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  1. Re: Mindshare on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And as far as I can tell those are the 'newest' Win8.1 handsets. Bought that flagship Lumia 1020? Well fuck you!

  2. Re:Why do they remind you of that? on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 1

    No, look, if Charlie Hebdo hadn't published their 'hate speech' then those terrorist attacks wouldn't have happened. So they've fixed the 'problem', by getting rid of the 'hate speech'.

  3. 'Brilliant' on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    This is some bullshit, will they be taking back my 10Gb 'loyalty bonus' as well?

    I'm only using 20Gb as it is. Guess I'll just have to move it elsewhere.

  4. Re:So in the US, it was all cartoons, all the time on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    All the best cartoons were shown on Saturday mornings either during Going Live / Live& Kicking or the ITV equivalent; X Men, Spiderman, The Racoons, Animaniacs, Batman: TAS, Rugrats, Mysterious Cities of Gold and a heap of others I probably forget.

    Then there was Disney Club on Sunday which had Gummi Bears, Tailspin, etc

  5. Re:would you prefer geothermal power? on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 2

    It was a trick question, geothermal requires fracking

  6. Re:Obvious troll is obvious on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 1

    If only there were groups of people releasing some sort of.. crack?.... that could avoid all this should this eventuality ever occur.

  7. Re:thorium OR ??? on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    How many solar panels would be required to 'pave over death valley'? Millions? Billions? how many miles of cable would be required? How long would this feat take? So long that by the time you install the last panel you're having to replace the first again? If you're going to make a suggestion like that, how about you include some math to show this is actually possible? I'll get you started, Death Valley is 3000square miles. Off you go.

  8. Re:would have been awesome had this happened -- on Twitter Seeking To Go Public · · Score: 1

    That's the point of the IPO!

  9. Re:A computer? Newegg. NK government spends $$$ on S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines · · Score: 1

    Funded by what? What is NK exporting that gives them money to actually buy shit?

  10. Re:Good riddance on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the good old days of British telecom, where you were put on a waiting list of months to have a phone line installed and you could only pick one model of telephone in a choice of three colours.

  11. Re:Antibiotic Placebo? on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 1

    "The pressures are generally quite the opposite under the NHS. It's generally a brilliant service, considering it's free to us "

    Yeah, free at point of entry maybe. Unless you're suspected of having some critical illness, try getting an MRI scan that doesn't involve a 3-6month wait. Of course, they'll happily take £500 off you to speed it along.

  12. Re:EA is a toy maker, not a game maker. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    It's more sinister than that. By going down the road of always online DRM they ensure that only one Origin account holder can only play one game from their Origin library at any given time.

    If all their future games were to have this DRM then you can't play Game X whilst your spouse or siblings play Game Y on another computer in the house.

  13. Re:Well... on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    Depending on what consoles you own have you tried using their controllers with your PC for those games that would benefit?

  14. Re:Always on = !on on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    Um, Borderlands 2 is £14.99 RIGHT NOW

    Alan Wake is £5.74

    Max Payne 3 was recently available for £7.49

  15. Re:Um, DUH? on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    The irony of this being that back in the day Facebook would ask to rifle through your Hotmail (and probably others) contacts to add them on Facebook!

  16. Re:What's the point? on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, there's one here from Twitter. Burn him!

  17. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    and how did that work out for McVeigh?

  18. Re:cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    'Done easily'? Well sure, as soon as the GPU's that can run that sort of resolution with the settings maxed out at a constant 60fps get released and become affordable. I imagine you could do it now but it'd require some expensive SLI / Crossfire configuation.

  19. Re:American Revolution on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 2

    It's a pointless fantasy not even worth considering. It wouldn't even get that far because any insurgency would be stopped before it got off the ground and those people detained as terrorists and inarcerated forever. The media would 'inform' the populace about the threat of domestic terrorism and scare the shit out of them as usual and the populace would simply dismiss the insurgents as nutjob lunatics.

    McVeigh is a perfect example of this. This was his exact motivation, a tyrannical government, but do you see any huge support for his actions? Of course not.

  20. Re:Nothing related to guns can be considered "smar on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: -1, Troll

    McVeigh was also motivated by his fear that an oppresive government was going to take away his firearms. So he stood up to what he believed was an oppresive government and took them head on. He was incarcerated and killed for his beliefs. Funny how all those pro-gun people who trot out the "we need to defend ourselves agaisnt the government" revile Mcveigh rather than actually look up to him for doing exactly what they claim they need their guns for!

  21. Re:Freezy Freakies on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    And what do Red and White sound like?

  22. Re:No harm done on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Are you saying she didn't die a 'real heroine' trying to take on the guy unarmed? are you fucking retarded?

  23. Re:man, that is stupid. cyber think crime, no than on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    But it's okay, cos you still got your 2nd amendment and guns to stop them doing this shit! Oh, wait..

  24. Re:it tells you one thing, at least on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    The ones where the freedom fighters had backing from other nations? How's that working out in, say, Egypt, for example?

  25. Re:it tells you one thing, at least on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Timothy McVeigh was merely rising up against what he thought was a tyrannical government. He was declared sound of mind. He wasn't mental, he believed in his cause. Kind of ironic considering one of the arguments from the pro-gun side is the ability to overthrow a tyrannical government.

    Given Mcveighs success with that, how do the rest of you think this is a scenario that will ever happen?