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  1. Re:Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes and no.

    Depending on the location (nation, state, municipality, etc) there are laws about deliberately filming someone. ~Sometimes~ there are legal differences between casual recording (you walking past in the background) and deliberate recording, but sometimes not.

    Sure, you're not going to be (normally) busted for filming your friends at the beach and getting some random people in the background, but it's still possible. (IIRC, there was an Australian case very recently about this.)

  2. Or easily replacable... on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Batteries.

    Since it's, effectively, a pair of glasses, make each of the temples or temple tips be a rechargable battery, with a good enough connector to handle connecting/disconnecting and plugging / unplugging hundreds of times.

    Design them so that it won't shut down if even one of the two power sources is present, and ship with two+, allowing people to buy additional. Power temple #L1 is low? Disconnect and plug in power temple #L2. Power temple #R1 is recharged, replace power temple #R2 that are on the glasses.

    Since google has been better at design (lately) than Apple (who came up with craptacular earphone jacks for the latest iPods), this should be easy.

  3. Its.. on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 0

    An Orwellian world, after all...
    It's an Orwellian world, after all...

  4. Am I the only one who read... on Microsoft Releases Batch of Windows 8 Input Devices · · Score: 1

    this: "The Wedge Touch Mouse is an artful product shaped as an angular wedge..."

    as this: "The Wedge Touch Mouse is an awful product shaped as an angular wedge..."

    Looking at it, it in no way looks like it is designed for comfort of use.

  5. So just patent the test... on Patents On Genes: Round Two · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm sure I'm missing something here.

    But I don't see where a specific test can't be patented to determine if a gene is present, without patenting the gene.

    If someone else comes up with a different way to detect that gene, then they wouldn't be in violation of the patent.

  6. For maximum trolling... on UK Judge: Galaxy Tab "Not Cool" Enough To Infringe iPad · · Score: 1

    Judge says that only simple people use Apple products. Anything more than one button at a time confuses them.

    What? I said I was trolling...

  7. Why, oh why... on Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines · · Score: 5, Funny

    Couldn't we be using Avira at work?

    Then I could go home and play Diablo.

  8. Re:That was Rand Paul. on Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars · · Score: -1, Troll

    Samzenpus was scared by Ayn Rand as a small child (who wasn't, really), and so has a mental block there. He had to put down Ron Paul instead, or it would have just been 'fnord' all over the place.

  9. And just think... on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Police will be called out to those events because "there's someone with a gun!" Family reunion becomes a family bloodbath.

  10. Wouldn't this... on Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Fall afoul of "restraint of trade"?

  11. Easy to shut off... on FTC Expands Its Google Antitrust Investigations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is three clicks to turn off this functionality.

    Seach settings, select to not use personalized search, and then save.

    Much more clear to use (or not use) than any change that Facebook ever made.

  12. A missing circle... on The Nine Circles of IT Hell · · Score: 2

    And that's "Accreditation hell". Where policy prevents you from fielding systems that aren't certified to certain levels of robustness / security, but management hasn't (or won't) budget the time or money to actually secure a system.

    "Just stand it up now", they say. "We'll put the security money in next year's budget."

    Of course, it doesn't show up in next year's budget, and pretty soon, you're the next Sony (in the getting hacked repeatedly sense).

  13. Re:Pot, meet Kettle on Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly · · Score: 1

    And Florian Mueller is the parent of that kid, attempting to defend their precious little snowflake, through misinterpretation and obfuscation.

  14. So... on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will the Turtleneck of Power be passed on to Cook?

    Or will it instead be enshrined in a glass case at Apple HQ?

  15. Re:Play favorites? I believe it on Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs · · Score: 1

    Yep. USC, not that strange Clemson place.

  16. Re:Play favorites? I believe it on Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs · · Score: 1

    Actually, it can. Certainly not at all temperatures and pressures, but it is usable for a range of them. Which we had learned in the physics classes.

    Or here, if you need a link (not from my school, but still valid):

    https://ecourses.ou.edu/cgi-bin/view_anime.cgi?file=th020403f.swf&course=th&chap_sec=02.4

    We were, as I recall, in the area where the percentage of error was in the .1% range.

  17. Re:Play favorites? I believe it on Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs · · Score: 2

    I've seen worse, though not in Lit.

    At Carolina, the Engineering program had a professor who, one semester, failed -everyone- ...except for the guy who was from the exact same part of India that he was.

    Everyone there tromped down to the Dean's office and showed him the facts. They all got regraded, and the prof was not retained.

    But worse than that was the Thermodynamics prof who graded entirely on the curve. As in, the Bell Curve.

    The first test was six definitions and one problem involving steam. All but one person in the class used the Ideal Gas Law to solve it. And he marked us all wrong, because -he- hadn't taught us the Ideal Gas Law yet. (Never mind that you had to have two semesters of Physics to take Thermo...)

    So that first test the class average was a 34 (the one guy pulled it up that high), with a standard deviation of around 17... so the 30s that most of us got was a... C.

    Second test, the class average was a 92 with a standard deviation of around 19. So my 100 was a... C.

    The final, the class average was a 100. There was no standard deviation. So my 100 was a... C.

    Needless to say, a lot of pissed off people in that class.

  18. It's a shame... on Giant African Rat Kills With Poisonous Mohawk · · Score: 1

    That the rat isn't from Sumatra.

  19. It's really very simple... on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    Bobby Kotick is the devil.

    No other explanation is needed.

  20. But only if... on Decoding the Inscrutable Logos On Your Electronics · · Score: 2

    They're stamped on there legitimately.

    For a while there, you couldn't go a week without seeing one story or another about some "UL certified" device blowing up... because the UL stamp was fake.

  21. You know what... on Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy · · Score: 2

    They had me nodding through that statement... The arguments being at least semi-reasonable. Right up until the last bit.

    How does an opt-out system make things -less- secure?

    Massive amount of obvious (but believable) self-interest, spoiled by trying to put a security spin on it that is total BS.

  22. Re:Why was the contract unsealed? on Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract · · Score: 2

    Initially, that's all she asked for.

    She wanted $20k to cover past and future medical bills. $10,500 for what she'd already incurred, $2500 for future costs, and $5000 for loss of income. The other 2k, I'm guessing, covers pain and suffering.

    McDonalds refused to pay out more than $800.

    So it went to court. There, it came out that McDs was serving the coffee at 180-190 degrees F. Which is -way- hotter than it needs to be. That causes third degree burns in just a handful of seconds.

    McDs had hundreds of complaints about the coffee being too hot, for years.

    The punitive fine of $2.7 million was set by the jury based off of "two days coffee profit" for McDonalds.

    Yes, the judge reduced it to $640k (total), and it was eventually settled for less than that. (Sealed, but reported as "under 600k". That tells me somewhere in the neighborhood of 550-575k, otherwise they would have reported a smaller number.)

  23. Can we get... on Mono Comes To Android · · Score: 1

    Penicillin for Android next?

    To help with mono infections?

    (Yes, I know penicillin doesn't work on real world mono. It's a joke.)

  24. Obviously... on DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the seeds of life left by the Great Old Ones.

  25. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    But those are the slower, weaker brain cells. Killing them off makes the brain more efficient.