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Comment Re:It'll never happen (Score 1) 333

Not uninterested, cautious. If you were a form of highly advanced and evolved life, you will risk trying to directly contact a primitive, stupid and violent life form like us? They would wait until we mature enough to make possible a contact. And I honestly doubt they have not tried before and we confuse them with "gods"...

Comment Re:The tortoise lays on its back (Score 1) 534

"What's wrong with iTunes?", "you don't need to use iTunes if you don't need/want to" (really?), " MKV is not a popular format "

What the hell you smoked?? What's wrong with you?

For those who still have a functioning brain ... You see here in Dimeglio an obscenely clear example of the reality distortion field in action :-/

Comment Re:Status sells (Score 1) 534

Good question. My best guess so far is an very aggressive marketing campaign ("every computer in a movie is a Mac", remember?) combined with a device that, despite having a lower hardware to that of competitors, do the work that target audience wants. And perhaps the most important part, is charged as a luxury item in such a way that the public believes that only wealthy and successful people can have one, so anyone who wants to look wealthy and successful do anything to get one too.

Comment Re:The tortoise lays on its back (Score 1) 534

Just one from many possible examples: Try watching a movie in 1080p on the IPhone6. Without having to crop the image. And, the film uses the Matroska (MKV) container. Add on your "overall experience" the "delightful experience" that is dealing with iTunes... Between the touchwizard (which I can disable anytime I want and exchange it for something else) and deal with iTunes for everything (You're stuck with it, good luck), I prefer the touchwizard. And recall that this is just one example of many.

Comment Re:The tortoise lays on its back (Score 0) 534

Ahhh... The typical fanboy nonsense rebuttal. For the hardware part, see the specs from a recent Apple product and from one competitor. Not convinced? So check the specifications for this one. Still not convinced? Try this. The reality distortion field from the late Jobs only works on dumbass guys like you.

Comment Re:Hmmm ... (Score 1) 290

Unless the entire production chain involved to create the product you want to buy with bitcoins has also been paid with bitcoins, it will be virtually impossible to buy the product you want using the same 200 bitcoins for a long time. That is why I consider the bitcoin useless, its value in real currency varies way too much.

Comment Re:PCs are still awesome imo (Score 1) 130

I must admit I also build my computers largely for the fun of doing it and doing hardware experiments like any good mad scientist. And being able to build your own computer in my country in particular is very important, otherwise you become hostage to crooks who loves to sell shit as if it was a luxury item.

Comment Re:Application installers suck. (Score 1) 324

Full stop. Really.

A proper Windows installer is way, way better than the amateurish Linux "installers". But, real serious, pay attention to the subtle detail that the problem is not the installer idea, is who is making the installer. An installer works perfectly well when they have no one wanting to use it as "trojan horse" to fill your computer with trash, and if the developer of this installer decided to go rogue changing the way of installation will not magically solve the problem.

And more, the "click, click, click" have a good reason to be: Options. If your application has several installation options is perfectly normal to have several buttons "next", what the criminals who make these rogue bundles do is abuse this option to purposely try to trick you. It is not a failure of the idea itself, is a character flaw of who uses the idea.
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Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information 172

An anonymous reader writes Canada's new copyright notice-and-notice system has been in place for less than a week, but rights holders are already exploiting a loophole to send demands for payment citing false legal information. Earlier this week, a Canadian ISP forwarded to Michael Geist a sample notice it received from Rightscorp on behalf of BMG. The notice falsely warns that the recipient could be liable for up to $150,000 per infringement when the reality is that Canadian law caps liability for non-commercial infringement at $5,000 for all infringements. The notice also warns that the user's Internet service could be suspended, yet there is no such provision under Canadian law. In a nutshell, Rightscorp and BMG are using the notice-and-notice system to require ISPs to send threats and misstatements of Canadian law in an effort to extract payments based on unproven infringement allegations.

Comment Re:FTL communications? (Score 1) 109

Well, the idea is transmitting a message. If I understand correctly what you wrote, then the problem is that scientists do not have a method to assign a specific polarization to the entangled photon, I am correct? And if they can "read" the photon but still can not "write" on it, but someone finds the method of "writing" without interrupting the entlangment, then sending messages would be possible right?

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