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  1. Re:But not for 4.1 on BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK · · Score: 1

    Only officially, I'm running flash on 4.1 here. Though I don't trust it, as a such I use a non flash capable browser unless I actually need flash.

  2. Re:Military officers on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    From what I make out, yes being military astronauts they retain full military benefits. If they had resigned their commissions then civilian astronauts get similar provisions to federal agents. I'm sure a form of life insurance is part of the package either way.

  3. Re:language != logic on Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is this little thing called schors algorithm which does do it in polynomial time, therefore I know its theoretically possible to do in reasonable time. Unfortunately it requires a trinary state machine to run and such machines have a habit of pulling themselves apart with more than a few bits of data and tend to need to be recreated after each run currently.

  4. Re:language != logic on Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day · · Score: 2

    I was thinking about factorizing the product of two large primes. There are numerous problems in computer science that we can't do with current technology;

  5. Re:Distance from the power supply on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 1

    "Rock" and "Rock And Roll" are two different styles, please see Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Danny and the Juniors, Chubby Checker and compare to AC/DC.

  6. Re:beat on Why Intel Should Buy Nokia · · Score: 1

    I think microsoft should beat the shit of nokia and burn them alive. enough with the crap. getting angry for waiting a decent windows phone available on all countries.

    Waiting for a decent windows phone? Isn't that a little like waiting for the first openly gay, married, female catholic Pope?

    FTFY.

  7. Re:Still sucking bandwidth on Embedding of Copyright Infringing Video Not (Necessarily) a Crime · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does the video use less bandwidth when embedded on YouTube.com vs. some other site? Or does the stream itself use identical bandwidth but the page load use less because its not loading all the rest of it like the logo and comments.

    Some video hosting services, youtube being the obvious example, actively encourage embedding as they still get the fees from the advertising embedded in the flash video player or video stream.

  8. To late anyway? on Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research · · Score: 1

    Isn't this whole case about the fact Samsung has figured it out already?

  9. Re:Opposite experience on IT Support Pro Tells Why He Hates Live Chat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the support end, fielding multiple chats simultaneously is possible, while waiting for one person to reply one can start to help the next person, this can not be done on the phone. Miscommunication is less, names aren't misspelled so easily or just not quite heard right, you don't need to be sat their going through a sequence of numbers or characters and checking it is correct character by character. Finally if you give a set of instructions, it can all be given at once and they are left to get on with it, they can reread the message to check the next step, they don't need to bother you again 'till there is an actual problem or it solves the issue.

  10. Yes-ish! on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 0

    I've opened up the platters and adjusted the head on what that had come out of alignment once. Of course without replacing the platters in a clean room I am not going to trust it for any kind of data integrity, but it did allow recovery of the data on the old platters.

  11. Re:A patent troll public shaming. Interesting on Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad · · Score: 2

    Motorola files against apple in October 2010 Google first reached out to start discussing terms in July 2011 and while there are no sources cited for that second one, it does sound about right. There is no evidence Google had anything to do with initiating any lawsuit.

  12. Re:A patent troll public shaming. Interesting on Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So which lawsuit did Google initiate? Plenty where suits have been bought against Google. I don't know of any where Google was the initiator.

  13. Re:ASLR and DEP on Android Jelly Bean Much Harder To Hack · · Score: 1

    Yes, which is why it wasn't on 'till ICS. I was just pointing out that there is some inherent support there anyway.

  14. Re:We lost the ability to read analog clocks first on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 1

    As someone almost like that, if it's likely I can do it quicker in my head, the calculator is just time used confirming the answer, just cause someone is using a calculator don't assume they aren't doing arithmetic too.

  15. Re:We lost the ability to read analog clocks first on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 1

    My watch is dual digital/analogue, I can read a map, GPS only gives the coordinates one is at in longitude/latitude which is not useful for an ordinance survey map in the UK. And I do arithmetic in my head as well as on the calculator. Oh, and finally I'm part of the generation that grew up with this technology, I do use it all, I can do all mentioned both the old way or with the new high tech gadgets. The advantage of the new gadgets is I can do them all at once or offload some of the work and let my brain work on other stuff.

  16. Re:How stupid they think hackers are? on Android Jelly Bean Much Harder To Hack · · Score: 1

    not to mention, all they had to do was turn it on in the kernel and make sure dalvik worked with it.

  17. Not new on Criminals Distribute Infected USB Sticks In Parking Lot · · Score: 2

    1) Penetration testers have been using this attack for some time, surprisingly often it works, it only takes one clueless manager to plug it in.

    2) With a little creative reengineering one does not need to rely on the system to automount and autorun the stick, instead one sticks a USB hub in there and a HID emulator and pumps out keystrokes, pretty much all operating systems will automatically initialize it as a keyboard device. Also one can hide that function until go time. let them act as ordinary memory sticks 'till then.

  18. Re:Not Just English Speakers. on Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans · · Score: 1

    I believe the verb 'to google' is in the Oxford English Dictionary when they finished the revised edition and publish it, that is.

  19. Re:Isn't IE embedded into the OS where possible on Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown · · Score: 2

    That's why firefox spawns plugins off in a separate process.

  20. Re:Why IE9 did well on Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown · · Score: 1

    Or IE is doing what chrome does and has the overhead on every single tab. Which I would point out is why chrome is so high on memory usage compared.

  21. Re:Very little to do with broadcast on Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? · · Score: 0

    No, they won't, they lock the chips to specific protocols for a reason, wifi and bluetooth chips are already on the same band and could be combined with very little work, but all the work the vendors do to lock the chips to one specific protocol it's insane. Unfortunately the FCC/Ofcom/ITU regs pretty much say they have to, this is why all wifi cards have some binary blob somewhere (firmware upload to device, firmware already on device...) to stop you accessing all the frequencies the hardware is capable of or with non-certified protocols and yet allow the same hardware to be used in multiple countries with differing regulations.

  22. Re:Pirate radio? on Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? · · Score: 2

    This is only legal to Amateur radio operators I believe, as it will not be vetted by the FCC/Ofcom... to broadcast only on the allowed part of the spectrum. From a Ham operators point of view, it's not much difference than a full HF/VHF rig, or a USRP with every possible daughter board installed. The big change is that it's all on one card and it uses PCI-Express for the interface to to the computer.

    The whole this will stop the FCC having so much control over the spectrum is totally wrong. They'll have as much control as they currently do which is they can shut down any transmitter in the US if it's not following the licensing terms they set out.

  23. Re:Maybe selection bias on Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown · · Score: 1

    Yeah, AOL crap came to the UK, and it was such crap, most in the UK tries to stay away from it.

  24. Re:Bravery on Chinese Crew Completes Manual Docking With Orbiting Module · · Score: 1

    "Made in Russia" any better, how about a "Russian Ripoff, Made in China" sticker?

  25. Re:Congradulations China on Chinese Crew Completes Manual Docking With Orbiting Module · · Score: 1

    I never said it was a bad strategy, but from a diplomatic/political point of view, it hasn't exactly served them.