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Comment Re:This should be criminal, not civil (Score 1) 197

Not that AT&T is taking possession of the stolen property, but they are receiving service payments because of the stolen property.

So I pull into a gas station with my stolen car. Is the gas station aiding and abetting or receiving stolen property? Even if I tell them, hey, look at this cool car I just stole?

This is the key part. If you tell someone that you obtained something illegally, they are under obligation not to profit from that. The guilt isn't just by walking by. It is by the combination of profiting from illegaly activity, and KNOWINGLY doing so.

AT&T claim they didn't know is their defense. It is also bull shit. They have databases of all their phones, and customers. That is how they know the phone is authorized on their network, and that the user owes them money for the text messages, voice and 3/4g data that goes along their network. Each phone has an account status activated/deactivated etc. You are telling me that "stolen" couldn't be added to this list? JOKE

Comment Re:Great, sometimes (Score 1) 168

VirtualBox has a 'seemless mode' for gnome/kde integration.
The only performance cost I've hit with VMs is if you don't have the ram, there is no real CPU performance hit.
I love win when it works, but that usually requires you to run it against software made for win 2000/XP unless it is popular enough for people to get fixes submitted upsteam (WoW)

Comment Re:You're not allowed to hate in America (Score 1) 890

Insightful? The liberals I know love passing nanny laws to remove people's rights. "because it would be better/safer/nicer/more fair/moral" that way. They would love to make guns illegal (no proven reason, they just don't like them). They would love to make saying offensive racists words illegal. Both of these are conversations I had with registered democrats, and lifetime do good liberals with in the last 2 months. And both of them would violate parts of the constitution.

Comment Re:two suggestions (Score 4, Insightful) 402

I hate to break it to you but the FULL AUTO ZOMG setting will make your pictures look just as horrible as a cell phone.

I disagree, ...strongly

DSLR has a larger sensor and gets in more light. This will let you take pictures of things you simply can't take pictures of with a cell phone camera:
    Things moving faster than a snail
    Things not in a perfectly lit room

For taking pictures at dawn/dusk, to action shots of your kids&friends just playing around, simply: size of the sensor, decent optics will tear apart your cellphone.

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