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Comment Re:Don't worry Citizens! (Score 1) 748

Apparently there isn't any need for saving. I found these gold nuggets in the press release:

The U.S. wireless industry is one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world and will remain so after this deal. The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world where a large majority of consumers can choose from five or more wireless providers in their local market. ...

The competitiveness of the market has directly benefited consumers. A 2010 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) states the overall average price (adjusted for inflation) for wireless services declined 50 percent from 1999 to 2009, during a period which saw five major wireless mergers.

Comment Re:This doesn't mean much (Score 1) 607

from TFA: "...it would then move to the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority. The Senate is unlikely to pass the resolution."

TFA hasn't been paying attention the last couple of years. There will be a pretend fight, then the Republicans will state that they will hold up everything unless they get their will, and then it will pass.

Comment Consider this submission (Score 1) 290

NickstaDB writes

"From the CNN article: 'From 25 May, US laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies". These files are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. Businesses are being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies.'"

And then consider how different the reactions and comments would be.

Comment Re:Another drive by hit piece (Score 2, Insightful) 962

As in, there is no room for debate, it has been decided, any contrary view is automatically wrong.

But from a scientific point of view it has been decided:

* There is compelling evidence for rapid climate change.
* With 90% probability we caused most of it.

I don't know what it will take to convince you, but if an approval by NASA isn't good enough, I don't know what will be.

Comment Re:Climate change (Score 2) 962

What wasn't been definitively established is to what extent this change is due to the activities of man versus to what extent it is due to the Earth's natural cycles and was going to happen anyway.

Nonsense. See section "The role of human activity" here:

"90 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years."

Comment Re:executive summary of approaches (Score 1) 797

Windows: focus groups, study users, never get it quite brilliant but basically give people what they want.

What!? Who asked for the Ribbon or Clippy? Who asked for the Control Panel being completely changed every version since NT (getting progressively worse IMO)? Who asked for being spammed with User Account Control windows at every turn?

Gnome: WE DID COMP SCI IN COLLAGE AND HURD OF DON NORMAN THIS MAEKS US EXPURTS ON UI DESIGN. WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE OR TRACK RECORD BUT U WANT WAT WE WANT. WE WANT TO MAKE A NAME 4 OURSELVES PLS ACCEPT ONE OF OUR IDEAS PLS!!!

Yeah, pretty much dead on :)

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