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  1. Re:Right move on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 2

    Like, say, N9, which was received wonderfully even with no marketing at all?

  2. Re:The Existence of a "United States of America" on NSA Says Snowden Emails Exempt From Public Disclosure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are there any Indians left you could mooch from during these two winters?

  3. Re:I'm sure both of the affected are rather flatte on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    This affects what, 3 actual living persons?

    But with the usual mess in government records, quite a number of dead souls.

  4. Re:simple fix on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I don't watch crap TV shows either. And I'm not aware of a non-crap one.

  5. Re:Cannot unsend an email on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    Not in this case. Google did unsend the mail. One more reason to never use a mail provider that's not responsible to you.

  6. Re:Too late now on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 3, Informative

    No -- according to the updated article, the account hasn't been accessed between the mail was sent and Google breached it to comply with Goldman Sachs' demand.

  7. Re:simple fix on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Does this mean for me all sports are fake?

  8. Re:old news from decades ago on Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or rather, that optimizing compilers can expose bugs in buggy code that weren't revealed by naive translation.

  9. Re:Dying isn't a metric to be proud of ... on Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid · · Score: 1

    And when it comes to loyalty to their new "allies" after the switch, how would you call shooting at English and American planes trying to help the Warsaw Uprising if they tried to go over Soviet-held territory, not even speaking about refueling there?

    Russkies were a third side in the war, their relation to the free world was at most an uneasy truce because of a common enemy.

  10. Russian internet brigades on Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And what about Russian or Chinese hordes of biased editors paid by their governments? They plague not only comment section of pretty much any mainstream news website, but also Wikipedia as well. Try for example the WWII article -- it's so full of paeans of praise for the Soviet Union that someone who doesn't know better would take them for heroes who almost single-handedly liberated the world.

  11. Re:When you can't innovate... on Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents · · Score: 1

    Uhm no, the patent system works as designed since day one. The purpose of patents was to extract some money for the rulers (the king at first). When money went to someone else, elected parliaments try to fight that, like in 1624, but whenever they receive some of the money they propagate the problem. It was never about "innovation".

  12. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    Go to ipv6.google.com (obviously, requires IPv6), it doesn't do that annoying geolocation.

  13. Re:State on Virginia DMV Cracks Down On Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    No, only a part of USians will assume that. For the rest of us, the message is clear, unless we happen to know details of that particular incident, which is unlikely unless one happens to read US news.

  14. Re:State on Virginia DMV Cracks Down On Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    No, "Virginia State" is an US state (with a little-known own name of "Commonwealth of Virginia"), "Virginia State University" is the school. Using bare "Virginia" is not enough to tell what you mean, especially in an international forum.

  15. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 4, Informative

    T-Mobile "not evil"??? They gouged me $150 for 1.5MB data roaming from Bosnia (I'm from Poland), and would take more had I used a contract rather than a prepaid plan. And unlike the guy in TFA, I did not get them to reverse the charges.

  16. Re:bunch of liars on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 1

    There are three kinds of men:
    * those who admit to watching porn / ogling women /etc
    * those who lie
    * those below the age of 12

  17. bunch of liars on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words, people with a smaller brain region are less capable of speaking the truth.

  18. Re:Time to change the terms of my licensing... on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Somehow, Nazis got a press so bad even Wolfenstein won't show a swastika, yet we have hammer&sickle proudly displayed on major government parades, Stalin and Lenin widely worshipped, and so on. It's scary how investing in some propaganda can whitewash even the most murderous ideology in world's history.

  19. Re:Why would anyone want it? on 5 Years Later, 'Do Not Track' System Ineffective · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use RequestPolicy. It makes both AdBlock and Ghostery obsolete -- by referencing 3rd party servers on an opt-in rather than opt-out basis. It might be a bit tedious to use the first time you visit a new website, but almost always it's obvious what needs to be unblocked.

  20. Re:Diverse double compiling on China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Except that since recently you need a C++ compiler to build gcc, which puts a severe block towards reproducibility: you can write a basic C compiler that can handle most programs in a week (with a plain libc, at least), and get all bits needed to let old gcc bootstrap in not much longer. A basic C++ compiler, on the other hand, is a matter of years.

  21. parent delays on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So tux2 was ready in 2000, and it took 14 years to rewrite it to avoid parents? Oh how much patents help innovation!

  22. Re:Music Please on Russia Quietly Passes Anti-Blogger Law · · Score: 1

    When Stalin took over, the genocide was already going on full steam. Putin has no Lenin to build on.

  23. Re:Fucking Casuals. on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The stock exchange is a zero-sum game, at least in the short term. Contrary to popular views, no profits of the company being sold, nor even dividents granted to shareholders, inject any money into stock exchange -- they change only the perceived valuation of shares, and the only new money comes from the Ponzi effect.

    And in a zero-sum game, if someone is skimming, everyone else loses.

  24. Re:Watch Out for PETA on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'd expect the most populist countries to start banning real meat no later than 10-20 years after fake meat is introduced.

    So eat your meat while you still can.

  25. Re:Animal rights? on NYC's 19th-Century Horse Carriages Spawn Weird, Truck-Size Electric Car · · Score: 1

    And there are a lot being eaten by humans actually

    Not in the US, where they abuse procedural rules to make horse meat effectively illegal.