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  1. Re:"7+ days of battery life" on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remember when you would forget a watch in a closet for 3 years and it would still be running when you took it out again.

    This is a truly atrocious battery life for a watch. If it cannot even last the length of a vacation or a camp in some situation, what good is it as a watch? At least with a old fashioned Wind-up watch you can recharge it in seconds anywhere.

  2. Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 1

    Yes, and all of these these generate even more revenue for the government. So it is a win/win.

  3. Re:Why isn't it plausible? on Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website · · Score: 1

    It is entirely plausible that it was a honest mistake. But a mistake does not overturn a crime, it does not matter if you had no idea who if anyone owned a song you downloaded or not.

    So the question remains, does this corporation think that it deserves to pay 5000 times cost of the items it infringed on, or do they think they should get off scot free?

  4. Is this unusual? on Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website · · Score: 2

    Or do most websites have at least some infringing content?

  5. Re:Here we go -- on Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Do you have no idea how the Internet actully works?

  6. Re:Here we go -- on Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Except ever encryptor needs a corresponding decryption, or it is simply a deleter.
    If you encrypt data, you need to give everyone you want access this decrypter. And this is not taking into account, simply censoring all encrypted data, which has already started.

    But even if they do not, they win in every case where it is not between two people who have access to unbreakable encryption techniques and exchanged encryption keys in the real world, AKA they win.

  7. Re:In Germany, Who Determines "Offensive"? on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    Normally in cases like this it is just whatever the police officer of judge says is offensive/pornography/dangurous.

    The problem with strict written definitions is that they would allow the average citizen to actually understand the legal system and know what is and is not legal; While at the same time preventing judges from just handing out whatever rulings they feel like. So of course the would be unacceptable.

  8. Re:Stick to accurate accusations on New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between the age of consent and the age you can photograph someone naked.

  9. can you be a legally practicing lawyer while in jail?

  10. Re:They've shot themselves in the foot legally on New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn · · Score: 1

    Obviously it was the butler in the library with the wifi enabled phone.

  11. Re:Private land owner wanted to clear his land on Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew · · Score: 1

    Very unstable artillery ammunition, that is why they cannot do any construction.

  12. Re:Private land owner wanted to clear his land on Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew · · Score: 1

    The law made this illegal, just like if you rolled down main street with a bull dozer and pushed over town hall.

  13. Re:Let me guess on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Probably to update all the outdated and wrong information.

  14. SO on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 1

    A single player game whit extensive mod suppose is "hackable", colour me surprised.

    How is this not just a bug? How can you hack a program where nothing was put in to prevent anyone from doing pretty much anything they wanted to do with it in the first place?

  15. locate and treat? on Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada · · Score: 1

    So this drone was taught first aid? Did it stitch up a leg? Reset a broken bone?

  16. Re:Makes Sense on How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers · · Score: 2

    Well in a large one where you are in classes of 400 plus students, I would say that individual professors matter less that one where you are in classes of 20.

    In the first one you will not get to see him in-between classes for help (that will be left up to his army of TAs), and you will be sitting so far away your only interaction is likely to be watching the slides that his TAs prepared and listening to a speaker as he reads them.

  17. Every Country on Are Some of North Korea's Long-Range Missiles Fakes? · · Score: 1

    It would be pretty stupid for any country not to have a few decoys, and a few extra well hidden installations.

  18. Wrong on BitTorrent Bundle Puts a Music Store Inside Torrents · · Score: 2

    The only correct way to correctly make a bittorent store is to make it the entire album, and then just ask for money.
    This torrent will be beside full packages, why would you download the gimped one? And if I wanted to pay for the music I would pay at a store so I could direct download instead of having to deal with all the extra torrent stuff.

  19. Re:Contests are the best way... on Are Contests the Best Way To Find Programmers? · · Score: 1

    This.
    There are definitely competent programmers at these competitions, but most truly good experience ones would not bother and many would have a bunch of very useful specific programming skills, that your organization might need , but are not necessarily the rights ones to actually compete and win in competitions.

  20. Guaranteeing that all Star Wars on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    For the foreseeable future will be absolute crap.

  21. Re:Developer? on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 1

    The money, I have been told.

  22. Re:why not ban capitalism? on Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    I think that is a fair quote.
    Capitalism is nothing more than the idea that government should not mess around too much in the economy; And I would argue, the aggrandisement of personal wealth and the amassing thereof.

    Which means that the government no longer has to protect its citizens financially or look out for their best interest. So you do not need armies and machines of war to take the coin of the common man. His coin is up for grabs to every would be plunderer without a fight.

  23. Re:who cares on Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police · · Score: 1

    SO you don't think that the police want to keep track of hundreds of thousands of individuals?

  24. Re: what? (smart bombs) on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Which assume that it is impossible to hack 5 satellites, or that it is impossible to hack a GPS with control of one of the satellites it connects to.

  25. Re: what? (smart bombs) on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    "and if the bomb loses GPS it keeps on last known trajectory."
    And that was the point of my post. It is completely reasonable to assume that the military has measure in place to deal with some of their network going down. If the bomb loses its GPS guidance, it is easy enough to spot and do whatever best practice is. But that smart bomb is not going to spot a GPS that is being hacked or interfered with to output wrong information.