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  1. Re:This is a good thing on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    Yeah, instead PSS just says "I don't know when the devs will have a fix for this issue..." then *crickets*.

    Glad we pay MS all that money for SA!

  2. Re:Ouch. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    And IBM was raking it in because both sides were using their machines to do this.

  3. Re:I do not trust Chinese manufacturing, BUT .... on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    Civil suit means the lawyers get shit tons of money and the defrauded consumers are given a check for $20 towards another replacement air bag, so they still lose.

  4. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 2

    One could argue that civilized people don't imprison people for extended periods of time. One could also argue that civilized people don't imprison people at all. So what do you do with someone who is hellbent on killing everyone?

    I vote for exile by trebuchet.

  5. Madagascar? on Ebola Outbreak Kills 13 In Uganda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Madagascar shut down yet?

  6. Re:Maniacs, all maniacs on Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million · · Score: 1

    This just shows that FOSS fanatics are maniacs in real life too, and can't be trusted. I mean come on, you put your business into hands of these maniacs? Maniacs!

    Just like every corporation is run by the likes of Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff.

  7. Re:No designer outfits. on Creating Budget Space Suits For the Private Space Industry · · Score: 1

    Is there really a need for the suits in the first place? For extra vehicular missions sure, but not all flights would have them and nor would all occupants need them? How many times have there been situations that the suit prevented injury or the lost of life? I don't call myself a Space historian, but from my recollection, having space suit did not help Apollo 1, Challenger or Columbia astronauts escape from their emergencies, nor were the Apollo 13 astronauts saved by theirs. Or is it really there to provide a false sense of security?

  8. Re:Not really on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, YouTube doesn't try to extort $20000 from content owners that do choose to submit DMCA takedowns either.

  9. Re:OK but... on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 1

    Don't worry every site you visit will be sent to Microsoft so they can follow up with each site and make sure they are following DNT correctly.

  10. Re:Face Palm on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 2

    They invents a TON of technology, but everyone uses it without licensing. So they are dying.

    They actually invent things,
    People rip them off,
    and on /. THEY are the bad guys.

    The reason is that on /., most of us think the missing step in the Profit meme should be "make a useful product and sell it", not "patent troll".

  11. Re:Good reason not to go there... on London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics · · Score: 1

    The police don't bother with the central traffic control, they just flip their lights on to make all the lights turn green for them.

    I figure it means Krispy Kreme just turned on their sign.

  12. Re:hmm on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    The "DRM Infrastructure" is trivial for authors and publishers, I'd not dare to call it "Infrastructure" at all. Also, costs are usually insignificant: you usually protect an entire work, not individual copies.

    Yes, the costs are so trivial that Wal-mart, Microsoft, and Yahoo all tried to shut down their DRM servers and only caved to the backlash, with no promises that they would remain on forever. If the costs are so trivial, then why bother with shuttering the services?

  13. Re:release the source? on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    That is the fault whomever made the decision to use Gentoo. Gentoo has never been a good solution for long term support. Gentoo is about as bleeding-edge as distros get and old versions of software tend to drop off very fast. If you stability, then go with Debian.

  14. Re:Census Violates the 5th Amendment on Confidentiality Expires For 1940 Census Records · · Score: 1

    If the government wants to kick in your door to frame you as a terrorist one morning, they are not going to the Census Bureau to find out that you answered that your leave your house at 7:15 every morning. More likely they will notice that your credit card data tells them you stop to buy a coffee from a Starbucks a few blocks away every morning at 7:20 and infer they should kick down your door before that.

    You forget Wal-mart and Target likely know more about you than the government does and they do not have a 72-year confidentiality clause.

  15. Re:Census Violates the 5th Amendment on Confidentiality Expires For 1940 Census Records · · Score: 1

    I guess if someone is dumb enough to list "Drug Dealer" as his occupation rather than "Unemployed".

    To be worried about the Census Bureau having your name, age and address is stupid, Law Enforcement can already get it from the IRS, SSA, or state DMV databases, and that's just a few and they are likely much more up-to-date than the Census Bureau's data.

  16. Re:What's the hype? on Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Film · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, no one has to jailbreak their Linux install to run their own applications. You can in fact unpack the source, compile and run just about any software from within ~. One only needs root to install it globally.

    Repos generally only provide supported packages and are not a walled-garden. In fact many distros make it trivial to create custom repos.

  17. Re:How else they gonna do it? on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that the longest distance in Great Britain is ~600 miles North to South, that is roughly distance from New York City to Cincinnati. It is still another 2100 miles from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. The amount of coordination required to get all of that escort in place to move nuclear material from coast-to-coast means just about everyone would know when these trucks were moving.

  18. Real Thieves of Hollywood... on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it is hilarious that the RIAA has convinced artists that it is the file sharers stealing millions from them all while the record labels play their accounting tricks for "recouping" costs.

  19. Re:There are enough people. on Mouse Sperm Cells Grown In Vitro · · Score: 2

    We produce plenty of food globally. The problem is distribution.

  20. Re:Figures on Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers · · Score: 1

    No. When there is a Republican president, then it was the last Democrat president's fault, even 8 years later. When there is a Democrat president, its his fault.

  21. Re:It seems... on Two Porn Companies Take ICANN and .xxx Registrar To Court · · Score: 1

    Considering the way many Americans treat guns, gun should be in .xxx too.

  22. Re:Newsflash: publishing software involves expense on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 1

    Except using a self-signed cert is as useful as no cert at all. The typical customer is not going to call you to compare the keys to verify that the self-signed cert is legit.

  23. Re:Really? We're going to trust ICANN with this? on Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Hmm, I don't think that the (non-US) governments whose countries use those gTLDs were really keen for them to be controlled from the US...

    What you are referring to are ccTLDs, which are different from gTLDs. gTLDs are the non-country domains, such as .com, .net, .mobi or .aero.

  24. Re:Great for radio astronomy on 800Mbps Wireless Network Made With LED Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I don't believe this stills holds true, or if so, it is not enforced. I know for a fact there are many wifi networks within 30 miles of Green Bank and quite a few (if not the vast majority) did not get clearance to have them.

  25. Re:Pretty proud, eh? on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They even made a logo for it.

    So instead of just paying attention to whether the batteries are in correctly, they'll have to first pay attention to whether the device matters which way that batteries go.