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Comment Re:AGAIN, Sony? (Score 0) 491

by acalltoreason (#35072688) Attached to: New PS3 Firmware Contains Backdoor
Umm, you might want to check your facts...Netflix streams HD... Further, who needs physical media anymore, everyone is moving to the cloud, remind me again why we need blue ray? a boycott isnt practical because u cant watch some Spiderman movies. My God how old are you, 12? Of course it's practical. Its as easy as not buyin a PS3 and getting netflix...case closed source: I have Netflix and I am watching Eureka season 2 in HD right now

Comment Re:over 9000 (Score 0) 549

by acalltoreason (#35072558) Attached to: Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk

I don't buy the hunger issues claim. Having been to actual 3rd world countries and seen actual starvation, then coming back to the states and seeing that obesity is one of the major problems our underclass faces... I just don't buy it.

Yea, you may not get to eat the best tasting food every meal, and you may not get as much as you want, but nobody in the US who isn't a victim of neglect is starving.

That is possibly one of the most ignorant statements you can post. So let me get this straight, because there are obese people in the US, no one is struggling with hunger? I live about 5 minutes from a neighborhood of mansions, does this mean then that homelessness is not a problem? Further, we are not dicussing 3rd world countries, we are discussing the usefulness (or lack thereof) of a BAC analyzer. You are employing a common tactic used by the news media, Fox News in particular. You try and redirect the argument because you have no valid point to add. "...but nobody in the US who isn't a victim of neglect is starving" - the only thing I can say to that is Bullsh*t, did you even follow the link i provided? Or did you just get diarrhea of the keyboard? You, sir, are ignorant. I say that not as an insult but rather as a definition. To make definitive statements when discussing human behavior (yes eating is part of a humans behavior, try using Google) is one of the most ignorant mistakes you can make.

Comment over 9000 (Score 0) 549

by acalltoreason (#35050960) Attached to: Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk
Seriously, we need to stop holding peoples hands. Think about the number 9000..it is roughly .003% of the US population. Instead of spending all that money on a statistically useless product why not help the 49.1 million US residents living with hunger issues (http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html), or the 1 million people (min) in the US with cancer http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-026210.pdf. The point is that this does absolutely NOTHING to help anyone. So the in-car breathalyzer takes a few seconds...big deal. Its not worth waisting money on something so useless that .003% of the US would be affected by it. People die, that is the natural order of things, some earlier than others, you need to deal with it and move on. And before some ignoramus starts to whine about insensitivity because they lost someone to a drunk driving accident, everyone has problems and everyone has lost someone, you are in no way different from any other human on this planet, existentially speaking of course.

Comment oh right (Score 0) 215

by acalltoreason (#34294684) Attached to: Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design
I'm sure they are just trying to save face.

But Microsoft isn't taking kindly to the bounty offer. "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a company spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20021836-52.html#ixzz15sFk9V00 http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/176251/2000-Bounty-For-Open-Source-Xbox-Kinect-Drivers

Comment Re:Occam (Score 0) 498

by acalltoreason (#33765970) Attached to: Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes
Well I can't argue with someone who believes every conspiracy theory he or she hears. I am a Freemason, I bet you believe everything about them too. Most UFO (any object in the sky that cant be identified is a UFO) sightings are a result of X-series Air Force aircraft. X meaning experimental. Occam's Razor does not cut in the other direction. What is more plausible. Aliens are secretly monitoring us and blowing up our nukes? Or that someone, on Earth, has created and is testing an anti-nuke system.

Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 0) 498

by acalltoreason (#33673956) Attached to: Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes
Yes I am sure they have. All I was doing was making a point while in the middle of my class on the Sociology of Deviant Behavior so I apologize that it was not up to your high standards. But just a hint, when posting try not to sound like a pompous ass. Just for your information, I am a member of Mensa.

Comment Why? (Score 0, Interesting) 91

by acalltoreason (#33087142) Attached to: Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems
Why bother selling a box to and everyday user that has Solaris on it. WE run several Solaris servers at my job and they are a pain in the ass. Don't get me wrong, it is a nice OS, but its really hard to get used to and I just don't see a regular user getting used to it. They should go back to Ubuntu or Debian, at least those are somewhat intuitive. Then again, you need to have some proficiency with computers t use either Debian or Ubuntu and anyone with that proficiency would just install it themselves.

Comment Re:Racketeering (Score 0) 495

by acalltoreason (#32893556) Attached to: RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians
I agree, but the MAFIA at least had morals. All joking aside, the accounting yes, but their methods of extracting money from individuals, ie Tenebaum case (yes it is misspelled, !care), is racketeering. They say hey we are going to sue you for x, its going to cost you y to defend against it, but if you pay us z, we'll go away. It is an incredibly sad state of of affairs.

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