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  1. Re:Accounting 101 on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That would be the point, no?

    That many of the copies downloaded would be unrealised sales in any case

  2. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Yep, different use cases for different people!

    It's so rare that I need to do full text search. I am usually looking for info on a promo from some company, or a specific message from the wife or something

  3. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Thunderbirds filter search is fantastic. Immediate response and filtering by subject or sender

  4. Re:Lack of development? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    really? I use thunderbird through an SSH proxy and that connection drops ALL THE TIME
    Thunderbird has little problem reconnecting and resuming email functions

  5. Re:gmail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    gmail is horrible for many functions that a native client offers. Much better multiple account support in Thunderbird, much easier to search by subject and see mail the way I want, not how google wants

  6. Nope... on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no way to guarantee nobody but the FBI can access these "back doors", or to guarantee that the FBI will do the right thing.

    The business model of the FBI needs to change.

  7. But I love it when slides are read to me on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 4, Informative

    The number of useful powerpoint presentations I have seen can be counted on one hand, but the number of presentations where all the presenter does is read, slowly, the slides to the room is uncountable...

  8. Re:You're dying off on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1

    2 year old VW Tiguan here, has a pretty crappy multimedia interface... support for Bluetooth on the phone side is decent, but zero controls on the media side. Treats steaming music like a plug in aux input.

  9. Hardly! on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1, Informative

    Cars will still cost a fortune and need to be reliable enough to get around for years.
    Just because it runs some fancy app interface that will be obsolete almost as soon as it's installed isn't really the reason to buy a specific brand or model of car.
    Head units are replaceable, even if the manufacturers keep trying to make it harder to do.

  10. Re:Just hire a CPA on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    The last time I went to a tax preparer that's basically what they did, they entered the numbers into their own system and charged me lotsa money

  11. Re:Just hire a CPA on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 2

    It's release day DLC that adds in features expected at the base price.

  12. Re:Not expensive for an audiophile device on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    The zx1 seems better and a lot cheaper, and has been on the market how long?

  13. Re:Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    What burden? The monetary and time cost of maintaining certificates for sites that just don't need them.

    If you're worried about the government watching everything you do then get a VPN service that encrypts all traffic so they can't even see what servers you are connecting to.

    Encrypting every single website is a huge burden on every single web operator.

  14. Re:Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The burden for this should be placed on each website operator, and not the end user who is browsing?

  15. Re:Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone need more?
    So many sites are read only with no exchange of data. No warning is needed for these.

  16. Re:Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It also increases costs and management overhead.
    Does Fred Bloggs lyrics site need to be SSL? Probably not. But throwing a warning up is going to cause fear, uncertainty and doubt.

  17. Re:Hmmmm ... legality? on Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny · · Score: 1

    The people that buy 10, 20, 50 of these mispriced items and then bitch they didn't get their products....
    Obviously they KNOW it's a mistake, so screw them

  18. Re:not quite on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    That people will watch it instead of something else that is also for free, or doing something else that is free, is.

  19. Re:not quite on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Why? It's one of the highest rated shows on TV and the cast get paid a lot of money to be in it. Whether you like it is irrelevant.

  20. Re:not quite on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might want to check your sources there. At least two of those shows are on regular TV stations.

  21. Re:not quite on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except for Game of Throne, and The Walking Dead, and True Blood, and The Good Wife, and Big Bang Theory and a whole host of other shows that somehow still get made and watched.

  22. not quite on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    billions still watch TV. Not quite dead yet

  23. Re:Jealous Android users on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 4, Funny

    as with most of the features in iOS 8, android had it years ago

  24. Re:Simple Emacs vs. Vi? on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Yep, good luck managing dozens or hundreds of servers that only have vi on it.
    Granted, it does matter what your use case is, but most boxes do not have emacs on it so the need to know that is a heck of a lot smaller in many cases.

  25. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    I got that, too. The extra layer was indeed amusing