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Comment Re:NOT a good read - deceptive and typical (Score 2) 920

by eyecorporations (#37891024) Attached to: The White House Responds To We the People Petition

According to the first illustration Mr. Yellow puts in a full $153.84 worth of work and then has taxes taken out, but Mr. Purple only works hard enough to earn his $65 after tax? You can't have it both ways. Either they both put in the pre-tax value of work or they both put in the post-tax value of work.

Comment Re:Critical mass (Score 1) 519

by eyecorporations (#37665846) Attached to: Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users

Truth. Only one of my friends has completely ditched Facebook to move to G+, and he works for Google. Nobody else can be bothered to move since we are so entrenched in Facebook, and Facebook really isn't as bad as people try and make it out to be. When the big migration from Myspace to Facebook happened it was because Myspace was already terrible and getting worse.
Idle

Submission + - 30 Creative 404 Error Pages (flashuser.net) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It’s frustrating sometimes when you explore the web and encount the famous message 404 Error – Page Not Found. I’m pretty sure that after 1 seconds or 2 if there’s nothing that will grab your attention, you’ll leave the page and never come back. So it’s good to take in consideration customizing the 404 page and prevent the users leaving your website.
Idle

Submission + - San Francisco Considers Ban on All Pet Sales

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The LA Times reports that the Humane Pet Acquisition Proposal is on its way to the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, the California city named for the patron saint of animals, that would ban the sale of dogs and cats, birds and hamsters, guppies, gobies, gouramies, glowlight tetras, and German blue rams — in fact, any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers — unless you plan to eat it. Representatives of the $45-billion to $50-billion-a-year pet industry call the San Francisco proposal "by far the most radical ban we've seen" nationwide and argue that it would force small operators to close. Animal activists say it will save small but important lives, along with taxpayer money, and end needless suffering. "From Descartes on up, in the Western mindset, fish and other nonhuman animals don't have feelings, they don't have emotions, we can do whatever we want to them," says Philip Gerrie, coauthor of the proposal. "If we considered them living beings, we would deal with them differently. "People buy small animals all the time as an impulse buy, don't know what they're getting into, and the animals end up at the shelter and often are euthanized," adds commission Chairwoman Sally Stephens. "That's what we'd like to stop." But studies by UC Davis and the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy have shown that only a small fraction of shelter animals were purchased at pet stores and people who buy animals at pet stores are just as committed, emotionally and financially, to caring for their pets as people who procure pets elsewhere. "This is an anti-pet proposal from people who oppose the keeping of pets," says Michael Maddox, general counsel for the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. "If their goal is to ban the ownership of pets entirely, then this is a good first step.""
The Military

Submission + - Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning (npr.org) 1

Submitted by TechkNighT_1337
TechkNighT_1337 writes: The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.

That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.

Comment Re:Let's see Florian Muller spin this ... (Score 1) 154

by eyecorporations (#36541716) Attached to: USPTO Rejects Many of Oracle's Android Claims
I applaud you for at least attempting to RTFA. But you didn't read it well enough.

In the three cases where an office action has issued the stats are 66 claims, 16 claims not subject to reexam, 50 claims subject to reexam, 46 claims rejected, and 20 claims surviving

20 claims surviving out of 66 is more like 30%.
Mozilla

Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon 448

Posted by kdawson from the with-their-consent-of-course dept.
ZosX writes "Around 11:45 PM Friday night, I was prompted by Firefox that it had disabled the addons that Microsoft has been including with .NET — specifically, the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation. The popup announcing this said that the 'following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox.' Thanks, Mozilla team, for hitting the kill switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner." Here's the Mozilla security blog entry announcing the block, which Mozilla implemented via its blocklisting mechanism.

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