Comment Re:WTF is with the Japnese? Why such a high percen (Score 1) 104
I don't care if I get down modded for life, this made me lol.
Comment Re:Unconstitutional in WA state without a warrant (Score 1) 264
Mark my words, your state constitution will be changed or overruled shortly. ;)
Comment Re:It's all fun and games until the NSA gets invol (Score 1) 264
I fail to see why police video footage being used to help the NSA track a person of interest is a bad thing? Sounds like the most valid example of proper resource use I've heard in a while....
Comment Re:Innovation? (Score 1) 264
Back when I fixed computers for the public I used to see a lot of badly organized iTunes libraries. Part of the problem was duff data from Gracenote/CDDB or whatever provider they use. Double albums and compilations were the most problematic, since apparently at the time no-one could agree on a format for tagging those. If course if you bought your music from Apple it was okay, but most people had lots of CDs to rip. Apparently most users didn't know how to fix the problems either.
iTunes was fine if you used it for everything - ripping, buying and syncing. If you wanted to do any of those things with another app though...
... you had to do EVERY FUCKING THING YOURSELF. Which is obviously what you want because you are anal - but smarter people use a program like iTunes for that.
I giggle every time I see an apple purist claiming that they are "smarter" people. I'm sorry, itunes is horrible.
Comment Re:Welp (Score 1) 121
What kind of butter knife are you using that A) fits into the socket and B) has an extra prong to complete the circuit? Although, now that I think about it perhaps your analogy is correct in the sense that the virus is essentially harmless...
Comment Re:Not this time, Sony (Score 2, Interesting) 294
Considering I'm usually anti DRM anything, I'm surprisingly ok with Steam DRM. Steam itself is fast, convenient and I've never had the DRM get in the way of me playing a game when I wanted to. They maintain my collection of purchased games which I can re-download without hassle as needed. -- After struggling in the past to find old CD keys and media this is the main reason I love Steam. Your mileage may vary, and I don't care. ;)
Comment Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (Score 1) 387
THIS.. made me laugh. If I had mod points they'd be yours right now. =P
Comment Re:Is this really... (Score 1) 104
But after you post on the same article, all your mod points to others go bye bye... ;)
Comment Re:Physical Access (Score 1) 201
By default most Android phones don't do anything by default but charge until you select a connection option. Go play with one, you might like it. :)
Comment Re:Humble (Score 2) 67
I second this, The Cave is awesome.
Comment Re:Physical Access (Score 1) 201
Apple malware... it just works! :) I'm so sad my Android phone lacks this plug and play capability, hopefully Google can hurry up and copy them.
Submission + - HTC unlocks bootloader for all of its devices (htcdev.com)
An anonymous reader writes: HTCDEV annouced today "HTC is committed to listening to users and delivering customer satisfaction. We plan on releasing the updates that will allow you to unlock your bootloader in the coming months." However they do note this, "It is our responsibility to caution you that not all claims resulting or caused by or from the unlocking of the bootloader may be covered under warranty" and this "We strongly suggest that you do not unlock the bootloader unless you are confident that you understand the risks involved." This looks like a new year gift to some.
Submission + - Ron Paul's Record Almost Perfectly Supports Ideals (washingtonpost.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Republican presidential candidate (and beloved of many Slashdot readers) Representative Ron Paul has been in Congress for nearly 22 years. The Washington Post's Fact Checker finds that in that time, his voting record is nearly 100% in line with his libertarian, constitutionalist ideology. Congressional Quarterly noted in 1999 that Paul cast the lone `no’ vote in the U.S. House nearly twice as many times as all other members combined. And in 2011, Paul voted with his party only 73% of the time, compared to the 92% alignment displayed by "maverick" Sen. John McCain. In all, the article finds a singular inconsistency between Paul's voting record and his rhetoric... a vote which he reversed after the bill was amended. Regardless of your views of Paul, can you think of any other presidential candidate any time in history who has actually been able to match his actions to his words?
Submission + - Google+ Removing Pictures Giving The Finger (techcrunch.com) 1
SharkLaser writes: It turns out that Google has started to remove Google+ pictures that have persons giving the middle finger in it. "Our policy page states, 'Your Profile Picture cannot include mature or offensive content.' Your profile photo was taken down as a violation of this policy". Google+ is supposed to be universal social network, "identity service" and allow sharing like in real life and be a public venue for free expressions. Since the middle finger is so culturally-specific issue, will Google+ also start to remove things like showing the palms of your hands to people (considered insult in Greece), showing soles of your shoes (insult in Middle East), patting someones head (insult in Buddhist countries)? A good number of Google+ users have started to change their profile picture to include the middle finger to show support to MG Siegler, who got his profile picture removed by Google.
Submission + - Belgium Expands Blocks On The Pirate Bay (activepolitic.com) 1
bs0d3 writes: The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF), has been threatening ISPs into expanding their blockade of thepiratebay. Recently they have been sending threatening letters to various additional ISPs who were not involved with the original judgment to block thepiratebay. The letter "kindly requests" that all ISPs voluntarily block thepiratebay or BAF will bring legal action against them. The ISP "BASE" has succumb to these legal threats. Also many of the same Belgian ISPs have taken it one step further and also blocked the dns for depiraatbaai.be. depiraatbaai.be was setup by thepiratebay as an alternative domain which directs users to the piratebay's servers to circumvent dns type censorship. For those who can't wait for The Pirate Bay to set up new alternative domains, a full working mirror of the site still exists at malaysiabay.org, which was originally set up to circumvent the piratebay block in Malaysia.
