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Comment Re:Hypocrisy (Score 1, Insightful) 893

You can also leave here. It's okay. We won't mind. Some of us are not so naive as to believe that our position as a country is inherently given to us by the sheer desire to be a country. People have died and will continue to die in the name of the freedoms and liberties you so easily take for granted. I for one had no problem serving my country and I realized at a very young age that there will always be people who will take advantage of the circumstances around me.

Respect those who fought so that you could grudgingly be a citizen. Honor those who died for your ability to even write this post.

Comment I think the option missing.... (Score 1) 591

is to change the user. These days laptop supposedly means "indestructible, portable desktop with hours of battery life!" In reality laptops were never meant to replace desktops - that's what the desktop replacement line is for. Just because you call something a laptop doesn't mean a) it is, or b) you should use it on your lap.

Comment Re:More person, more cost. Fine. (Score 1) 587

I agree with you. There is something to be said about the here and now destination travel afforded by air travel, but there is just as much credibility in the idea of enjoying the journey that can be found in train travel. Obviously if you need to be there now, take a plane. Otherwise a train should not be discounted. That said, last time I looked in to Amtrak services, a couple of months ago, it would cost my wife more to take a train than a plane, which seems ridiculous to me.

Also, I like trains.

Comment Re:Why you shouldn't worry (Score 1) 216

" .. googleglass aka 'pedocam' "

It is people like you and comments like this that actually decrease the safety of children in this country. The overbearing belief that a device or a style can be linked to people who would commit a crime and that you can somehow use this to identify attackers is believed by way to many. Even a statement like this made in jest provides the wrong fodder to the wrong people.

Also, please show us where the idea that this device can be used any easier to spy on "the innocent" than can any spycam or camera phone on the market today. Troll arguments like the one you made make me wish more and more that AC comments weren't allowed.

Comment Re:That sounds like a neutral and unbiased summary (Score 5, Informative) 318

Hmm, his own bio on his page says "Stephen Fry once referred to him as a "cynical, ignorant [expletive]." Also from his Twitter feed, " /. is paying me and The Kernel is no longer trading." when asked if he should be publishing his articles on The Kernel. BTW, The Kernel is no longer trading because it's no longer a company. So in area of character, I'd say this one is definitely not neutral or unbiased.

As to his article, I can see why other publications like The Guardian considered The Kernel a gossip mag. There is not evidence or foundation in Milo's article. Only the ravings of a man who has shown himself to be firmly against all things big tech. I wouldn't do so far as to affiliate him with MS, I'm sure he hates them too. I will say that, while many people, readers and critics, have spoken of his aptitude with the english language, I found his article to be riddled with hyperbole ("company no one trusts" some of us have no quarrel with Google) and out-right ignorance (Glass is unofficially called Goggles? No.)

As his article appears to have been built to stimulate heated arguments with no enlightenment to be found in it's many words, I will say that he has at least succeeded in this, as I can not find anything else this article succeeds at or any other reason for it's existence. Also, I wouldn't call Milo a "tech journalist" anymore than I'd call a /. commenter a writer.

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