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  1. Re:Why is the FUD FUD? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    No, they receive the results of searches for users that have the Bing toolbar and the option to send your search queries and results to Microsoft turned on. Not at all the same thing.

    And I'm preeeeetty sure that Google Toolbar does the same thing.

  2. Re:Good on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have a 0% message loss rate with Exchange. What's your point? Email is also delivered virtually instantly, provided our internet connection doesn't fail.

    Almost like the Exchange administrators wherever you worked were complete imbeciles or something.

  3. Re:Bad blood? on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Tax? EAS is royalty-free, license fee-free and has a patent covenant-not-to-sue so long as it's implemented correctly. Continuing to support it would have cost Google nothing other than the man hours to keep it working. There was no "Microsoft Tax".

  4. Re:Ttitle is misleading on New Zealand Set To Prohibit Software Patents · · Score: 1

    No, it means it's illegal for anyone to have nuclear powered ships or weapons in our waters. That's why we don't get invited to US Military parties.

  5. Re:Gratis with purchase on Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses · · Score: 1

    Purchase of a FREE course - Coursera never charges for anything. I'm a little confused by your assertion.

  6. Re:No Shit, Sherlock - on Adobe's Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You More · · Score: 1

    Or you could just do that with the trial version. Why go to all the trouble of paying them for a month to do it? If you're gonna pirate it, just go it the whole way and get a torrent.

  7. Re:So basically on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by this.

    How is it not OK to claim that every pirate is a lost sale (what the industry does), yet it's A-OK to claim that every pirate would not have bought it anyway (what the pirates do)?

    You claim that "pirates themselves don't cost developers any money" but this statement is empirically false, because you have no evidence that every person who pirated the game would not have purchased it anyway. Making this claim makes you as bad as the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/ESA.

  8. Re:Kind of innevitable and entirely reasonable on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    It's very confusing to be honest. A quick glance over the investment statement for the fund I'm in says that apparently it is taxed on the total value of the holdings under something called "Fair Dividend Rate" - where it's assumed that all foreign shares will return a 5% dividend annually (even if they don't) but I don't have to pay tax on capital gains from the fund liquidating any assets (or get any credits for the fund losing value in assets). Then again, we also don't have a Capital Gains Tax anyway.

  9. Re:Kind of innevitable and entirely reasonable on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    Because he posts the same crap over and over again. It's like listening to Andrew Ryan in Bioshock, and look how Rapture turned out.

  10. Re:Kind of innevitable and entirely reasonable on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    Really? I'm taxed monthly on the total value of my shareholdings (or rather, my share of my investment fund's shareholdings).

  11. Re:Crime in Jolly Ol' England on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    Bah. You haven't seen creepy until someone quotes something you said back at you 3 months later. On the internet.

    And then follows up with your Name, Address, and Phone Number.

    Just sayin'

  12. Re:Speak English, dickless. on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't forget, and promptly didn't notify the bank that his card was stolen, since I've never heard of a bank that doesn't have a 24/7 line to report stolen cards.

  13. Re:More person, more cost. Fine. on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, my 10000km plus return plane ticket didn't cost 1500 euros.

    It didn't? Man are we being ripped off with a 7000km return plane ticket costing $2500.

  14. Re:Gov't has no authority to dictate either way on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Congress does not have power to pass laws that either prohibit individuals asking such things from other individuals or require that anybody complies under any type of penalty to provide such information.

    Which is highly irrelevant when talking about the actions of a state legislature.

  15. Re:Get your bicycle out of your garage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work if you have a low pressure mains. Damn my city council.

  16. Re:Get enough sleep on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    I've seen enough counter-examples (people who rarely sleep but are rake thin) that I would attribute exactly zero value to these studies.

    Eat right and exercise is my answer.

  17. Re:No Magic Bullets on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    My solution to that is to take a colleague or two with you. It does help that the company I work for is a healthcare company so naturally it's more tolerant to employees taking time out of their day to stay healthy (and I have a supportive manager) but even for a non-healthcare company I can't imagine them being opposed to a few team members heading out for a run or whatever.

  18. Re:FOSS Healthcare Tools - Mirth Connect on UK Government Mandates 'Preference' For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I doubt it will. Healthcare providers are still too stuck on solutions based on Oracle Fusion, BizTalk, or Rhapsody. Getting them to try something new - especially one without a commercial support contract on it - is nigh impossible.

    Oh, wait, just noticed that Mirth also has an insanely expensive support contract. I guess all they need to do now is get out there with some fancy stationery, good looking sales girls, and start inviting some execs to sporting events and they'll be right in there!

  19. Re:so? on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    It also means the FSB has access to the largest porn collection in the world, and they aren't sharing.

  20. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    The Gamer's Bill of Rights was written by Brad Wardell of Stardock - the company that sold out their customer base by selling Impulse to Gamestop, which implemented... well, pretty much everything the GBoR stood up against. Hypocrite.

  21. Re:Yeah so they can tax the company to feed the go on France Demands Skype Register As a Telco · · Score: 1

    Talking with people from there, I'm led to believe Canada's healthcare is not much better than America's. I rather like New Zealand's, until our government sells out our healthcare system to the USA in the TPPA.

  22. Re:As anal as France is.... on France Demands Skype Register As a Telco · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "e.g. Microsoft"... Skype IS Microsoft. Again.

    I'm surprised Slashdot isn't on France's side for this alone.

  23. Re:Why not just ignore people who break the law? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    Strange. The linked page shows that the United States ratified it in 1950. So yes, it is a party to the treaty.

  24. Re:Oh boy! on Apple Finally Fixes Unencrypted App Store Login · · Score: 1

    It stays on HTTPS if you're a subscriber. It redirects users who cost them money back to HTTP so they don't have to spend so many CPU cycles.

  25. Re:He is no hero, no Aaron Schwartz, no EFF. on Dotcom Wins Right To Sue NZ Government · · Score: 1

    New Zealand does not have a constitution. The violation is of the Bill of Rights Act.