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  1. Re:Riiiiight. on Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX · · Score: 1

    Huh? I'd say THE choice for realtime embedded operating systems is probably vxWorks.

  2. Fucking Morons on Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight · · Score: 2

    Look up "proxy", you simpering halfwits.

  3. Re:That's ridiculous! on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 1

    Not as bizzaro as Bizarro Stormy, mind you.

  4. Re:will be seen as a dig against science (air quot on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 1

    Indeed. When someone manages to get something like this past, say, Computational Linguistics, then we'll have something newsworthy. This is akin to announcing "House without door has lock picked!"

  5. Re:What we actually Need is some Bloody Panic on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    Back in the real world, we call people who cherry pick time ranges to get the answer they want liars.

    Deal with the science, and quit repeating the lies of others. They are dishonest, you are merely a fucking retard.

  6. Re:How about a straight answer? on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 2

    And a few paid shills like Frank Spencer. Not that he has ever actually published these apparently devastating critiques of AGW in any peer reviewed journal.

  7. Re:It has systemd? on Fedora 21 Released · · Score: 2

    Yup, that's where I'm going. Building a database server and it's going on FreeBSD. I was a loyal Debian user up until this fiasco.

  8. Re:It would be more accurate... on CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations · · Score: 1

    The only difference in opinion appears to be over the effectiveness of these "interrogation techniques" (boy, there's a euphemism Torquemada could have used).

  9. Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    He burned it in real good...

  10. Re:Maybe they should focus on... on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 2

    Exchange always was a bloated monster, but it's quite ridiculous now. Our Exchange 2010 install which I did last year will be our last one.

  11. Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    I've never run up against it. I activated about two dozen copies of education-licensed versions of Office 2007 a few years ago, and the auto-activation failed after the first install. After that, I had to call a 1-800 number, give an automated service the installation key and it barfed out an activation key... over and over again.

  12. Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 2

    Yup. I've seen more than my fair share of people with computers stuffed to the socks. "So you say this laptop loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate, MS-Office Pro and Photoshop only cost you $300. Hmmm..."

  13. Re:Let's talk about sex, baby on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    I'd say Frank Herbert did. The Dune series laysa out a culture wildly different in key respects from ours. Even the march of technological innovation we are so used to has been arrested and certain humans (Guild navigators, Bene Gesseret, Mentats) have taken on the roles of "thinking machines." But then again Herbert did put a lot of work into background; history, philosophy, ecology, economics and politics.

  14. Re:why would I write to that? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 2

    Whatever the merits of the .NET API, the fact is that if you want maximum number of platforms, even after this project reaches fruition, supported platforms will still be a fraction of Java's.

    Java has no lack of flaws, but it's out there and has been for fifteen years now, and is the bedrock of some very large open source and proprietary solutions.

  15. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    And the Creationists come out of the wood work.

  16. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not the full suite until the age of majority, but you sure can't inject them with drugs to test cancer treatments or cosmetic reactions.

    No one was advocating chimps be given the bloody vote.

  17. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 2

    Two year olds can't understand contracts or laws or rights, and yet they are afforded the same civil liberties that you are.

  18. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So someone with severe cognitive impairment no long has any rights?

  19. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If sentient life can be turned into a drug testing lab simply because they don't meet some cognitive level, then why don't we start experimenting on children or sufferers of Down's Syndrome? If killing, sometimes in the most hideous ways, of other sentient animals poses no ethical difficulty, then let's not use the next best thing to H. sapiens, let's use H. sapiens.

  20. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    Humans are animals.

  21. Re:Doesn't apply to Google on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 1

    If a factory reset by and large fixes the problem, that likely means there are issues with data and apps previously installed. If you have a brand new tablet, then you are not going to have a lot of cruft hanging around. My tablet is over a year and a half old, never reset during that time, and that seems to be one of the issues coming up.

  22. Re:Doesn't apply to Google on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 1

    I initially did that and it made very little improvement. In the end the factory reset was the only thing that brought the tablet back to life. Mind you, I don't have the Facebook app, and what I've been hearing is that can render Nexus 7 tablets pretty unusable under Lollipop even after a factory reset.

  23. Re:Doesn't apply to Google on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 1

    Well, after the Lollipop update, my 2012 Nexus was all but bricked. Booted up fine, but the minute I went into Chrome it just froze up. It might become somewhat usable after a few minutes, and it was during one of those moments that I managed to do a factory reset. It is working better, but Chrome can still seize up on script-heavy pages. Go to the Google Nexus 7 Product Forums and you will see plenty of tales of woe.

    It isn't universal, but there are a helluva lot of Nexus 7 users, both 2012 and 2013, who have had serious problems with Lollipop.

  24. Re:Doesn't apply to Google on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 2

    You don't want Lollipop at this point. It has created a helluva lot of carnage for Nexus 7 2012 and 2013 users. My Nexus 7 was rendered all but unusable, and even a factory reset has only created moderate improvements.

  25. Re:Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    That is up to the electorate to decide.