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  1. Re:True, but... on Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund · · Score: 1

    Windows ME

  2. Re:frosty piss on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did you have a santorum afterwards?

  3. Re:Not all religions are bad on Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 · · Score: 1

    Uh, Islam is from the western world?

  4. Re:From someone that lives in the Silicon Valley on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    One thing wrong with most Americans ... "starter home" is in their vocabulary.

    Guess what?
    I live in a ~1850 sq ft 3 bdrm, 2 bath, no car garage house and am debt free with about 900k in securities and savings (not including the equity of my house).

    You people have twisted goals.

  5. Re:Strange animal on Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming · · Score: 1

    I see cleavage. Very odd for a book on HTML5.

  6. Re:good on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 1

    I like this description of this morning's clearing:

    A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the mayor’s office.

  7. Re:If everyone was happy on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    I am definitely a JPM individual stockholder and very likely through one of the index funds in my 40x plan.

    Being a common stockholder really holds no water. The networked board makes the decisions no matter what. I'm not saying I'm powerless, but, we are powerless.

    Things like sports keep people interested in something else. Entertainment in general keeps people happy, it's a diversion. And I am one who rails against the high salaries of entertainers, kingly sums really. But I only rail so far because what's it get me? I'd rather enjoy life and so far things are good.

    As a 10%er I'm concerned.

  8. Re:If everyone was happy on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    A. Wake up call? I NEVER said I "hated" them.
    A1. Maybe there was some generalization there, but, I still support a 1%'er tax hike - period. Hard work yes, but those extreme compensation examples do not happen all by themselves. We pay for too much military, police and fire personnel with lifetime handsome livings, good highway systems, clean water, etc... Not a single 1%er did anything alone.
    A2. I agree that fairly taxing 1%ers will not shift power down. Nothing will but it's a completely separate problem of lack of actual democracy. The irony of the US "democracy" persists. The actual sort of plutocracy/oligarchy persists.

    B. You don't know fascism.

    C. Economic feudalism is more like it. I come from a very humble background here in the US. I put myself through two degrees, served in the military, and have been fortunate. I am the only one in my family to go to college. I see many of my nieces/nephews awash and adrift in a place that doesn't really have a place for them.
    Ca. As much as I want to shoot laser beams at Rick Perry, one thing he has proposed is the $10K degree. Now academics mumble that you get what you pay for, you can't get an education for this amount, blah blah blah. But what RP is kind of calling for is not a liberal arts education but a trade tract for individuals. You get a trade or occupation after a 10k investment. Period. It's a great idea to have thrown out there. Love it. We should acknowledge and help people find paths more and this would do it...

  9. Re:delusional? on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    I have met these ... and those with pollyannaish tendencies (a different vector of delusion really). In the US, a lot of people tend to like folks such as these, take them on as subordinates, and promote them to their peter principle level. Not many adults enjoy the truth I've learned.

  10. Re:If everyone was happy on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    If you really think everyone "works" for what they have then you haven't been in the workforce long have you? Jesus.

    Furthermore, if we are talking about the 1%: these guys aren't the risk takers, they aren't the job creators, they aren't the innovators. They are like Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan since 1995. He's seen his overall compensation between 9 million and 30 million all the while returning what to shareholders? Nothing. JPM the stock, which joe worker might rely upon either as a single equity or as part of an index fund has remained absolutely flat returning a paltry dividend only.
    No, the likes of the good ol' person networked CEO is that they are glorified, overpaid managers. They are not the people who have worked hard for what they have.

    Any talk of raising taxes today in the US probably does not affect you. I can say this with reasonable assumption only because it's a small percentage who make that kind of money.

  11. RIP on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Probably the only company to fly a pirate flag.

    Probably the only company to dedicate their home page to eulogize someone (not Steve Jobs himself).
    http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_Honors_Rosa_Parks_on_Home_Page/

    RIP Steve Jobs. You were a hero, an artist, innovator, and visionary of the likes we will not know. More people, businesses, and campuses should fly pirate flags.

  12. Re:Damn on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    ... or using CASH.

  13. Re:Just remember on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 1

    I don't believe this reedit thing was around when I joined /. -- pray tell troll?

  14. Just remember on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 2

    Unless you are buying ads from Google you are not a user to them, you are a product to them.

    YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!

  15. Well on Hair Growth Signal Dictated By Fat Cells · · Score: 1

    I'm a bald.

    And I don't give a flying shit about hair restoration.

  16. Re:FUD on Compromised WordPress Blogs Poison Google Image Searches · · Score: 1

    More haters gotta hate with the belittling speech codes. "precious designers"

    Who the frack said they were precious?
    Why do you suppose they are precious?
    Why do you presume they will automatically screw up?

    I've known people from all stripes of ambition and career to screw up, none inherently more than another.
    I'd go into stories of monumental screw ups specifically regarding networking crew, application programmers, or systems admins I've worked with but to what end?

    Take your bulloney elsewhere.

  17. FUD on Compromised WordPress Blogs Poison Google Image Searches · · Score: 1

    No data released on the actual WP installations but it does provide GREAT FODDER for haters who gotta hate here on /. whining on about designers, html coders, etc... trying to swing big wood when in fact they too are just a bag of water.

    Anyway.

    I'd like to see data on the WP installations. What versions, what plugins, where any of the very basic security measures taken (strong password, file level permissions, proper .htaccess).

    And then I'd like to learn if they are installations which are manually installed vs. via an install manager at their ISP.
    Big difference in awareness and in fairness to some of the ill-worded tripe above, this is in fact about good Design practice versus casual access.

    FWIW...

  18. Hey on Girls Go Geek Again · · Score: 1

    S/He said girls. ...

    it's a good thing.

  19. Re:The Key on Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it doesn't matter who is the dragger on the updates, it hurts the platform, the platform's appearance and more importantly the user experience. "Oh, Android? That's the phone I got instead and I remember not being able to update."

    http://bit.ly/ftRUxv
    GOOG vs AAPL
    Don't even think of adding in a company who actually relies on shipping Android hardware into this comparison, it would be more crushing.

    Disclosure: very happy long AAPL holder.

  20. The Key on Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market · · Score: 1, Informative

    The key word here is SHIPPED, not sold.

    All "tablets" reported from AAPL's quarterly were SOLD, not merely shipped and waiting to be bought.

    Whatevers though, small point, and many Android tablets will be sold but the fragmentation will not abate.

  21. Awesome Post on Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business? · · Score: 1

    This is why my visits to /. have gone from multiple times per day to maybe once a week.

    An anonymous reader?@!
    For reals?

    And then this anonhole writes:
    > The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources.

    Oh, because it's not like you can burn disk image onto physical media or anything like that.

    Not that IT professionals are that capable anyway.

    And writes this:
    > Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.

    And this is utter FUD as well. It's well known the EULA explicitly allows this.

    This mouth breathing OP should be deleted.

  22. Re:Link to their blog post on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Blind? I am sight enabled dude(tte). Such disrespect from someone who doesn't know me. I'm making a pretty darn rational analysis above yet you are based in fear.

    Incidentally, I am a small time investor and have shares in AAPL, AMZN, && NFLX. All three have busted GOOG and especially MSFT the past 5 years. I keep a close eye on all three companies and feel great about their futures.

  23. Re:Link to their blog post on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Wah?

    Hello. What about Amazon's Kindle?
    I'd wager many people use the Kindle app.

    Perhaps the market didn't see an immediate need for a "unique AutoScrolling approach" ... and instead Kindle, Stanza (which Amazon gobbled up), and later iBooks provided a good enough model for reading books across multiple (excepting the iOS only iBooks) devices.

    But yeah, I'm sure it's all Apple's fault.

  24. And this is news how? on Bin Laden's Death Being Used To Spread Malware · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everything is used to spread malware. So Osama rates up there with child porn, penis enlargment, hair loss, belly fat, viagra, cheap drugs, and people wishing to deposit millions of dollars into your bank account?

  25. The only command on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    rm -r clothing*