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Comment Re:Samsung, set sails for fail. (Score -1) 156

I can see it now, in the board of directors meeting "Apple is printing money with these at $500, I bet if we double the price, we can make twice as much money!!!"

Gee, I would hope they aren't that bad at math - even Apple doesn't make a hundred percent profit. Even with a 33% margin for Apple, Samsung would make 4 times as much as Apple assuming same production cost.

Talking of printing: how's native printing on Android doing?

Comment Re:Hmmmm... (Score -1) 152

That has got to ... be the worst Shatner ... impersonation ever.

Wow! Noone's going to see your Shatner impersonation if you're posting at -1.

Why don't you try to get more karma? It's not hard.

Gee, good to see you crawl back from under your bridge after not posting for 4 months. Busy handling your many accounts?

Comment Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes (Score -1) 390

Look, you called them iDevices. This already is justification to lump you into a sub-group of people known as Apple Enthusiasts.

That has got to be the dumbest thing said in this thread so far - and that is saying a lot. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idevice

iDevice

Any otherwise "normal" electrical device that is rendered uber-cool simply because it was manufactured by Apple and they put an "i" in front of it. Typically, they do nothing that other maker's devices don't do but they are more expensive. iDevices breed iDouches.

Time to lump you into the sub-group of people known as Anti-Apple-Douches.

Comment Re:First they laughed at me. (Score -1) 271

But those aren't all my songs though, I have a lot of songs I got from CDs, Amazon MP3, free downloads from bands, etc. On the other hand I can do the same thing through my phone and get -everything- faster, plus, on any halfway modern OS, you don't have to install anything.

And you move them from one computer to the other you use your phone with a USB cable instead of any form of network. You are my hero.

Comment Re:ew quicktime? (Score -1) 162

Quicktime does not properly use either ASLR or DEP. The application is at fault.

You have to "use properly" a security feature that is build into the OS for it not to break? Who is the fanboy here?

BTW, why will this bug only work with IE? Gee, maybe its a bug in Quicktime that does nothing if the browser uses ASLR or DEP properly?

Comment Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? (Score -1) 432

I'm a dreamer I envision a day when the truth is the only acceptable and legal form of advertising. Any time a company falls short of that they pay triple the profits they generated as damages and that goes into a public fund so that victims can make claims against it. In this current day and age I'd expect that fund to be worth a trillion dollars within a couple of years.

Ahh, so you want to drive all those phone companies out of business, who spend much more on advertising than Apple, and have ads where using their phone assembles huge crowds in seconds adoring you, or allow you to take the sun from the sky. Good idea.

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Submission + - The iPad Invades Corporate America (wsj.com)

pickens writes: The WSJ reports that when Apple's first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn't appropriate for the workplace but the iPad is a different story. "Everyone in IT is jumping on this one," says Ted Schadler, an analyst at Forrester Research. "Rather than wait for people to start complaining they're saying why don't we get a few of them in and see what they are good for." Companies have often imposed policies against consumer-oriented technologies—ranging from thumb drives to Web-based email accounts—because of worries that include keeping corporate data secure and other impact on internal computing systems. But Apple has addressed these and other issues, including the ability for companies to encrypt information on iPhones and set up secure ways for employees to connect to corporate networks. Another selling point is that the iPad starts up much more quickly than laptops and has a longer-lasting battery. "We don't get a lot of time in front of a customer," says Simon Woods, Bausch & Lomb's vice president of global technologies and applications.

Submission + - Mother wins MMR case (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: A mother from the UK has won her case claiming that the MMR vaccine severely retarded her child. The main factor in her winning the case was, as the panel put it, "the balance of probabilities". A doctor Michael Fitzpatrick said, "...although a causal link has been established in law in this instance, exhaustive scientific research has failed to establish any link between MMR and brain damage." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7970199/Mother-wins-MMR-payout-after-18-years.html) Since when did law trump exhaustive scientific research in scientific matters?

It's a shock that such a case has succeeded as, despite the mother's claims that she is not anti-vaccination and it has been stated in every article which prints the story that it does not confirm a link between MMR and autism, this will only fuel the anti-vaccination movement.

Does anyone else find this story slightly troubling?

Submission + - Gun buy back in Aust --stunning fall in suicides (smh.com.au) 6

Phurge writes: TEN years of suicide data after John Howard's decision to ban and then buy back 600,000 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns has had a stunning effect.

The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.

A former Australian Treasury economist, Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.

''I fully expected to find no effect at all,'' she told the Herald. ''That we found such a big effect and that it meshed with a range of other data was just shocking, completely unexpected.''

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