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  1. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Adobe are probably reading this, and saying to their coders: "Right, the load time's down to a satisfactory point again, increase the features till it crawls (again)."

  2. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Yeah. But obviously, having some stuff running "In the Cloud" is the answer. Crap. It reminds me of 1999 all over again, with the word "Cloud" replacing the word "Internet" in all sort of stupid places: 1999: Five years ago, this would have been totally unworkable. But now we can use The Internet ! 2001: Why the fuck did we think that was gonna work? 2012: Five years ago, this would have been totally unworkable. But now we can use The Cloud ! 2014: ...

    SaaS, net computing, etc.

    A lot of apparently fast to load apps aren't really, they do the slow part of loading when you boot, and leave the app running invisibly.

  3. Re:Sounds legit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    It's supposed to be Inexpensive. A bunch of 80G drives is going to be becoming expensive again (because no-one's making them anymore, and they are now 'spare parts')

  4. Re:Praying for on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    The kind of series where you wonder if you're going to die (reading, I realise you can say that about writing) before finishing the series. I've sort of liked reading it, but there's been too many times I've re-read the story up to now just to read the last couple. The Dark Tower was another such.

  5. Re:MegaUpload bust was highly successful on Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down · · Score: 1

    So tell me (again) if they can do this without PIPA/SOPA, why did they claim civilization (in their terms) would end without them?

  6. Re:slashdot title also written by a moron on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Not a biologist, but if these 'early' drugs haven't been used for a while, won't the bacteria no longer be resistant to them?

  7. Re:Blegh on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Email's more analogous to snailmail than phone, so it would be like sending a letter to them jointly and addressing one (John) in the letter, but having Linda discard it after she opened. Why not just have 3 emails, if you even need the stupid joint one?

  8. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Discovery? Like finding a rare plant that cures something. You patent the application.

  9. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    And just because someone disagrees, does not make it wrong. But that's self-evident. Ok, someone please moderate me redundant.

  10. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    no, a more apt analogy would have involved cars.

    Hmmm. Ok, you buy petrol (aka gas in the USA) from company A and it deposits formula X on the inside of your engine that protects it from being crushed by elephants. Company A say you now have to keep buying their petrol, or they'll sue you, because there's still formula X in your engine, but you are no longer buying product from them.

    Happy?

  11. Re:Seems reasonable.. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    It's in many vaccines, but don't they make one (likely more expensive) that is not egg based? There would seem to be enough people with an egg allergy for their to be a market. OTOH, I'm not a biologist.

  12. Re:why do we care about shape? on What the iPad 3 Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Waiting for a klein bottle shaped iPad...

  13. we want it all... on Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung · · Score: 1

    infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products
    That sounds like "whatever anyone else thinks of that we or our customers like for our product, we've already got a patent on it"
    Rushes to patents office and takes out a patent on "All your base are belong to us"

  14. Re:Maybe... on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    For over a month now, but what's your point?

  15. Re:5th Amendment doesn't apply on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    If it's an adequately strong password/key phrase, by my organisation's password criteria, there's a good chance after two years it'd blur into all the other slightly different passwords you use. Did it have a capital letter there? Was that punctuation mark a ? or a ! Which numbers did I use for that? She probably got into trouble by using the word 'may' - "my client may have forgotten" - it sounds like you're trying it on. if you said "my client has forgotten" that would be more believable.

  16. Re:5th Amendment? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1
  17. Re:How many Amendments are left ? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Insightful to a topic of forgetting a password? Come again? How about offtopic?

  18. Re:Still better than an Android tablet on Fake IPad 2s Made of Clay Sold At Canadian Stores · · Score: 1

    However, Apple customers can't tell real iPads from ones with feet of clay. Literally, or metaphorically.

  19. Re:Part of a money conflict within the King family on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Fuck the dns. We're all good enough to memorise the ipv6 numbers. Aren't we?

  20. Re:Part of a money conflict within the King family on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 1

    You didn't notice he'd posted as AC?

  21. Re:Chicken! on Wikipedia Still Set For Full Blackout Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Shut down Facebook, Twitter, and watch productivity rocket!

  22. Re:Chicken! on Wikipedia Still Set For Full Blackout Wednesday · · Score: 1

    google cache.

  23. Re:My preview of ReFS on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Most didn't realise it because of the 'don't read the article' meme. He didn't add that it was built on a relational database, though. I wonder if it will enjoy the same popularity as WinFS?

  24. Re:Penn & Teller are more bullshit than the sh on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 1

    When did Libertarian become Conservative? It's a completely different quadrant.

  25. Re:Please no on Google Merges Google+ Into Search · · Score: 1

    When you pay Google for search results, you can make those requests or demands.