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  1. Re:Can we get the same? on Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google · · Score: 1

    "I head Android is open-source, why don't you write it yourself?" / Generic asshole reply.

  2. Re:Get rid of it on BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK · · Score: 2

    Seriously. I see what you did here but the biggest show stopper for HTML5 in Firefox?

    DAMN FUCKING AUTO-PLAY!

    Where's HTML video block?!

    Who think auto-play is a good idea?

    Why is web pages allowed to start the video?

    Just because I open a web page or 10 I don't want to play all the fucking video they contain.

    (Yeah I know there's some solution you can install if you run the debug or whatever version of Firefox it is but normal people don't use that.)

    Of course it's just as bad in any browser which play that shit by default. Bloat web crap.

  3. Re:Get rid of it on BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK · · Score: 2

    Quicktime is(was..) the standard!

  4. Expected on Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great · · Score: 1

    Since they are kick ass.

    Even for performance.

    Too bad afaik Intel doesn't do any consumer graphic hardware which is as kick ass as Nvidias and ATIs though.

    But yeah, watch Phoronix for Linux Intel OpenGL drivers vs others.

  5. Re:One word on US Particle Colliders In Need of Funding · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can fund it all with the central banks (and politics) instead.

    Let them kick the can out into space rather than down the road.

  6. I'd just answer with on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    "yes"

    Why not if we can fix it.

    Why bother about possibly new biological balance issues considering what we do in the first place?

    Higher bio-diversity is most likely better in the long run I suppose. More likely some of it succeed.

    "But it already failed!", yeah, but maybe not because it wasn't all that suitable for life in their inhabitant sans bullets.

    Hunters, meat eaters, settlers. buy and throw away. All part of the problem.

    I wish we could agree on giving 50% of the surface area back to wild life and just use the other 50% our self.

  7. Re:One word on US Particle Colliders In Need of Funding · · Score: 1

    Latest top hit @ CERN:

    We don't collide in America - but we're not - sorry!

  8. Re:One word on US Particle Colliders In Need of Funding · · Score: 1

    Kickstarter

    But I already pledged all I could afford on the Mars project :(

  9. Re:Then why not a Mac? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1

    since its eye-candy that slows things down.

    Yeah. Have you ever tried to type things in 20 terminals in OS X at more or less the same time?

    Yeah. Me neither. But if I tried for sure the UI would be the limiting factor for my efficiency!

    Meanwhile at the /. AJAX news item comment thread ..

  10. Re:GNOME3's GNOME Shell fails the same way! on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1
  11. Re:A Review? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1

    Especially not one as bizarre as this.

    Yeah, and Windows may eventually let him say "I don't like this" about his Linux partitions and remove them.

    That's some of the power and configuration about their machines which make Windows users happy.

  12. Re:Never give in to extortion on In Wake of Samsung Verdict, HTC Does Not Intend To Settle · · Score: 1

    They are blind to see Apple is just as bad at the top as Microsoft was.

    You mean (I do) that Apple is just as bad as Microsoft was at the top?

    Whatever things like application stores handling the DRM and payments and what not and having everything at one place is worth it for the consumer compared to the alternative I don't know. The consumer can vote with their wallet and what they use so I assume it may be.

    Linux distributions all used to work that way anyway. Except you didn't _HAD_ to. And of course it's rarely done for profit.

  13. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I follow the arguments of the GP with interest, especially what others say about the studies.

    Though I could see how it may raise the risk of infection with a higher skin area or more places where things could "be held/get stuck."
    (The opposite could also be true for whatever reason.)

    But I doubt circumcision is something to recommend for STD prevention.

    Regardless it's genital mutilation and that's how it is.

    If someone really want to do it anyway at least let them decide that for themselves when grown up (and preferably smart enough to not be all that influenced by their social group.)

  14. Taxes are optionally now? on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know.

    Would I want to pay one? No.

    What would it pay for? I would assume copyidiots but maybe it was for other things? Others bandwidth? Of course I could pay for infrastructure costs. Additional revenue stream for Google? No, probably not.

  15. Re:640K years on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    640K years ought to be enough for anybody...

    Meanwhile white mice is intelligent enough to just accept it's 42.

  16. Re:The good side? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    That's who they need to eliminate. They started with the rape allegations. Perhaps they simply embellished what actually happened. Perhaps they twisted what was said, what was done.

    I think the claims was something along the lines "he laid on top of the girl holding her arms while she objected" or something such (not all that unheard of in the world I suppose), "had his erected penis against her" (not all that unlikely) and "had sex with her while she slept" or something such (guess that may be weirder, I don't know to what extent that can be done without no-one waking up but maybe she did and figured out? I don't know. I haven't read or heard it.)

    Meanwhile in the US some retard believe sex can not lead to pregnancy if it's rape ..

    All of the above may be wrong, possibly hearsay, what not.

  17. Re:how many? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    How many rape offenders wouldn't like to have the support of Assange behind their wrong doings?

    So much trouble for a small rape offense.

  18. Re:"moving irresistibly"? on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    Three years?

    My Macbook Pro had like 10 minutes battery life after one year.

    Should had removed the battery and stored it in the fridge instead of in the 70 degrees C computer (thank you Apple and Adobe.)

    Mactrash. Magsafe had poor connection, warranty crappage didn't allowed me to submit my warranty claim because it was more than a year since they sent the computer but not since I picked it up (or something such.)

    Accidentally broke the cable to the charger and later (three years later actually.. Because I never bothered until in the very last minute again (three years for manufacturing defects)) and found out the left I/O board was broken .. But the Apple premium seller service guy meant that it was unlikely due to the broken charger.

    Kinda reminds me of the death of my father. Died in pneumonia after getting Risperdal but the boss of the responsible doctor meant that it couldn't be from the drug because of his high sedimentation rate. Even though FDA recommends against giving Risperdal to elders with dementia and studies has shown close to twice as high general death .. whatever.. risk of / rate / ..

    For whatever reason if I google for left I/O Macbook Pro board all of them seem to be for my 2.2 Macbook Pro and the MagSafe cable had trouble loading for over a half year but yeah. Just because it hooks up to the left I/O board and the cable was messed up I guess it doesn't have to mean the cable caused it.

  19. Re:Thats one way.. on Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry guys. I patented patents and at the same time patented asking for compensation for when whatever patented was used.

  20. Mission accomplished! on Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans · · Score: 1

    The only winners is the lawyers and the competitions.

    With more rulings like this we could get rid of the patent wars.

  21. Re:So... on Fathers Pass Along More Mutations As They Age · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, it's old news to me that the age of the father matters but what I know since earlier is that the telomere count increased in male sex cells and that those was inherited by the offspring which in return might get a chance in living longer.

    Or you could argue that maybe not because they got worse protection against cancer.

    But seriously. It make sense in an evolutionary way now when I think about it:

    If the father has managed to live for long there's a chance his genes are better than a father not as old, by increasing the possibly life length of his offspring the offspring got a better chance of spreading those good genes further.

    I hope I remember the telomere part correctly. If nothing else the number of mutations was mentioned to and yes, some will be bad and some will be good but without mutation no evolution and hopefully nature will in a long term perspective manage to pick the good stuff out from the bad stuff. It may not be good for the offspring but good for the future of the species.

    The old mention of mutations and telomeres if I don't remember all of it incorrectly was most likely posted on Slashdot to. But maybe two years ago or so.

  22. Re:I see a problem... on Sea Chair Project Harvests Plastic From the Oceans To Create Furniture · · Score: 2

    Solution: Don't let plastic enter the sea (and preferably anything.)

  23. Re:Great idea. on Sea Chair Project Harvests Plastic From the Oceans To Create Furniture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would be better if the people in US learned to recycle.

    Yeah. Troll. Whatever. Over here in Sweden waaaay more gets recycled than over there.

  24. Re:awesome on Nintendo Release 3DS XL and New Mario 2 In the USA Today · · Score: 1

    Plus there was a devaluation of the Yen, which Sony also suffered from.

    The steady decline of the US dollar you mean?

  25. Re:awesome on Nintendo Release 3DS XL and New Mario 2 In the USA Today · · Score: 1

    Correct.

    First time in 30 years if I remember correctly.

    Too bad for them but an awesome history compared to others.

    If they port to Android and iOS they would have to sell at Android and iOS prices. Or at least cheaper. The titles you care for though contain more content and work than "Angry birds" or "Ninja fruits" or whatever it's called.

    Not everyone with a portable gaming device brings it with them all the time ..

    Earlier years though I thought the somewhat nice (I thought back then ..) combination would had been Nintendo and Apple because Apple sucked for gaming and Nintendo could had gotten a bigger market or in this case business on the devices you mention. But by now Apple got more support for their iDevices at least.

    I wouldn't mind if Nintendo had made an Android phone themselves though which also ran their games. Like Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play.

    Guess they are doing a Nokia by almost getting there .. But then again they haven't done phones but well, maybe they have to?

    Will Samsung become the electronics leader?