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  1. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the spec allow updates from the discs themselves?

  2. Carpe Diem on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 1

    I preferred the version with Robin Williams.

  3. Re:Start a classroom war on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 1

    I prefer chicago cut.

  4. Re:Not exactly a new idea on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Possibly I saw them both and got them confused in my head. It's likely been the better part of 30 years.

  5. Re:Broken Window Fallacy on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    Never mind. It's not. In which case, neither will it "fuel" anything. Obama didn't build that.

  6. Broken Window Fallacy on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 0

    Broken Window Fallacy

  7. Re:Speaking of Google and Privacy on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Which version are you on? I don't see this on my 4.1 Droid Maxx.

  8. Re:Speaking of Google and Privacy on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    It looks like fine grained permissions control is coming in 4.3 (App ops).

    My phone is rooted so there may be other options.

    I found a web page that shows a setting in the security->Device administration that looks like it would disable it but not available on my phone.

    http://www.stopcellphonetracking.com/google-helps-find-your-stolen-android-device/

  9. Re:Speaking of Google and Privacy on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    To be clear, I don't want to disable location services completely. I just find this to be intrusive.

  10. Speaking of Google and Privacy on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    Anyone know how to prevent Android Device Manager being able to access my location anytime it feels like it?

    https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

    I'm on a Droid Razr Maxx.

  11. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    I did say "operate under US law". ;)

  12. Re:Not exactly a new idea on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    Never mind. It appears that it is my memory that is at fault. Funny that. I could have sworn it was Bond and I have no memory of watching Mission Impossible.

  13. Re:Not exactly a new idea on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    It could be that it's been a plot device more than once but this was in a James Bond movie. And since it was also baccarat...

  14. I haven't been impressed. It seems to be loaded up with sugar or something.

  15. Heck, I'm a fan of procreation but I'll join you in your sentiment. It's a personal choice.

  16. Re:This is the future on What Valve's Announcements Mean for Gaming · · Score: 1

    If there's one thing my home office doesn't lack for, it's disks. Time for another bi-annual throw-out.

  17. Re:This is the future on What Valve's Announcements Mean for Gaming · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The Linux kernel is a tool and not a marketing strategy designed to allow the creator to unfairly out-compete you when they decide to enter your market because they see you're doing well or to use their position to extract funds from your customers by forcing them to purchase newer versions of their software to allow those customers to continue to use the best features of your software (c.f. artificial directX restrictions).

  18. Re:Look, is any of this stuff news? on Metadata On How You Drive Also Reveals Where You Drive · · Score: 1

    But you have to be sure it's getting to many unrelated ears. Posting it up on your blog because "anyone can read it" is not good. Something like Freenet or Usenet or in a popular torrent is probably better.

  19. Re:Codeine in cough syrup? on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    I hate those assholes. I flew with a cold once and was dying from (negative) sinus pressure until I could reach a pharmacy and get some pseudophedrine inside me Whatever it is you can buy without going through the Naziesque collection of personal information in many/most states these days is a fraction as effective

  20. Re:media inaccuracy on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 2

    Having been exposed to a couple of episodes, I suspect #4 is just good advice in general.

  21. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    New WTF more like. I can't think of many dictators that operate under US law.

  22. Re:Natural selection on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 2

    But suppose he becomes a brilliant scientist and invents a time machine, travels back to the early 20th century, grows a little mustache and kills six million Jews? My god, what kind of monster are you?

  23. Re:Time to laugh harder on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    So the obvious answer is to criminalize healthy food. Gotcha.

  24. Re:Google and government jet fuel. on Those Magnificent Googlers and Their Flying Machines · · Score: 1

    Most of the ones I know are all about removing protection for corporations. Many aren't all that fond of corporations in the first place.

  25. Re:Different fingers on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Without the requirement that they be from the same person. So if you think they might be cheating with one person, they could just as easily cheat if you brought in another.

    Unless you're suggesting that they trained it on this extra finger and then forgot. Which isn't beyond the realms of possibility but unlikely I would have thought.