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  1. Not a problem for Open JDK (Linux at least) on Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's a problem for the people using Sun's Java. Open JDK in Linux use the package tzdata-java that is updated regularly and in sync with the tzdata package that keeps the system's time zone information.

  2. Re:Google+ sucks! on Online Loneliness At Google+ · · Score: 1

    I've only been censored in Facebook

  3. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 0

    Mozilla Firefox apeared first for me in Google.

  4. Re:Did this make anyone else think of MOOSE? on Baumgartner Completes 13.5-Mile Free-Fall Jump, Aims For Record · · Score: 2

    Not only higher but jumping from ISS you also start at orbital velocity (7.7-7.6 km/s)

  5. 9.98 AU from Pluto on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Distance from Sun (AU): 22.34
    Distance from Earth (AU): 23.06
    Distance from Pluto (AU): 9.98

    IMHO much more sense than billions of miles.

  6. Augmented reality device to turn $99.99 into $100 on Walmart Holds Invention Contest · · Score: 2

    What about an augmented reality device to turn all that $99.99 prices into $100.00 and so on?

  7. USB port for mass storage only on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Anyone knows how to configure a USB port to accept only mass storage devices? (no autorun of course) Linux solution is enough for me (lol)

  8. Re:Nobody's even addressing the ethical question - on SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years · · Score: 1

    Interesting thought, but if there's life on Mars that's not directly related to life on Earth, that means that life is going to be very common in the universe. So, there's no need to treat Mars with any reverence.

    Let's hope no aliens came here thinking this way.

  9. I guess you can't compete saying the truth. on AT&T Admits Network Can't Handle iPhone, iPad Traffic · · Score: 1

    The public buy lies and there's a lot of competition selling it.

  10. Re:Real life equivalents to 3D viewing on Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? · · Score: 1

    First, no matter how good your is your bicycling/smooth road, I don't think you can experience so little acceleration as standing in your chair. Also you have another natural signs of motion like wind pressure. And the 3D movie "movements" usually are not acceleration free (straight line, constant speed).

  11. Just for this to be in question on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Just for this to be in question shows how little the public knows about theirs own rights. Yes, it's tough to own and enforce copyrights in the digital age, but the burden must not be on the consumer.

  12. Re:Ouch on RSA's Servers Hacked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hacking systems very rarely involves breaking cryptography. It's bad reputation for their sys admins but not so for their cryptography experts.

  13. Ethics is so hard to measure on Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies · · Score: 1

    I doubt a respectable source would attempt to do such list. No surprises here.

  14. Standards, please on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    If you replace the screws with Torx because it resist cam-out better than Phillips head, fair enough, I'll by a Torx tool set. Now if you replace them with yet another obscure head just to make life harder for everyone, WTF!!! If you think the device should not be open, place a seal and write to it "warranty void if removed".

  15. Re:ZX Spectrum anybody ? on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 2

    I have tapes from my ZX Spextrum (1984) and wonder if I'll ever (still?) be able to read them. Also programs from HP41CV, but these are written in paper.

  16. Opt-out on EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online · · Score: 1

    This will be as reliable as when you ask your e-mail to be removed from some advertising mailing list. Even some "presumed" respectable business periodically loses their opt-out lists. For instance, I see this with some airliners and telcos.

  17. Google's Orkut on Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    I know because of network effect all you people don't care about Google's Orkut. But here in Brazil Orkut is quite popular, and evil or not evil aside, Google is well above average in trustworthiness. Sure the final solution must be some standard open social network.

  18. Very important for them to be commented on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    so other people can be referred here to know the opinions of the tech crowd about it.

  19. Re:Invisibility Suit on New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder · · Score: 1

    Nope, for an invisibility suit you'll need different images for different points of view (observers).

  20. Money transfers are done 1 cent at a time on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    ... as if the bank computer as counting the bills (or coins) being transferred from one account to the other.

  21. Last man in the room on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    Town Clerk: "The results until now are 137 for, 68 against."
    Last man in the room: "Well... I'm 1/3 inclined to vote for, 2/3 against..."
    Town Clerk: "Vote passed!"

  22. Re:I wonder about "Free" on PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort · · Score: 1

    Free software IS inherently more trustworthy. Maybe it's not that easy to audit, or that isn't enough people auditing every major project, but it's in a degree above of audibility from closed source applications.

  23. Buy from the Chinese on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    C'mon, at least buy them from the Chinese for a $100 or less a piece.

  24. Telepresence on NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I rather use a robot like this for telepresence. Wish it have stereoscopic vision and not be too slow walking (if it is). AI only needed to assist moving around.

  25. Use the other hand to hold the handheld device on Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove For One-Handed Typing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Handheld devices that need most these alternative to traditional keyboards.