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  1. Re:facebook is not responding on Chrome Extension Adds Facebook, Twitter To Google+ · · Score: 2

    No, the devs had said that their servers are running at max capacity.

  2. Re:Reroof with solar panels on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    That would be one of those expensive niche products. More expensive, and far less efficient than standard photovoltaic panels mounted on a roof.

  3. Re:Reroof with solar panels on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 2

    Except for some very expensive niche products, solar panels are not roofing material. They are installed on top of roofing materials, so you'd still need to install shingles.

  4. Re:Thinking about getting a wireless router on Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points · · Score: 1

    You can do this with DD-WRT.

  5. Re:aaaand... on iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Untethered Jailbreak doesn't mean what you seem to think it does.

    Tethered jailbreaks require you to connect to a computer every time you reboot in order to jailbreak. Untethered jailbreaks are persistant through iOS power cycles.

    The browser exploit is one way to jailbreak (and because of the attack vector, a very important one to block). But it is not the only way to have an untethered jailbreak.

  6. Someone has an axe to grind on Cut Down On Nukes To Shave the Deficit · · Score: 1

    'The Pentagon budget includes funds to develop a new fleet of 12 nuclear-armed submarines with an estimated cost of $110 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Also planned is $55 billion for 100 new bombers

    Because those next-generation bombers and submarines can't possibly be used for anything other than nuclear warheads.

  7. Re:Lay off the crack. on Can Minecraft Change the Gaming Industry? · · Score: 1

    Look up, that was the joke flying way over your head.

  8. Re:The cheek of it! on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    Why call it Windows 7? There hasn't even been a 5 or 6 yet.

  9. Re:Missing a really cool feature on Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 · · Score: 1

    1) On Win7 you need Pro or higher to do it to a network volume instead of a locally attached drive.
    2) Win7 doesn't give you the incredibly intuitive interface for users to locate and restore files themselves.

    I have the best of both worlds. Stuck a removable hard drive on the Mini I use as a server, turned on filesharing, and now my Mac laptops can use that drive for TimeMachine, my Windows Media Center can use it for Win7 backup, and the mini itself can use it for TimeMachine as well.

  10. Re:The cheek of it! on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    You're intentionally muddling the argument. There was no "iPhone 3". Apple put out:

    • iPhone
    • iPhone 3G for 3G networks
    • iPhone 3Gs for faster speeds on 3G networks (notice this is the 3rd iPhone release)
    • iPhone 4

    Likely, if their next phone supports 4G, they'll call it the iPhone 4G to distinguish from the iPhone 4. And if it doesn't, then it will be the iPhone 5.

  11. Re:How Stupid can you be. on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    The iPhone 3G was the iPhone 2.

    Missing in your release list was the iPhone 3Gs which was the 3rd iPhone.

    Same kind of numbering as Windows 7
    Win 3 ran on top of DOS.
    NT4 = Win4
    2K = Win5
    XP = Win5.1
    Vista = Win6
    Win7

  12. Re:Bit Question, on Microsoft Pulling the Plug On Windows XP In Three Years · · Score: 1

    I went through this. If your software is 64bit and runs on XP 64, then it probably has a newer (or even the same) version that runs better on Win7 64bit. Skip Vista.

  13. Re:Ban is not the answer on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    Tax the snot out of them. Considering that my house is entirely lit by canned lighting on dimmer switches, an incandescent ban means I basically have to rewire my house - fluorescent dimmables just don't work.

    No, you only have to replace the switches; no rewiring necessary. Switches are cheap (especially by the 10-pack) and take less than 10 minutes to install.

  14. Re:Call me "Anti Free Speech" if you like on Few Contribute To Aussie Classification Review · · Score: 1

    40 thousand dollars per URL. I think that's really all that needs to be said. Even if every one of those URLs was related to child pornography, I'm sure that spending the $40 million on actually catching people who abuse children would be an infinitely better allocation of resources.

    Don't worry, once they have all the automated tools in place and this gets abused, that price will drop to a few cents per URL making those free-speech sites even cheaper to block!

    Make it up in volume!

  15. Re:Wondering about this just today... on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    Right... and that protected video path meant HDCP over DVI, which caused an uproar here on /.

  16. Re:Wondering about this just today... on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    Because HDCP does not work over analog interfaces like VGA. This was a big argument against Vista when it first shipped with HDCP included.

  17. Re:What does this mean for up-converters? on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    so low resolution input sources will look exactly the same as they would plugged directly into a display device that supported it of exactly the same size...

    Not exactly true. Different devices use different methods to do the upsampling. Cheaper TVs such as Viseo are much worse at upsampling than the higher-end brands like Sharp or Panasonic. The dedicated GPU in your computer is likely to be better than both.

  18. Re:This is an easy decision. on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    Destruction of evidence and contempt of court can be used as character evidence against you in whatever it is they're trying to pin on you.

  19. Re:Desperation in Hollywood on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    And that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that MGM has been going through bankruptcy for the last 3 years? Picking one once-glorious company and pointing to its downfall as indicative of the industry is like saying "Computing is a dying industry because Osborne isn't putting out an industry-leading product."

  20. Re:Desperation in Hollywood on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ummm... the Harry Potter franchise are Warner Brothers pictures. I'm pretty sure that made it into the top 100 movies of last year. So was Inception. That's 2 in the top 5 grossing for 2010, proving you don't know what you're talking about.

  21. Re:won't happen on Could PSTN Go Away By 2018? · · Score: 1

    I bought my first cellphone in 1998-99 because and made my carrier choice on two factors:
    1) local coverage - they were mostly equal.
    2) coverage for a rural area that I vacation to several times a year.

    None of them had coverage for the rural area, but most of the carriers "coming soon" maps were planning to cover it in 1-2 years.

    When did that rural area finally get celular coverage? 2005-2006. And the carier I had selected because they would be there first? They ended up actually being the last in around 2008 when they bought up one of the other carriers.

  22. Re:It gets better, RIAA can't even process... on RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k · · Score: 2

    That sounds like criminal negligence to me.

  23. Re:Hollywood Accounting on RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of the MPAA, but Capital Records does have their headquarters in Hollywood.

  24. Re:Largest economy? on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 2

    Sorry, meant to say roughly 5 times, with the US at around 300 million and China at about 1.5 billion.

  25. Re:Largest economy? on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 2

    Japan and South Korea have populations substantially smaller than the US.

    China on the other hand, has a population roughly 1.5 times the US. The US has 9 cities larger than 1 million people, China has 160.

    China's population is waking up and rapidly transitioning from the mostly rural poor to modern "western" lifestyles. Even as China starts dropping in competitiveness on the world market, their domestic market is rapidly grown and still has a lot of room to spare.