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  1. Re:This is clearly what he was always planning... on Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Triple digit click working out of the box is rather nice, I have to agree. But I think you are implying that I should be having problems. If that's the case, explain.

  2. Re:I like the idea... on Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader · · Score: 1

    I know the demo is, less sure about the extension. It might hook into the UI or whatnot.

  3. Re:I like the idea... on Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader · · Score: 1

    If it's implemented in sandboxed javascript it can't open any vulnerabilities that couldn't be exploited by any old webpage (unless you run noscript that is).

  4. Re:If only big government had stayed off their bac on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    The responsibility doesn't have to be transitive, there merely needs to be an initiative for investors to protect their investment. I'm not suggesting removing limited liability, losing their investments without company killers of the nuclear fallout kind would go a long way. Fines and class action settlements that don't cover the profits generated half of the time from whatever dirty business clearly aren't working but as it stands hardly anyone will back a court putting a corporation at a real risk. The logic seems to be that shareholders shouldn't be punished even to the extent of their investments, not if the company isn't just one giant scam anyway. I think that's the wrong approach.

    As far as downstream investors go, not much changes: go with the best return, they keep your holdings honest for you (disclaimer: this might be as crappy as ever for retirement plans, but shouldn't be significantly worse).

  5. Re:Just making sure Google is listening... on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 1

    You went trough all the countries, then followed up with how Opera has a tiny user base even in Norway... yet somehow completely missed Russia. Point is, the global trend isn't global, the different countries have their own distinct trends, that the UK is similar to the average doesn't mean much. Brazil seems to be absolutely in love with Chrome. In India Chrome is neck to neck with Firefox and both are going up in favour of IE. Chrome is gaining in Europe overall, but slowly with IE and Firefox battling for most of the market. In Chine nothing but IE matters and it's not that much better in Japan.

    You can't just declare that the UK is somehow where the world will inevitably follow and cement it by attacking me with absurd accusations, I happened to know that Germany loves Firefox, so I didn't have to go through anything to find that, much less to find something about IE.

  6. Re:If only big government had stayed off their bac on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    The stockholders generally never have either knowledge or control of what the corporation is doing.

    They should have both knowledge and control. Shareholders turning a blind eye while profiting most certainly is part of the problem.

  7. Re:If only big government had stayed off their bac on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Now allow nuclear power plants to be sued for radiation release (they currently can NOT be sued if they meet regulatory requirements, which Fukushima did).

    I'm thinking of Hollywood accounting... So you'll destroy the little company in charge of the security of the given plant. Big deal.

  8. Re:Just making sure Google is listening... on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 2

    Please explain how the UK is any more representative of "the rest of the world" than, say, Germany.

  9. Re:Years off? on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    GameCube?

  10. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Why would the government separate branches? Yeah.

  11. Re:The point is obvious on Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    Apple is being as generic as possible to be the "everytablet".

  12. Re:Design patents on Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    I wonder why the back view is missing on all iPad - Tab comparisons. No wait, I don't, they are different material. I do wonder why people intentionally keep missing the point too...

  13. Re:Design patents on Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    Here's another good example of how lying with pictures works.

  14. Re:Big whoop on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Keyword being original, the iPhone 4 is much more like the Prada. But of course the point of that picture is to mock the cherry picked before/after comparisons that Apple fans keep churning out.

  15. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 2

    In the same way that the Galaxy Tab doesn't look anything like the iPad, yes.

  16. Re:Far from being representative on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Will granny be able to tell two basic spoons apart? Should one of the spoon manufacturers add superfluous elements because of this?

  17. Re:Turn Them Around on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    The box is not the same, why do people insist in spreading lies? Apple's is a white box with a picture of a tablet on it, that's it. If that means no one else can have an actually branded one than the system is completely insane. But the claim that they are the same is a fucking lie.

  18. Re:Turn Them Around on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 2

    Of course the box is different. Samsung's is actually branded, Apple tried as hard as possible to make theirs look incredibly generic, they should be slapped out of court for failing to even attempt to be distinct in any way.

    Apple: "Everyone else should be distinct *whiiiiine*".

  19. Re:Big whoop on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Look at this URL and tell me you don't see a radical shift in Apple's look after the Prada. Can you not see the deception in yours?

  20. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Cherry picked comparisons? Here's my submission: http://imgur.com/6jlz0

  21. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    The design "patent" (community design) doesn't cover all the supposedly unique parts... It covers the rectangle with rounded corners and back panel. Look it up.

  22. Re:Cut off your hands! on Acacia Sues Amazon Over Kindle Fire · · Score: 1

    So what are the non-obvious implementation problems for this idea that they solved?

  23. Re:Stallman who? on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    The guy who enabled NeXT to get on with writing an OS instead of wasting time on writing their Objective-C compiler from scratch. So no one you'd care about.

  24. Re:Stallman: Hypocrite on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Not at all, unless you are talking about a version of AGPL.

  25. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    I'm glad Bill Gates is gone. Does that mean I'm dancing on his grave? One can be both gone and alive, so stop looking for things to be offended off.