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  1. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    The only thing worse than tech support telling you to reboot, is an end-user that calls you with a problem that hasn't already tried rebooting.

  2. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    imagine if you had to type 'shutdown now'

    Thats a whole extra 7 characters, possibly even more than 1 second of your time.

    oh the horror.

  3. Re:One teensy detail on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    I saw a documentary about that... It *was* a documentary right?

  4. Re:I think Icahn on Dell Signs Agreement To Cap Icahn's Share Ownership · · Score: 0

    I have an excel spreadsheet here that shows that this FP was an anomoly amongst first posts, which are usually insightful or informative 90% of the time.

  5. Re:I approve. on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Antagonising a rogues state into launching a nuclear attack?

    Just to be devil's advocate like.

  6. Re:Not only that on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    Why so sure?

    I think its fair to say the bond market is pretty pumped up right now.

    Consider also that $500bn volume is buying and selling. Typical price discovery action. Then also consider a chunk of that is just HFT.

    China has the ability to drop a $1.5t sell order on the market. That is going to hurt whichever way you look at it. I doubt everyone else is going to sit idly by whilst the price plummets.

    What is preposterous is suggesting that things like this cannot happen.

  7. Re:Is it really circulating? on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    0.99% transaction fees (bitpay)

    https://bitpay.com/pricing

  8. Re:Card to Card payments on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Big Bad Ben Bernanke's fariytale dreamland he is seeking help from the Childlike Empress, so that together they can convince Atreyu to believe in the USD, lest it blink out of existence through lack of faith.

    I'd say its a coin flip as to which one your money is safest in :)

  9. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Its not about curing them, its about damage limitation.

  10. Re:I can assure you... on Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC. · · Score: 1

    try /etc/

    user specific stuff will be in dot files in your home directory

  11. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I don't want to! I am sure that doesn't mean everybody else shouldn't want to either though ;)

    Next you'll be telling me I can only download apps from one place!

  12. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Yeah you don't *need* multiple apache installs, neither do you need VM's... or even web server at all, or bacon.

  13. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    I assume he meant virtual *hosts*, which is fair enough, though vhosts arent necessarily the answer to everything.

    If you had two physical interfaces to a machine then its not a stretch to suggest you might want to glom an instance of httpd onto each.

  14. Re:Round 1: FIGHT! on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    A fair, and unfortunate point :/

  15. Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar on Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names · · Score: 1

    Haha. Excellent reposte! :D

  16. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    Parliament is in charge, the Queen is the head of parliament.

  17. Round 1: FIGHT! on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Privacy Advocates" vs "Police Transparency Enthusiasts"

    Should be a good battle.

  18. Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar on Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names · · Score: 1

    I cetainly did! Fortunately I enjoy sitting ;)

  19. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    If you are defining the establishment as inclusive of the monarchy, then yes the queen wouldn't exist.

    They would be some crazy times though. A motion of no confidence might be a much better starting place!

    As for the people queen analogy, I didn't really think it was a very good one either.

  20. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    Confusion abound!

    You can argue that a constitutional monarchy is a form of government, you would be right but this is an axiom and so I don't know why anyone would be arguing this point.

    The Government (UK, capital G) is merely the majority party (or parties) in the House of Commons at any given time, and The Queen is not a part of this.

    The House of Commons itself is just one part of parliament. Parliament is the authoritative legislative body in the UK. It comprises the Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords and the Monarch, who is head of parliament.

    Parliament is routinely dissolved 17 days before a general election, at which point the Members of Parliament no longer carry title, and the Government no longer exists. During this time, the Monarch continues to reign. They exist without the Government.

    It is by royal decree that a new parliament is summoned, a general election is held, which may or may not form a new Government.

    So although the Queen is not part of the Government, she is part of Parliament. Her position as Monarch is not dependant on the existence of Parliament no less than it depends on the existence of the Government.

    The British Monarchy exists as constitutional monarchy however, such that significant power has been ceded to the Government where 'running the country' is concerned. Such that even the Royal Prerogative itself has now been diminished to such an extent that most decisions are taken by government without royal approval, and in fact the Prime Minister is not obliged to take heed of the monarch.

    So its easy to assume the queen cannot exist without the Government, I suspect the real truth is that the Queen cannot rule without the government.

    Without a government though, I would assume that the Queen would in fact rule in their stead. This is total conjecture though.

  21. Re:HTC can't compete anymore on Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are just fulfilling their role as the new evil empire.

    Embrace, extend, extinguish.

    All they need now is a few more developers.

  22. Re:Just another case of office politics on Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle? · · Score: 1

    I think they will, history may even repeat itself...

  23. Re:Just Apple.. on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are four lights.

  24. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    If you are shorting, you aren't investing. If you are buying on leverage, you aren't investing. Investors, they buy and hold through though 'noise' - however loud, they don't get margin called, they don;t get short squeezed.

    If you are shorting, you are trading, if you are using leverage you are trading. Trading *is* gambling, and in gambling, the house always wins.

    I read all this before I started 'investing', and still i've ended up learning the hard way :/

  25. Re:what the hell is 'serious work' on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    I do everything on a laptop (15"MBP). I haven't used a desktop for around 5 years now. LAMP and Rails development might not be considered 'serious' enough though ;)

    I really thought I would miss it, turns out I was wrong. I would hate to be tied to a desktop now.

    Desktops will stick around though I'm sure.