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  • On the post: Valve: No, Our Gaming Anti-Cheat System Isn't Tracking Your Voracious Porn Habits

    Wally ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2014 @ 05:36pm

    Re: Re: Re: A whole lot of words to say nothing.

    VAC only looks at the active processes running in the background...and compares your actions on the screen while in an online game with what's supposed to do according to the server you're on...VAC cannot be triggered when servers enable the CVAR "sv_cheats 1" console command...but it will ban you for hacking the server to enable it....it only goes by in game statistical gameplay data...which means it's NOT searching through your files...

  • On the post: US Military Looking To Trademark Everything

    Wally ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 07:13am

    Budget

    My Aunt, who is a Lt. Colonel in Army Intel, was on the Defense Department's financial subcommittee trying to figure ways to save all the armed forces money because their budget was cut severely. How bad was the cut? They shut down 3 army and navy bases...which created a huge housing issue when she got restationed at Westpoint earlier this year.

    Just remember one thing, the DOJ has a way larger budget...than the DoD.

  • On the post: Comcast: Allowing Us To Get Immensely, Inconceivably, Ridiculously Massive Is 'Pro Consumer'

    Wally ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2014 @ 04:21pm

    Disturbing on multiple levels..

    from the now-witness-the-fire-power-of-this-fully-armed-and-operational-battle-station dept

    The weakness to ComCast will be a 2 meter wide exhaust port...which happens to be no larger than a wamp rat...

    The merger with TimeWarner was a matter of time when TimeWarner decided to buy out most of Northern Ohio's ComCast contracts..what was left over was given to Cox...What this means is that it's certified proof of an illegal form of an Ologopoly between the two companies....I'll be willing to bet that the 2 meter exhaust port we are looking for is in the e-mails between the two companies during that time.

  • On the post: Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Calls, Blowhards at 30,000 Feet

    Wally ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 09:58pm

    Re: Re:

    Like watching a movie in a theater in the 1930's...flying is an event...you don't yammer away on a cell phone...you enjoy the flight...There's always something to see.

  • On the post: Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Calls, Blowhards at 30,000 Feet

    Wally ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 08:27pm

    I actually somehow find this reasonable...on some of Delta's smaller aircraft...you can hear people across the cabin breathing on overnight flights...It isn't a call to ban the use of electronic devices...just on cell phone calls.

  • On the post: After Suing Fans Sharing Bootlegs, Prince Says No One Sues Fans, Bootlegs Are Great & People Should Share Music

    Wally ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2014 @ 01:43pm

    Microsoft and Garry Larson...great examples

    I recall Microsoft hiring a Fench company to crawl the web for infringing links only to discover that not only was their own legitimate website cited by the automated process...but was also a major PR disaster only outdone by Windows 8.

    Then there is Garry Larson's "The Far Side" cartoon that has a female chimp grooming her mate finding a blonde hair with the caption "So, you've been hanging around that Jane Goodall tramp again haven't you?"...She subsequently fired her PR officer for suing Garry Larson...

    So I'm inclined to believe the his lawyers were acting autonomously. Prince has always been quite anti-RIAA which is why he has a big reputation for protecting his works.

  • On the post: Olympic Athletes Told To Cover Apple Logos On Devices So Apple Doesn't Get Any Free Promotion

    Wally ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 02:03pm

    Re: looks

    Well truth be told...we will be able to tell of it's an Apple product regardless because Apple was the only company asked to do this...Here's something about Samsung you didn't quite know...they make more than just electronic devices...they're also involved in several other industries including Natural Gas Compressors...the are also S. Korea's largest (if not the ONLY) news paper media outlet....

    Now what gets me is why aren't the Olympic Committee members using Samsung products? I mean Samsung is sponsoring the events going on...

    No...you see...the ONLY reason Samsung did this is because they had to pay for patent infringements on 3G antenna patents owned by Infineon..

  • On the post: Skinny Puppy Invoices US Government After It Played The Band's Music To Torture Gitmo Prisoners [Updated]

    Wally ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 10:31am

    Ok now I'm not happy

    For those who have never heard any sings by Skinny Puppy...if you had the CD-ROM version of Interplay and Paralax Software's Descent II....the song that has a part where a woman is screaming as if she were being raped...the one from the second level of the first chapter...that is a song by Skinny Puppy...Many of you have no idea how unsettling that sound really is...

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2014 @ 01:06pm

    Re: Re: Re: Set Top Boxes

    Actually...that whole rounded corners thing was reported by a very pro-Android website...Apple countersued Samsung because Samsung was asking for a 3,000% markup on a piece of embedded software code on the INFINEON Antenna chips used in the iPhone 4....which Infineon licensed to Apple via Wholesale...Samsung's embedded SOFTWARE code in Infineon's Antena Patent contributed to less than a thousandth of a percent of said patent...
    So which is worse? A patent on ergonomics and astehtics...or software patent that was already sold as wholesale to Infineon to sell to Apple? Isn't the latter double dipping into a patent?

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2014 @ 12:54pm

    Re: Re: Re: Set Top Boxes

    Didn't Google already troll Microsoft via proxy with those parents before they let go of Motorola...something about wireless antenne and of course the video compression standard H.264?

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 05:54am

    Re: Re: Re: Google in the hardware business

    Like I said...Google chooses the devices (which is hardware) it wants to flagship its Android newest software...

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 10:09pm

    Re: Set Top Boxes

    Google paid 12.3-billion on those quotations alone...it's a $9-billion loss...

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 09:50pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Android is a Unix-based operating system...Kernal stays the same while the shell is custom by distributor....

    One of the differences between Unix and Linux is that Linux is merely a kernel that you build your own operating system on...while Unix is a a whole kernal and operating system where you make the shell...

    Unix isn't covered under GNU licensing because even if it's free, but you're paying for support....which is why Linus Torvalds created Linux...Linux allows for a community support and is liscensed under GNU...

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 06:41pm

    Re: Re: Google in the hardware business

    Nexus merely means it's a flagship device to represent their newest software...

  • On the post: Google Dumps Motorola, Keeps The Patents

    Wally ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 06:29pm

    I hate to say this...

    ...but I told y'all so...a LONG time ago...that Google would do this...and man I hate being right...

  • On the post: New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF

    Wally ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 05:17pm

    Re: No sympathy

    Inside joke amongst the staff at the NSA is "Never Say Anything" because their bosses merely tell them coordinance points to listen in on...and they are NOT allowed to question those orders of a superior...

    That being said, you don't know each individual who was involved in what...it creates a sort of witch hunt for things a person may not have done....Would you blame a person for a person's actions or a groups actions? If you affirmed in the latter, it's the same thing as punishing a class for one perdon's mistakes...

  • On the post: New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF

    Wally ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 12:17pm

    Responsibility and Accountability

    Compromising the inner workings of the counterterrorism programs in the NSA exposes methods that Snowden worked hard to keep classified with his documents...All that effort has gone to waste, puts innocent agents' lives at sever risk, and gives Al Qaida and al-Shabab new ways to avoid us...

    It is our responsibility as Americans to say "stop spying on us" so we can do our jobs as citizens and hold our government accountable...It seems that the NYT has done exactly what it always does by breaching this data with names that SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET...Their extreme carelessness means they lack self accountability to the American public and to their fellow mrmbers of the press...all in the name of being "the best".

  • On the post: Ex-CIA Director And Current Surveillance Task Force Member Mike Morell Parrots Talking Points To Defend Bulk Collections

    Wally ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 08:17am

    Re: Re:

    While the bulk collection of data is inexcusable...Former CIA Director Mike Morell has almost no reason to give that response except that his statement is the standard procedure...The NSA also acts as a National Security Advisor to the other agencies....given that this bulk collection of data is so huge...I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA is trying to abuse such leverage...too bad it's falling apart for other rather useful agencies..

  • On the post: Ex-CIA Director And Current Surveillance Task Force Member Mike Morell Parrots Talking Points To Defend Bulk Collections

    Wally ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 08:03am

    Re:

    Hey guys...it seems your mobile platform site randomly confuses the e-mail and subject fields...

  • On the post: Detailed Study Suggests NSA Rarely Useful In Stopping Terrorism

    Wally ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 08:37am

    1.3%

    That 1.3% from an unknown authority...Obama Administration perhaps?

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