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  1. Re:Apple and Xiph on Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate · · Score: 3, Informative

    The fact that it's open source or royalty free doesn't mean there are no patent trolls ready to file a lawsuit once Apple or Microsoft use it.

    It would be nice if Congress could pass a law for proposed standards to give patent trolls a 6 (or 3) month period to announce any infringement or forever hold their peace.

  2. Re:Translation on Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We're stuck with Flash video because Apple's iPhone doesn't support Flash? Is that right?

    I agree that someone needs to take his head out of his ass.

  3. Re:Just in time for my midlife crysis! on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 0, Troll

    how about a spell checker?

  4. Re:iTunes The Real Problem on iPhone 3GS Finally Hacked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The iPhone has an app store application, no need to go through iTunes if you don't want to.

  5. Re:"Finally"! on iPhone 3GS Finally Hacked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did you try reading the fucking article?

    The tool does not perform a carrier unlock, which would allow users to use sim cards from other wireless providers than the one they bought the device from.

    Nevermind, you probably won't read that either.

  6. Re:Well DUH! on Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict · · Score: 1

    Three times now, they've asked her to pay $5000, admit she did it, and stop doing it. She's certainly wracked up more than $5000 in legal charges. I don't know if she's stopped doing it, but she hasn't admitted she did it -- in fact, she lied under oath.

    She either likes the attention and doesn't care how she gets it or she's a shill to legitimize the RIAA trials.

  7. Re:CrunchPad on CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' · · Score: 1

    WebKit, not firefox.

  8. Re:It needs some method of data entry on CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is suspect most of /. will hold a small penis in one hand and the tablet in the other.

  9. Re:NAMM on How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about NAMM, but try a NAMBLA convention. Pay a 12-year old boy a few bucks to hand out CDs and watch the money roll in.

  10. Re:Cool on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 1

    As of October 2006, the English Wikipedia database was 4.4Gig, and had been doubling annually.

  11. Re:iPhone wannabe on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 0, Troll

    you can install it over wifi or from iTunes over USB, retard.

  12. Re:Survey of Human Knowledge? on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It also seems completely random and arbitrary. If they need citations, then they need citations on every sentence/idea/paragraph that isn't general knowledge. Maybe a bot goes though and randomly adds them.

  13. Re:RDBs are good, but SQL is horrible on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 1

    If you want hierarchical data, you could use a hierarchic database.

  14. Re:Things to learn from the Open Source model on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Opera mini isn't a web browser; it's a java-based image viewer displaying pre-rendered content from opera's caching proxies. It's designed for phones that can't handle a real web browser. Are you sure you want video with that?

    If you look at actual mobile web usage, iPhone/iPod touch is at 64%. Nobody else comes close, though Android (also webkit) will likely see an increased presence in the future.

  15. Re:Read The Fine Summary on New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet · · Score: 1

    there's plenty of malware that disables vulnerabilities to prevent other malware from being installed.

  16. Re:buttfs? on EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Compared · · Score: 1

    does pussyfs have TRIM support?

  17. Re:Guide to British English on Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts · · Score: 1

    don't forget the quim.

  18. Re:Android just won't catch up with iPhone on Unlocking Android · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Check your history. Java is a poor knockoff of objective c. Sun ditched OpenStep in favor of Java. Apple ditched Java in favor of OpenStep.

    Res Ipsa Loquitur.

  19. Re:It still has quite a bit of "suckiness" on Unlocking Android · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would I pay for an app? I just pirate the drm-free version. Developers can make money giving lectures and selling support contracts, neither of which I'll pay for.

  20. Re:That's Weird, Because Fiscally ... on Google Claims They "Just Aren't That Big" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Market Cap is a mixture of future expectations, growth, hype, and irrational exhuberance.

    GMGMQ, -- General Motors in a pink sheet -- has a market cap of 677 Million (10 times more than /. corporate parent sourceforge). Yet GM has earnings per share of -$60. Their true value is -$100 billion or so. In a few weeks, they'll finish their bankruptcy and that 677 million in market cap is guaranteed to drop to 0.

  21. Re:Where's the Billy Mays traffic spike?! on Ad Networks the Laggards In Jackson Traffic Spike · · Score: 3, Funny

    OxiClean works on the internet tubes so there were no clogs.

  22. Re:"national discussion"? on Text Comments Out In YouTube "National Discussion" of Health Care · · Score: 1

    It's like a "listening tour". Find a bunch of people who tell sob stories and don't ask questions and put a politician in front of them, looking thoughtful, nodding her head, and never giving an opinion on difficult or controversial matters. You can also throw in some generic platitudes and attack bogey men, like "special interests", but only if it's vague enough that no one considers themselves to be a member.

  23. Re:Apple makes good hardware on The Open Source Design Conundrum · · Score: 1

    What about X-Windows? The theory is that OSS types buy a MacBook and install Lunix on it. Macbook trackpads are the kind of innovation Apple can do that Open Source can't.

  24. Re:Awesome stuff on The Video Bay, Now In Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wikipedia is no longer accepting movies of dudes jacking off.

  25. Re:Fuck you corpocrate troll on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The US Health Care industry is hardly an "unregulated private market." 46% of healthcare spending is medicaid, medicare, or other government programs. Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement rates are generally too low, resulting in cost shifting to insurance companies and the uninsured. Oh, and if you make a mistake in billing, you can be fined, subject to expensive audits, and possibly thrown in jail. Show me a private insurance company with the power to do that.

    Many smaller clinics and individual operations reject medicaid/medicare entirely since the paperwork and low reimbursement rates make it a losing proposition. Larger organizations pretty much have to accept it since that's 46% (or more) of their revenue, even if it requires extra people to deal with the paperwork and auditing.

    PS - do you consider "teeth" a pre-existing condition? I ask because in the last 2 years, 3 million English people were unable to schedule a dental appointment. 4.5 million people gave trying entirely.