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  1. EA makes games? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    I thought they just got paid for other peoples games.

  2. Re:Nice summary, but... on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    hmm. It looks like some right wingers have the mod points today.

  3. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    This isn't the U.S. It stopped being the U.S. when W was sworn in as govner and ended for the rest of the nation when he was sworn in as prezdent. His administration knew damn well there was going to be an attack but didn't give a shit. They knew that fear was going to play in their hands in the war against americans that don't believe in their ideological bullshit. FUD was W's tool to repay debts and give power over the nation to a handful of evangelical nutbags. The more fear, the more freedom stealing power available to put into the hands of their loyalists. Americans are not cowards! They are tired. Tired of working multiple jobs, and getting beat down for every penny in their pockets. No one can fight while out of breath. The piles of shit that want to destroy everything so "jesus will retern" run the voting booths. These fuckers roll out the church buses for early registration. The people that decide who gets off work to vote are the ones that want low wages, high unemployment, and a tax breaks to invest in the stock market. The employees that work for those cock suckers have to decide on if they take a chance on loosing their job too run out at lunch time to cast a vote or keep eating shit. Americans are cowards?!? I'll give you coward mother fucker!

  4. Re:Binary planet? on Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Do we have time to run to the store? I'm out of eggs.

  5. Re:Binary planet? on Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    I was picturing a binary planet too with a yoyo like orbit. When one of the planets is moving towards us it would look like it was slowing down. When it is moving away it would look like it is moving faster. How two objects could sustain a yoyo type orbit is an interesting thought. Then I started to think about it being more like a liquefied mass that is oscillating. If it is close enough to the sun to have a 9 day orbit it is more than likely the object is molten. Also, the sun could be applying a solar wind effect pushing it away as well as pulling it with gravity.

  6. That .001 is a bitch on How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive · · Score: 1

    I will build NASA a device that concentrates gravity at a fixed point. I have the tools and technology to build everything but only theory to build the gravity concentrator. They will have to "trust me" on that part of the project. Giving the O.K. for the project without having the technology to build the heat shield is just plain stupid.

  7. Re:Infinite Monkeys and the Point of No Return? on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    I agree. There are only N ways to write about a subject. Plotting it would be a simple line from originality to rephrase. Eventually, all ways to write about the subject will be exhausted. Using the same broken tool to see if it thinks you are rehashing someone else's view, because of exhaustion, is self defense.

  8. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    I'll give you 3 examples:

    1) In Richardson Texas, the police drive through parking lots looking for expired tags and stickers. They know that if someone can't afford to inspect or tag their car they can not afford liability insurance. When they have spotted a car they wait until the owner drives away. They pull the car over, ticket the driver, then impound (steel) the car. If you don't have insurance the State takes possession of your car and the city that impounds it receives proceeds of the sale in addition to the money from the ticket.

    2) Cameras would effectively work the same as managers of apartment complexes. Managers get a kick back from tow truck drivers when they call them with a car that has expired tags or stickers. This would open the door for mall security guards to get the kick back.

    3) I'll give you a link and let you draw the obvious conclusion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ7Th9L5ss

  9. Re:any signal can be found and killed on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1

    The aircraft doesn't have windows so the enemy can't do counter recon.

  10. Re:fuck the usa on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Way to keep the hater meter pegged dumbass.

  11. 0:5 game improvement on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    Maybe better graphics doesn't overcome expensive, short, overly DRM'd games that haven't improved on AI or presented a new story line in 15 years. Considering the graphics can be explained by improvements to graphics cards, this means game makers have contributed 0 improvements in 15 years.

  12. Love the quotes on AT&T Responds To DoJ Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    and freeing up spectrum

    Then they can give that "freed up spectrum" back to the public sector.

  13. Nothing but good stuff IMHO on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    This is a boom to the working and middle class. The workers are not going to receive McPay or GatesPay but there will be lots more jobs for them and these will span over a large number of fields. There is no lock out in solar energy. This allows for small business people to create power related companies. Also, Germany has made a successful push in adding solar energy to their grid. Moving away from nuclear power isn't going to hurt them.

  14. Re:Prices in Holland are considerably lower. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Add to that the fact that the doctor you go to in order to get the correct hearing aid can charge you based on a number he/she pulls out of their ass and you'll see just how big that cartel is.

    Doctor making billing decisions:
    hmmm. I have to make my benz payment this week so... that will be $860 for the exam.

  15. UK and AU pointless posts. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 3, Funny

    All of these posts about how your countries give hearing aids to elderly and poor is just rude. If the U.S. was a AAA country we would do it too. Showing off your wealth is lame.

  16. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    In the U.S. we donate to PBS so we can watch shows made in Australia. This, of course, explains the lack of donations.

  17. Re:Hmmm. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But:
    1) The cars will be gas hogs.
    2) The houses will have all of the copper ripped out.
    3) The diapers will be shipped in from China.
    4) The shipping companies will be owned by a Chinese company.
    5) The drug companies will have purchased enough votes to receive long term restrictions from generic drug makers to make "age related health improvement drugs".
    6) The Teabagger Party will have repealed all of the benefits to people making less than $250,000/y from the health care law and exempt those above from having to pay health insurance.

  18. Re:Hmmm. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    All of those Who concerts are coming back on them.

  19. Re:Lucky it wasn't MP3s on SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software · · Score: 1

    That would've bankrupted them ...and their children, and grandchildren, and...

    FTFU

  20. Re:I'm a little confused... on SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software · · Score: 2

    I download stuff from Oracle all the time. No shit! How long before we find out it is the same bullshit Cisco pulled with updates to equipment? ie. "You downloaded an update of IOS for the hardware you bought without paying for an account to access the updates" == "You downloaded updates for OCI" or whatever the fuck it was they used.

  21. hu wha? on SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software · · Score: 2

    I can see criminal charges for this "Unauthorized Access to a Protected Computer with Intent to Defraud and Obtaining Something of Value" but this "criminal infringement of a copyright"? Why do I have the feeling their "access to the protected computer" was a machine containing content they once shared using the same passwords they had when they had a partnership with Oracle? It is that feeling one gets when a corporate spokes person opens their mouth. ~Shiver~ And wtf is up with criminal infringement of a copyright? Did they hold a gun to someone's head while infringing? Sure, sue the fuck out of them for making money off of your work but criminal charges?!?

  22. Slides? Slides?! on Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices · · Score: 1

    We don't need no stinking slides.

  23. Re:Go on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart · · Score: 1

    I wanted to use it but I can't find any ssl library or examples for it. The language syntax is easy, I write python and C++, and it is distributed by nature. I got the impression it was Erlang for those that don't want to poke out their eyes reading their own code. Anyway, a language designed specifically for distributed applications without an ssl library, IMHO, is useless.

  24. Re:MITM on Website's End? on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    I see. You mean a bridge with transparent proxies that give out their own cert. Interesting. The bridge would have to be completely transparent (0 foot print) i.e. no IP address on either side. That is doable. The proxy would have to have the cert injected into the packet. Well, if the proxy sat in a VM with the same hostname you would get the same result. Which both are doable. hmmmm. Well. Assuming you have never been to the site or the bridge has always been there (no previous cert cached or bad cert cached) you would have to rely on an authority for the certificate. And if that bridge is owned by somebody that has compromised the cert authority, your still fucked. Wow nice dilemma! It is heavy lifting but still a hole. No wait. If your using a normal identifying machine that sends you what it received from the host, an identifying machine that sends you the cert authorities copy, and a identifying machine that gives you the cert from DNSSEC you will beat it.

  25. Re:Hidden on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 1

    Oh please. We all know you have the NAS built into the AC duct so it is hidden and cool at the same time.