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  1. Re:It's about being truthful on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    Irons with labels that tell you to remove your clothes before attempting to iron them are being truthful, too - but anyone who need a label to tell them that is probably too stupid to be allowed to get near an iron.

    I don't think this post was necessary.

  2. How can they say this? Or am I just confused? on Apple To Issue a 'Fix' For iPhone 4 Reception Perception · · Score: 1

    Didn't they come out and say that it was a problem with the antenna? Didn't they encourage everyone to buy the bumper thing to fix this problem?

    Now its a software problem? Are they going to refund all the people who bought bumpers because Apple said its the way to fix the issue?

    I'm not an iphone user, or Apple user, but I don't know how you can release two statements that describe two completely different versions of what is going on.

  3. Re:Socrates, not Aristotle on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you wanna get even more nit-picky, Socrates was not Plato's teacher. Socrates was not a teacher, as he claimed. Plato was a follower of Socrates. Basically an intellectual stalker. There was no formal student-teacher relationship between them.

  4. Re:Good on YouTube Granted Safe Harbor From Viacom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The case was about the inventers of youtube purposefully uploading copyrighted content to boost its user-rate to get offers to sell. It also stated that Google knew what was going on when they bought it. Not just that "oh Joe in Jersey uploaded clips of Thundercats."

  5. Consolidation of Lawsuits on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where all the lawsuits are coming from, but requesting civil lawsuits being moved to a specific location seems like bullying to me. The same tactic Microsoft was slammed on this page for a while back in India or China or where-ever they were fighting with people. I realize it was MS going after people and its people going after Google, but the crime should be tried where it took place.

    It seems like they hope those people would drop the case if it meant an extra expense for them.

  6. Re:SHOUTcast? on VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision · · Score: 1

    This article was the first time I heard about SHOUTcast. I also thought AOL had shrunk to a small group maintaining the AIM client and server software.

  7. Re:I don't think any of this is the way to go on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 1

    I like this part about bacteria.

  8. Re:I don't think any of this is the way to go on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 1

    I think I see what you're saying. The cycling of the emissions will eventually lead it to losing its potency? But, doesn't that only to apply to known methods?

    Someone else replied to my post with something about bacteria. Now, what if you're not really changing the input and emissions, but the biological system grows and depletes upon input/output? Like, say you're feeding bacteria something that makes the population double, the new population emits pollution and energy, then half the population dies. Feed the pollution back into the system and it regrows.

    I don't think this type of biological system would violate any laws of physics, because the 2nd law of thermodynamics would be respected since the state of the system is what is in flux. Right?

  9. I don't think any of this is the way to go on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 1

    I'm not a physicist or expert on energy, but I think there must be a way to live with the things we want without having such a harsh bi-product.

    Something that would be nice, is a power-source that feeds off its own emissions in order to ELIMINATE (not reduce) pollution in the environment. Meaning a power source that takes the pollution we've already caused, and uses it to produce energy somehow. Input pollution, output pollution, pipe output stream back to input stream.

    Or what if they could create a biological energy source that fed off organic substances the way our bodies do? That would be nice.

    I'm pro-alternative energy sources, I don't care if someone gets rich from it. We need to change what we're doing.

  10. Is there Safari Support on The Safari Reader Arms Race · · Score: 1

    for Ubuntu?

  11. Re:Walking with or against traffic? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    I'd bet that she was walking with traffic.

  12. Re:She did not rely on your brain on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    ps, someone with a blackberry should check her claim.

  13. Re:She did not rely on your brain on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    Is it from a blackberry? I'm curious if she just didn't scroll down or something.

    Personally, I feel that she probably just ignored it and claimed it didn't show.

  14. Re:Before I studied abroad... on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    Last summer we used google to plot a trip to hawaii. It now says something about a canoe or kayak or something like that.

  15. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you. Quit trying to convince yourself that what you're doing (stealing) is ok.

  16. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    You can buy the movie or rent it. You don't have to steal it. Or be a big boy and go see it in the theatre.

  17. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    Because it costs them nothing to make movies. I used to mow my lawn and do other chores, just to get enough money to see a movie I wanted to see. Maybe this younger generation should quit being so lazy.

  18. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    I feel its more of a maturity issue than anything.

  19. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He said good.

    All of the above lack either quality or user control. Some have quirks like needing to break encryption and being careful about your hardware locking up due to changing region codes. None can replace BitTorrent, even when not taking price into consideration.

    Essentially, broke teenage kids want free stuff.

  20. Re:Not this again... on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 3, Informative

    redbox is good too, $1 per movie and they give you promo codes once in a while for free movies. Its not too bad.

  21. MAX/MSP + Making Things on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can buy a number of cool sensor packs from MakingThings and he can program it easily with Max MSP to do things. Using Jitter to do image manipulation is even better, since he can edit images and videos.

    Its pretty interesting. Its actually how I got into programming.

  22. Re:GPL Violation? on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    I think it also depends on whether he was originally developing it on his own time or as coursework.

  23. Re:Windows computer to run iTunes on Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 · · Score: 1

    friends, neighbours, schools, libraries, your local computer store. Surely you can find a Windows box somewhere nearby that you can use/borrow long enough to download your music from iTunes. Once you've used your credits up, you won't need to use iTunes again. Which begs the question, why don't you have all your songs already downloaded and saved in MP3 format from LaLa?

    Why should he have to go through extra trouble just to get what he already paid for?

  24. Re:Ubuntu on Ubuntu with Virtualbox on Good, Portable "Virtual" Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    This is a very good idea.

  25. Re:HTML5 on Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Where are our flying cars?