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  1. Re:Why They Are Paying Up... on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Not sure if I completely agree, but an interesting post.

  2. Re:Modus Operandi on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    All these hardware mfrs will be competing with Apple, who have their own hardware and OS. MS wants them to buy its OS, not use the free one. The hardware mfrs are more likely to use the free one to compete with Apple better on price. MS is applying leverage to make sure it is NOT cheaper to use the free one, so they have a hope of selling theirs. They don't want to depend solely on Nokia to compete with Apple.

  3. Ouch on Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails · · Score: 3, Funny

    "how'd you lose your hand?"

    "Train jostled and made me lose by balance."

  4. Re:Premise is pretty silly, but... on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    The answer is: write the AI code for such a robot.

    They can't. When the code refuses to run due to a bug, they file an objection and cite cases where similar software has run with similar bugs. The software ignores them and continues not to run, and they give up and bill the customer.

  5. Re:Cry me a river on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    We have 2 four year old macbooks whose batteries both still last about 4 hours under normal use.

  6. Re:sue on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    And tell me what happens when someone finally reduces the size of robots to molecular machines and we can fabricate anything from a car to a steak from raw atomic stock.

    The Midas Plague.

  7. Re:Neutralization an offense? on Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? · · Score: 1

    Must be a requirement for that class. My teacher's German accent was so thick he was unintelligible.

  8. Re:This clause is legal - ANYWHERE? on EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    So it DOES say EA also waives their right.

    So would a clause like this have prevented Sony from suing Geohot?

  9. Re:Boycott? on EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I had already decided to prohibit them from my family's computers for DRM reasons. This will likely cause me to extend that to consoles.

  10. Re:Release the Kraken! on Via Files Suit Against Apple · · Score: 1

    Opposite? Why would he find statistic disproving his point?

    As for proving his point, right here:

    http://www.netmarketshare.com/

    Apple is at 53% of mobile browsing if you include tablets.

  11. Re:Translation on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    I was thinking insightful. That was my take on seeing the headline.

  12. Re:That's awesome! on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    Along the lines of corporations are people. If someone has private pictures of you on their computer, and has promised never to show them to anyone else, but they die and someone buys their computer at an estate sale, you're sort of SOL.

  13. Really lame on Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    Since most people get their TV from a digital service like cable with a set top box or U-verse or FIOS, "they" can just check what their servers streamed to you, or hav ethe local device report back.

    Why would they go through easily defeatable shenanigans with power draw analysis to do the same thing?

  14. Re:Same space, different market? on Augmented Reality's Disruptive Potential · · Score: 1

    He gets the location for free only in relation to shoppers who have very specifically decided to view the location through the AR system, who can therefore be said to have invited him to show them his wares.

    It is analogous to taking advantage of an established retailer's B&M store or informative and therefore expensive website to do product research, and then purchasing from the most discounted seller you can find.

    The customer has made the choice. Unless the customer realizes they are driving prices, and therefore the ability of retailers to offer such B&M stores or informative websites, downward, and CARES that they are doing so, it doesn't really matter if it is fair. It's already happening in these other ways.

    It will probably then become the problem of goods manufacturers to support this customer information gathering, since it will be unsustainable for retailers to continue to do it meaningfully.

    Then retail real estate values will decline.

  15. Re:Sliding scale of hope vs realism on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Star Wars represents, I think, a more grim picture of the future.

    A really old future from a long time ago?

  16. Re:Star Trek would win on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    No shields? Even the Millennium Falcon had shields. Of course the big imperial ships had shields.

    They did not seem to be very good though.

  17. Re:Of course there's a difference on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? I don't know Scotty's back story.

  18. Re:kids these days on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 2

    Yeah, all those things suck compared to my favorite story, The Troll Who Hated Everything.

  19. Re:Breaking on 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan · · Score: 1

    Indeed. There were something like twenty 6+ quakes while I was there in April June and July.

    Only thing I can think is there were a few in one day and it got noticed. Kind of sad that the whole Japan recovery effort is pretty much absent from the US media.

  20. Re:We can't even synthesize carbon-based cells yet on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    I thought cleanliness was right next to godliness?

  21. Re:Nope on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Eyeew. Someone spilled information on slashdot. Don't get any on you.

  22. Re:Where is this socialist-communist utopia... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    As noted above, my post was very blatant (I thought) sarcasm.

  23. Re:Slackers on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    May I politely say to you, "whoosh".

  24. Re:I've Tried This Logic with Resulting Low Impact on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    No, then Joe would splinter into two groups - Joe Bush fan and Joe Anti-climate-change. Not sure the relative size of each, but I think the latter would be the larger.

  25. Labels on NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools · · Score: 2

    Knowing the dehydrated food I have tried, I hope they clearly label the two. Don't want the kids gnawing on the tiles.