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  1. Re:Who are the interviewing??? on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 0

    Do you honestly expect Verizon to run fiber to every square mile of the US? All for the grand prize of your $80 per month? Sorry, you and your 3 neighbors that are spread out across 20 acres of land.

  2. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 2

    The term Obamacare is used almost exclusively by everyone to reference the new system. I wouldn't say you are advertising a product when you say "Just Google it". The term has become synonymous with searching, like kleenex had become synonymous with tissue..

  3. Re:Obama: please stop helping us! on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    Fairly certain it was a sarcastic statement.

  4. Re: Obama: please stop helping us! on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 0

    I personally would prefer the attention paid to creating a market for energy delivery. For example, why do I have to be subject to Con Edison's rules and have no other choice? Broadband, in my view, is a less critical utility.

    What is your 4Mbps connection stopping you from doing? Let's be honest. It's all about consuming high definition video. I don't see why a government should be in business of helping media companies sell their wares.

  5. Re:illegal in Canada! on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    If you click "Express Install" and press Next, then that would likely be considered approval. Same goes for slyly disguised "offers" along the install process that you click Next for.

  6. Re:It's getting worse on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    A few months ago, they didn't even give you a checkbox to decline it, or tell you it was going to be installed. So you'd get a copy of Chrome with Flash and never be told it was being installed.

  7. Re:What happens if you uncheck the boxes? on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    The other gem is the "I Do Not Agree" radio option for MyRadioPlayer, making you think that the whole install will quit if you choose that.

  8. Re:Besides the blantant bloodshed... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    You missed at least one point I made. Try rereading.

  9. Re:Besides the blantant bloodshed... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    Nerds also drive to work in cars, so we should have car news as well. And I don't mean the "self driving Audi A7" type of news, but "Toyota introduces the 2016 Corolla, with redesigned styling and improved economy" type of news.

    I mean, we could say "nerds do _____ with ____, thus relevant" for any story really.

  10. Re:Right Place on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    motogp.com. It isn't shown anywhere on US TV anyway, so I would have been paying for it anyway.

  11. Re:umm... on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't then a better example be a submission about the EU trying to limit freedom of speech and assembly as a result of this shooting? And not articles strictly about a massacre on the streets of a city?

  12. Re:Fuck Cisco. on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    But since when is my double queen room at the Marriott an enterprise environment.

    They can scare enterprises all they want into selling more hardware, that's fine, but I am not an employee of a hotel. I am not connecting to their corporate network to transmit work related information. I don't see how they're trying to protect the hotel when I connect to a separate entity's network, and use their wired router as the exit to the internet. Ridiculous.

  13. Re:Wrong conclusion on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Got a source? Might get one with a 64GB microSD.

  14. Re:Wrong conclusion on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Sure, anecdotal, but I'm not going to spend money on 40 different players to do some sort of personal research. The players I did have all lost their finish, scroll wheels fell off, and the company making them were often bought out, new owners decided to dump the product line, and now you can barely download the media management software you need to load music onto it. It's happened to me, trust me.

    The Clip is nice, I'll be buying one for my mom today, but as far as I know, it only supports microSD cards up to 32 GB, plus the onboard 8GB, so it still doesn't come close to 80gb or 120gb of the classic.

  15. Re:Because it doesn't work? on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I'm downloading the whole thing. But it still takes time to wait for the first part to come down, play it, delete it, load another nzb. It's all delay tactics that could work to get me to just spend the $6 on the damn movie.

    And torrent sites go down all the time, and have ratio requirements, or credits, so that's another aspect of the effort that you have to go through to avoid a few bucks for a movie. And you still never know whether your host info isn't being logged or recorded. I've never heard of usenet downloaders being targeted.

    I also prefer usenet because a rar archive can start decompressing as parts are finished, so I can start watching a movie literally 2 minutes after the download started.

  16. Re:First of all... on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 0

    If you want to claim that a site is illegal, by using it, you therefore can open yourself up to backlash legally. IE: make your case of claiming the site is illegal more difficult because you'd also have to defend your use of it.

  17. Re:Because it doesn't work? on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 1

    They could easily create fake accounts to post comments such as "Works for me, try VLC, ___ player, or update your codecs".

    It would create enough confusion that it would create a lot more work for you to getting your movie, and possibly push you to just pay Amazon the $8 because your time is more valuable than dicking around with the "scene".

    This is happening on usenet now, on nzb search engines that don't have a comments section, where you'll see 20 uploads of a movie, and probably 18 or 19 of them have links to (presumably infected) downloads because the movie doesn't play "due to problematic codecs on your computer." I end up getting fed up with trying 10 different downloads, and more often than not just skip that particular movie. But if I were eager enough to watch it, I might spend the few bucks.

  18. Re:The lesson on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 1

    Do you think a medallion owner will be bailed out by anyone? What happened in 2008 was a fairly unprecedented situation, and I agree with you that scumbags took the money and ran and we got stuck with the bill. But it doesn't work like this most times and even people who control multi-million dollar accounts get destroyed to the point of suicide, heart attacks from stress, etc.

  19. Drats... on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    I was trying to build up my credit card's rewards points to get a new 80gb Classic and retire my 2007 model as my car media drive. Works well with the Sony head unit. Got up to 25k of the 33k points needed only to find out that the Classic was removed from their list.

  20. Re:you can have my classic when you pry it from et on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Pfft, I've replaced the headphone jack on my 80gb classic probably more than half a dozen times :) Drive still pulling strong. The LCD is starting to go, after I dropped it the umpteenth time.

    But I like how people say the classic is antiquated, meanwhile, I don't have to take mine out of the pocket to go between tracks or change volume. Yeah, I guess I can be stuck with a set of earbuds that have the necessary buttons for play/pause/next, and I can try to hit those tiny rocker volume buttons on the side. But I think I'll stick with my choice of headphone and analog volume control. Not having those buttons also means the cable won't keep getting caught on my collar all the time.

  21. Re:Wrong conclusion on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 2

    I've had a few non-Apple mp3 players, and they pretty much fell apart, things stopped working, etc. I've had my 80GB Classic since 2007, and aside from replacing the headphone jack a few times, no issues. I don't want to bother with a non-Apple device really, and I'm no fanboy. If anything I have 5 ThinkPads of various vintages and no Apple laptops. These people might be investors , but not so sure about hoarders.

  22. Re:The lesson on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's risk to investing in anything. Maybe the real lesson is don't bet your entire financial life on one investment vehicle (no pun intended).

  23. Re:Apparently... on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. The guy shot himself in the hand, and had powder residue from the gun consistent with the gun going off within 6". Also, his blood was all over the inside of the squad car and the cop's uniform.

  24. Re:Apparently... on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    Go reach for a cop's gun and see how things turn out for you.

  25. Re:Justice denied on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    At least the PC culture is thriving it seems.