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  1. Re:genuine fakes on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 2

    I remember genuine fake oiginal spare parts. Say you have to change a tailpipe you could buy the original or you could buy the same piece made in the same factory the original one is made. The only difference is the cardboard sticker....

  2. K-5? on Microsoft Rolls Out Robot Security Guards · · Score: 1

    I think they sould be superseded by k-9 unit.

  3. Re:I just don't know what Nokia is doing anymore. on Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet · · Score: 1

    The answer is simple: Tyres Seems to me the story of Olivetti. After a lot of finance magic tricks the former electronics giant, that pioneered his technology field is dimembered, engineers and worker fired, and the most interesting divison sold by the pound. Next the brand name is slapped on some chinese thing.

  4. Re:IANL on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some peple think that Gnome 3 is a fuming POS and say that Gnome 2 was way better tha the newer versions.

  5. Re: Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Hey. I'm still using a waffle maker built in 1967, as I could see on the label. There is also written "General Electric" and " Made in U.S.A." And is chromed cruvy surfaces are really nice.

  6. Google Police on Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees · · Score: 1


    Google police
    Arrest this man
    He search with Bing
    He Buzzfeed on a fridge
    He's listening on Mixradio

    Google police
    Arrest this girl
    Her iPhone six
    Is making me feel envy
    And we've crashed her macBook

    This is what you'll get
    This is what you'll get
    This is what you'll get
    When you mess with us

    Google police
    I've given all I can
    It's not enough
    I've given all I can
    But we're still on the payroll

    This is what you'll get
    This is what you'll get
    This is what you'll get
    When you mess with us

    For a minute there
    I lost myself, I lost myself
    Phew, for a minute there
    I lost myself, I lost myself

    For a minute there
    I lost myself, I lost myself
    Phew, for a minute there
    I lost myself, I lost myself

  7. Re:Pay cash on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    We're talking about clunkers. I've noticed that car dealers on new cars are eager to sell you also a loan, normally adding insurance, curb side assistance and prepaid maintenance not making an extra discount on base price. For businesses having a leasing instead of having to pay cash is also a lot more interesting because instead of an asset you have an expense.

  8. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about a 1975 car, maybe it's true. Nowadays cars are fully controlled by CAN bus, so it's possible that the device will signal a 'switch off' to the engine. Actually my car alarm does exactly this, and it's not connecte to the solenoid of the starter motor.

  9. My mom says i've an iPad. on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    Actually I have a Nexus 7.

  10. Re:Batteries? Seriously? on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Normally the friends of friends that make buses make also trolleybuses, with the added benefit for trolleybuses that you can make a gift for the friends of friends that make overhead wires. The advantage with buses it that is easier to externalize the bus services to other friends of friends, and get rid of those nasty problem with unionized bus drivers that refuse to work unpaid overtime or drive a bus with worn tires.

  11. Re:They used to be called UHF TV tuners on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    I was told it was illegal. Whether that was just FCC strong-arming or not, I don't know. I was a teenager when I did that and I figured correctly that there was no harm or consequence to be had. Most of the TV sets, even in the 1980s could not do it.

    I think because most TV sets to save components and making alignment easier used a so called intercarrier circuit, where if no video signal carries was present, no audio signal could be demodulated. Newer tv sets had also a mute cicuit that engaged when poor TV signal was present.

  12. Re:They used to be called UHF TV tuners on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were actually trying to buy an Honda motorbike.

  13. Re:Not the PSUs? The actual cables? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    THe cable manufacturer got a spec, then passed the order to a subcontractor. The subcontractor tried to shave costs buying cheaper cables. Cheaper cable while sold as on spec, actually were made under spec, say with tinned aluminium instead of tinned copper.
    The cables pass quality checks, because maybe are lax, and then you have a low quality cable that will work most of the time. Sometimes doesn't work, in other word the last quality inspection is made unknowingly by the buyer...

  14. Re:What's so American on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    Because the FCC has done such a FABULOUS job regulating teh airwaves, we just HAVE to get them involved in the Internet!

    You coul come in Italy in the '80, that due a loophole in the law was possible to broadcast thelevision without license. The end result was a total chaos on TV reception with mandated complex antenna receving systems like this: http://i28.tinypic.com/nn2kvk.... and still have reception problems. Even when a CATV system was in use problem arose as high power transmitter were placed to overcome the signals of other tv stations. The problem born in that small chaos window are still affecting tv reception today after the digital switchover.

  15. Re:What does unwind mean?? on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    They aren't intereste to sell Wind branded phones. Even if the Italian phone company now sell Lumia phones. Maybe they had some disaagrement, I don't know.

  16. Re:I think the strategy should be obvious on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    I think the Noka brand will be used for tyres for consumer products and for consulting and business products. Microsoft likes that the phones will be branded "Microsoft", because Apple phones are branded "Apple".

  17. Re:Useless on Radar Changing the Face of Cycling · · Score: 1

    So you think that the favorite pattime for drivers is hit-and-run cyclist? It's not true: it's way better to hit-and-run the moms with a stroller.
    The real effect to put a bright light on a bike, instead of no lights at all or some puny single-lamp lights, is that having bigger lights makes the cyclist more visible.

  18. Re:My Anecdotal Evidence on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    You are looking at this from the wrong point of view. The way you should be looking at is, if you ALSO had the option of calling up Ford or GM or whoever your car maker was directly, and asking THEM if they could beat the dealer's price

    If you want a Fiat and are in Turin the number to call is 011-004-2000. The price they make are a bit lower in respect of other car dealer, especially on cars in the park lot, but they're not the market killers you could think: i suppose that the mak up goes in the Fiat shareholders pockets instead of the car dealers pocket.

  19. Re:We should have a choice on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    And where exactly do you live that you are buying your VCR directly from Sony or Toshiba

    I actually bought Philips TV sets, VCR, lamps, fridges, dishwashes and hairdryers directly from Philips. I only had to drive to their facory outlet near thei warehouse. The price were lower than the special offer in supermarket, and sometimes you could buy refurbished products at very low prices. Unfortunately they closed the warehouse and the outled a couple of year ago.

  20. Re:Cisco and Self-interest on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    This network paradigm it's soo 1994 with ATM and QOS and service classes.

  21. Re:What About Electricity? on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does the electric company get to decide which devices will be shut down first? Can they shut down your devices before they shut down your neighbor's, because ?

    Actually yes. For industrial uses there are there are different categories of avaliability: high availability, standard and interruptible. An interruprible contract means that the electic company could disconnect the transformer serving your factory if the power demand is too high. Conversely high availability contracts will be disconnected last: normally they have also ne transformaer in stand by in the case the main one fails. By the way if yuo have a 100 kW contract you'll get more power than a 10 kW contract...

  22. Re:Here's the Scoop on Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17 · · Score: 1

    I think that some content provider will goo in a free to air mode. This in obvious on terrestrial television and also on satellite TV: if you're getting money from advertising being FTA will make tour channel more interesting for advertisers than ona in a pay tv bundle because more people will watch it. Maybe for CATV the dynamics are different, or the fact that in USA there's not TV licensing is limiting the number of FTA or FTV channels.
    Italy,France, Austria have a choice of free to view/free to air channels, not to mention UK and Germany that transmit a lot o free to air channels on satellites.

  23. Daitarn 3 on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    They're annoyed by Daitarn 3 solar attack because they're meganoids and the monster of the week is always defeated with solar energy with the homungous robot that Haran Banjo stolen to them.

  24. Re:Maybe they should ask corded phone manufacturer on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    You could buy a watch that doesn't require a battery for less than £ 50 with a design made in the '60s. The main advantage of a watch is that the power compsumtion is very low compared to a smartwatch, the functions are limited to keep the time and there's non need to have connectivity or software updates.

  25. Next iPhone testimonials will be... on How Apple's Billion Dollar Sapphire Bet Will Pay Off · · Score: 1

    Joanna Lumley and David McCallum. Yes the new iPhone 6 will have a steel case too.