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  1. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Japanese Supreme Court Rules TV Forwarding Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, and as more and more people stop watching TV, the amount of ads that show up in commercial breaks on Hulu grows. It's up to two, now, from just one -- don't you think that by the time TV "goes away," it will have reached parity, rendering this argument obsolete?

  2. Re:Game analogy on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Just like we'll eventually see fusion power, but not until long after everyone stopped waiting and moved onto other things. Get it?

  3. Re:Why is.... on Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes · · Score: 1

    As I understand from the article, the judge did decide the punishment -- that this person deserved to be incarcerated. The problem is _where_ the person will be incarcerated, and in the US the BoP decides that.

  4. Re:Do fighters still matter? on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of advantages to having humans in the sky that are not so easily dismissed. Communications can be jammed, whereas a manned plane at least has some chance of carrying out a mission in such a situation.

    You're assuming that future fighter-UAV's are going to be controlled from the ground via some sort of communications link?

    I imagine these things are going to be completely autonomous. It's the only way to avoid such "jamming." Set it flying it one direction, and after a certain time period it turns "bad," and starts shooting any other plane out of the sky, or killing anything on the ground in the area its in. Just make sure your friendly planes are in the same area. I imagine they won't be used as support in some sort of A-10 sense, of course.

  5. Re:DDR2? on Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low · · Score: 1

    I wish -- though it still makes sense that, if you have more than one DDR2 motherboard in operation, to replace just _one_ and then use the leftover DDR2 sticks in the other to add ram.

  6. Re:Fatherly Advice on Android vs. iPhone — Who Wins In 2011? · · Score: 2

    Hello from reddit!

  7. Re:I meant to comment earlier on Android vs. iPhone — Who Wins In 2011? · · Score: 1

    You have no idea.

    Not only does the reboot take _forever_, but you have to completely reboot the phone every time you _install or uninstall an app_.

  8. Re:Goodbye LGA 1366 and 1156 on Intel Sandy Bridge Desktop and Mobile CPUs · · Score: 1

    Might have a little bit of truth to it, but I thought this was just par for the course -- AMD did the same socket-switching BS back in the 754-939-AM2 days, when they had the fastest chips.

  9. Re:Boot time? on Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! · · Score: 1

    All depends on the apps -- there's buggy apps out there that, even though they work, tend to slow down things over time. We already know that Apple does _not_ vet the code of apps (only how they work upon inspection), so it's not too surprising.

  10. Re:Boot time? on Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! · · Score: 1

    That's your own personal experience. I know a few iPhone owners, ones who tinker with their phones (non-jailbraking) as much as I'm guessing an Android owner would, who restart their phones every few days, if not every day.

  11. Re:Boot time? on Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! · · Score: 1

    Yes, Android is the same. However, comparing your iPod Touch to an Android phone isn't exactly accurate -- it would be more accurate to compare it to an iPhone, which has restarts that happen far more often than "months apart." It also takes a similiar amount of time to start up.

  12. Re:Well... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    Something else to manipulate on their days off from running the country?

  13. Re:Use of Caps Lock key on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 2

    "For modern web-based applications, you are correct that there is little or no reason for the Caps Lock key."

    Bingo. The Chrome laptop is a specialized piece of hardware for use with web applications -- we won't be using "antiquated legacy systems" on it. If one needs that functionality, don't buy a Chrome laptop.

  14. Re:The best part is... on Google Launches Nexus S Phone In UK and US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not... exactly. There's just enough difference between all the Captivates, Vibrants, Epics and the like to make what you talk about not possible. That might've actually have been Samsung's goal.

  15. I'm a socialist... on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    ...but even I think this is stupid.

  16. Re:Not that hard to kill facebook's tracking on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    You'd think that, but with a loose geolocating of your IP address combined with profile information such as the types of fonts you have installed, your user-agent string, screen resolution, etc. (all information transmitted by your browser), they've pretty much got us narrowed down to whatever computer/location we're at, even if you sandbox with another browser.

  17. Re:So basically a very expensive K11? nice on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    Never mind, did the correct math this time, not the "thought about the numbers for 1 second" math.

  18. Re:So basically a very expensive K11? nice on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    Forgive my ignorance about projectiles like this, but how is a x*1.25mm round "50%" more powerful than a xmm round? Is it also longer?

  19. Re:Maybe on Woz Says Android Will Dominate · · Score: 1

    They can withhold new versions, I guess, but the versions that were already on the device when it was sold will still work well enough for all.

  20. Re:Disappointing a geek article would omit "Sereni on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    I thought they were doing that long shot to show off the set they built of the inside of the Serenity for the movie -- it was supposed to be the first time the entire thing had been created all together, right?

  21. Re:Wow that didn't take long. on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I'm sure glad that every single TSA agent was screened to make sure they enjoy watching senate hearings. Surely they'll hear John's words and correct their action.

  22. Re:Opera Mobile on Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile Now Faster and Sleeker · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but Android + built-in-browser should be fine, right?

  23. Re:Hopefully... on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 1

    If I understand it correctly, even if you know the password to access a WPA-encrypted wifi network, you still can't access other people's data -- you have to capture their "handshake" with the router in addition, and that takes a bit of questionable activity. This is different from WEP, where, I'm pretty sure, if you had the password, all accessed computers' data was visible to everyone else.

    Now, I could be wrong, so someone with more knowledge about this please speak up!

  24. Re:And the answer is no. on Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is where you make the difference between "access" and "see."

    Such as: if I somehow steal your bank account password, and log in to your account, I'm illegally "accessing" your data.

    If you leave your bank statement out on a table where I'm sitting and then leave, and I happen to see what's on it, I'm "seeing" it.

    Facebook was transmitting its tokens in an unencrypted fashion without any security to them whatsoever. The situation is a little more confusing than just a "no."

  25. Re:But you can still get it, right? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    Correct, provided you don't have a carrier-locked-down Android phone that prevents you from installing apps from sources other than the official market (though that kind of thing is quite rare...I believe there are only a couple out of the myriad of Android devices set up like this.)

    And they're all quickly circumvented, too, using either the Android SDK or a few other Windows programs out there that will sideload apps onto your phone.