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Comment Re:No IE6 support (Score 1) 408

Google has locked out thousands of businesses that have never upgraded browsers.

Bullshit.

I Just tried a search on Google, and it worked just fine. The "instant search" feature wasn't available, but it was in no way "locked out."

If IE6 was "locked out" of Google Search, then it wouldn't return any results at all. Not porting a new feature to an obsolete program is not "locked out".

Comment Re:So monopolies are ok so ling as they aren't MS? (Score 2, Informative) 295

Sorry man but you can't have it both ways.

Nice straw man you have there - he burns really well!

You can't say "It would be ok for Google to become a monopoly and throw their weight around as such, but not for MS."

Nobody is saying that - and as you so beautifully point out, Google isn't a monopoly. So trying to compare them to Microsoft is disingenuous at best.

Nice try though.

Comment Re:Once again Microsoft abandons innovation (Score 1) 295

Standard Oil used its dominant position to stifle its competition. Microsoft used its dominant market share in Windows to snuff out Netscape. I don't think anyone can doubt that Google could decimate a web-based business by demoting them in search rankings.

Assume for the moment that this statement is true (and I would argue that it is not.) Re-read that with the Sesame Street "One of these things is not like the others..." song playing in your head, then tell me why Google deserves to be under investigation again.

Comment Re:For the children (Score 1) 475

Many years ago I was working at a comic con, and our booth had helium balloons. Near the end of day 2, we were all getting bored, and started doing the helium voice to amuse ourselves.

Right after I took one big hit, I hear a woman's voice behind me.. I turn around and there is one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. Realizing I had the opportunity of a lifetime, I raised my eyebrows suggestively and said "Hey baby, you ever make it with a Keebler Elf?"

While it got a laugh from her, I didn't get her phone #. :)

Comment Re:Missing episodes (Score 2, Informative) 97

I realize that. However my criticism is about the time travel we *did* see on TV.

Curse of Peladon/Monster of Peladon were series 9 and 11 respectively. We see the Doctor (with Jo in "Curse" and Sarah in "Monster") when he first arrives on the Peladon and steps out of the Tardis.

Planet of the Spiders was Jon Pertwee's last series - we see the time travel actually happen.

So I'm not sure what you're on about. Perhaps you're responding to the wrong post? :)

Comment Re:Missing episodes (Score 1) 97

I created an account and tried twice to add a comment, but got an error. I'm unable to add notes or anything else to the spreadsheet.

So to answer your question - I certainly tried, but my post here will have to do.

Comment Missing episodes (Score 4, Informative) 97

I noticed that on the master sheet, he went from "Day of the Dinosaurs" to "Ark in Space" - missing the Jon Pertwee stories "Death to the Daleks", "The Monster of Peladon", "Planet of the Spiders", and the Tom Baker story "Robot"

I know he says that the master sheet only contains those which have time travel, but this is clearly false - "The Monster of Peladon" takes place a century after "The Curse of Peladon", which is also missing. Also, in "Planet of the Spiders", takes place both in the 1970s, and far in the future (he speaks with a civilization made up of the descendents of a wrecked Earth space ship.)

Comment Use an analogy. (Score 1) 1

This is the classic case of people brainwashed by media to believe that copyright is designed to reward creators, rather than to enrich the public domain. The only solution is to make them think.

From your story, they seem to understand where the source material came from.. so begin explain why creation of something shouldn't give you rights over it, like this:

"Suppose you were going to build a house. You bought a plot of land, and had building materials delivered. The day you go to start building, you find that someone had already used your materials and built a house on the land! Do you own it, or do they?"

When they give the expected answer of "I own it because the material and land is mine", respond with "then why is it that when Disney makes something from material belonging to others, *they* get to own it?"

Comment Re:Which "intellectual property"? (Score 1) 105

You seem to be under the impression that having the law on your side means that you won't be harassed by lawyers.

This is the sort of thing that EFF jumps all over.

And that makes the harassment worthwhile?

Just because you might be able to get your legal defense for free doesn't mean that the harassment from the FBI, being arrested, potentially losing your job, etc. is all OK.

Sorry, epic logic fail.

Comment Re:Is this really a trojan? (Score 1) 168

So yeah. But it hardly makes it not a trojan;

Of course it makes it not a trojan!

by definition trojans masquerade as legitimate apps

By that definition, all malware are trojans.

A trojan is something that has hidden and malicious functionality. You know, like the Trojan Horse.

As this is not hidden, it's not a trojan.

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