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  1. Re:Too fucking bad.. on Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh, there's lots of oil.

  2. Re:people on Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Never give malice the benefit of being mere incompetence.

  3. Re:Rocks Banned on Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    +1 Garage

  4. Regarding ) on Jimmy Wales Declares App Store Models a Threat · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's the first time getting called out by a Punctuation Godwin.

    Psst. How do you keep an AC in suspense?

    Bye!

  5. Re:Thought Police on Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents · · Score: 1

    "Do you like your pay cut? Do you? Do you? Here's a polygraph, never mind its legality. There ARE FOUR LIGHTS."

  6. Re:HTML5 on How To Get Around the Holes In IE9 Beta's Implementation of Canvas · · Score: 1

    But if you decide that "4 out of 6 Ain't Bad", and skip IE and your choice of one of the others, there might be as much as 5 years of dev time saved in the sense of practice and store code now, rather than waiting on a magical green light day.

  7. Re:Gotta say it on How To Get Around the Holes In IE9 Beta's Implementation of Canvas · · Score: 2

    They can't let go of their Incompatibility Paradigm that gave them lock-in for 7 years.

  8. Re:Google won this round... on Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty · · Score: 1

    He said office space. That includes the portion of the mortgage of that cube. At California rates, that adds up quick. Plus their welcome package includes a Google edition of the dvd for Office Space signed by Ron Livingston.

  9. Re:traditional on Jimmy Wales Declares App Store Models a Threat · · Score: 2

    I don't really think so - I am treating this as shareware 2.0. We saw 15 years of diffusion when everyone had to do their own marketing, now the App Mall just does Marketing by Aggregation. Apple caught on to the power of curating. Sure they get a bit heavy handed, but Users Like This.

    I'd say the difference is in the legal framework. I never even heard of the DMCA until about 2005, and suddenly by about 2007 everyone started invoking it left and right.

    If we're talking about App content vs Web Content, I think it's the battleground of Paid vs Ads. For $4, people don't have as much of the javascript / tracker silliness. (I have a couple of the privacy addons for Firefox, and some sites have 12 trackers! There's always a few stories about data leak from apps, but it can't be that bad.

  10. Re:Dual core smartphones on Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Key was Motorola's docking demonstrations at CES. Give it two years and everyone will be able to do it. Then you can park at for example a net cafe with a public monitor and plug in your phone and do some work, and a few games, then you keep your computing device (mostly) safely with you.

  11. Re:Funny on Microsoft Slams Google Over HTML5 Video Decision · · Score: 0

    to long did'nt read.

  12. Re:But it has the word "share" in its name! on RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations · · Score: 1

    Sh-Sh-Sh-Share Share the Share is the scare! The **AA loves to say that sharin' ain't fair.

    Did you hear the news? No? It was of a certain ... economical distribution variety.

    Sh-sh-Share Share, the Share is the Scare!

  13. Re:file names on RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations · · Score: 1

    NASA_Space_Sex.rar

  14. Re:A case for laws? on Pentagon Credit Union Database Compromised · · Score: 2

    Only if the infected laptop shared two Justin Bieber songs with the host machine. Then we'd see the correct penalalty.

  15. Re:Pound Foolish on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I agree with you.

    This is such a "mood piece". It's the classic power of multiples. Saving $36/month per person is peanuts. It reeks of an Elephant in the Room effect. It's the same kind of thing as skipping the jimmies off an ice cream sundae. Let them keep the phones, but then just look for an equal and opposite $40 million being spent on something silly. Or something.

    Actually, why not just make a film as a fundraiser? Don't films always clear $40 million in profits lately?

  16. Re:Heath Tragedy on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Oh my.

    Well, since I carefully put tags to indicate that it was all a joke, if you only think I'm faking that's a little worrisome! I mostly started doing the tag thing when the mods started missing some of my double-barreled jokes. There's new research though that there are other a-social continuum spreads than autism. I just took a try at a spelling-pedant / rain-man mash-up.

  17. Re:not enough on Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’ · · Score: 1

    Dieting is a matter of national security!

  18. Re:expensive CDs on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    It's the exclusive performance of Inxs from when they were overheard by the security camera when they were singing on their private plane while traveling to a concert.

  19. Re:Wow on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    (government)
    That's how it is, in a Post-2005-Rootkit World, the world will never be the same ever again.
    (/government)

  20. Re:not selling well on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    Maybe not exactly surprised, more dismayed. If something only has say 3 years "sales life" but the copyright on it lasts for some 90 years, that's dismaying.

  21. Re:WTF... on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    The bopycott is working!

  22. Re:Heath Tragedy on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    (Story)
    I got my vaccine last week too. Now all I want to do with my life, ever, is study Heath bars. Did you know that the word for toffee might come from a creole word? Anyway, my Heath bars are all nicely lined up, all 310 of them, because that is the temperature you have to heat molasses at to make toffee.

    I am also developing an encoding language based on the 3 dimensional position of the holes in aerated sponge toffee. I believe it has applications to the theory of data storage on 3d hard drives.

    Now what was that about the side effects of the vaccine again?
    (/Story)

  23. Re:only one on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 2

    "The Highlander Defense!"

  24. Re:Come on Sony! on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    What about Lawsuit Insurance? If it's not his money on the line, playing match the bankroll, he could just go his merry way and let Sony howl with werewolves.

  25. Re:supposedly private information ? on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 1

    Yes.