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Comment Oh, bullshit ... (Score 4, Insightful) 308

Was he being investigated at the time he cleared his browser?

If not, this is retroactively constructing a legal charge out of thin air.

It's basically saying "you should have known you were guilty of thought crime and preserved the evidence in case we ever decided to come looking for you". Fuck that.

My god but law enforcement have become writers of fiction, and have completely given up on the law. They'll just make up any old shit these days.

Hey, FBI, I'm clearing my browser history right now. I'm doing it again. I'm even blocking cookies and ads, AND listening to music without paying additional royalties. I'm even going to fast forward through commercials.

Assholes.

Comment Re:Toomb (Score 1) 133

They forgot to me too any cool cachet.

LOL, I fear Microsoft will forever be best summarized with the "Hi, I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" commercials where Microsoft is in a shirt and tie and wants to run a spreadsheet. Always with the fscking spreadsheet. Hell, on my Windows machine I don't even have software for spreadsheets. Because I don't ever use spreadsheets. Or PowerPoint. At least no on my personal desktop.

I'm not sure Microsoft would know what the hell to do with "cool cachet".

Starting with the non-spreadsheet tools Apple introduced, Microsoft has never successfully implemented other things, and many of their "cool" things they bought.

So while Apple was creating things like iMovie and Facetime, and Google was giving us tablets with cool interfaces and a tight integration with all of their services ... Microsoft offers us appified versions of Office, and Bing.

Microsoft seems doomed to be constantly trying to get us access to Exchange and Office, even if many of us have no need for it.

In fact, I'm not sure there's a single thing in Windows 8.1 which I've said "wow, that's kind of neat". I've had to spend more time getting rid of the stuff they think is cool and innovative than admiring it.

I'll go one further ... I honestly don't think I can name a single innovation in either desktop computing or mobile computing in the last decade which I can either attribute to Microsoft or that I use.

For home use, Windows has become a platform to run other people's cool software.

But cool cachet? Don't make me laugh.

Comment Re:Google+ (Score 1) 100

"G+ is awesome. No friends use it..."

Aren't friends the whole point of social media?

Basically the definition of every word in your statement is ambiguous so I find that hard to answer.
What is a "Friend"
What do you mean by "Point"
and "Social media"?!?! Does anyone know what that means?

It's on the internet, there's text, he clicks buttons, it makes him smile. More power to him.

Comment Re:Hard-coded with Bing (Score 1) 133

Most users are lazy, indifferent, or unaware that they can change their search engine.

So, by the time most consumers get this in their hands, unless they know someone who is crusading against Bing, that's probably what it will always be.

The point is when the users get it, Bing will be the default, and through simple inertia/indifference, will likely stay that way.

Comment Re:Before everyone jumps on the "Hatez the microso (Score 1) 133

Sure ... but Google got their place in the market by putting out something people wanted.

Microsoft is coming to the party late, as usual, with their "me too" product.

I think for Microsoft to be saying they "expect" 1 billion devices by 2017 is going to prove to be way too damned optimistic.

Sure, this is the exact same thing as Google does with Android. But will anybody give a damn is the question.

A billion devices in two years is a LOT of devices.

Comment Re:No one cares (Score 1) 830

Third... and this can't be stressed enough... I feel like the metric advocates really don't get this... Americans don't care about joining a global standard. At all. Not even a little.

America has long counted on just being America, but those days are ending. Not only are sales of American cars slipping in China, for example, but we're about to get our first Chinese car here in the USA. The American automobile has already long since gone full-metric (except those things which have somehow remained stubbornly SAE, like spark plugs and most drain plugs, which still have square SAE holes in them) and it was only in part because the foreign parts are in metric; it's also because the foreign markets stopped buying stuff just because it had an American marque on it. They had to step up their game in many ways.

More and more metric fasteners, hose, and the like are available now because it's become more important. But what you'll see is that less and less SAE stuff will be available in the next couple decades because it will be less and less important. American products are now expected to change to suit a global market, and the global market is metric.

I predict that even building materials will eventually go metric; it will coincide with another reduction in material size. After all, a 2x4 already isn't 2x4, nor a 2x6 actually 2x6. I've lived in a house which was made out of real (rough-hewn) 2x6s, it was amazingly stout. Now houses are made out of sorry excuses for 2x4s...

Comment Re:Before everyone jumps on the "Hatez the microso (Score 3, Informative) 133

Before everyone jumps on this with their "Hatez the Microsoft" commentary, let me just point out that Android relies on exactly this kind of branding, except it's Google instead of Bing.

If I install AOSP and don't install gapps, then it really doesn't say Google anywhere. Ditto for Cyanogenmod. And if I install Firefox on Cyanogenmod then my default search is Yahoo (ugh.)

Comment Re:Sorry to see you modded troll there (Score 1) 203

Most elected officials get into politics to help people by enabling change. Unfortunately some lose their way and some are bound by promises made which end up casting a shadow over the work they accomplished.

And the higher you hope to go, the more corrupt you have to be, as a rule. Sometimes there are seeming promotions which lead to dead-ends, though, like how when they accidentally hire an intelligent cop they push him towards becoming a detective. Then he's not out on the street where he can make a positive difference in a bunch of people's lives.

I'm sure that some elected officials aren't clean but there are many that are even if you don't agree with their view of the future for our society.

If their view of the future is deliberately best for them, then it's by definition not clean.

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