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  1. Re:Is Facebook a viable long term business model ? on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    Citation needed. Especialy on what term you are talking about and please come back with facts.

    When I look at the companies that put down the books in Belgium in 2010 I get to 8819 So I should then look at how many are internet companies. This both for ALL companies and for the ones that put down their books.

    Only then I could tell if internet companies are worse or better then average.

    Without either the comparison to the implied comparison to other companies (otherwise you could have left out the word 'internet') , your statement is meaningless and does not answer the question you quoted. Some companies will go down the hill faster then others.

  2. Re:What's missing from the reports on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 2

    You did not delete your account. You just made it unpossible for yourself to log in. That is how the crook the books.

  3. Re:So ... on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    In Belgium that would be 04[6-9]x/xxxxx
    The complete numbering plan for Belgium can be seen here : http://bipt.be/en/161/ShowDoc/2547/Database/National_numbering_plan.aspx in several languages as pdf.

  4. Re:Why can't we have both? on Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Why can't have a laptop with a touchscreen.

    Because you don't have money to buy one that already exists? http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/touch-screen-laptop-benefits/

    Now what I am waiting for is something like http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2011/01/06/asus_eepad.jpg

  5. Re:Conspiracies on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Wakefield was a deep-cover government plant intended to discredit the movement.

    I KNEW IT!

    (What do you mean I quoted out of context?)

  6. Re:It doesn't matter. on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    And it is not only children with cellphones, it also is adults that can only leave the house with their phone, just in case they are in an emergency and need to call somebody where they do not have the ability to ask help to anybody else.

    How often has that happened? And how often could it have been avoided by just a bit of preparation. The worst I have heard was somebody with a flat at night on a rural road. So yeah, you might be stuck till the next morning, so it won't be a real danger, just an inconvenience.

    Perhaps that is it. Many people do not understand the difference between want and need. Between inconvenience and danger.

  7. Re:The damage is already done on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    That bitch can rot.

    I'd hit it.

  8. Re:I wish it weren't true, but on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    And please do not stop at seat belts. Abandon ALL safety things.
    e.g. speed limits. If you remove speed limits, within a few generations we have people who are able to jump away from any car. And in the mean time it will weed out the sick and the slow. Just like zebras and lions.

    And Shirley you can't be against it. If you are religious, this is the will of your $DEITY and not doing it will offend your $DEITY by obstructing the will of $DEITY.
    If you are not religious, it is just standard Darwinism and you would not want to obstruct science.

    See? Everybody wins.

  9. Re:fox news at work here on 45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True? · · Score: 1

    it doesn't really matter if it's true so long as people think it's ok by consensus

    Is that Fox's new motto?

  10. Re:A Better Question: on 45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True? · · Score: 2

    but the prediction is really not much more than an engineering goal at this point

    No, it is a prediction, not a goal. There is a HUGE difference between the two. The worst that could happen (pr the best) is that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
    If they get there, they stop trying as they reached the prophecy.
    If they do not get there, they will try harder to reach the prophecy.

    Now the question is if the self fulfilling prophecy speeds up the process or slows it down in the long term.

  11. They were jealous on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    of what the TSA was able to do.

    You know some of the rights you still have? Enjoy them while they last. They WILL be taken away from you. And for those who tell you to contact your representatives or vote differently: those are the exact same people who voted for this.

    What is needed is actual use of the 2nd amendment and trow all politicians out and start over. The first time it worked. The government was disliked and was thrown out.

    I know it won't happen. Not until it is too late. It has happened before (also in other countries) and it will happen again (also in the USofA).

  12. Re:Google will do what it did in Korea on YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy · · Score: 1

    Don't you love it when companies can influence what governments do?

    Signed,

    **AA

  13. Re:ICE This Week on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    Is that actual value or the price they paid to buy it?

  14. Re:ICE This Week on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    Whatever your opinion on copyright law, you've got to admit that copying another person's work and SELLING IT without them getting a cut is a dick move and shouldn't be tolerated.

    I write GNU software. People sell it all the time and I do not see anything. AND I LIKE IT.

  15. Re:Whats the big deal? on World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Almost anywhere in the world Fox News would not be called a news outlet. And sure it could be true, but that does not mean that it is news. It is then just something that fits their purpose.

  16. Keep this list for one year on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 2

    This list be used by posting it in December 2011 by just changing anticipated with overhyped.

  17. Re:Why not ban mandatory attendence of lectures? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    "I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint." Hesiod (700 BC)

    "Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age." M.T. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

  18. Re:Why not ban mandatory attendence of lectures? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    So what you are lecturing is punctuality. Probably some neat questions that have almost nothing to do with what you lecture, but some clever way to punish those who were not there, regardless if they know all the rest.

    And insulting to you? Do you really think that they come to see YOU? No, they come to get a piece of paper at the end. The fact that you give the lecture or somebody else or a video of you is irrelevant to them.

    People will not come to your lectures because of respect (which is something you earn) but because of fear. And that is what you teach them: fear.

    These will be the managers that will say later: if you do not do as I say, you will get fired! And sure that is how it works, because you and others like you have taught it that way. Much higher results can be achieved by actual motivation.

  19. Re:In Germany? on OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities · · Score: 2

    SUSE is not a company anymore. It is a trademark.

  20. Does it contain itself? on Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything · · Score: 1

    Does the Living Earth Simulator contain the Living Earth Simulator? And then does that one as well, like a Russian Mandelbrot doll.

  21. Re:12 years? on Open Source After 12 Years · · Score: 1

    I would say it started with copyright law, as that makes a clear difference between open and closed source. That would lace it in 1709. No copyright, no difference between open and closed source.

  22. Re:Puffed air.... on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 1

    They are halfway there by giving you a hand job. (And one for your underage son as well).

  23. Re:I did on Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    It amazes me that so many people are online with their real name on Facebook and then add all other personal data.

  24. Re:Is opening a spouses mail a crime? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Is email perceived to be a letter or a postcard?

  25. Re:Merry Christmas on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 1

    Stop whining. You are such a girl.