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  1. FREE TABLET RECALIBRATION SERVICE on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If anyone wants their tablet recalibrated, they can send it to me. In my experience, the 64 gigabyte ipad 4 4g model is particularly prone to miscalibration. Typing errors can be a sign that recalibration is neccessary.

  2. Re:Nonsense....look at the 1950 hurricanes in the on Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal · · Score: 1

    It's alright. Don't fret about it. I too, often confuse Montreal and Toronto

  3. Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid on Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle? · · Score: 2

    I, for one, think that ios and mac integration is useful-- when I want a portable device, I use my ipad. When I want to use my large screens and keyboard, I use my imac and it's helpful if I can share data (especially safari tabs) through iCloud.

    Skeuomorphism, though, is silly.

  4. Re:"True HD"? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to wank off to what's on the screen, not the screen specifications. If your eyes can't tell the difference because of the pixel density, the increased resolution of "1080p" won't matter in the least.

  5. Re:Words are words, deeds are deeds. on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 1

    Er, that should be "something eligible for enhanced penalties."

  6. Re:FoxConn has no license to Apple IP ... on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    IP is an ugly mishmash of copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets, some of which are used in the manufacturing process.

  7. Re:Words are words, deeds are deeds. on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IANAL, but in the US, speech, on its own, is protected. Let us suppose that John is an antisemite.

    John paints a swastica on a synagogue. That's vandalism, and a particularly nasty form of it. In some jurisdictions it's treated as something eligible for enhanced vandalism.

    John goes out and kills someone wearing a yarmulke. That's homicide, and evidence of his deranged beliefs may go a long way towards roving premeditation.

    John attempts to distract everyone from the real problems of society by blaming it all on the Jews. That's protected speech. There's no underlying crime which is aggravated by his inanity.

  8. Re:How about the Chinese Times on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 1

    Here's a bit of truth for you. The "Chinese Times" you speak of does not actually exist.

  9. Re:could mean the death of us manufacturing on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    If "First Sale" does not apply then how the hell can a Store who bought the property sell it to consumers? Hmm? Oh, sure some stores have direct permission from the manufacturers, but What about Amazon? What about the mom-and pop corner store that buys many of their goods from big-box stores and sells at a higher price in trade for convenience? Garage sales?

    The wholesaler grants a onetime non-transferable license to sell the product, and the included end user license. Violation of the terms of such license (including honoring the msrp, for instnce) mean that repeat orders will not be honored.

    The mom and pop store might just be screwed.

  10. Re:could mean the death of us manufacturing on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't buying the phones from Foxconn with explicit licensing to resell. it's contracting with Foxconn to manufacture the phones according to Apple's design.

  11. Re:could mean the death of us manufacturing on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    Of course Apple owns the iPhone's intellectual property. If anything, FoxConn has to license IP from Apple for the purposes of manufacturing Apple's stuff. That license dictates, among other things, that no iPhones will exit the back door.

  12. could mean the death of us manufacturing on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If first sale is held not to apply to goods manufactured outside the United States, every product we buy will be accompanied by a non transferable shrink wrap license,

  13. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 1

    The text is taken from actual advisories.
    epsilon
    zeta

  14. Re:What about Dragon Age? on Microsoft Reverses 'Mature' Game Ban On Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Something awful used to review A rated games, though they either reorganized their site, or stopped in 2008. The Review of RapeLay is a classic, though having absolutely no interest in actually playing such games, I can't comment on its "accuracy."

  15. Product differentiation on Microsoft Reverses 'Mature' Game Ban On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is a mature, well tested operating system. Windows 8 has just been born, and is not ready to confront the world as an independent adult. Underscoring this immaturity is a desire to dress in Children's Clothing.

  16. Re:Threatening Discovery of Materials on All Resea on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    CERN's data collection system was designed circa 2004, using what was then available, and inventing what was not then available.

  17. Re:Threatening Discovery of Materials on All Resea on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    Are you using 2004 technology?

  18. Re:Let me point out on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    And now for the corollary...

    If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?

    --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  19. Re:"Information wants to be free" on Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December · · Score: 1

    The purpose of publishing such information is to keep the citizentry informed so they can rationally act on it through voting. What's the point of publishing information that's thirty years out of date? "Before you were born, we started a program to torture and assassinate. The eventual disposition of the program is still classified."

    Classification schemes create a sort of nobility, entrusted with knowledge of "what's really going on" (tm), while the hoipolloi are told fairy tales designed to keep their political effect to a minimum,

  20. Re:Short answer, I hope not. on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 0

    Agreed. I haven't used windows since 98SE.

  21. Re:Win 8 RT on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Outlook is needed for legacy reasons. I'd really like to know if MSIE 6.0 will be supported on these devices.

  22. Re:Threatening Discovery of Materials on All Resea on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it's 25 Petabytes per year. But bandwidth was CERN's biggest challenge-- engineering something fast enough to record all of the data.

  23. Re:Let me point out on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    Most crimes can be thought of as form of theft: Murder,theft of life, larceny, theft of valuables; tresspass, theft of privacy; copyright infringement; theft of the worst kind imaginable; rape; theft of services...

    So, if you believe that curbing global warming will require increased taxes, regulations, and energy costs, that's theft of investable income. And so, comparing Sandusky to Mann is simply a matter of comparing two thieves to one another.

  24. Re:Threatening Discovery of Materials on All Resea on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    That they aren't competent to design a simple 25 GB/s storage array?

  25. Re:Threatening Discovery of Materials on All Resea on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    CERN willfully discards 90% of it's data. But if you have High Speed Internet (and most Americans do, unless CERN has insane bandwidth requirement that I don't know about) , you can get access to the other 10 percent.