* Posts by Don Jefe

5059 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2011

Pirates not to blame for Big Media's sales plunge

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Re: Respect

I think Betty White makes cake mixes.

Arizona bill makes it illegal to 'annoy or offend' online

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Re: Where does Orlowski live?

They won't have to extradite him because this entire thread will be deleted as soon as he reads it.

LightSquared sheds a lonely tear as Sprint legs it

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Doom

The entire venture was doomed from the minute the GPS interference issue became irresolvable. They would have been better off saving their lobbying dollars and finding a real work around to the issue instead of just whining.

Top DARPA bomb boffin in explosive move to Google

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DARPA Churn

By and large DARPA employees and researchers are only there for very limited amounts of time; usually on a project basis. Management may last a little longer but not very often. Churn is build into their model in order to prevent stagnation and keep innovation high. Often the researchers start companies to produce what they designed while there. It's all part of the deal.

Embattled Foxconn raises wage slaves' salaries

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Stupid Comparison

Comparing the working conditions of a poor country to the expectations of a wealthier Western nation is stupid. People line up for blocks just to try and get any job Foxconn offers. If they were so bad then people wouldn't want them so much.

The suicide rate in China is fairly high anyway, and is pretty close, per capita, to that of the Foxconn suicides. No story there; Chinese people kill themselves a lot.

This whole smear campaign is a bunch of Western asshats who have too much time on there hands. I hope the price of their silly products doubles.

US govt security advice site trashed by hackers

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Online "Piracy"

Now don't get me wrong. Years ago I did my share of P2P downloading and did most certainly take content I wasn't paying for; but I do think that the filesharing crowd has been shrinking for years. Content has gotten so cheap that it is easier to buy it rather than steal it.

I think the 5% figure is probably fairly accurate. Only a few are still participating in "unauthorized" downloads of content. Losers who take more than they can ever watch/listen to. That's sad...

The recently proposed laws are stupid though.

Well, burn my atomic-clock-powered new human renaissance platform

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WKRP was one of the best shows ever and the turkey episode may have been the best>

Hollywood siren invented key phone tech TRUE

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Hedy Lammarr?

Wasn't that the name of a Mel Brooks character?

NASA mini-sat parachutes to a halt in space, prangs into atmos

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Purpose

The NanoSail-D has the far more nefarious purpose of eliminating the operating spacecraft of other countries. It illustrates the arrogance of my country that we view any other satellites as rubbish.