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  1. we need an iphone app for this on A New Species of Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    Take a photo of the patent number and it gets sent to a server for OCR and analysis against a patent database.

  2. Re:So in the next Jason Bourne movie on China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users · · Score: 1

    He'll steal a phone from someone and kill them to prevent them reporting the theft.

  3. Busted... on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jamie Heinemann shot the perp with a potato cannon and knocked him into a tank full of sharks.

  4. who would you pay ? on AT&T Says Net Rules Must Allow 'Paid Prioritization' · · Score: 1

    If I traceroute a packet across the country it probably travels over at least 3 different providers' networks, do they all bill me individually, or will the ISPs band together to form an ISPAA ? We all know how well that serves the common good.
    Also, there are other ways of getting traffic around the country than the internet. These guys could easily create an MPLS overlay to the Internet and effectively split tunnel traffic at the DLAM / Cable head to send regular traffic over the internet infrastructure and "premium traffic" over a separate network directly to the servers of the companies involved

  5. Re:Pretty damm funny on Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I believe that many lawyers in the UK accept cash as well as blood, and will do so even if the legal argument you wish them to advance is a silly one.

  6. No-ne knows on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    the internal composition of the death star. For all we know the whole thing is two vertical hemispheres joined together by cheez wiz. The maintenance trench might have little to do with the geometry of an explosion. The same goes for moons around alien planets that have been mined around their equators for minerals found only there that apparently despite other advances in science, can only be dug out of the ground and not made in a lab.

  7. Re:Does that make sense ? on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    Typing it into the other machines ! Sounds like time for the students to learn how to make a network. I assume they had serial ports at least.

  8. Re:Does that make sense ? on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know what the A level syllabus is, but I suspect it is more about learning how computers work in preparation for a university degree than about learning how to program in any particular language. Quite frankly I think they should keep things as fundamental as possible at this stage. Students can always go to community college if they wish to learn how to set up outlook, operate excel or write java etc.

  9. Give the nurse a sharpie on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    And modify the connector to have a small writing surface on each part. The nurse can then make random sharpie strokes across the join and later match them up or otherwise label them in any ad-hoc manner that works for that nurse.

  10. Re:Parallels with computer cabling on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    You're right, it should all be replaced with a wireless solution.

  11. Re:Previous Story on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    I guess the same goes for playing John Cage's 4'33" back to back many times over too. Oh well, there's only so much karma whoring I can get out of one joke. I gather that they use single sideband but don't suppress the carrier; presumably if they did suppress the carrier the signal would just disappear if they were sending (good quality) silence for any appreciable time. Really, can they not afford a cable to connect the tone generator and the transmitter, they had to mic it up.

  12. Re:Previous Story on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 5, Funny

    What makes you think the apparent silence was not just a long string of Null characters being broadcast ?

  13. So what is the advice on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 4, Interesting

    for those that are terminated and have no intention of connecting back in ? After all, if I am let go, the last thing I want is for my old credentials to be used by someone to trash something and have suspicion fall on me.

  14. why not give people the option on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    That is utc with choice of correction factors. Never more than 10ns correction but at unpredictable times, a few 100s of ns every week at midnight (old UTC) on Sunday or an occasional annual update of a few seconds. Pick the update scheme that suits your situation best. They could be called UTCa, UTCb etc. To most people that don't care, it will all still be UTC.

  15. Re:The bigger crimes on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know it's wierd, but I have often seen it when using M to mean millions of dollars and not Mega. I had come to think of it as being a plural for thousands (as in roman numerals). Maybe I am just using it wrongly, but it has become habit now. I don't use it to express millions of ohms or millions of watts, just millions of dollars.

  16. The bigger crimes on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    would to be to let the case of a few idiots render the devices useless. Or to make out that helicopter rides cost $10MM when they really cost a few 1000s.
    The stories of brave rangers rescuing people from ugly conditions are undoubtedly true in some cases, but not in the case of a balmy day when someone has brackish water.

  17. Re:I guess I'll come out and say it... on From Slaying Dragons To Dictators · · Score: 1

    I agree. Looks to me like this can go one of three ways.
    1) It's real and someone relies upon it and gets caught and punished because it has failed, or
    2) It's actually been created by the Iranian government, or
    3) It's a scam and totally fake
    I'm leaning toward (3) right now.

  18. I wonder what brand on Flight Attendant Quits And Exits Plane Via Emergency Slide · · Score: 1

    of beer he grabbed, and whether it will become a beer commercial.

  19. Re:Because there always has been a center of Europ on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    But Europe's boundaries have constantly shifted over time. Hence so has the center.

  20. Sounds major on 5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions · · Score: 1

    And presumably we should now see a step function reduction in malware issues. I wonder if we will.

  21. Because there always has been a center of Europe on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    there must be prior art.

  22. Don't forget the reward on The Risks of Entering Programming Contests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The alternative to a competition is what, a request for tender, a bunch of responses from big corporations. At least the competition gives me as an individual a reasonable way to compete.

  23. Re:implausible? it's magic! on Aussie National Broadband Network Will Be Gigabit · · Score: 1

    I would guess that there are about 9M households in Australia, so each household will pay around A$5k (assuming we're using US billions here) whether they want the service or not, and those that want the service will pay monthly too.
    I'm not sure it sounds like such a good deal in those terms, especially if I'm content to use the internet at work and don't want it in my home. How many of those people that want it would still want it if the first bill charged an installation fee of $5000 ?
    Provision of such infrastructure is what cities are for, and if I were a mining enterprise, I imagine I could get connectivity a lot less expensively if I were getting it just for my mine and employees.

  24. Can't you just start by saying... on Google Introduces New Android Features · · Score: 1

    "Click microphone icon"

  25. Scrambling, my ass... on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The site should go down for maintenance until they fix the issue, and only then brought back online.