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The old truths of the OJ trial still rings true. Justice is not black or white, the only color that matters is green!
Re:Introducing the New Commodore 64 on Monday April 04, 2011 @06:22PM (#2408837)
Still have my original Brown-Box, with Cassette player. . . I will ONLY buy this if MR-Z comes back onto the field to crack games!
Re:Accidental Find May Lead to a Cure For Baldness on Monday April 04, 2011 @06:17PM (#2408820)
I can't help but not care about this. Sure it's a fun finding, but WHY is baldness considered something that is so badly in need of a 'cure'?

Of course I do understand it from a purely capitalistic viewpoint in that a 'cure' would no doubt be worth a ton of money but seriously. What's so bad about baldness?

Sometimes you really piss me off Humanity!

Re:Ask HN: Automated trading on April 1 on Friday April 01, 2011 @08:07PM (#2398650)
Read as "Automated Trolling."

SpiderOak announces new Kansas City facilities

https://spideroak.com/blog/20110401002936-spideroak-announces-new-kansas-city-facilities

Google has announced this week that they have chose Kansas City, Kansas as the city for their highly anticipated Gigabit, Fiber-to-the-Home network, and naturally, SpiderOak is jumping on board to take advantage of these services.

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Re:Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:45AM (#2381681)
Not for long I would bet.

S3 is a great service don't get me wrong. But for relatively low transaction data like backup and sync not only is the pricing high but Dropbox also have a vested interest that as they grow they do not depend on a 3rd party for what is no doubt the largest single cost of providing their service.

Re:Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:43AM (#2381677)
Not only is it not a surprise but I think Amazon.com are also well aware that Dropbox is likely developing their own storage back-end to move away from S3.
Re:Fake job reference service on Monday March 28, 2011 @03:29AM (#2377511)
I'd rather just continue working with something I enjoy and use 'fakecareer.com' instead :-)
Having played my fair share of COD, MW2 and Black Ops I would unfortunately say that the 'Make a friend outside of the US' vs. 'Screw you towel-head' ratio in general does NOT provide a base for improved foreign relations or 'bridge building'.

Glad that it does happen though.

Re:At least now we know why Color really got that funding on Friday March 25, 2011 @09:23PM (#2371062)
"or filenames, meta-data, facial recognition dataming data, geo-data etc'

Yeah there sure is nothing there that 'marketers' could use right?

Re:Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:26AM (#2367478)
Do we really need any further evidence of the desperation and general incompetence of the entertainment industry.

Never have I seen an entire industry act so horribly wrong to technological advances as the music industry in the face of Internet.

Thx, I did notice. Testing out with twitter login :-)
I agree 100%, twitter is 'SMS for the web' and NOTHING else! 140 character limit should be enough to make this point.
Internal server error when trying to sign-up.
I LOVE the fact that you can 'login with twitter' to rstat :-)
It's not? I have NEVER gone to Apple.com for a movie trailer.. So..
Re:How do you prove your worth? on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:50AM (#2308614)
The longer story is that I jumped ship from Med-school and since has worked for start-up's for 20 years. Avid Amiga Fan, Can prob kick your ass in Doom and definitely in Broodwar, am mid 30-s, Ex-PR-consultant and just curious!