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  1. Re:Customers on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 2

    Yes, that is a rational answer... but not the only one. "The problem doesn't exist", "the problem exists to a lesser degree", "this problem doesn't exist but a confusingly similar one does" are all also rational answers to many questions.

  2. Re:Facebook is the scam on Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Advertisements should always be marked as such. I do not trust any service that does otherwise. (Not that this was the only thing keeping me from trusting Facebook.)

  3. Re:cell phones and notepads on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would people complain as much if Apple called it the Apple WristComputerWithTouchScreenAndBluetoothSpeakerAndHealthMonitoring?

    I mean, that's what it is. But Apple's marketing decided on a somewhat better name.

  4. Re:We can be certain of one thing on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 1

    That isn't the same thing at all. It might be if the artist is contractually/legally restrained from ever drawing new characters, but obviously that is not the case.

  5. Re:We can be certain of one thing on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 1

    I was NOT alluding to creator's rights. I was alluding to exactly what I said before, the employee/employer relationship and significance of work. Stop trying to make my analogy something it isn't.

  6. Re:We can be certain of one thing on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 1

    That was an analogy and was not intended to be identical in every way. The similarity is in the relationship between employee and employer, and the significance of what someone might consider the "main work" when in fact it is not.

    Why do I have to explain this?

  7. Re:We can be certain of one thing on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By that logic, the burger flipper at McDonald's should be able to pocket all the money McDonald's brings in.

    Don't ignore the fact that the employee's contribution is only a small component to the success of the business. Just because someone comes up with cool superhero drawings doesn't mean he alone also brings those to market, negotiates comic book, movie, TV, and other licensing deals, creates the content and publishes that content, or any of the hundreds of other jobs that go into the production including managing payroll, paying bills, etc.

  8. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 2

    The file system manages data deduplication via garbage collection. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

    When an optimized file is deleted from the data deduplication-enabled volume, its reparse point is deleted, but its data chunks are not immediately deleted from the chunk store. The data deduplication feature's garbage collection job reclaims the unreferenced chunks.

  9. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 2

    Data deduplication is supported in Windows Server, although I have no idea if it will be directly supported by Windows 10.

  10. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 2

    The installer should put abc.dll in the same directory as the .exe file instead of a shared location.

  11. Re:It makes you uneasy? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    If a public university were, by law, to refuse this peaceable assembly (which is not an establishment of any religion), they would be in direct violation of the first amendment.

  12. Re:This is silly on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    With a reduced money supply you have greater poverty

    Um, no. You have some economic definitions mixed up. This is deflation, not poverty.

    But considering that money is steadily inflating as it has for a long time, the money supply is therefore increasing. Thus reality contradicts your position.

  13. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    And to think, I was promised better healthcare.

  14. Re:Actually, they're *saving* chicago that much. on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some states have laws against small communities enforcing speed laws on state or interstate highways, so that the town doesn't become a revenue-generating speed trap.

  15. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Let's say that a driver going 60 mph notices the light turn amber 1 ft. from the intersection. According to your statement, they are not supposed to enter the intersection.

    This would require a deceleration of approximately 120 g. Not only is this physically impossible for any vehicle (short of hitting a very thick concrete wall), you'll flatten the driver and passengers like pancakes.

  16. Re:#1 and #2 Complaints missing... on Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas · · Score: 1

    Continuum is not available (yet). My tablet running Windows 10 thinks it is a desktop.

    But you can change a setting to get the Start screen back instead of the Start menu.

  17. Re:We're ignoring them... on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 2

    To be fair, common sense can easily be forgotten during emergencies.

    Fight-or-flight instincts don't let us know that seats are useful flotation devices, but flight attendants remind us each time so it will be more fresh on our minds.

  18. Re:symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you think about it, standardizing on those kinds of requirements is kind of dumb, since it limits the combinations of different passwords people can use.

    Agreed. Using a good password quality algorithm, and requiring a minimum level of strength, would be a much better tool than restricting input.

  19. Re:And? on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I worked at a Chick-fil-A about 15 years ago. A man walked up to me and asked for the corporate office number.

    Me:

    Sure thing, can I ask what this is in regards to?

    Him, holding up a table-top display:

    I am a member of PETA. I do not like what you are doing to these cows, making them stand up and hold signs while wearing costumes.

    I'm pretty sure I started laughing, until I noticed the guy was completely straight-faced.

  20. Re:IE 6? on Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday · · Score: 2

    IE 6 should be illegal.

  21. Re:Does that mean they'll get to vote? on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those who believe in the right to fling feces will vote Republican.

    Dead chimps and chimps being bused in from other zoos will vote Democrat.

  22. Re:Unified Experience Across Devices on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And the OS version will probably report something linke 'Version 6.5.xxxx'

    This seems odd, but they do it on purpose for driver compatibility.

  23. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    It seemed more like the following, to me:

    Let's create a version of Windows that is aimed aggressively at tablets. None of this Windows 7 Tablet PC edition, rather something that really embraces new hardware and technology. Full pane applications and home screen, with application lifecycle management and an app store, just like other tablet operating systems.

    Oh and for added value, let's allow Windows desktop apps to run on it. Users can plug in mice and keyboards and it becomes like a small desktop.

    Microsoft had already designed the Start screen, but it turns out telemetry data suggests the Start menu isn't of huge importance. And Fitts's Law suggests the Start screen might actually be better in some ways.

    Of course, all that is true, and is great for a tablet-first OS. But then they branded it Windows 8 (not Windows Tablet or something like that) and marketed it as the successor to Windows 7. So, in my mind, it's a marketing screw-up and Windows 9 was always in the backs of their minds as the true successor to 7.

  24. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    It is not a good habit to pin apps to the task bar.

    I rarely pin apps to the taskbar.

  25. Re:BUILD 2009? on Microsoft Revives Its Hardware Conference · · Score: 1

    I also attended the first BUILD, in September 2011, and have the Samsung slate right beside me.

    Samsung agrees with me.