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  1. Another cool idea on iPad Steering Wheel Mount · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you can get the IPad to run in vertically flipped landscape mode, you can put it on top of the dashboard above the steering wheel and have it reflected in your front window. That way, you have a head-up display just like jet fighter pilots!

  2. not THAT wrong... on Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal · · Score: 1

    It is a game. In a game, you can have virtual money and virtual economies. You can see how blatantly "wrong" economies develop. And if people want to pay for that, they are free to do so. I mean, they don't have to. Only if the virtual money gets mixed in the real economy, this can get bad.

  3. Re:Shy planet? on Jupiter Is Missing a Belt · · Score: 1

    Just what I thought. Jupiter's spot is really a capital "S" in a diamond. Only we don't see it sharp. And there is no telephone box that can hold Jupiter.

  4. Isn't there an app for that situation? on Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like one that yells "Hey, don't leave me!" every two minutes.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Genetic Testing Coming To a Drugstore Near You · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The tendency to become obese comes from the western diet, not from the genes. You may have helpful or unhelpful genes, but they play a minor role. The same applies for a number of other diseases.

  6. Re:This bothers me on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    Can you also stop all the sites out there to stop using google ads? I don't use Google, but can still tracked by them.

  7. Minimal nutrition foods? on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    But it contains an amount of sugar that is the recommended amount for 3 days!

  8. Re:Real plan to fix the Flash on iPhone dev concer on A Peace Plan To End the Flash-On-iPhone Fight · · Score: 1, Troll

    4) Salesmen: really stop selling flash. Be a sport, and sell something more modern.

    Flash is usually there because of the salesmen, not because of the web authors.

  9. Just wait until... on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Individuals are sued by Monsanto for being polluted by their patented genes.

  10. Re:Do as the military does on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 1

    What, threaten with a full-blown war if any of your soldiers is ever subjected to international justice? That is hardly feasible for a video camera owner.

  11. Worse than a rebel without a cause on SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... is an IP troll without IP.

    Pathetic.

  12. Just one problem: on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 0, Troll

    It costs about as much energy or more to make a solar panel as it will generate in its entire life. So unless you make solar panels using wind energy or something like that, it won't save on the environment.

  13. What about composers? on Why Making Money From Free Software Matters · · Score: 1

    Ehm, just pay them for the job? Why must they be paid every time the work is copied?

  14. Is authorship of software really that different? on Why Making Money From Free Software Matters · · Score: 1

    You don't sample a Britney Spears song to make a longer, better Britney Spears song; you sample it for reference.

    Is that so? I read about take-down notices of parodies, covers/enhancements every day here.

    Equally, I can just download Emacs and enjoy it without patching or contributing anything.

  15. Hubble telescope, anyone? on The Big Technical Mistakes of History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The technical error here was that there was no test on the real thing. The company that made a part of the telescope had only a separate testbed that was made to specifications. Alas, these specifications were exactly one inch misunderstood, so the result was a part that was incredibly accurately one inch out of position.

  16. Re:Blah blah blah on Controlling a Robot With the Emotiv EEG Headset · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think any soldier prefers a trigger to operate rather than accident when he gets the hiccups. And there are already "augmented reality" systems in military use for quite a few years now. Pilots can aim with their helmet in some aircraft.
    I see more applications for people who can not use their arms, either because of safety (say, when operating hydraulic presses or other carnivorous machines), because they have their hands full with something else (like helicopter pilots), or because they are disabled.

  17. Dear Google on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can you please explain how wardriving is not evil?

    Oh, and, by the way, off course I do have something to hide. That is why it is called privacy.

  18. A more useful letter on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear Sony,

    Could you please share your secret of making a profit by pissing off customers? I am very intrigued how you manage to do that. We are a company of people with a proud heart for our jobs. Time and time again you demonstrate that satisfying customers is not the way to go.

    But what is? What makes your customers want to buy products that will be crippled remotely after a while or even directly at sale? Is it some marketing trick? Do you select your customers for misplaced good faith? Is it some other twist of genius?

    Curiously,
    An honest craftsman.

  19. Re: kiss your fair use goodbye, US Citizens on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 1

    "the unauthorized circumvention of an effective technological measure."

    Common sense: If the measure can be circumvented, it is not effective. If it enforces something else than copyright (for instance, by disallowing fair use), it is not effective. In other words: this rule never applies.

    Too bad there is so little logic, realism or common sense in USA law.

  20. Re:Stop being a criminal. on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if the law starts breaking the law (like privacy laws here), things start getting really messy!

  21. From the article: on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    You may not and you agree not to, or to enable others to, copy (except as expressly permitted by this License), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, decrypt, modify, or create derivative works of the iPad Software or any services provided by the iPad Software, or any part thereof
    This License is effective until terminated. Your rights under this License will terminate automatically or otherwise cease to be effective without notice from Apple if you fail to comply with any term(s) of this License. Upon the termination of this License, you shall cease all use of the iPad Software

    In other words, jailbreaking is a good way to indicate that you want to terminate the licence. After which you are no longer bound to its terms.

  22. I think you are: on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who am I to tell Apple what's best for their devices?

    The user who paid for the lovemaking device without having to first agree to anything.

  23. Re:clear evidence we did not evolve from primates on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Apes however...

  24. Re:Ireland is a banana republic on Ireland May Be Next To Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    That's global warming for you!

  25. Re:Perfectly legal way of doing business! on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 1

    £10 is not 10 dollars. It is "somewhat" more, I'm afraid. It's probably about £10 more in the current economic situation...