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  1. Re:Why are unprofitable companies worth so much? on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It remains to be seen how much Microsoft has paid for GitHub, but why pay anything if they're unprofitable?

    Because thanks to the magic of ToS that can be changed on a whim, Microsoft can just magik in a "all your codes belongs to us" clause.

    "all your codes are belong to us"--FTFY

  2. Re:I have seen the future, and it sucks on 'Flippy,' the Fast Food Robot, Turned Off For Being Too Slow (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the CTO is referring to socializing. He is talking about communicating changes in work conditions such as that a rush is coming and one will need to work faster to keep up.

  3. Re:Exactly why on Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I was merely pointing out the irony of the person to whom I was replying using a "cloud-based" service while dismissing out of hand the possibility of using one.

  4. Re:Exactly why on Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Your on the internet using slashdot...a cloud-based service serving webpages.

  5. There's one big difference between the South and the North, and it is closely related to why it's Chattanooga that has muni fiber and not, say, Memphis. That difference is called "black people". Blacks cannot be allowed to control things, because they make an utter hash of it - if you don't think so, name one majority-black city you would want to live in and believe to be well-governed. He's heard of Detroit, Gary, Compton, Memphis...

    Washington. DC

  6. Manage Extension the other way. on Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome, Reports Claim (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    The story while correct does not take in to account that there is another way to manage extensions. One could right click on an extension and select manage extensions from the drop down menu and the normal extension panel will display.

  7. Re:11 cents a minute? on FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe this was a reference to the word terms. A jail is a place that one goes for a short period of time usually under a year. Jails have more relaxed rules. A prison is for longer term holding and the rules are much stricter.

  8. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Your old maps picture is the 45 angle version which similar to bing map's bird's eye view.

  9. Re:Regular users only on 'Anonymized' Credit Card Data Not So Anonymous, MIT Study Shows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't count my student loans, I'm well off and have plenty of money.

    Of course, "Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"--Marion S. Barry Jr., 1989

  10. Re:8.1 better than 7? on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 1

    Oops!

  11. Re:8.1 better than 7? on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 2

    Amazingly Win 8.x does the exact same thing. Press the start button start typing a name and viola your program icon.

  12. Re:great! now maybe they can on Thousands of Gas Leaks Discovered Under Streets of Washington DC · · Score: 1

    ...at 1st & Capitol NE?

    There is no such intersection.

  13. Re:EULA? on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 Pro (which I have) has the ads. However, the ads are in a couple built-in apps, like Finance, not in the OS itself. The Finance app itself is actually pretty good, but it's really nothing more than a website with a Metro layout. The main problem I see with it, beyond ads, is that it's slow to load.

    It's also in Windows 8 Enterprise.

  14. Re:The reason for the start page on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    That tripped me up too.

  15. Re:Downgrade rights on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you do not have to click to get to the desktop. There are many times when it just goes to the desktop after second or so. Also Metro is the start menu and largely works just like Windows 7's start menu.

  16. Re:Is that how that works? on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    t's perfectly normal to be attracted to 16-18 year old girls sexually when they are fully developed young women. That's biology. Sentencing a 21 year old man to prison time for having a 17 year girl friend and possessing naked pictures of her is just retarded.

    Actually, in most states consensual sex with a 16 y/o is legal whether the other person is 16 or 96. The pictures on the other could land that person in prison for a very long time even if the person is 16 y/o himself or herself.

  17. Re:RUN FOR YOU LIVES !! on Multiplatform Java Botnet Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    It's actually Euler's number not Euler's constant.

  18. Re:Mirrors on Universal Sends DMCA Takedown On 1980 Report · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

  19. Re:With fines like that I-294 can be toll free on RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike in Virginia is now a non-toll road after being a toll road for many years.

  20. Re:Good for her on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 1

    Hairy is good!

  21. Re:MassGIS on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    The guns I refer to are their service weapons. I have been to the top of the Washington Monument many times. If one has ever been to the top of the Washington Monument then one could see very clearly what is on top of the White House as it is right behind the White House. With binoculars you could see very good detail of the roof if the White House. As to there being Secret Service men on the roof at all times that isn't true either. Consider that when a man from Ohio shot at the White House about 15 times from the front lawn police officers from the street stopped him. A small airplane crashed into the White House right after 9/11 causing little damage. And there have been several other incidents such as those that have happened over the years since 1995 when Pennsylvania Avenue was closed to traffic.

  22. Re:MassGIS on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    You may have had the "3-D building" layer on (assuming you had the desktop version of Google Earth).

  23. Re:MassGIS on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    That there are any weapons on top of the White House is a myth. There are no weapons on top of the White House other than the guns the Secret Service agents bring with them if they happen to be on top of it.