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    What Tim Cook Will Say To Congress On Taxes

    Maybe they should read the parable of the rich man and the poor woman in the Bible (LMFAO if they did). It was Jesus asking about who gave more - the rich man who gave a large sum or the poor woman who gave her last penny? Apple makes tons has has a lot left over. Most of don't make that...
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    Guess Where You Are On This Map

    Didn't Mr. Drysdale work at the Commerce Bank on the Beverley Hillbillies?
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    Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones

    If Apple can decrypt these phones so relatively easily, it makes you wonder how good their encryption is. I thought the purpose of encrypting a device was that it waoul dtake an enormous amount of time for ANYONE to do it. If that is the case shouldn't Microsoft or any disk encryption software...
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    Windows 8 Has Driven Millions To Become Apple Users

    first we keep hearing the PC is dead due to smart phones and tablets plus corporations and individuals arekeeping PCs longer - the economy is still teetering and if your fiances are shaky, and your computer still does what you need it to, are you goin gto change? finally i thought the rule of...
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    More People Watch Netflix Than Cable

    Well because we don't have net neutrality in this country - ther ei snothing to stop the cable companies who are ISPs from throttling back Netfix to make the cable alternatives more attractive
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    Google Won't Have the Stomach To Expand Google Fiber

    Exactly why they won't go competitive - the other ISPs can start slowing down access to YouTube or other Google sites because they can - we don't have net neutrality so the existing ISPs just have to say - you come into our territory, we block part of the way you make money
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    IGDA Sets New Rules For Future Industry Parties

    No throw in 2 Mormons How do you keep a Mormon from drinking all yuor beer on a fishing trip - invite a second Mormon
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    The PS4 Is Like A Really Perfect Gaming PC

    Sony - we'll give you features and then when some one figures a "bad" use for them, we'll take them away - Remember when the PS3 could run Linux?
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    Violent Imagery Doesn't Trigger Aggressive Behavior

    But won't a race game trigger some aggression too as you try to beat the other players or computer? Plus if you have seen some NASCAR highlights there is fighting and aggression between the drivers - maybe they need to pick another game to try this with - like one that rewards you for finding...
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    Apple Sued for Patent Infringement

    apple sued - must be a slow news day
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    Internet Tax Proposal Up For Vote This Week

    Your argument has one little problem. The tax was called a sales tax - however it is really a purchase tax - you are supposed to pay a tax on what you purchase. They just make it easier to collect by making th ebusinesses do it. I guess we are just really lucky that states do not say - show...
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    Internet Tax Proposal Up For Vote This Week

    Probably just for businesses that need a thng right this minute and waiting a day or two will cost them more that $100. If you are lucky and live in a place like Phx, you can get same day deleivery on some items for under $7
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    Internet Tax Proposal Up For Vote This Week

    the elephants are the ones pushing it - at least here in AZ.
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    Internet Tax Proposal Up For Vote This Week

    The reason the stores you mention do collectthe tax is that they have B&M stores in every state and they have to charge the tax already. It is places like Amazon and their affiliats who do not have B&M stores that they are going after. The real reason this is a problem is that it is called a...
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    Apple Says The App Store Is Not a Monopoly

    What was unmentioned is that if you buy an app through the "iStore" you are locked into the "iStore" forever for that app. If you buy a magazine reader app and then go to the author's web site, you cannot buy a magazine there. You have to buy it from the "iStore". That is Apple's rules and...
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    Judge That Forced Apple To Apologize Now Works For Samsung

    They shoul not be too surprised, the judge that ruled for themin the US used to work for a firm that did Apple's legal work. If they complain, say "Pot meet Kettle"
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    Internet Advertisers Kill Text-Based CAPTCHA

    OK, you work in a cubicle farm and you have to play sounds? We'll see who has headphones all the time now
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    Expert Says Many Broadband Meters Are Inaccurate

    I guess that would be true - plus I live in a heavily GOP state and businesses are always right and people/consumers are in the wrong because businesses will always do what's right
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    3-D Portraits Made Using Only A Person’s DNA?

    I have body fluids she could extract from me BTW, the her sites all seem to have malicious malware associated with thm
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    Apple Applies For Image-Based Authentication Patent

    Sounds like flash cards you'd teach little kids about animals Or math flash cards - show an image of an equation and give the answer
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    Apple Applies For Image-Based Authentication Patent

    I was going to say it sounds sort of like facial recognition or fingerprint or optical scanning: Put in key and turn, place hand on surface, see if image of your hand matches dsatabase, if it does you get in
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    Stupid Criminal Of The Day

    I must be a great guy, since I always tip my waitress
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    Expert Says Many Broadband Meters Are Inaccurate

    Well, this sounds like if they are going to use these tools, they had better be accurate - states make sure scales and gas pumps are accurate and if they are bad, they are taken out of use. If they start going in the favor of the ISP, you should complain the the Dept. of Weights in Measures in...
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    Patent Troll Gets A Win In Court

    Let me get this straight - the companies bought equipment from from Motorola, Cisco, etc and they were being asked for royalties for the patents? Hmmm, if this is OK, then Apple will be losing out big time since Samsung has the patents for 4G LTE
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    Over The Top Apple Product Placement

    I also love how in every movie every one is using a Mac computer/laptop. No one ever uses a Windows computer
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    Music Industry Wants Cash Instead of ISP Disconnections

    they probably read the reports that said that downloaders buy more than average and if you cut off the downloaders, then there goes a source of revenue for them
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    Lego Accused of Cultural Insensitivity with Star Wars Set

    Hey, sounds like the US with the Christian Right doesn't it?
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    Antigua Could Hit U.S. with Copyright-Free Downloads

    Isn't Antigua where yu buy CloneCD, CloneDVD, etc. from since they got kicked out of the EU?
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    Commercial Telephone and Television Satellite Ban is Lifted

    Now Haliburton call sell them to the Iranians for their nuclear power plants
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    Sony Patent Could Stop You From Playing Used Games

    Just like the ads that say you own a movie - you don't, you own a license to view the movie
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    Sony Patent Could Stop You From Playing Used Games

    They'll find a way around it - they do not hire good lawyers for no reason. Maybe they will say that you are buying it from Japan and First Sale doctrine does not apply
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    UK Games Market Down 17.4% In 2012

    Isn't Europe supposedly in a recession - maybe people prefer food, clothing, housing, heat, water, and power over games
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    Google's Schmidt To Visit North Korea

    You think labor costs in China and India are cheap, just wait until you see the North Korean prices
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    Ubuntu Smartphones Coming This Year

    Celio had the Redfly device for this Windows Mobile a few years ago - had one, worked great - they promised a way to use it with Android, but it never came out
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    Ubuntu Smartphones Coming This Year

    Only those who love less than HD TV resolution to work, slow networks, lags in response to user inputs, and slower processors
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    Ubuntu Smartphones Coming This Year

    I want to see how Excel spreadsheets will work on cell phones LOL, especially big massive spreadsheets. Or weather forecasts or nuclear simulations
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    Apple’s False Advertising Claim Against Amazon Dismissed

    I'm waiting for their suit over iOS. I've worked in training systems for years and we always had an Instructor Operating Station around - IOS. Lets see Apple prove they coined iOS.
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    Everyone In US Under Virtual Surveillance

    Right, isn't that what the iPhone is for?
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    iTunes Launch Shows Porno Sites

    genius of the day goes to the guy who registered the domain xxx.xxx
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    Verizon Files For Patent On Eavesdropping DVR

    Just wait untl the ads start showing up for the people who frequent Cinemax, Showtime, and The Movie Channel after midnight.
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