Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 419
On the other hand, Viacom wasn't all in the clear either.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/18/2059236/Google-Slams-Viacom-For-Secret-YouTube-Uploads
Comment: See Texas (Score 1) 143
> One doubts that a bona fide medical textbook of paediatric medicine would ever be judged indecent.
One doubts that a regular, scientific textbook that describes the theory of evolution would ever be judged controversial. In 2010.
Comment: Re:how about all of them? (Score 4, Insightful) 469
And still posting their biggest profit while the economy is crumbling around us.
Seems like their marketing department is the best product they have... it's working fine indeed.
Comment: Re:Answer (Score 1) 65
The biggest drawback of that is that Time Machine only works when you are logged out. Also, the "galaxy" interface does not work, but I consider that less of an issue.
The entire point of Time Machine is that it makes hourly incremental backups as you work. Logging out every hour as a penalty for wanting an encrypted home folder is not very seamless.
Comment: Corporate Translation Services 2000 (Score 1) 209
Translating:
"Fuck you. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Fuck your mother, your father, your dog and your cat. Fuck your house. Fuck your job. Fuck your car, fuck your computer, fuck your gaming habit. Fuck you for buying our games. We hate you and we feel superior to you in every way conceivable. Also, we don't trust you.
Because, you know, we felt that was better for you guys all around."
Comment: Re:Author's deserve to be paid! (Score 1) 473
How is that different from the status quo?
Comment: Re:Absolutely! (Score 3, Interesting) 473
How many writers still sell their books more than 14 years after they're first published?
Comment: Re:Meta-diagnoses (Score 1) 818
Same thing with the anti-depressants which are distributed like candy. Of course now that we've begun to call mental illness a "disease" it works great for the pharmaceutical companies to sell their crap. Medication for a disease, right. But mostly it's just a wrecked mental state, how can you call that disease?
How are you, Tom Cruise?
Comment: Re:In the words of the great Ken Titus... (Score 1) 818
It may be a cultural difference, but in the Netherlands, a great cycling nation, (seriously: http://images.google.nl/images?q=amsterdam%20bikes) pretty much no-one wears a helmet. The only people I see wearing helmets are the racing bikers (but by no means all of them) and some soccer moms.
You can take that for what it's worth.
Comment: Re:Ignorant (Score 1) 209
> The writer of this sloppy piece did a quick dash and look, almost willfully avoiding putting in the most minimal effort it would take to really find out what's there
He "lived inside SL" for a week, albeit three years ago. You can hardly call that a quick dash and look.