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  1. Re:enterprise versions / downgrade rights are stil on Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You can still get windows 7 installs through manufacturers. They sell you an OEM license for windows 10 pro which includes downgrade rights and then slap a windows 7/8 image on the computer and ship it out.

    You can go on the DELL website right now and find windows 7 business laptops. In fact, the default selection on the operating system IS windows 7. Example:

    DELL 7470 - Operating system:
    ( ) Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English, French, Spanish [subtract $20.00]
    (*) Windows 7 Professional English, French, Spanish 64bit (Includes Windows 10 Pro License) [Included in Price]

  2. Talking to itself! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    Great! Eventually all social media communications will break down to a generic set of responses back and forth.
    Next it will automatically search for cat and baby photos and automatically post them for you! The circle is complete.

  3. Re:Alright folks, prepare for Twitter to suck... on Twitter Seeking To Go Public · · Score: 1

    Shoehorning "Premium Services" and more advertising into it.

  4. Re:as loudly on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    And if you don't pick charmander, you're a wimp.

  5. Re:Historical? on The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents · · Score: 1

    What are things that occured during my lifetime now being called "historical"? I'm not that old dammit!

    Above comment is historical. As is this one by the time you read it. Don't you get it man?! We're MAKING HISTORY RIGHT NOW. WE ARE GODS. People will look back on this in 20 years in amazement on how we stuck it to the man and freed the internets from tyranny of government!

  6. Re:I want one too on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 2

    It's kinda funny how literally shitting on each other is the German national pastime, and yet only the NSA knows who exactly is shitting on whom.

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

    I don't think you've been to that part of the internet yet.

  7. A Minus Minus - Not a Pineapple on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of wireless enabled fruit, device is actually just some plastic and electronic bits. I was under the impression this device would be concealed in a pineapple for stealth hacks. (Nobody suspects the fruit with an antenna)

  8. Re:I'm in. on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    A++ Good Recipe.
    Tastes Like Chicken

  9. Re:Dupe on Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Editor's edit; reader's read. If you've got a problem with the division of labor, talk to the union.

    Since when? I thought the agreement was the editors wouldn't edit, readers wouldn't rtfa, and we would all collect our pay at the end of the day.

  10. Re:Yeah, sure on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Hmmm on Fukushima Decontamination Cost Estimated $50bn, With Questionable Effectiveness · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You should probably stop being offended on the internet and read a few history books regarding the WWII atomic bombs; particularly the stance taken by Japanese leaders in the face of defeat prior to the bombing.

  12. Re:Well watch what happens next. on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    Subscription television has always confused me. I thought the idea was that if you subscribed to a service, you could avoid advertisements that subsidized the free services. Yet for TV you pay for the privilege of watching a network's advertisements. I gave up watching TV over a decade ago, so my eyeballs aren't monetizing anything.

    Is there a financial reason behind this, or do they just want to double-dip for more cash?

  13. Re:Summer? on Supercomputer Becomes Massive Router For Global Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    Thats because we only have "summer" and "wet summer", it kind of makes the measurement somewhat vague.

    ..Ok fine, so it did hit 8 degrees this morning, but it's 18-20 during the day which would be considered a warm spring day for some parts of the US.

  14. Re:You know on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wouldn't the abundance of a semi-scarce highly useful industrial product be a net gain for society? Malleable, resistant to corrosion, excellent conductivity, low melting point. Not obtaining more of a useful material in order to maintain scarcity seems counter-productive.

  15. Re:Buh-bye, Microsoft! on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If the hardware struggles to just run the OS, I think "gaming machine" is the wrong way to describe it. In which case, running the few linux compatible games made available on steam (lots of multi-platorm low spec indie games,) would probably be the upper boundary anyway.

    More realistically it was a low spec machine with a ton of bloatware from the OEM, had he done a clean install of the OS, it would have likely run fine.

  16. Re:Limitation of detection methods on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 1

    I believe we should translate as we would read it out. One Times (size of earth) as 1x earth = same size as earth.

  17. Re:Last refuge of the incompetents on Move Over Apple - Samsung Files For a Patent On Page Turn · · Score: 2

    I'm afraid "Simulating applause through an electronic device" is patented, you owe me royalties.

  18. Re:world's weirdest FSA makes DAH on Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is WTF

  19. I saw the title text and thought the census data was being provided through bittorrent. A few games including the popular World of Warcraft distribute their updates through the protocol, seeing it adopted in other areas to reduce the bandwidth costs seems like a good idea.

  20. Re:All I could tell from the link on Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful

  21. Re:Who wants to make their lives interesting? on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    Wait.. You're a dinosaur? Shouldn't you be extinct?

  22. Re:About as scientific as Wakefield study on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    *All Packages left Berlin Via Deutsch Post at the same time on 21.11.12 and were transported to the USA, where they were handed over to the care of USPS for final delivery

    FTFA (which all the text is on a bloody image, I had to type that shit. You can thank me below.)

  23. Re:What! No porn, cats, or warez? on Kids Build Pill Dispenser To Win Raspberry Pi Award · · Score: 1

    But is it about being environmentally friendly, or saving a few bucks on the power bill? Kids are all for saving the world and helping others, full of optimism! br?But as they grow older, perhaps the ultimate goes is that it's all about the money. Perhaps I'm just cynical?

  24. Re:Hurrah on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    This is a case of Poe's Law I believe.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

  25. I Thought all televisions were three dimensional on New Advance In 3D TV Technology · · Score: 0

    Have flat panel screens become so thin that they lost a dimension? Can I paint a TV on my wall and plug it in?