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Comment: Okay Senate Subcommittee (Score 1) 709

by jader3rd (#43781619) Attached to: Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds
If corporations are using the Tax Law in unintended ways, change the law. The rest of us can complain and moan about how the laws are broken. You can actually do something about it. Shaming somebody into not playing by the rules so well, ain't gonna work. If even you get Apple to bring over all of their revenue, and have it taxed without a single loophole/write off, the next corporation will just waltz in and exhibit the bad behavior that you don't like.

Comment: Re:Fuck. (Score 1) 414

by jader3rd (#43779013) Attached to: Google Drops XMPP Support

The IM world is dropping compatibility like flies. What are these companies trying to do?

They're trying to get you to use a client that they can show advertisements on. If you use a client that doesn't provide an ROI for them, why would they want offer up their electricity, spinning disks and the bandwidth of their service to you?

Comment: Re:Don't use HVAC? (Score 3, Insightful) 198

by jader3rd (#43765909) Attached to: Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs

Amazon just hires local surfs to peddle bicycles that power belt-driven fans. When a surf drops, they simply hustle them out and replace them with another. Communities are so glad to have such a huge employer, they look the other way...

Wouldn't those workers be replaced by labor cost saving robots?

Comment: Re:Cool! All we have to do is create code to math. (Score 1) 215

Who said that art and math are mutually exclusive, and why would you believe a person who said that? What part of playing back a video on Youtube do you think is not mathematics at work? Elaborate on your point.

That's kind of the point of patent\copyright laws; Math: not patentable, Art: is patentable.

Comment: Re:Slashdot is awesome (Score 1) 715

by jader3rd (#43740795) Attached to: Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8

Why doesn't Microsoft make their own "MicroTube" video website, with a download button, no advertising, in the free VP8 format,(maybe also stop threatening with patent lawsuits about that coded) and serve it for free (including oodles of cache space bought from Akamai)? Customers would flock to this, I'm sure.

You know, I don't think they would. Many users would feel it too uncool to visit a Microsoft property on the web.

Comment: Re:Sounds familiar... (Score 1) 715

by jader3rd (#43740675) Attached to: Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8

Wow. So Microsoft is mad because someone else won't give them details on a closed API?

I don't know if Microsoft is mad, this isn't a story about Microsoft filing a complaint and making a big huff. This is Microsoft putting forth enough effort to do something about it; mad, angry, happy, elated, sad, disgusted or any other emotion that they might be feeling.

You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want.

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