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  1. Re:Anger. on To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency' · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is. I can now wear it around my neck, just like Flavor Flav does with his clock.

    If you make it display the time it will actually be multitasking: being cool and being a clock.

  2. Re:"Presumption of innocence"? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    If one photograph is all we need to prove guilt for all crimes, then with one copy of Photoshop and a few minutes, I can rule the world.

    You'll rule the world until me and my copy of Photoshop show you stealing crack from a baby. How could you??

  3. Re:Confirmation Bias? on Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does this have to be an 'either/or' question? We all know surveys like this don't really provide an actual usable data.

    Actually, 77% of these surveys don't really provide usable data. 20% want to be an Android survey.

  4. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mutually Assured Destruction should never be confused with 'Diplomacy'.

  5. Re:Interesting on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    I think Safari's "Top Sites" allows you to pick how many sites you want listed, auto-sizes the page previews and arranges them by most visited (you can also 'pin' a specific site to a specific spot). I'm sure this stuff is available in other browsers too.

  6. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    You should be worried about malicious insiders, hackers, men in black suits, men in clown suits, clowns in swimsuits and frogs that claim to be princes.

  7. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    I'm too lazy to read the article, but is there mention of if it is for WPA2 personal or enterprise?

    Enterprise. From the first line of the summary: a claimed vulnerability in WPA2 Enterprise that leaves traffic open to a malicious insider. .

  8. Re:Ignorance on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    Have you considered that majority of buyers are not like you ...

    I assumed most iPhone users weren't "tech heads" but it never crossed my mind that they might just be "posers". I learn something new every day.

    I use it for business (tech support calls, conference calls, etc) so the e-mail, web and other apps aren't as important as keeping a connection. I try to take advantage of the drive between clients or the drive home but I always have to keep in mind certain spots on the highway that are dead spots.

  9. Re:Ignorance on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    My iPhone 3G has been replaced 3 times since I first got it Sep '08 (first one failed to charge, second one just died, third one had heat and what Apple called 'modem reset' issues). All of them lose calls in the same spots on Rt 80, Rt 280, Rt 24, Rt 78, Rt 287, Rt 46, etc. If it's the phone it's been every one of them in the same spots.

    I had Verizon for 12 years and never had a problem with their service, but their customer service was so bad that I switched.

  10. Re:AILARTSUA on AU Government Censors Document On Planned Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!!! 'nuf said.

  11. Re:Ignorance on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I were to write a Mac OS X virus and prove that it works, is there any chance you'll quit saying that? No? Didn't think so.

    I think if you wrote a Mac OS X virus Steve Jobs would drive to your house and ask you to stop it. He's a very persuasive guy. ;-)

  12. Re:Not that I believe polls on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    but where are these Android users going to go? I highly fucking doubt it's to the iPhone, since People seem to never want to break their plans or contract with an existing devil-service.

    AT&T sells Android, BlackBerry and Win Mobile as well as iPhones. An AT&T Android users could join those of us on the dark side, or they could jump to another platform. Non-AT&T subscribers can't go to an iPhone until their contracts run out unless they're willing to pay an ETF (which is much less likely). All that is presuming that Android users want to change platforms. I think by the time an Android user's contract is up they'll be used to taking advantage of all that an Android phone offers and will have a more favorable view towards buying another Android phone

  13. Re:What a joke of a survey. on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    Stockholm Syndrome?

    Don't you mean iStockholm iSyndrome?

  14. Re:Ignorance on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you saying the users are dropping calls and are unaware of it?

    I have AT&T and I am not satisfied with their service. I have no complaints about their customer service, but their cell service is sub-par.

    My iPhone drops a *lot* of calls - at least a few every day (whether I'm at home, at a client or on the road). I'm in NJ about 1/2 hour from NYC so there's no 'rural' excuse or 'NIMBY' excuse. Hell, I have trouble getting an AT&T signal near the AT&T facility that's 10 minutes from here.

    If I'm on the phone while driving (legally 'hands free' via bluetooth, TYVM) I tell my clients that I may lose them and that I'll call them back if I do. There are certain spots on highways around here that I know I'll lose calls once or twice within a mile or two.

  15. Re:Why is this alarming? on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that telephones were capable of becoming obsolete. All they have to do is transmit a vocalized conversation... nothing to really update there.

    If "[a]ll they have to do is transmit a vocalized conversation then iPhones, Android phones and all 'smart phones' are unnecessary. The 'tech support' and warranties for phones (analog, feature phones and smart phones) runs out well before the minimum 2 yr required contract with a carrier does. The nature of their portability and use means cell phones take a beating.

    If a carrier like Verizon moves away from CDMA (which is a real possibility over the next few years) all the CDMA phone still using their network will see an end to their useful life. Consumers are simply buying a subsidized handset with a slow hourglass running out before they know it.

  16. Re:Yu on Feds Bust Chinese Firm's Hybrid Car Data Heist · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, if I read this correctly, Shannon Du Yu Chin? Sorry, but someone had to say it.

  17. Re:It's about being truthful on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Choose UBUNTU if:

    • You do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS

    That's not 'truthful', that's paid options that are actually marketing.

  18. Re:Apple replies on Windows Vulnerable To 'Token Kidnapping' Attacks · · Score: 1

    Modded flaimbait? After MSFT's recent comments regarding iPhone4 being Apple's "Vista", I found the comment rather funny.

    Indeed. Although, I would have preferred if they had posted "After hearing about this exploit, an Apple VP referred to this as "Microsoft's Vista ". ;-)

  19. Re:Oh, go fuck a goat. on Thermosphere Contraction Puzzles Scientists · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just... go fuck a goat, you pessimistic bastard. What we don't need is people who are going to sit around and bitch about how we're all inevitably doomed. Those people (and you specifically) aren't a part of any solution, so yes - go fuck a goat.

    (pulls up a chair, dons a colander for a hat, straps on the old high school football shoulder pads and starts fretting)

    How on earth am I supposed to fuck a goat when I'm so worried about the inevitable demise of this giant merry-go-round that I'm wearing a coffee pot for a cup?

  20. What? on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Funny

    That miserable desert wasn't hot enough that they had to throw in a 'heat ray'?

  21. Re:what? on Chinese News Reports the Taliban Are Training Monkey Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Won't somebody think of the monkeys?

  22. Hmmm ... on Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology · · Score: 3, Funny

    So these schools are buying solutions to their problem of students cheating rather than figuring it out themselves? Isn't that what they're trying to prevent? /sarcasm

  23. Re:The other day, upon the stairs . . . on Cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked · · Score: 1

    Antigonish much? ;-)

  24. Re:Take that, Steve.... on Implantable Eye Telescope Finally FDA Approved · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does each set come with cool "DOO Doo doo doo doooooo..." sound effects and a Lindsay Wagner blow up doll?

    Sorry, but this is just a super-cool telescopic eye not a McDonald's Bionic Happy Meal.

  25. Re:Done on Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo · · Score: 1

    The code is the md5 of their mission statement. Nothing too crazy.

    Are you claiming their mission statement isn't crazy? Hmm, I wonder if you're part of the propaganda machine or a read herring? Let me see if I can find the answer encoded in their mission statement ...