* Posts by Doug Glass

1445 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2008

Google floats monthly subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks

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Spot Removal

Do you charge extra for skid mark removal? Or is that an undocumented "feature"?

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Paris Hilton

So $28*12...

... ,which works out to $336 per year, is preferable to buying her a $500 laptop and installing a really good free email client? Or maybe using a web based email? Works for you maybe, but after 18 months you're throwing money down the proverbial rat hole. Assuming the laptop lasts, but I'll make the horrendous assumption any will last as long as the Google product.

Paris because there's no Lindsay Lohan icon to represent thievery.

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True Story

Circa 1960, I witnessed a woman buy a white, calcified dog turd because she was made to believe it was a fossil. Those were the days before high quality, low ash animal food.

Some people will buy anything and some people will sell anything. Sheep are made to be fleeced and the object of the game is to recognize the sheep. After that, it's a done deal.

Sergey Brin: Only 20% of Googlers still on Windows

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100% of horsemen ...

...are still on horses, 100% of women are still female and etc. As far a Googling goes ... BFD.

Use of Weapons declared best sci-fi film never made

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Laughable

As interesting as I found UoW, Jack L. Chalker's "Soulrider" saga was far better and will never get made into a movie because of a variety of reasons.

But as with ant colonies, organization is everything and UoW's fans are to be commended.

Sony’s sorry saga snowballs

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Always marry ...

... a woman (or man) who has proof of being cured of Syphilis. How the infection came about is of no concern, just that the person is now clean and ready for duty.

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Yeah ...

.... all the learning started with a rootkit right?

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Sony needs to be alert too.

The world needs more lerts.

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Some people ...

... just never grow out of the need for the "Baby Carriage" look.

http://www.freecoloringsheets.net/view/Occasions/Baby_Carriage/

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Wow!

You really do know everything. Why are you still here commenting with the "common folk"?

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In business ...

... it;s called "an agonizing reappraisal".

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When are you going to release ...

... the secret of cold fusion?

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How many....

... wake up calls does it take?

NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

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Arf!

Woof woof woofity woof woof!

Google says Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

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Raison d'être

Grow the business.

Increase stockholder equity.

Enhance the bottom line.

This is what corporation exist for ... absolutely nothing else. Only the above items appear in their mission statements as the ultimate goals to be satisfied.

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Wrong "O" Word

"Omnipotent" is the word you're searching for...not "open".

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Oh Frakking No!

It's simply not allowed to think for yourself. Get back in line like a good little kid and follow the judas. Either that or you'll be doomed to a life of original thought and understanding.

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Exactly

Google took what was given to them and added enough stuff so that under the law they now control their creation. What a horrible thought. Let us all hope the common man never figures that out.

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"People only seem interested in developing for the marketplace..."

Right! It's what they get pay to do.

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"do what we want"

BFD They are a corporation and they are in business to make money and they will continue so long as sheep follow the "judas" straight into oblivion. Makes for a good read with the morning coffee though.

MobileMe drove Steve Jobs to foul-mouthed fury

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"... when you release a product, it has to work."

Are you including antenna systems in your summation cited? Or are you just talking partially finished software that had bugs and misunderstood features? Do security risks count?

Choosing a desktop OS

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So you're actually recommending ...

... people read and study for themselves and make an informed decision based on their needs and what's offered?

What a novel idea. I always just thought it best to listen to the techno-geeky digital gurus and follow their advice. That way my computing life is always an adventure and I'm constantly surprised by things going in a direction I was never expecting.

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What?

You never heard the expression "cockup"?

The next Microsoft in the cloud computing era is ...

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Cloud Computing Era

Only in the minds of those trying to sell it.

Think file-hosting sites guard your private data? Think again

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"The next Microsoft in the cloud computing era is ..."

This whole cloud thing is just getting hilarious. What a clown act.

Ubuntu cloud chief beats CTO to exit door

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A walk in the clouds ...

...followed by a crash to the earth. News at 11.

Mozilla refuses US request to ban Firefox add-on

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Sometimes you just gotta cheer ...

... for the underdog. It may be true, "You can't fight city hall", but you can sure make them look foolish. Stick to your guns Mozilla.

Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack

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Then become ....

... a bean counter. Unlike He-Man, they have the power.

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Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack

And Sony is negligent and dastardly. What else is new?

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Basement dwelling ...

... DIY porn and pocket protectors do have their advantages.

Apple squashes location tracking 'bugs' with iOS update

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We're not doing it ...

... but we're going to stop on Wednesday.

Boffins herald end of stiff screens

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Your iPhone will be obsolete in five years

What won't be obsolete in five years?

Virgin outsources techies, pulls plug on Trowbridge call centre

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Damn !

Those cost cutting/efficiency minded bean counters are at it again.

Assange: Facebook a ‘spying machine’

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Sheeple ...

... must love to be fleeced; they line up by the thousands to have it done.

Sony closes PC games site over security 'concern'

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Do Tell

And all those poor trusting souls have been denied their games. Not to mention the root kit specialists letting the data get out for a second time.

Boy ah surely am glad this good ol' boy dumped all things Sony a while back. Made money doin' it too.

Paris because we all know a sucker when we see one.

Sony: 'PSN attacker exploited known vulnerability'

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"chief information security officer"

Standard corporate appeasement strategy that looks good to investors. Pay someone big bucks to have low level flunkies they can fire the next time it happens.

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"They've been getting away with treating customers like sh1t for far too long."

So maybe stop buying their products?

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So, because it CAN happen ...

... we should all be OK with it when it DOES happen? No way, Sony is not to be trusted and if you doubt that remember a bit of their corporate "responsibility" with regards to a certain root kit on a music CD.

Windows 7 takes PC upgrade for a cycle

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Ah so.....

... the bean counters are in control. I see now.

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Two Netbooks & Four Socket "A" AMD Motherboards

Runs great; better than XP ever did on any of them. BFD

Problems with primary data cloud storage

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Get 'em while they'er hot!

Coffin nails! Coffin nails for sale here. Get 'em while they're hot and before the rush.

PlayStation Network credit cards protected by encryption

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Yeah, Right!

Encrypted with a root kit or something. Maybe like the nuclear defense strategy: "You kill us and we'll just kill you right back".

Bashtahrds

Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall

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True, So True

When the consumer doesn't "get" something by not purchasing what they feel they don't need, the seller makes less money. I wonder how many consumers reading this cretin's assessment realize they've just been called stoopid on a global scale?

Iron Mountain caves in to investors

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Uh ...

investors = owners for a company that is publicly owned. That's the way it works in the real corporate world like it or not laddies.

Behind Apple's record sales are signs of desperation

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Comedic Pause

Damn, I love reading the IT take on the financial world. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Men Behaving Badly". Maybe there's another TV sitcom here.

Amazon cloud still on fritz after 36 hours

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Snakeoil

All of it ... the whole bleeding cloud.

Google to sell subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks?

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Google et al

If you like it and want it; buy it. If not, well ..... don't.

Cops refuse to say if they secretly snarf cellphone data

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We're not doin' that ...

.... we've never done that and we're not about to stop.

US proposes online IDs for Americans

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My Man Obumma

Don't know about the rest of the world, but I just don't believe I'll be trusting the US govern-ment to keep any password of mine either safe or confidential. Any list or file will be managed by the lowest paid, last person hired and the job will likely be shuffled from person to person endlessly. Not exactly my idea of security. Not to mention the pathetic state of the govern-ment's computer system and expertise. Or lack thereof.

Just one more drop in an ocean of regulation proposed by the current administration bent on controlling everything they can get their hands on. New York state regulators have written regs to control kids playground games. Since when it is the government's job to tell anybody how they play and throw a ball?

Oh well, elections are coming. But they're always coming and we seem to be in an endless loop of putting morons and nannies into office.

People watch movies on stuff

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Old Farts Among Us

I Bought me one of them Rokus for $49.95 and now I pay Netflix $10.46 per month for unlimited streaming and one DVD at a time. Best goldarn thing I ever did. The way I sees it I got them old great movies and TV shows to last me the rest of my life.

Currently we's a-watchin' "Doc Martin" and lovin' it. Just finished "Gosford Park" and when the Doc's done we plan on a-watchin a few more of them Brirtish shows. Just superior stuff, 'specially that Masterpiece. "Downton Abbey" was awesome even if the language threw me for a bit.

But shhhhhhhh .... keep it quiet. I don't want too many people hornin' in on my good thing I got goin'.