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  1. Re:The problem with a Chinese supercomputer on Full Details Uncovered on Chinese Tianhe-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    How is a joke referring to the arguably freshness and lightness of Chinese food racist?

  2. Now, now... From a weasel's perspective, they might very well look like witch doctors.

  3. Re:Does that mean on Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    There you go... Written with all the eloquence, intelligence and creativity I knew you had.

  4. Re:Does that mean on Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    Thank you for making my point more eloquently than I did.

  5. Re:Does that mean on Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was thinking that other readers would try thinking just a little harder. So to reframe so anonymous posters can understand it more clearly: Was, before this investigation, an investigation underway, thereby making the investigation not new to Google, but in fact, an investigation already underway?

  6. Does that mean on Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe · · Score: 2

    'We have not heard anything from the FTC regarding any new antitrust investigation.'"

    Does that mean the investigation was already underway?

  7. Re:Misleading Title on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm not. You're confusing ethical with legal. Do you work on wall street by any chance?

  8. Re:Misleading Title on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right. In fact the user did not find what the title claims. He found the point at which they would ask WTF. And it turns out TF was that he was doing something the TOS said he couldn't. Nice job misleading.

  9. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure - what is the payback? If you have a quantifiable amount that would be helpful. Is it 2% of all corporate tax collected in the US? Is it more than $5B a year?

    Or, since they exceeded on all those counts, is it more because you think they should be punished? Again, make it quantifiable.

  10. Re:Sounds good. on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, you know he was re-elected in 2010, right? That's why the parent you posted to was talking about 2016?

  11. Re:Anonymous on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really. Carnivore has been around for 15 years.

  12. Re:How silly. on Help the OED Find a Lost Book · · Score: 1

    They need to overhaul their current submission process before worrying about the rest of this.

    Literally definition changes

  13. Re:Launch the FUD missles.... on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm. Now, imagine how this might be spun if the submitter actually understood what was done. BB and Knox were approved. Please... continue...

  14. Re:I'm not a patent lawyer, but I can tell you thi on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I for one completely understand the rage. I think I was assigned this examiner - some of the things done must have been very similar to what he describes. It enraged my otherwise calm, quiet reserved patent attorney to the point he had to wait a week before responding or it would have been in much the same way. This poor bastard just didn't wait the week.

  15. Re:I thought it was all about Apple on Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    Ummm, then the answer should be no. Betteridge's Law

  16. Re:Fingerprints? On a touch screen? on Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security · · Score: 1

    " the entire mobile industry has been headed this way for years now"

    Reference please?

  17. Re:Too late to run and hide now on Porn Troll Panics, Dismisses Pending Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Reading the headline does not give you any information at all.
    Some lawsuits were dropped. And only because they probably used Alan Cooper's name (illegally).

  18. Re:Apple is over on Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won't Wait For Appeal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right. In the same way that Exxon is over, though they too just don't know it yet.

    Unless either of them come up with another way to make money after their huge cash cows are done.

  19. Re:Yucca Mountain on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    You seem hell bend to describe how this wasn't intended. I was there. It was intended - including the spent submarine cores, and represented a significant portion of the 135,000 metric tons.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/24/at-the-hanford-nuclear-reservation-a-steady-drip-of-toxic-trouble.html

  20. Mmmmm, indeed. $7 billion worth of hurt.... Ouch.

  21. Re:Smoke and mirrors on Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, it does not cover the details of the confusing part.

    Moreover, it incorrectly implies that Enterprise Services is Autonomy. The first hammer to fall in August was the write down of $8B for the acquisition of EDS --- NOT Autonomy. The November write down of $8.8B was for Autonomy.

    The only thing clear here is that HP had a mess of losses associated with Enterprise Services, and that the first hint that things were really hosed was when they identified EDS as the reason for the first $8B+ write down.

  22. Re:Work Force on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    imo, it has nothing to do with demand. The ill organization, of which there are now many - treat IT, its services, and infrastructure as a cost center. That means that when cuts are needed, IT is the first to get singled out as a burden that nobody wants. It's only till after the damage of this kind of thinking takes place, that the least dumb among them realizes what a big mistake it was.

    Treating IT as an integral part of a robust and growing organization - and salaries, satisfaction, productivity and success will be more prevalent.

  23. Re:Too late on Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    Imagine arguing with your significant other...

    And seeing an ad for a divorce lawyer.

  24. Who Owns Your Health Data? on Who Owns Your Health Data? · · Score: 1

    I do. I'd like to hear any argument suggesting that it is not mine.

  25. Re:You want lawsuits ... on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The City of Albuquerque recently cancelled its Red Light camera program after a vote resoundingly said to get rid of them.