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  1. Just posturing on China Emphasizes Laws As Google Defies Censorship · · Score: 0

    I think that Google is just posturing to try and get itself some negotiation room.
    We all know that none whatsoever company that has the size of Google will choose to not participate in such a large market.

    That Google would pull no evil is just marketing bullshit, they will betray everybody even for minimal amounts of money whenever they can, because this is what is it's function to do.

  2. Re:EE times came to a similar conclusion on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    Merely incompetent...

  3. Security aside... on Security In the Ether · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would you trust other companies to manage your electronic secrets?

    I would never, no matter what promise.

    Besides, we all know the track-records of the companies offering this and they are real bad at least in my opinion.

  4. Re:like...WHATever, dood... on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    He thinks that 2000 was the last pure NT code before XP got tainted by included 98 code.

    However, the NT line was derived from the OS/2 codebase by the DEC-VAX engineering team on the alpha processor and later ported to the i386.
    Right after that it got tainted by the Win 3.0 codebase and was slowly nurtured into maturity to be introduced as NT3.1

    Anyway, for people interested there is a timeline here: http://www.levenez.com/windows/redirect_windows_a4_pdf.html

  5. So they want discrimatory features into games... on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers · · Score: 1

    ...How appalling

  6. Re:Falls under freedom of press on Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites · · Score: 1

    In my country buying of stolen goods or information is a criminal offence, at least the members of press that got information in their hands have to prove they did not know that the info or goods were stolen.

  7. Re:I'd like to see... on AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention the investment price of buying bandwidth providing appliances

  8. Re:I'd like to see... on AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink · · Score: 1

    That would be true if there were no costs for providing that.
    Bandwidth is connected to the use of electricity and the price of employees, which aren't unlimited resources.

  9. Re:use fixed point instead on ECMAScript Version 5 Approved · · Score: 1

    uhm, make that times 10.000, one needs 4 decimal places for correct rounding etc.

  10. Re:Irony on CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If we, the public start to play along in the words war called public relations and put in front of "Sony did this and Sony did that" the sentence "The decision makers within" then sooner or later there will be an environment in which people are going to check who those decision makers are.
    Expose the decision making individuals within and they will be honey to the bear lawyers out there.

  11. What goes around comes around... on Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am not going to side with MS as they are the ones that caused this landscape of nasty litigation.

  12. Re: say exactly what my bosses wanted to hear on Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's just that the market for psychopaths is rather small.

    I bet most of you would not want to do the dirty part of the job, which is the part that makes such a post make this money.

  13. Re:safer users on Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows · · Score: 1

    Not only in Brazil, in most 3rd world countries too, certainly in SE Asia.

  14. Re:How hard is it? on EU Wants To Redefine "Closed" As "Nearly Open" · · Score: 1

    That is because proprietary vendors don't stick to the protocol in a lot of cases, so any other group that does stick to the protocol has an incomplete spec.

  15. Re:EU "Union" As "Country"? on EU Wants To Redefine "Closed" As "Nearly Open" · · Score: 1

    I do not think they are out of touch, I do think that some have received a boatload of money, in whatever form.

  16. Re:How did we live 'till 1990ies? on 3 Strikes — Denying Physics Won't Save the Video Stars · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the problem is that many of our government's communication and services ONLY run through Internet nowadays, due to modernism and budget cuttings.
    This means that when you cut someone from the Internet in my country, you effectively make him/her a persona non Grata.

    You might as well take that person's passport and social number and throw it away.

    Finland has got it right in saying that an Internet connection is a CIVIL RIGHT!!!

  17. Re:Hmm.. no on 3 Strikes — Denying Physics Won't Save the Video Stars · · Score: 1

    It's not about downloading, this is about shutting people up.

  18. Re:So...IPv6 then? on Lockheed Snags $31 Million To Reinvent the Internet, Microsoft To Help · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft had nothing to do with DEC"

    It lured some key engineers from DEC to make Windows NT.

  19. Re:Conservatives never learn on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    And who will pay for the clandestine operations by the CIA when you legalize drugs?

  20. Re:Continuity: the package manager trap on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1

    While this is not true for all packages, a lot of libraries can have multiple versions installed beside each other, so often you don't have to break the dependency chain.
    However this is not true to development packages and shared resources.

  21. Re:Wow. on IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, with almost all extroverts.

  22. Re:Decriminalization in Light of the Drug War on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    You forgot the CIA in that little list of yours.

  23. False positives on Predicting Malicious Web Attacks · · Score: 1

    False positives, here we come...

  24. If Mr. Mudoch is smart on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    He would indeed look into alternatives like add-block for his paywall.

    Mr.Murdoch makes most of his money by means of propaganda, political cloud and manipulation.
    The paywall will freeze his propaganda channel as he will lose a lot of eyeballs.
    With that he can lose a lot of money and thus political cloud and manipulation room.

    If I were him, I would leave that paywall idea go and think of alternatives.

  25. Re:Who are the insiders? on Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Don't you think that the level of trying to keep it down is sufficient prove?

    It is not always possible to come with references at any moment, often sources need to be protected in those circumstances.