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Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 413

and there's numerological proof - the entire hoax is spelt out in encrypted text: take the ASCII value of first letter of the third word of every seventh paragraph of every page in the bible, and decrypt it with gpg.

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: decrypt_message failed: eof

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 372

it only serves to drive out existing residents and businesses

And. like the GP said, every neighbourhood changes over time. Some of the changes are not good for existing residents. Nothing special about buses or poverty or social involvement. ANY type of change may or may not suit existing residents.

Chose a barren area to live because you don't like trees? Suddenly landscape "improvement" project plants lots of trees in the area? Tough luck. Nothing illegal/immoral in planting trees, actually extraordinarily moral. Nothing illegal/immoral in transporting employees in buses, actually extraordinarily moral.

I wouldn't want to live somewhere without painters, musicians, chefs, doctors, poets, scientists, writers, actors, students, and even lawyers, politicians, and public servants.

So don't live in such areas. Good for you. But if they move away tomorrow, leaving all plumbers for your company? For some morally and legally justifiable reason? You could move again, accepting the situation. Or you could crib about how "unfair" it is to you since these worthies have left your city.

Comment Re:Intel and Nvidia must be retarded then. (Score 1) 526

Yes, Linux could have been one saviour of AMD. And how does AMD treat Linux? By crashy, poor performance drivers. Intel started merging into Linux codeline for haswell support a year before releasing the chip. AMD starts to provide reasonable open source drivers a year after releasing the chip, and it reaches Intel driver quality in maybe 5 years.

Power problems of 5 year old AMD chips have recently been fixed, with mixed results.

Comment Re:Your other arguments may be valid, but (1) is n (Score 1) 482

And there will be accounts which you will use rarely. E.g. when most of your finances are "automated" like they should be, logging on to banking website may be rare - say once a month. There could be some important email accounts which are used rarely.

A password used once, a month ago, is not very likely to be recalled easily.

Comment Re:I hope there's an easy social integration disab (Score 2) 365

While SeaMonkey is fine, I don't understand the javascript disabling disabling issue. There are 3 kinds of users:

1. Don't care or understand. For them, javascript always on is the only usable option.

2. Want to keep it always disabled for all websites. While lynx is better for them, I can understand why they might choose firefox instead. Such people can easily find the option in about:config, and since they will never change it again, occupying space in preferences for this doesn't make sense.

3. Want to customize when and for which websites javascript is enabled. Such users are extremely likely to use RequestPolicy and NoScript, and the "Enable Javascript" checkbox in firefox preferences earlier was JUST the WRONG solution for their problem.

4th, the mysterious kind of user : Want to globally enable and disable javascript frequently. I don't understand what purpose this serves. Could you elaborate?

Comment Re:Javascript is ON, period. (Score 1) 365

Will they understand when websites break because of a disabled javascript?

And would it be easy for them to follow the instructions given by the website to re-enable javascript? Assuming the website bothers to give specific instructions for their version of firefox in their firefox's language at all.

Comment Re:Sony, for example (Score 1) 234

Read "Made in Japan", by Akio Morita, one of the founders of Sony. Sony's corporate DNA is evil. He proudly declares Sony refused to get into price wars under his leadership, and has been, ever since. Dealers were prohibited from selling Sony devices for cheap when nobody wanted to buy them, to give people an illusion of "premium" device.

Price war is one of the prime ways for companies to create value in a capitalist society . A company refusing to do that is, by definition, evil.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 251

You don't download with iCloud. It syncs

Sync sometimes involves data coming towards a device. Educated people call it "download". When you move to second shill class, they might tell this to you.

It's implementation might be a background download in that case. But you are not downloading.

I never said "I" or "you" am or are downloading (explicitly). Read again.Even in the last post, I said "iCloud could download (the file) to the device". Download happens, as you now admit.

Your posts are worthless, so bye.

You've been proven wrong so many times, it is pitiful. Send your supervisor shill.

I know you shills just HAVE to come in - but this was extreme. While asking me to stop comparing iCloud to SD card -you are yourself comparing them. Hope they fire you soon - much better shills have been sent to Slashdot.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 251

As has been proven, it was YOU who had no clue iCloud could download to the device, you repeated it many times until I informed you. You seem to be a beginner shill - still being taught the "definition" of iCloud so you are fixated on definition.

And it was YOU who (continued to) compare SD card and iCloud by stating just one difference between them (have to wait! huh!)

And it is still YOU who does not understand the context of the thread - you replied to a reply of (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4011029&cid=44384797), which not only compared but equated, falsely, SD card and iCloud. Your reply was to a post made in that context - the false equality of SD card and iCloud.

And of course, quoting my next sentence would cause deduction from your shill salary as it amounts to confessing being idiotic, wrong and unable to follow simple discussions. So you didn't quote it, without affecting these traits of yourself, of course.

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