Comment: Re:Still no microSD? (Score 1) 297
+ - Valve reduces noise on Steam Greenlight service while raising money for charity->
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Comment: Re:Are you serious? (Score 3, Insightful) 357
Comment: Is this actually due to more indecents of autism? (Score 5, Interesting) 398
Or are we changing how we mesure it? How we define "autism"? Maybe it's because autism is more acceptable, and doesn't require someone to be locked in a basement until a group of 1980s teens decide that they need to find a treasure in order to save their housing development.
All kidding aside, I'd be interested to know how much the autism scale has changed over the years. I realize that highly functioning people with autism still count as having autism, but was that always the case?
Comment: Re:Finding a phone (Score 3, Informative) 222
Comment: It's never been about network performance (Score 2) 138
If it had been, people would have noticed significant slowdown. I'm afraid that people confuse "spotty service in dense areas" and "too much bandwidth being used". They don't realize that in a lot of cases, they wouldn't be able to use their phone to talk when they're running into data problems. AT&T has been capitalizing on this, and making quite the pretty penny.
I don't know why anyone wouldn't expect this out of them. It's basically free money, and it panders to an uneducated user base through letting them think that they'll save money, and that they'll still be able to blame others when there's a problem.
Comment: This is brilliant (Score 0) 182
Comment: I just... (Score 5, Insightful) 332
There's just so much wrong with this... it's amazing...
- They're locking users out of game they have paid for
- They're unable to move a set of servers without preventing downtime for customer facing attributes
- They're completely oblivious to the reasons why these are bad things
It just leaves me completely flabbergasted. I can't imagine this entire process coming to this point without someone, somewhere in the decision process saying "Who gives a shit what they think? Just do whatever's cheapest right now"
Comment: Re:And FF10 also makes addons compatible by defaul (Score 5, Insightful) 364
FF11 will remove the UAC prompt on Windows, which will be a further improvement in 6 weeks from now.
That actually missed FF11, and is slated for FF12.
Comment: Honestly (Score 0) 208
Comment: Re:Some people don't need this (Score 1) 321
+ - Megaupload shut down, founders charged with piracy->
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Comment: Congresspeople doing favors for donors (Score 5, Insightful) 237
Color me shocked.
This will never change until lobbying and donations on a corporate scale are either severely limited or outright made illegal and enforced with harsh punishment. However, since it would be Congress that would need to change those laws, it's never going to happen.
Who watches the watchers, fox guard the henhouse, etc.
+ - Google Takes Own Medicine->
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