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  1. Re:Hactivists == cybercriminals on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They're separating out based on motivation.

  2. Re:If you were going to buy a software company.... on Dell Announces Intent To Acquire SonicWALL · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a match made in heaven then.

  3. Re:killed? on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They mean money should not be spent on things that can not be instantly monetized. That's what was killing Bell Labs ; once they went the instant monetize project route it was all wine and roses.

    Google is at risk of not becoming another Bell Labs.

  4. Re:I'm all for on 2000x GPU Performance Needed To Reach Anatomical Graphics Limits For Gaming? · · Score: 1

    "I only play it for the fighting, I appreciate the expansive multi-tiered environments with the 16 playable characters and pixel shading bump-mapping ... "

    "Snicker"

    " ... and the rich plot development. Seriously, why else would I play it?"

    "She kicks high"

  5. What did you think was going to happen? on Sony To Delete Virtual Goods · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Virtual Collectable Cards. Did someone think the servers would be online forever so they could 'keep' these bits of data?

  6. Re:umm on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 1

    Well don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

  7. Re:Answers a lot. on LinkedIn Profiles Contain Fewer Lies Than Resumes · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that make sense? Their social circle is more defined by their contracting company (more visible on LinkedIn) where as their work history is more defined by the company they were contracted to (more visible on the resume).

  8. Re:Makes Perfect Sense on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 2

    You mean like how you could run all those Xbox games on your PC?

  9. Re:Since when is JavaScript an unorthodox choice? on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By that, no one would do anything, you weren't born knowing how to do anything. You have to start somewhere.

  10. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see you try to explain it while ignoring the fact that rice is not pure sugar, or even simple sugars, does not equate rice with chocolate bars and ignores the fact that the majority of the Far East lives on a diet based on rice.

  11. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    Being pedantic doesn't make you right. Believing that you have some better insight into things because the person who challenged your assertions must be religious doesn't make you right. Ignoring that I quoted Rice along with wheat and your ignoring that trying to make it like I do not know of the world outside of European and Semitic areas doesn't make you right. These are not citations.

    Most of human history, in basically every way except raw time, occurred after agriculture.

    So, for the armchair anthropologist, since the dawn of major civilizations built around farming after giving up our hunter/gatherer roots, which covers the lives of most humans that have lived and died on this planet, grains such as wheat and rice have fed and continued to feed, most people.

    So once again, I ask you to back up your claim that wheat and rice are 'horrible' for you, since nothing you said does.

  12. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    Rice and bread are terrible for you.

    [citation_needed]

    You're going to need to back that up. Throughout most human history and quite frankly most of the world now, people lived on basically just that.

    Difficulty: Gluten is not the devil.

  13. Re:Does US hate its citizens? on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure citizenship does entitle you to a passport.

  14. Re:Impractical to Microsoft, MS also send invalid on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also find it interesting that MS is blaming Google for IE's failed handling on invalid P3P headers rather than fixing their product.

    As I understand it, Microsoft is following the spec properly. Google is exploiting a loophole in the spec.

  15. Re:Sounds legit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    So obviously research into the limits of the current technology is pointless?

  16. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Windows and OS X are also used by IT professionals, and so provide some tools professionals would use. Neither Windows or OS X ever expect their users to drop to a shell to do anything. While it is happening less and less, you will be told to drop to a shell at some point when you use Linux.

  17. Re:Maybe Google can get my age and gender right on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are, in fact, girls on the Internet.

    No, there are not.

  18. Re:Implications for EULAs? on Superpoke Players Sue Google · · Score: 4, Informative
    [citation needed]

    Enforceability_of_EULAs_in_the_United_States

    The enforceability of an EULA depends on several factors, one of them being the court in which the case is heard. Some courts that have addressed the validity of the shrinkwrap license agreements have found some EULAs to be invalid ... Other courts have determined that the shrinkwrap license agreement is valid and enforceable ... No court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally; decisions are limited to particular provisions and terms.

  19. Re:GPL violations? on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 1

    Do you have any proof that there might be violations or are you just proposing that any large, successful software project must be infringing on GPL software?

  20. Re:Extra useful information on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    "News for Nerds." I think users here can figure out how to do a web search if they didn't already know Micron made RAM.

  21. Re:not competent on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week · · Score: 1

    Or they did a cost analysis of the situation and figured that it wasn't worth it to do it without downtime. And they'd probably be right, they probably won't loose any money on it.

  22. Re:college is not setup for continuing education on Stanford Online Courses Delayed; More Time To Sign Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But HR does not like tech schools and community colleges.

    This is seriously a problem with society. If it doesn't make you money, or if it isn't directly related to making money, it is thought of as useless. GP said he would take classes for fun, who cares what any company thinks about it. I did the Stanford machine learning course because it was interesting, not because it would help me make money in any way, I will do more for the same reason, and in more diverse fields. People learning about things not related to their job or area of expertise is a good thing, it is something to be encouraged.

  23. Canada on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 2

    Blindly doing whatever the US does.

  24. Re:Mac? Is that you? on VirtualBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 2

    They did say 'for good aesthetics.'

  25. Re:Because Canada has a "little brother" problem on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    Without the CRTC, you couldn't get on TV just by being 'Canadian content.' You'd actually have to provide something of worth.

    Honestly, I don't know what you would define as Canadian Culture if you put the stipulation on the definition that it can not contain or reference the US in any way. Each province could become a state in the US and nothing would change.