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  1. What if you buy it used? on The FSF's Campaign Against the Nintendo 3DS · · Score: 2

    If you purchase a device second hand then you have not agreed to anything. Does their terms of service deny you the right to sell the device? Does their terms of service require you to inform the purchaser of any agreements?
    And if those are not the case, an they take your data and use it, then THEY have broken the law. Right?

  2. Buy your last one first on The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing · · Score: 1

    Don't buy something you really don't want. Save your money and get the one you really want.

  3. Thanks for the followup on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    I knew they had acceptance criteria, but I didnt know they were using that to force people to pay them money. Its so .. tacky.

  4. What if Apple is not handling the money? on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Then can't they just draw an interface that lets them browse through book titles and post debits to their private account? If you eliminate Apple from handling the money, then will they assassinate the app?
    In other words, if Apple is not handling money for you, how can they take 30%?

  5. Sounds like a move worthy of Gates himself on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In a few years, people will hate Apple as much as they hated Microsoft. And Apple is going to give them the reasons for free.

  6. How does Apple force it? on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    I don't have an Iphone or an Ipad. How is Apple forcing this particular business to give them money? Refusing to host the app on their marketplace? Or threatening to remove the app from devices? Or terms and conditions of being a developer? What arm is Apple twisting that says "give me your money or die"?

  7. The kids are not getting anything on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    They are equally entitled to clean drinking water. And the people who dont own the property in apartment complexes are not getting anything. And the locally grown produce getting sprayed with this stuff, which is then fed to kids, livestock. They arent getting paid. If they cannot mine this valuable substance without contaminating the water, then they should have to completely replace the water supply with water piped in from a clean location. Every house, every yard, every farm well replaced with free city water. Forever.

  8. Re:Now imagine that is flies in and lands. on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 1

    heck, they could drop the thing from a plane.

  9. Now imagine that is flies in and lands. on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Say someone lands it on a rubbish heap or something, Its flat, quiet, drab. Camera is running. They watch a house. The target appears in a doorway for a second. Bing. The signal goes out. The target is painted. A global-hawk-predator-whatever that has been sitting on station for the past month refueling in-flight is tasked. Weapons free. The weapon follows in the laser. Boom.
    They could make it smaller with a top mounted camera so it could sit in on a haystack or on top of a barn. With just a fiber-optic camera sticking up. Heck, it could even have a solar panel to keep the camera transmitting for long periods.

  10. It only has to carry a laser to paint a target on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real damage would come from much further away.

  11. So what is the best drop-in file uploader? on Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    If someone wants to turn a apache webserver into a "ftp site" using the http protocol, what is the best drop-in solution. One that does not involve programming. I found one that has progress bar and stuff, but I am sure there are others out there.
    What is the state of the art?

  12. Rats, I was wrong. Sorry on 50% of Apple's Revenue Comes From the iPhone · · Score: 0

    ATT did buy them.

  13. I think bellsouth bought AT&T and took their n on 50% of Apple's Revenue Comes From the iPhone · · Score: 1

    AT&T did not buy bellsouth.

  14. Re:Maybe they should buy a phone company on 50% of Apple's Revenue Comes From the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Apple likes to control everything....hardware and software. It might make sense to them to control both sides of the hardware transaction. The tower, and the phone.

  15. Maybe they should buy a phone company on 50% of Apple's Revenue Comes From the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I think they should buy bellsouth. And if you have an iPhone on a Apple carrier network, then you would be able to get features available in no other way. Maybe the phone could use a special protocol when talking with an Apple carrier. But I guess the cell towers are still privately owned right?

  16. One word: DirectJet on Asia Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    You probably don't want your printers to be on a public address unless you like adverts. :)

  17. Seem like they could oscillate the light on Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    And create a moving magnetic field over coils wound around the medium. Instant power.

  18. So you want every machine to have a direct route? on Asia Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2

    But many IP devices do not have built-in firewall, so you -still- want to run a border router firewall right? And if every machine is behind your border router, then those limitations are still going to apply. So you want to let certain traffic in to certain hosts. Some hosts are dmz, some hosts are very private, and some are in the middle. Its still a lot to manage. The only thing it solves is peer-to-peer communications right? But you are going to have to deal on a host by host and service by service basis which peer to peer protocols will be allowed in and wont be.
    Maybe NAT makes some kind of peer-to-peer relationships impossible. But, I dont think that IPv6 will make anything easy. And I think its going to permanently piss people off at the Internet and those responsible for the new design.

  19. Um, so they built a pipe that goes to the ocean on Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged · · Score: 2

    And connects to a drain at the bottom of a pit underneath a nuclear reactor. And this is to help when they wax the floors? This is to clean up after barbecues? This drain is used when the have the weekly trim everyones hair day underneath the reactors? Considering these buildings are supposed to be nearly hermetically sealed, why the snot do the plans call for a pipe that goes out the the friggin ocean?

  20. Thank you on Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security · · Score: 1

    That is what I meant. I should have been more clear.

  21. Maybe the browsers should hardcode the major certs on Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security · · Score: 2

    Instead of trusting information from certificate authorities, the browsers should have the public key for the major size burned in and security hashed inside the browser itself. That way it can trust it is downloading a real update of itself from its real home. If you have already downloaded a hacked browser, then you are dead anyway. So along with a browser you should get burned in security for the major vendors. Security that does not rely on anyone that can lie to you.

  22. I guess the FBI cant get any NSA computer time on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    I guess they shouldnt have said so many uncharitable things about the NSA after 9-11.

  23. Re:Stop buying music! on $110,000 Fine Is First Under MA Data Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    rats, wrong thread

  24. Stop buying music! on $110,000 Fine Is First Under MA Data Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    It only serves to destroy what really matters to you.

  25. I doubt it on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1

    I doubt that another judge will agree to hear any appeals on the case. I think they mostly cover for each other when being accused of bias, less they be accused themselves down the line.
    The case might be appealed on other grounds, but not because of some unproven level of bias by the ruling judge. You have to submit evidence that she is biased. She can simply say that using her special prudence powers, she is immune from such petty motivations. God bless America and all that.