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  1. You crack me up.

    But you're right - the people who run these providers are _dumbasses_. They never thought of ending roaming charges as a way to _make_ money.

    Lolzers.

  2. They should have a +0: Wishful thinking moderation.

    If this were true, operators would have already stopped roaming charges because it's probably moderately expensive to track, bill, and maintain the infrastructure/software for it.

    I love it when people try to pretend "government knows best, it will help businesses!". Of course this will cost them money, don't be silly. They'll have to make it up somewhere else.

  3. Re:Bad law... on Judge Overrules Samsung Objection To Jury Instructional Video · · Score: 1

    Risible and untrue, but meaningless. This isn't 3rd grade and crying "quit copying me!!!" is not rational behavior.

    Nothing Apple is claiming as "novel" is "novel", so it's up for copying.

  4. Re:Forbit all HFT on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    This is a philosophy fail. Someone or something need not "contribute to society". You aren't the "societal contribution police", bro.

    I'm not a "no government, maaan!" guy but I believe there should be a fairly high burden of proof for government intervention in any part of our lives. For example, I have no problem with single payer health insurance - to me there is a massive reason for it in terms of our standard of living.

    HFT? Good luck finding the massive damage it does that would justify arbitrary limits on it such as you propose.

  5. Re:inject on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The stupidity of your comment, it fucking _burns_. Make it stop!

    "Could read"? Of fucking _course_ they can read any data on their servers. So of _fucking course_ they could also "inject crafted evidence" into his account.

    Do you even _computer_ bro?

  6. Re:Translation: on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 1

    Which they broke.. how specifically?

  7. Re:Translation: on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 1

    Caught? You mean... they literally _told_ people they did it? That kind of "caught"?

  8. Level of awesomeness. on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    Would you say that your level of awesomeness is around that of a honey badger with surgically implanted, razor-sharp metal talons or closer to that of, say, Lemmy?

  9. Re:The Luddites on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    You're right, Student of History. Nothing will change - ever.

    I for one look forward to the infinite, consequence free growth and increase in our standard of living that we will enjoy, I mean it's been a pretty good ride so far and as we all know it's _perfectly sane_ and rational to look back at history to determine what will happen in the future. I mean, History teachers, TV, and movies tell us that all the time!

    Why, I bet the Jews in 1930's Germany weren't so worried, I mean systematic genocide of the type the Nazis had in store was _unprecedented_, so why worry about it right?

    lolzers

    Automation has already caused "harm" (in terms of employment) to people in the US. You are arguing about things that have already happened.

    What next, a debate over who will win the Superbowl, Denver or Seattle?

  10. Re:So what happens when there are no more jobs? on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    I would point out that tax breaks are, of course, not welfare.

  11. Re:The minimum wage increase movement... on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Delusional balderdash. There will be a correlation between the amount of the increase and the effect on jobs, of course. I don't think going to $10 will be the end of the world, $12 would be pretty bad, and anything over $15 very bad. $20? Lol.. right.

    So I hate to pull this because it's misused, but sadly your lot never actually answers it. Why not a $30/hr minimum wage? And note than scoffing and saying "don't be ridiculous" is not a meaningful reply.

    The answer, of course, is that raising the minimum wage too high (for some value of 'too high') will _of fucking course_ cost jobs. The question is where is that red line?

  12. Re:The Luddites on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    The "student of history" perspective is seldom useful. Things are different now, a lot more mouths to feed. It's a curve - some automation good, lots of automation great, total automation - disastrous. Sometimes when you gaze back too much at the past you ignore the fact that this is _already happening_.

    Not that there's anything we can do about it or that we should try to stop it, but it _will_ be a huge inflection point - more than likely an extremely painful one.

  13. Re:America is boned on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Lolzers. OK, we'll see who goes into the shit-drain first - Europe or the US. Good luck...

  14. Re:Public indecency laws on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    There are no such laws. One could conceivably fashion a loin covering out of leaves. You're full of rubbish.

  15. Re:At last on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 0

    Ahh, the old "literal interpretation of a misspelling" bit! Cutting!

  16. Re:Yeah! on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 1

    Paranoia. Nobody, including Microsoft, cares what anyone does with any of that code.

  17. Re:True to their genesis on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 0

    I love you tools. Microsoft 'stole' compression technology technology from a competitor...as opposed to Open Source which is _totally_ not based on anyone else's ideas or code.

    Free software wants to be free, man, don't patent software, maaaan! Oh, unless it's Microsoft - they 'stole'.

    Tool.

  18. Re:Why are they posting old source code? on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows, including the most up to date one, still have a 16 bit personality able to run DOS programs. This means there is something there that is able to catch int 21 and process it, as well as allow programs to direct interrupts.

    Modern computing fail. I can run ARM Android binaries on my Windows box, doesn't mean that Windows has Android vulnerabilities or that Android is part of Windows.

  19. Re:At last on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would it surprise you to know that selling heroine illegally falls under the same set of guidelines? This does not legitimize anything. Bitcoin is no more a currency than junk penny stocks are.

  20. This didn't require any ruling. on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's self evident. And it doesn't especially "legitimize" Bitcoin. If you don't pay your taxes on profits from selling crack cocaine they can get you for that.

    Like anything else someone thinks has 'value', you bought something and then you sold it or exchanged it for goods - that transaction is taxable.

  21. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    It works because subjective symptoms get better when someone pays attention to you. It's as simple as that. I guess you can argue that what works works, but serious people need to understand why something works and the mechanism of action. Accupuncture works on the mind, which is fine, but don't pretend it has any innate effect that couldn't be replicated by 100's of other sham treatments including "Reiki" or other such ridiculous bullshit.

  22. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    Lol, you think...2%...is a small amount?

  23. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    I despise junk "alternative" medicine, but I'm not sure why you were modded troll. The placebo effect is overblown, and exaggerated by many a cool story, but it does exist to some limited extent. The more in your head a problem is the better it is at treating it, so you're fundamentally right.

    The problem is most alternative medicine claims to cure all sorts of actual physical ailments that they can't cure.

  24. Possible is not plausible. on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    I can put out 20 random theories that are _possible_. Doesn't mean it's likely.

    Let's see.. sparks from people hitting their expensive clubs against rocks and causing sparks which start a fire no one notices.. or some asshole flicking his cancer stick in the brush. I know which one I'd guess.

  25. Re:Fuck the NANNY STATE on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    I've shit more subtle and funny sarcasm, you facile douchebag. Humorously I imagine most of your ilk took your childish snark at face value.