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Comment Re:Security through obscurity (Score 1) 333

How are we supposed to know they're legitimate? Hell, how are we supposed to know that they actually killed him? No real evidence has been shown, never mind a body. A case built on "evidence" like presented so far would be laughed out of even a kangaroo court!

Are you suggesting uncle Sam has some kind of a Psychological Operations unit that tells lies to play with our believes?

Comment Same old, same old (Score 0) 310

The problem with G+ is that Google just copied Facebook, there is nothing new or interesting there.

You have a "profile", and you "post status updates", which your "friends" can "comment on" or "like".

No matter hot you look at it, if you remove the nice animations and colors you have the same system. The differences are not enough for people for switch.

Google needs to do something new and daring, and G+ isn't it.

I predict that there will be a Facebook-killer, but it will have to go where Google is afraid to go, it will be mostly a placeholder for content that you post where you want on the internet.

Comment Scientists? (Score 2, Interesting) 1367

The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"

With the same logic we can say that "shit" it not a polluant, and therefore we can dump it directly into lakes and rivers.

Comment Re:MS Taking Aggressive Steps Against MALWARE On A (Score 1) 675

There, fixed the title for you. This is a security feature. The funny thing is that this is exactly what Linux users have been asking for. They have been bitching about bad security of Windows, and now that Microsoft takes good and required steps to improve it, they start bitching how the security features lock out Linux. What about thinking before opening your mouth in the future? And why not bitch at Apple for locking down OS X and iPhone's too?

Users want "security features" that protect them from evil, not "security features" that protect evil from them.

Microsoft is scared that the shiny hardware that is required to run Windows will be bought and used to run (faster) with another OS. This has very little to do with protecting Users against anything but a lot to do with limiting user's options.

Comment Here is a true story from last Christmas (Score 2) 528

A guy in Europe was looking to buy a book about Cooking on Amazon. Buying the Paperback version was not an option because he wanted to use his book right now before his Christmas brake was over.

Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM. Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.

Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.

So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.

Does he feel bad about it? Yes he does feel for the author, that he probably not get any money for this sale, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.

Comment Here is a true story from last Christmas (Score 2) 528

A guy in Europe was looking to buy a book about Cooking on Amazon. Buying the Paperback version was not an option because he wanted to use his book right now before his Christmas brake was over.

Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM.
Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.

Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.

So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.

Does he feel bad about it? Yes, that the author did probably not get any money for this book, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.

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