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  1. Re:Suicide? on Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites · · Score: 1

    This would have been a great idea 10 years ago, and I would have spent plenty of money.

    Now most recorded music that was in any way popular during the last 50 years seems to be sat on Youtube, guarded by Google's legions of lawyers. Putting lyrics together with an iTunes link would have zero effect on my purchases in 2013. Much too little, much too late.

    Something the music industry could still do to save itself (I hope you're reading RIAA):

    1) Let Ticketmaster become bigger than the entirety of the recorded music business.

    2) Secretly reveal the progressive agenda using images of the current board of directors. Then deny it, claim it was Anonymous. Accept their retribution. 3) Release all current artists contracts. 4) Donate all profits to Philippine relief 5) Sell all lands buildings and other property to someone else who has no vested interest in music. 6) Declare that The pirate bay is right. Sign all remaining rights to them. 7) Journey to the bowels of Africa to help capture Kony with the remaining money. This should atone for all sins against the artists. Since this will never happen, their only choice is to go the way the carmakers did during the great depression. Into oblivion.

  2. Re:This is relevant to my interests on Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely · · Score: 2

    Fake newsletter. Send fake money for a subscription.

    Will Bitcoins work?

  3. Re:Capitalism. on Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" · · Score: 1

    Social democracy is quite beautiful.

    National socialism was as socialist between 1933 and 1945 as the Southern US states were capitalist between 1779 and the 1960s.

    WTF? How about a better example: If is as possible for Social democracy to work as it is for Kim Kardashian to explain how Quantum physics works.

  4. Re:Here is a thought.. on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Who says the storage center is implemented well?

    Angela Merkel

    Who is chancellor of Germany. Yeah like she was briefed on this: http://www.mikeholt.com/img/mojonews/whatisarcflash.jpg

  5. Re:Here is a thought.. on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean the one in utah? http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398 Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/10/08/2-Billion-NSA-Spy-Center-Going-Flames http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/10/08/fiery-explosions-rock-nsa-data-center.html 10 fiery explosions, known as arc-fault failures, have ripped apart machinery, melted metal and destroyed circuits. No because the govt couldn't design and implement a billion dollar data storage center. they could show what happen when you have an arc-fault failure. Arc Flash is the result of a rapid release of energy due to an arcing fault between a phase bus bar and another phase bus bar, neutral or a ground. During an arc fault the air is the conductor. Arc faults are generally limited to systems where the bus voltage is in excess of 120 volts. Lower voltage levels normally will not sustain an arc. An arc fault is similar to the arc obtained during electric welding and the fault has to be manually started by something creating the path of conduction or a failure such as a breakdown in insulation. So why did we except anything less from the website?

  6. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Today is not yesteryear. Do you have a good reason why they should remain? Outside of tracking people? There is no good reason to block mounting a GPS other than someone is afraid they might look at it too much and run of the road. The car will violently accordion into a truck, killing the poor migrants who were riding in the back, escaping their cruel life in costa rica. Fear is never a good reason for a regulation. To answer your questions, I don't give one. Its called personal responsibility. If you can't have that then the rest is meaningless. Every regulation that exists slows down and makes it harder to do things. Some things we do we shouldn't and at one time we all agreed. Today we can't even agree that murder is unacceptable. (capital punishment and abortion before you all freak out). So I am against useless legislation. California is overloaded with it so I have absolutely no sympathy for it.

  7. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    So is talking to the passenger, swatting randomly in the back seat area, looking at the gps, adjusting the radio. I just love it when people want to live in a police state were everything is regulated. Forcing poeple to do what is right is impossible.

  8. Re:The Real Story on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    My guess is it will put a grandchild through the first year of college.

  9. Re:Why? on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 1

    If given the chose of a 3o second ad or a tax of any amount I will take the ad anytime. However that being said, I think you need to go to work for a grocery store that loves to play its own advertisements over its in store radio.

  10. Re:Product X has security flaw... on IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Well if they actually did have security then you couldn't troll google looking for active webcams like this one http://susandennis.axiscam.net/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=1304

  11. Re:Government hates competition... on Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers · · Score: 1

    The right wing doesn't hold her up they hold up her fictional novel in the same way that several Hollywood actors hold up L. Ron Hubbards Fictional religion.

  12. Re:works fine for me on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    OMG my any key is missing. Someone stole my any key!!!!!!!!! (Will the windows key work?)

  13. Re:Obligatory WTF on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    White men were created by God resembling Him.
    Blacks and Muslims devolved from monkeys.

    I am unsure this was intentional or not. It says devolved from Monkeys. Meaning Monkeys were higher on the evolutionary ladder. To be accurate: He is suggesting that current blacks are actually monkeys and current monkeys are evolved blacks.

  14. Re:2 in 10 million... on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    Well The NSA is already ahead of the game isn't it.

  15. Re:Statistics on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    If that's true then it missed its city by several hundred miles. If it hit its target we could have been spared WWII (target isnt moscow but Berlin)

  16. Re:well... on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    Yes his comment just undid his undoing of the aforementioned mod which is why I am commenting because I won
    t be undoing his non undoing of moderation. (sorry but this is more funny to me than the comment.)

  17. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    And up until recently no one but publishers and typesetters had one.

  18. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    Because the market has, thats why he is whining.

  19. Re: Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    Yes. Until windows 'ate' (itself and vomited blue tiles reminiscent of 3.1) it could.

  20. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    No, and since I have both on my system I can prove it.

  21. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    Let me fix this:

    Publishers sometimes will accept camera-ready PDF, but that's a _lot_ of work, and in the age of digital publishing, a complete non-starter, because PDF is more like paper than text. Submitting in MS Word is much easier. It's a royal pain in the ass, especially since the MS Word document is essentially a consumable, and is thrown away as soon as the publisher goes to typesetting. It means that page proof edits have to be done by hand, and that second editions often don't capture all the page proof corrections, because those corrections never go into the word document unless the author does it, but that's also time consuming, because the author has to not only incorporate the page proof edits, but all of the copyedits as well.

    The whole thing is a monumental waste of everybody's time—if it were possible to do all the edits to the same document, throughout the life of the book, it would be much more efficient. Style-sheet-oriented HTML is actually a better choice than Word, but nobody uses it because there isn't a good HTML editor.

    Now its correct.
    I personally find converts raw text into HTML the digital equivalent of swimming across the river styx. People always amuse me when they push wysiwyg editors as the end all and be all. Thats is further from the truth than east is from west. I know how to code HTML and XML. I honestly would rather someone building a program to convert print ready pdf but since thats a royal pain too we are stuck. Its swim the styx, sail the straight path to valinor, or stack 100 lbs cubes in 7 frt columns. I choose the latter

  22. Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    MS Office is designed for use by the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- not the outside studio or in-house team that designs your four color catalogs, print adds, brochures and annual reports.

    No, Word is a layout editor, where you cannot get away from the paper concepts of "pages" and "margins". It's about the worst program there is for entering plain text.

    No, that would still be notepad.

  23. Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    My primary argument against Libre Office is that when I'm using Microsoft Word, its because someone else needs it in word doc format.

    This. And when you do transfer it over you have to completely reset the formats because what it is robust and powerful, its cant translate that. So you waste much more time that you should.

  24. Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    enough said!

    MS Office is designed for use by the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- not the outside studio or in-house team that designs your four color catalogs, print adds, brochures and annual reports.

    Thats adobe you are talking about now. Unless you want to bring up Powerpoint.

  25. Re:Lack of competition = stagnation on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    I don't just want Word 2014 any more. I want something that helps me collect, organise and share information in ways that match how we'll be living and working in 2014. And a tool that does that might have a small chance of breaking the Word stranglehold.

    So you want Google Docs? SMH. Whether we like it or not, Word is the document standard. I have tried all the serious competitors with their robust abilities. All I want is my documents to look exact the same across all programs. When that happens and it isn't Word, I will leave. Until then, I will stay with the market leader (until Microsoft kills itself or sunsets Word)