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  1. Re:SOME GUY LOST SOME FILES on Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups · · Score: 1

    Because that 'some guy' is the infamous kdawson.

  2. Re:This is why people should fix their own compute on Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He'd rather dick around with his guitar and TV than become informed about a two ton device that can kill others and that is one of the most likely instruments in a premature death of his children. His priorities are clear.

  3. Re:And now you can have a superior PC for $500 les on Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD · · Score: 1

    I guess his parents make him go to bed at 9:00 or so. His rants had actually gone from annoying to entertaining by the end.

  4. Re:Since this thing attacks Firesheep on Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep · · Score: 1

    Airwolf.

    An alcohol fueled browser?

  5. Re:Amiga on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, your anecdotal recollection of events a generation ago do indeed trump sales figures. How silly of everyone else.

  6. Re:Amiga on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    And people think that iOS or Android partisans are fanboys. Nothing in history has ever approached the rantings of an Amigan. Witness how they act 20 years after their platform joined the dustbin of computing history. The Moonies in airports aren't as devout and uncritical. Cult of Jobs? A pale imitation of the cult of Commodore.

  7. Re:AOL on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    You know, I heard that one of the sites they bought was TechCrunch.

  8. Re:It's that time again, eh? on Failed Controller-Free Gaming Devices of the Past · · Score: 1

    We used the power glove for Top Gun, but it was still ass as a controller. There was a little bit of gimmick to it, but better results were elsewhere. The better controller for that was the big ass Nintendo joystick.

  9. Re:Larry Summers' legacy on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    Interesting rant. But for future reference, s/NAFTA/GATT. Passed at roughly the same time, GATT is far more insidious and a more direct cause of the inability of the US to avoid foreign dumping. NAFTA gets the press and Mexicans get the blame, but GATT gets cheap plastic crap into WalMart.

  10. Re:gmhowell: Professional "big talking" LOSER @ /. on Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit · · Score: 1

    Awesome, are you the troll that was trolling tomhudson a few months ago, that in a fit of troll Tourette's started lashing out at everyone who laughed at you? Still living in the homeless shelter oh genius one?

  11. Re:Question: why sue? on Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit · · Score: 1

    Because Lawyers need to eat and don't like fighting over carrion with the flying vultures.

    FTFY.

  12. Re:GREY! on First Chrome OS Notebooks Due This Month · · Score: 1

    "Slated" to arrive? Punny.

  13. Re:score one for open source on Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it remain to be seen if these patched versions are actually pushed to handsets?

  14. Re:Prop 19 could really use ... on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not justifying it based on past actions. I'm pointing out that modern actions are not unique.

    The reason so few have attempted to "rise above that crap and actually limit their message to a truthful one" is because it is typically unsuccessful. You are wrong that honesty would gain more traction. That is wishful thinking.

  15. Re:Ebay on Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? · · Score: 1

    I thought one purchased (or rented) tang on craigslist, not eBay?

  16. Re:Prop 19 - The airline stimulus package! on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    I work for an organization that is known to exempt itself from petty rules like that. Legally.

  17. Re:Feudalism and the new serfdom? on Facebook Buys a Private File Sharing Service · · Score: 1

    Serfs were bound to the land. Serfs couldn't leave even if they wanted to. Is Zuckerberg buying land? I don't think so! Are the baronies adjacent to Lord Zuckberberg's estate going to return his fleeing employees to the custody of His Lordship's baliffs?

    Zuckerberg would be a lot cooler if he did.

  18. Re:Prop 19 could really use ... on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    It has always been this way. Ask Aaron Burr.

  19. Re:No iPads are $500 because they are Apple on Apple Counter-Sues Motorola Over Touchscreen Patents · · Score: 1

    Funny how everyone forgets the $1000 predicted sticker price when ranting about how expensive the $500 iPad is.

  20. Re:Google and Prop 19 on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 2, Informative

    Economics, you fail it.

  21. Re:Seems reasonable on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    Are those results with google.com or google.br (is that the right TLD?)? Wonder if there is a difference.

  22. Re:As Long As O'Donnel Loses on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    When I first mentioned to my parents that an idiot like Palin could never win, they pointed out that I was too young to remember what an idiot everyone thought Reagan was in 1976.

  23. Re:FTFY on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    No wonder your homeopathic remedies don't work: according to wikipedia, you have to rap the container of the super dilute whatever to make it work.

  24. Re:Prop 19 could really use ... on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    Some honesty. If either side was actually honest about their side of the issue, they could gain more traction. But when the pro side of the issue can't be honest about what they want, they shouldn't be surprised when people don't find their argument convincing.

    Yourself included, or are you still pretending that actual dope use leads to Reefer Madness type behaviour and homemade beer and wine are major causes of blindness?

  25. Re:Prop 19 - The airline stimulus package! on Predicting Election Results With Google · · Score: 1

    The AC is correct, if vitriolic. I work for an employer that has pre-employment drug screenings. I specifically asked if a trip to Amsterdam exempted me. The long and short of it was "tough shit".

    But CA is the bellwether state with lots of legislation. With luck, it will be with marijuana.