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  1. Re:New buzzword alert on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 0

    Please. I think he's just trying to visualize 24/7 architectures, or maybe deploy intuitive partnerships to leverage bleeding-edge applications.

  2. Re:Oh ffs on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    after others developed it? do you know that this "magic technology" existed before apple? hint: they did.

    so how is this apple who "developed it"? they're copying shit from other people.

    If you think that people in technology can't copy or shouldn't, then you don't know what technology is, in the first place. Just because we're in a ridiculous legal situation doesn't make it realistic or a good thing for business.

    Apple's customers are only people who don't know what they're buying. It's nice to see MS lose customers (as they deserve to be irrelevant), but it's not like apple actually offers something of an improvement, just that they've convinced people that it is actually better. It is like paying a premium for a car that's a year older. Have as many as you want like that. Playing people for fools is not a long term strategy. Neither are patent lawsuits.

  3. that one in particular does on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    to say it has a low bar is an understatement. Most loans expect you to pay them back, have rates that aren't unattainable, so yes, of course this one will inflate pricing. Federal student loans are what, 2%? Average loans are what, triple that or more? Make this federal loan in line with traditional loan pricing and you'd see a: a lot more careful borrowing and b: our economy not going into complete debt from the loans.

    People use those as equivalents to slush funds for anything because of how horribly it's set up. It doesn't have to be axed, just completely redesigned.

  4. Re:Android the free OS. on Microsoft Now Collects Royalties From Over Half of All Android Devices · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, is this somehow android's fault, that microsoft is extorting android using patents, this is android's fault?

    Android is free. Microsoft isn't, and that's actually the message: work with microsoft, don't work with microsoft - either way, they want your money. This is a gigantic sign to every business in existence: don't do business with microsoft.

  5. Re:How do we work this on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    It's pretty hilarious in that it's what exactly apple has done too. They act as if they own the idea and fail to acknowledge that shitloads of people can come up with the same solution.

    Example: how hard would it be today for someone to say "oh, let's use X technology to do Y?" someone will claim it as original, but the reality shows otherwise.

  6. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    yet in a none less than hilarious fashion, no mention of the wasteful military spending which would continue.

    I like his premise of "cutting spending", but this is attacking a fly with a sledgehammer and the collateral damage here would be astounding.

  7. Re:Sue! on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 1

    Say what? They said they'd make the entire source available, GPL source is already available.

    It's also your right to feebly troll the article, and you could have done so much better.

  8. Re:Virus scanner flags something that is not a vir on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    again, you are skipping the other part: why, ever, could be labeled an accident, that removing a particular malware = uninstalling a legitimate program? no malware in the world would ever follow proper windows uninstall processes.

  9. Re:Virus scanner flags something that is not a vir on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you joking?

    You think in 2011 microsoft can't possible have come up with a whitelist, or a way to remove a legitimately installed program other than uninstalling it, like deleting the executable (standard antivirus response)?

    not sure if sarcasm or not.

  10. Re:Just goes to show... on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    really?nobody else has ever had a problem with either one. maybe you are just trolling?

  11. that patent has already been ignored for a long ti on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    what are you talking about? that patent has been effectively nullified. http://lwn.net/Articles/338981/

  12. Re:have fun protesting on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    You are completely wrong. Violent protest is not civil disobedience. Nice to spin that though! You tried to troll and/or be a fascist, but didn't do so well. These people are getting their assess kicked for doing nothing but standing around and protesting, and the cops are literally kicking the shit out of people at the same time. That isn't a "the law says you can't protest here" scenario.

    So your point is off, and your post was pointless.

  13. Re:Now we know that EMF causes this. on MRI Magnets Cause Nystagmus · · Score: 1

    This is about as accurate in terms of "cell phone cancer" as comparing your ability to sense a volcano's heat from dipping your toe in the lava versus the ability to test the ambient air temperature being 1/3 of a degree higher or lower than your body temperature in a room without wind.

    One is painstakingly obvious, the other will basically never happen. That's how big of a different these MRI magnets are.

  14. Re:have fun protesting on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    laws have to be obeyed? do you know what civil disobedience is?

    Either you a: allow people to protest or b: say that they break the law, causing civil disobedience and massive riots. People try to be polite because they don't want to be violent/be victims of it. Police instead are inciting it, which is a *really* bad idea.

  15. Re:Not just Canada on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    well, I don't know if you consider fark a blog or not - but they're one of the larger news sites that does cover it. but yes, politically motivated media (it's not just MSM) will not cover this stuff at all.

  16. Re:No. this is not accurate on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 1

    No, his point was correct - it's a search, and you don't have to use it. It's not a monopoly, and never has been.

  17. Re:Who cares? on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 1

    yep. Don't need a cookie, don't need to ever be affiliated with facebook or have ever signed up. If that like button is tracked on a website that also has other personal info associated (maybe even your first name), you just got linked to every other linked website and so on. Basically, advertisers know far more than just "simon S2 visited a website".

  18. Re:Just a shot in the dark here on Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement · · Score: 1

    I think you forget what facebook is tracking - such as you, on every website with a facebook like button across the web.

    so you give up an enormous amount to get a facebook account - you may as well give up your soc and drivers license along with every purchase you've ever made on the net in your life and every website you've ever been to, because that's about the ridiculous extent of reach here. In other wards, it's the same amount of info the ISP's monetize about every customer they have.

  19. there's always a motherboard on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    unless they plan on getting rid of a motherboard there will always be serviceable components. Even a SOC setup still needs a motherboard for other interfaces.
    Maybe this article will apply 50 years from now, but certainly not today nor in the near future, nor even with ARM taken into consideration. ARM SOC with the power of a top of the line graphics card? Next year a better version is released? People will buy and drop in the new version.

    You can either fight modding, accept modding, or embrace it. Only apple tries to refuse it.

  20. Re:I'm sure the malware authors will love it! on Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System · · Score: -1, Troll

    combine this with the windows 8 UEFI and you have windows Palladium, barely repackaged and reintroduced. "We just thought you'd like to turn on this sharing for windows DRM". GP has a point.

  21. Re:Time to invest... on Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph · · Score: 1

    uh that would have been back when google+ hit 20million users in a ridiculously small amount of time, not now. You're a bit late now :)

  22. Re:I feel like... on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    wha? The idea here is people want to do exactly that - however, if it's hardware locked, that might not be an option for dual-boot.

  23. Re:Translation on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    good point. there are actually giant repercussions, and stifling business is what causes a lack of economic growth, which in turn leads to a lot of why areas have very poor financial forecasts (bankruptcies in europe), etc.

    Oppressive monopolies are not good for financial health of any country.

  24. Re:No. this is not accurate on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 1

    what is the monopoly exactly? Nobody forces you to use google. If they are "monopolizing" their own service, you can use another. Don't like $search? use $search2 instead.

    "hey guys, people are selling products similar to their own when they buy them. HOW DARE THEY!"

    oh right, you're a moron.

    You forgot to tell me how google was the first, even though search has existed for 25 years.

  25. Re:I feel like... on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 0

    back to the old adage of "you can run linux, but you must run it under windows". Yep, same old microsoft.