* Posts by asdf

6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007

France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop

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hmm

So the question is is the French courts going to allow all the French middle men who offer very little value other than as a job agency continue to leech off the companies in order to have access to the French market? We shall see.

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not always

Not if they offered less than the stripped assets of the company would be worth but in this case more than likely they didn't offer enough to cover the debt this company has ran up.

Climate change behind extreme weather, says NASA

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too darn late

Its pretty obvious like almost everything else this complex ,nothing proactive will ever be done and in fact if anything ever is done it will be so reactive as to be too late for at least a few generations. Lets just hope this phenomenon is more like a passing cold instead of like VD or cancer which seldom get better on their own when ignored.

Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims

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wow just wow

Who in their right mind would buy any kit from this outfit? Oh that right they leave the purchasing decisions to the retards (mgmt & accounting).

Republican filibuster blocks Senate Cybersecurity bill

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Re: I completely agree, US Politicians are no better than two year olds that need a spanking

Sage, Danan keep rearranging those deck chairs.

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sigh

More proof here on the Titanic that is America they have gotten the populace to fight over the deck chairs while we sink. I am right, He is wrong, I will sit and pout until I get what I want. Sadly that not only describes my two year old but the US political system as well.

Oi, missile boffins! Stop ogling web filth at work - Pentagon

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a perfect example

This should serve as warning to the Republicans (both parties really) why spending money on defense as a job creator is a terrible idea.

RIM doses PlayBook with 4G super serum

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hmm

spoken as a true rube customer taken in as opposed to a RIM employee desperately praying their position doesn't get eliminated due to cash flow problems.

Higgs boson chasers: Now only 1-in-300 MILLION chance we're wrong

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Re: The chance of being killed by a shark...

no I don't add the jewish part due to racism but to accent just how ridiculous the whole thing is. Faith is for people with high EQ but a basic lack of science reasoning ability. Yes their are some but the majority of Nobel Prize winners were never dunked in a river.

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Re: The chance of being killed by a shark...

>How dare you criticize science. Don't you know it's the atheist's religion?

Yes the socially acceptable thing to worship is a 2000 yo Jewish zombie.

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Re: The chance of being killed by a shark...

Us pastafarian know that science is a dangerous trap. FSM Akbar.

Romney promises to announce VP choice via mobile app

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Re: context everything

never said he had a majority I was saying it would be stupid if Obama had 49 and Romney 48 with %3 undecided or something and that Obama has a big advantage on smartphone owners. The gap is significantly bigger but also surprisingly a large number of smart phone owners haven't decided. I guess they are waiting and hoping Romney cuts down on the gaffes.

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Re: Nobody

Even a mediocre candidate would make this an election a referendum on Obama's performance which given the current economic climate should make for an easy win. Sadly Mittens is such a weak candidate that he will end up pulling a Mondale and making this an election about his own unelectability the way things are going.

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context everything

Followed the article link given and the %49 (not even a majority) for Obama sounds better than the article lets on.

The takeaway from the survey, Velti notes, was that 49 per cent of the iPhone and Android-device owners would vote for incumbent Obama, while only 31 per cent said they would vote for challenger Romney.

Chinese student's smut obsession lands 2,000 in JAIL

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Re: @Vladimir Plouzhnikov

>So, watching gay porn will not make him gay unless he is gay

Its only gay if their balls touch right?

Zynga managers fingered in insider trading lawsuit

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Re: a fool and his money

#1 rule of investing don't invest in a company whose name sounds like Sheldon's (of Big Bang Theory fame) catch phrase.

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a fool and his money

Look at the name, look at the near non existent business model. More money than brains describes the majority of the investing public.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing

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based on

Based on past history with Pioneer and Voyager crushing life expectancy estimates and they way NASA funding gets cut (so have to make current hardware last) 25 years might even be a low estimate.

Jury selection delays start of Apple/Samsung patent showdown

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Coffee/keyboard

brill

you sir owe me a new keyboard.

'Ex climate sceptic' Muller's latest BEST stuff is the worst so far

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careful what you post

Digital stuff posted on the internet could exist loss-less forever with things like the wayback machine, archiving, etc. I bet a lot of people in the early 1950's in the South USA would not want some of the things they had written about race relations to be republished so keep in mind your grandkids might get to read what you had to say about this subject. That said lets hope the see I told you so gets to come from the human climate change deniers because with continued crop failures such as are happening now in the USA if the majority of scientists are right it will be quite the Pyrrhic victory to say see I was right on the other side with an empty belly.

Ex! interim! CEO! leaves! Yahoo! after! second! snub!

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sell those stock options asap

The option to purchase more stock unless incredibly discounted is worthless as the stock won't ever go above low 20's ever again. Still chuckle about that asshat Jerry Y turning down $33 a share. It might someday see that price again but only if they reverse split the stock several times which they may have to do in the next five years to keep from being delisted.

Neurotrash creativity 'expert' created Dylan quotes from thin air

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wow

What a crap hack and perfect example of how excellence in journalism like many other fields has became about more about generating revenue than the quality or integrity of the service/product. The TMZ and Jersey Shoreification of western civ continues unabated.

Forget 'climate convert' Muller: Here's the real warming blockbuster

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hmm

Actually the timing of this study is perfect. It is really important to get out in front of the problem of one of the worst droughts in living memory in the US before crop failure causes food prices to double and people start asking uncomfortable questions. The key is to turn the public's attention towards something else. Nothing to see here move on.

Ubisoft assassinates Uplay flaw, denies DRM rootkit

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Re: Plugin

And yes I know Xbox has DRM also but Sony is directly and indirectly responsible for funding and creating most of the DRM schemes out there. They are also the biggest proponent of it by far. Their media studio first f__k the customer attitude is much of the reason they have been in the red for over five years straight.

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Re: Plugin

Wow typical DRM then all it does is piss off the paying customers who don't always have a high level of geek tech ability to get rid of the annoyance. FAIL like all DRM eventually (hows that DRM working out for ya Sony now you are 1/5 the size of your heyday).

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Re: Plugin

not sure but probably means you can't play game if you remove the plugin. lame.

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confused

> an effective form of DRM

Yep by pwning your computer they could decide what you get to run or not.

Bradley Manning's lawyers seek to show 'cruel treatment'

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Re: And this has what to do with the actual secrets theft?

And as usual they punish the lowly turd on the bottom instead of all his superior officers whose dereliction of duty put him in position for this to happen. Just like the muslim Ft. Hood shooter military bureaucracy would rather shuffle warm bodies from post to post instead of actually dealing with its common personale problems.

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Re: @asdf And this has what to do with the actual secrets theft?

Keep believing the military wasn't making a statement on this. The sad thing is based on how Obama has handled whistle blowers in general the order probably came from higher up. Obama has been a giant disappointment in many ways but non bigger than his lack of transparency on many things.

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Re: And yet...

The cause is just but unfortunately the crusader is a giant douche. Luckily there are other much better sites to protect the free flow of embarrassing information that should not be classified willy nilly of how our public servants are screwing the public.

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Re: And this has what to do with the actual secrets theft?

>All the alleged "cruelty" happened after he had been arrested after the alleged theft

Yep with white people we can't water board them before we charge them in our kangaroo court.

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Re: And this has what to do with the actual secrets theft?

I agree as a person subject to the UCMJ he does not have rights a normal civilian has and so the case should be treated somewhat different than say the Pentagon papers case. Still treating a prisoner like this does nothing to help the governments case and does more damage overseas showing us like any other 3rd world repressive banana republic. In our justice system its supposed to be innocent until (broke?) proven guilty which he currently still is so he shouldn't be punished until after the conviction.

Jackson’s Hobbit becomes a trilogy

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Re: hmm

Wow I never realized how many people liked King Kong based on imdb, rotten tomatoes, etc reviews. NM guess I am in the minority then.

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hmm

Peter Jackson is a polarizing figure. Yes as director of LOTR he hit out of the park but remember he was the director of King Kong (groan) also.

Namibia unveils whopper Cherenkov telescope

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Re: Countries involved

Wow Namibia scored even lower on the Human Development Index than Syria (120 out of 187 countries). I guess they need something to help them get out of the rut.

@UnSteveDorkland Twitter satirist faces 4 charges in US court

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IPPA Computer: Welcome to the Identity Processsing Program of Uhmerica! Please insert your forearm into the forearm receptacle!

[Joe inserts his arm]

IPPA Computer: Thank you! Please speak your name as it appears on your current federal identity card, document G24L8!

Pvt. Joe Bowers: I'm not sure if...

IPPA Computer: You have entered the name "Not Sure." Is this correct, Not Sure?

Pvt. Joe Bowers: No, it's not correct...

IPPA Computer: Thank you! "Not" is correct. Is "Sure" correct?

Pvt. Joe Bowers: No, it's not, my name is Joe...

IPPA Computer: You have already confirmed your first name is "Not." Please confirm your last name, "Sure."

Pvt. Joe Bowers: My last name is not "Sure!"

IPPA Computer: Thank you, Not Sure!

Pvt. Joe Bowers: No, what I mean is my name is Joe...

IPPA Computer: Confirmation is complete. Please wait while I tattoo your new identity on your arm!

President Camacho: Now I understand everyone's shit's emotional right now. But I've got a 3 point plan that's going to fix EVERYTHING.

Congressman #1: Break it down, Camacho!

President Camacho: Number 1: We've got this guy Not Sure. Number 2: He's got a higher IQ than ANY MAN ALIVE. and Number 3: He's going to fix EVERYTHING.

Apple serves 3m Mountain Lions in four days

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f__k Apple

No official 10.8 release for Intel Mac Pro tower first and second generations is such bullshit. Performance is still great (if upgrade video card) but forced obsolescence for you. You have to spend the money and rebuy a computer every few years to stay in the cool club or else you are forced to follow complex steps to basically make yoru computer a hackintosh.

OAuth 2.0 standard editor quits, takes name off spec

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Re: re: the IETF will propose, but the market will decide.

> for years before anything resembling a coherent and finished draft appears - by which time vendors will simply argue over who gets to 'win' in terms of specific implementations regardless of what the finished draft says.

Wow so sounds like every other major networking protocol/technology then. v.90 anyone?

O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco

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O2 for the yanks

Think AT&T right after the iPhone launch for the network quality for O2.

Surface slab WILL rub our PC-making pals the wrong way – Microsoft

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Re: Hmm

And for the record I don't consider leaks of alpha quality software as being released.

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Hmm

My guess is three years from now WinRT will be as dead as sliverlight and or at best folded into another framework. As for the supposed platform convergence based on the fact the WP8 SDK is MIA so close to launch the next year and half are going to be a train wreck for Microsoft.

Hidden Grand Canyon-sized ICE-HOLE hastens Antarctic melt

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Re: Of course...

>I wonder why that wasn't mentioned?"

>It isn't true?

When has little things like facts ever slowed down the greed crowd? The vast majority of them worship a sky fairy and a zombie they call Jesus who they believe wants them to be rich.

Oops: Nokia reinstates 'terminated' star app developer

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ruh roh raggy

>He notes that a stable development kit and software interfaces are still missing in action.

Wow its really looking grim for Nokia then. For Microsoft they will be ah darn another failed platform/technology (WM, Kin, Silverlight) we will abandon and use as a tax write off to offset the billions that continue to roll in off Windows/Office. Nokia is learning why Sendo is no longer with us.

Sysadmins! There's no shame in using a mouse to delete files

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everyone knows

The only "sysadmins" not comfortable with the command line and scripting are mouth breathing window licker MCSEs praying to make it to retirement before Windows becomes irrelevant. Not all windows admins mind you. I have seen some doing some impressive stuff with the power shell.

PlayStation burnout probe: It's not the Vita, it's YOU, says Sony

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also

Lets all take a minute and salute the Vita for doing something it doesn't always do and that is selling more units worldwide last week than the PSP. Total sales to date for the Velveeta is now 2.5 million. Fail.