Comment Re:Patent trolls suck but.... (Score 1) 255
Thank you!
Comment Re:Patent trolls suck but.... (Score 0) 255
Wow, did MS get sold a bunch of mod points?
Comment Re:Patent trolls suck but.... (Score 0) 255
It's schadenfreude....if it makes Windows 8 harder to sell, then MS makes less money on it and might not force this bullshit on us all.
Comment Re:Patent trolls suck but.... (Score -1, Troll) 255
Who cares about bloat? Win 8 is a scheme against open computing, against consumer choice. It has a goddamn app store, for fucks sake.
Comment Patent trolls suck but.... (Score -1, Troll) 255
I'm in favor of anything that harms Windows 8.
Submission + - Why mature games are the future of gaming (and the app stores are killing it) (tech-no-media.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The one thing that annoys me the most with the new fashion of Apple and Microsoft mandating the use of their app stores on mobile and tablet platforms is the idiotic restriction on mature or adult content.
Well, you know what? The vast majority of gamers, smartphone and tablet owners are adults!
Well, you know what? The vast majority of gamers, smartphone and tablet owners are adults!
Submission + - EFF: Ubuntu v12.10 A Major Privacy Problem (eff.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu version 10.12 was released and it includes a whole range of new features and updates. However, EFF demands that Ubuntu should disable "online search results" by default. Users should be able to install Ubuntu and immediately start using it without having to worry about leaking search queries or sending potentially private information to third party companies such as Amazon, BBC, Facebook, and Twitter. Let us make sure that you respect your users' privacy and security.
Submission + - House GOP Voted To Cut Disaster Relief In Order To Preserve Military Spending (thinkprogress.org)
dishorely040 writes: As part of their bill to void the military spending cuts included in the Budget Control Act — which was passed as a result of 2011?s GOP inspired debt ceiling standoff — House Republicans proposed eliminating a program that helps states and localities respond to disasters like hurricanes.
Comment Miranda? (Score 1) 848
Miranda has nothing to do with this, it guarantees the rights of the defendant/accused, not the victim, and that's how it should be.
Comment Re:Um...you're doing it wrong. All of it. (Score 1) 503
And @ the "censor everything!" "use a limited account" people, no reason to do that. It's your kids computer, let him use it.
Comment Um...you're doing it wrong. All of it. (Score 2) 503
A couple problems with what you're doing:
1. Games on a Lenovo?! Lenovo is Chinese for 'shitty laptop company' Their computers are for business, not gaming.
2. Norton? Norton's a scam. Just use Microsoft Security Essentials. Even if you get a virus, who cares? Worst case, reformat, start over.
It's not so complicated.
Comment Keyword-Cyber (Score 1) 190
When some says "cyber", it means they are confused and frightened about technology, and should not, under any circumstances, be taken seriously on the subject.
Comment "All drugs are sedatives" (Score 2) 196
There is an interesting misconception that all psychotropic drugs have sedative effects or make the user more submissive. That's not true. Antipsychotics are sedating, the older typical antipsychotics more so than the newer ones. However, stimulants are the opposite of sedatives. Antidepressants aren't sedatives. Most psychotropic drugs aren't sedatives.
Comment Academic performance lacks intrinsic value (Score 1) 196
I think the major problem here is the inflated role of academic performance. Our society drains the individual of value and reduces him to pieces of paper. What we need is to change society, such that people are judged on their individual merits and not on academic performance.
Reform the educational system, provide alternate routes to good employment. Shutdown the school-prison pipeline.
Comment Bulldozer sucked, the PC is good. (Score 0) 286
They should fire the 'geniuses' who came up with Bulldozer. It was so far behind the i7s, what did they expect?
I strongly object to everyone saying AMD should just make ARM processors. As a desktop users who is an avid flight simmer and graphic artist, I value the high performance desktop PC. Although most of the computer industry has decided to follow the lead of Apple and develop dumbed-down, week, simplistic products, shafting power users like me, they are wrong and the future is not well served by regression in technology
I'm 18, so I'm not cliinging to the past. I simply object to the dumbing down of anything
