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  1. Re:This is a seriously bad idea! on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seem not jut your information, but also you friends.

    I noticed this for some apps:

    Access my friends' information
    Birthdays, Religious and political views, Family members and relationship statuses, Significant others and relationship details, Home towns, Current locations, Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, Activities, Interests, Education history, Work history, Online presence, Websites, Groups, Events, Notes, Photos, Videos, Photos and videos of them, 'About me' details and Facebook statuses

    Why on earth would Facebook want to give this information to third parties, and worse to ones you have not given permission to, but your friend has.

  2. Re:If only the world worked like this.... on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    Opps, you keep 70c if you take the 70% of $1 option.

  3. Re:If only the world worked like this.... on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    Hang on a second, the developer should be able to set a 'cost price', and give an MSRP, then Amazon should sell it at what they like, but the developer should always get their cost price. What seems to be happening here is Amazon will sell it, and the developer will keep a small share of either the retail price, so if you quote $10 MSRP, and Amazon sell it at $1, you either keep 40c, or $2 if you want the 20% MSRP. Not like Apple's store where you would take $7. I'd still want my cost price of $7 no matter what, as with physical products if I was selling in the high street.

  4. Re:Of course on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    Cortex A8 is 2 DMIPS / MHz, the slowest Pentium 4 1.3GHz is about 2.7 DMIPS / MHz, however the P4 is 51.6W TDP.

  5. Re:Screen Space on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    Wish they did this for the iPhone too. The space could be used for game controls for example.

  6. Re:anyone else here... on Apple Releases IOS 4.3 Beta To Developers · · Score: 1

    Also when iPhone was a CISCO product!

  7. Re:Paraphrasing Jay and Silent Bob SB on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    They also know that by suing this guy into oblivion, they make it slightly less likely that someone else will want to release similar exploits / keys for things in the future.

    It will only scare people who live in America.

    Hackers in the UK, or most other EU countries, should not be scared at all. We [in the UK] can reverse engineer anything, including working out keys such as that found on the PS3. Why not get an English person to publish the keys?

    Only laws that would get in my way would be the Computer Misuse Act, but installing Linux/GNU on my PS3 would not break the Act as the license for Linux allows me to use it with hardware such as the PS3. Then there is bootlegging, which comes under copyright laws, which is another law which I'm not interested in breaking as I'm not in to using bootlegged or pirated games or of Sony's OS.

  8. Re:Everyone else uses H264/MPEG4 on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 0

    That, and the fact JPEG2000 looks worse than old JPEG.

  9. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yes, LTE != 4G.

    LTE Advanced is 4G, but you're not going to be seeing that for a couple of years. I live in Birmingham in England, we have LTE-A trials going on in some parts of the city, it's fast, in the hundreds of mega bits fast. No phone handsets or USB dongles yet, just large black metal boxes.

    The advertising push in America is going to hurt 4G — While us in Europe and Asia say we have true 4G that is LTE-A or 802.16m, America will be having 3.9G being advertised a "4G". It's going to be confusing for consumers who read news, blogs or tech sites wanting to know about the latest "4G" phones to find that in Europe they are not "4G" but 3G.

    Is 3.5G or 3.75G also being advertised to be "4G" in America?

  10. Re:Another salvo in the war on Twitter Fights US Court For WikiLeaks Details · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only country at war over the cables will be the USA — and it will not over the leaked cables, but over how they have dealt with the whole matter. The US government are starting to embarrass themselves in front of an international crowd.

  11. Re:Dead on. on Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Facebook is so 2010!

  12. Re:When they finally ship one worth using on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 3, Informative

    TeX is available on the iPad. :)

  13. Re:Is Facebook a viable long term business model ? on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 2

    Their book value is certainly worth more than revenue, where revenue only makes a small part of a companies worth. Their brand value must be massive, which the summary doesn't even cover.

  14. Re:Watch sparks fly over guidelines on Mac OS X 10.6.6 Introduces App Store · · Score: 1

    Interesting to note, games are a lot cheaper on the App Store than on Steam. Example, Bejewelled 3 £14.99 on Steam, £11.99 on App Store.

  15. Re:really? Are they? on Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy · · Score: 2

    Apple have NetBoot, just simply press 'N' on boot to boot up over a network.

  16. Re:Definition of two tier on BT Content Connect May Impact Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    From the BBC article:

    The spokesperson said that BT would not throttle or discriminate against other video services on the network, but did not rule out that ISPs using the network could do so.

    BT already do. Between 4PM and 12AM, some services are throttled to a point where they are not usable. Youtube being one of them.

    3:57PM, Youtube is fine, 4:03PM, good luck trying to play anything that is HD. iPlayer plays fine.

  17. Re:Just damn! on Apple Forces Steve Jobs Action Figure Off eBay · · Score: 2

    Does it come with a chair?

  18. Re:Not so realistic on If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start · · Score: 1

    Article not realistic at all. The FCC do not want to regulate the Internet, they only want to regulate the service providers.

  19. Re:The only question I have is on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to go fishing out bug numbers, but al of those have been fixed.

    Startup is now faster than Chrome and Safari, I/O has been reduced, caches made async, databases get vacuumed periodically etc.

  20. Re:I think ChromeOS will be a success. on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    ARM coming for years. I bought my first ARM powered notebook in 1992. :)

  21. Re:I don't get it on Atomic Weight Not So Constant · · Score: 2

    What I do not get is, of course weight will be different in nature. Weight is dependant on acceleration due to gravity and mass. An atom would weigh more on Earth than it would on the moon.

    I think these chemists mean 'atomic mass'? I'm an engineer so correct me if I'm wrong.

  22. Re:FFS on Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    Amazon use it too.

    It never remembers my password and I have to make a new one every time, and some sites the "next" "submit" or whatever button is missing. :/

  23. Re:Stupid action on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech, priceless. For everything else, there's Mastercard.

    Too slow! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1899690&cid=34474384

  24. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 2

    Freedom of expression is priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard.

  25. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    Yes.