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Comment Anonymous is the Wrong Tool for the Job (Score 1) 509

Al Qaeda, ISIS and their ilk aren't centralized organizations and can't be easily doxxed, DDoS'd or fought in an electronic manner. Bear in mind that the average terrorist has a less than average IQ and a higher than average belief in religion with a strong tendency toward violence. Their use of computers is at the same level as your typical non-technical user: Facebook, twitter, chat and email. So while Anonymous might cause them some hassle, it will ultimately require putting a gun to these people's heads and pulling the trigger.

Comment Re:Nazi's run the USA & Intelligence Apparatus (Score 0) 303

Show me how the Nazis were ever about Socialism. You want a fact? Every Socialist country on Earth has a higher standard of living, better education, better health care and more vacation time than America And dipshits like you talk about it like that's a bad thing bagging groceries at Walmart for $7.00/hr.

Comment Remember Final Cut Pro X? (Score 2, Informative) 598

FTC took the Video Post community by storm, quickly gaining broad acceptance throughout the industry, knocking Premier off it's pedestal for desktop-class video editing software

Then they came out with Final Cut Pro X and when their users complained about the rampant bugs, overly simplified iMovie style interface and defeaturization, Apple told their user base to go fuck themselves -- as Apple is want to do and Premier went back to being on top again.

http://fortune.com/2011/06/22/...
https://discussions.apple.com/...

Anyway, far from being a learning moment for Apple -- this has been wholly adopted as their corporate ideology when it comes to their user apps. A lot of it is a focus on iOS and trying to make everything fall in line with iOS -- this was clear as early as 2007 when a trip to the Apple store had their laptop and desktop add-ons shunted to dusty corners while iPhone cases and accessories dominated the store. So this has beed a mentality years in the making based solely on spreadsheets of product sales and not user needs regarding user experience.

Even Woz wrote a rant (now pulled it seems) about ditching OS X in favor of Linux over the frustration of the mounting shit-pile of bugs and anoyances with OS X You can read comments about Woz' post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Comment Re:blu rays are cheaper than the movie (Score 1) 400

feeding the average Joe's need to think they themselves could be an action hero?

So the "Average Joe" is literate, well spoken, well coiffed, can travel the world while getting dirty work done? What world is this that you live in? I think Taken just appeals to the audience that enjoys Bond, Bourne and Mission Impossible movies. Sure, he's not a "covert agent", but he does all the same sort of stuff.

Comment Re:They're assholes. (Score 1, Insightful) 336

The real assholes here are MS and Sony for knowingly maintaining insecure networks even after Lizard Squad already took them down and publicly warned that it was but a taste of what was to come on Christmas. These ASSHOLES couldn't be bothered to conduct security audits or take any action at all to prevent the take down they knew was coming. Why? Because they are ASSHOLES and the industry has found that paying for security is far more expensive that letting the attackers do whatever. Sony, Target, Staples et a have seen first hand that it doesn't matter how much consumer info you give attackers, the consumers that were harmed will always come back and there is no punishment to be faced. Until Congress passes Federal Laws criminalizing maintaining known insecure networks that contain sensitive consumer data that either opens the gates for Class Action Suits and imposes substantial Legal Penalties, we wont see this behavior changed.

Comment Re:i didn't even bother to watch the second one (Score 2) 351

say...speaking of shitty fantasy trilogies i thought that shit with the blue aliens was supposed to be a trilogy? whatever happened? i guess the merchandising and bluray sales didn't really hit expectations for a new sci-fi property/brand?

We here at James Cameron Heavy Industries are happy to report that not only did international Blu-Ray® DVD sales meet market expectations, they totally and utterly surpassed them. As such, we've turned the planned Trilogy into a TETRALOGY! That's right -- not two more, but THREE MORE 3D IMAX EXPERIENCE movies featuring cutting edge CGI technology for you to spend every last hard earned dollar on tiny theatre seats and cold, greasy popcorn

Sadly, this embarrassment of riches has caused us to push back the production schedule a bit to accommodate HIS Lord Jim's latest round of ass-raping of the Terminator franchise and to allow for more production coordination with Disney to develop a world wide network of Avatar theme parks in disney properties world-wide.

Need to see it to believe it? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...

Comment A Crewed Version? (Score 1) 200

Considering that a surface mission is completely unfeasible and that they would effectively be little more than equipment operators, it seems the only benefit to a manned mission would be "less latency" in controlling the equipment vs drone style operators based here on Earth. Personally, aside from "bragging rights" for pulling off the first manned Venus Mission I do not see anything that could remotely justify the risk of life and massive financial costs a manned mission would incur.

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