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  1. Don't you love it on Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools · · Score: 1

    When corporations write and enforce your laws?

  2. Stupid dirty hippie shithead on City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions · · Score: 1

    Die screaming, retard. Go sell your shit in North Korea.

  3. I am sick to death as fuck on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 2

    Of hearing these Gartner inspired dipshits tell me their business is 'collaborative'. As opposed to what? Funeral director? Jesus Christ this is a gaggle of fools who've finally guzzled their own marketing talk and now they identify strenuously with the Dilbert-speak of it all.

    Tell you what Little Miss Google who "has it all! work!, family!, fulfillment! free time!" off the back of your husband, nanny, live in staff, car service, private schools and such. Fuck you and the paradigm you chartered a plane to fly in on. Seriously. Fuck you. You want me to commute 2 hrs a day each way to come work at your veal pen - send a car and a driver to take me there both ways so I make use of that 4 hrs a day. Or, give me a 100% raise so that I can afford to live where the blogerati hobnob.

  4. So they had an unmanaged 'policy' on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    What Yahoo is saying is that they had a non policy policy that went unmanaged and now they're going to fix that by micro managing people. If I were the board of directors I'd ask Miss Google why she left 10's or 100's of millions of dollars of non performing real estate assets on the books knowing full well this was the case. Because any other company (yeah I'm looking at you IBM) would have announced this new policy, managed to it and disposed of all the commercial real estate so that even if they wanted to back track they couldn't.

  5. In related news on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    The EU will declare every day sunny and warm to the end of time.

  6. All this for lousy service on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    0.5 TB about how your flight is late or cancelled and there's nothing anyone can do about about anything ever.

  7. There is no cheaper on Seagate's New SSHD Hybrids Have Dual-Mode Flash Caches · · Score: 1

    There is only your cheapness. Drives are the slowest part of your gear. Scrimping a few dollars to make them sort of faster is more expensive than spending all the money you need to make them as fast and as reliable as possible.

  8. Will they only spell check part of the alphabet? on A New Version of MS Office Every 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Every 90's you get a new letter I guess. Otherwise I can't see the need to add 'features' to a spreadsheet every 90 days, particularly if you're in a corporate setting where not everyone will upgrade at the same time.

  9. Hybrid drives? on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 1

    Oh please. What kind of messy cobbled together 'engineered' solution is that? What next? Numeric coprocessors on a separate chip? What is this? 1989?

  10. Based on Amazon comments that I read on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 0

    Most SSDs that aren't the most expensive ones suffer from mind boggling firmware failures and glitches which brick them or just random corruption rendering them unbootable from a simple abrupt power failure.

    Compatibility is still a huge issue with a large number of laptops, and advertised speeds are nowhere near where they actually perform. More often than not, one is forced to use much slower SSA interfaces than the drives are supposed to use so in the end, in practice, these SSDs are not much faster than 7200rpm spindles. The price performance isn't there and unless you're buying top of the line name brands, reliability is for shit.

  11. And yet on eComStation 2.2 Beta, the Legacy of OS/2 Lives On · · Score: 1

    Win7 doesn't really have any new features or improvements over XP in the scope of actual functionality. While Win8, is a short trip into the tall weeds and in between them all was Vista - again no actual new features or improvements just bloat and failure. So yes, OS/2 had some problems - not the least of which was it was by IBM which always knows best, better than any customers and IBM does things that IBM wants to do not what you want to do - but in terms of "this is old junk I don't know why people use it!" it's no better or worse than anything else.

    I have three Win7 Pro 64 installations running on three different laptops right now. They ALL behave subtly different from one another for no explicable reason at all.

  12. Bigger is better on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    I just have someone else carry it for me. I'm getting a 22" phone.

  13. HRW long time puppet of Mideast tyrants on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    When they're not demanding a new Holocaust they're screaming at the people calling them on it

  14. So according to his own vaporous science on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Terribly thin and unsourced as it is, Iran is about 20% slower than the worst (earliest) case scenario currently debated, more or less. The rest of this 'science' article is devoted to general purpose Jew bashing.

  15. I'm not sure on How To Safeguard Loose Nukes · · Score: 1

    Obama was saying that's a bad thing.

  16. Why bother even that? on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    Visas are a Trojan horse. Workers will scream about visas, employers will simply keep all the jobs in Asia.

  17. ALL HAIL FORTRAN 60 on COBOL Will Outlive Us All · · Score: 0

    Still some of that around here.

  18. Manned spaceflight: over in 10 years on 71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 · · Score: 1

    In ten years manned spaceflight with be over. Quite likely for more than an hundred years if not more.

  19. Re:Good! on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 1

    Going back home to nice comfortable middle class lives -which they rejected in favor or extremist asceticism and violence. In fact in the Arab world most suicide bombers, terrorists and such are culled from the ranks of the middle class lead by an intelligentsia that itself often arises out of the professional classes such as doctors, lawyers and religious scholars.

    Hey if you're fine with terrorism that's ok. Emma Goldman and Benito Mussolini would agree with you. As would Bakunin, Lenin, and Pol Pot. All had advanced degrees and came from the middle or upper middle class. They weren't espousing killing for 'people' they were espousing killing for an idea.

  20. Re:Good! on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 1

    We would benefit from their backwardness

  21. What makes them 'critical'? on What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have some Thinkpads around here and it seems there's a firmware update every few months. But if you read the 'what's new' it's usually something stupid like "Old version updated to support new model xxxxxx" which I don't even have. Or worse "Corrected typo in BIOS menu."

    Before I flash anything I'd like to know why and under what scenario, if any, it's necessary.

  22. Re:Good! on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 2

    Oh dear me. The 911 guys were upper middle class graduate students in Germany. They all came from the best of modern Arab Muslim backgrounds and families. Your excuse is redolent of the one applied to Nazis who 'of course had not other option in those dark economic times'.

  23. Good! on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 1, Troll

    Anything they can do to hasten their slide back into the Dark Ages the better it is for the rest of us.

  24. Still some basic issues on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I use LO as my main tool but there's a few things it can't do it should be able to do:

    Embed an OLE object as an ICON
    Paste a spreadsheet table where I put it not where LO anchors it
    Have the same bullets as the document viewed in MSO
    Save ODP -> PPTX better and cleaner than ODP -> PPT
    Show how export to PDF is different from print to PDF, since they are
    Markup-Redline in DOC/DOCX saved as ODF still doesn't work

  25. Because..... on Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who post pictures of themself drunk, passed out pants round their ankles in the street are concerned with privacy.