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  1. Re:Turned off auto-renew today on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    Canceled next year as a response to the price hike. Thanks for the tip.

  2. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    Living 15 minutes or so from Newegg really helps. I get stuff from there the next day practically every time despite paying regular (or free) shipping. Amazon "super saver" started getting held for weeks for no reason and I realized that with the extra money we were spending "getting to" free, it was probably cheaper to just get prime.

  3. Re:Still worth it on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    I have never found a single thing to watch on Amazon (that wasn't already on Netflix).

  4. Re:Amazon Glacier on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Let's see. How many legal movies and songs could you buy digitally for $200 / month. Lets say 20 movies and 100 songs on average. How many nights do you even have to watch things or listen to music? The amount of time and money people spend to not spend money baffles me.

  5. Re:Bitcoin as a government experiment on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because the US government always does this. We never just change things willy-nilly without testing and foist it on the unsuspecting public at large making people's lives worse.

  6. Re:opposite of brilliant on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    But it's true. It seems like every liberal idea is missing about 10 steps that they forgot to consider in their overly-simplified view of the earth.

  7. Re:Oh So NOW you want regulation eh? on US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO · · Score: 1

    And anybody that left large sums of money on an exchange where they weren't paying out in dollars for 6 months should have known better.

  8. Re:good move on US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Karpeles has 200,000 BTC in an address that he has proven he has control over in the past. There's nothing to wonder about. He stole the coins (at least 200,000 of them).

  9. Re:Interesting parallel on US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO · · Score: 4, Informative

    And their logo is a chart in the shape of mountains. They have adopted Mt. Gox as their official name long ago.

  10. Re:Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Because long-term capital gains are taxed at zero if you make nothing. Have billions in investments? Take a $1 salary and you can take out $1 million per year for free.

  11. Re:I won't hold my breath on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because Northern California voters are beyond stupid. They'll unthinkingly vote for anyone who is "Democrat" even if he bankrupted the state twice already or if she has already been a downright awful senator for 3 or 4 terms already.

  12. Re:Snowden's an expert? on SXSW: Edward Snowden Swipes At NSA · · Score: 1

    And yet he seems to know more about what will happen as a result than the heads of the CIA and NSA, who appear to be raving lunatics.

  13. Re:What exact laws were broken? on SXSW: Edward Snowden Swipes At NSA · · Score: 1

    The source of the data doesn't matter. If they trade it with GCHQ or hack it from my PC themselves, it's still an unreasonable search and seizure if I'm not under suspicion of a crime.

  14. Re:The article is full of errors on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Just looking at the blockchain you can see that Karpeles has 200,000 bitcoins in an address that he is known to have had control over in the past.

  15. Re:Stills seems like it has to be an inside job on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not in bitcoin. Because what you just described is nothing like it.

  16. Re:Such clear wording! on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    No more photos at the beach at any time...

  17. Re:No surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    Well, since all the evidence was tainted by rush to judgment and poor procedure and had to be thrown out, all that was left was Kato and the limo driver's testimonies. And that wasn't enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.

  18. Re:Microsoft should have... on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    Except that Nintendo makes money every year and the other 2 don't...

  19. Re:I agree with the board here on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it's funny when you tell people that Nintendo has made more money on Wii U than Microsoft and Sony combined on their new consoles.

  20. Re:Repeats aren't necessarily good... on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    And Jobs going to Corning and coming up with Gorilla Glass. Vision takes a lot of hard work and a refusal to settle.

  21. Re:What a surprise. on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    I disagree with this. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with Windows Mobile that couldn't have been addressed IMO.

  22. Re:What a surprise. on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 2

    RT not being based on .NET was (and still is) the biggest mistake Microsoft made. They would have triple the apps if they had done this. They just had to swallow their massive pride and base it on Mono.

  23. Re:What a surprise. on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    I started with Windows Phone and it was great. Later, I got one like you're saying. I finally threw it against the wall and got something else.

    But I don't understand why Microsoft couldn't get it through their thick head that I wanted to load apps directly onto the phone (which had internet access). I did NOT want to hook it up through my PC and run 2 separate install programs (one on the PC and one on the phone).

    Apple got this as soon as they enabled apps that they should be able to be installed directly, easily, anywhere, anytime.

    Also, Microsoft outsourcing everything led to really bad hardware for as cheap a price as possible. But the problem was that for mobile devices to really succeed and be usable, they had to have slightly better hardware than Dell, HP or HTC were willing to put on a Windows Phone. Apple finally put the package together.

  24. Re:asshole on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    Rich?

  25. Re:Wrong, study shows disfavor with science. on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 2

    I agree with this. Scientists are becoming so unbelievably political that it gets more and more difficult to trust that they actually have your best interests (or even the truth) at heart.