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  1. Re:delay on Mars One Delayed 2 Years, CEO Releases Video In Response To Criticism · · Score: 1

    taking a wage is not embezzlement. they can take in wage and try to look for investors when on said wage and it's all nice and legit.

    of course it would be nice to have more money, so you offer a chance to get on the 100 list for more money.

  2. Re:Hardware is trusted on LightEater Malware Attack Places Millions of Unpatched BIOSes At Risk · · Score: 1

    just leave that portion writable and make everything else read only?

    besides, you would likely want to be notified if the boot disk was about to be changed anyways, wouldn't you?

  3. Re:Costs? on Mars One Delayed 2 Years, CEO Releases Video In Response To Criticism · · Score: 1

    actually, I think they would get similar viewership.

    but who would foot the bill in advance? friggin nobody.

    would they get to mars with 6 billion dollars? probably not.

  4. Re:Lack of funding on Mars One Delayed 2 Years, CEO Releases Video In Response To Criticism · · Score: 4, Funny

    come on, they only need couple of months for the paperwork to go through and then the nigerian space program will transfer the funds.

  5. Re:And the almond trees die. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    profitability depends on market prices and california isn't the only place growing them.

    now, if the farmers could instead of the almonds sell the water...? if it's state water services provided water and it's cheap enough to grow nuts, I don't really see there being a drought in the first place.

  6. Re:What kind of person did they study? on MRIs Show Our Brains Shutting Down When We See Security Prompts · · Score: 1

    well even knowing users might have had to deal with them enough that their brain shuts down.

    I mean, if daily launch a program that brings up a security prompt yes/no and you press yes every day and you know it's ok, it teaches you that there's nothing to think in that prompt and that it's mainly annoying.

    windows uac pops to mind. yes, yes, I want to update the graphics driver.....

  7. Re:That makes me take him MORE seriously on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    it's many strikes.

    furthermore, greenpeace works exactly like a multinational corporation in gathering funds.

    then they spend it on stupid stuff that accomplishes nothing, like trying to take over russian ships in what anyone else would describe as piracy.

    I mean, I'm living in what you could call rural Thailand, the other day at the mall there was a greenpeace booth - can't get away from them anywhere! luckily the facers here don't speak english. in a country that does not currently appear to have a constitution and has environmental problems - country where they could improve things like water management, waste disposal and number of other things to make the environment better - but they're here only to grab cash. Greenpeace is just a big show and hasn't had concern with actually changing the world in many, many years.

  8. Re:Running only Windows on a Mac on For Boot Camp Users, New Macs Require Windows 8 Or Newer · · Score: 1

    you can't boot it up in the "unsigned drivers are ok" mode then?

    that's one of the things that suck with windows 8/8.1.. going to the place to do that is a fucking chore so installing some cheapo duinos(or hell a makerbot replicator) is a chore.

  9. Re:They should go on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 1

    diesel isn't so bad now on passenger cars.

    very hard to enforce such a ban anyways, though it would be fairly simple to allow for full electrics. of course, this being about france, they'll probably just buy two shitty cars to drive every day anyways.

  10. Re:the nuclear theory is wrong on The Stolen Credit For What Makes Up the Sun · · Score: 1

    you got an electric university electricity generator for sale or something?

  11. Re:If they aren't doing anything wrong on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 2

    well, what future business plans could they have?

    it's a pretty simple business, sell the pipe. they want to divert the pipe to different site? fcc should say no. they want to make some site or other slower than another, on purpose? no.

  12. Re:How did we ever survive? on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 1

    it might have been due to them running an illegal street racing racket.

    the number is otherwise impossible, even in thailand.

  13. Re:Fuck off on The Stolen Credit For What Makes Up the Sun · · Score: 1

    you can steal accidentally.

    thing is, would he have thought of it otherwise? he had the mindset that it was made of same stuff as earth, was presented with (I presume some sort of technical/scientific) proof that it wasn't and dismissed it.

    then published the stuff later himself.

  14. Re:I dub all unswitchable hardware: disposable on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty certain MS will just make it so that if they make the device windows 10 only then the OEM gets the license for free.

    so unlockable will then mean a fee.

  15. Re:He got what he deserved. on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    welcome to thailand where it's regular that people shoot themselves several times to commit suicide and I suspect someone "made" them "do" it.

    or this case of a russian stabbing himself 7 times.

  16. it matters, but on "Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version) · · Score: 1

    sure it matters. you can start having new gameplay modes like turf war.

    but the real important question would be to ask do they have the license for descent or is this just a descent like game? there were couple of clones of descent back in the day.

  17. Re:This is pretty common. on Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported · · Score: 1

    they'll patch it.
    if for nothing else to patch new checks for if it's genuine.

    they've been patching non genuine windows's forever.

  18. Re:Buggy whip makers said automobiles aren't... on Lyft CEO: Self-Driving Cars Aren't the Future · · Score: 1

    look, for majority of the roads it would take 50+ odd years to FOREVER to get them into shape for automatic cars.

    besides, then lyft would just buy a bunch of those.

    in closed areas and such.. sure.. automation works.. it's those areas where they're already being used in different industries.

    despite the hype we are not really at a point where there would be even regular route automated taxis anywhere, which would be miles simpler than automated taxis from anywhere to anywhere.

  19. Re:How can voters 'approve' of secret programs? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 2

    also, it still wouldn't make it legal elsewhere.

    what all this shit is leading into is countries soon flat out refusing to even investigate hacker claims from other countries - I mean, why should they when the other country does jack all shit nothing to help to solve the crimes their agents committed?

  20. Re:No thanks... on Windows 10's Biometric Security Layer Introduced · · Score: 1

    last time I did it I remember having to go to "create account" option in order to get to another place through there on the small print option to create a local account - notice that the first page with the create account link only mentions MS account - so it's natural to presume that the link is for creating one(and it is) - on the next page there is a text link to create a local account, it's not even a "button" element to hide it . it's not intuitive, there was no notice on that page that I could create a local account on next page. keep in mind that many, many people already have ms accounts. I have several, but I did not want to log into my pc with one, so the option to make local account should have been right there and then.

    I've talked to several people working in IT who think windows 8.1 made the ms account mandatory.

    you can also later switch the account to local, though that as well I remember being somewhat cumbersome - and of course if you log into some ms stuff while not being careful your account gets converted.

    it's all very intentional to guide people into creating MS accounts so they can use the store. nothing strange about it as such(that's why the whole win8/8.1 exists anyways), but saying that it hasn't been designed to make you create or log in with your ms account is bollocks.

    NOTE: it's a little different on the first boot setup than if you create another account on the computer later.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    if it was easy and intuitive and straightforward youtube wouldn't be having these guide videos... notice how you need to press two times on an UI element that's not like clickable elements in previous windows versions(and in fact differs from the ui element they _want_ you to click).

    it's bollocks and designed solely to guide you to logging in with your hotmail due to thinking that doing something else is too complicated.

  21. Re:Oh, for Pete's sake. Not again! on Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah · · Score: 2

    whoever ends up controlling the mess left behind can still push through the lawsuits. the property(imaginary as well) doesn't just disappear into a black hole, unfortunately.

  22. Re:so, the key to amnesty... on Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I recently read about one journalist reporting from Mali.

    he was given choice of 3% or 30% tax rate. he chose the 3%. the tax officials said that even if they get 3% that's an improvement over the 1% they're mostly getting...

    anyways, ms is also giving windows and dev tools licenses to companies that bother to ask, mostly, anywhere. win8 was such a fuckup that they changed to giving it for free, which pretty much tells why win8 was such a fuckup, due to them wanting to move people to getting software from windows store - this is why they're giving it away, why tablet licenses for 8 cost zilch and why they're giving legit licenses to everyone in china(basically). they want to give them legit licenses so they can use it in a legit way they figure out, it's not like they cared about sketchy copies that much before either.

  23. Re:Free market will sort it out on Evolution Market's Admins Are Gone, Along With $12M In Bitcoin · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's free as in you have no rules.

    it's non-free as in you have no freedom to publish your identity nor does the other party publish his, so no trust relations can be created based on long term reputation.

    and well, free market will sort itself out, they figured out that running with the money was better business. maybe it was, maybe not, just another company strategy.

  24. Re:He's not always right. on The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty · · Score: 1

    his gnu ideology depends on copyright, that's the fault I have with the guy.

    you see without copyright you can't make copyright licenses that force people to share the changes.

    and yeah you can say that you don't want to share your code and he can say that he doesn't want to use and depend on it then. that's the whole point, that if he depends on the software you make and you don't give the source and possibility to recompile then he is dependent on you and you have power over him, can screw him over for money or just extract money from him by extortion.

    this gets us to the forced outphasing of iphones that apple is doing matter of factly - encouraging, forcing or borderline conning people to upgrade the operating systems on their iphones, updates that make the older models work less comfortably than they worked when they were new and they're doing this to encourage people to upgrade their devices, even if the new device doesn't have any actual upgrade they need.

  25. Re:It's about time on Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones · · Score: 1

    decent price? 16 bucks for a re-re-release on a system where you can emulate the original or probably the re-release too.

    what
    are
    you
    smoking? 16 bucks for a TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD GAME(slightly enhanced, doesn't really matter since potential buyers still view it as final fantasy III.. or vi or whatever the fuck the number is).

    baldurs gate enhanced edition ios is 9.99$.