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  1. Re:Which app? on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    Even worse, having some type of Instant Messenger connected will cause a lot of traffic with friends coming on and off-line. I see pople having hundreds of friends online at any time.
    GTalk for mobiles (not only Android) already tries to address these issues by pooling together updates. This sucks. The overall result is making mobiles 3rd world parties in the Internet game.
    When I go online from a desktop I appear online in seconds on other desktops. On a mobile it may take several minutes to be noticed. Go on and off-line a few times and the situation can become very confusing - a stale state may persist for hours.

  2. Helium on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually the helium atom is the smallest possible molecule. The hidrogen atom is smaller but it forms H2 molecules which are much larger than a single atom, even if much lighter.

    Gaseous helium difuses through pretty much everything. These graphene membranes should have truly amazing properties.

    Armies of physicists will work years to explain such remarkable phenomenons. Neutrinos light than faster like just.

  3. Re:MS Taking Aggressive Steps Against MALWARE On A on Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM · · Score: 1
    Locking the boot sequence is an option. A pre-boot environment (aka BIOS setup) can enable or disable such a feature as well as managing the signing keys. No post-boot program can alter the settings, a hardware reset followed by user interaction is required.

    Such a feature can secure any operating system and would be under user's control.

    Microsoft requires instead that their OS be the only one allowed on certified hardware platforms and take away any control from the user.

  4. Re:Really? on Smallest Known Black Hole Found · · Score: 1

    More likely it was sucking money out of your wallet...

  5. Hawking evaporation limit on Smallest Known Black Hole Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A black hole that would grow by absorbing radiation instead of shrinking at the ~4K average temperature of the universe can be around the mass of the Moon. Such a small black hole cannot form just by gravitational collapse but can go on indefinitely unless the universe cools down.

    The question here was about the minimum mass a star can have to become a black hole instead of remaining a neutron star - or maybe something more exotic but still fighting gravity. The Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation gives an estimate but since noone managed to observe exactly what happens with matter at the densities found in a neutron star there are still a lot of assumptions.

  6. Re:use win8 to boot a linux dstro on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1
    First of all this won't work - Win8 will refuse to run the grub4dos as it's not signed.

    Second, this prevents completely replacing the operating system.

  7. Fascism on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Guess where it came from? And how long a history it has...

  8. Public safety network based on Huawei? on US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network · · Score: 1

    Their equipment is barely able to communicate with other components from the same company...

  9. Re:Choose your poison. on Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe · · Score: 1
    Microsoft? You must be confused...

    The only thing I buy from Microsoft is hardware - really good quality peripherals implementing standard interfaces so they run out of the box on any of my Linux machines.

  10. Re:speculating about the real purpose on 5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't explain why the counterfeit Cisco gear sucks so badly or why there are some parts and technological differences from the genuine stuff.

    I work in telephony and when customer's DSPs fail the first quesion is if their stuff is genuine. We don't offer support until they replace them. They should have been smart enough to figure out an offer too good to be true probably isn't.

  11. Re:Bad summary (what else is new) on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1
    Sending false data is impossible for anything but cheap junk receivers.
    • The primary channel is crypto protected
    • The high precision channel is encrypted, unreadable by commercial devices
    • Data is checked for consistency
    • In military systems data is cross-checked with inertial navigation

    The best you can do is disabling the GPS, at which point the inertial data will still be available and quite accurate for some time - you just don't want to continue like that for too long.

  12. Re:Unprecedented? on Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Most of the exo-planets discovered so far have been via the transiting method (this is what Kelper uses).

    Uranus was discovered due to unexplained perturbations in the orbits of the other outer planets. So, not "unprecedented" for our solar system.

    ...
    3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: the star around which the planet orbits is not Sol

    Seems they could apply for a patent.

  13. Re:It is simple and it works. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Unless it doesn't work - which happens usually with high-end models with exotic modulation and negotiation that fail miserably when trying to send to another high-end model from another vendor.

  14. Re: Two way fax on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Did you encounter at least one machine that does "two way fax"? Apart from sending the station ID all machines I've ever seen send pages in just one direction. On many fax+phone machines you can't even send pages in the opposite direction of the call like it happens if you dial a document retrieval service.

    These days faxes rarely travel end-to-end, in many cases they encounter media gateways that convert analog T.30 fax to T.38 and back. That's a place where station ID and page content can be easily modified - it's in digital format with checksums removed.

  15. Re:Seriously HP, you're a tool. on Lenovo Claims Samsung Galaxy Tab Sold Just 20,000 · · Score: 1

    Really?
    Mine is doing juuust well.
    On the other hand I doubt 7.7 will be a success, definitely too wide for most hands.
    Posted from my 7" Tab.

  16. Re:Mandriva isn't trusted by the community on Mandriva 2011 Out · · Score: 1

    Are you joking?
    RHEL and CentOS have so utterly out-of-date packages that many pieces of recent software can't even be compiled without updating the kernel or glibc. I have converted many of my customers to Mandriva after they banged their heads against their precioussss CentOS or Debian.
    On the other hand I use Mandrake / Mandriva since 2004 for everything except embedded systems smaller than my hand.

  17. Re:Obvious on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 2

    1) Tablets are replacing paper media, not surprised to hear that magazines and other reading materials are disappearing from bathrooms.

    Yeah, but in a bathroom there's still some other use of paper media in an emergency...

  18. Men vs women on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    I guess the lack of Neanderthal mDNA shows that the chances of a male H. Neanderthal mating with a female H. Sapiens were much higher than the opposite. Anyone surprised?

  19. Re:IAX or ...? on FTC Approves Microsoft's Takeover of Skype · · Score: 1

    Having a low /. ID is no reason to be rude with everybody.
    You obviously don't work in the VoIP business and you have no idea how hackish the connectivity of Skype is to make it work almost reliable and with minimum costs (for the company).
    The real evil genius is to detect and use other users' better Internet connectivity to act as media relay servers for the majority of home users that think being able to browse the Web means to have Internet connectivity.

  20. IAX or ...? on FTC Approves Microsoft's Takeover of Skype · · Score: 2

    Central servers are a good reason NOT to use IAX. It has this design problem - signaling and data are associated over a single pair of UDP sockets. SIP, Jingle, even H.323 all use RTP for media so the data is decoupled from signaling. This allows P2P transfer of high volume audio and video data. Various techniques exist to pass through a firewall and alternative transports can be used if needed, especially in Jingle which is more flexible. Now, if everybody would agree on a reasonable minimum set of transports and codecs there would be no need of Skype at all...

  21. Live astronauts on Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    Why not? Aren't they gonna get their 72 virgins?

  22. Causing cancer on Brain Cancer Worries? Look Up Your Phone's SAR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Judging by the labels the entire state of California seems to cause cancer :-D

  23. Google Voice on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 1

    Actually the Google Voice (former Grand Central) core switch is Yate with a special call control module that interface with the business logic.

  24. No loss here on Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market · · Score: 2

    I got a torrent client on my Android, that should do it.

  25. Re:Common in Paris on Canadian City Unveils $60k Open-Air Urinal · · Score: 1

    But no true Frenchmen use them so nose clamps are a must when not raining.