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  1. False Hits? on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 1

    If they're just counting installs vs. revenue then they are mistaken. I bought an app for $6.99 last year and end up having to go to the store and through the motions of buying it every time I update the iPhone to get it back. There is no charge, but I get a receipt for $0.00 everytime

  2. One of 7 Transcends on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have 7 Transcend SATA SSD's, 3 32GB and 4 192GB, one of the 192GB drives is flakey, random bad blocks and file curruption issues of files that had been fine but gone bad and have not been written to since their creation some months ago. I've reloaded it several times but eventually had to remove it from service because of its poor reliability.

  3. Re:For heaven's sake, it's the CLAIMS that matter! on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: 2, Informative

    Prior Art: Apple's Newton did all that in the mid to early 90's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)

  4. 5th State, Probably Not on Researchers Discover That Sand Behaves Like Water · · Score: 1

    Water or anything flowing through air develops a charge. I'm sure sand does too Relative to each other there can be a some with more some with less that would have a tendency for them to group and form droplets

  5. What's even worse on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    A penney and a half is a bargin compared to the $.20 they charge for both incoming and outgoing text messages

  6. I wouldn't say new or first on IBM Creates Working "Racetrack Memory" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't anyone remember the "bubble memory"? from the 70's and 80's and was a loop racetrack type device.

  7. Older Than That on NASA's Invention of the Year Award Goes to Synthetic Muscles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had the idea of creating synthetic muscles over 25 years ago when pvf2 (polyvinyl fluoride) first came out. It is a piezoelectric plastic that is less fragile than ceramic. And no I didn't patent it since I never got around to it.

    Larry C.

  8. Full Bluetooth Support on What Do You Want In iPhone 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth is crippled, cannot transfer the address book and headsets only work with the phone function and no ipod support for bluetooth or bluetooth headsets.

  9. Re:c ? really? on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 1

    Now Pascal I would believe, but not C.

  10. Re:Toxicity based on what? on Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace · · Score: 1

    FYI to the parent post. RoundUp is a herbacide and not a pestacide.

  11. Prior Art on Patent Filed for Underwater GPS · · Score: 1

    The Navy has been doing just this for many years. Using GPS (albiet in it's infancy)in October 1983 I was surveying transponder networks used for underwater navigation. There was an article about it in Aviation Week and Space Technology around that time period as well.

  12. Old news, this was covered last year on Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time · · Score: 1
  13. 5 Bucks? on HP Disables VT On Some Intel Laptops · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does this mean that HP will have to charge you for it like Apple?

  14. Accoutability? What about Politicians on Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware · · Score: 1

    What about the President, politicians, citizens and anyone else that relies on technology, anyone can be victums of unknown and exposed to expected viri on the Internet unknowingly. Whom is the law going after? What about the accussed perpretator who is an innoccent person with viri/spyware that initated this. What about computer sharing at home? What about the network access, kids, spouce, neighbors, or a company computer? I thought the law was clear that pass through pipe agreements regarding he the internet were exempt. It is was the Internet is all about. Or maybe the the operative word is agreement and that the government is persuing/attacking the wrong entity or maybe this philosophy needs to be further refined, or maybe I wrong and that was lost a long time ago. It wouldn't be the first time the government has gone after attacked a person for the wrong reasons. But there does exsist many serious problems that need to be addressed and it encompasses more than just the Fed, I would also include the MPAA and RIAA and their ties to the government and abilities to manipulate politicians and law enforcement to their becon.

  15. Re:Fedore Core I had better bluetooth support on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    I have FC6 on several machines. What tools are you using to sync Evolution?

  16. Re:Fedore Core I had better bluetooth support on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    It's not a bug, it just isn't supported with the bluetooth support packages that were changed for whatever reason.

  17. Fedore Core I had better bluetooth support on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    That's a shame. Any Fedora Distro after FC1 I have not been able to sync Evolution's address book with via bluetooth with my bluetooth phone. The bluetooth support changed in later versions of Fedora that seriously broke the bluetooth plugins for multisync. It's been over 3 years now and it still doesn't work as well as it used to.

  18. Civil Liberties Lost Forever? on 2006's Bill of Wrongs · · Score: 1

    With the Bush administration claiming and acting as if we are at war, "The War Against Terror" and relinquinshing our rights without due process, when will we ever not be at war? With this attitude we have lost our Civil Liberties forever and becoming just like cold war era Soviet Russia. The more things change, the more we are becoming the same.

    The author's hotmail address in the article doesn't appear to be working, conspirocy theories anyone,LOL.

    L

  19. And Why Did the RNC Pay Diebold? on Tech Companies and Politicians: Who Pays Who? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anybody know or willing to tell? Without a Grand Jury investegation we may never know the answer. I personally cannot think of a legit or legal reason why they would.

  20. Playing Both Sides? on An Open Letter To Diebold · · Score: 1

    I concerns me after watching the HBO special that maybe the flaw was intentional. After seeing evidence of negative votes it is apparent that someone knowlegable with the machines knew. A system designed to report zero votes when the ballots have been pre-stuffed with equal positive and negative votes for canidates and not zeroing them out is rather suspicious. With this they could make extra money from corrupt politicians from eiother party. And exactly why and for what reason did the RNC owe Diebold money. I think a Federal Grand Jury should be involved here and for all those involved if such a scandle exsist should be considered a treasonist act.

  21. Why did Kerry conceed? on Ask a "Star" of HBO's Voting Machine Documentary · · Score: 1

    After seeing the show last night it left me wondering why did Kerry pull out when he knew something was wrong.
    It appeared that Democrats and Republicans both were gaming the system or Diebold was playing both sides and may even provided information certain officials how to hack an election. Given the anomolies it is obvious someone knew how to take advantage of the system and did. Kerry should not have conceeded and should have done the right thing and exposed it and would like to know why he did what he did. All those that knew or had a part in it belong in prison regardless of party affiliation.

  22. Hydrogen Sulfide is not Natural Gas on Natural Gas to Offer Breakthrough in Suspended Animation? · · Score: 1

    Natural Gas is a biproduct of the petrolium industry and the two are not related even though they both smell bad.

  23. IMSAI 8080 series 2 the first with USB on The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time · · Score: 1

    I saw it in the pic, so it must be true, lol.

  24. Microsoft provides a tool on Options for 'Fixing' A Pirated Copy of Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's call Sysprep. It allows you to delete the the licence key and install a legit one for the system. I make image copies of my drives, and use linux to dd them, with Sysprep you can remain legal.

  25. And has the research has ruled out the obvious? on Ants Use Pedometers to Find Home · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The same results and more probable explaination are a pherenome trail which disipate over time as seen many times over in the insect world.