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  1. Re:More Like Mismanagement on Canada's Challenge Is Keeping Techies, BlackBerry Inventor Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who? Maybe Corel? Blackberry was a shit show, they focused all their energy on a tablet that couldn't even retrieve email without being tethered to a phone while they lost their entire market share.

  2. Have you never seen a bulletin board before? Do you not know how pins work?

  3. Obviously I was referring to the lawsuit, not being removed from the store.

  4. Re:Good for FB on WordPress Ditches ReactJS Over Facebook's Patent Clause (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean literally copy? As in source code or identical layout? if so that isn't true.

  5. One wonders if this isn't just a PR thing to drum up awareness - shame that US courts don't tend to award damages to defendants.

  6. Unfortunately the majority of journalists have no particular background or knowledge of the beat they cover.

  7. Android, unlike Apple has always allowed installation of third party APKs and adding third party stores. Since Amazon operates one its hard to see how Google would be considered a monopoly.

    I'm not a lawyer, but isn't anti-trust typically about attempting to use your monopoly in one market to enter another? Doesn't appear to be the case here.

  8. And tell us how accepting payment to place that hateful ad is the same as someone putting it up without your knowledge?

    So change the scenario slightly and add a vending machine that dispenses pins for a quarter

  9. Re:Just like Facebook? on Google Allowed Advertisers To Target 'Jewish Parasite,' 'Black People Ruin Everything' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really though, are the creators of automated systems meant to think of every possible questionable phrase?

    If someone pins a hateful ad on a bulletin board are the owners letting the person do it or have they just not seen it yet?

  10. More Like Mismanagement on Canada's Challenge Is Keeping Techies, BlackBerry Inventor Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Canada has had a number of successful technology companies, but they've all been plagued by mismanagement see Blackberry, Nortel, Corel, etc

  11. Re:Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Bankers could pretty easily operate an exchange if they wanted - they already have that infrastructure. They could also trade, but it might be illegal for them at the moment.

  12. Re:Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    Block chains existed before crypto-currencies and using one isn't an endorsement of other uses of the same technology.

  13. Re:Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed the same, an inordinate number of puff pieces are submitted by BTC supporters to spread the propaganda. I'd actually intended to submit the JP Morgan article earlier this week to counter it but hadn't made the time yet.

  14. Re:Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Bankers are indeed sleazy, but what does that say about the BTC market when even they think its sleazy?

  15. Re:Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly what do you think is competing here? If the banking industry thought these were viable, they'd be trading them and they'd be operating exchanges.

  16. Also... on Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries (ft.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    JP Morgan's CEO referred to bitcoin as a fraud, and made reference to tulips (the first recorded bubble).

  17. Geekbench is generally considered wildly inaccurate.

  18. Re:Author not Reader on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The site is meant to have stories submitted by its readers so readers direct the type of content. So maybe the authors job is just to write interesting stories and some reader would submit it?

    Even if the /. editors let them get away with it they're still spammers. I'm attempting to do my part and flagging them a spam in the firehose but can't do it alone. /shrug

    Perhaps the most egregious are the two spammers from Wired who even sink so low as to upvote each other.

  19. Re:Author not Reader on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Note he linked to another story too, but the primary link is his own.

  20. Author not Reader on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jason Koebler is the author of the article, which is true for all his submissions..... which makes him a spammer.

  21. Re:I want a price comparison site in my Google res on Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then, what is the purpose of Google, if you can't trust them and have to go by your own?

    Its about trusting them to find relevant search results - do you also expect Google's results page to also include Bing's search query, Yahoo's results page, etc. etc.?

  22. Re:I want a price comparison site in my Google res on Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So go to the site you trust instead of searching Google, then searching some other site? Its like going to the classifieds to find ads for another classified service. How often does your newspaper list other newspapers?

    When Google wasn't deranking these sites searching for any product resulted in pages of these junk comparison sites which only exist to use affiliate links.

  23. I want a price comparison site in my Google result on Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    said no one ever.

  24. rgh02 on How Techies Rescued Food Stamps (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    rgh02 spammer for wired, who also upvotes stories from the other wired spammer mirandakatz.

  25. Re:Shovelware sucks on How Proprietary Software Lets Companies Cheat (locusmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 won't let you remove a lot of its shitty built-in apps normally, some even not with CLI.