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• On the post: Why Does The IEEE Make It So Difficult To Access And Share Research?

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2010 @ 08:30am

  How and Why not?

  "Publishing technical journals as does the IEEE is a very costly enterprise, and they don't take advertising to help defray these costs."
  
  How is it costly? Do the editors get paid that much? Thanks to the great god of PDFs, the publication and distribution costs approach $zero.
  
  Why not accept advertising? What is so righteous about journals being ad-free?

• On the post: Microsoft Exec Calls For 'Driver's License For The Internet'

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2010 @ 09:28am

  You need a DRIVER's license because

  you can kill someone with your car.
  You cannot kill someone with your browser.

• On the post: Survey Claims Some Depressed People Use The Internet A Lot

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2010 @ 07:13pm

  I was going to write a witty retort, but

  I am too depressed to do so.

• On the post: Court Says It's No Free Speech Violation To Kick People Out Of Presidential Speech Due To Their Bumper Stickers

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2010 @ 04:15pm

  Sad.

  Excluding people from a public event when they have valid tickets is just not right.

• On the post: Will Lower Prices Help Sell More Albums?

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2010 @ 06:56pm

  Yes

  We do all our CD buying at http://www.secondspin.com
  
  Buy used. With a guarantee. Cheaper.

• On the post: Wait, Someone Expects People To Pay To Let People Know When They're Being Sarcastic? That'll Work

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2010 @ 09:30am

  You made me laugh this morning

  The SarcMark is a GREAT idea@

• On the post: Once Again, Google's Customer Service Is Becoming An Issue

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2010 @ 03:30pm

  You are correct and funny

  TAM,
  
  You are correct. Google wants to automate everything. The Google model has no place for customer service reps.

• On the post: Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off WiFi And Cell Phone

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 07:27pm

  Better yet

  "Why can't we go back to the old way of doing things? Where morons like this are taken out back and beaten."
  
  Stalin had an even better answer. Shot in the back of head. Where is your Wi-Fi problem now?

• On the post: Vancouver Train System To Charge Buskers Huge Fees To Play In Stations

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 01:33pm

  I used to have a positive view of the Olympics

  and a negative view of the IOC.
  Now, I just have a negative view of everything Olympics-related.

• On the post: Site Suspends Comments For 'Cooling Off Period'

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2010 @ 07:01pm

  WTF?!

  A fucking cooling off period!
  Who the fuck are they kidding?
  Stupid fuck-heads.
  I could go on, but am too lazy.

• On the post: Google Isn't Targeting iPhone Users; It's Targeting Everyone Else (Maybe)

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2010 @ 03:17pm

  Open does not always win

  "but overtime, the more open solution almost always wins out. Remember when AOL..."
  
  1. Linux on the desktop (open) is not winning out against Windows on the desktop (closed). Windows is 92% and Linux is 1%. See http://blogs.computerworld.com/15344/windows_market_share_dips_again_world_and_microsoft_survive
  
  2. Linux/Apache servers are doing very well, but Microsoft IIS is also doing well. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
  
  3. AOL lost out because it was targeted at newbies. As soon as people realized that they did not need training wheels they left AOL. AOL also lost as the switch from dialup to broadband occurred and they tried to charge extra.

• On the post: Maine Wants Mobile Phones To Carry A Cancer Warning… Despite Lack Of Evidence; [Updated: SF Too]

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2009 @ 03:40pm

  It gets better

  http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/sf-may-require-warnings-about-cellphone-radiation/
  
  "S.F. May Require Warnings About Cellphone Radiation
  ...“Do you wait until you have proof of cause and effect, or do you look for indications from reputable scientific sources?” said Debbie Raphael, toxics reduction program manager for the department."

• On the post: Point Out A Potential Photoshopping Of A Demi Moore Picture, And She Has Her Lawyers Send Out The Nastygrams

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2009 @ 10:15am

  It is not Photshopped

  Demi Moore has had so much plastic surgery that her left hip is deformed and smaller than her right one.
  So, not Photoshopped, but a malformed model.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wolverine Leaker; Don't You Feel Safer Now?

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2009 @ 03:15pm

  Correct numbers

  Actually grossed $370M USD.
  Actual cost $150M.
  
  http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wolverine.htm
  
  And, of course, it lost money. Just ask Art Buchwald.

• On the post: Lawmaker, Convicted Of Raping Foster Kids, Claims Name Is Copyrighted So You Can't Report It

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2009 @ 12:10pm

  I think you just make this stuff up

  Mike,
  
  I am beginning to believe that you just make this stuff up to mess with our heads.
  
  I expect this from Fark, but not you.
  
  ,dave

• On the post: Yes, We Can Write Our Opinions Without Contacting The Company We're Writing About First

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2009 @ 01:32pm

  Well, he has not denied it, but

  I am withholding judgment for awhile as I will give John W. Scherer a chance to deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990.

• On the post: Another Example Of Copyright Law Gone Mad: Series Of Lawsuits Over Telephone Jingle

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2009 @ 01:36pm

  Grammar Nazi Alert

  "the band sold less than 2,000 CDs"
  fewer

• On the post: Is Murdoch's Move Against Google Really About Twitter And Facebook?

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2009 @ 10:16am

  Robert X Cringley has a great take on this

  http://www.cringely.com/2009/11/news-corp-to-offer-plaid-stamps/comment-page-1/
  
  "...Rupert Murdoch, who is brilliant in his own right but in this case can’t find his own URL with both hands...."

• On the post: Glenn Beck Not Allowed To Rape And Murder An Internet Meme

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 07:33pm

  I thought it rude to blot out

  the username and password.
  
  What fun someone could have had.

• On the post: Update On Choruss: Universities Not Talking, Mysterious 10,000 Students Still Nowhere To Be Found

  

  davebarnes ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:39pm

  Experiments

  The USA is an experiment. Mostly good.
  The Soviet Union was an experiment. Mostly bad.
  Choruss is an experiment. I will leave up to you to decide: good or bad.

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