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  1. Re:So what do they do when.... on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    We'll have self-driving cars long before then.

  2. Re:Standard Equipment on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    What about the 6" touch screen radio head unit that came standard on my '13 Tacoma? Is that a video screen and I can receive a ticket for that?

    Possibly, yes. Does it "produce[s] entertainment"?

    What about my digital odometer read out in my dash? That's about the same size as Google Glass and actually requires me to look down and away from the road (along with the speedometer and all the other gauges).

    You're not required to look down at your gauges. You can choose to when it's safe to do so, and you want the information. That's a little different to the possibility of a stream of images being projected into your eye no matter where you look. The spoiling of night vision alone would seem to be something to be wary of, never mind the data distraction.

  3. Re:Case has been dropped on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    No. She's probably not proud of her actions; she's acting proud because righteous indignation is just what some (most?) people do when they know they're in the wrong but see a chance to get away with it.

  4. Re:Like 100 years ago... on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    And yet people get charged/arrested for driving with an open container of alcohol, even if there's no proof they were drinking it.

    That's an easier one though, because driving with an open container in the car is specifically against the law by itself (right?). Was she ticketed because she was using - or resonably suspected of using - her Glass, or because she was wearing it?

    I'm on the fence as to whether it's beyond reasonable doubt that someone wearing Glass is using Glass, but I'd be happy for it to be ticketable just to wear it, like the open container thing.

  5. Re:should have gone with a browser... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    So all you've done is split your software into two parts - the generic front end running in a browser, and a server which still has to support all of that mysterious hardware.

  6. Re:Price? on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The hardware doesn't matter.

    It does if there are no Windows 7 drivers or other reasons it may not run Windows 7 (at all, or well enough).

    The software that's running on XP will also run on Win7.

    How do you know for sure? Do you work with ATM software?

  7. Re:Price? on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Because data may be data but proprietary protocols are proprietary protocols.

    Say that again ten times fast.

  8. They're paying customers now? on Why the Major Labels Love (and Artists Hate) Music Streaming · · Score: 1

    make 15% more per year, on average, from paying customers of streaming services

    They pay the customers and make more money? It's win-win!

  9. And to think Timothy calls himself an editor on Wikimedia Community Debates H.264 Support On Wikipedia Sites. · · Score: 1

    But the MP4 versions 'ould enable...

    I think you accidentally a etter.

    Many wikimedia regulars

    That should, of course, be Wikimedia, with a big wuh.

    Can we replace the words "Posted by" with "Blindly rubber-stamped by"?

  10. Alternate headline on Microsoft Remotely Deleted Tor From Windows Machines To Stop Botnet · · Score: 1

    Microsoft remotely deleted a characteristic version of Tor and other maliciously installed software which a botnet had installed from Windows machines to stop said botnet, just as it does for all kinds of malicious software via its (get this) Malicious Software Removal tool (which regularly appears in Windows Update) and/or Microsoft Security Essentials, which you, the user, gave it permission to do.

    ...but it didn't fit*.

    *in length or in terms of agenda.

  11. Re:Hard to have this happen on Android... on Starbucks Phone App Stores Password Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    which is also readable to anyone on the host PC.

    So that's what is meant by "bypassing lock screen or PIN security features"?

  12. Not as retro as I hoped on Starbucks Phone App Stores Password Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    simply by connecting the phone to a computer

    On first read I thought someone had hacked into their servers over dial-up, but it wasn't that interesting.

  13. Re:Tangential, but... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    Are we really just calling this "a USB" now instead of "a USB flash drive" or something similar?

    No, they just need an editor to look out for when people accidentally a word.

  14. Re:Title is Misleading on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    But they found out it was a password that he had already given them for something else.

    It doesn't say that they already had that password, only that he used it on other systems. He may have only just told them this.

    Here he tried to trade this password for time.

    It says he gave up the password because they've opened a separate investigation into fraud. It's not clear whether he did so because he thought he'd be treated more leniently if found guilty, but it's a reasonable assumption. I don't see anything to indicate that he was angling for time off his existing sentence.

  15. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    In the UK, if you didn't tell the police when they were investigating, you can't tell the jury either.

    Of course you can, but it won't look good, and a UK jury isn't restricted from inferring from that fact.

  16. Re:Brave on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 3, Funny

    I released a similar tool two years ago and I'm still eagerly waiting for someone to discover it.

    I sent you an email to say thanks but it would have looked like a letter from a Nigerian diplomat.

  17. Re:Who the hell needs this? on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But normal people do not need this - it's completely loony-tunes.

    Normal people shouldn't need this. What's completely loony-tunes is that they do.

  18. Re:Sweet! on Adobe Adds 3D Printer Support To Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Oh, you were so close!

    you could use Adobe to design, print and build your adobe abode!

    You could also use Adobe to dawb the wardrobe and floor boards in your adobe adobe.

  19. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    The poster was assuming that the device was splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, which it does not do, but (and this was my point) also does not claim to do (unlike the other things it doesn't do, which it doesn't do because it doesn't exist and appears to be nothing more than an artist's fantasy).

  20. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 0

    Good point, though I did beat you to it ;)

  21. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Too good to be true.

    Not at all:

    That is to say, there are plenty of reasons why this thing is too good to be true, but GP's complaints are not among them.

  22. We're using these new tungsten carbide bee razors...

  23. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too good to be true.

    Not at all:

    Using a very small but powerful micro compressor, it compresses oxygen and stores the extracted oxygen in storage tank.
    The micro compressor operates through micro battery.

    No-one said it was a free lunch.

    So if it actually separates the oxygen...

    It doesn't. There's plenty of molecular oxygen dissolved in seawater. The fish know.

  24. "To the Beemobile!" on Scientists Glue Sensors To 5,000 Bees In a Bid To Better Understand Them · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You mean your Chevy?"

    "...yes."

    Also, beekeepers like their women the way they like their coffee. Covered in bees.

  25. So, not counting then on DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water · · Score: 1

    DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water
    Researchers also discerned which of the species were most plentiful in the tank.

    Someone doesn't know what counting is (the article had the good grace to put it in scare quotes).