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  1. Re: ridiculous on Amazon Will Pay $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats generally the way it already works. Any state and local taxes paid can be deducted from your federal taxes owed

  2. Re: I don't see it on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with this line of reasoning is that AT&T's agreement with Apple at the launch of the original Iphone was that Apple would handle all warranty and service work on the iphone. This was in the original contract, and I doubt that it has changed.

  3. Re:That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    how is this any worse than "Something happened"? lack of useful error messages has historically been a hallmark of windows.

  4. Re:British bots on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Daleks are not robots. you, sir, are no Doctor.

  5. Re:Memo: People hate paying bills. on Report: Internet Users Feel Powerless To Protect Their Privacy From Corporations · · Score: 1

    Either every election is massively fraudulent, which seems unlikely, or the majority is full of shit — and very much did sign up for government spying, bringing the rest of us with

    Except for the elections where there are only two candidates and both are pro spying, so you're fucked no matter who you choose.

    You are setting up a false dichotomy here that implies that the majority could in fact vote for someone who would stop the spying. Alas, that just doesn't seem to be true these days.

    When both sides are invested in propping up the status quo, everybody loses.

  6. Re:Disableable on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    you're making a false equivalency. You seem to be under the misapprehension that netflix is currently available unencumbered with DRM. This is not the case. Netflix currently utilizes drm through microsoft's silverlight plugin on firefox. All this is doing is switching drm technologies, which will assist them in deprecating NPAPI. It is not adding DRM to a previously unencumbered distribution channel. It seems silly to be this up in arms over what really amounts to nothing more than a technology shift.

  7. Re:Or just boycott the major movie studios on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    it was implied that he wishes not to do without, therefore for him, there are only 2 viable options to get the content he wishes to consume.

  8. Re:Typo: Digital Rights Management on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    netflix hasn't worked on linux in firefox since they released the silverlight plugin. it might start doing so now that there is an html5 pathway, but mono was not able to incorporate the silverlight drm which would allow netflix to work over linux,

  9. Re:Of course USB is a perfect system on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    99% of all alarms are false alarms. The police don't like wasting resources chasing down false alarms. In most jurisdictions you have to have a permit, which allows a certain number of "free" false alarms, after which you get charged a fee every time they dispatch to a false alarm. for residential alarms it's usually around $50. but for commercial sites I've seen it as high as $500. per dispatch. Furthermore if you are repeatedly having false alarms in a short period of time, the police will generally inform you that they will no longer dispatch to your site until you provide proof that the faulty alarm has been replaced/repaired.

  10. Re:Doesn't replace the real thing. on Microsoft Announces Windows Holographic Platform · · Score: 1

    how can you have a birthrate below zero? if everybody stopped reproducing today, wouldn't that merely result in a birthrate of 0?

  11. Re:Tablets and technology march on on Crowdfunded Android Console Ouya Reportedly Seeking Buyout · · Score: 1

    I've seen them at walmart, target, and best buy.

  12. Re:Just my take on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    in addition to points made by others here, there's also another issue. Say the mother wins absolves the father of any legal responsibilities for the child that is born. The child grows up, develops some sort of rare disease or is involved in a horrible accident. The child tracks down the father for spare parts, i.e. bone marrow or a kidney. This now puts him in an awkward position that would never have occurred without this decision. if the disease presents itself during childhood, can the father then be compelled to provide donor material?

  13. Re:Disgusting. on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    do you really think Mitt Romney would have done anything differently with regard to the security theater? He is on record repeatedly as being in support of domestic spying as well as increased military spending. Romney would not have changed anything. the only thing that might be said in support of him is that at least he woudl've been more open about it.

  14. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I can't remember what point I was trying to make with that statement. consider it withdrawn.

  15. Re:linux,welcome to the same prison cell as micros on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1
    If Microsoft got to cull out all the terrible stuff they'd done the way that Linux does it'd run a lot faster and a lot cleaner, and a lot safer, but they can't, so their software is slow, bloated, and buggy.

    Why not? Apple did when they introduced OS X. Windows could easily do the same.

  16. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1
    FSF has never been a punitive organization and frankly, copyright law does not work that way either

    Tell that to the RIAA lawsuit vitimet.

  17. Re:A nice experience for the casual fan... on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1

    Actually, as any Real trekker knows, re-routing power is done on a minute by minute basis at the Ops station. You didn't really think they needed two people to steer the ship, did you?

  18. Re:A nice experience for the casual fan... on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1

    He's also been insanely busy lately, and recently broke his rib in a roller skating accident. That's probably got a lot to do with it as well.

  19. Re:bullcrap on New Details For StarCraft 2's Zerg · · Score: 1

    actually, if memory serves, The 200 unit limit was imposed do to RAM constraints back in 1998. It wasn't about balancing the game so much as it was a way to prevent out of memory errors or gameplay slowdown because unit information was being swapped off of the hard disk.

  20. Re:Best coverage on p2pnet.net on Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students · · Score: 1

    Sir, I salute you. I'm usually pretty good at deciphering poor grammar and getting the gist of a post, but the masterpiece you crafted above is completely incomprehensible. That takes some real talent.

  21. Re:Insurance? on How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft? · · Score: 1

    If you had called the police out, they probably would've cited you liable for the car you hit because you didn't maintain sufficient distance to prevent the collision. At least, that's the way it works where I live.

  22. Re:Netflix sucks if you use linux on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    fair enough. I was running a 2.0 Ghz amd-64 single core with 2Gb of ram. The setup was about five years old minus the Radeon HD2600 Pro AGP which never did have a working linux driver.

  23. Re:What it will look like to me in 3 years.. on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    having to type my damn password every 5 seconds like on a fucking macintosh

    I wasn't aware that you could configure OSX to use Sudo.

  24. Re:I'm sorry on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    I believe this is an inventory database problem. People aren't receiving movies because they aren't sure which movies are in stock and which ones aren't.

  25. Re:Netflix sucks if you use linux on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can use the instant viewing through a windows vm in linux, but IE6 under wine doesn't work because the system uses a plugin that connects to windows media player to control the drm etc. I tried for about a month to get it working and failed. Video quality was poor enough under a vm that I just went back to watching in windows.