User: zerro

Re:This sounds familiar.. sort of

On: 'Project Vigilant' Recruits At Defcon To Track You

.. or, perhaps it was another organization that you are thinking of. Could it be like the Russian "spy ring" that was recently "broken up" - this was probably just the decoy operation? It reminds me of the rough premise of Spies Like Us.

the real fix....

On: Apple To Issue a 'Fix' For iPhone 4 Reception Perception

the real fix is to sell a new "must have" accessory: the iGlove

Re:Does it explain the sucky battery life?

On: Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data

I had something similar happen, where all of the sudden, one day the battery wouldn't even last a half day. I tried multiple things (restore, hard boot, etc), but what seemed to fix it was resetting the phone (settings, general, reset all settings). My boss was laughing at me, and maybe one or two weeks later the same thing happened to him.

Re:Well

On: Hybrid Seagate Hard Drive Has Performance Issues

Beta is the new Gold At least it seems to be the trend in the past decade or so. Unfortunately, Nobody like's the concept of "ship now, fix later", especially when it comes to things like Automobiles and Airplanes.

Re:We're breeding stupidity

On: Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues

Mike Judge was mostly correct about this subject. The only part he got wrong was the date, as it is taking alot less than 500 years to get to that point.

Re:Using the extinction to date the painting?

On: Ancient Cave Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct For 40,000 Years

of course, if we RTFA, we note that they plan on doing just that "Further studies, such as radiocarbon dating of the paint, are planned."