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  1. Re:Proxy wars on HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This all started because Google decided they needed to crush iOS by giving away Android for free.

    I'm sorry, I guess I missed the part where Apple was trying to sell iOS to other manufacturers.

    People still need to _buy_ hardware before there is any competition here.

  2. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    How are they going to make more money when they are misused? That makes no sense..

    Just a hunch, but... selling more cartridges?

  3. Re:can't take revenge against a computer on Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety · · Score: 1

    I think the key is that most people aren't aware, or choose to ignore that pilots are letting the plane land itself. That way you only have to convince the minority - the pilots - that it's safe. And as their jobs depend on it, that's a fair bit easier.

  4. Re:Businesses do not understand technology on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with your point, but the pedant in me can't resist:

    Usually software backed up by a large businesses is considered to be a bonus for the "traditional" business drone,

    Google?

  5. Re:But your U.S. prices do not include tax on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    No. That "/1.175" is *removing* the VAT (UK sales tax), so that we're comparing pre-tax prices.

  6. Re:Terrorrism on Airport Access IDs Hacked In Germany · · Score: 1

    Ditto. They do it to counter just this sort of problem. Mod parent up.

  7. Re:Where to begin? on Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM · · Score: 1

    If DRM enables products to be sold for a price that is cheap to users and fair to developers,

    I may be wrong (I haven't looked into it, but hey - this is /.) but doesn't the DRM also cost someone money on the developer's side? It may be insignificant, but it's going to put up prices somewhere along the line.

  8. Re:"Postini"? on A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention · · Score: 1

    You can't permanently delete from a search - it all ends up in the bin unless you delete it from the spam folder view.

  9. DNS on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Just in case anyone's interested, if you're not using their DNS servers, there seems to be no block.
    Demon's DNS server is currently resolving en.wikipedia.org to 193.195.3.33 (RDNS iwfwebfilter.thus.net). Using OpenDNS I get the real Wikipedia IP and the page is not blocked.

  10. Re:Defense Fund? on NYCL Responds to RIAA Accusations · · Score: 2, Informative

    One for expert witnesses, a couple for specific cases, listed on NYCL's blog:
    http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/#contrib

  11. Re:I know why... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Re: Youtube, I've had 20 or so (certainly over 10) youtube tabs open at once, and it's handled them fine. Also with browsing to different videos within one tab.

    For me the main dealbreaker is (again) the plugins/add-ons, especially NoScript.

  12. Re:Some are actually opposed to privacy on How to Convince Non-IT Friends that Privacy Matters? · · Score: 1

    I posted their photo on my website, and they sued to get it removed and get damages I may be missing something, but the link points to a page about a defamation lawsuit, after you claimed they used your photos without permission. I couldn't find anything about someone trying to have one of your photos removed because they appeared in it.
  13. Re:WTF? on Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 1

    I think it's the punctuation or sentence structure, at the place you mentioned. i.e.

    "XMPP has been designed, since the beginning, as an open technology for generalized XML routing."
    or
    "Since the beginning, XMPP has been designed as an open technology for generalized XML routing."

    Sounds better to me, anyway.

  14. Re:Tasting parasites on Google Adsense Cracking Down on 'Tasters' · · Score: 1

    Good point. My immediate reaction is "just cancel all their other domains and ban them" when they try to pull something like that, but no doubt they would find a way around such methods.

    Which leaves us with blocking their incentive (which also won't work in the long term, but is a nice thought). Has anyone set up a DNS blocklist of link farms? Surely it must exist?

  15. Re:By the authorise? on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1

    It is if they mean "authorise" (or "authorize"), but not if they meant "authorities", which is what the AC was getting at.