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  1. Re:So wait now on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Europe is not a country!!! What country do you live in? You can't hide behind the blanket term Europe - it's a land mass - not a collection of united states!

  2. Re:So wait now on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Your incarceration rates are going to go up if you live in Europe. What do you think the having large Muslim ghettos is going to do to your country?

  3. Re:oh boy ! on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    "Trickle down" isn't actually something anyone on "the right" says. It's a straw man.

  4. Re:I'd like to have the government do it on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    It would also make some government cronies extremely rich from the overinflated price tag they would put on it, and the taxpayer would foot the bill.

    You seem quite selfish.

  5. Re:$140B = $50 / person on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'd trust them more than the UN.

  6. Re:And Verizon will never do it. on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    Not Apple. That would be a bad mistake.

  7. Re:Compare with Global Warming response... on UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes · · Score: 1

    UK still has almost two IPv4 addresses/each person.
    If considering the Internet users only, UK has about 2.43 IPv4/each user (exaggerating a bit, you can say that each Internet user in UK can have one client and one server with their own IPv4).
    If you throw into the picture the number of households (which can share a NAT-ing router) - it comes to 6.7 IPv4/household.

    So the IPv4 expiry panic was overblown?

  8. Re:Compare with Global Warming response... on UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes · · Score: 1

    I like to observe the ineptitude of governments around the world in driving IPv6 adoption and compare it with their similarly inept response to Global Warming.

    Yeah, and similar consequences?
    http://penrose.uk6x.com/

    We're out of IPv4s, we've been out for ages. What has changed? Nothing. So what.

  9. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    If that was the case, surely the developer website would just lead back to Amazon or Google Play?

  10. Re:Sorry to be frank but what did he think on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even have a back button for gods sake.

    That's because a "back button on mobile devices" has been patented by Apple.

  11. Re:Really? on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 1

    And there a few criminal laws against use of neonazi imagery for incitement of the people. I am fine with that.

    Well I'm not - and I don't want these things banned from the internet! It's just imagery! It's not going to kill anyone!

    Most Muslim clerics are fine with banning pictures of Mohammed. Some fundamentalist Christian leaders are okay with banning discussion of evolution!

    You don't seem to get that "freedom of speech", isn't "freedom of speech, except you're not allowed to say this or this or this because it might offend someone."

    The fact that most Germans are okay with having certain types of things banned is an indictment on your national culture.

  12. Re:Really? on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 1

    I sure wish you weren't a New Zealander... You seem to be attempting to be as ignorant and as arrogant as a Texan, and mostly succeeding.

    I wish you weren't a New Zealander - I assume the irony in your posts about Texans was unintentional.

    New Zealand has some of the most expensive and crappy internet in the world. Also the original version was completely funded by the US.

    Uhh... I wasn't saying NZ could start it's own internet. Learn to read. I was saying the UN can! I'm very happy with the US funded version.

  13. Re:Really? on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 1

    So can I sell you any Nazi memorabilia? Email you a copy on Mein Kamf? Are you able to post a thesis on how you think the Holocaust was fake? Express an unapproved opinion on immigration? How about you dress as a Nazi for Halloween?

    In our country these things are not PC. In yours - you'd be arrested.

    Now all that Nazi shit is crap, neo-nazis are generally losers, and Hitler was an evil fucker. But to ban those things from your speech is a restriction on your freedom.

    It's sad that you can't see that.

    "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - someone other than Voltaire.

  14. Re:Reliability of the measure regarding China on The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Or if the ITU does.

  15. Re:U.S.A. on The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ask anyone outside of the US to identify 5 unlabeled states. You'll get California, Florida, Nevada and Texas - plus whatever states they've been to.

    Ask a Chinese person to identify the eastern European countries - he won't do to well.
    Ask the average Dutchman to identify countries in Africa - you won't have too much success.

    You are arrogant.

  16. Re:Really? on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not. I live in NZ.

    I would rather have the US "controlling" the internet, than a bunch of Saudi Arabians!

    Every country is not equal. Some care more about freedom than others. Germans don't. Russians don't. The scores of Islamic countries certainly don't.

    Fuck those countries. They can make their own internet. The UN can make its own internet, try to charge excessively to pay for the exorbitant lifestyles of its member politicians, and see who uses it.

    Why do they think they can take over something that does no belong to them? Fucking Nazis.

  17. Re:Decentralize it, only way to be sure on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 1

    And that would be one hell of a lot worse under the UN.

    The thing about United Nations (other than it's just a junket for corrupt has-been or wannabe politicians) is that some of the nations are fucking terrible.

  18. Re:Really? on Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief · · Score: 1

    ICANN would not have stopped these things, and would probably have made it worse - because it could happen in any country.

  19. Re:Mathematician? on One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'll have to see if I can have a look on a day off.

  20. Re:Ah, this was to be expected, folks. on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that "to an extent" is important.

  21. Re:Because Phrma has no drugs for it on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Cynical and deluded.

    Fluoxetine (of which Prozac is one available brand) and other SSRIs have good evidence behind them.

  22. Re:The Elephant In The Room on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    I think what your saying has a lot of truth to it.

    Permissive parents will tend to have "ADHD" kids. Violent and highly dysfunctional families have kids wit conduct disorder. Obsessive and anxious parents often have obsessive and anxious kids. Depressed and over-medicalised families tend to have kids like this.

    Sure, some of it is genetic. But a lot is nurture - and before we blame schools (okay, I see below people have already) - you have to look at the parents where the child spends more time.

    I have some good traits from my parents, and I have some bad ones. Some might be genetic and some learnt. I won't blame them (they legitimately did their best), but there are other parents who do not put effort in to do their best, and their kids suffer as a result.

  23. Re:Change the definition, no more problem! on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer succumbing to wild sex.

  24. Re:Change the definition, no more problem! on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    You are a cunt.

  25. Re:Psychiatry, not geekdom on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    I got 29.

    Agree: 4,12,19,21,22,23,26,33,39,41,45,46: 1 point
    Disagree: 1,3,8,10,11,14,15,24,25,27,31,32,36,38,40,48,50: 1 point

    (Although for posting the breakdown, I probably should gain another few points!)