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  1. Re:The company's name is Enfor. Ask for a refund. on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 1

    It is included in the ars article.

  2. Re:Looks like it might have been pirated after all on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 2

    Except that he explained the reasoning for having Installous on a jailbroken phone, and others have rung in saying that Installous isn't what's flagging it, or the only reason.

  3. Re:Legal liability on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 1

    What major user group on Slashdot believes people should be allowed to sell bootleg software?

    Cut out your bullshit.

  4. Re:niggers on Geomapping Racism With Twitter · · Score: 1

    Your status as a bi-sexual of mixed-race is dubious in my mind, or you wouldn't be actively disrespecting yourself, and others that might be similar to you.

    You can't use someones interpretation of words to discredit what they said about being bi-sexual and of mixed race. Not everyone applies the same power to words as other people. Not that I necessarily believe them, but I'm friends with an african american who will easily throw out the word "nigger" and also have a friend who is gay who uses the word "faggot". Am I really in that much of a rare position? Perhaps it is because of them that I'm not afraid of these words and also perhaps why I've got no issues with their lifestyle and/or race. I grew up with these people.

    It amazes me to this day people are afraid to say these words, even in proper context of merely discussing the words. The "taboo" nature makes me think of superstition and all the wonders that has brought us.

  5. Re:And in return he expects to get...? on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    I might as well be psychic regarding this case.

  6. Re:This is ridiculous on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 2

    You have to be incredibly dense not to see why they would do this. It costs them less to sell authenticators at cost than it is to constantly have staff fixing hacked accounts and having people quit over hacks.

    One time fee; Consistently recurring subscription
    --or--
    Player hacked, costs CS manhours to fix, player potentially quits.

    Which one do you think a smart business is going to choose?

  7. Re:Required for the RMAH. on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It is not required to use the RMAH. It's required to link a PayPal account to the RMAH or keep a RMAH balance. Buying things is easily possible without one.

    There are also free alternatives to the actual keyfob.

  8. Re:And in return he expects to get...? on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    He's the actual plaintiff. If he wins (he won't) he'll probably get some ridiculously high number while everyone else are the people who gets nothing.

    Then again, he's not going to win this so it's irrelevant anyway.

  9. Re:Battle.net on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 1

    How is it reasonable to play an MMO without an account?

    Going back to the old standalone account system isn't any better than Battle.net. You can also have multiple Battle.net accounts, so it's not like you have to link every Blizzard game you buy to a single account.

  10. Re:Toshiba to Customers: Drop dead. on Toshiba Pursues Copyright Claim Against Laptop Manual Site · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure that was the point of his post. People are always mixing up copyright and patents in the comments section.

  11. Re:Enlighten me on UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm really surprised that woman got off so lightly over that school bus affair. I hope some pictures crop up on the internet showing the sign. That would be great.

  12. Re:Apple and their lawyers were lucky on UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance · · Score: 2

    The issue isn't whether they added extra information. The issue is they lied to everyone with that extra information.

  13. Re:CPSC is doing what theya re supposed to on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    I can't find any doc the confirms that on cpsc.gov

    That's their whole business. Banning their sole line of products puts them out of business.

    History shows you are wrong.

    History shows they are wrong that responsible adults should have the right to purchase adult products? What?

    Nice scared words. The steps you took did not work. You refused to take more, the CPSC took the next logical step.

    Refused to take more? What steps could they take outside labeling (in 5 places on the package + product no less) that they haven't already taken?

    I seriously can't tell if you are trolling or if you really just know nothing about this situation.

  14. Re:If your #1 product kills children, you fail on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    You apparently don't know anything about this situation at all.

    There have been zero deaths caused by these small ball magnets. In fact, there have only been about 2 dozen cases of ingestion in the 3 years they have been on the market.

  15. Re:I don't get it on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. They're not actually marketed as toys.

  16. Re:There's no hope for us...really none on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    There's videos directed at depressed children how to use a gun to blow their brains out.

    I don't see guns banned yet.

    GET ON IT CPSC! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Ban something that has actually resulted in child death and not just a few hospital visits country wide that can be counted on one hand.

    PS. No I am not serious about banning guns, but our priorities are all wrong if we allow guns to exist near children and not goddamn magnets.

  17. Re:Search for spherical neodymium magnets... on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    I love that site. I always get a chuckle out of their "Looking for some URANIUM?" animated gif.

  18. Re:Californian Here on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually, because I believe the current punishment is far too lax.

  19. Re:Google has a pretty piss poor track record on Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track · · Score: 1

    The feature works just fine. It adds the extra header information exactly up to spec.

    If no one listens to the DNT flag well then that is a whole other issue altogether.

  20. Re:Still no bookmark sidebar? on Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you were serious, you could use one of a million extensions for it. It's not as though updating chrome ever really breaks extensions.

    But you weren't being serious. You were just being spiteful by showing your negativity towards a browser you don't have any intention of using.

  21. Re:Californian Here on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was so annoyed by that proposition when I read it on the ballot. It was two totally separate issues that should have been separate. I am all for increased punishments for those caught dealing with human trafficking but I'm not about to agree to the part at the end about sex offenders needing to explain their whole internet life. We take enough of their rights away as it is and not all of them are even guilty of a serious crime.

  22. Re:Records Retention? on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    That's bizarre. In California I found myself in the ER over a pretty bad infection. I hadn't been in the hospital since I was a little kid (I'm 26 now), so when they were asking for my contact info, they gave me the phone number I had when I was 5 years old and asked if it was correct. After giving them the relevant info, I jokingly asked when my last few visits were for, and they read off 4 entries all dating back to when I was 4 to 8. There were charts and all sorts of stuff attached to my file.

    I was blown away, and also a bit creeped out at the same time.

  23. Re:open source but only for Mac and Win. on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 1

    Really?

  24. Re:Not GPL, and suitable for JIT on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 1

    So basically it's not different from what he wrote.

  25. Re:Not GPL, and suitable for JIT on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 0

    So basically, you haven't even used any of the software that's purported to be the "best" but since what you use is good enough for you, they're wrong?

    That's some shady logic, really, and I'm not even the biggest fan of Photoshop.