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  1. Re:That's his right on Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance · · Score: 0

    How exactly would they make money off of this? Its all about targeted advertising. They want you to go to a bar then they can match faces to beer etc and send you targets ads that will work next time you surf. So no the port will be one that cannot be blocked like 80, (the html one)

  2. Re:A hard time keeping on the forefront? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 0

    The point i was making is that you can't do anything on an ARM basing system but consumption. What about huge databases, spreadsheets crunching financial data and compiling large codebases for companies? Those can't be done on any tablet yet. I agree they are work. Work is making things. You make databases. You make spreadsheets (usually with excel). You make codebases, You crunch numbers and do simulations.You write essays.You attend college classes.
    The vast populous wants an internet applicance. The rest of us still want a machine that can lift big iron. ARM won't ever be able to do that.

  3. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 2

    which is why their olympic commentarty was so much better and why they screamed horribly when it was posted for free on the net. I was willing to pay for the stream I found by going to the site (i have a functional British address) but that amount was just too much for 3 weeks.

  4. Re:Because you don't pay, you just complain on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 0

    I so want to mod you up but I cant because I have already posted.

  5. Re:Because you don't pay, you just complain on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: -1, Troll

    thats because most people are poor. They have just enough to pay for everything they have too. The saddest part was that we had a choice between a president who make the economy better by letting those who work make more or one who pimped social issues and said f*** the economy. We picked the latter because he could speak better.smh

  6. Charge. on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    Business people need to accept things: Copyright infringement is here to stay, so deal with through ignoring it.(its advertisement). People hate ads for many reasons, so only use them to grab that initial group and accept that people will block them. Charge for content. You can't do infinite growth. Grow slowly. There is a hard ceiling for everything. Punch through it and you will fail. examples IBM in 90's Microsoft now, Digg, facebook, venezuela etc.

  7. Re:A hard time keeping on the forefront? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    squandering company time on porn and sports.

  8. Re:A hard time keeping on the forefront? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    general purpose = internet surfing, email and maybe a movie

  9. Re:A hard time keeping on the forefront? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    An ARM based computer for $100 that plugs into the back of my screen and provides internet functionality is not a computer in my opinoin any more than a TV that has Twitter and Facebook is one. Its an internet appliance. You want that, good. A traditional desktop is for work. Work is making things like movies, music and games. ARM chips have a long way to go to get their still.

  10. Re:How do you prove harm to reputation? on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    I am sure that if he could have rigged it and got away with it, he would have. I do agree this does more damage to Top Gear than Tesla. It shows that Top gear isn't honest which means they serve no value other than pure entertainment.

  11. Re:Irrelevant on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    And according to the US Supreme court since at least Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward – 17 U.S. 518 (1819), they recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad - 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does." So no money isn't all it has. Ability to make or break contracts with all that comes with that as well as owning property, so they could have very well suffered by being maligned by Top gear. What confuses me is did Elon know Clarkson hated electric cars?

  12. Re:Built in Obsolescence on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    In walmart it will. And it will last longer than their current furniture even if its made by the same children that sew their clothing in Malayian sweatshops.

  13. Re:How's this DRM? on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    And indeed the Flexplay ones did. The glue used to cement the plastic to the metal substrates when opaque rendering the disc unreadable. Never had the displeasure of dealing with old DIVX (not new Divx which is a mkv player suite)

  14. Re:How's this DRM? on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    put the chair into a scanner and then make another with a 3d printer and you do. But is that a true digital copy or is that more of an analog copy?

  15. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    I loved those. Why? They had absolutely no encryption on them at all. So all I did was burn a copy of the disc the moment I put it in the drive and I still have perfect copy of the movie. The original it died 48 hrs later. They remain good in the package for about 2 yrs/

  16. Re:Car analogy on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    Or meaning the man of your dreams and meeting his beautiful wife. By the way, none of those things mentioned in that song were ironic. Just mostly suckworthy.

  17. Re:The World is not entirely filled with idiots on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    When I'm in a firefight, the last thing I want is my weapon exploding shearing my hand off in the process..

    Fixed that for you.

  18. Re:There was this book. Some guy called Adam Smith on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    kudos on the kitchen knives and truck. Get back to us when you make a functional TV

  19. Re:Everyone was thinking it, I Just said it. on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    and the eighth chevron address.

  20. Re:evolution on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    I think you need to go first AC

  21. Re:Umm, yeah on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    Yep, thats what Santa Claus does the other 364 days out of the year.

  22. Re:Umm, yeah on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    the smell of sulfur can never be adjusted too. Try it and see.

  23. Re:Umm, yeah on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    Umm, lets try to avoid this being derailed so call it adaptation. (that is what it is specifically). Whether evolution is true or not it is getting to the point where the world is like the swastika. An equilateral cross with four arms bent at 90 degrees. The earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization, Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in various other ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke shakti or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good" or "auspicious," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. The swastika literally means "to be good".
    Yet now, when someone writes that, it summons evil imagery. So right or wrong, evolution is not summoning the correct imagery anymore.
    As for the DEET, what do you expect? You use it alot and insects adapt to it.

  24. Re:More evidence on Troll Complaint Dismissed; Subscriber Not Necessarily Infringer · · Score: 1

    Fair is like Normal. It doesn't exist. Its a pie in the sky weasel word that is meaningless. the only people who suggest it are those who have something to lose. Do you?
    I think making it completely impossible to track down copyright infringement cases is the best idea possible. They are distributors now. They need to wake up and accept that. A company creates nothing. Individuals do. Sadly, people don't understand that. So we need to get back to individual ownership for all media with a small segment given to the companies to do distribution. However, I doubt I will see that happen anytime soon.

  25. Re:If these cases involved guns.... on Troll Complaint Dismissed; Subscriber Not Necessarily Infringer · · Score: 2

    Actually it is valid. Wifi can hacked into and used without permission to download copyright protected content (you can't pirate content as Piracy involves ships and water. No matter how much mainstream media wants you to believe you can) That is what amusing me about your point. Guns can indeed allow engagement highly illegal activities like murder, theft, kidnapping and rape. Wifi can allow pedophilia, ID theft, collaspe essential servers that control electricity, water, sewage etc which can lead to death and destruction. It was proven that a computer virus allowed the destruction ot the centrifuges that were processing the uranium for the iranians. So both can cause the same among of chaos. Actually in the right location at the right time, a open wifi point could cause more mayhem than a marksman ever could.