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  1. Re:3k??? on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem to have moving parts. I got a 1TB passport HDD for $95, but a 128G SSD is more expensive and even smaller form factors, like the Patriot Magnum are very convenient.

  2. Re:Good on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 1

    Actually, I hope that's the goal. Seems to me that Slashdot and Reddit have treated the topic quite often and their audience knows about it (both sites normally front-page articles about it).

    Clearly Google and Facebook can reach audiences that have absolutely no clue about it.

  3. Re:If they were manned aircraft would it be an iss on Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say · · Score: 1

    If it were a manned aircraft it would be large enough to notice you're being spied on. If you see a guy trying to look through your windows, perhaps you'll spot it faster than an unmanned robotic spider (or who knows what).

    So, yes it would be an issue, but you don't think it's because normally you'd have spotted it anyways. But I see what you're saying could be better paraphrased as:

    So if you DON'T know and DON'T see anyone spying on you, do you feel the same? Perhaps not, but it certainly creeps you the hell out (ask any girl friend about it).

  4. Re:Dull Specs, but battery life? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    The problem with "battery life", at least to me is how do they benchmark this. When I first got an iPhone 3, battery life sucked for what I played with the phone, It lasted 2 hours.

    My Galaxy S needs to be charged every night, but overall when I play a lot with the phone, it lasts enough to go through the day.

    It may be that I do less or that battery lasts more or the battery is larger (now I see phones with 1800mAh instead of 1000mAh, from a couple of years back).

    So I think there's a lot to be analyzed and most likely it will end up being an issue of a large display draining the battery while playing Angry Birds for most of the users.

    I guess I'll wait and check my self, as I had to do with most of my devices so far.

  5. Re:How to regain your lost potential on Google Giving Google TV Another Shot · · Score: 1

    I have the set (The Sony TV -- Sorry, for buying Sony!). The recent update allows you to run Pandora in background and even put a widget on the screen. Now allows to install apps and has access to some App Market that I haven't found use for yet (But it has some games and other apps). I think you can now stream from your Mac as well.

    I think with these changes, they finally seem to be working on the right track.

  6. Re:I've got one arriving Wednesday on Google Giving Google TV Another Shot · · Score: 1

    I agree. I don't know what is it with the "overpriced" word on the summary. I got mine for $800, a 42 inch LED 60Hz. By the time everyone was so disappointed it wasn't 120Hz or 240Hz (don't really know why they need that for Internet streaming anyways), that they failed to realized that it was an $800 set (not a $1200+) and it had a CPU inside.

    Netflix integration is great (It has declined a bit since, its latest version is not as intuitive as it was originally), and the capability of flash, allows you to go to many places (except for Hulu that blocked the thing and never provided an App, so I still have to use the laptop through the HDMI).

    And a portable remote/keyboard that most people think should be I guess a 10 digit frustrating remote?

    I sincerely don't understand why all these issues with the people (I don't think the TV has significant drawbacks).

  7. Re:Really? on Google Accused of Interfering With South Korean FTC Investigation · · Score: 4, Funny

    And, since Bing uses Google's results, everyone uses google anyways. Go Figure! ;-)

  8. Re:Very subjective on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 1

    After all I read, I thought the inverse of the number of lawyers per sq. mile was a good "good neighborhood index". MS got it wrong... again.

  9. Re:Do something on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    Since the ISPs ( which are also content providers ) support this

    What else would you expect from the Comcast-NBC merger? Networks are becoming carriers, carriers are becoming networks. And turned out they both own the government.

  10. Re:No incentive on Where Were the Robots In Fukushima Crisis? · · Score: 1

    With cruise ships accidents being extremely rare, I guess the number of rafts should follow the Titanic's design premises. After all one accident in many is not worth the expense.

  11. Re:Good. on TSA Interested In Purchasing Dosimeters · · Score: 1

    Well, because a leak in a device is abnormal, and people may be exposed without knowing. But radiating people directly and intentionally is certainly another matter. I know both have consequences to the "radiated", but the second one has a bigger legal consequence for the TSA.

  12. Re:Reasonably stupid on Apple Patents Power Adapter That Recovers Lost Passwords · · Score: 1

    And I wonder how easy would be to recover passwords of your closed ones that time to borrow their charger. Isn't social networking one of the biggest risks nowadays?

  13. Re:Who cares? on Tivo Gets $215 Million Patent Settlement From AT&T · · Score: 1

    I wonder who to you get your internet service from... I've been looking around and all of them are Cable companies. It doesn't matter I don't have cable service, I'm still paying them for [Internet] service.

  14. Re:This is a wise idea on When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense · · Score: 2

    I think this approach misses the point. Asking in context, every time a teacher teaches something it's going to be taught in a different way. Students will come up with different questions depending on the context.

    I always paid careful attention to the classes and asked as much as I could. Some people think it's annoying, but I think that's the fundamental part on why the professors are there. Otherwise, everyone can just read a book or watch a video.

    So my main concern about this is that we're focusing on what students, lazy professors and educational corporate interests think classes should be.

  15. Re:Uncensorable? on German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites · · Score: 1

    Well, countries have also sovereignty over geostationary satellites. It's not like they don't have to ask permission to put them up there.

    Unless, they would float on top of the oceans perhaps, but if countries managed to claim pieces of the south pole (Antarctica) by "projecting" their area, what stops them to do this 40km above the sea level?

  16. Re:Report terrorism - on EU Proposal Would Encourage Web Users To Flag Suspicious Web Pages · · Score: 1

    Well, why keep pushing the children stuff, if you can instigate fear in more people... parent or not.

  17. Re:Is the air aiding and abetting terrorism? on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    I wonder why they didn't bother to annoy Kimberly-Clark (and other paper makers), terrorists used paper as well. Moreover I now wonder if courier services had to add those clauses to their shipping forms to avoid legal complaints.

    In any case, any billboard can also transmit information, any classified, or ad, so in that case, almost anything you can make profit from, on the web aids the terrorists. But there's always the need of putting ideas in people's minds.

  18. Re:No, often not on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 2

    You can improve any component with your design. Many amplifiers have noise die to swings that can be filtered or reduced using feedback. Others with problems in the low frequencies can be fixed with an array of capacitors that can provide de "boost", when your maximums are exceed. As someone that enjoy playing with amplifiers, a proper design that accounts for many of the flaws of the components is normally what you look for... You may do it your self for cheap, if you go around solving the problems, but you can also buy a piece of hardware that is good enough for your taste. But it is all in the design of your decoding/amplifying stages.

  19. Re:So... on FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase · · Score: 0

    Or something a la Netflix:
    This is great news, you'll have almost one more bar [1], and your phone plans will only cost twice as much!




    [1] In certain locations where concentration of people is less than on per sq. mile.

  20. Re:What are they buying? on Apple Increases Dominance of Mobile Shopping · · Score: 1

    And in related news, people seen spending money were seen spending more money.

  21. Re:Galaxy S i9000 Got Two Full OS updates on Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 · · Score: 1

    I haven't even checked for GIngerbread on my captivate. The step to froyo on my system was catastrophic. My phone now hangs sometimes, and I have to remove the battery for it to react again.

    ATT always says there are no upgrades/updates available, so I stopped checking. Samsung should seriously do something about their chain. I can blame one, the other, I wanted to believe it was ATT, but now I think they are both.

    But thanks Samsung, now that I know Intel is probably releasing phones with medfield soon, I'll wait for it, and see if hopefully Intel makes our lives simpler and allows us to have a wider spectrum of things we can install on thoes x86 platforms.

  22. Re:Ad Content on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 4, Funny

    My webpage is just about 1k. But you have you watch a 30 sec. interlaced Bluray quality ad before you can see it.

  23. Re:Shocked. on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm wondering if there would be a similar story some 20+ years ago:
    Do you really need a cellphone? And all the advantages of the POTS and wired phone lines. As someone said... 640k ought to be enough for anyone. No idea why people keep upgrading their stuff.

  24. Re:A friend worked for Xerox in 1984 on Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love all those stories. But the problem is if the machine has actually prohibitively to build. I've seen many interesting research projects but if they had no market for it because nobody will pay the 2 million dollars the printer costs (without even considering the ink) then it won't make it to the public. I'm sure though they used their results for further research to make them more affordable.

    The most recent case I remember the most... is the Color E-ink screen, I saw perfectly good/working prototypes in 2005 for digital frames. But for some reason we're flooded with low-res LCDs Frames, with useless features like MP3 players.

    Who knows what the reasons are not to put stuff in the market.

  25. Re:This, finally, will bring sanity to the system on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    At least, if not, it's going to be a interesting DoS attack to the USPTO. Filing at a large rate will either require more people to actually go through them carefully or simply a reform of the process. Which may come with a reform to the system.