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  1. Bravo on Dutch Government Backs Strong Encryption, Condemns Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Bravo to The Netherlands for taking this stand. I mean that sincerely. They will face an uphill battle however.

  2. The little bastard was probably wearing a Casio watch too.

  3. Re: M$ and Redhat? on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    He took yer job!!!

  4. One consolation on Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand · · Score: 1

    If you want nudity, at least there's still Playgirl.

  5. NIH syndrome on Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees · · Score: 2

    Why don't they just use actual Facebook for this? Lots of people have been publicly shamed through Facebook, to the point of losing their careers, their marriages, or even committing suicide.

  6. Re:We have those Surfaces, loads of trouble.[serio on Microsoft, Dell Aim To Sell Surfaces To Businesses · · Score: 1

    Ah thanks for the clarification. I stopped following the evolution of the non-Pro line since it was decidedly not interesting to me in its WinRT form.

  7. Re:We have those Surfaces, loads of trouble.[serio on Microsoft, Dell Aim To Sell Surfaces To Businesses · · Score: 1

    Issues with Surface 2 and Surface 3? Or issues with Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 3? Huge difference. The Pros are full laptop replacements, running standard Windows (x86 based, runs Win32 apps); while the non-Pros are glorified phones (ARM based, runs only WinRT apps).

  8. Subtitles on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Glad they put subtitles into this video for those of us who only understand English.

  9. Re:Semicolons! on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    And you seem to be under the impression that languages are static, and/or you are deliberately trolling. I've cited a reputable dictionary, not someone's tweet or other random drivel on the Internet. It's not just Mirriam-Webster that lists it as a verb, but also Random House and Collins. The only one of the four major dictionaries that doesn't list it as a verb is Oxford. These are all well-established sources that have been in print a long time. The fact that they've made their references available for free (ad-supported) online hardly diminishes their authenticity.

  10. Re:Semicolons! on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    don't use "lowercase" without quotes since it isn't actually a verb

    (2) lowercase verb lowercased lowercas-ing Definition of LOWERCASE transitive verb : to print or set in lowercase letters First Known Use of LOWERCASE 1908

    Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com...

  11. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    To use a car analogy, it is considered broken in the same way that a car without gas is considered broken.

    Disclaimer: This analogy excludes electric cars.

  12. Re:Final nail in the Itanium coffin on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    All of which paints a bleak picture for Itanium.

    Wow, that is a rather bold prediction to be making in 2014. If Itanium does eventually start to falter in the marketplace, then you sir are a visionary.

  13. Re:Dear Microsoft.... on Microsoft Fixing Windows 8 Flaws, But Leaving Them In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    The problem I have for Windows 8 is that the keyboard DOES pop up when hitting a textbox... when I have a hardware keyboard attached.

    Define "hitting a textbox". Do you mean touch it (assuming you have a touch screen), click it with the mouse, tab to it using the keyboard, ...? In a set-up with both a touch screen and a physical keyboard attached, which is common in a lot of new laptops, if you "touched" a textbox then I think it's reasonable for Windows to assume you want to continue touching rather than switch to keyboard input. But if your set-up has no touch capability at all, then yeah, it's dumb to ever see an on-screen keyboard.

  14. Re:Fuck seaworld on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution is to use a Bag of Holding. However, good luck finding one that's waterproof. :(

  15. Using Company A's service to steal from Company A on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 1

    Who's the braintrust that decided to use a Hotmail account to coordinate the stealing of Windows source code? Ignoring the expectation of privacy for a moment, that was just plain dumb.

  16. Jazz on It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know a few people who can't stand music of any kind. They prefer jazz.

  17. Good for you Tim Cook on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    I have some new-found respect for you. A small amount, but it's something.

  18. Re:And another pointless phone on Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets · · Score: 2

    Go re-read the GP's post again. I understood it just fine. Nokia had hired them to write apps, and had asked for apps for the J2ME, Symbian, Android, iOS, and BADA platforms; but not for the QT platform. So naturally they didn't spend any time developing for the QT platform. You quoted the first half of a sentence, but the second half of that sentence is important too.

  19. Re:Just a guess on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    With so much focus lately on the anticompetitive and environmentally dangerous practices of Big Oil, we've let Big Broth go completely unchecked. If we aren't careful we'll end up in hot water. Albeit, hot tasty water.

  20. Re:Follow up Headline on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    They were just eggs. But you ate them anyway.

  21. Re:Orders of magnitude on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 1

    200000000 Powerpoint presentations

    Just so I can understand the scope, what's that in Library of Congresses?

  22. Re:Old News on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 1

    Covert Operation Collecting Knowledge, or COCK for short? Which clearly would not be the same as spying.

    The eye of justice is always watching.

  23. Re:Prosecuted? Maybe not. on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    If the USA says they won't prosecute him, I believe it. Note that the USA did not bother to prosecute Osama Bin Laden.

  24. Re:Dear NSA: on US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Using laser printers would be fine as long as you don't use the Arial font, as that would invoke too much suspicion.

  25. Re:Already part of my Ubuntu setup routine. on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 still includes the TRIM operation on deletes. It also includes the TRIM in the new 'defrag' tool.

    The defrag tool isn't sending TRIMs, the file system is. The file system sends TRIMs for clusters that get freed for any reason. One reason a cluster would get freed is of course the file gets deleted. But another reason is that the file gets defragged. Say there's a request from the defrag tool to move a particular file VCN from LCN1 to LCN2. Then in the same transaction LCN2 gets allocated by the file system and LCN1 gets freed, and so LCN1 can now be TRIM'd. All of this is being performed inside the file system completely transparent to the application. The only application that explicitly sends a TRIM is format, which sends a TRIM for the entire volume.