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  1. Re:New Technology? on How Apple Had a Spectacular Year · · Score: 1

    Actually funnily enough, last weeks Engadget show showed a company that had created a house that can be controlled by an iPad.

  2. Re:NBN waste of money on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about, it takes me 20 minutes to get to the bus station by foot! On top of that it takes me 7 hours to get to Germany on public transport from where I live. Some of us can empathise quite enough with the situation thank you!

  3. Re:It ain't just the wireless/data links on AT&T Wireless Data Still Growing At 1000% · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would argue this because in 2012 I saw people using their phones all the time and they had to deal with extreme tectonic plate movements and tsunamis. Their cell coverage was fine, this was in India though, maybe their networks are better. Plus India uses CDMA.

  4. Re:Security personel are always dicks on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    You know we don't have those over here in the UK. Weird how your guys take it beyond serious.

  5. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    People tire of invasive security methods? I never even stood for it to begin with. I've never travelled where it's enforced to such a degree as described here. I wanted to go to the US at one point in my life, keep it up and I'll never go.

  6. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    I read it all.

  7. Re:Not just the Air on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Don't sync your phone while watching a movie then. It's not like you NEED too is it? I suffer the same problem but just be patient until Apple rewrites iTunes. It will come.

  8. Re:YES! It's actually insane and insulting... on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 1

    I should have mentioned that as a UK citizen, the reaction by everybody involved in the US towards security is absurd especially when we've lived here with terrorism for decades. But also their policies suddenly force us to change our way of life because they feel threatened by extremists like the rest of the world already does. Photographers for example weren't threatened with criminal law or accused of nefarious activities as much as they are now before 9/11.

  9. Re:YES! It's actually insane and insulting... on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't even bother to go to the US. I won't either until they calm the fuck down.

  10. Re:The great fallacy on Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You mean mere mortals?

  11. Re:But, on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    *need* is the important word here. As far as they are concerned we the customers don't need flash anymore :-).

  12. Re:Lies. on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    You say 'some sort' as though you don't know what kind of vendetta. Didn't his Steveness illustrate in an open letter how Flash is an old technology and HTML5 is the future?

  13. Re:Godwin's Law, regular edition on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    Hitler?

  14. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    You have a 5 digit UID. You should know better, I feel I have to give a fucking history lesson every time people bring which is more evil Apple vs Microsoft into the discussion. Simply put, Apple has succeeded in the marketplace whereby MS forced the market its way in order to succeed. Big difference, hence the conviction.

  15. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    MS is a convicted monopolist, reading the reason as to why that is reason enough to know which is more evil than the other.

  16. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Apple sell the whole system whereas MS doesn't. Until MS makes PC's that is a stupid argument to make.

  17. Re:Not exactly a revelation on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    I have two words for you: web apps.

  18. Re:If they want to be taken seriously on Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is more stupid, at least I can get a constructive idea of those parties with a name like 'Liberal Democrats' as opposed to the 'Pirate Party'. I'm a geek and I agree with what they trying to do, but 'Pirate Party' to the layman means angry bearded men looking gold with raping and pillaging.

  19. Re:If they want to be taken seriously on Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My first thoughts as well. The Pirate Party is a stupid name. We have one in the UK but what's the point with a name that doesn't seem serious for a cause that is going to be hard to explain to the layman in the first place?

  20. Re:car analogy on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    100 miles isn't far. I can walk it.

  21. Re:Or perhaps.... on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    Why is it version 10.1 then?

  22. Re:Stress? on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    Where else did I go wrong?

  23. Re:Stress? on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    So true. With both sentences. :-)

  24. Re:Stress? on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    I don't drink because I don't like the stuff, people told me I'd get use to it, but Brussel Sprouts taste fucking horrible but nobody defends them. A double standard exists because of its assumed positive social aspects. If I found something I did like (which I have), why should I start drinking it, people who don't know me very well say I should do it to be social orm ake me fee life I'm missing out on not being drunk. But I also don't drink because daddy use to come home at night and he wasn't a happy drunk. I don't understand why you assumed non drinkers are tightwads either, I wouldn't over generalise and judge those who don't drink. Think about it in another way, many people around me need a drink because of stress of work or need a night out in order to bring some kind of balance to their lives. I don't drink and I'm fine and can deal with what life throws at me perfectly well without needing a substance to aid me. I think the assumed health benefits work in either direction.

  25. Re:Maybe it's the hardware.. on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Highlight the picture you want with a preview by pressing spacebar then use arrow keys ( you can even do this with multiple images as well). But doing this is in the finder. Why do you think fully opening the image file would allow you to view the other images with the arrow keys? It sounds like you opened individual files in preview so of course you can't view the others. Imagine if it was Photoshop, you wouldn't expect the same behavior, even on windows.