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  1. Re:Really? on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those jerks must like quality or something.

  2. Re:Pissing off customers, much? on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Amazon combined with the PriceBlink plugin which tells me when someone else has it cheaper.

  3. Re:Fuck Amazon on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    The more evil they are, the more I punish them by lack of patronage. If everyone did this, all corporations would be good.

  4. Re:Barnes and Nobles still lets you preorder on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 2

    No. But apparently they give you The Lego Movie.

  5. Re:I want silent denial on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 2

    And here is how it works: https://github.com/M66B/XPriva...

  6. Re:I want silent denial on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, somebody posted it below: http://repo.xposed.info/module...

    Then load the XPrivacy module. The thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.co...

  7. Re:I want silent denial on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 1

    This will never exist without root, but it sounds really fun.

  8. Re:you should be able to... on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 2

    But the marketing department put it in the Agile Tracker and the PM told me I'd be fired if I didn't move that box....

  9. Re:I went to college with Dave Brat on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry.

    What you just described is probably superior to 90% of Congress if you described them.

  10. Re:good on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    Well spoken. It's almost as if we need a new 3rd party that's simply "by the people, for the people" and ignores everything else.

  11. Re:Redistricting on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    "not as good at gerrymandering"

    You obviously haven't seen California's maps.

  12. Re:Tea on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    So what is YOUR stance on abortion? OK, maybe the right-wingers could buy that a few cells can't feel pain and it isn't murder (in theory) instead of a "from conception" stance. But if the baby has a heartbeat and brainwaves do you still believe it's not murder? Would you settle abortion once and for all with a "no-pain" limitation on the part of the baby?

    If not, and your stance is, "until born" then your stance is every bit as non-scientific, non-evidence-based as theirs.

  13. Re:Anti-incumbent sentiment is running extremely h on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    This. I don't care what party you believe in or how you were raised, the simple fact is that anyone involved in NSA spying needs to go. They've sold the internet, the greatest communication device ever created, down the tubes. (No pun intended.) Anyone that is looking out for a corporation instead of you needs to go. Anyone playing dirty politics instead of solving problems needs to go.

  14. Re:Democrats voted on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 0

    I agree. Anyone voting for an incumbent not named Wyden, Udall, etc. needs to have their heads checked.

  15. Re:That was last year on $3000 GeForce GTX TITAN Z Tested, Less Performance Than $1500 R9 295X2 · · Score: 1

    You can't mine bitcoins with GPU (only altcoins) and Mt. Gox only took bitcoins. And the price of bitcoin has risen since Mt. Gox fell. So I don't see your argument at all.

  16. Re:I have an idea on Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Not if you have a wired connection to your WiFi router it's not.

  17. Re: Peachy on Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    They do this on my router that I own personally that doesn't have WiFi capability at all?

    Wow! They're better than I thought!

  18. Re:This is all wrong on Britain Gets National .uk Web Address · · Score: 1

    We have a ton of idiots in California, but ours is: www.dmv.ca.gov

  19. Re:This is all wrong on Britain Gets National .uk Web Address · · Score: 1

    Well. All you guys DID start squatting on OUR Arpanet...

  20. Re:What about Ukraine? on Britain Gets National .uk Web Address · · Score: 1

    It was done because everyone calls America "US" already. And "UK" is extremely clear where "GB" could be Gambia or something.

  21. Re:Textbooks aren't that important on South African Schools To Go Textbook Free · · Score: 1

    We had textbooks growing up in junior high and high school. The math ones were generally excellent. The English were pretty good at exposing you to a wide variety of documents from a wide range of popular sources (everything from the Bible to Shakespeare to Robert Frost and ee cummings to Mark Twain and The Twilight Zone and everything in between).

    The history textbooks were poor, giving a complete oversimplification of everything and completely devoid of the religious underpinnings of most of medieval Europe's conflicts. Not to mention they were boring and focused on vocabulary words instead of what was actually happening.

    The science books SEEMED good. But if you read them today you would see that they were 50% wrong. I would guess that today's science books are equally worthless, just more dogmatic about their own correctness.

    Updating books every year might be a detriment to Math and English (because changes would have made them worse and they were kept for a long time for that reason). Science and history COULD be better, but my kids' books in these subjects are even worse than mine were, so I doubt it.

  22. Re:Not surprising. on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's Canada, not the US.

  23. Re:2.9% + $0.3 on Amazon Launches Subscription-Based Billing And Payments Service · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin processors are basically offering virtually free transactions.

  24. Re:Dear Microsoft.... on Microsoft Fixing Windows 8 Flaws, But Leaving Them In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I like the ribbon for one reason only. You can apply 5-6 settings at once and get a visual image of what it's going to look like. That saves a lot of time vs previous Office versions.

  25. Re:This makes sense... on Microsoft Fixing Windows 8 Flaws, But Leaving Them In Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And 8 has code that 7 doesn't have. There is a HIGH degree of likelihood that most bugs would be in the new code, the code not shared by 7, which has been well-tested for years.