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Comment Re:Don't get one. (Score 1) 277

Actually I am French so thank you for noticing, of which, I'm quite proud of. As for knowing Japanese look down on me? Why yes I do know this, but there are bonuses among this kind of drawback. Making the smallest of attempts to assmiliate is almost treated as unheared of in Japan. This is the same place one of the most genuine people I know used to be a neighbor. Yet, he lived there for over seven years, and could barely mutter basic phrases. It's something I run into more often than not.

It is a country of in-group, out-group where each group is just part of an onion. Those who can't? Well, they can hang out with all the other awkward ex-pats for all I care. They all leave after a few years anyways after it loses it's novelty. Getting freaked out, and wanting to gobble up GC's that are much better used elsewhere however is just plain stupid regardless.

Comment Re:Safari browser exploits (Score 1) 370

Yeah, you can, however people won't configure UAC to ask for passwords. The war on that kind of thing has been lost ages ago with Windows users. Not to mention, to run all the legacy crap Windows users want almost always wants escalated privelages. Hell, Skype for instance wants elevated privelages, and it's a current day app. OSX? Theres a model devs either follow, or watch user's complain when their software asks for rights it has zero buisness requesting. Putting an app doesn't need admin access, installing files outside of the regular App-space? Yes, it's my one big gripe with MS-Office & Adobe CS on OSX. Both were coded in the Windows mentality which is a giant heap of crap.

Comment Call me coldhearted... (Score 1) 210

But really, this kid got what he deserves. This kind of stuff goes on in China all the damn time. On the upside, the kid didn't have his organs harvested when he was in a labor camp. He at least got paid a bit of money, and has something to show for it. The only reason this made any kind of Western headlines is because he wanted an Apple widget. If organ harvesting was feasable back when America was up & coming, you can bet the same crap would have gone on. Instead? We just snatched people of different color from their homelands, and forced them to work for barely enough to eat. This kind of stuff will hopefully fall by the wayside more as more people in China see more stories like this. Which sadly, due to the media cencorship in China will make things rather difficult. They have little exposure about this kind of stuff that it's incredibly stupid to do, and they need more stories about this kind of thing so others are less inclined to make such stupid mistakes.

Simple kind of scenario when you were growing up. Did you learn that something was dangerous when your parents told you it was a bad idea, or did you learn when you watched Timmy or Sally down the street do that exact thing, and get injured? One gets hurt, the whole neighborhood learns a valuable lesson.

Comment Re:Sounds like (Score 1) 1229

Funny thing is that GM crops have been found to be fertilizing here & there. Scenario goes: neighbor does GM crops, then next year they GM companies lawyers are pounding on your door saying you'r crops have GM genes in them. Destroy them or pay up. It's really effing stupid. Nature finds a way. Especially when you try to control it on such a large scale. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if this was something helping to kill of bees.

Comment Re:Safari browser exploits (Score 1) 370

Yeah, since like Windows 7 it's not integrated into Windows in the sense it can be "uninstalled" but not really. Yet it still has a ton of privelages even in 7 it has zero buisness having. Safari is just another dumb application as far as OSX is considered. Any exploit to try to get something running outside of it's box is still going to have to interact with the OS, and throw a flag up like asking for the local machine username & password. Worst someone might get in 7 is a UAC prompt which people will outright disable because it's annoying. Everything before 7? Yeah, theres a reason I've had, and still have a large number of infected XP, Vista, and 7 machines to work on that keep me quite busy.

Comment Re:Don't get one. (Score 0) 277

Exactly, and the family has never owned a Geiger Counter so they have no clue what to do with one. Alpha radiation as a good example is very poorly picked up by a GC. Which even if it is, those clicks don't diferenciate. I'm just glad the real tools that CAN differenciate are far outside this familie's reach because they don't have a clue. Wanna know the simple way to avoid the majority of radiation in food? Cut leafy greens and milk out. Just about everything else is not nearly as susseptible to picking up radiation. Of which, the highest levels found are straight up laughable, yet got entire plantations of crops destroyed. I truly love the stupidity of foreigners in Japan. It's why I rarely ever bother to make friends with any in Japan. They rarely bother to learn the most rudimentary Japanese (my last neighbor, lived there 7 years, and could barely count to 10), act like the country is a playground, and "I" end up getting looked at like I'm responsible when they are being douchebags in public, and I happen to be unfortionate enough to be around them.

Hell, don't let this group of simpletons around bannanas with a GC. They'll never eat them again!

Comment Re:Don't get one. (Score 3, Insightful) 277

No, not really, Geiger Counters are honestly something not meant for public use. If their family is that freaked out about the radiation, and don't trust the government, they need to jump ship like all the other weird foreigners that panic instead of being selfish and gobbling up the supply of Geiger Counters officials could be snatching up. Unless they are getting food that was raised next to the reactors, the dosage is going to be laughable. They'll get more radiation on their flight back to the states than from any ammount of cumulative food they are going to eat. Morons the whole lot of them.

Comment Re:Safari browser exploits (Score 1) 370

People use Safari on the Mac? I haven't used Safari on any of my Mac machines in YEARS. Last time I've used Safari was to download Firefox or Chrome. Not to mention, Safari isn't integrated into the OS like IE, so the attack isn't going to get you nearly as much. The user will still end up being prompted to enter their password if anything tries to cross that threshold. That kind of thing sets off a MUCH bigger bell in someone's head than "click yes to get awesome ringtones". Next straw man please!

Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 231

And when developers MAKE a game worth 50-60 I'll happily pay it. Problem is, most make a game worth 30-40, and then release the DLC a month later that makes it worth 50-60. I end up waiting until it's on some stupid Steam sale usually for 10-15 because of this.

Comment Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score 1) 191

Honestly, this guy, and really, NOBODY has any buisness attempting to be a PUBLIC figure for Anonymous. It's in the NAME! Allot of the disention likely stems from him wanting to be a vapid attention seeking whore. It's best he steps down, and no one else attempt to be some figurehead. Anonymous is best off sticking to the whims of the masses. This is more like Anon getting back to buisness of doing things for the "lulz". And no, I do not identify with them, or say I am not with them. This is the nature of where this group springs from.

Remeber, Anonymous does not forgive.

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