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Comment: Re:surprise (Score 5, Insightful) 95

by HornyBastard (#44265565) Attached to: Amazon One-Click Chrome Extension Snoops On SSL Traffic

Our economy has become the equivalent of a luxury hotel that makes its real profits by selling copies of your credit card swipes to hackers.

It is a sleazy motel with cameras in every room, and the profits come from selling videos of you having sex, showering, and going to the toilet.

Comment: Re:People still fall for it (Score 0) 209

by HornyBastard (#40382181) Attached to: Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria
In the majority of cases, it is greed.
In a some people, greed can override common sense. IMHO, these people deserve to lose everything.

A few years ago, there was a South African man (CxO of some company) who lost a few million in a 419 scam. He went to Nigeria to try and get his money back, but got killed instead.
Good riddance.

Comment: Re:Idiot (Score 3, Insightful) 118


If I go halfway down the hill, where I can only see 1 tower, I average 10 Mbps.

Comment: Idiot (Score 4, Informative) 118





With a wired connection, you can add more cables.
With a wireless connection, that is not an option.

Comment: Not for programming's sake (Score 4, Interesting) 276


+ - Apple Faces 1.5-to-1 Aspect Ratio Patent->

Submitted by OliasEsq
OliasEsq writes "Ogma, LLC has filed complaints Apple for infringement of US patent 5,825,427, titled "Image display system" in both the Eastern District of Texas and the US International Trade Commission.

"So, as far as I can tell, a company formed this past January would like to stop the importation of millions of iPhones because the phones have 1.5:1 aspect ratio displays, and the company has acquired a patent that the USPTO somehow issued that covers such displays based just on that ratio.""

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+ - FLISOL: A Continent (and more) of Free and Open So->

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akgraner writes "Jon maddog Hall writes,

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