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  1. Re:Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    Hairy, Sell mobile devices, skins and accessories. You'll be fine.

  2. Re:Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    People are not as stupid as you need them to be to put this over.

  3. Dice /. team are you listening? on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    You know when I said you should market the fuck out of /. to get profits and keep the lights on? How you could put ads over the top, down the side and over the foot and I was good with that? I was sincere about that. The previous owners didn't make the most of what they had. You're entitled to make money and there's a lot of opportunity here. I pay to be a member and then let the ads show up anyway. When the ads are pertinent to my interests I click on them, and sometimes I spend money.

    But if you guys want to put popovers on here, or floating ads that obscure the content, then fuck you. We're not going to put up with that. You need to fix this shit post haste.

  4. Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously they're crazy. Putting the same mobile touch-based user interface on every phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, watch, games console, server and small appliance is the wave of the future.

  5. Re:This has been tried before on Canonical and China Announce Ubuntu Collaboration · · Score: 5, Interesting

    China has an ARM license now, and several ARM chipset manufacturers. Low power requirements makes this a good fit as their power infrastructure is struggling already. As open source it leaves open the potential for home grown app development. Finally, it is time for China to get off of XP and the modern hardware and software proprietary platforms are not piracy friendly. Going legit opens up export potentials for China. Pretty obvious really.

  6. Re:Thesaurus game on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 4, Funny

    Needs to be differentiated from uSDHC, which is what we modern subversives use - it can be hidden under a stamp, in a cheek,tucked in an unlikely place, or just left in the camera. Probably foolishly trying to hide their methods.

  7. Re:A Subversive Library at their Fingertips... on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    This thread needs a Michael Hart reference.

  8. Tanenbaum quote on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 2

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

    Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.

  9. Re:Microsoft was to blame, obviously. on Revealed: Chrome Really Was Exploited At Pwnium 2013 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft sympathizers at Google

    OK, that was funny.

  10. Re:Investigation....? on Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents · · Score: 1

    Aaron Swartz's death, and the subsequent outcry, do appear to be bringing about some of the social changes he hoped for. Since his cause was public access to information, he was persecuted for this cause and died as a result it seems to meet the definition of martyr.

    The hero's death is commemorated. People may label the hero explicitly as a martyr. Other people may in turn be inspired to pursue the same cause.

  11. Re:Investigation....? on Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents · · Score: 1

    You mean like that hive of anarchy, the American Library Association?

  12. Re:Worst /. headline I have ever seen on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    I'm actually not happy with this submission, but you know you can't take them back. I'll try to do better.

  13. Re:Still... on Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) · · Score: 1

    Not if it's overturned on appeal because the bankrupt defendant no longer exists.

  14. Re:Worst /. headline I have ever seen on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    It could use an "8" before the question mark, it's true.

  15. Re:All the way to the top. on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    I am far more terrified of an Attorney General that decides to start pursuing their own internal sense of justice than one who tries to reliably and impartially implement the Constitution and the law.

    Well then. It's time to be terrified.

  16. Re:All the way to the top. on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    I think that you and me, we're from different sides of the railroad tracks. The view is different from here and the things you hold as incontrovertible truths from your side are, literally jokes on this side. And yet we're talking about the same courts. It's almost as if we lived in different dimensions, yet you might only be one zip-code away from me. This dichotomy itself makes a joke of "justice".

  17. 500 years hence on Seniors Search For Virtual Immortality · · Score: 2

    Folk will be foraging for themselves in a post-nuclear/bioweapon apocalyptic wasteland as the ice sets in for 100,000 years.

    Maintaining family photos will not even enter their minds. Nor should it. They'll be about finding a way toward the equator if they're smart.

  18. Re:Hazen on Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor · · Score: 2

    There is no place on Earth, no matter how high, how cold, how deep, how hot that we have not found life there - but for the content and surface of lava. Life is pernicious and persistent. It is a weed.

  19. Re:Europa on Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    attempt no landing there.

  20. Re:my 0.000001 bitcoin on Andy Rubin Steps Down As Chief of Google Android · · Score: 1

    Steve Sinofsky is available I hear, and Stephen Elop may be soon. Sinofsky has experience in merging a mobile and a desktop OS into something unusable. Elop has experience in... um... turning around a thriving concern?

  21. Re:ms peoplenon Netflix board on Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook · · Score: 1

    Today the top three technology companies by market capitalization don't use Windows at all. It was a big /. story when Apple passed Microsoft. And Google. But IBM? Just another day in the technology mines.

  22. Re:As an anti-science, pro-ignorance republican... on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    Here's the same graph extended just a wee bit to the left: http://imgur.com/8PudKkh

    It's amazing how framing the picture tells the story.

  23. Re:Most recent? on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    In the context of this story: http://imgur.com/8PudKkh

  24. Re:Yes there was. on Did Google Tip Off EU About Microsoft Browser Ballot? · · Score: 1

    If a nit picker would pick nits, this was a spot with no nits to pick.

  25. Re:Yes there was. on Did Google Tip Off EU About Microsoft Browser Ballot? · · Score: 1

    If I was looking for nits to pick, I could greater nit than this.