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  1. Re:what i want to know on RuneScape Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is Paltalk :)

  2. Welcome to America! on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Congrats! Canada is now even more like the US. You guys must feel proud.

  3. Re:Wait, what? on Oracle Solaris 11 Express Released · · Score: 1

    doesn't that just make them a Corporation?

    All Corporations are driven by profit above and beyond anything else.
    We've proven time and time again in every industry that Corporations will do completely amoral, downright illegal things in the search of profits.

  4. Only an Idiot would grant this Patent on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    How does this patent not get smacked down like a narc at a biker rally?
    It's no different than the 'profanity' filters on forums and chat systems in video games.

  5. Re:I'd avoid clicking them on pages, too on Cybercriminals Shifting To Bugat · · Score: 1

    Damn I wish I had mod points :) that's a funny patent worthy description of a television :)

  6. Moral of the story: never click through on Cybercriminals Shifting To Bugat · · Score: 0

    Never ever click on a link in an email, and preferably not on a forum either.
    Always type the urls you are going to yourself, so you know what they are.

    I keep thinking I need to setup a VM that all it does is run my chrome and IE stuff, and I can just burn it down if need be.

  7. Another Example on Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android-Related Patent Infringement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is yet more proof that software patents are stupid.

  8. Re:I am glad on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 0

    They haven't killed us all /yet/

  9. Re:Bingo: less tax = more growth on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh Ballmer and Bezos don't use their personal money to hire more people.

    They use their corporations money for that.

    So it's a fallacy.
    That extra 9% would actually be sitting in their investment portfolio.. probably in Dubai :)

  10. Re:Why? on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    Because they claim to be "Fair and Balanced"
    Showing us what those other media outlets wont

    If Fox News just came out and admitted they were a Right Wing Tea Party/Republican shill, I'd have no problems with them at all.

  11. Re:Easy to make qualifications that nobody can mee on Tech Sector Slow To Hire · · Score: 1

    Like the Helpdesk position I read once that wanted someone with Java, C++ experience and the ability to write his own support tools.

  12. Re:Barely heard of it... on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    The Hurt Locker was an amazingly good movie.
    Intense, interesting.

  13. Creepy much? on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cause that's not creepy at all...

    No.
    Though I would expect it to appeal to the average /. poster

  14. Re:Weep for America .... on FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity · · Score: 1

    and yet, The UK makes America looks like a utopia of personal rights and privacy

  15. WTH on Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is this person just mentally retarded?

  16. Re:The gun killed him on Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The dumb Ass Democrats passed the stupid Patriot Act without so much as a fight.
    Dumb idiots couldn't trip over themselves fast enough to lick Bush's ass right after 9/11.

  17. Course the government could just ask to see it. on NJ Court Upholds Privacy of Personal Emails At Work · · Score: 1

    How does this mesh with the other ruling that says that you have no expectation of privacy if your email is stored on a third-party server?

  18. Or on Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until you have to try and RMA that CPU :)

  19. Re:Two can play your game on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Just look at Northern Ireland for examples on how this is going to turn out.

  20. Re:Bullshit. on China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave · · Score: 2, Informative

    By party and region

    Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.

    The original House version:

            * Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
            * Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)

            * Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
            * Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)

    The Senate version:

            * Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
            * Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
            * Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure)
            * Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New Hampshire opposed the measure)

    You are correct, in that over all a larger percentage of Republicans voted FOR it than the percentage of Democrats.
    This is true because of the Southern Democrats. Almost all of which after the vote switched parties to the Republican party.

    Not a single Southern Republican politician voted for it.
    A handful of Southern Democrats voted for it.
    Northern Democrats were also more unified in their voting for the Civil Rights Act.

  21. Re:Bullshit. on China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave · · Score: 1

    Stalin worked hard on his numbers. I think Stalin and Mao were neck in neck.

    And to be fair to Mao.. if you express that number in a percentage of population... he's no where near as bad as the Khemer Rouge, for example.

  22. Re:I'll give you a clue... on Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can't Stop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you trying to say that Google uses MS Windows for it's websites and database servers?

  23. Re:Unions on IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unions also protect employees from the ravages of Corporate America.

    You forget how badly employees were treated back before Unions. Alot of the places that 'treat their employees just fine without unions.' Started doing so, and continue to do so.. in order to keep the unions out, not because of some altruistic feelings for their employees.

  24. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're obviously not a chef, or a Pastry Chef.

    You should buy fresh chicken, and not Swanson chicken. Very little chicken is injected with brine. Frozen chicken you get in the big packs is inject with brine, but you can look on the label and you'll see that the ingredients list includes salt and water. They do have to label that stuff.

    Restaurants don't sneak in salt without telling you. Most good restaurants take away tablesalt.. because they want you to experience the right amount of salt.

    If you need a low salt diet, you tell your server and they can tell the chefs to hold the salt on many things. But removing salt from bread is /stupid/ Salt builds flavor and brings out the flavor while cooking. Too much salt is disgusting, but no salt is equally bland. Learn to talk to your wait staff, if you're going to eat out so often that the salt from restaurants is going to be a major issue.

  25. Re:Suicide? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    yeah not for a 3 year old :)