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  1. Re:No email integration on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    Email integration is a good idea for a server feature, not a protocol feature. I think you're confused.

  2. Re:What about the iPad? on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    If the SIM card fits (3G model).

  3. Re:No federation on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    Is that still true now that it's gone public? I thought they would open up federation at that point.

  4. Re:No federation on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    The example server they created loses all data on restart. The federation protocol works fine - write your own server.

  5. Re:No email integration on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    Forwarding an email you've received to a wave email account to turn it into a collaborative discussion. Having a nice offline rich editor when no Wave desktop client exists is nice, too (Yes, I know Google Gears exists for that). Being able to set up mobile devices or programmatic scripts to be able to create waves would be simpler if an already-understood protocol could be used. Think of email-to-txt gateways as another example of why this is helpful.

  6. Re:Great! on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    In other words, Google Wave is Gmail. I want a Thunderbird. Wave might not be so freaking slow if it were running on a native desktop client.

  7. Re:Great! on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Doesn't Google's wifi van do that pretty well?

  8. Re:How old is this news? on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 2

    And nobody noticed-hence, it's still news to many people.

  9. Re:First mandate DSL for everyone on FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web · · Score: 1

    You don't have to have all the DSLAMs in the CO. You can run fiber out to a remote point and put a DSLAM wherever you want. Yes, it costs money to do this. Maybe they should try using that Universal Service Fund for something real.

  10. Re:The Horror on YouTube Launches Video Editor · · Score: 4, Funny

    With that countdown, you are clearly cuing and not queuing.

  11. Re:(russian)Chatroulette on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    It's just a play on the word roulette.

  12. Re:Crank it to 11 on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think they mean

    00

    01

    10

    11

    It represents 4 states the same way that 10 (decimal) represents 100 states. In other words, not at all (except for having 2 digits).

  13. Re:The question is still absurd... on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Actually, driving it 5x as often only puts them even with each other. It was a 5x higher savings on the less efficient pair. So now you'd be saving the same amount. If you drove the second scenario car MORE than 5x as often, you'd be better off replacing it instead.

  14. Re:Verizon on Six Major 3G and 4G Networks Tested Nationwide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think their focus is more on coverage than raw speed. Since these tests were all done in major cities, Verizon's major selling point is instantly made irrelevant.

  15. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about there being too much traffic. I'm talking about mob action, like 15 people going at once from one side of a 4-way stop instead of waiting in sequence, or a mob of bicycles crossing at a red light, cutting off traffic.
     
    Maybe you're not familiar with what ridiculously "proving the wrong point" lengths these groups go to.

  16. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Don't tell me you're defending them. Yes, people have a right to assemble. No, assembling in the middle of the street and blocking traffic doesn't count.

  17. Re:Lego Printer? on The Genius of the Lego Printer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought it was a 3D printer that printed LEGO bricks themselves.

  18. Re:Where have I seen this before? on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    Wow...and you even used the word cuecat - but you somehow missed on the proper usage of cue.

  19. Re:Fail on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    Better question - why do they expect people to pay them to do something they can so easily do themselves with standard QR codes?

  20. Re:Independent studies warranted on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    It's not forced labor if you can decide to forgo the income instead.

  21. Re:No, they'll be Steve Jobs' Best Friend on Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player · · Score: 1

    And you can include an Objective C app that has nothing but a UIWebView window loading a SWF file from Javascript.

  22. Re:Is it pronounced DOHS or DAHS? on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 2, Funny

    woorsh?

  23. Re:Offtopic on NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill · · Score: 1

    The government should manage it, the company should pay. That would keep the motives separate, anyway. Not that we really want to put something as slow as a government in charge. But it might prove to be better than a corporation.

  24. Re:In Time? on NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill · · Score: 4, Funny

    If my knowledge of B-movies is correct, there's already a GUI interface with 3D graphic modelling too (in Visual Basic, no less)! It's just a matter of typing a few parameters on a keyboard. How real supercomputers got mixed up in a cheap disaster movie, I'll never know.

  25. Re:Reverse the roles on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Your first mistake was thinking they might actually try and open the PC case.