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  1. Re:It's Easy! ...to disable! on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 4, Informative

    Somehow you missed the "Instant is on" drop down right next to the text entry field (to the right).

  2. Re:Yeah it's crap. on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 1

    They have an "off switch" if you don't want to use it ;)

  3. Re:PGP on Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And with APG and k9mail on Android this is simple to use on a mobile phone. I bet the UAE (and the USA) government would have a fit if everyone sent emails with 4096 bit encryption.

  4. Cruft on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not only is itunes full of cruft, it was originally bought from an outside developer and shoehorned into what apple wanted it to look like. It has been horrible from the get go.

  5. Re:And nobody cared.... on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  6. Re:What momentum may that fork have? on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 1

    The irony is that BTRFS was started by Oracle.

  7. FSM on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1

    They should have incorporated the FSM into their god squad logo :)

  8. Help! on The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags · · Score: 4, Funny

    Help, they can see me going into my house!
    They will know where i live..
    WHERE IS MY TIN FOIL HAT?!?!

  9. Re:Maybe on Monetizing Free-To-Play Gaming Models · · Score: 1

    You have Perfect World
    It seems to be the WoW of F2P

  10. Pentagons reaction on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG DELETE THE INTERNET!

  11. Re:What it doesn't say on Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where in the article does it state this?
    I can't find any info about it at least.
    All the article claims is that it is a kernel module, and in that case this is really old news as we had a story about it some time ago.

  12. What it doesn't say on Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you have to have a rooted device already in order to install it or does it use an exploit to gain this? Will it show the usual warnings about permission requirements when installing?
    If it does use an exploit, it would be interesting to use this for regular rooting of the devices.

  13. Re:Oakland needs to mellow out on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fibres from the marijuana plant produce a material stronger then cotton at a much lower cost to produce (faster growth time, higher yield per plant, able to withstand harsher environmental conditions) thus you have to oft quoted stoner conspiracy that the anti-weed movement was sponsored by America's cotton growers.

    I haven't seen anyone refute this. I can imagine though that fighting the cotton growers would be about as successful as trying to kill the corn subsidies.

  14. Re:Intelligence test on Apple Lays Out Location Collection Policies · · Score: 1

    I couldn't find anything about how long they keep location data in any of those documents. Only that they would retain it for as long as it said in the policy, but the policy doesn't specify. It also say that they keep it longer if required or permitted by law.

  15. Re:I disagree on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My 67 year old father built his own computer and installed hackintosh and kubuntu on it, and he has windows 7 running in a vm in paralells or something. My 92 year old grand mother is skyping with her 102 year old cousin across the pond. Things are changing :)

  16. For a web 2.0 company on Google Acquires Metaweb · · Score: 1

    They sure have an ugly web page.

  17. Re:No surprise... on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "How many Fox News viewers think Saddam was responsible for 9/11? No, both parties manipulate the truth to their benefit but one party takes it to a whole new and exciting level."

    Not many. How many people think that global warming is man-made, even though there is evidence to prove otherwise? How many people believe that bush started the war to make himself rich?

    As you can see here about 1/3 of the american population believe that saddam was directly responsible for 9/11. I'd say that is pretty significant (and you can bet that the majority of this 1/3 is watching fox)

  18. Re:Not Facebook! on Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets · · Score: 1

    Just install facebook purity and you block all spam (it works with firefox, chrome and safari)

  19. Re:Maybe something everybody can use? on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 1

    There's a common myth that "rich people get Iphones" - it's turning into the technological equivalent of designer labels. People pay for an expensive logo to show off their wealth, but no one else cares, and we get the same functionality and save money elsewhere.

    I think this works the same as with expensive cloths here where i live (Oslo, Norway). The people that want to appear rich buy the expensive stuff and are going for the style 100%. The people who actually are rich doesn't bother so much.
    It's the same way with the iphone (except it's starting to become uncool again).
    Where i work there are about 70% htc, 20% nokia and 10% iphone+ericson+samsung etc.

  20. Re:Next please! on Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The funny is that the policies of a company leaves you with a crippled and slow device and you decides to wait for another version of the product and not switch to a competitor.

  21. Notifications on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And you are notified when installing in red letters exactly what the application has access to.
    News flash: 100% of your pc applications have access to your file system!

  22. Re:SMS != data on Verizon Hints At Scrapping Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    SMS was a free "extra service" for some time here in Norway (around 1994).

  23. Re:Workarounds? on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 1

    You can just mount the sd card over usb on your computer and do it from there. You have no layers, its just a usb block device (the phone unmounts the sd card and just passes it through to the computer).

  24. Re:Tinfoil hat mode on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can't you just put a "turn 3g on/off" widget on one of the home screens?
    No need to put it in airplane mode to kill the cellular data traffic..
    well on my android at least.
    Same with wifi and gps :)

  25. Re:Wasted and wasted on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 1

    Yeah i don't get why this is called a new feature, my old nokia did this _ages_ ago over 3g. I used it a bit in the start since they had free video calls for the advertising. The fun part is that the iphone can only do this over wifi so its even more useless.