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  1. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1

    Amazing this got mod points. Caesar, Pharoah and numerous other nations recognized the Jews as more than "just a bunch of people". If that doesn't qualify, then what does?

  2. Re:From TFA on How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source · · Score: 1

    ...just WHAT it and change it's name?

  3. Re:Classic Cars on '09 Malibu Vs. '59 Bel Air Crash Test · · Score: 1

    To be fair they only spend 0.02 cars a year. The next bel-air they destroy will be in 2059.

  4. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 1

    I always thought of it the other way around - Your job is to deliver the product, your manager is there to make sure you succeed in your job. An no, this is not soviet russia.

  5. Re:China and Iran will tell Washington about it? on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 1

    Yeah I watched Harold and Kumar too!

  6. Re:Non-free A competes against Non-free B on Microsoft Reportedly Poaching Apple Retail Staff · · Score: 1

    And here you are, giving away homemade tanks... That nobody wants.

  7. Re:Apple to MS Transferable Skills? on Microsoft Reportedly Poaching Apple Retail Staff · · Score: 1

    Riiight.. Because they can afford to piss off Dell, Asus, Acer and every other manufacturer out there.

  8. Re:Ethical Business Tactics on Microsoft Reportedly Poaching Apple Retail Staff · · Score: 1

    No, it's like buying Penn from Penn and Teller. He might not make you a good ad by himself, but at least he's not making a good ad for Apple.

  9. Re:Wrong assumptions on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    Between having a spare and a raid-6, why not choose the raid-6? The system is in fully redundant mode even while recovering from an error.

  10. Re:So essentially they want people to pay on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    Are you crazy? making your consumers take on the battle takes you out of the arena. They're going to be pissed at Apple, not ASCAP, for not standing up for them.

  11. Re:Let me be the first to say on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    Iran, Iraq, what's the difference?

    Anyway, sucks to live in that part of the world I guess. Thanks for the correction.

  12. Re:Please boycott Apple! on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    Going off on a tangent, but isn't AT&T overburdened because they took the public money purposed for upgrading, and absconded with it? I'm surprised people are able to put up with that.

  13. Re:Let me be the first to say on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a phone not supported by your carrier

    Listen to yourself. Your carrier is not supposed to support a phone, it is supposed to support a _standard_, whether it is CDMA, iMode or GSM like the rest of the world uses, This makes it possible to bring your phone overseas with you too, you know, and do things like buy a phone without the uncertainty of wondering if it will work where you live. The thing is, you've been in slavery so long that your level of expectation is so much lower than that of everyone else. Yes, you, American.

  14. Re:Clever marketing, plain and simple on EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts · · Score: 1

    They are impersonating people and setting them up as asshats. Your idea of good marketing and plain clean fun needs some tweaking imo.

  15. Re:EA doing something sleazy?!?!?!? on EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts · · Score: 1

    Generally you could just take the money and do nothing. It's not a crime. Hell, it's not even a sin.

  16. Re:I think they should track on Tracking Stolen Gadgets — Manufacturers' New Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Second hand phones are usually sold to customers overseas. Probably true for stolen phones as well.

  17. Re:ntfs-3g for mac on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    The performance of ntfs-3g is abysmal. Data transfers take forever.

  18. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    I used FAT32 too, but every time you do, you run the risk of hosing the drive as journalling is not supported, and the file system corrupts way too easily. I looked around for a way to format a disk as UDF, but it appears nobody wants to support UDF on anything but optical media.

  19. Re:But...but... they need new technology! on The Coming Problems For Rolling Out 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Myself I wonder if they're willing to degrade the DVD experience so as to promote Blu-ray instead. I know the promotional videos do show a marked difference in quality only because they turned the DVD side video to shit.

  20. Re:ahh good times on Sega Dreamcast Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    is this the "Toy Story" graphics you were talking about?

  21. Re:Excellent Example! on Cryptographic Tools To Keep You Hidden On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The real problem is, most people are unable to tell what information is something that they shouldn't want someone to read. It could be something I posted once, and regret doing later. It could be that circumstances change over time to make previously unclassified information highly sensitive. Most of all, it could be information that is harmless to me, but highly sensitive to someone that I know. So your mother may be right, but I don't see how she is relevant here on the internets.

  22. Re:camera in the Nano but not the Touch? huh? on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    They're promoting the touch for game-playing and the nano for video and picture blogging. This way they get to sell you both...
    Meh, I don't know, the nano does look like something out of a James Bond spying arsenal. What's to prevent people from misusing it and taking upskirts? Also, Apple has long made it clear that the touch will always be the inferior brother of the iphone. Every thing that they have released for free on the iphone has to be bought for the touch, making it the gift that keeps on giving (to Apple, that is).

  23. oblig. hgttg on Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Why hello there, Marvin.

  24. So much for "Redmond, start your copiers" on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    This copying trend is going out of hand. How about some innovation from someone other than Apple for once?

  25. Re:seriously? on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Once and for all!

    but

    ONCE AND FOR ALL!