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  1. Re:technology node on Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of Intel's weapons has always been process size. So while it's not a fair comparison if you're doing science, it's a fair comparison if you're wondering what tablet to buy.

  2. Re:The real long term plans unfold... on Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure the only long term plan Google has it to own all the data. Phones and phone OSes are just ways of achieving that.

  3. Re:Something I learned during an internship on Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? · · Score: 1

    So what question(s) should he be asking?

  4. Re:Something I learned during an internship on Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? · · Score: 1

    I said ask questions, not be a prick. If the PM is a reasonable human being, he'll either convince the OP that what he's doing is necessary or reconsider his position. If he's not a reasonable human being, I can be of no help.

  5. Something I learned during an internship on Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pretend you don't understand and ask him questions. "I need to work with this team leader, can you explain his role please?" "I need to know what I can and can't ask of this consultant, can you clarify his mandate?"

    He'll either give rational logical answers - in which case you can accept them or counter with more questions - or by trying to answer your questions he'll realize his reasons for doing all those things weren't as great as they first seemed to him - in which case you win - or he's a politician and changing his mind is flip flopping, so he'll dig in and defend himself at all costs - in which case you're screwed, but if that's the case you're screwed regardless.

  6. Re:Maybe on Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now · · Score: 2

    Standard != open source

  7. Re:We Won't Sell YOUR Photos on Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos · · Score: 1

    More like, " We were caught trying to stick it to our product BUT they called us on our shit."

  8. New protection on Canadian Copyright Reform Takes Effect · · Score: 1

    new protection for creators of user generated content

    So... users? I think you mean hosts of user generated content...

  9. Re:Is this going to save AMD ? on AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family · · Score: 1, Insightful

    AMD have been dying for 20 years now.

    Except they haven't. They've been dying since Intel started their tick-tock stratgey with the Core series, and AMD hasn't been able to keep up with Intel's gains in performance.

  10. Re:Demo video on Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets · · Score: 1, Funny

    You got used to Unity? I didn't know they still performed lobotomies ;)

  11. Re:Piracy on The Futility of the Ongoing Piracy War · · Score: 0

    I should have put a ;) to make my intentions clearer.

  12. Re:Piracy on The Futility of the Ongoing Piracy War · · Score: 5, Funny

    Information in DNA in sperm doesn't count.

  13. Godammit. on Black Mesa Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have classes to study for and clients to work for, this is NOT a good time.

  14. Re:Piracy on The Futility of the Ongoing Piracy War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would really like to see a source for this. While I'm sure there's piracy happening offline, I find it very hard to believe that that's where the majority of piracy is happening.

  15. Re:Why not a vacuum on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Technically, it's "woosh" in lower case, because the joke was riding on a thin cushion of air, and therefore not making much noise.

  16. Re:Crappy game on How the Pirate Bay Can Be an Asset To Game Developers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So much arrogance and bitterness.

    Read the guy's story (yes, I'm re-linking to TFA in a comment) on Ars and the guy's AmA over on Reddit. You don't have to like the guy's game (which most certainly isn't a dinky flash app that he probably knocked out in a couple of weeks - it took him 10 months), but you have to admire his class, and if you inisist on letting the Internet know you don't like his game, you should definitely be more polite than "quite frankly it's crap."

  17. Microsoft Appreciation Day on one condition on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 2

    Only if it coincided with Opposite Day.

  18. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hardly.

    TheOatmeal: angry and funny blog post to vent about FunnyJunk stealing his and others' comics
    RIAA: SUE ALL EVARYTHING!

    TheOatmeal: no actual DMCA takedown notices filed.
    RIAA: file ALL the notices!

    FunnyJunk, to users: harass the shit out of TheOatmeal!
    YouTube: K, I'm gonna take obey every takedown notice.

    FunnyJunk: SUE THEOATMEAL!
    YouTube: Shit, we're getting sued by RIAA Viacom. Oh hey, let's start Vevo.

    TheOatmeal: WTF they want HOW much? BEARS AND CANCER AND CHARITY!
    RIAA: Uh, we're still not making as much money as we want. Who else can we sue?

  19. Duh. on Antivirus Firms Out of Their League With Stuxnet, Flame · · Score: 1

    The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can't protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets.

    You don't say.

  20. Stop looking at your own navel America on AT&T Expects Data-Only Phone Plans Within 2 Years · · Score: 1

    He expects wireless carriers to start offering data-only cellphone plans within the next 24 months.

    You mean like they've been doing in Europe for at least a couple of years now?

  21. Some nuance on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 0

    I live in Montreal. The Liberal Party, the current ruling party in our provincial government, decided to raise tuition fees for university students. So for about three months now, a good chunk of university students have been on strike against the fee hikes.

    While there have been a few peaceful demonstrations, including a huge one downtown on March 22nd, there have also been many less peaceful demonstrations. For example, a few days ago at a Liberal Party conference in Victoriaville, a demonstration devolved into violence. Tear gas, rubber bullets, the lot. A few protesters were hurt, and a policeman was outright beaten by multiple so called protesters.

    Unrelated to protests and violence, but just to show you how bad it's become, yesterday, during morning rush hour, smoke bombs were set off in our metro, paralyzing it completely. No service on any line. That was the latest in a series of similar incidents, including previous smoke bombs in the metro and the blocking of bridges.

    All that to say that it's an ugly situation, made even more ugly because it's being exploited by people who have nothing to do with the student cause. Anarchists, criminals, call them whatever you want, show up at protests and start trouble. Usually they are masked. You have the right to express an opinion publicly, but you do not necessarily have a right to do so anonymously, especially if you're not really trying to express an opinion, but rather are trying to break a few windows, burn a few cars, and throw rocks at a few policemen.

    I know that it's a slippery slope, and that he who gives up a little liberty for a little security deserves neither, but we've shown that large peaceful protests can happen, and that at this point, it's no longer about freedom of anything, it's about preventing crime. And I remind you that John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory works in real life as well. So take away the anonymity, and you might just end up with fewer total fuckwads.

  22. Re:really? on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 2, Informative

    The difference is that with trust there *are* experiments I can perform. Not so with faith.

  23. Re:really? on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a different between trust and faith. I trust scientists because I can go over their data and validate their conclusions. I could even (theoretically) perform the same experiments to see if I get the same data. Believing the Bible or my priest or my religious grandma requires blind faith, because there is no data to analyse, and there are no experiments to repeat.

  24. Reviewer has no credibility on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 2

    For me this was a big irritation and one of the reasons for moving to GNOME Shell.

    Man, this dog turd tastes aweful, let me try this cat turd.

  25. Schizophrenic government is schizophrenic on Expect a Flood of Competitions As US Tries To Spur Public Inventions · · Score: 1

    We want to stir the brains of geniuses! But don't you dare learn about evolution in school!