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  1. Re:Rots your brain on Nearly Half of American Adults Are Smartphone Owners · · Score: 1

    Whenever I go to a new place, and I'm not in a hurry, I do things the old fashioned way like that. It makes it almost like an adventure instead of just a trip. Just continue to do that sort of thing, then when the battery on whatever device goes flat, you can amaze your friends with your superpowers of basic math and a mental map of your surroundings. Its really fun!

  2. Re:I live in the EU on Have We Lost Our Privacy To the Internet? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you really think that its not happening wherever you are too? Like Google, Facebook, etc. Europe isn't spying on you just as much as Google, Facebook, etc. in the US is?

    As much as you like to poke fun at us Americans(often rightfully so), we're all in this together.

  3. Re:It's simple, really. on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    Have something like the old railroad signal flares. If you can read this, you're too close.

    Also if you launch these particles off at FTL speeds they're going to hit something. We'd need something to stop it, maybe a giant wall or something. As a nice bonus it would also freak out first time travelers a bit too.

  4. Re:Might work as a tablet OS... on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    Because that means regressing back to 7-10 inch screens.

  5. Re:Might work as a tablet OS... on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    Desktops may be on the decline for home users, but what about the millions of business computers?

    Tablets are good for browsing the internet, some email, and the occasional video. Do they really expect people to type all day on one though?

  6. Re:Robo-calls make me avoid your product. on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 1

    Do you ever vote then?
    Not so much for primaries, but for the actual election I get robocalls from both sides at least twice a week. Is this not normal?

  7. So? on Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems · · Score: 1

    This is already available in Mercs and most high end cars. You can buy one today that can "control the phone, audio and navigation by saying city names and your phonebook contacts normally" Does this add anything beyond apps? Does anyone care about anything beyond making calls, adjusting the nav, and the stereo?

  8. Re:ask a mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    Bad is also quite subjective. As the same mechanics their definition, and you'll get different answers again.

    As an example, as reliable, well built and featured as some cars are, I would consider them bad if they weren't spirited and fun to drive.

  9. Re:No meat to this story on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be installing an operating system written by DoubleClick exactly. Look up who their parent company is.

  10. Re:One could, and one would be wrong on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Some do have a synchro. And if it did, you'd probably blow the something in the transmission, with it moving way faster than it was ever supposed to.

    I once shattered a clutch doing something similar.

  11. FUD. on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is overrating to call this SOPA-style. They were temporarily closed because it was being used to phish information from customers of several different banks.
    This is more analogous to the police closing a business after a robbery to preserve evidence. They'll be back up soon enough, and are actually still operating under an alternate domain.

  12. Re:Start with basic customer service first. on Buy an Elite HP PC, Get Your Own Support Staffer · · Score: 1

    Maybe things have changed for the worse since I last dealt with them (about 3-4 years ago).

    My rationale is the cost of better service has to come from somewhere, and you know they're not going to lower their margins for it. So either prices go up across the board, or you pay for it. I'd be willing to pay, but Joe Everyman, probably not so much.

  13. Re:Start with basic customer service first. on Buy an Elite HP PC, Get Your Own Support Staffer · · Score: 2

    HP has fantastic Customer Service
    ...if you buy a support plan.

    If this is essentially bundling a service plan into the purchase cost, I'd buy one.

  14. Re:Seems reasonable.. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Yes the mother may be in the wrong here. There really isn't enough detail to make a real judgment. However, the point that concerns me is how the doctors were not willing to discuss it. Is it because she only said "I don't want vaccines" without a reason, or is there more to it?

  15. Re:Seems reasonable.. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Generally I would agree, but it depends on where is the line drawn? I have never gotten a flu shot. Is that enough to turn me away?

    The other concerning part is only in TFA though about a child who had a preexisting condition that was exacerbated by vaccines, and was still refused by several doctors without even discussing the issue.

  16. Re:Oh goodie. on Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy · · Score: 1

    Personally, my issue with this is that Jobs didn't really do anything but fund it.

    If you must, find the team of engineers that got the store working, and give them some credit.

  17. Yoda by written the subject line was on Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple · · Score: 1, Informative

    Also, from the email, it seems not to be "We won't support your Playbook because we're mean" but "We cant support it because of licensing issues."

    Which makes the blog author look even more like a "I spend money at your store, how dare you not support X" over-reactionary.

  18. Re:For us non-US folk... on Google Pulls Support For CDMA Devices · · Score: 1

    That's also the reason that Verizon can afford to have outrageous business practices. A lot of us have the "choice" of Verizon, or no service at home.

    They know they are going to be undercut by other carriers in populous areas, so they overcharge the customers that they cannot lose.

  19. Really? on Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Star Wars fans should know better by now when something from that franchise is "restored"

  20. Re:Verizon and Alltel was OK on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Alltel had about 800,000 customers.
    T-Mobil has 33,000,000.
    Not really on the same scale there.

  21. Re:Instead of Financial transactions? on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    The money would be taxed at least once in your scenario: When you take the money out of the bank/cash your paycheck.

    Apparently, if everyone kept doing transactions the way they do, there would be more tax income than there is now. I don't think they accounted for the huge reduction that would follow though.

  22. Re:Instead of Financial transactions? on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    When I heard of this way back when, this kind of tax was supposed to replace most other taxes. That part seems to have been lost somewhere along the way though.

  23. Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? on ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks · · Score: 2

    This may be more difficult than you'd imagine.

    I doubt we currently have the infrastructure to manufacture the drives, or else some manufacturer would be doing just that and hugely advertising "Hey, we've still got drives!" Considering production of hard drives is only supposed to be down for a year or so, by the time the ones here were ready to go, so would the foreign ones. Domestic can't keep up with cost, and were back to where we started.

  24. Re:Android is just another feature to buy on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like Froyo is really out of date. Granted, Gingerbread should be available, but Honycomb is for tablets only, and Ice Cream Sandwich isn't out for anything at all yet. So you're really only one version behind.

    My phone only got updated to Gingerbread in September, and when I bought it Gingerbread had already been out for a few months. It takes time for updates to get pushed out, mainly because of how every phone is different, so there is a lot of testing time involved. But it does happen sooner or later. I think the only reason that an update would never happen is planned obsolescence on the carriers part, not the device manufacturer.

  25. Re:I trust this guy's comment on Could Amazon Reviews Be Corrupt? · · Score: 1

    You're missing the best one by far