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  1. Re:Economies of scale on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't get the point of his message: if you aren't urban, fuck off.

    Suburbanites and ruralites aren't numerous enough to move Microsoft's needle. So fuck off.

    Does it need to be more clear? Fuck the fuck off? Go away? You're not needed here?

  2. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    At this point you could make a youtube video of an 8.5x11 sheet with the word "Microsoft" on it being wadded up and trashed, and sell ads against it on Youtube.

  3. Steam style limits on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    If you like Steam's limits you don't need an Xbox One to get you there. You'll be fine with any old Linux box, a Steambox, or Stean in WINE (I'm not a big fan of wine). Steambox is like XBox One without the monthlies.

  4. Re: Economies of scale on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    XBone has a terriffic solution for this problem. It's called a "Van". Go get them and bring them to your home. Maybe then you can get them to eat and wash as well.

  5. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you're going with this. PS3 was so legendary a departure from the common platform that the US Navy used it for supercompute. It delivered this thing I speak of. Neither of these new ones do. That doesn't mean I'm questing after unicorns, nor inventing requirements that are unhelpful.

    What are you getting at?

  6. Re:The problem is what they had done !! on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 1

    Shit is. There's nothing any of us can do about that.

  7. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    One of these things is not like the other one, not like the other one...

  8. Re:Which $400 gaming PC? on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    For about $100 I can get a nice Android gaming tablet. Quad core, 1080p, all the neat games I've already bought.

  9. Re:Beware Internet Echo Chambers on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, a Microsoft Windows PC can be trusted. Not.

  10. Re:Beware Internet Echo Chambers on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 2

    Remember when Microsoft released a new generation game console that was nearly identical in hardware to its competitor, but had severely less gamer-friendly policies? No, I don't either.

  11. Re:Spin it all you like guys ... on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's cloud efforts are legendary. Take for example the database that backed the Sidekick and Kin. It did the unforgiveable for a cloud service: it lost data. At the end of the inquiry we find that Roz Ho authorized a SAN migration without full backup because, schedule. Where is Roz now? Working in Windows Phone.

  12. Re:Economies of scale on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't get the point of his message: if you aren't urban, fuck off.

  13. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was thinking about buying my daughter the new xBox for a bonus. She's been a trooper about helping with her little sibs. Always on webcam though? I'm thinking no. PS4.

  14. Re: Economies of scale on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it's not. Buy the PS4 and it's all sorted.

  15. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 2

    Thank you. That was the finest exemplar of what trolling should be.

  16. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do you really think anybody cares about the limitations?

    Yes. If it was so different and awesome in architecture that it delivered really innovative stuff then this might be OK. But it uses the same processor, slower RAM, more RAM reserved for OS, slower GPU. The hardware is in every way equal or worse - so the software and terms must be better to compensate - and they aren't.

  17. Re:LISTEN UP !! on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Android/Linux is currently moving half a billion hardware units a year. To do over 100 times that you would have to sell more than 15 to every living human - almost half of whom live on $1/day.

  18. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Actually I have a dual core Kickstarter ARM/Android gamestick platform I picked up at Walmart for $79 a couple months ago. It was kickstarted. It's Equiso. The controller sucks, but the stick is first rate with 1080p and Google Play. Fortunately decent compatible controllers can be had for twelve bucks on Amazon.

  19. LMFTFY on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 0

    3-4"

    - 3-4"

    Was probably a /. formatting bug. You are forgiven.

  20. The problem is people on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "A secret once shared is secret no more."

    It's marginally possible to maintain infosec when your operatives are groomed, recruited, trained and thoroughly and frequently tested by counterops, psych, and intel pros who outnumber them hundreds to one. Then only occasionally does a spy get in and get promoted to the top. This is only possible when the people who know the precious things are few. The top end is maybe 5,000. Probably far less.

    When your secrets are shared across thousands of subcontractors whose recruiting you don't even monitor? No. You may as well post your own shit to pastebin.

  21. Re:Time to move along on Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware · · Score: 1

    The assumption of this astroturfing program - in case you didn't get my unstated implication - is that the continuing focus on the unsuitability, instability and insecurity of XP will not drive people off of XP and onto... non-Microsoft systems - especially Apple, Linux and Android platforms. This is Microsoft's standard hubris, thinking that noone who has ever tried Windows could possibly ever leave. I think this assumption is invalid - so by all means keep up the good work.

  22. Re:In Canada, Cable HDTV is a usability disaster on Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Content distribution networks provide local cache for high bandwidth content to reduce transport costs and improve quality of service.

  23. Re:Braaaaaaaiiiinnns! on SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened · · Score: 1

    There are many years left on this story.

  24. Re:Windows Right? on Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that Microsoft has absolutely no control over what software can be run on Windows.

    Unless that software is Lotus, Borland, Novell, or one of the hundreds of other software packages that Windows has prevented from running well to give Microsoft's apps an unfair advantage.

  25. Re:Disgusting anus on Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do. To me it's worth it to see what comments have been voted down due to moderation abuse. Sometimes they are the most interesting and informative comments of all. While I don't especially like the spam and trolling for me it's worth putting up with that to get these golden nuggets. If you don't care for it, slide the slider to "0" or "1".