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Comment: Re:Android vs iPhone is not the new Mac vs Windows (Score 1) 711

by jasonbrown (#47160977) Attached to: Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake'
Can we please talk about something else besides whether your phone is better than my phone. I mean really - aren't you all like the smartest people on the planet and we have to debate which phone gets on Facebook the best?? I mean fuck man their burning the Amazon down and fracking the planet to pieces and this is what's fucking important to talk about? Isn't your super awesome genius brain made for better things than this?? Isn't it??

Comment: Automatic updates turned of in April (Score 1) 345

by jasonbrown (#46907281) Attached to: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw
I started turning off automatic updates on XP boxes that people were going to keep as it had become an unnecessary service. Then I'm told that MS is going to issue another update via Windows update to IE. This irritates me. So what am I supposed to leave the Windows update service turned on just in case MS want to send another one sometime??


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Comment: wtf? (Score 1) 415


Comment: power saving OFF (Score 1) 823


Comment: also ban printers (Score 1) 237


Comment: ban the internet (Score 3, Funny) 237


+ - Pirates Prefer Windows XP (Arggh!)->

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jasonbrown writes "Pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista, says Microsoft
It's planning a PR campaign for early '09 to fight piracy as XP is retired.

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Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents 243

Posted by Zonk
from the you're-not-busy-this-week dept.
stalebread writes "MSNBC has an article looking at an internet-based 'many hands make light work' approach to data sifting. From the article: 'The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.'"
