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  1. Re:First post from a car window! on Car Window Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    You'd have to be careful where you drive though. Wouldn't want to be driving downtown and have your child's window start pointing out all the hookers and drug dealers, encouraging your child to point at them.

  2. Re:First Post on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    According to the scale on Google Maps, the name appears to be only one mile long, not two...what's with the discrepancy there, is Google Maps just off?

  3. Re:Still doesnt excuse on Carmack Addresses FPS Creativity Concerns · · Score: 1

    I don't think you quite understood. One can be similar without being a clone. Halo is not a Doom clone, nor is it a clone with a twist. Nor was it something completely new. What I was getting at is most indie games try to go to the extremes of one or the other.

  4. Re:Still doesnt excuse on Carmack Addresses FPS Creativity Concerns · · Score: 2

    To be fair though, if I see one more indie tower defense game, I'm going to scream (queue the screams). Most indie games seem to take one approach or the other, either be a clone, or be completely different than anything else (or a clone with a *twist*! that might as well be a clone).

  5. Re:Apple sees the writing on the wall.. on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 1

    Right. Because there's no way to store the apps on the SD card. Android devices don't need HOURS of work, drama queen. When you boot up your phone, it installs the apps. When you plug in the SD card, the data is there. You'd have to go out of your way to mess that up. Being a software engineer is about as generic a term as "I work in IT", and it's clear your knowledge does not go into mobile devices. That gets you nothing, stop embarrassing yourself.

  6. Re:Apple sees the writing on the wall.. on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 1

    Actually, he probably didn't need to click anything. Swap the SD card (not that you'd know what that is) and enter your email address. The phone will automatically start downloading and installing your apps, and your music/photos/etc. are on your SD. No computer required.

  7. Re:And the consumer is in the middle. on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad all those "Like this and copy this to keep Facebook free!" posts have worked.

  8. Re:Of Course Drone Attacks Are Hostile on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Attacking an enemy in any way puts US troops at risk from enemy action, it doesn't matter if they aren't there for that one particular incident. It's not like the enemy is going to see some US troops the next day and go "Meh, they weren't even there. Not their fault."

  9. Re:I guess I should add that to my knowledge base. on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Those disagreements are ordinary and healthy

    Healthy. Tell that to the people killed by the non-hostile drones.

  10. Re:Read to the end: Google is strongarming them on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    claimed

    They're also claiming Chromebook infringes on ChromiumPC, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.

  11. Re:...really? on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Burden of proof goes both ways, and neither "side" seems to have any.

  12. Re:Crash on Making a Real Batcopter, With Parts From the Hardware Store · · Score: 1

    "I feel a great disturbance in the air, as if millions of RPMs suddenly revved up on arrow shafts , and were suddenly silenced."

  13. Re:EFF on WikiLeaks In New Legal Battle · · Score: 2

    Not all those who wander are lost.

  14. Re:GMO scientists, who do you think you are? on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 2

    The "article" calls them "peaceful protesters". Isn't destroying property considering vandalism? Considering the value of the crops, wouldn't that also be considered a pretty serious felony? I admit I don't know how the courts work over there, but that seems like a pretty serious crime.

  15. Re:hmm but linux doesn't crash on Preliminary Benchmarks: Unity vs. Gnome-Shell · · Score: 1

    And I haven't had to post as an Anonymous Coward since I registered. Maybe you just don't know how to log in. Actually I'm sure you're just not a people person. Now get this odd saying that only I get over to that place, you know the one.

  16. Re:If you don't want your trademark used ... on Apple Sues Amazon.com Over App Store Trademark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was always under the impression it was called the iTunes App Store. Although I realize my opinion has no weight in the larger scheme of things, I'd see a problem if Amazon called it the aTunes App Store or something...but App Store in the American vocabulary does not mean iTunes App Store. My mom calls the Android Market the app store. I don't see anyone getting confused, as most people call any application distribution platform an app store.

    And by the way, Google's app store is called the Android Market, which is very specific, and leaves no confusion about what it is. Amazon can open a 'market' or an 'amazon market' but they can't open an Android Market.

  17. Re:App is generic on Apple Sues Amazon.com Over App Store Trademark · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows is a generic term in certain uses. You can call the underlying x window system a 'window', and multiples of it 'windows'. You cannot call your OS Windows. That's not the same. You're comparing Apples and Oranges (pardon my pun).

  18. Re:Virgin Mobile? on Google Voice Teams Up With Sprint · · Score: 1

    While GV doesn't have a desktop client, they do have an addon for Chrome which is quite useful, it allows you to use the browser to send and receive texts.

  19. Re:Unfortunately on Google Voice Teams Up With Sprint · · Score: 1

    ...are you some kind of spy? Has the eagle left the nest? Director? Thank you.

  20. Re:First, kill all the laywers on US Lawyers Target Swedish Pirate, and His Unicorn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually this is their train of thought: If someone messes with us or tries to interfere with us, then let's make it as expensive, time consuming, and difficult for them as possible, and make knowledge of our actions public as possible, to set an example.

  21. Re:Nokia had the same problem on Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds · · Score: 2

    But when a software company, usually proprietary, is ran good

    Ran well.

  22. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Whoops, forgot to clarify: Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.

  23. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Show me a single instance in the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence where the term 'democratic' in any variation is used. There isn't. However, Article IV, section 4 says that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government". Seems like this bill is simply trying to reflect the Constitution.

  24. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    "the United States relies on representative democracy, but its system of government is much more complex than that. It is not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered." - Taken from 'An Introduction to the American Legal System' written in 2006.
    The United States is not a true representative democracy, Canada is. The United States is a constitutional republic in every sense of the word.

  25. Re:IANAL on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 1

    Are you the Sheriff of Rottingham? This isn't Robin Hood: Men in Tights, but that was a flawless impression.