Comment: Re:First "Book" and now "Face"? (Score 1) 311
Technically, this means they own the term "fuckface"
Shouldn't that be "facefuck"?
Comment: Re:Encrypte Everything (Score 2, Informative) 286
Encryption is worthless when the government twists the arms of encryption providers to cough up a master encryption key.
The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have back doors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation’s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they’ve fought before.
FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors Is Déjà Vu for Security Experts
Comment: Re:Big brother loves you (Score 2, Funny) 286
Hush! They're about to bring on Osama bin Goldstein for the two minutes hate!
Comment: Re:The wave of the future: (Score 1) 119
Twitter and Walmart.
You heard it here first.
Twitmart?
Comment: Re:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Score 2, Interesting) 646
Hint: Look at murdering rates on countries with strict weaponry control, then contrast them to those in USA.
Nazi Germany: 5.9 million Jews, 2 million Soviet POWs, 1.8 million Poles, 1.5 million Gypsies, 250,000 disabled, 15,000 homosexuals. Wikipedia
Soviet Union under Stalin: ~20 million Wikipedia
Communist China under Mao: 45 million The Independent
It seems I have more to fear from government imposed gun control than from any thug on the street.
Mass murderers agree: Gun Control works
Comment: Trusty Gatekeepers? (Score 1) 440
And who might they be? Which corporate/government hacks am I supposed to trust with the security of my system?
Comment: Re:I use Google a lot but... (Score 1) 215
Google PR Flak: We at Google take you privacy seriously. That's why, after discovering that we had inadvertently collected 600+ GB worth of private citizens' data, we're doing the responsible thing, in this post 9/11 world, and turning the data over to the government for proper disposal.
Yep, nothing to see here. Move along!
Comment: Well, allow me to retort. (Score 1) 310
We could solve the H.264 debate if a country's legislature were to mandate that any patents that contribute to an industry-recognized standard were unenforceable in the application of that standard. Ideally, each standard would also be required to have a 'reference design' that could be used without further licensing.
MPEG-LA Attorney: Sir, do you mean to say that we could end this debate about H.264 if we could simply get the government to nullify patents for any privately developed technology when it becomes recognized by the industry as the standard and require the developer to make the design of this technology freely available to the industry, thus ensuring the industry is able to manufacture and use said technology without indemnification to the developer?
Disclaimer: Any Resemblance to Actual Events and/or Actual Persons, Living and/or Dead, is Purely Coincidental and has No Basis in Fact.
I'm just saying...
Comment: Re:Always look on the bright side of life (Score 1) 739
Imagine a marketing department deciding to remove a major bullet point from the sales brochure, does this really make sense if you want to sell something?
I almost spewed oatmeal (cinnamon and raisin, btw - yum yum yum!) all over my monitor laughing at this. Are you seriously going to contend that Linux support was a significant factor in helping customers decide to purchase a PS3?
Fanboi-itis knows no shame.
Comment: Re:I have only three words for the Slovaks (Score 1) 926
I never said it was a Slovak phrase. As I was taught Czech at the DLI, with only a smattering of Slovak at the end of the year, I thought I would stick with what I know - especially considering that Slovaks have no trouble understanding Czech (though the reverse is not always the case).