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  1. Re:Microsoft talking smack business as usual on Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    OO = Oracle office !?!

    Maybe they can settle their argument with the name of open office by keeping the OO but letting open office have Open, which is dirty in the coorporate world anyway

    G

  2. Re:Nothing shameless on How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that scanners go through and take all that is of value.
    Slowly the general public will come to realise that there will be no hidden gems and will stop going.
    The only people going will be those knowing the value of the 1 in 30 items.
    The rest of the items will be for the trash heap.

    The general public will not know the value of things, and more likley pay a premium.

    Hence the seller looses because he/she deals with informed buyers

  3. Oh nooo on Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs · · Score: 1

    I have a Galaxy S, yesterday I had to give to my poor iPhone friend some internet by turning my Galaxy S into a wirless hub.
    That would make me an ISP.
    Does that mean I have to retain his emails for 8 years ?

  4. Two bits of glass on iPhone 4 Screens Break 82% More Than 3GS · · Score: 1

    I guess part of the problem is that the new iPhone has two bits fo glass. One for the front and one for the back.
    To add to that, you take less car of the back, so you put it down on the table and there is a scew you didn't notice .... crack.

  5. Welcom heavy metals on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great stuff, so long as they don't bring any of it up top. Othewise find sombody's back yard to dump it ... heavy metals and other goodies.

  6. Thats is their business model ... on Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? · · Score: 1

    That is their business model. They are desperately trying to hold on to that.
    They are trying to inovate faster than open devices. It seems like they might loose the lead.
    iOS will continue to make money. In fact alot more for a long while as their margins are much higher.

    Apple create an environment that attracted developers and a particular type of app.
    Google created a different environment that competes in attracting developers and creates aparticular type of app.

    For example, my iPhone bearing friend showed off his ringtone app. He has a song he likes, he brings up his app.
    He edits the song and saves it as a potential ring tone.
    When he goes home, he will be able to sync it and be able to select it as a ringtone.

    I (android phone) said .. hmmm ... so I brought my equivalent app, I proceeded in the same manner without the go home and sync part.
    The whole thing worked in front of him in 2 mins

    His next phone will not be an iPhone now although he will forget, because he is an apple fanboy

  7. Network neutrality on Wikimedia Trying P2P Video Distribution · · Score: 1

    Isn't this a form of net neutrality, where we have high and low priority data ?

  8. Re:Interesting criminal justice system in the US on Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about ... let that be a lesson to all you from overseas. Otherwise ... why woudl you not cross the border and comit a crime ?
    You have nothing to worry about, they will just deport you

  9. Re:Interesting Ideas on Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners · · Score: 1

    "we spend our time stuck in traffic or on a broken down train"

    Or stuck behind that broken down sweeb, or swearing for overshooting your stop and having to go around the "monorail"

    I wonder how one changes path. I can see overtaking will be fun.
    It is interesting that he considers a feature that if you get stuck behind a slow coach, you can just push him along and go faster than if the two where peddling alone. Not sure how he does his physics. I'd go faster if I wasnt stuck behind this dude. On the other hand, if sombody else is doing the peddling, this can be cool. I can get on the monorail and take a nap.Why arrive sweaty at work, when sombody else can push me

  10. Re:An experiment in Social Engineering. on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    :-) Sort of like sticking a picture of a fly in a toilet bowl dramaticaly improves your aim

  11. Re:Let's hope they used the same key as HDCP on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Yes but if $100 is what intel woudl like to get for the processor on average,
    would you not mind if intel sells you three processors at $80, $100 and $120 ?

    Or what about if you can get the processor at $10, and intel knows 50% will pay up $100 later for an upgrade, but you can also buy it up front at $100.

    If $10 gets you 40% the $100 CPU, are you not ahead ?

  12. Oh well ... on UK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology · · Score: 1

    They are at teh point of bargaining.
    You see ... they wanted all the pie to them selves, but no luck.
    Now they hope they can share with a few ... but no chance.

    They have to negotiate with the kid at school that carries 1GB usb drive ...

    They are the ones with the technology ...

  13. Re:Personal Minority Report on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 2, Funny



    <quote><p>The extra level of detail that this provides potentially indicates who the user is, where they are looking and how they are feeling.</p></quote>

    <p>Phone: I noticed that you've been watching that blonde over there, and you appear to be sad. Would you like a list of local escort services?</p></quote>

    There's an app for that

  14. Re:We have an election coming up.. on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares in these elections,
    so the only chance the politicians have to get any votes is to peddle to the few % of extreemist that do. It is the tragedy of democracy ... when things go well, the nutjobs get power

    G

  15. Relax people on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is growing up pains ...
    None of all these things have come to pass.
    They come up with them, the realise they don't work, and they let them go.
    No better way to learn, it is the process of making laws.

    What is an iPhone app ? They only reason they are attacking, is because they are contained by apple.
    What next, webapps ? Android and HTML5 and FLASH will make them indistinguishable to a normal app.

    I would much rather they try and get it out of their system, than winge for ever ...

  16. Re:A sad day for America on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Relax ... don't glorify people of war so much. I have respect for them, but the standard technique of giving them glory is spoon feeding the next generation in thinking that war is an honarable thing. He was as special as any family batteler that may not have gone to war.

    You seem ready to terminate the life of a whole bunch of people, most likley youth, in favour of some 78year old because he had an opportunity to weild a life terminating device.

    Yours seems like the most appauling answer I have seen so far, and the one wanting more death.

    George

  17. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    Don't worry ,uch like the earth is flat problem really didn't affect much.
    You see when addam and eve popped out of the garden, there where other people !!

    Even better, there are mentions of other Gods.

    So you can blend it in, no problem

  18. DMCA on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Doesn't this fall under the unticircumvention law.
    I protect my privacy
    You circumvent it

    Can we not use their own laws against them ?

  19. Suddenly on Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported · · Score: 1

    Suddenly CNN news Google news rank tanked to the level of the primary school blog

    That should fix'em :-)

    Google ... do some harm, for your fanboys

  20. Re:re Triple GDP on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    Amm they could give $1,716.96 to each inhabitant, or they could say give that to corporations and the war machine that spend it in the US them selves.
    I highly doubt that even the money a soldier spends at the coke machine stays in Afganistan.

    G

  21. Re:One thing I don't understand... on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    Aaaa the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives 10 years ago is about as much as a Toyota Prious with a hard drive is the glove box 5 years ago
    to a kids bike with a USB stick in his basket.

    90,000 documents could comfortable fit in a 32 GIG mini SD card. A stack of them would fit ...

  22. Re:Finally, looks like the start of the right thin on Nuclear Power Could See a Revival · · Score: 2, Funny

    To think that Carter was the last President that was an Engineer !! Now all we have are lawyers

    G

  23. Re:Hmm.... on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1

    Ok Frank, enough of that

  24. Re:P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Yep but it is pretty arrogant to announce "the announcing of a breakthrough"
    Others will be the judge of that

  25. Re:Surely... on World's First Solar-Propelled Blimp To Cross English Channel · · Score: 1

    Why have you ever seen a mammoth ?