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  1. Where's +1, Scary when you need it ...

  2. Re:Jurisdiction on In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in the summary or article does it say world wide, it says world FIRST.

  3. Re:Well, goodbye to that on AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Were you expecting him to predict what HBO would've produced in 2020 if it wasn't for this merger?

  4. Try asking your parents or grandparents how they'll install a new app, and when they say they'll use the Play Store (I'm assuming they're not saying they'll call you), say "Other than that." Make sure to snap a picture of the deer-in-headlights look you're gonna get.

    Any Android phone that gets so much as RUMORED to not have access to the Play Store is not going to get sold at all.

  5. This would include posts made to limited groups. Not everyone posts everything for the entire world to see.

  6. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bail on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And I'd argue that the referenced definition means "Under control instead of random hillbillies that like to shoot at redcoats", but what do I know.

  7. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bailo on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So you'd be fine with keeping your gun stored in a central locker at the shooting range?

  8. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bail on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: The most important aspect of July 4th to me, personally, was my grandmother's birthday. It is not a celebrated holiday in Europe.

    And again, this isn't about my perception of the second amendment; it's about how the comment I replied to jumped from talking about regulation of business in a free market to said second amendment without even stopping to take a breath.

  9. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bail on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily with the intent to kill you. In Europe we have hostage negotiators, not hostage executors.

  10. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bai on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the Windows vs. Linux debate. On both sides.

  11. WHOOSH on both of you.

    In case you didn't get it, that's the sound of the butane and methane and propane all being ignited at the same time.

  12. Re: Fire Emergency shut-off on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a scam I heard about long ago about someone working in a bank who would skim off a few cents of all the accounts. Very few people would even notice the discrepancy (do you remember if your bank balance ends in .65 or .56 right now?), and of them even fewer would bring it up with the bank manager. Those few cents would be reimbursed and considered a glitch or math error somewhere; this was before everything was digitized so shit happened.

    But imagine skimming a few cents off a million accounts every few months ...

  13. Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bailo on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am frequently amazed how Americans manage to make things be about the right to be able to kill other people at the squeeze of a trigger.

  14. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said elsewhere, we only know this piece of the story. We don't know if she has a dozen warnings in her employee file about staying civil when talking to people and not getting into verbal fights with customers and partners.

  15. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm actually wondering about the parts of the story we don't know, now. How many times has she flown into a rage directed at coworkers who dared criticize or offer alternate opinions on something she was doing? Was this just the straw that broke the camel's back? Was the meeting she was called into, in which, quote, "He fired me personally, and the meeting was mostly him venting his feelings at me," really a list of all the times he'd already told her to stop being a bitch to other people with other opinions?

    Note, also, how the meeting is ALSO about 'feelings'. Very typical feminist point of view, it's not about what was done or what should have been done, it was about his FEELINGS.

  16. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Game programmer writes lengthy post about why their way of doing things is right.

    Gamer says, "Hell no, this is how it looks from the PLAYER's perspective."

    Gender doesn't enter into that discussion, and you do see it almost DAILY on any game's main forum or Reddit. How many times have you seen gamers going, "If I was in charge of this project, this is how I would do it."? Hell, doesn't even have to be about games, can be about anything. Armchair psychologists, backseat drivers etc. It's been going on forever.

  17. Re:she still does not understand why she got fired on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    29 tweets? Sheesh. Doesn't ArenaNet have a forum or something?

  18. TIL Twitter blocklists are a thing.

    Some people must be truly frightened of the world and the people in it.

  19. Rhetorical questions don't require question marks.

  20. Re:Not her first rodeo on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If that's true (it's the internet, I assume everyone makes everything up) it does sound like she has a history of hitting enter before she thinks.

    <tongue-in-cheek>But she's a woman, so whaddya expect.</tongue-in-cheek>

  21. Re:It's rude to be an introvert in an open office on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case the study of the same group in two different environments shouldn't have had such a dramatic change in face-to-face and digital communications.

  22. Re:Khyber = fake name massive human fail on E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot to link to your hosts file.

    You also forgot to link to a site that shows how traditional gold mining is a boon for the environment.

  23. Re:Factors? on Valve Shuts Down New Way of Estimating Game Sales On Steam (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the summary said, when you have multiple achievements with different values, you very quickly come to a point where there is only one X that fits all the equations.

    If another achievement has been completed by 127 players, and the most common one is done by 59,993 players, you quickly run out of possibilities. Sure, there MAY be another result in the billions of players, but that's like GPS - all GPS calculations have TWO solutions to the equation, but one solution is on the planet's surface while the other is in outer space.

  24. Re:The stamp does not contain the replica of the s on Post Office Owes $3.5 Million For Using Wrong Statue of Liberty On a Stamp (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  25. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're so drugged they can't panic they're also so drugged they can't remember to breathe through their mouth instead of the nose.