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  1. "You" != you personally! on Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP · · Score: 1

    Here, "you" clearly means someone at a single point in time accessed the internet *via* an IP address traceable to a known account holder.
    This has been debated endlessly and surely is common knowledge amongst those supposed to know better.

  2. Re:P0WN3D! on German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad · · Score: 2

    I can't wait to see what TV's Apple come up with which aren't large, square, thin, black rectangular devices controlled by a remote, of the type Samsung has led the market with for over a decade. Because if they don't, it will be "obvious to anyone with common sense viewing Apple's designs that Apple will be deliberately aping Samsungs designs. The dimensions would be the same, the look would be the same, the chargers and cables would be the same."

    iTouche.

  3. David Icke says the moon is a hollow spaceship on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    It's sending out brainwashing beams which make humans do things they definitely wouldn't do otherwise, such as thinking WP7 will ever get more than an Android rounding error in market share, etc.

  4. Re:Cyber Monday at IDC! on Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012? · · Score: 1

    Ahem, dunno how to say this without coming over all nit picky so forgive me, I'm not usually like this but need some "interesting" mod points :-)
    The phase "scapegoat" has mutated from the term "escape goat" in biblical times and referred to one of two goats sent for sacrifice which was allowed to get away: http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040924.htm

  5. Boy, it sure will be fun when Apple do TV's on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 2

    So according to Apple, if a competitor emulates the look and feel of its own products then they should be banned from the market? And they've just shat on Samsung with smartphones and tablets for this reason, yet are now planning to enter a different market Samsung has led for decades? I'm really looking forward to seeing what contraptions Apple come up with which aren't large, thin, black rectangular devices controlled with a remote for showing TV pictures on.

  6. But...Bing is Google merely reskinned? on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1, Informative

    How many damn times do people need telling?

  7. Re:Appillionaires? on Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ahem. Apple doesn't have the App Store. It has an App Store. And that's official. They lost their case precisely over this against ... Amazon :-)

  8. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. on Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents · · Score: 2

    So *that's* what he meant - he'd just seen this list.

  9. Speaking of Apples twisted logic... on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 1

    There's serious talk now of them manufacturing a TV. Now if they do, they'll be entering a market dominated by the very competitor it just tried to stifle using its infamous "round corners" look and feel argument, and it even bullied a few weaker governments into banning their products - of course this competitor being Samsung. Now, lets think this through a moment - Apple want to make TV's. So, lets hope they make something other than a large 42" thin black rectangle which shows TV pictures, because that's exactly what Samsung have been making for years. Or if they do, what are the chances of those same governments applying their look and feel logic as before?

  10. Are users still considered too dumb to change it? on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems · · Score: 1

    This is where whatevr thinkign went into sealing down the battery comes a cropper - there has to be absolutely no chance whatsoever of there being problems with it, such as draining so quickly a spare becomes essential. Whoops!

  11. Just as there's no Nokia plot either on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    Elop chose the best tool for the job, which happened to be WP7, and apart from him being the 8th largest m$ shareholder when he took the job doesn't have any hidden agenda at all. You can trust Microsoft.

    That ok Steve?

  12. Re:What was the point of this exercise? on Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate · · Score: 1

    s/scientologist/lawyer

  13. Re:Ubiquitous Windows on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the new m$ business model. They most definitely do want you to be able to open it, but for a fee extorted by anyone writing the tool which lets you do so. Nowadays extortion beats innovation and as their relevance seeps away day by day it's their only desperate way forward.

  14. Has everyone forgotten the OOXML scandal? on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 0

    Is anyone outside m$ really considering letting them define what a freaking file is from now on after this?. But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Surely once Microsoft has bullied their shit into everything once again, we can all trust them and no one will end up having to pay any kind of extortion racket like this, and this, this, this and this.

  15. Re:Just making sure Google is listening... on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah? Even now Chrome has overtaken FF in the UK with the writing clearly on the wall for the rest of the world?

  16. Re:Whats this "instead of Google" shit? on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 0

    "We gave 20 of our engineers laptops with a fresh install of Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer 8 with Bing Toolbar installed. As part of the install process, we opted in to the “Suggested Sites” feature of IE8, and we accepted the default options for the Bing Toolbar.

    We asked these engineers to enter the synthetic queries into the search box on the Google home page, and click on the results, i.e., the results we inserted. We were surprised that within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing. Below is an example: a search for [hiybbprqag] on Bing returned a page about seating at a theater in Los Angeles. As far as we know, the only connection between the query and result is Google’s result page (shown above)."

    These fresh Windows installs had additional seeded toolbars? I call BS, and if it was a lie this page would not have been up for so long, knocking back every m$ attempt to wriggle out of it you can come up with.
    But please, keep trying - watching m$ astroturfers squirm this way is hilarious.

  17. Re:Whats this "instead of Google" shit? on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 1

    torsorophy buddy, aka irrefutable smoking gun. Try googling it.

  18. Whats this "instead of Google" shit? on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I thought they merely skinned Google and called it their own?

  19. Re:Nokia Whore 800 on Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone · · Score: 2

    In Finnish, Elop means "Trojan".

  20. That's good new for Android fans. on Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone · · Score: 1

    If these are so easy to flash then they'll be useful in a few months when the mountains of unsold ones start to appear on eBay.

  21. Re:and what about xerox's stuff? on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Why is the Beatles record label so concerned about mobile phones? Or are you talking of some other Apple, one which clearly came years later and stole their name?

  22. Re:Brace yourself for flying chairs on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    He might not like Google, but he's no problem merely skinning their search engine and calling it his own.

  23. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why, its almost as if there's some mysterious gang out there who m$ pay by the article to post these canned rebuttals.

  24. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    Would that be like the way the Sony Ericsson P800 laid its touchable icons out in 2002?

  25. Re:He does have some good points on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is ample past evidence on Slashdot of the Seattle cut n pasters: an army of m$ shills paid to do no more than press F5 on Slashdots home page waiting to pounce with their trusty control-V's at the merest hint of criticism.