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  1. Re:why Java? on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 1

    What would be more appropriate here than Java?

    C? C++? Java is innovating itself into the ground. Have you read the Java 7 documents?

  2. Re:Used "a program" ? on Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's · · Score: 1

    Does that measure the quality of the touchscreen or the quality of the web browser?

  3. Re:Apple's store ain't much better on Malicious App In Android Market · · Score: 1

    Which is why I said it hasn't violated it. It's at Apple's discretion as to when an app violates that clause. As long as the app is available, you can be sure that particular clause hasn't been violated.

    Violation status can change.

  4. Re:Apple's store ain't much better on Malicious App In Android Market · · Score: 1

    The fact that it's available on the app store means that it hasn't violated "we may reject your application for any reason whatsoever" clause of Apple's policy.

    Call it a strong hunch.

  5. Re:Use an Outbound Firewall on Malicious App In Android Market · · Score: 1

    So why are there so few viruses for their platform?

    You argue that it's due to popularity. I buy that. That's why as the Mac went from a little under 5% market share since Job took over to 10%, the number of viruses for the Apple platform has also doubled likewise!

    I mean look at all the viruses for iPods that are running out there! If only the iPods were less popular, I'm 100% certain there would be less viruses for it.

  6. Re:Use an Outbound Firewall on Malicious App In Android Market · · Score: 1

    Apple platform includes Mac OS X and is not limited to mobile.

    One could say that viruses haven't spread significantly on mobile platforms. On traditional computing platforms, they are a real concern. Which again, you pointed out why Mac OS X is riddled with viruses.

  7. Re:Use an Outbound Firewall on Malicious App In Android Market · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This explains the explosive spread of viruses on the Apple platform!

  8. Re:cool, absolutely. but... on Samsung Develops a Transparent OLED Laptop Screen · · Score: 1

    And thus the term Butter Body was born

  9. Re:I can fully understand the operators on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 1

    I'm an stupid consumer. I bought my iPhone at an Apple store because I'm dumb. I have problems with it. WHERE DO I GO?!

  10. Re:Just Look At Her Other Garbage Articles on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 1

    How does criticism of Android tell you which kind of phone she has?

  11. Re:Specs don't matter on Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements · · Score: 1

    Why is having 100,000 useless apps better than having 30,000 useless apps?

    Choice!

  12. Re:::1 on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't reach loopback?

  13. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    My plan isn't to ban anything. My plan is the moment something becomes a threat to my survival, I eradicate it. If that means a whole nation, so be it. I'm still miffed we haven't nuked anything as of late to make a point.

  14. Re:Fuck you America ... on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Where has US military power got it in recent years? It has toppled a government in a far away land, at a vast cost to its economy, not to mention losing hundreds of military personnel and posting hundreds of thousands away from their families for extended periods.

    Let's see here. It has a variety of bases in Iraq which happens to be west of Iran. It's friendly with Turkey which happens to be northwest of Iran. It has at least an aircraft carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf which happens to be south of Iran. It has multiple bases in Afghanistan which happens to be east of Iran. It's friendly with and has crossed the borders into Pakistan to carry out military operations without repercussion. Oh did I mention Pakistan is also east of Iran?

    If you think Iraq and Afghanistan were about terrorism or oil, you're two moves behind in the game.

  15. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 0, Troll

    Would you care if the plane that crashes just kills you, your family, and any pets you may have? What if instead of crashing a plane, someone just kills you, your family, and your pet but save the hassle of air travelers? We'd save a whole aircraft too!

    Or is it totally different when your survival is on the line?

  16. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Prior to 9/11, air hijacks resulted in the passengers as hostages. After 9/11, the reality is that an aircraft is now a weapon. The impetus that would allow NORAD command to authorize the downing of a civilian craft that has been hijacked is the same impetus that drives passengers to attack bombers/hijackers instead of being passive.

    The game has changed. It's like the day after Hiroshima. You wake up thinking "Oh shit, things are different. Really fucking different."

  17. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Blackmail works great. I figure all politicians are crooked. All you have to do is figure out what they're crooked about.

  18. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aircrafts not intended to US airspace is handled by NORAD. Aircrafts we know will be entering airspace is checked at the anal probe line. Aircrafts that we don't know about that enters US airspace is handled by shot-range air-to-air missiles after sufficient warnings have been given over radio.

  19. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, just blue balls.

  20. Re:Turnabout may be a fair remedy to bad policy... on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    "Whites" that until early last year had held the highest office in the country since its creation

    So how's he doing? Other than the fantastic jobs creation work he's diligently doing I mean.

  21. Re:China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Does this prove anything?

    It proves that the legal position of porn has nothing to do with women empowerment and the argument that equality for women is possible by making porn illegal is bullshit.

  22. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is about flights that are only traveling through US airspace, not landing in the US, so they are already not going there.

    Someone hijacks a flight passing through US airspace but not landing in it to pull off an attack similar to the attack on the World Trade Center. That's the reason for the condition. Whether the existence of the condition is necessary or not is up for debate, but that's the reason those conditions exist.

  23. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I once stared into the abyss. Then the abyss stared right back at me. We started making out. I got to third base before we stopped. The abyss told me it wasn't that kind of abyss.

  24. Re:What's this 'we' thing ? on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    Culture is a virus.

  25. Re:China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Fully empowered and successful, a woman in the public or private sector will rise out of the general population. Case in point, one Sarah Palin. Unless you think that her background is upper class.

    The same applies to men, incidentally.

    There's a secret to political leadership in democratic societies. The first skill that leads to political success is fund raising. The art of fund raising is directly related to your ability to convince other people to open their wallets and give you money to run your campaign. There's a reason why no democratically elected politician is poor. If you know how to fund raise, making money is trivial. If you can't convince people to contribute to your campaign, getting their vote is likely to be just as difficult.