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  1. Re:Average Song on Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees · · Score: 1

    So don't buy average. Buy superior.

    I separate music into something like two classes. For the best of the Big Music companies, the song is worth more way than a dollar. I only really churn about 200 songs. I'd pay for those.

    Then for "misc music" go to the indie / netlabel side.

  2. Re:Never visit because of IT on Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records · · Score: 1

    There may be weird cases where you evaluate the only 4 network providers within 40 miles of you, and 3 have good IT and sloppy care, and the last one has good care and sloppy IT. Med is a weird profession, I'd grudgingly take the good care with bad IT in a pinch.

  3. Re:Private Lives on Steve Jobs Health Worries Escalate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except Mark Zuckerberg

    He deserves to have every facet of his life known and subjected to Liking or DisLiking.

  4. Re:Gaddafi, Khadafy, Qadhafi, Qathafi, Gadaafi on Libya Warns Against Use of Facebook · · Score: 1

    We need the legendary remixer of Ballmer's Developers to do a sequel.

    Gaddafi, Khadafy, Qadhafi, Qathafi, Gadaafi, Qadhdhafi!

    Come on!!

  5. Re:spent to align on Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why did they have to spend much at all?

    Microsoft: "Put Windows Phone on your handsets."
    Nokia: "We'd rather not..."
    Microsoft: "Sudo put Windows on your handsets."
    Nokia: "Okay."

    Costs:
    License rights to XKCD
    Buying Randall Munroe lunch and a free phone
    Replacing Ballmer's Chair

  6. Re:nothing more on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    You're getting close to the True Scotsman fallacy. Natural language processing of "questions" (despite Jeopardy's grammar inversion) is much closer to the original Turing Test family of AI tests.

    It was programmed to win. If you want it to "understand the nature of its errors" that will be an additional million but they'd do it for you if it were important enough.

    What does it have to do to be impressive? We're applying a special kind of jadedness to force a particular computer program to match wits with *the best* of human examples of a field, when your average human performs miserably, but we cling to he threads of general inelligence.

  7. Re:Misleading... on Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You seem to think things forbidden by the constitution can't be done.

  8. Re:how long befor some calms a IP rights to part o on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    What about people writing custom literature in their DNA?

  9. Re:so who won? on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 2

    Libre.

    (Because Oracle is showing their evil ways, so go Libre and try to deal with the downsides, which appear to be minimal.)

  10. Re:"Anonymous" is here on Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA · · Score: 1

    Actually I'd like to call upon my betters at math, because I'm getting the sense that there are relations to set theory, game theory, etc. Places to look:
    How do you know someone is in Anonymous? *How do you prove you are not?*

  11. Re:Vandalized? on Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice tidbit.

    So a "security company" is afraid of a sign?

    I'd sooner place my bets they're in the Long Con to paint "Anonymous" (there can be only one, right?) as a Threat. Then everyone in power profits when draconian measures come along.

  12. Re:Talk to your boss on Clinton Calls For "Ground Rules" Protecting Internet · · Score: 1

    Story over in three comments.
    (No kill switch, no Patriot Act, no **AA.)

    However, this is just another political Go stone. One stone does not affect a whole policy.

  13. Re:Back and Forth with Google on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    I got the xkcd reference.

    You're right, there's a whole class of sites that have some trick to borrow a search term and inject it into their results, creating one of the most irritating types of bad matches. (Think "no, you can't possibly be selling purple wumpii".)

  14. Re:Problem on Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're really on to something. Take it up a concept class.
    "Those of us who study (Airport) security and take steps to use our (Airport) systems responsibly don't want to be burdened by all of these requirements intended for those who don't. I'm sorry that a few bad people defraud others of their (Flight Safety), but the minimum requirements for any proposed solution include not punishing those who are doing things correctly by imposing such intrusive measures."

    One of the best descriptions of the TSA problem I've ever seen!

  15. Re:middle managers on R-Rating Sunk BioShock Movie Plans · · Score: 1

    I propose a movie about a middle manager who gets captured and experimented on! Excise his overactive caution brain centers!

  16. Re:Scroll Down on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    Actually there's lost productivity always scrolling past the same crappy results and for the jittery types including me, a tiny bit of stress at looking at them.

  17. Re:Farm! on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    Can we get this to apply to Farmville? : )

  18. Re:Back and Forth with Google on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    I had an exchange with Google a little while ago via here. I was starting to feel like Search was becoming like a chess computer without randomization. It doesn't matter if "Google's results *overall* are expert grade" if specific most natural searches feel like they are wasting those precious top-ten slots. My favorite one was the word "advanced". To me that means Advanced (adjective/adverb) ______ Stuff. However a couple of companies did some brilliant SEO and got into the top 5. If I keep chipping away at the nuisance items, it will force more interesting results (informational, to me) to bubble up.

  19. Re:Wrapper on Intel Committed To MeeGo Despite Nokia Defection · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Define dumb". Consumers seem to be enjoying the shiny restrictions on choice lately in mobile op systems.

  20. Re:Reverse Identity Problem on How Your Username May Betray You · · Score: 2

    Sure, if some jerk has it out for you and you get stuck in one of these nets you'll never escape.

    Big Picture, we're thrashing through a ton of social change with this here Net thingie.

  21. Re:Pretty sure on How Your Username May Betray You · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Uh... on How Your Username May Betray You · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed at the histrionics here too. I'm not l33t enough to triple-route honeypot links shielded by a clandestine shadow router batched through a clandestine ISP installed behind the volcano damaged area of Monserrat and hooked through 7 false-positive generating mirrored proxies. (Your pointy headed bs may vary.) So I settled for a simple two level shield enough to stop the worst spam which has worked well enough for 7 years.

    But having a single net identity also lets fans follow my "net brand" across services. For the next x years that's more valuable than the farther-back risk of ad tracking. I am pretty tame. I garner I have under ten rated-R posts across a thousand on the brand.

    But 12-ish years from now (+/- 3 or something) we'll all be at Minority Report anyway and once that level kicks in you'll never get rid of it.

  23. Re:Thwarted on How To Crash the Internet · · Score: 1

    I'll ask you since you're only of only a few people posting real info. Maybe the attack could be thwarted, but would someone get a nasty bill for damages? an acquaintance told me that they were afraid to host their small web service because someone DDOSed an entire data center, who promptly passed the blame for damages incurred. So forget the big sites, do we have an answer to random DDOS attacks all over the net, jsay 3 steps below the BGP level?

  24. Re:Image on How To Crash the Internet · · Score: 1

    There's also one with people in cars floating in a flood. So trashing the net now creates floods. Neat.

  25. Re:I do the same thing. on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I'm Magnet Mayhem. Your cut rate insurance may not cover you. Are you in good hands?