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  1. Re:Consumer Focus or Consumer Manipulation? on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Or do you honestly think that a hardware company like HTC is going to have two production lines: one with an FM tuner, one without, for a 3.5G HSDPA+ GSM phone running at 850/1700 for data? (that would be AT&T in the US, and Bell/Telus and Rogers in Canada)

    They already do, look at the nexus one and the htc desire.. funny thing is technically the nexus one includes a fm tuner... they just didn't buy he license from qualcomm so it's not active.

  2. Re:I'm still waiting for my Apple Tr-iCorder on How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Later · · Score: 1

    3. Biological

    I have a bluetooth enabled probe that measures body temperature, heart rate blood oxygen concentration and i think its capable of a few others. Though its a bit more invasive compared to the star trek probes and doesn't yet sync with my phone... Someday when I'm not so lazy I'll probably hack something together to do it.

  3. Re:let me see.... on Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure · · Score: 1

    Me too, iirc its worth about 12.50 in mint condition.

  4. Re:So... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    For exceptionally small values of "work just fine" sure. If I'm in a pinch I'll use one on whatever is closest and it'll work. But I wouldn't want to lay in bed with an optical mouse to control a computer on the other side of the room..

  5. Re:So... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    They do need to be used on a hard surface however, this can be used in your lap in in your bed, wherever you want it. It is its own surface.

  6. Re:So... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    My mouse only takes up as much room as my mouse pad. From what I have seen on TFA, my mouse pad is comparable in size to this device.

    Ah, but you see this device doesn't need to be used on your desk.

  7. Re:Let them?! on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you say is creationism. The belief that God spoke and it existed immediately and finally, no change ever happens. Or that God guided things into existence. If God is the very rules that bind the universe together then the second is most certainly true. But I think you'd be hard pressed to find a critical thinking scientist that actually believe the first to be true.

  8. Supported media on Encoding Video For Mobile Devices? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The android developers site has an excellent list of supported media formats. http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html The iphone 4 specifications http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html claims that the iPhone 4 supports AAC-LC and h.264 which android supports as well. So looks like you have an easy match for high quality as well.

  9. Re:The 'unlocked' price was too high... on Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone · · Score: 1

    phone with plan costs 179, 2 years at 20$ extra per month is 480. 179+480 == 659... 659- the 529 non contract price is 130... so the phone costs -130$ yes.. indeed americans are bad at math.

  10. Re:Ouch on Pointing Stick Keyboard Roundup · · Score: 1

    I also cannot type without bumping those things with my wrists.

    Play piano a few years, it helps.

  11. Re:No on 7Gbps Wi-Fi Networking Kit Could Launch In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing people say this but I've yet to see a successful attack on WPA enterprise with AES.

  12. Re:No on 7Gbps Wi-Fi Networking Kit Could Launch In 2010 · · Score: 1

    There are encryption schemes for wireless, some of them are actually pretty good.

  13. Re:And yet... on Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed · · Score: 1

    isnt there a setting in your user prefs to turn off the new interface? I dunno, i'm still on the old interface and i have noscript allowing slashdot

  14. Re:its what the scouts are FOR on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    I don't know if there's any truth to it as I never checked. But rumor was that being in the boy scouts really helps you out if you join the military through OCS, apparently eagle scout + 4 years bachelors degree == quick trip to Major as soon as you finish OCS.

  15. Re:that's the reason we need national ids on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    And, yes, if you don't carry any identity documents, the police can't find you in databases, and nobody on the outside can help you, you are fucked; do you want lack of documentation to be a get-out-of-jail-free card?

    When would lack of documentation get you out of jail free? If there is evidence you of a crime you can still go to jail even if you refuse to identify yourself.

  16. Re:We're not all always connected on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 1

    And what pray tell do you do if there is no net connection where you live? I use to live in the middle of nowhere, I would occasionally bring my Wii into town to buy a few video games on the shop channel then bring it back home and play.

  17. Re:The biggest factor on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 1

    Since Google is both a purveyor of ads and analytics, suppose that the new metric deliberately ignores Google's ads. In that case, this will cause a bias against competing ad networks (because it's algorithmically impossible to decide if an arbitrary piece of code is advertising or not).

    From what i understand, this is based on the Google developed pagespeed firefox extension (try it out, works with firebug and is pretty nifty). Pagespeed most certainly does not ignore Google's ad's. It bitches and moans non stop about them.

  18. Re:Listen to the police on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    Police in the United States are not required to respond to anything.

    What? Citation please? I guess they're not required to inso much as you aren't required to go to work every day.

  19. Re:Before someone posts only the xiph link on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    It's a shame you use mbmp, I just patented mpng which has a much better compression ratio but still better quality. But the license is only free to people who aren't licensed to use mbmp

  20. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 0

    NO IT ISN'T. Auto insurance is a voluntary deal, where you can choose not to drive. I know several people who don't pay a dime for auto insurance since they prefer to walk, or bike, or ride the bus.

    Have you ever tried to drop your auto insurance? It's not so easy to do it, they demand proof that you have a new insurance policy before they will drop you.

  21. Re:hi neighbor! on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    block everything but http, do upside downternet and configure squid to limit bandwidth to 56k (or hell be nice give em 128k isdn) speeds. and block downloading .exe .zip .rar .7z yada yada yada

  22. Re:My best guess.... on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 5, Informative

    What about those 386 PCs that had a turbo button that would allow it to run at twice the speed (66 MHz instead of 33 MHz)? Nobody ever turned it off, so why have the button in the first place?

    For older games built for 33MHz processors that utilized the clock rate for timing.

  23. Re:The Web is better on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    I don't see where your code is doing any sanitization. It's not checking if $_POST['phonenumber'] is a valid phone number or $_POST['weight'] is a valid numeric(10,4). In fact I don't even see any sql injection protection. Further more the real reason for the way check boxes work is try doing name="arrayname[]" suddenly $_POST['arrayname'] is an array so if you have a check box group with a list of foods you're allergic to you tick off the ones you're alergic to and when php (or whatever back end code you want) gets it it has an array containing.. dun dun dun foods you're allergic to with no further processing. You really need to be using parametrized queries with your sql queries no matter what language btw.

  24. Re:The Web is better on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    To check to see if data is there? Post is defined as returning the control and it's associated data, even if the data is null, well with one glaring exception.

    You assume the browser is doing exactly what you expect? Are you also trusting your users not to submit invalid data in an attempt to exploit your software?

  25. Re:Slowly reinventing the wheel in the browser on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    last time i tried over 100 running X11 (not video, just wine running a windows app) felt sluggish as hell and it twerent wine neither running wine locally with same app ran fine, more responsive than running it on windows.