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  1. Yay EU on European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA · · Score: 1

    Maybe some of our congress corponauts will jump on this bandwagon.

  2. Re:Until I can buy one on Microsoft "Courier" Pictures · · Score: 1

    And since Courier is Windows CE, I'm pretty sure it will have flash support out of the box, and other browsers like Opera too.

    Like Windows 7 mobile?

    http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/adobe-confirms-no-flash-in-windows-mobile-7/

    Unless Adobe fixes flash performance, or a miraculous battery tech rears its head, I think you will be disappointed.

  3. Re:It's their lawn on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    Speaking for myself -

    All homes in the entire area I wanted to live are part of one of the complex of HOAs
    In general, rules are rigidly enforced for the first year, then become more relaxed (excepting when one of the militant boards happen to get elected)
    Low dues also get me 1. Three free community pools 2. Tennis courts 3. Maintained paseos (walking/biking paths) that allow my kid to go virtually anywhere in the community without crossing vehicle traffic.

    All that is $36/month.

    The house you mention can be had up the canyon from me, but would cost me double, and my utilities would be approximately 4X. Plus I'd have to buy the shotgun.

  4. Re:Multi-touch on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    What reason is that?

    mfg/hardware capabilities were not yet up to snuff, or did you mean something else?

  5. Re:The irony of trying to keep ACTA secret on Another ACTA Leak Discloses Individual Country Data · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, only on sites like /.

    Mainstream press and mainstream people are oblivious.

  6. Re:apt quote on Leak Shows US Lead Opponent of ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    By the time it gets big enough they start calling up the Nat'l guard and what have you, you'll have as many soldiers defecting to revolt.

    They're going to find it difficult to mobilize the NG with so many of them deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  7. Re:Exactly. Using open wifi is not stealing. on Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    How many people own routers from the last few years vs. older routers.

    How many people receive their routers from their ISP and never touch the configuration.

  8. Follow-up on Senators Blast NASA For Lacking Vision · · Score: 1

    NASA notes senators lack any redeeming attributes

  9. Re:great story on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    yes there was beta porn, but it came much later than vhs porn and was significantly harder to come by

    Well that would pretty much kill it for me. It can be hard enough already at my age.

  10. Re:seems to be working fine how it is on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it's been restored since they became a much more open platform, which happened when, exactly?

    Apple was almost destroyed by bad management that stopped developing new products worth buying, created confusing groups of model lineups and kept absurdly high pricing for machines with last year's performance.

    The first thing Jobs did on their current road to success was kill the clones, rather the opposite of opening up the platform, no?

  11. Re:Real Question: Jurisdiction of Public School on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Why "instead"? Educating is certainly primary, but if it were the sole goal, I would sure as hell be home schooling.

  12. Re:Every generation does it on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Everyone has a perfectly valid perspective on being raised as a child. They may, however, be missing the perspective from the other side. Which is different. Which is why the question gets asked.

  13. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure. Right after you google "Calgary"

  14. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    He didn't say he was entitled to the benefit of your labor without contribution. He said if you are offering some of the rabbit for 2 bananas to someone, the deal should be the same for him.

    Of course if it were me and you refused to sell me some of the rabbit, I'd probably wipe the turd on it. Although, from what I understand, it probably wouldn't stick.

  15. Re:Payback period? on Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum · · Score: 1

    Yes and no.
    By using these fuel cells as your main power source with the grid as a backup you can dispense with your standby generator and maybe even your UPS system in a data center..

    Are these FCs reliable enough that a company like eBay or Google can take that step with low enough risk?

  16. Re:Real Answers on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So these iPad dwarving devices are selling like gangbusters I suppose?

    No? Let me guess. That's because they don't have Apple's slick marketing. That must mean slick marketing is the only way to sell a product, good or bad then, right? Then that must mean most of the public are a fools who will only buy what they are told?

    Because the alternative conclusion is just too ridiculous, that Apple makes products millions of people find usable and enjoyable BECAUSE they are limited to basic well thought out feature sets, and you and the rest of the technogadget crowd are pissed that the exact product you want isn't made because there's no demand for/profit in it.

  17. Re:not it isn't. a trap is hidden on MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period · · Score: 1

    This is the rake you describe lying completely across a narrow path, where to by pass it, you must scramble up some very steep rocky embankments to proceed around it.

  18. Re:Another reason not to fly via Heathrow on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    Like Lord Vader ever espouses anything besides iron-fisted control.

    But seriously, were the deaths in the 70s and 80s from planes brought down by terrorists? Or accidents?

  19. Re:I don't believe it on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 1

    Accelerator goes wild does not equal wildy accelerating.

  20. Re:They're artificial limitations. That's the prob on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    Only the ones that sell primarily to readers of tech blogs.

  21. Re:They're artificial limitations. That's the prob on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    And your analogy is obviously accurate, because plainly if Ford came out with such a car, it would sell remarkably well.

  22. Yeah, I've noticed on Microsoft Sues TiVo To Help AT&T · · Score: 2, Funny

    My U-verse DVR is so much more usable than a Tivo because of all it's stupendous theft-worthy features.

  23. Re:Correlation != Causation on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    Troll? You clown. Grishnakh is an orc.

  24. Re:Leaks build expectations and... on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    Even within consumer electronics, there are submarkets that they are not touching, like gaming.

    Have you missed where the $1 and $2 game market for the iPhone/touch is having some ripple effects in the traditional portable gaming (DS, PSP) market? There is definitely some disruption there.

  25. Re:That's actually pretty clever on Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents · · Score: 1

    Stealing would be walking into my house and taking my hard drive.

    Do you lay any claim to the data on that hard drive? Would not the thief merely be requiring you to line up your kids and take new snapshots of them, or recalculate your taxes, or re-download all your torrents? Have they actually deprived you of anything, by your standards? I'm genuinely curious if you attach any value to time and effort, or if because it is merely digital it can never have any value at all.

    Pretty poor analogy. File sharers have taken the only copy of your data. Yours is more akin to breaking into the studio and taking the master tapes to an album.

    Walking into the house and copying all the data off his hard drive is more the equivalent to file sharing. And even then, the arguments raised below about publicly released works still enter into it.