and classes and the nearest bus stop. it rains quite regularly through out the year and can drop below freezing in the winter, so biking or walking is not an option. cars are required for some people.

  25. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    license plates have light for illumination so they can be read. those light just might some how start imitating more energy in the IR part of the spectrum than before.