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  1. Re:Are they allowed to do that? on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 1

    Really? Then why are there so many available on the AppStore?

  2. Re:As a big comixology user, this *sucks* on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 1

    Are so naive to think your going to pay less elsewhere? Even if it's cheaper right now, they'll bump the price next year.

    Of course, I predict apple will simply ban the app since this violates their requirements from my perspective.

  3. GTA IV, GTA V, Fallout 3 on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    All of them had awesome stories. Fallout 3 changed after the first DLC, but the latest 2 GTAs and their DLC have had absolutely awesome stories, even if I don't like the fact that letting Trevor live was an option in GTA V :)

  4. Re:And? on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    No, I won't post a link to my build because its not impressive, but I'll help your lazy ignorant ass out a bit.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arduino+c...

    First link is a basic phone for fucks sake

  5. Re:DIY Cell Phone on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    1997 called, they want their idea back.

  6. And? on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    He bought premade modules and did something you've been able to do since just a few months after the RPi came out. Its been possible with Arduino shields for far longer.

    Why exactly is this here? Just because the editors have no idea what articles their posting and have just realized that for way too much money you can make a really shitty cell phone?

    I've got an arduino based cell phone buried in my desk somewhere, all using off the shelf modules, I'm pretty sure all of which I bought from radioshack though some may come from sparkfun just to save money. Its no more difficult than stacking some lego bricks together and moving an actuator with Lego Mindstorms.

  7. Re:Only if you allow it on Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You · · Score: 1

    And its been shown repeatedly that using most of those 'anonymouizers' actually makes you easier to sport rather than harder.

  8. He said it worked, except we can't prove it on SpaceX Files Suit Against US Air Force · · Score: -1, Troll

    Funny how successful it is ... but it couldn't be recovered.

    I'm not sure what world he lives in, but unless he's reusing his reusable rocket, he failed. Doesn't matter that the Coast Guard wouldn't go after it, that in fact is more telling than anything he said, storms that large and powerful don't blow up in 20 minutes, so there is definitely bad planning on SpaceX's part ... another reason why they just aren't qualified to do what they claim they are doing.

    While the engineers at Tesla and SpaceX are damn good at their jobs, Musk needs to be silenced. PayPal was nothing more than right place, right time, and truth be told is an absolutely shitty company in every way except for lining his pockets.

  9. Re:That is why social Hacking is Bad MmmKaa. on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 1

    The both your organization and the banks fucked up. You shouldn't have outsourced something so critical to your business if thats the case.

    You most certainly don't connect devices and networks for medical devices to a public network, if you did, you shouldn't be fired, you should be fired at with a large caliber weapon for not knowing what the fuck you were doing. YOU put peoples lives at risk.

    What the hell is wrong with you that you have software that has to be used offsite for medical purposes?

    Note: I've worked in health care too, NOTHING critical EVER is allowed to rely on something that isn't ENTIRELY under the hospitals control. If you need to talk to the outside world for basic medical care, you absolutely, beyond any argument FUCKED UP.

    And in this case, I'm willing to bet that the hospital had no care issues, their just trying to play politics and say how evil this attack is, trying to play bleeding hearts and ignorance.

  10. Re:Somebody thought it was atmospheric pressure? on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 1

    That's pulling liquid upward entirely through difference in air-pressure

    Wrong. Thats atmospheric pressure PUSHING the liquid up through the straw due to the lower pressure in the part you're 'sucking' on.

    The reason you can't 'suck' water up past 30 feet or so is because the water column becomes equal to atmospheric pressure, so even when the upper end is in a 'vacuum', the atmospheric pressure is in equilibrium with it and it stops flowing upwards.

    You can not pull water up, only push.

    Likewise, those people who taught you that airplanes fly because a vacuum on the top edge of the wing 'sucks' it up are equally as wrong. A vacuum or lower pressure never does any work, its the positive pressure on the other side that is ALWAYS pushing.

    You can only pull on solids, never on gases or liquids (unless you want to get pedantic and start throwing in high viscosity fluids or amorphous solids).

  11. Re:Please... on Google Plus Now Minus Chief Vic Gundotra · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't want all my gmail contacts getting notified through Google+ that watzinaneihm liked the latest pop video on youtube.

    So go to your preferences and turn it off. Or uncheck the 'also share on Google+' checkbox when posting.

    Seriosly, This isn't hard.

  12. Re:Google- on Google Plus Now Minus Chief Vic Gundotra · · Score: -1

    Why?

    Google can accomplish the exact same thing if you sign up individually or don't sign up for any of them. And ... G+ isn't required for any of the things you've listed so go delete your G+ profile and be happy.

    All you're saying is 'I don't like unified logins! I want 20 accounts instead of one, even though my behavior makes it easy for Google to identify me across all services anyway!'

    You really don't know what you want it, you're just anti-theman

  13. Re:I never thought I'd live to see the day... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    Every single one of us. Just because you don't realize thats what you're doing doesn't mean its not doing it. Even the most basic computer operation requires math computations, I can't even think of anything I could do with assembly that would be useful that didn't require a bunch of math to be done. All network IO involves massive amounts of math alone.

  14. Re:I never thought I'd live to see the day... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    Radical surgery? Just put a VW 4 cylinder in their feed bowl, wait 30 minutes, you'll have a internal combustion engine in a clydesdale. They've got room in there.

  15. Re:I never thought I'd live to see the day... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    Really? Palm would have disagreed with you.

  16. Re:I never thought I'd live to see the day... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    I've still not seen that day, I don't know of any non-geek who wants a bigger item to carry in their pocket or purse.

    I'm fairly certain the definition of public used here means a vocal minority of techies, rather than the general public.

  17. Re:Well... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't have a screen, its a shuffle.

    And ... are we supposed to be impressed that you bought something you didn't like? Do you always brag about things you waste money on?

    Most of us grew out of that shit in 3rd or 4th grade.

  18. Re:Restore Common Carrier on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people like you think that an online petition does anything.

    You could not possibly put less effort into doing something about it unless you did nothing at all.

    Online petitions are a meaningless joke, they are nothing more than a way to distract people and keep them from doing anything actually useful. You might as well sit in your living room and yell at the TV or newspaper.

    Its mind numbing that you're buying into this show as if it does anything, its just a way to keep stupid people under control and from doing anything actually significant, congratulations you're not smart enough to realize when you're being 'handled'.

    Get off your ass and vote and use your head to do so. Stop wasting your time trying to tell people to sign some meaningless online petition.

  19. Re: Drop Netflix, Pirate Everything on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    And when I copy your checks or credit information?

    Its magically non-private because you decide what is and isn't based on how it works out for you. THAT is disgusting and flat out wrong.

  20. Re:Wrong battle. on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Their networks were built out using money they got from the Universal Service Fund ... the government tax put on communications so rural areas would get service as well at a reasonable cost ... except thats not what they did. They built out the profitable areas and left everyone else in the dark. So essentially I paid to build their network, not them. Any debt they have is debt they incurred by giving out golden parachutes and ridiculous bonuses.

    You need to stop believing that hollywood accounting is legitimate.

  21. Re:I informed you thusly... on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    When you have a super majority in congress ... HOW THE FUCK do you blame the other guy for blocking it?

  22. Re:Rope-a-dope on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Obama is a legit President, not like Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush I & II and Clinton...Obama isn't perfect but he's not illuminati.

    And thats where you lost everyone over the age of 20, except possibly yourself. I find it hard to believe anyone could be so ignorant as to make such a comment.

    Are you one of Obama's campaign managers or something? Michelle, is that you?

  23. Re:Not really needed anymore. on Supreme Court Upholds Michigan's Ban On Affirmative Action In College Admissions · · Score: 1

    My comment has absolutely nothing to do with affirmative action.

    My comment is based on general behavior of 'the North'.

    My comment is based on the lie that 'We've made enormous strides in racial equality' which is flat out false, people in the North in my experience are no better than any other area of the country, they just don't have the balls to be up front about it.

    In Georgia I may be called some slur, in Michigan ... you wait for me to leave the room first, but you damn sure don't treat me any differently other than the words you use. I'd much rather deal with the first because then I know where I stand and who not to deal with.

  24. None. on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not sure what shitty 'DRM' you're dealing with, but all the DRM crap I have I download at home and put on my device and then it just plays whenever I want it.

    If you're too stupid (yes, Bennett Haselton is fucking stupid) to not know the difference between streaming services and others, its your own fucking fault.

    For fucks sake, have you never used iTunes or anything like it? Works FINE without a network connection once the initial authorization is done and that includes pulling copies off the network share where I saved them too the first time I downloaded.

    Bennett, you're a fucking moron in every way.

  25. Re:Anybody know the plate# for each scotus? on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What pay phone? The only 3 that still exist in the US are also covered by cameras I'm sure.