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  1. Re:Pixelated on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Charge per pixel!

    "Vanna, can I buy yellow?"

  2. Re:Beginning of the end? on Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO · · Score: 1

    "Larry to the front, Sergey and Eric to the back"

    Is that Business for Mullet?

  3. Re:Beginning of the end? on Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO · · Score: 1

    Can we turn safesearch off now?

  4. Re:Chair on Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO · · Score: 1

    Could that be enough to pull Grand Rapid into a position of leadership to rescue Michigan from Yahoo News in the "Worst State" articles?

  5. Re:Someone who RTFA on Cybercriminals Shifting Focus To Non-Windows OSes · · Score: 1

    Scam includes schemes with dishonest elements. My best example for you is the one a few stories back about hackers embedding code into job interview resumes. The results differ depending on the OS "targetted". If you are running Xfce on Slackware with ultra custom mods derived from the Species 8472 from Star Trek scriptwriter manuals, you'll laugh at malware.

    If you're a typical overworked cube dweller running Win2000 you'll get hosed.

  6. SuperPatent on Are Google's Patents Too Weak To Protect Android? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These articles bother me. Google called a couple of colleagues and asked "Hey, how many patents you got?" They got the answers back, and still decided "No problem. Let's go make a mobile OS."

    One month's work by a Chief Strategist has already dealt with this ages ago. These articles are like stones chewing up open spots on the bloGOsphere. Just put an article down, and now it's there. Some combination of them "decides" the "mood of the consumers".

    Articles speculating about someone sinking Android are trying to block the key points in a Life-Or-Death problem for Google. They're trying to create negative self fulfilling prophecies.

  7. Re:Bit on The Companies Who Support Censoring the Internet · · Score: 1

    This bit supports Net Neutrality.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbBqPkdheFg

  8. Re:Status Bar on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    P.S. You can sometimes have made other settings that prevent Status4Evar working. I had to go into View - Toolbars - Customize- Restore Default Set to get it all working again.

  9. Re:Status Bar on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    Actually I had gotten that far, but oddly, it doesn't show the links from the add-on manager screen.

    But thanks for enticing me to look at it once more.

  10. Re:About time really.... on Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone' · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of people!

    Feature!

    "Choose your own flavor of getting sued!

    You are in violation of Apple rights. Please choose the form of delivery.
    ED-209
    MCP - back in dev, not seen in Tron 2.0
    Christopher Walken
    Jack Nicholson"

  11. Re:Firefox just doesn't have enough developers on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    We need a FF Ninja unit, to go after edge cases and long standing bugs and all the stuff that makes for a lot of "blog noise". Fund it, say with $100k per year, 5 devs working at "half-gratuity" - treat it like a stipend that keeps raw expenses paid.

    It would trigger off whatever is generating snarky articles but is easy to fix.

  12. Re:Why does badmouthing Firefox sell pageviews? on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 2

    The development notes say they are trying hard to crank down the bugs.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2011-01-18

    we have fixed 90 hard blockers since the last code freeze

    beta10 proposal: code freeze this Friday to get coverage on 90+ hard blockers fixed since b9

  13. Re:In the spirit of more "freedom" for their users on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    They already do - it's the whole addons land. You seem to be suggesting that instead of every addon being single, to have a couple of Mega-Addons. You have a "Stripped" release, then 50 options in your Mega Addon with a compact toggle interface.

    Then we all add on Mega, and then toggle on and off if we want noscript or not, adblock or not, status bar or not, AwesomeBar or not, etc.

  14. Re:Status Bar on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm a fan of the status bar, and I already tried the addon mentioned elsewhere and it didn't work for me. (Not sure if it's clashing with a theme I installed.)

    But where are all the netbook users screaming for their extra half inch of vertical space? That was why the status bar was taken out - someone saw all the wasted right hand space in the address bar and started wondering.

  15. Re:Sweden on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    If they don't watch out they could end up in a Gunther video.

  16. Re:Raaargh on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    Be careful. Someone might have a copyright on that spelling of Raaargh. The Gaelic version might be available though.

    GaelicZilla!

  17. Re:Cop on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    Right, that's the big problem with that rather aggressive video about "don't talk to the cops". If you beeline right for the formalities the cop will get pissed and cite you for something. From what I've seen they wait until they have a backup excuse in hand before pulling you over.

  18. Re:hell froze over on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    It thawed enough for sharks to swim in the streets! Or is that RIAA execs?

  19. Re:Why was it ever relevant? on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 2

    Because in the Olde World they could have their slathering hordes drooling in anticipation and rage.

    Now that we are DoItYourself, if they want to play all "high tower" that's why people began to tell them to push off.

  20. Re:I patented the use of letter "E" on line $0.02 on 30% More Patents Issued in 2010 · · Score: 1

    Okay!

    Look up Gadsby - I cannot show a Wiki Link without a incurring a cost to you.

    Look up Lipogrammatic.

  21. Re:About time really.... on Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can't imagine how it lasted more than a week without RSJ's quiet approval. Either it somehow suited Apple's master plan, or just amused RSJ.

    If it didn't pass muster, about 4 hours into it the mag would have gotten a call. "Hi. This is Su Emharder from Apple Legal. We're Apple. We don't do fakes. Neither do you. You have twelve minutes to post a retraction on your site."

  22. Re:go on Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit · · Score: 2

    We know the DMCA is a wreck. You as a nice guy are promoting a deep PoliSci position as their main motivation.

    Unfortunately, it only takes a team of about 5 people in the right places to swipe the precedent that is being generated here, lock it in tight, and then ride the implications all the way to power & money galore. Then when whoever you are proposing has a change of heart, the power players beat him to it with an apparatus that cannot be undone anymore. Think of the TSA adventures.

    Think of it again. Any law firm anywhere in the US can sue any internet poster anywhere in the US. Every single lawsuit will ruin someone's year. And whoever was going to agree that it was all absurd will get buried in a trumped charge and ran out of power to help. Then the rest of the sharks will enjoy a nice dinner.

  23. Re:Well. on Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit · · Score: 3, Informative

    It happens here all the time. A key reason is when there is something about the original article that feels offensive. Paywalls, Olde School attempts at control, and 12 pages for a 2000 word article.

  24. Re:scary on EC Tests Show Windows Vista Is Above Average — At Blocking Content · · Score: 1

    We both agree on "developing the skills". Let's say there's two entirely different classes of skills. One skill level is much like muscle memory. It's that Tyrrany of Choice problem, which a child is less equipped to handle. He needs raw time just to sign on to KidMessenger and just chatter without every session being monitored by BigParents.

    Then a couple of years later, say age 12, they get to peek at the Grownup Internet which STILL has KidMessenger, and a lot of L33t stuff ... and a lot of sharks. So then they can have a Lesson on Skills Using the Adult Net. Then they can go back to their nice cozy Kid System for another week.

    When they finally get "Parental Say So" to the Adult Net, they'll have had time to process risk evaluating clicks.

  25. Re:How about the ... on GE Venture Will Share Jet Technology With China · · Score: 1

    Engine Analogies!

    The Japanese went like a regular-gas engine. They ran through the whole improvement cycle faster, let's say within 40 years. But they're reaching their limits.

    China is like the electric engine. Much slower to really get rolling, lots of startup bumps. But watch out, once they slam that gearshift into 5th it will be all over.