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  1. I thought this was about Android Market at first on Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a part time Android developer I'm debating jumping ship too. This article sums it up nicely: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/android-fragmentation/ Between dealing with the SDK idiocy of Google, complaint emails from users of 10 different phones all running a different version of Android, and the shitty design of Market itself, the last sentence echoes my thoughts: “I will have to decide then how much return I am getting and if it is worth it.” There has got to be some kind of happy medium between the anarchy of Market and the totalitarianism of App Store.

  2. Re:Paperwork infraction on Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker · · Score: 1

    Common misquote of the great Thomas Jefferson. http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Government_big_enough_to_supply_you Please, see that link and cease to attribute that statement with him.

    "We have never found such a statement in Jefferson's writings. As far as we know, this statement actually originates with Gerald R. Ford"

  3. Voter Fraud email at George Mason University on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    An email that reached 35,000 people was sent from the "Provost" last night at 1AM EST telling students the election is being held on Wednesday. I'm sure someone out there believed it. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/gmu_e-mail_hoax_election_day_m.html?hpid=topnews

  4. Whatever 'certain' data means... on AT&T, Verizon To Require Opt-In For User Tracking · · Score: 1

    What he said is essentially meaningless since he didn't say "Internet-usage data" or "all Internet-usage data". The word 'certain' could be anything and nothing. I'm not convinced.

  5. They work to a degree on Cognitive Radios Could Increase Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    I've seen these work in a test and development environment, although it was only slated to work in the typical 300MHz-3GHz environment. It's all fine and good when it is isolated from the communications systems of commercial services, it's when you start talking about roaming on other services that it really gets impractical considering the coordination of all the carriers that would be required.

  6. I thought WiMedia won on TransferJet Consortium Works Towards Touch Data Transfer Tech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wireless USB (WUSB) and Bluetooth 3.0 are already using WiMedia http://www.wimedia.org/en/index.asp

  7. Re:Take a hammer to it... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apathy: one of the greatest gifts you can give a tyranny.

    "Lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.

  8. So what, the implemented a UWB system? on New Wireless Technology Goes Where GPS Can't · · Score: 1

    Did they do something novel or just implement current UWB technology?

  9. Re:Barack Obama on Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First you say that the parties are controlled by corporations, then you say they should tell the far left/right to fuck off. Which one is it? From my perspective it's the far left that is trying to *prevent* the corporate fascism... (see WTO riots). What you said doesn't make sense.

  10. How does the programmer know what color is set? on Multicolored Keyless Entry System · · Score: 1

    A normal keypad will set high 2 lines in a known configuration that a programmer could check. A quick skim on sparkfun yielded no schematic that would tell me how to program this thing. I wonder how you know what color is currently activated?

  11. Re:Slot machines are more secure than this! on Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors · · Score: 1

    Because money is more important than vote integrity, of course! Why are ATMs more secure than voting machines as someone pointed out? Because there's money involved. Sad, really.

  12. Re:What's the distinguishing characteristic? on Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Snail mail spam is what keeps the US Postal Service in business. They aren't going to fight very hard to prevent it.

  13. Re:I don't like that word "purposely" in there... on MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention that their SSID is cleverly-named "linksys". If I delete their profile would that prevent me from connecting to any more identically-named APs in the future?

  14. Cache as RAM, RAM as hard disk on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 1

    Just get rid of the external hard disk as a storage mechanism all together. Use the RAM as the 'hard disk', create a large L3 cache on the CPU that directly caches the RAM, and the L1 and L2 cache can cache the L3 cache. No problem.

  15. Just simplify it on A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    There's always some way to simplify these problems. In the future they will have weeks of lecture on the solution and then at the end tell you that all you have to do is assume the inputs are periodic with no noise and then all you have to do is take the limit to infinity and it becomes a constant. Duh.

  16. Re:I don't like that word "purposely" in there... on MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    Even my wife's Dell 1420N running Ubuntu insists on connecting to my neighbors wireless upon bootup, so we can't blame this one on Windows. Sometimes I forget that this happens and can use it for hours before it occurs to me. I can't figure out a way to prevent it from happening without disabling wireless by default.

  17. Re:How is the new process scheduler different? on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I meant in addition to what was provided. And something more 'documenty' than mailing lists or blog posts. But thanks for your generous contribution.

  18. How is the new process scheduler different? on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    Where can I find more information on the differences between the old and new process scheduler?

  19. Re:Is anybody here... on Team Fortress 2 - From Old To New · · Score: 1

    I've found the pyro to be especially good at guarding control points/pads. In general, they are best geared for close combat. What better way is there to defend your pad from 4 enemies at once than jumping in and setting them all on fire? When it seems all is lost I've been able to take out five people at once when 'critical hits' jumps in. The critical hit thing is also an interesting addition.