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  1. Fair & Balanced on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    Anybody noticed that text under their logo on that site? The review was like the very opposite..

  2. Re:Imploding? on Massive Black Hole Devours Star · · Score: 1

    Eh, the star got shredded into the accretion disk swirling around the central blackhole, but what we really observe here is the jet of matter beaming from the pole of the black hole. From that far distance we can only see it because the black hole is oriented towards us, so the relativistic jet is pointing directly in our direction. A rare alignment or a rare object, that is why it is so interesting.

  3. Re:This changes or improves NOTHING on ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    Easy fix, just allow only one domain name per identity per LTD. So you can pick only one xyz for your xyz.com xyz.net.. wait, that would ruin the domain 'business'.

  4. Re:Brilliant... on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    That was just a sarcastic rant about Bitcoin, just to flip the opinion. Obviously the speculative value probably fluctuates widely.

  5. Re:Brilliant... on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eh, what kind of moron keeps $500K in inflation burdened fiat currency? BitCoin is the best, perfectly scarse, value of BitCoin is increasing from day 0 and only goes north over time, a great deflational currency, a good diversification and investment right next to brick of gold.

  6. Re:China to lose even more money on high-speed rai on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    Interstate rail is NOT FOR PROFIT plan, often massively subsidized by the government. It is just like roads, an important public facility, it has multiple uses and purposes. We have a hypermarket here, that has been planned to be just next to our rail system so the goods are delivered cheaply from the northern ports. Also to have some travel options and backup plan for any transit withing EU is great, there are many times, like when you traveling alone to an airport and out of country when car is not very viable..

  7. Re:... and? on C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests · · Score: 0

    >C++ is the fastest. Is this seriously a surprise to anyone?

    Sure it is, lots of managers have been brainwashed to the point of Java evangelism. Sun corporation and others tried very hard to push their corporate agenda languages and also trying to discredit C/C++ in the process, sadly nothing important has been ever written in them and those who fall for this are still fixing their code, slowness, portability after-issues, garbage collection stalls and other funny nightmares it gave them. IEEE/ISO multiple times rejected them for some good reasons, but one in particular, corporate lock-in.

  8. Re:Good for him! on 15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState · · Score: 1

    Most likely some VC has been cheated by the "cloud" related buzzwords into this fad. The problem is that anything involving words like "interner server", "cloud", "Ruby on rails" is too flashi, incomprehensible, uber-smart, and, exactly that irresistible thing, they are in the market for.. (driven by some wet dreams of bumping into Google 2.0)

  9. Terry should look at these treatments on Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide · · Score: 2

    Recently there have been lots of positive and promising developments in this area. May be he could help fund the lab battling the disease. Some examples:

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110602122250.htm
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601075126.htm
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110531135714.htm

  10. Re:Chromium? on Shuttleworth: Chrome Nearly Replaced FF In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Does Google pay any money for default inclusion of Chromium? I doubt it.

  11. Re:Unionize this on Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone who is easily replaceable by a robot should reconsider his 'career'.

  12. Re:USPTO on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 1

    USPTO is NOT the only registrar, it serves the US but not the whole world, EU and even every country within EU has some independent registrars, the same applies for countries in Asia or Latin America... If you have a valid trademark in Germany or UK then US company with global reach might still have a problem as it has been shown with the Google's gmail case.

  13. Re:So? on Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets · · Score: 1

    This "OnLive" like brute-force streaming solutions will die for a simple reason of increasing cheap computing power and also increasing display resolutions (and bandwidth), you can barely stream 1080p now over Wifi, but wait for the next year's new "retina" resolution displays, the bandwidth needed for streaming next-gen video and 3D is beyond the current network capabilities, it is an unfortunate (VC-cow funded) solution that eats your 20GB months allowance in a few minutes, clogs the network for your peers and is inferior latency wise.

  14. Re:Design: lush forest, reality: drab carpark? on Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you bothered to watch the video you would have known that they are increasing the number of trees from 3000 (current state) to 6000 trees on the site. The multilevel car park will be all underground and the building will be self-powered by those fancy green power generators Google is using already. So it will be green and also local environment friendly. Given the unlimited resources they have at their disposal I bet the project is realized the way they plan it and as intended, no snake words, gloomy conclusions or the general /. pessimism is needed here.

  15. Re:Great...? on Foxconn International Removed From Hang Seng Index · · Score: 1

    They are 'exploiting' the labor because the happy socialist regime allows this to happen. If there was a sensible minimal wage law a Yuan equivalent of say $10000/year then this would suddenly stop and Apple would be forced to finally automate the manufacturing and even bring it back home.

  16. Re:Reminds Me of Something the Sony CEO Said ... on Has iTunes Been Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Companies report breaches only if under pressure from involved 3rd parties like say VISA or MC, otherwise it would spell devastating results for them, the CEO would try to cover up the situation at any cost, no doubt. Just imagine the horror and humiliation to explain this to shareholders, media and investors.

  17. Re:No install media, no deal on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    ..so you will have to buy a brand new Apple hardware with the Lion OSX then, looks like some marketing geniuses hard at work.

  18. Re:Higher Education is in a Massive Bubble on What's Your College Major Worth? · · Score: 2

    > 18 year olds wrecking their entire financial future for a degree

    And still he is only aiming to become a mere employee.

  19. Re:Let me explain. on Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad · · Score: 1

    Ok, playing a prophet here. My take: both TVs and the little boxes are fads. 10 years from now, everybody will be using a slim pad with 2K-4K resolution, in your hands, just like iPad but much faster, with better sensing, cameras etc., all your data/books/files in the cloud and Netflix-like video and audio on demand in it.. (effectively replacing static TV programming). You will also be able to beam the image to the wall if you might have the need for a big movie-like picture. The large screen rigs with better audio systems will still be around, but only as a large barebone display monitors and hi-fi audio equipment to EXTEND your pad's screen, video and audio output - all data streamed from the pad to the hi-fi rig wirelessly. The age of TVs and the additional boxes is therefore soon to be over.

  20. Re:Bitcoin - on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    Good read there! very insightful..

  21. Re:Your not qualified on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Zuckerberg also had no idea what he was doing technically, but was spot on with his idea about Facebook. You can always file a patent or trademark, talk to VC and hire a server engineer..

  22. Re:eBook Nightmares on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 1

    Have to sacrifice some karma here, but are you even aware that paper books are much worse? eBooks:

    A) Saving environment, no paper waste etc.
    B) Sparing trees and woods in general
    C) Eliminating those water polluting paper mills
    D) No storage problems, flexible, downloadable..
    E) eBooks are the only way for the future, paper books are so last millenium, modern people enjoy new media and consumption driven society shoud support current media/artist/developers not some antique book business or libraries.

  23. Re:And all for what? on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    More likely to enhance ad targeting, all your usual direct to server queries goes through Google search now, so they get properly tracked.

  24. Re:WTF? on New Bill Ups Punishment For Hosts of Infringing Video Streams · · Score: 1

    Sadly? IP is pretty much the only industry, everything else is just a fad, soon to be outsourced or automated monkey business that can't even get a wikipedia entry.

  25. Re:Most important point not in summary on Capturing Solar Power With Antennae · · Score: 1

    Not 90% efficiency over whole light energy spectrum, but in a certain frequency band the antenna is tunned to, that means 90% efficiency in a narrow band of light energy.