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  1. Re:killed? on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 2

    I DO want a driverless car. I'd much rather spend my commute reading than driving.

    So there's this thing called "mass transit"...

  2. Use crowdfunding to pay for a lawsuit on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sue them and use crowd funding.

    https://www.crowdtilt.com/

    Make it clear in your project description that you will not settle.

  3. Re:Once again Google screws over paying customers on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 1

    From fastmail.fm:

    Copyright 1999-2012 Opera Software Australia Pty Ltd and related entities

    Australia? No thanks. Not exactly the bastion of privacy laws...

  4. GNOME is dead. on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 2

    Long live MATE.

  5. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    And if you find you must follow the teachings of some old dead guy instead of analyzing situations for yourself, then why Jefferson? Why not Gandhi, or Jesus? They might tell you to do something very different.

    Hey, you're right. Jesus does tell me to do something very different:

    "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)"

    I think I'll stick with Jefferson, KTHXBYE

  6. Re:That's our home... on NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth · · Score: 1

    we can't leave it.

    Not with that attitude.

  7. Re:Carrier Subsidy on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 1

    For your $20, you get a 1080p rear camera (vs. a 720p camera in the iPad 2)

    As opposed to a camera that captures images in an interlaced pattern?

  8. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if there are no cars that could use my signal than I will not turn it on.

    You know why motorcycles are dangerous? It's because of people who assume they know what's in (or not in) their blind spot and can't be bothered to signal, let alone actually do a head check.

    How about checking your pretense to omniscience at the door and just fucking signalling?

    Thanks.

  9. Re:Consider this on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    Unless all twelve jurors were of that persuasion the result would be a hung jury, not an acquittal.

  10. ISP's on Australian ISP's To Crack Down On Piracy · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately these ISP's will almost certainly be interfering with the sharing of file's which have free license's (e.g. Creative Common's).

    When will government's stop serving the interest's of corporation's and start serving the interest's of their citizen's?

  11. Pro-SOPA / Anti-SOPA on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    With no mention of what the initialism stands for, this summary reminds me of the great pro-skub / anti-skub debate.

  12. mod parent up on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 1

    Here's hoping a ton of hits might convince facebook to get off their ass and bring it back up.

  13. No more prior art? on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    So this means the concept of prior art is moot?

    It might not be so detrimental except that I imagine the legislation in question will not improve the quality of work of patent examiners who will continue rubber-stamp approval of obvious ideas.

    I think it's especially repulsive that some well-known useful tool people have been using for years could suddenly become patented by a troll who had no involvement in its creation and would then have the legal standing to demand license fees of the community.

    Shit sucks.

  14. Re:Google App Engine? on New Prices For Google Apps Engine · · Score: 1

    Hey, at least the headline and summary use the actual name and not an initialism.

    I've seen at least a dozen stories where the headline and summary use some collection of initials and never even say the full name of the technology in question. (And these aren't stories about mainstream topics like HTML, PHP, W3C, IEEE, IETF, etc.)

  15. Now if only Google Music Manager worked on Linux.. on Victory For Music Locker Services? · · Score: 1
  16. David Lynch on product placement on Digital Tech and the Re-Birth of Product Placement · · Score: 1

    ("Sobriquet"? Really?)

    I like David Lynch's take on product placement.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE

  17. Has Netcraft weighed in yet? on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    n/t

  18. Gamefly has been renting analog games? n/t on GameFly To Jump Into Digital Game Rentals · · Score: 1

    Filter error: You can type more than that for your comment.

  19. Oh boy a new buzzword. on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 1

    And one that is already occupied by another term in the realm of IT.

    Advanced Persistent Threat, eh?

    says that it's often easy to trick someone in any company into installing software that they shouldn't -- the first step in an APT attack.

    In many APT attacks, the hackers first break into social media accounts belonging to friends of their victims.

    Ugh... really? You couldn't just say "targeted attack"? What about spear-phishing? Too hard to spell? Dipshits.

  20. Re:Ubuntu 11.4? Where can I download it? on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1

    I guess you're not aware that one or more zeros appearing on the left side of another digit are to be considered insignificant.

    I guess you're not aware that the whole world knows the release as 11.04 and that's how it's consistently branded on the Ubuntu site.

    Also, applying your rule, 2011 == 211.

    Oh, you're trying to be funny. Too subtle, that, or just... not funny.

    DAAAAAYYYYUMN! I just got served!

  21. Ubuntu 11.4? Where can I download it? on Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wasn't aware of any Ubuntu 11.4 being released... is it an improvement on 11.04?

  22. Nope.avi on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 0

    Anyone who insists that a second (or nth) display improves their productivity just hasn't learned how to manage their windows.

  23. Re:Pretty much on Samsung Unveils New 10" Retina Display · · Score: 0

    Same here.

    Wish I still got mod points...

  24. MOD PARENT UP on World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year · · Score: 1

    Not sure why I don't get mod points anymore, so I'll just do what I can by getting the more suggestible /. types to mod your post up by instructing them to do so in my subject line.

  25. Re:Someone's math is wrong on Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn · · Score: 2

    If you execute all the Drug Makers/Kiddie Porn producers and put that on TV for all to HAVE to watch. You will see that shit drop off faster.

    Right, because public executions and dismemberment have stopped crime in Saudi Arabia. Oh wait...