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  1. Re:NO COMPROMISE ON THIS on Verizon Offers Compromise In Exclusivity Debate · · Score: 1

    The trouble all started when you american morons invented CDMA as a NIH syndrome response to the GSM.
    That is why you have stupid contracts, tie-ins, no advanced phones (come on Nokia N97 is far better than iPhone), and stupid fees.
    Someone will mod me down as flamebait, but i can afford to lose points.
    Why couldn't you guys stick the GSM. It was flexible, allowed NO tie-ins, was easy to administer.
    But Nooooo, you morons had to go and invent a whole new standard because you were too pissed to use the frogs' standards.
    Pride goeth before a fall.
    Enjoy your lock-ins, tie-ins and other stuff.

  2. Re:Huh? on Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    Best is pirate bay to declcare bankruptcy. That way RIAA would not get a cent.
    Then the owners sell it to a TRUST for $1 on condition that the trust pays them a consulting fee.
    The trust sells it to the new owners and pockets the money.
    The trust pays the old owners "consulting" fee.
    This way RIAA is screwed.
    Its not new. RIAA screws new artists the same way.

  3. Re:This is actually badly needed... on Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission · · Score: 1

    Good suggestion, but it will invite more legal issues: suppose a 17 yr old drinks that beer, the parents can sue you for intoxicating a minor as if their son is a paragon of virtue.

  4. Re:Good Initiative for Businesses on Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission · · Score: 1

    From a business standpoint, this actually makes sense as I'm not a network Guru or even an expert and if I were to get a courtesy visit from the local police informing me that there was an unsecured wireless AP on my network, I'd be thankful because the potential cost damage to me is so high.

    No, it doesn't.
    The cops have no business doing that.
    If courts can uphold a cop's duty as just to solve crimes and NOT to prevent them, i can argue that the cop has NO right in trying to prevent crimes by wardriving.
    When sued, cops argue in court that according to law they are NOT required to prevent crimes. They can only solve crimes. So the victim suffers as a result.
    By same argument, i can sue the cops stating that they cannot attempt to prevent crimes by wardriving.
    Today it is wardriving, tomorrow they will play a "friendly", "no warrant" visit to my home to teach me that music theft is wrong.
    If you are not fit to secure a network, then you ought to be fired.
    What kind of network administrator are you?

  5. Re:Bribes. on Indian Tiger Park Now Tiger-Free · · Score: 1

    Slavery WAS illegal in Britain for a long time since 1800s.
    That didn't prevent slave ships sailing from Africa to USA (before civil war).
    If poaching were effectively prevented, then consumers would shift to other tastes.

  6. If Apollo program had continued on What If the Apollo Program Had Continued? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Highly likely that:
    1) We would have full time orbital manned space station at all times.
    2) Visits between Moon and Orbital station would be LESS frequent.
    3) Visits between Moon and Earth would be MORE frequent. (because Apollo lifts off from Earth. Public-Private partnership would see to it that NASA doesn't use the most economical way of transport)
    4) No Space Shuttle. Rockets all the way. (Why mess with something that works)
    5) Ion Spacecraft launched to Asteroids.
    6) Still no man on Mars. But a permanent computerized research station on Mars that operates from fixed locations.
    7) No Mars Rover. The Rover was a roaming answer. Fixed stations would necessitate no rover.
    8) SALT II would have long been abandoned and Earth would be surrounded by nuke armed stations.
    9) No Cruise missiles. Why build a Mosquito when an Elephant would be cheaper.

  7. Re:Bribes. on Indian Tiger Park Now Tiger-Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sadly that could be true.
    Unlike cops in countries like UK and USA, Indian cops don't get paid that much. Neither do they have great insurance coverages: a measly $2,500 is paid to their family if they are killed. Add to that weapons that are antiquated even by 1940s standards. So, you have deadly combination of corruption.
    Why would any fool throw away his life for a miserable tiger? So that his family suffers?
    No. It would be far better to make sure he's alive & safe & rich. So a tiger gets killed: so what?

  8. Re:Smoke and mirrors on Canadians Find Traffic Shaping "Reasonable" · · Score: 1

    Unlike radio/tv broadcasting, the Internet suffers from bandwidth limitations so I guess traffic shaping is something we should expect sooner or later

    Unlike Goldman Sachs, my bank account suffers from balance problems.
    SO i guess i paying lesser and lesser each month to the Telco should be expected sooner or later.

  9. Re:Wrong Title, Wrong summary on German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key · · Score: 1

    Normally, Germans don't outsource. Atleast the critical jobs.
    They know that you can't delegate authority without diluting responsibility.
    Which is why the Hiedelberg Printing Press is 5x times costlier than a Canon and YET outsells Canon by a very large margin.
    This time they goofed up. Once.
    Next time, no one would outsource anything.
    Thanks A-hole CA. Thanks a Lot.

  10. Re:If you dig deeper, you will find... on Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury · · Score: 1

    In any event, the salary and employment of federal judges is guaranteed for life (unless they are impeached by Congress and removed from office), so corruption of federal judges is very rare; they have too much job security and are paid too well to risk it.

    Right, this judge and this one not to mention, this one. Hell one even sent children to detention many times
    The biggest whopper was the Pirate Bay judge who got them convicted. But then he's in Sweden and not in US.

  11. Re:They do this stuff all the time on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    Check and double-check with a lawyer to see if you have a unencumbered title.
    Clear and unencumbered are different.
    File a discovery suit, ask for clarification letter from the bank, and if they refuse to produce it, sue them.
    I sued a bank when they refused to return a promissory note back to me after acknowledging that i repaid the loan in full.
    Only then did they return the original.

  12. If you dig deeper, you will find... on Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...the judge is either an ex-lawyer of SONY or has a family member working in a high position in RIAA/MPAA.
    It always is the case.
    In fact i wouldn't be surprised if he has a financial interest in a RIAA member.

  13. Wrong Title, Wrong summary on German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key · · Score: 3, Informative

    Once again, misleading title to a different summary.
    For fuck's sake, the Germans didn't lose the key.
    The SSL Root CA lost that.
    Get the facts right.
    For a second i was wondering how Germans could that stupid. That is unlike the Germany i know. And exactly as i suspected, the German insurer had been insisting the root CA for backup while the CA thought it was unnecessary.
    Is it the German company's fault?

     

  14. Re:Realtor Law for ID10T's on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    If the owner had a bit more brilliant than Wells Fargo he could have avoided this by:
    1) Having the first lien from Wells Fargo
    2) Having a second and third liens from entirely different banks.
    Default on second and subsequent liens, but continue paying first mortgage diligently.
    Now, if the Second and subsequent morons holding the bag sue the borrower, he can tell them with a straight face: "So sue me."
    Which they will.
    Unfortunately the first bank will automatically step into defend him against them since they hold the lien.
    These morons cannot get him to vacate the house as long as he pays the first mortgage.
    Wow. I wish i could have taken advantage of such a logic.

  15. I thought it was Zune on IronKey Unveils Self-Destructing USB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    ...isn't it Zune?

  16. Re:Old news on IronKey Unveils Self-Destructing USB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    True. But the technology is still in BETA.
    That's why my Windows XP self-destructed on the day i was leaving for my vacation and [Win7] self-destructed once again just so to make my Kaspersky licenses quota fulfilled and i had to spend days waiting for kaspersky to reactivate them.

  17. Re:Thermite on IronKey Unveils Self-Destructing USB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Maybe it just locks out the disk controller.

    This is a FLASH drive. There are NO movable parts in a Flash Drive.
    All IronKey needs to do is to draw a sudden more power from USB port to fry the circuits. Of course a surge would cause a system reboot or probably crash a non-CoolerMaster PC.

  18. Re:Is this even legal in most places? on Tracking a Move Via "Find My iPhone" · · Score: 1

    Touche my friend.
    Well said and well deserved[by me].

  19. Re:Is this even legal in most places? on Tracking a Move Via "Find My iPhone" · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought you needed a warrant or at least a private investigator's license to track people by GPS without their knowledge.

    Ahh... yes.
    And Cheney had a valid warrant for every single act of spying he did.

  20. Re:Simple depiction on EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't get all miffed up.
    The GP is probably from Alaska, US.
    This is state that routinely has the highest unmarried pregnancy rates in the World.
    It also has the lowest literacy ratio of US since most kids are "busy" instead of studying.
    It also is the home to the some of the lowest IQ candidates, a.k.a Sarah Palins' all around: beautiful, blonde bombshell, bimbo and utterly brainless.
    Oh, it is also the most corrupt state in US and EU combined: Bridge to Nowhere, Million dollar bases, sneaky permits to burn up forests, etc.
    The GP is like Sarah Palin: Since he lives under these "wonderful" conditions in Alaska, this must be the same everywhere in the world!

  21. Re:depends heavily on a lot of things.. on Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours · · Score: 1

    Blogs report quick & dirty facts.
    Newspapers report facts (most of the time) with a little background detail (Why, What, When, Who, Where).
    Magazines report opinions and analysis of facts covered by Newspapers.
    TV stations report sensationlism. Octomom, Angelina Jolie, etc.
    Wading through all this for NEWS is difficult.
    I can't sue a Newspaper or a Magazine for false reporting. I sure can sue a Blogger.

  22. Re:System Restore doesn't work on Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much for the explanation.
    Didn't get the 64-bit part very much earlier.
    I was under the impression i386 refers to the x86 architecture 32-bit and that IA64 refers to 64-bit (including AMD X2 64).
    Hmmm... so they are entirely different.
    Probably under AMD64 System Restore gets wiped out...

  23. Re:APL, Lisp, Forth, Assembler, Fortran, PL1 on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    On a strictly logical and scientific sense, you are absolutely 100% right.
    On a worldly level, you are way off the mark.
    Let's face it: This guy will be looking for a job in the tight job market once he finishes his degree.
    While he certainly doesn't need to know C++ or Java or C#, he does need a niche language that puts him in a job no foreigner can afford to touch.
    ADA
    For God's sake go with ADA.
    That's a language no non-american can do anything about.
    For an American citizen that's the language to know.
    Learn ADA, enter the armed forces and you are set up for life.

  24. Re:System Restore doesn't work on Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) · · Score: 1

    Which architecture?
    IA64 or i386?
    I use IA64 powered by an AMD X2 64-bit. My Win7 is 64-bit.

  25. Re:$$$Office$$$ on Outlook Inertia the Main Factor Holding Business From Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Don't. Please don't upgrade to Office 2007.
    Its UI is radically different from all versions till 2003 and your staff will spend many days learning it instead of being productive.
    Plus you will spend more to get back the same menus.
    There is functionally nothing new that 2007 has that 2003 didn't.
    I have gone through your way and that's why am warning you of the pain ahead.