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  1. ARM on Via Files Suit Against Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shouldn't they be suing ARM as Apple licensed it from them?

  2. Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    GPS drifts, and has to be calibrated several times a day. DGPS and WAAS make it more accurate from 100m to a few cm though.

  3. There is more. on Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph · · Score: 1
  4. Re:What's an IPO on Facebook To Put Off IPO Until Late 2012 · · Score: 1

    Internet Patent Overlord.

  5. Re:Can't wait to make these criminals billionaires on Facebook To Put Off IPO Until Late 2012 · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Why the comment on the capacity on 3TB Hard Drive Round Up · · Score: 1

    Also do not miss the fact the drives have throughput topping 160TB per second. These drives are fast. o_O

    http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1712/3tb_roundup_atto_read.png

  7. Re:750,000 hours MTBF. on 3TB Hard Drive Round Up · · Score: 1

    Total lie. Most HDD's will fail around 3 years, so ~26,000 hours.

  8. Re:750,000 hours MTBF. on 3TB Hard Drive Round Up · · Score: 2

    I break in to your house and steal your Drobo, then what?

  9. Re:It's convenience and security. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 2

    Hardware access to fax, all you need to do is intercept the analogue wires in the last mile. You can either splice a single cable, or even use a clamp on inductor. The cable is either underground, overground, or at a termination point in a cabinet or on a pole, and attach a small recording box the size of a cigarette lighter. I've even seen wire tappers that use induction, not just to tap, but also to draw power for GSM circuitry that calls home when the line is in use.

  10. Re:WARNING: BULLSHIT AHEAD on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod parent up!

  11. Re:FF was good, then... on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 2

    6 weeks is an awful short time between releases. Why not make it 4 or 6 months? That's still 2-3 version numbers a year. Current cycles means Mozilla are releasing over 8 versions a year, too many to keep track of, it seems Bugzilla is finding it hard to keep up too.

    I've pretty much given up on Mozilla, I no longer triage bugs for them. There is no time to take bugs seriously, everything is focused on the next version number and the one under-the-hood thing that gets added in the new version.

  12. Re:That's good on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 1
  13. Re:fp on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look AC, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

  14. Re:Photocopiers to the ready. on Facebook Makes Privacy Settings More Obvious · · Score: 1

    Majority of phone numbers are in the public domain anyway. Heard of a phone book?

  15. Re:This is why! on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 1

    You should have written that as:

    Samsung: "I'm sorry Steve, I'm afraid I can't let you do that".
    Steve: "What's the problem?"
    Samsung: "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
    Steve: "What are you talking about?"
    Samsung: "Your patent claim is null and void"
    Steve: "Where the hell did you get that idea,"
    Samsung: "See youtube video"

  16. Photocopiers to the ready. on Facebook Makes Privacy Settings More Obvious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it me, or both Google and Facebook copying each other. G+ has animated GIFs, now Facebook has etc. Now this.

  17. Re:Ddi they also announce on PS Vita Specs Announced · · Score: 1

    When have you heard the major game companies ever think about the sub culture a game creates, or even car how happy the user is? It's all about number of units sold, "2 million sold in first week" is all they care about. They majors can manufacture their market through promotion, indies cannot.

    Small companies may care, but they are they are not the ones spending £20m+ developing a long playing game for the Vita, the small companies are making the casual games that sell for 99p for Android/iOS.

  18. Re:Guh on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    How about an audio connector with a break before make connection, where the ground connection is made first, and doesnt pop and blow speakers when you forget to turn off your ipod before plugging it into your amp?

    Umm, have you ever used an XLR plug and socket? If you connect the earth to the chassis ground/shield of the XLR connector, the earth is met before the hot and cold pins are engaged.

  19. Re:I'm confused on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    Why not go from a 3.5mm to a 2.5mm TRS jack?

  20. Re:if not at least deface it! on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 0

    Frape Facebook itself. I see where you are going.

  21. Re:Thunderbolt = dead in two years. on External Thunderbolt Graphics Card On Its Way · · Score: 2

    One RAID box? Their are several now, Lacie released one a couple of weeks back. Apple also have their Thunderbolt display, you might want to look at what it does.

    Thunderbolt is not competing against USB either.

  22. Re:Interesting contrast on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 1

    I believe that in the UK you would only have to pay the losses incurred, so 24 songs at 79p would be £18.96, plus small claims court fees (may only top £50-100).

    As for suing the average joe for copyright infringement for piracy, the music industry has lost every case in the UK.

  23. Re:That £3500 PC on UK Taxpayers' Money Getting Wasted On IT Spending · · Score: 1

    If it helps, my support contract for a number of printers and digital photocopiers is 1p/page, and this includes all toner, paper, less than 12 hour call out, all parts and labour do not cost anything. We do have to pay half the cost of a new printer. We only do about 500 pages a week on all printers.

  24. Re:What is an Internet? on Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? · · Score: 0

    Nice to know your Internet is huge, because the real one is quite small. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0 [youtube.com]

  25. Re:What is an Internet? on Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? · · Score: 1

    Nice to know your Internet is huge, because the real one is quite small. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0