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  1. Re:Nice on Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo?
    It's not their product. They only purchased a license to trow even more money in Apple's direction.

  2. Re:Nice on Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    So, an attempt to interfere in the carrier's pricing is alright, because the manufacturer only has a twenty or so percent market share?

  3. Nice on Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Meddling in the deals between the carriers and the customers has been a tradition of theirs since the first iPhone. So it couldn't have happened to a more deserving corporation.

    Too bad the fine itself is so laughably low that it's probably less than their yearly budget for toilet paper in their locations around the world.

  4. Re:For a dying language Ruby is doing great on Ruby 2.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    These things take their time.
    ColdFusion is still around as well, even though Adobe is trying its hardest to kill it off for good.

  5. Re:Advancing in what direction? on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rackable? It's a workstation not a server.

    There's actually a third-party rack in the works for these. Think of something like a wine rack, but designed to hold these instead.

  6. Laptops? on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Finally take care of the goddamn desktop market where the lion's share of commercial work is being done!!!

  7. Re:He's the President. on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 2

    Well, she could be storing illegal nuclear weapons in her basement ...

  8. Re:Ungrateful krauts on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    That's an approach you'll see in many European countries.
    Most university graduates will produce more than enough taxes through their higher income and the revenue generated through their work to make up for the absence of tuitions at government-financed universities.

  9. Re:Ungrateful krauts on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    IIRC the German government is planning to introduce one, roughly $11.65 at the current exchange rate.

  10. Re:Thanks on France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA · · Score: 2

    It's already going on on a smaller scale.
    After the US, Germany and a few other countries have adopted the concept of "Free Speech Zones" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone ) the Russians are now planning to do the same: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-protest-zone-at-2014-sochi-olympics-20131210,0,7900728.story#axzz2n6VNDMNf

  11. Re:Best Use of Time? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    Look at the names. These two have taken up residence up the asses of so many lobby groups, even the NSA couldn't get a reliable location on them.

  12. Why? on Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kinda strange, since Canonical and the Gnome guys definitely deserve each other.

  13. Re:Plug-ins on Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Depends.
    A third-party web application our company uses encountered Javascript problems in Firefox 24. Waiting for five minutes until Firefox 25 showed up fixed the problem again.

  14. Re:Hamburg regional court on German Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding · · Score: 1

    Pretty much.

  15. Wrong angle on IRS Left Taxpayer Data Vulnerable and Lied About It · · Score: 1

    It's just their way of streamlining the ways the NSA can grab off everyone's data.

  16. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Firefox is not a browser on Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release · · Score: 2

    Well, it allows you to visit websites while you're waiting for the next update. That's why people mistake it for a browser.

  18. The money isn't in the energy itself but in producing more and more efficient hardware to harvest that energy so the customer has a financial incentive to upgrade.

  19. Re:This is Ridiculous on Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally · · Score: 1

    That's basically the problem in a nutshell.

  20. Re:Can someone remind me? on Federal Prosecutors, In a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps As Evidence · · Score: 1

    How are we, the U.S., different from East Germany?

    They actually had a working health care system for everyone, the unemployment rate was zero, they were better at rigging their elections, you would've never found something as laughable as the Mexican border, ... ;)

  21. Quick question on USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else misread the title as "USB Implanters ..." and think of http://xkcd.com/644/ ???

  22. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    True!

    Python seems to be especially popular among mathematicians.
    Thinking back to my university days and how Matlab tended to piss me off at every opportunity, I can't really fault them for that.

  23. After the smear campaign the UK government and their willing accomplices at the Daily Fail are running I'm glad they're actually beginning to ramp it up instead of backing away:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450291/The-Guardian-produced-handbook-help-fanatics-strike-will.html

  24. Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 2
  25. Re:Who cares about? on Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line · · Score: 1

    It's actually the best description I've seen in a long time.