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  1. Re:Why Apple is good by GMontag451 · · Score: 1 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    You obviously didn't understand what I was talking about *at all*. You mentioned VirtualBox, Fusion 4, and Parallels. Try running OS X in VirtualBox or Parallels without using a hacked up OSx86 version. Oh wait you can't.

    You did not say "run OS X virtually" or any such wording, you said How about virtualization? Let's now look at virtualizing OSX, Google is your friend...

    That's 5 of Google's more than 150,00 results. Are you again going to say I didn't understand what you meant?

    You apparently didn't bother to *read* any of the links you gave, otherwise you'd find out that all of them are illegal methods as they are violations of the EULA, and your last link even explains why they are illegal. Again, you can't virtualize OS X client prior to Lion at all, you can virtualize OS X Server and OS X Lion client, but only if you are running on OS X as a host OS, ie not VMWare ESX or Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V, or any other bare-metal hypervisor, in other words, a useless non-feature.

    In response to my asking about terminal services, you respond "OSX has terminal". Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about and didn't even bother to do the five seconds of googling to find out.

    Just like you didn't spend the fives seconds to Google virtualize OSX. You didn't bother doing what you accuse me of not doing, Google terminal services osx. When I just did Google suggested "terminal services osx" and "terminal services osx client". I'm sure you're competent enough to look at some of the results yourself, if not I see no reason to continue.

    Falcon

    Again, you clearly didn't bother to give even a cursory glance at the results. Half of them are forum posts asking if OS X will ever have the ability to host terminal services (because it doesn't at the moment), and the other half are TS *clients* for accessing *Windows* terminal servers. The one relevent link, iRAPP, explicitly says that in order to conform to Apple's EULAs, they only allow multiple connections to OS X Server, not Client, which misses the entire point of having terminal services in the first place, and again makes it nothing more than VNC with a few more bells and

  2. Re:Why Apple is good by GMontag451 · · Score: 1 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    You obviously didn't understand what I was talking about *at all*. You mentioned VirtualBox, Fusion 4, and Parallels. Try running OS X in VirtualBox or Parallels without using a hacked up OSx86 version. Oh wait you can't.

    You did not say "run OS X virtually" or any such wording, you said How about virtualization? Let's now look at virtualizing OSX, Google is your friend...

    That's 5 of Google's more than 150,00 results. Are you again going to say I didn't understand what you meant?

    You apparently didn't bother to *read* any of the links you gave, otherwise you'd find out that all of them are illegal methods as they are violations of the EULA, and your last link even explains why they are illegal. Again, you can't virtualize OS X client prior to Lion at all, you can virtualize OS X Server and OS X Lion client, but only if you are running on OS X as a host OS, ie not VMWare ESX or Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V, or any other bare-metal hypervisor, in other words, a useless non-feature.

    In response to my asking about terminal services, you respond "OSX has terminal". Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about and didn't even bother to do the five seconds of googling to find out.

    Just like you didn't spend the fives seconds to Google virtualize OSX. You didn't bother doing what you accuse me of not doing, Google terminal services osx. When I just did Google suggested "terminal services osx" and "terminal services osx client". I'm sure you're competent enough to look at some of the results yourself, if not I see no reason to continue.

    Falcon

    Again, you clearly didn't bother to give even a cursory glance at the results. Half of them are forum posts asking if OS X will ever have the ability to host terminal services (because it doesn't at the moment), and the other half are TS *clients* for accessing *Windows* terminal servers. The one relevent link, iRAPP, explicitly says that in order to conform to Apple's EULAs, they only allow multiple connections to OS X Server, not Client, which misses the entire point of having terminal services in the first place, and again makes it nothing more than VNC with a few more bells and

  3. Re:'bout time! by icebike · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox

    Chrome Already sandboxes Flash, but only if you turn it on, and only in the DEV branch (Version 17 is current dev version as of this writing).

    You can turn it on as explained here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116560594978217291380/posts/CJvbAMkBiNf

  4. Good article, bad summary by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Insightful · on A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4)

    Possibly true: Siri uses a unique feature of the iPhone 4S.
    False: Siri won't run on the iPhone 4

    Siri runs just fine on jailbroken a iPhone 4, and it ran just fine on an iPhone 4 Before apple removed it. Kudos to the authors for enhancing Siri to use new features of the A5 chip. Good job to the researcher who figured this out. But shame on anyone who uses this as FUD to make Apple look like they didn't cripple their own product to force people to upgrade.

  5. Re:Many versus Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France
    The Rafale is second only to the F-22, just do look it up. The F-35 is too expensive even for the US. I read a news (Google Translated) the other day that a British Admiral says they might buy the Rafale because the F-35 is too expensive - $122M vs $90.5M -, F-22 cannot go on aircraft carriers because it's too fragile, and F-18 Super Hornet is too heavy for British carriers.

    Maybe they'll buy a few F-35C (they gave up on the B in 2010) to please their American overlords, but their very much more relevant local citizens might not be pleased to pay a 30% premium for a toy that is, admittedly, better, but overkill.

  6. Re:Still a bit confused... by SJHillman · · Score: 1 · on Google Starts Running Fiber In Kansas City

    Why Topeka? From Google's official FAQ:

    Why did Google choose Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri?
    Nearly 1,100 communities across the country expressed interest in this project. Our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community, and develop working partnerships with the local government, utility and community organizations. We believe we’ve found this in both Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.

    http://www.google.com/fiber/kansascity/faq.html

  7. Protests in many, many European cities by DerCed · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Central Europe Countries Continue to Oppose ACTA

    What is also quite impressive are the protests planned by Pirate Parties and others in numerous cities all over Europe (+ some other continents). Many events are to be held this Saturday, February 11st. The map looks absolutely breath-taking:
    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212120558776447282985.0004b7b33e16f13c710c7&msa=0

  8. Re:its not 'state' stupid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content

    They would, probably.

    I mean, they complied to requests from Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Sri Lanka, what makes you think other nations would be different?

    Stop trying to ascribe personal qualities to corporations, FFS. There's no compassion, pride, ideals and so on, there's just profits and public relations.

    "Lack of spine", "principles" and "do no evil" don't even come into this, you want to do business in a country, you abide the law of that country.

    FB and Google already complied to the court order, others named will probably follow right after getting some press where they'll tell how they really don't want to do that (because they didn't pay their developers to implement region-based content filtering yet)

  9. Re:I have to agree by LordLimecat · · Score: 1 · on No Pardon For Turing

    Ive read a book that made a good case that both "sides" have it wrong and are exaggerating: the atheists see more and more fundamentalists (or evangelicals, or religious conservatives, or whatever else you want to call it), while the religious conservatives see more and more godlessness and liberalism and all the rest.

    Perhaps (as the book suggested) the real issue is that the middle ground is disappearing and the battle lines are being drawn. One only has to do a brief search to see that atheism isnt some fringe thing; and only to look to the political arena of the last few years to see that fundamentalism isnt dying either.

    What would be helpful in all this is if someone's claim that all the atheists out there were being so terribly persecuted in what might be the most liberal and most forgiving time for atheists this country has seen.

  10. Re:Not me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Facebook Malware Goes Viral

    Instructions on how to permanently delete your Facebook account

    "Steve Krause" Seattle site:facebook.com
    http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Steve+Krause%22+Seattle+site:facebook.com&oq=%22Steve+Krause%22+Seattle+site:facebook.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=30292l35604l1l41026l4l4l0l0l0l0l104l287l3.1l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=fd74ce06838e713b&biw=1112&bih=799

  11. Re:Why Apple is good by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    You obviously didn't understand what I was talking about *at all*. You mentioned VirtualBox, Fusion 4, and Parallels. Try running OS X in VirtualBox or Parallels without using a hacked up OSx86 version. Oh wait you can't.

    You did not say "run OS X virtually" or any such wording, you said How about virtualization? Let's now look at virtualizing OSX, Google is your friend...

    That's 5 of Google's more than 150,00 results. Are you again going to say I didn't understand what you meant?

    In response to my asking about terminal services, you respond "OSX has terminal". Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about and didn't even bother to do the five seconds of googling to find out.

    Just like you didn't spend the fives seconds to Google virtualize OSX. You didn't bother doing what you accuse me of not doing, Google terminal services osx. When I just did Google suggested "terminal services osx" and "terminal services osx client". I'm sure you're competent enough to look at some of the results yourself, if not I see no reason to continue.

    Falcon

  12. Re:Why Apple is good by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    You obviously didn't understand what I was talking about *at all*. You mentioned VirtualBox, Fusion 4, and Parallels. Try running OS X in VirtualBox or Parallels without using a hacked up OSx86 version. Oh wait you can't.

    You did not say "run OS X virtually" or any such wording, you said How about virtualization? Let's now look at virtualizing OSX, Google is your friend...

    That's 5 of Google's more than 150,00 results. Are you again going to say I didn't understand what you meant?

    In response to my asking about terminal services, you respond "OSX has terminal". Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about and didn't even bother to do the five seconds of googling to find out.

    Just like you didn't spend the fives seconds to Google virtualize OSX. You didn't bother doing what you accuse me of not doing, Google terminal services osx. When I just did Google suggested "terminal services osx" and "terminal services osx client". I'm sure you're competent enough to look at some of the results yourself, if not I see no reason to continue.

    Falcon

  13. Re:Why Apple is good by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    You obviously didn't understand what I was talking about *at all*. You mentioned VirtualBox, Fusion 4, and Parallels. Try running OS X in VirtualBox or Parallels without using a hacked up OSx86 version. Oh wait you can't.

    You did not say "run OS X virtually" or any such wording, you said How about virtualization? Let's now look at virtualizing OSX, Google is your friend...

    That's 5 of Google's more than 150,00 results. Are you again going to say I didn't understand what you meant?

    In response to my asking about terminal services, you respond "OSX has terminal". Clearly you have no idea what I'm talking about and didn't even bother to do the five seconds of googling to find out.

    Just like you didn't spend the fives seconds to Google virtualize OSX. You didn't bother doing what you accuse me of not doing, Google terminal services osx. When I just did Google suggested "terminal services osx" and "terminal services osx client". I'm sure you're competent enough to look at some of the results yourself, if not I see no reason to continue.

    Falcon

  14. Re:Technology not always a good idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections

    Vote buying has been caught in several nursing homes. However, the incumbents, for some reason, have never cared to prosecute it. Go figure. google it.

  15. Media ignored? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Remembering Sealab

    Mainstream magazines certainly covered it. That's how I knew about it as a kid. Hit Google Books with 'sealab popular' and select Full Version, for what ran in PopSci at the time.

    It wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as the Moon program, but it got very good coverage for a single science program. Off the top of my head I can't think of another back then that got as much other than the Moon race.

    I think it's hyperbole to say 'largely ignored'. There was a pretty good proportionate recognition. A little better than it deserved, arguably.

  16. Re:What was it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect

    Beat me to it.

    As I recall cell phones then were the size of a shoebox and you carried a briefcase around with it.

    I think these days they laughingly refer to them as "brick" phones?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=1989+cell+phone&hl=en&newwindow=1&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=2fguT9qcF8Ha0QHV6eTlCg&ved=0CGgQsAQ&biw=1542&bih=935

  17. Re:we have it in pdf, but not in epub by dotancohen · · Score: 1 · on New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source

    Here is a super secret link to it from the hyper secret search tool called google, it took 3 seconds to get it.

    https://github.com/kmuto/latex2epub

    there is a world outside of apt-get

    Although I appreciate snide as much as anyone, you might notice that the hyper secret search tool called google has no idea what you are talking about:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=tex2epub

  18. Re:Open Source Perpetuity? Don't make me laugh... by kenh · · Score: 1 · on New Hampshire Passes 'Open Source Bill'

    They have punch cards they legally must retain, and no way to read them. Data without the code/hardware to read it is useless, but we have to keep it all.

    IRS maintains a collection of tape drives so it can read old computer tapes, I suspect someone, somewhere could figure out some way to read a punch card...

    Maybe they could get some card readers from West Palm Beach County?

  19. Re:For us non-US folk... by aitikin · · Score: 1 · on Google Pulls Support For CDMA Devices

    Palm never really taking of[f] seems kind of silly, seeing as they hold the patent on smartphones..."Integrated handheld computing and telephony system and services"...

  20. Re:What was it? by zill · · Score: 2 · on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect
    Your translation is wrong. As the article points out directly below the text message:

    The term "blow" the competition is regularly used in motivational speech to mean a victory and thus does not cause confusion, according to the complaint.

  21. Re:Maybe... by SnowZero · · Score: 1 · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    Steve Yegge still works at Google, after penning a rant which was well-known enough to be covered on slashdot and wikipedia:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge#Accidental_posting
        https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX
    Here's the "aftermath" where not only did nothing bad happen, but some folks listened to him:
        https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq
    Now, a lot of folks didn't agree with the content of his post or characterization of why things were the way they were. However, there were definitely parts that rang true, and people wanted to share how they were trying to tackle those problems and invite others to join such efforts.

    Steve's post also provides a window into how open and vocal the debate is internally at Google.

    So, do you think that'd fly at the company you work for? How about at Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook?

    I have spent time at both Microsoft and Google. For a software engineer both are good places to work IMHO, but there is/was a huge difference in how much the rank and file could speak up regarding company policy. You can't always change things you don't agree with (there are often multiple sides to an issue) but you can usually get them modified for the better.

  22. Re:Maybe... by SnowZero · · Score: 1 · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    Steve Yegge still works at Google, after penning a rant which was well-known enough to be covered on slashdot and wikipedia:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge#Accidental_posting
        https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX
    Here's the "aftermath" where not only did nothing bad happen, but some folks listened to him:
        https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq
    Now, a lot of folks didn't agree with the content of his post or characterization of why things were the way they were. However, there were definitely parts that rang true, and people wanted to share how they were trying to tackle those problems and invite others to join such efforts.

    Steve's post also provides a window into how open and vocal the debate is internally at Google.

    So, do you think that'd fly at the company you work for? How about at Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook?

    I have spent time at both Microsoft and Google. For a software engineer both are good places to work IMHO, but there is/was a huge difference in how much the rank and file could speak up regarding company policy. You can't always change things you don't agree with (there are often multiple sides to an issue) but you can usually get them modified for the better.

  23. Re:Maybe... by dulitz · · Score: 2 · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    Ever since Google decided to track me through Google+ +1 buttons added to every page I browse, I've had to remove google.com from my whitelist.

    How do you reconcile your statement with Google's stated policy on what the +1 button tracks: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1319578 ?

    I've seen the claim that the +1 button tracks you in a lot of places, and as one of the people responsible for making it not track you [I work for Google], I'd like to understand better why this claim persists. Thanks!

  24. Just to Compare by Niscenus · · Score: 1 · on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect

    In case anyone doubted the use of the term, I present google translate of a financial piece; hover on the article's title for untranslated usage:
    http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/comment-la-finance-fait-exploser-les-inegalites_fr_art_1094_54437.html&ei=49stT6qBNtCztwey0oTzDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ7gEwAQ

  25. Re:Maybe... by Justin_Schuh · · Score: 5, Informative · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    I don't see innuendo or unsubstantiated accusations as adding anything to the conversation. But I do think it's useful to address the technical portion of your claim.

    If I hit a 404, Chrome phones home with the URI I was trying to reach. And what do you do with that data, I wonder?

    I think you undermine the legitimacy of your question by trying to manufacture some evil ulterior motive here. The simple fact is that people often mistype URLs (or clip portions when pasting them), so it's helpful when the correct URL can be easily determined. And if you read through the privacy policy I linked above, you'll see that it very clearly describes what occurs in this scenario:

    In order to offer suggestions of alternative or similar webpages, the browser sends Google the URL of the page you're trying to reach whenever the web address does not resolve or a connection cannot be made. Information is logged and anonymized in the same manner as Google web searches. Any parameters in the URL are removed before the URL is sent. The logs are used to ensure and improve the quality of the feature.

    So, the submission of the URL is no different than if you'd stripped the parameters and pasted the URL into Google from an anonymous incognito window. If you're uncomfortable with that, then the same link provides instructions for disabling the feature.

  26. Re:Maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    But there's one significant case where that's not true, isn't there? If I hit a 404, Chrome phones home with the URI I was trying to reach. And what do you do with that data, I wonder?

    From the privacy policy:

    "If you navigate to a URL that does not exist, Google Chrome may send the URL to Google so we can help you find the URL you were looking for. We may also use this information in an aggregated way to help other web users - e.g. to let them know that the site may be down. Learn more about disabling suggestions on navigation errors."

  27. Re:Adobe worship much? by Justin_Schuh · · Score: 1 · on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

    Flash is not yet in the Chrome sandbox (except on Chrome OS), but there's a work in progress that you can experiment with on canary or dev channels.. On Windows, Chrome stable's Flash is in an enhanced Low IL sandbox, which is a bit tighter than the Internet Explorer sandbox, but much weaker than the full Chrome sandbox. (Basically, sandboxing an existing piece of software takes quite a bit of work to get right.)

  28. Re:Useless "info" by pacija · · Score: 1 · on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible

    Unfortunately my knowledge of Physics is not good enough to translate it. However, i am putting this book online, so far there are 6 chapters. If you are interested maybe google translate can help you to get basic understanding: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Funiversedisguised.cz.cc%2Fsadrzaj%2Fuvod%2F&act=url

  29. Killing people with statistics by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 1 · on Doctors 'Cheating' On Board Certifications

    If you're basing the diagnoses off of statistics you're going to end up with dead patients. Diagnostics is following a decision tree. Trying to shortcircuit that process by "going with statistics" will simply end up with wrong diagnoses.

    In that regard, MDs can easily be replaced by expert systems. Where these systems fail, and where humans are still needed, is in the identification of symptoms. The presence or absence of symptoms lead to a diagnosis.

  30. Re:The biggest paragraph in the press release by smellotron · · Score: 1 · on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash

    Otherwise it sounds like a shameless marketing plug and just short of announcing an office party to celebrate.

    As a publicly-traded company with news like this coming out on a Friday afternoon, I doubt they are celebrating. But maybe their PR arm is attempting some damage control.

  31. Re:Wow.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Loses German Court Bid To Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone

    My bad. You just took "the box, the connector, the power brick" seriously and they were not even parts of actual claims, just parts of that pic. Patent lawsuits, on the other hand, are silly. Copying connector, power brick, green phone icon and rounded black rectangle is not. Got it. Sorry.

  32. Re:Pricing of assistive tools by Rui+Lopes · · Score: 3 · on Web Guru To the Blind

    There's:

    all of which are free (some open-source as well)

  33. Re:I'm glad I support the Republicans by niko9 · · Score: 1 · on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA

    I think they're probably about as good as .38 against a tank..

    Then you know little about warfare. Tanks are *never* sent in without supporting infantry. A tank without infantry is a sitting duck. Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&ei=EWEsT7CmDKbV0QGTh6nHCg&ved=0CB0QBSgA&q=tanks+with+infantry+support&spell=1&biw=1320&bih=698

  34. Re:I actually own some apple hardware. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

    ... the Mac Pro has not been upgraded.

    Apple is waiting for Intel to release new workstation Xeon processors. About a 2 year cycle for this class of processor.

    Try and keep up.

  35. Re:When will they add... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Starts Scanning Android Apps

    There's a bug opened since 2009 for fine grained permissions on Android, but they just don't give a shit.

    You need to understand that Andy Rubin is both a big hypocrite and an asshole and likes to hire people similar to him for the Android team. So you end up with a team full of assholes who happen to be mediocre programmers with no clue of how to interact with the FOSS groups that created all the software that makes Android possible. I wish people started boycotting this and other Google products.

    --
    Jordyn Buchanan

  36. Re:who wins? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Loses German Court Bid To Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone

    OK, let's ignore that you didn't check your links and thus they don't really show what you wanted us to see.

    Then there's all the other stuff, like power adapter, which came in this model with one release of Galaxy S II, look at this, for example, or the box, which could be two-piece with bottom nested in the lid, but they chose a sliding out one with a flap-cover on the inner box.

    Of course the person that gathered the collection of pictures chose the ones where Samsung is blatantly copying Apple and ignoring the instances where Samsung is clearly not copying Apple. The fact that they don't always copy Apple doesn't prove anything. "Your honor, my client is clearly innocent even though he was caught red-handed stabbing the victim, because after all he has met thousands of other people throughout his life and he didn't murder any of them!"

    As a matter of fact, the fact that Samsung (and others) can produce products (and packaging, and software) that are very different from Apple's is proof that coming out with original products is quite possible, and actually not that hard. Nothing highlights more the similarities between, say, the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy S II than spending some time with both phones and an HTC or Motorola Android phone at the same time. The same goes for the iPad, the Galaxy Tab, and pretty much any non-Samsung tablet in the market. Then you see that those two Samsung products are disturbingly similar to the Apple ones and shockingly different from their Android brethren.

    And then dumb fanboys jump at it and gladly shove it to anyone as The Definite Proof, when it's just a definite proof of mindless Apple bias.

    And then dumb fandroids point out at products where Samsung did not copy Apple and gladly shove it to anyone as The Definite Proof, when it's just a definite proof of mindless anti-Apple bias.

  37. Re:who wins? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Loses German Court Bid To Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone

    I always felt this picture is Poe's law in action.

    Just look at the top pic with known false accusation (it's not a Samsung shop, it's Samsung's corner in a bigger electronic store with store's wall decorations) and bottom pic which implies recording app with a microphone in background is Apple's invention.

    Then there's all the other stuff, like power adapter, which came in this model with one release of Galaxy S II, look at this, for example, or the box, which could be two-piece with bottom nested in the lid, but they chose a sliding out one with a flap-cover on the inner box.

    And then dumb fanboys jump at it and gladly shove it to anyone as The Definite Proof, when it's just a definite proof of mindless Apple bias.

  38. Re:I'm glad I support the Republicans by CanHasDIY · · Score: 2 · on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul

    You do realize that Wikipedia, the "encyclopedia" that anyone can edit, is probably not the most accurate source for political positions? For example, within the link you posted you will find the following statement:

    "In October 2011, Paul released a federal budget proposal for 2013, entitled the “Plan to Restore America.” The plan calls for cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget in the first year, along with other measures which Paul says would balance the federal budget within 3 years. To achieve these ambitious goals, the plan would seek [to]... privatize the Federal Aviation Administration and the TSA"

    That statement is a blatant lie, easily disputed by those who actually pay attention to the candidate's positions. Paul wants to eliminate the TSA, not privatize it.

    One can only guess how much of that particular Wikipedia entry is also dubious.

  39. Re:Scan for quality? by jiriki · · Score: 5, Informative · on Google Starts Scanning Android Apps

    Memory Leaks in Java are not objects that are not freed, but dangling references to data/objects that are no longer needed (often static HashMaps that people use to implement their own caches and forget to clean up, or listeners that are still registered, even if the listening object could be discarded).

    Also there are leaks in the Android WebView: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9375
    So using the WebView (which many apps do) causes leaks :(
    (not the fault of the developer though)

  40. Re:If we can find them... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1 · on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life

    Civilian airport radars aren't really that powerful, although they have fairly high ERP due to their high gain, narrow beamwidth antennas. Weather radars are more powerful.

    If you want high power and wide beamwidth, look to the Air Force Space Surveillance Radar, OTH-B radars, or some of these beasts.

    Narrow beamwidth signals from Arecibo are mind-numbingly powerful as far as ERP goes.

    The telescope has three radar transmitters, with effective isotropic radiated powers of 20 TW at 2380 MHz, 2.5 TW (pulse peak) at 430 MHz, and 300 MW at 47 MHz.

    That's 20 Terawatts ERP - holy Christmas! I once calculated the RF exposure exclusion zone for that radar - it extends beyond low Earth orbit.

  41. Re:Freakin awesome by antdude · · Score: 1 · on Flying Robots Flip, Swarm and Move In Formation At UPenn

    Then, call up Fry to fight them! ;)

  42. Banners by pgn674 · · Score: 1 · on Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M

    If you're wondering how many seized site banners there are out there, it's 11. Here they all are: DOJ Seized Domain Notices - Paul Nickerson - Picasa Web Albums

    My script found only 389 seized domains in total, and that should be over 465, so I'll try again in a few days and update the album.

  43. Re:The power of privacy by peawormsworth · · Score: 1 · on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

    The answer is the same reason governments are scared of RIMs encrypted BB mail system. They cant back door it, so they hope it doesnt gain wide acceptance.

    Google and other mail clients "could" implement encryption on your behalf. The reason they do not, is because it is in their interest to know as much about you as possible. This is how they maximize their main business: selling ads. Secondly, when the government requests wide or targeted searches on their customer data (your email and chats), they charge the government money for this. I mean having ur data unencrypted is a source of revenue when they sell it to government bodies.

    These companies do not wish to offer privacy for u because there is money in having ur private communications available for them to search and sell. If it wasnt this way, then we would all have privacy, because there is a competitive advantage in providing privacy. If one of the major online email companies (like Gmail, Yahoo, MSN) offered true privacy... I would switch to them right away. Instead these companies would rather have you believe they are providing security when they are not. For example, see the "encryption" option for skype. Its a lie, and it does not provide anything close to the protection a regular land line already offers. Another example is in Google Talk which has an "Off the Record" option. Off the Record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging provides encryption and anonymity for chat... but this is not at all what google provides http://support.google.com/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=29291.

    These companies are not providing privacy or security to answer to the government. They are doing this because it is profitable to keep ur data insecure and as a result they would prefer u remain ignorant of this fact.

  44. Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago by tepples · · Score: 1 · on French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition

    Look up "legal monopoly", "monopoly", "natural monopoly", and "monopolistics behavior". There are some subtle differences there

    Yeah, like the fact that only one of them is a myth. This article explains how natural monopoly arises from city government's monopoly ownership of roads and failure to efficiently price access to utility rights-of-way beneath the roads.

  45. Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition

    The big issue here is the embeddable google maps JavaScript API. Google let everyone use their maps for free without ads. The embeddable maps were an alternative to paid sources. Everyone started using Google, then they started charging for them.

    http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/usage.html

    This is Called dumping.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

  46. Re:The power of privacy by the_enigma_1983 · · Score: 2 · on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

    The firewall solution would probably require DPI. An easier solution would be to use Disconnect[1] which is a Chrome extension that blocks exactly this sort of thing.

    [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo

  47. Re:I'm actually ok with this by Megane · · Score: 2 · on DC Comics Prevails In Batmobile Copyright Dispute

    Isn't LCARS where Microsoft got their Metro design from?

  48. Re:The power of privacy by Solandri · · Score: 4, Informative · on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

    Can you believe that the Internet was once considered a place to escape identity? Where anonymity reigned? It's pretty amazing in retrospect how quickly that changed

    The Internet was once a place where your real identity was also your online identity. The schools, companies, and organizations which comprised the Internet all voluntarily enforced a policy where each user's username was their real name, or anyone could easily figure it out from their username.

    Anonymity didn't really arrive on the Internet until 1993, when AOL joined. AOL users were allowed to pick up to 5 pseudonyms as their email address (because one AOL account might be shared by an entire family). In retrospect, that change was really quick - a span of a couple years and pretty much everyone was allowed to pick whatever they wanted as a username.

    Personally, I think anonymity is the proverbial genie that's been let out of the bottle - it's gonna be really, really hard to put it back in. But a non-anonymous Internet isn't something new; it was the norm a mere 2+ decades ago. The funny thing is that when AOL joined, a lot of people were saying that anonymity would be the death of the Internet due to spam (it was already polluting Usenet), flame wars, posers, etc. When e-commerce was first taking off, people were questioning how online stores would ever be able to validate a customer's real identity when everyone was effectively anonymous behind self-selected usernames. Now the tables have turned and people are saying having your real identity known online will be the death of the Internet.

    The Internet has survived both extremes, so it's reasonable to think that it will also survive anything in between.

  49. Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago by MurukeshM · · Score: 2, Informative · on French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition

    Funny, I have multiple websites that use the Maps API and I've yet to see a bill from Google for usage or the functionality made unavailable. What crack pipe are you smoking?

    READ THE FUCKING MANUAL noob.

    Maybe you should read the manual. See the usage limit column? The pricing starts above that. So, Google provides the API for free, until you start leeching off it. Fair enough. Why should Google subsidise others' businesses?

  50. Re:Priorities by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1 · on The Gang Behind the World's Largest Spam Botnet

    For more information:
    http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=related:mBwQLdGHFCUJ:scholar.google.com/&ei=WdwqT6PyBsOviQKsyfjGCg&sa=X&oi=science_links&ct=sl-related&resnum=1&ved=0CC4QzwIwAA

    This will tell you all you need to know about why it hasn't been done, direct from the experts in the field.

    Short form: the Russians aren't about to take down a "legit pharmacy" just because of abuse of "referral programs".