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  1. Re:the cloud on WordPress Hacked, Attackers Get Root Access · · Score: 1

    Why do you think keeping data on your own computers makes it more secure? Big break-ins make news, but that doesn't mean they are the most common.

  2. Did that on Palm years ago. on Microsoft TouchStudio Uses Phone To Program Phone · · Score: 1

    I wrote Final Fantasy XI Timer for Palm entirely on my Palm Tungsten W using the PP compiler. There where several other compiler for Palm as well.

    I'm also hoping to write application on my Palm Pre. I already released an update to Terminal by compiling it with gcc right on my Palm Pre.

  3. Re:Google's lawsuit is dumb on Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents · · Score: 1

    What I meant to write is "Governments have".

    I don't think adding "to" is correct. The list follows on "ensure that it" and "ensure that it to prevent corruption" doesn't make sense. I guess I should have said "prevents corruption".

    Then, again I'm terrible at grammar. I have a whole blog full of errors like this.

  4. Re:Google's lawsuit is dumb on Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "However, the government is a customer too and is free to choose a product that happens to be in the unique position of having competitors who think their products are better."

    The government isn't free to choose. Government have to follow strict regulations in purchasing to insure it gets the best value for money, doesn't show any favoritism and prevent corruption. One can debate the effectiveness of the regulations, but they are there for a reason.

  5. Re:As I and many others pointed out yesterday on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect that, behind the scenes, if a two users upload identical files Amazon will only store one copy.

  6. Re:AC? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    "why the hell would it run faster when everything else in the computer is still the same?"

    Don't modern computers slow themselves down if they are getting to hot? With the AC to DC conversion moved somewhere else, the computer are cooler and slow themselves down less.

  7. Humans are wierd on Why Men Don't Have Sensory Whiskers and Spiny Genitals · · Score: 0

    Humans have very atypical sex lives because they have sex for social bonding rather then just reproduction. This is just one of several anatomical oddities that humans have related to sex.

  8. PalmOS Watch on HP Announces a Watch That Unifies WebOS Devices · · Score: 2

    There was a watch that was a full PalmOS device. You can still find them on eBay and they are probably still the most versatile watch computer ever sold. It was Fossil brand, too.

    With technology improvements it should be possible in a year or two to have a full Palm Pixi equivalent in a watch.

    I have a website that tell you when your bus or streetcar is going to arrive and I often think it would be very useful if there was some way to have that information on my watch.

    Something similar to webOS dashboard controls that get exported to your watch would be one approach.

  9. Re:Credibility anyone? on PayPal Reinstates Fund For WikiLeaker Manning · · Score: 2

    I understand PayPal blocks accounts for all kinds of questionable reasons which aren't political. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

  10. Re:In other news on Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves · · Score: 1

    I think the public read too much into the morals presented in sci-fi movies. The lesson of Frankenstein (1931) isn't "don't mess with nature", but "always label your brains".

  11. Re:Confused... on Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key · · Score: 1

    I think the simplest explanation is that the marking person behind that twitter account has no idea what a root key looks like, so he retweeted it without knowing what it was. That's why he thought it was Battleship moves.

  12. Re:cyber protest on DDoS Attacks Exceed 100 Gbps For First Time · · Score: 2

    Protests have often included illegal actions.

  13. Re:Hell of a Thing on Challenger 25 Years Later · · Score: 5, Funny
  14. Re:Any chance we'll get rid of Java? on Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here · · Score: 1

    It might be even cheaper to Google to just buy Oracle.

  15. Re:Margins on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 1

    New release DVDs usually cost more then $20, at least in Canada.

    Many movies are only heavily rented during the first week or two of release so many of the DVDs are probably only rented two or three times.

  16. Re:Margins on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 1

    While that is true, I understand most big rental companies get their DVDs at a fraction of the cost, in exchange for giving the movie companies a cut of each rental.

  17. Re:Ignorance of the Philosophy of Science on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 2

    I recently discovered a remarkable fanfiction retelling of a fantasy series that could teach these lessons in an inspiring way: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  18. Re:Early Development on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spelling is boring and hard and kids get discouraged from writing way too early in their school lives.

  19. Welcome to Capitalism on For Mac Developers, Armageddon Comes Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    In my economics class I learned that the lack of consumer information keeps prices higher then they would in a perfectly competitive marketplace. These apps stores greatly improve consumer information allowing them to easily compare all available products and are nearly a perfectly competitive marketplace.

    Another thing I learn is that in a perfectly competitive marketplace profit approaches 0.

  20. Re:he's right on Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject · · Score: 1

    There's a certain amount of suck in working in a factory every day until retirement. Talk about backbreaking.

    Not as much as starving to death on a regular basis.

  21. Re:where does the burden of proof lie? on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    Saying that increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause global warming isn't an extraordinary claim. It's based on long established science.

    You are confusing an extraordinary claim with extraordinary ratifications.

    It's like claiming that having a global nuclear war would cause 100s of millions of people to die. No one would say that is an extraordinary claim, but it does have extraordinary ratifications.

  22. Re:Maybe Titan...Maybe Earth's Shadow Biosphere. on Curious NASA Pre-Announcement · · Score: 1

    Quirks and Quarks did a story in 2009 on "Alien life on Earth" about the possibility of life on earth the has independent origins then Life As We Know it. He describes the idea of arsenic based life as "really radical" compared to his other ideas.

  23. Re:Messing with Government of USA is one thing on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm not sure if you are being cynical. The US government has vast organizations set up to kill people anywhere on earth (the military) or to interfere with your life (CIA). Corporations don't have ready access to either of those things.

  24. Re:So... on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Complaining that Wikileaks is anti-US is really an ad hominem argument. Just because they may be anti-US, doesn't mean what they have revealed it any less legitimate.

  25. Re:Aarr on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    There is one way to guarantee that: Run as a Pirate Party candidate yourself.