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  1. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 0

    So your saying that in order for the tea partiers to have a valid point of view ... they can not participate in the existing programs they are against even though they have no choice of opting out of them? Its not like you can choose not to pay into medicare as an employee in the US.

    If you didn't make them pay into it, they wouldn't be bitching. But you want them to contribute to carrying your ass and not take advantage of it themselves because they disagree with it.

    You damn right they use it, because they are forced to participate in it they damn sure should use it.

    I'm not a tea partier in any way, I think their raving nutters, but you're rather retarded if you think they shouldn't use what they are forced to pay for just because they would rather have an option of doing something otherwise.

  2. Re:Diving with your knees is not dangerous on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    Yea, about like the loose grip on the steering wheel you normally have when you're driving without being tense. The wheel can jerk around in your hand just as easily if you're not prepared.

  3. Re:Diving with your knees is not dangerous on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    I once drove the entire distance from Raleigh NC to Orlando FL with my knees and no stops just to keep myself awake.

  4. Re:Holding off using it for other reasons on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    If you want to document a set of best practices for writing HTML, with rules for lowercase names and closing tags and quoting attributes and for indentation etc, that's fine and would be nice (especially if you could find a way to motivate people to follow the best practices - a decade of promoting XHTML doesn't seem to have stopped people writing terrible code so we need a better way). Meanwhile, HTML5 is solving the harder problem of how to cope with people who ignore those rules.

    ... So you recognize that XHTML does exactly what you said, defines the rules for making things sanely parsable ... and you ignore that and say HTML5 is solving the harder problem of how to cope with shitty 'web developers'.

    Another ... is in order here ...

    YOU BREAK THEIR FUCKING WEB PAGES SO THEY DON'T RENDER PROPERLY. They will then learn how to make pages that do render properly.

    Not everyone needs to know how to make web pages in notepad, there are plenty of tools that will give you a GUI and let you design a layout purely by pointy and clicky. No one needs to know its an actual standards compliant xml document that is easy to parse without a parser written SPECIFICALLY FOR WEB BROWSERS that offers not advantages and adds another layer of compatibility issues .... mean while ... you're completely ignoring the fact that XML in fact does EXACTLY what you want to make HTML5 into.

    XML is all about semantics. HTML isn't. You utterly fail to understand that you're saying we should replace this thing over here called XML that is built to do EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT with this other thing over here that some douche bags with existing BROKEN parsers they don't want to change say we should use.

    HTML at this point should simply be an XML dialect, you're an idiot if you think it should be anything else.

    Idiots will still write shitty, unparsable HTML5, you're completely clueless if you think HTML5 is going to naturally result in higher quality and accuracy output just because its different. I'd guess you've got no software development experience or user interface design experience at all since you seem to think you can take the lazy out of people by designing something easier for existing lazy people ... they just get lazier and cut more corners than before.

  5. Re:Holding off using it for other reasons on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Yes, and you end up with less HTML being sent to the client as well.

    They are functionally the same, only your way is more bloated and uglier since you're still going to have the exact same CSS behind it, your way is rather stupid.

  6. Re:"Software engineers" don't do web programming on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    like NaCl, then a wealth of open-source projects could actually get things moving on the web. Imagine all the nice replacements for javascript and HTML that could come from that.

    Browser makers can't keep javascript from getting out of its sandbox and doing things it shouldn't ... are you really so stupid as to think that NaCl will be better? You want to run native code 'in a sandbox' that couldn't keep non-native code from exploiting the system?

    You have WAY more faith in Google's engineers than ANYONE ANYWHERE should. NaCl is a horrible idea to anyone with half a clue.

  7. Re:Work offline on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 2

    Then theres a good chance that an HTML app isn't the right way to go.

    Stop trying to pretend HTML and JS are a proper way to make an offline app.

    They AREN'T.

    Just because you CAN do it, doesn't mean you fucking SHOULD do it.

    HTML5 local storage should be used where it can for speed improvements and saving bandwidth, not to shoehorn HTML into something it shouldn't be. I'm sorry all you know how to do is throw around javascript and html, but that doesn't make you a developer and that doesn't mean you should try to write desktop/offline apps.

    Use the right tool for the job and stop trying to hammer nails into concrete with a small electronics screwdriver and the whole article becomes false.

    The only 'hard truths' about HTML5 is that it doesn't fit every problem and things get rather difficult when you start using it for something it wasn't meant for ... i.e. anything more than a presentation layer.

  8. Re:Barr had it coming, but... on Aaron Barr Talks About DEFCON, Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now? As if at some point in the past they were different? Are you really that stupid?

    There is a reason why mob justice isn't legal, because its never about the fucking justice and always about one group making another group or individual suffer for various reasons of personal gain.

    The Internet is not DIFFERENT than anything else, people there are EXACTLY THE SAME as everywhere else.

    Just because at one point in the past they were picking on people that you didn't like, doesn't mean they were trying to do something good. You just happen to share a common foe for the moment, nothing more. Stop trying to make some random group of losers on the Internet a romantic fairy tale.

  9. Re:Why wait? on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you want to cause an innocent man to be convicted to further your own personal agenda against cops ...

    How exactly is that different than what they do? Because you think you're on 'the good side' ... as you let someone else suffer ... not you, someone else.

    Douche.

  10. Re:This guy is just blowing smoke. on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whooooosh

    All of the ones above are subtly wrong like that.

  11. Re:NASDAQ uses Gentoo? on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats kind of the point of BSD licensed code ...

    They'd be much better off switching to FreeBSD since its known to have the fastest IP stack in existence, hence why its used for high end networking gear. Let me know when you see your BigIP running something other than FreeBSD.

  12. Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    All Linux distributions combined represent a smaller browser footprint than the iPhone ... If they can get by without an iPhone version, I'm pretty sure the 1.5% or so that Linux makes up won't be missed by a whole lot.

    Lets keep a little perspective.

  13. Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Or, we can just stop supporting Firefox on our websites and applications and simply respond with 'Firefox's development cycle is incompatible with everyone elses, we no longer support it'.

  14. Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    XPI files are zip files, not XML files.

  15. Re:Yeah... on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no default. Its designed to work both ways. Portrait or landscape is irrelevant, both devices care not about their orientation. WTF kind of argument is that?

  16. Re:Incorrect? on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    If you're eating sweet tomatos, you're probably getting drunk too. Heres a hint: eat them before they are rotting and fermenting.

  17. Re:Incorrect? on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    Only on the vine, its a fruit. Otherwise its a vegetable.

    True story, put a little more research into your statements, the tomato is a great example of a plant that fits into both categories perfectly.

  18. Re:subjectivity on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    Just because it is negligible to you that does not imply it is negligible to the case (after all, Apple claimed that they are "practically identical".)

    And they practically are. Not exactly. Not technically. But practically, they are identical to the casual observer.

    Way to prove their case for them in an attempt to do the opposite. Please don't try to be a lawyer.

  19. Pricing lies on Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This just allows them to make more profit when they sell you the chip.

    The price you pay for a CPU isn't going down, its going up, and you're just being too ignorant to notice.

    You'll still pay the same price for a the CPU as you did when it came with a fan, except now you'll also have to buy the fan seperately.

    This is exactly like the whole 'new CPUs must use this slotted connection due to some mystical magical BS we're making up about interference that is clearly a lie for multiple reasons'.

    Intel is once again bending you over and not using lube, but you're too busy looking for a technical reason that you're missing the obvious and real reason. Money. This isn't the first or even second time they've done something like this.

  20. Re:in some office buildings the building maintenan on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 1

    In any secure setup, that guy can't get into server rooms without one of the operations guys watching him.

    At least, thats the way its been everywhere I've managed.

    Don't care whats going on in the server room, you don't go in without an authorized employee. If this is not policy, you're doing it wrong, period.

  21. Re:The Only Solution on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who's fault it is isn't relevant. If you're concerned with fault, you must be a manager rather than something useful. The goal is to keep things private and secure, not make sure you get to point the finger somewhere else. If you're pointing the finger, you've already failed even if you're too stupid to realize it.

  22. Re:The Only Solution on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 1

    If you're that concerned about your wired connections, you're using IPSEC in which case, you're done.

  23. Re:Things Google should do on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    2.Start unlocking bootloaders on all Motorola phones. Good way to make tech geeks love your phones and recommend them to all and sundry. (think about how much community support the first Droid got because of its unlocked bootloader vs how much the first Milestone with its locked bootloader got)

    Word of mouth is important, but the number of people that care about this one can be counted on your fingers. This just really isn't anything anyone outside a few loud mouth geeks who don't realize there are other bits of hardware that are far better for tinkering with than a $600 smart phone that are more capable, and are entirely open and run Linux. The 'OMFG ITS OPEN' thing only matters to a FEW people on slashdot. If you think it matters in the real world you're completely out of touch with reality.

  24. Re:Easy way to increase production on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    There is a motorola mobility assembly and fabrication plant in America? News to me. Motorola phones are no more american made than any other.

  25. Re:Amazing how a couple of days can change things. on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Opening up the phones will only sell more hardware...

    Just because you say it, doesn't make it true.

    Theres really no logical reason 'opening up the hardware' will sell noticeably more phones than they are already selling. The number of people that will actually DO something that requires an 'OPEN' device is within the margin of error from a stastical perspective ... i.e. those people aren't even white noise.

    Opening the hardware doesn't sell enough extra devices to deal with the side effects. There are other open forms of hardware for tinkerers to tinker with.