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  1. Re:Let's not forget on China Criticizes Google's "US Ties" · · Score: 1

    lots of politicians are 50+ years old (most). They don't want nor do they even try to understand technology.

    Those folks will need to die of old age before they put an effort in understanding the internet. So don't expect that to change soon.

  2. Re:Danger... keep that door locked. on Mozilla Labs To Bring Address Book To Firefox · · Score: 1

    it's hard to say people don't care about privacy when the sites are deliberately misleading about what privacy you have. Facebook made the argument you did and it's a crock.

  3. Re:Great. Just what the DNS infrastructure needs on ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10 · · Score: 1

    hiring people isn't a solution to anything.

    That's like asking someone to figure out how to prevent a situation that has never occurred.

    you can plan and plan and plan, but you're not going to have a fallback for everything that can possibly happen.

  4. Re:Ok. Help me out here. on Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysts' Stock Tips · · Score: 0

    they're basically saying you can't take public information and put it up on your own website.

    This essentially guarantees that flyonthewall will win the appeal. They just had a judge who doesn't understand what the internet is.

  5. Re:So... on YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the part where they're actually quoted in context. They've debunked a majority directly

  6. Re:Woah on Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot · · Score: 1

    What's this got to do with Link?

  7. Re:Payments are not the only costs. on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    Just a FYI, this still doesn't mean they're actually paying for their fiber. It means they're paying for the maintenance.

    This is like the argument people make that nothing can be free. The argument is entirely circular. There may be extraneous costs, but that doesn't mean the free part didn't apply.

    Example: you give away mp3s. Was there a cost? Sure, maybe for transmission. But was the MP3 free? yes, it was. Is youtube's bandwidth free? Due to peering and everything else, yes, it very likely is.

  8. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    don't forget google in that too.

  9. Re:Insanity on Court Says Parents Can Block PA "Sexting" Prosecutions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it's not exactly a surprise that the same religious sect has the most teen pregnancies and such, either. However, don't throw judaism in with the christians. The christians are on their own on this one.

  10. Re:Payments are not the only costs. on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    Are you assuming line servers are a constant maintenance fee? Although I'm sure over a year or something maybe you can calculate that out that's definitely nitpicking at best. The cost is near enough to zero that it can be considered negligible.

  11. Re:Payments are not the only costs. on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    maintaining fiber? What do you think they have to actually maintain?

    There is nothing there or exceedingly minimal at most. They aren't "Renting" that fiber, they installed it themselves.

  12. Re:So much data on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    .05 on your laptop? What are you using? Even edge is faster (double that), I thought?

  13. Re:FUD article on Is Microsoft About To Declare Patent War On Linux? · · Score: 1

    wha? hey. I did mean it in the way it was written. Let them imply there is a patent war (as there isn't with linux), actually show the patents, and bam. over before it started.

  14. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    ever heard of reading comprehension, retard?

    You get 120FPS before the splitting- you get 60 after due to how the 3d effect functions. It has to render twice the frames per second - and only half go to each eye. What's 120 divided by two? Answer: you're an idiot and I hope you go back to school to learn to be less of an ad hominem retard.

    30FPS isn't smooth for a videogame. Movies at 24FPS are only acceptable that way in the movie theatres only due to how the projectors work. do you think you're watching 24FPS at home, whether for movies or 3d? Hint: you're not. Try running anything on a PC 30fps and tell me it works smooth and I can easily call BS.

    PS: 30FPS isn't smooth on a movie on your pc. In case you're wondering, you watched it at about 59FPS or 60FPS, dumbass.

  15. Re:You aren't fighting if you are giving up on Can You Fight DRM With Patience? · · Score: 1

    yeah, I don't get that. I guess the suggestion was that inaction = action, even though it's not.

  16. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    I guess maybe she should have been more critical of my grammar?

  17. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    okay, so let's see what you just said.

    Half the performance doesn't really have much point

    and then

    You get quite much the same performance as with single card and no 3D.

    Just as an FYI, that *Does* mater, and quite a lot. Imagine a game that runs at 60FPS now running at 30. think that matters? Answer: Yes. Say you have a game that dips between 90 and 120FPS, now down to 45-60. Think that matters? Yes. You just crossed the realm between "smooth" and not. On my system could I care? Absolutely not. I've ordered a 5870, have a 4890 (2gb), and guess what? it's not enough. If you plan on gaming at 1920x1200 and above, you're going to need serious hardware. Halving that performance would be unplayable. Any graphics card stressing scene is going to have a hard time at 1920x1200. Now you're talking about a lesser performing card attempting to handle 1920x1080? Don't make me laugh. I wouldn't put 1920x1080 with performance cut in half on a 5870, let alone anything nvidia has to offer, even on sli. It's far more demanding than people realize if you want the game to look nice in the ways your graphics card can handle.

    What's the status on holographic 3d? a lot better if you don't rely on youtube .

    Youtube is about as reliable for factual information as yahoo answers.

  18. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    actually, I did. the 3d didn't mean shit to me, and yes I can see it (no physical limitations there for me).

  19. Re:They are not worried on Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood · · Score: 1

    where do you come up with this shit? I never said speed for the consumer. However, it will eventually come down that way. I do mean eventually because who knows how long it'll take?

    Yes, competition is the root cause, but you're not realizing what this router benefits if all you're doing is screaming about competition in an article not about it.

    PS: get a wireless tether and it's a hell of a lot faster than DSL out there. You should know that middle east data plans are not that bad (example: orange telecom).

    Maybe you don't get that making transport cheaper for enterprise eventually causes it to drip down to consumers.

  20. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It may be cool to you, but to me it's a bunch of bullshit/garbage/waste of cash and time. Nvidia is the only one trying to sell it, and is the same one who pushed the higher refresh rate garbage in TV's prior to that.

    You're essentially guaranteeing yourself half the performance due to requiring twice the draw (not just refresh) rate.

    Real holographic 3d? Count me in. This is coming (it's in use in the medical field among others). Polarized, red and blue, anything like that? No thank you.

  21. Re:They are not worried on Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood · · Score: -1

    umm, caps it might not affect. Speed, it most certainly will, and on a big scale.

  22. Re:Quick on Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers · · Score: 1

    pretty similar doesn't mean it would work both ways - for a multitude of reasons.

  23. Re:FUD article on Is Microsoft About To Declare Patent War On Linux? · · Score: 1

    *whoosh*.

  24. Re:caveat on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 1

    what was the reason we commonly use mice again? I don't remember the exacts, but isn't it something like their immune systems respond similarly or something?

  25. Re:H.264 on Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS · · Score: 1

    well I didn't say Theora is better or worse, I'm just saying that H264 isn't f/oss. Therefore, F/oss has to come up with something. What part of "not compatible" was misunderstood? The reason it isn't, is the royalty charges. Until they're 100% free, it's not F/OSS compatible for lots of legal and procedural reasons.

    Meanwhile, things that aren't f/oss don't tend to last when it comes to specifications.