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  1. Re:That was quick ... on Canadian Government Steps In To Stop Misleading Infringement Notices · · Score: 1

    I see this more of a "stop doing this until after the election so we don't have to deal with little-people backlash over having just passed this very copyright-holder friendly batch of laws".

  2. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    whoosh

  3. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but they practically flew over from ISIS headquarters to attack us. They are muslim.

  4. Re:why start after the fact? on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    then they'll just sit in the car and taz you as they drive by....(so you are also out of range of the dash cam, making a grab through the window for their gun)

  5. Re:why start after the fact? on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    remarkably often [for the instances where the weapon is discharged], there is very little time between unholstering the weapon and discharging it.

  6. Re:By all means on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    Followup-> nothing says "we are free, and demand our freedom" than having thousands extra of police and military wandering around your city.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30760563

  7. Re:No control experiment on Short-Term Exposure To Diesel Fumes Causes Changes In Gene Expression · · Score: 0

    Who the hell is getting turned on breathing diesel exhaust fumes? ;-)

  8. Re:No matter how much power we gave them ... on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    "I mean, c'mon - we're used to bumbling fools like the frickin' underwear bomber, so any terrorist with even a small modicum of military training is going to look like a 'SEAL-Delta-Para-Ranger-Force-Space-Shuttle-Door-Gunner(!)' to the masses."

    I mean, c'mon - we're used to bumbling fools like the frickin' underwear bomber, so any terrorist with even a small modicum of military training is going to sold as a 'SEAL-Delta-Para-Ranger-Force-Space-Shuttle-Door-Gunner(!)' to the masses.

    FTFY

    Pretty much every wacko that has done something while being muslim has been labelled a terror attack, and after every "attack" the talking heads announce that we have to give up any pretense of freedom to maybe be able to stop the next one.

  9. Re:Fear on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Wow. The US gov't is so afraid of it's entire population, it is monitoring everyone's internet traffic, mail and phone calls.

    And the press is largely self-censoring because if they don't, they won't get an interview with the President...or even get to ask questions in the white house press room...

  10. Re:Can they do it? on BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things · · Score: 2

    Yeah. those pocketpc devices were great.

    fabulous battery life->course, you had to carry around multiple batteries to swap if you actually used it like people use iPhones now
    anybody could develop for them->after buying the developer license from Microsoft
    buy software from multiple vendors to load onto it->besides the fact that compared to the iPhone now [or even 6 months after the iPhone app store went live], there was basically a rounding error amount of software for it, that you hunt around to find, and then figure out if the software would work on your phone [sorry, no refunds], and if you were a developer, you either had to sell the software yourself [which back then was a huge hassle to handle transactions and then walk the end user through actually getting the software onto the device] or you sold through a carrier or one of a fairly small number of online software sales companies, where you got the short end of the stick of the split [70/30 - 90/10 or worse]. and users had X, which, like iTunes, easily lets you add and remove apps from your pocketpc device. oh wait, no, there was nothing like that. some places had you use text messages to try to download via your data plan [not cheap]
    pocketpc ui->who can forget having to poke around small windows-like menus/buttons/etc with a stylus, or moving the mouse with the arrow keys. and you had to have the slide-out keyboard.
    WinCE->the only software MS ever put out with the right name: wince The version that shipped on your device was usually the one still on it when you threw it away. Part of the "buy a new phone to get the latest OS" strategy preferred by carriers and hardware makers.

    Those were the good old days.

  11. Re: I guess that means ... on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    what is ridiculous is that the so-called "researchers" were on the radio today here in Edmonton, and made the bizarre claim that their system could be converted to deal with terrorism by just programming in terrorist scenarios that their software would then solve...

    hello defense spending budget!

  12. Re:Competition on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    WinPhone 7...oops, all current devices can't be upgrades to WinPhone 8. However, we will put out a skin for the homescreen to make it look like your are running WinPhone 8. Job done!

  13. Re:And? on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    So, it's kind of like my existing cable bill, where I have a long list of fee's and "taxes" [some actual taxes, some just declared that way by Comcast], nickle and diming for a bunch of stuff over and above what their advertised rate is. And the customer service is pretty bad. And Comcast has worked hard to make it that way.

    So, what the article is saying, Comcast is going to be able to try even harder to charge me more while giving me less, because it is somehow limited now in how crappy it can possibly be?

  14. Re:Will it treat the "Allahu akbar!" infection? on Microbe Found In Grassy Field Contains Powerful Antibiotic · · Score: 1

    It totally fixes both. You just stuff the dirt with these microbes into their mouth until it is full. Then they need to snort the remainder of the dirt through their nose. Five minutes after the nose is full, the person is cured.

  15. Re:Dangerous to mess with ./ crowd on this one on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    So, you are typing with your nose?

  16. Re:That's will be one dead astronugh on SpaceX One Step Closer To Launching Astronaut · · Score: 1

    So, your concern is that the spaceship was assembled by a for-profit company instead of a government agency? Because pretty a whole bunch of the parts for NASA spacecraft are made by for-profit companies...this is part of the pork-barrelling of NASA, by making them buy parts from companies all over the US, regardless of who could make the best part or an adequate part for less.

  17. Re:Update failure on Patch Tuesday? on NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Should have hired Canada to make it!

  18. Re:Same ole, same ole ... on Canadian Anti-Piracy Firm Caught Infringing Copyright · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We just made a simple mistake. You did it on purpose!

  19. Re:Leap hour on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    No. Large rocket engines mounted horizontally, fixed to the Earth, running 24/7 until we get the rotation back up so we don't have to keep adding these stupid seconds.

  20. Re:Slow news day? on Extreme Heat Knocks Out Internet In Australia · · Score: 0

    crazy stuff like that costs money, which cuts into profits. cheaper just to shut everything down, since most "customers" don't get refunds or discounts because the service is down.

  21. Re:Just a simple question... on Hubble Takes Amazing New Images of Andromeda, Pillars of Creation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go outside and download the image at the resolution you want.

  22. Re:They'll never catch on European Researchers Develop More Accurate Full-Body Polygraph · · Score: 1

    surely they can match the tire marks his wheelchair left across my back...

  23. Re:so it can still be trained for on European Researchers Develop More Accurate Full-Body Polygraph · · Score: 1

    that guy was arrested for claiming he would help people lie to the FBI. if he had just stuck with claim "I can help you beat a polygraph exam", he would have been fine. Once he said something along the lines of "I can help you beat an FBI polygraph exam", that became illegal.

  24. Re:This is a good thing on Finnish Bank OP Under Persistent DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    No. You login as AC over http.

  25. ...most drunks might not be French, but...