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  1. Re: iPhone vs Bible - 10 ways they look the same on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    Why does being an atheist cost more? It costs less in free time wasted sitting in church, less money in terms of tithes and donations, and less time trying to defend a belief in something that has no proof.

  2. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That's why we've made mediation mandatory before you can bring a case to family court.

  3. Re:What is going on here? on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    At that point, "windows activation crack" is a handy search term to use.

  4. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1
    The rules are easily found on the internet. Everything from how to draft and serve a lawsuit to pretty much everything else. And there's no better feeling than sandbagging the other side because they've assumed you're an idiot because you choose to defend yourself.

    Trolling slashdot is good preparation for anyone who wants to argue a case in court. You need to WANT to make the other side look as stupid as possible. That should motivate you to do your research.

  5. Re:The last thing anyone wants is their day in cou on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    My own experience is that I win 100% of the time against bogus criminal accusations, and suing the government. In both cases, the lawyers I had hired said to take the deal. In both cases I said "you're fired." Lawyers are stupid, same as everyone else.

  6. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    We have this tool that lets ordinary people do their own research. You may have heard of it. It's called the Internet. You can also avoid paying $20,000 or more for a lawyer by taking that same $20,000 to pay yourself to sit in court for a couple hundred hours and learn how it really works in practice, instead of TV shows. That's $100/hour tax-free.

    You'll also get to see people successfully prosecuting their own claims, and defending against others' claims. It's not as hard as it looks if you're reasonably intelligent.

  7. Re:Somehow relevant on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    If you're not updating anything, that means you're also not updating Skype.

  8. There are still CNC controllers running DOS. Software doesn't just stop working because it gets older.

  9. Re:If you have the time... on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 1

    In the meantime, there's also cygwin. And when your hardware finally dies, the landscape will probably have changed even more.

  10. "All those billions of normal people out there"?

    Are you forgetting all the Apple users? All the Chromebook users who have been popping up like weeds on university campuses? All the tablet and smartphone users?

    They are trying to lock people in because the desktop and laptop market is shrinking.

  11. Re:Long done on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because a version is out of support doesn't mean you can't legally use it. Your license doesn't automatically terminate (yet - this policy will change when it's a subscription service).

  12. Re:Not a SQLite problem on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Deleting record contents in dBASE was easy - just run a batch process every day that looks for any records with the deletion mark set and overwriting them. Or you could code your programs to overwrite the data before marking it as deleted. Records that were marked as deleted would eventually be overwritten anyway, but why depend on "eventually"? (In other words, it's the programmer's fault for not knowing the limitations of the software).

    Or you could just issue the PACK command, but raw disk reads will still show the data on the drive until it's overwritten.

    Clipper was the same thing.

    In both cases, it's in the accompanying manuals. Problem is, so many people just pirated the programs so they never read the manuals.

  13. Re:Why encourage them? on Stiglitz Calls Apple's Profit Reporting In Ireland 'a Fraud' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, if the goose is refusing to produce eggs anyway, might as well kill it and get some benefit. It's the same with milk cows. Also, your argument would be better if it had some substance - there's no such thing as a goose that lays golden eggs, and basing economic policy on an untrue fable is not a substantive argument.

    And screw you for the "dude" bit.

  14. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    Hey stupid - if they're making them and selling them to Apple, they're still products made by samsung, not apple. A product is something you produce. Apple doesn't produce the processors. They contract it out to samsung who produces the product for them. Same as all those car parts that are produced by sub-contractors who sell them to multiple car manufacturers.

  15. Re:Why encourage them? on Stiglitz Calls Apple's Profit Reporting In Ireland 'a Fraud' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you can personally try and take any of those from me, but you will pay with your life. which is why you cowards group together and have government do all your dirty work for you and think it's ok

    Another libertarian gun-nut. Nobody wants whatever you have. Big talker, but you never killed anyone up close and personal. Gotta hide behind your guns, like any other coward.

  16. Re:The last thing anyone wants is their day in cou on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Plea bargains are only for criminal cases. This is about civil cases. And there are plenty of people who successfully represent themselves in both criminal and civil cases.

  17. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 0
    Bull crap. 60% of all family court cases here (divorce, separation, child custody) already have 1 party representing themselves. Small claims courts here allow claims up to between $15k and $25k with no lawyers allowed on either side. A lawyer isn't required in any civil or criminal case except to handle the hearing of appeals at the Supreme Court.

    Read the biographies of some of the famous lawyers, they will tell you how totally unprepared law school left them for court. Courts are used to incompetent lawyers because there are so many of them. One guy pretended to be a lawyer for two years, representing clients, arguing cases, etc., before he was caught. When he had served his time, he went right back to it. Couldn't have been much worse than this rogue's gallery.

  18. Why encourage them? on Stiglitz Calls Apple's Profit Reporting In Ireland 'a Fraud' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Force them. It get's their attention quicker, and there's less chance of a sweetheart deal or some sort of forgiveness. Failure to do so could result in sanctions such as loss of all copyrights and other IP. Get them by the short curlies, and their minds will follow.

    The time for polite talks is way past.

  19. Re:What is going on here? on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    You forgot about (1) re-installing 7 or 8/8.1, or installing a previous version of Windows that will actually run all that old software that the current one can't.

  20. Re:Somehow relevant on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    With updates permanently disabled? I doubt it. And if they do, just either boot your original install partition to get back to a factory restore, or use your backup USB key to re-install.

  21. So then it will never get updated. What do I care?

  22. It's the new trend. on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Every anniversary they'll disable something else. Eventually you won't even be able to save files locally. And everyone will cheer because "it's now ALL in the cloud."

    The concept of "your" data will become as obsolete as "your" computer.

  23. Re:Windows as a Service on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    I'd install FreeDOS before I'll do that. Or just go back to XP, because I really don't see any substantial advantage except for 64-bit support and larger disk and file support. Be able to play SimCity again too.

  24. Re:iPhone vs Bible - 10 ways they look the same on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    The malware you speak of is produced by a 3rd party - and malware is also available for Apple products.

    No, of course not. Because you are one of those Linux/Android "fanbois" (fangirls?)

    At this point I'm not a fan of any one operating system. Not Windows, not BSD derivatives, not Linux. Realistically, they all suck - just at different things in different ways. Same as more and more the whole Internet has become one massive suckage. We would probably have been better off without it.

  25. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    And yet Apple buys those ARM processors from Samsung - they're one of Samsung's products. And they're not the only ARM manufacturer out there.