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  1. Why is this news again? on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    I may be having a bad case of deja vu, but wasn't this discussed in detail only recently?

  2. Re:Disengenous on Amazon's eBook Math · · Score: 1

    depends where, I believe that here in the UK at least you are able to have the book read out and recorded, copied to a large print, converted to brail, even typed up into word for you to read on screen. Of course, you could just buy them in that format to start with, but there's nothing illegal about doing so (or paying someone to do it for you).

  3. Re:If this helmet is that great on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1
    > gives a new meaning to "fly by wire"

    well, no, that literally is the meaning of fly by wire

  4. pffft on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1

    most expensive and complicated headwear ever constructed?
    obviously never been to Ascot Ladies Day! http://www.bing.com/images/sea...

  5. Dupe: Why is this even an article? on Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption · · Score: 1

    The use of full encryption and wiping the key was commented on many times in the article http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... quoted in this piece. Even the original story was an advert for avast's app. Does this really now deserve a separate article?

  6. Re:Trust on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're right, maybe it's just moved on to an accepted alias
    It does just seem to indicate an unwillingness to move on though, and potentially hurts any point trying to make as the first thought is that whoever's using it is clinging to (potentially) outdated grievances, and allegiances, rather than wanting open discourse.
    But I think I was being a little OTT there, it was late and I responded quickly.

  7. Re:"Ethernet-powered" lighting? on Philips Ethernet-Powered Lighting Transmits Data To Mobile Devices Via Light · · Score: 1

    PoE lighting is 'a thing' and many companies provide such sytems for offices (see, for example, http://www.nuleds.com/ ) why do you think it so far fetched?

  8. Re:Trust on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You lost me at M$
    Anyone wanting a serious discussion about MSFT automatically deducts credibility points from people using the outdated "M$", "Micro$oft" or "Microshaft" (amongst others)

  9. Re:Like it matters on YouTube Introduces 60fps Video Support · · Score: 1
    I get 'stats for nerds' but no FPS figure is shown. Wonder if it depends on the stream?

    I see Video ID, Dimensions, Resolution, Volume, Stream Type, Mime Type, DASH, and Bandwidth.

  10. Re:Open Records still applies? on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    And I realise it's a different state (or World depending on your point of view ;-) ) but a quick search shows, for example, that the University of Texas Investment Management Company is a 501(c) corporation but has been declared a Governmental Body for the purposes of the Texan Act.

    Is it likely that the Massachusettson (sp?) State Attorney can and will clarify the position of these companies? If I were to let popular media inform me, I'd imagine he/she is evil and or corrupt and unlikely to do so?

  11. Open Records still applies? on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Open Records policy still apply to corporations when acting on behalf of, or in lieu of, a public organisation? Honest question as I don't know, but the UK's Freedom of Information Act which borrowed heavily from the US system has such a provision and private organisations are not exempt from requests if working in that capacity.

  12. Re:Build the plants on blue states. on Elon Musk's Solar City Is Ramping Up Solar Panel Production · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, that's why I replied stating that and correcting the parent's misinterpretation of your post and Solar City's model.

  13. Re:Resolution is 1280x720 on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    Let me help you out...

    **

    This thing should *sell* and *sell* hard.

    AT&T only. (Amazon customers know they're using the same provider that supports kindle data, so are assured that Amazon know that their partner will deliver a good service)
    1280x720 resolution. (matches the films resolution that they'll get from Prime)
    $649 or ridiculous contracts. (includes Prime ! Yay! ....And 24hr direct support)
    No external sd support. (important to an amazon customer?)
    Not real Android. (important to an amazon customer?)
    No Google Play store or Google apps. (But has an app store that already provides thousands of apps for kindle and *other* phones and tablets)
    Weakly specced. (important to an amazon customer? no, really - look at the video, it shows it *doing stuff* and that's all that matters, not your gigabitz and mega hurts)
    Nonstop monitoring and control by Amazon. (*important* to the amazon customer - as before, it *works* and when it doesn't, or I don't know how to make it work then there's that friendly Amazon to the rescue)

    It's going to sell like fucking hotcakes, isn't it?
    *yes*

    Don't underestimate how most of the things you or I may see as a negative, are actually welcomed by others (Oh..... "and it's 3D!!! ")

  14. Re:Build the plants on blue states. on Elon Musk's Solar City Is Ramping Up Solar Panel Production · · Score: 1

    I think they meant the production facilities, not the power plants. I could be wrong on this.

  15. Re:great job Amazon on Amazon's Android Appstore Coming To BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    Amazon could choose to lower the price of an application while deciding to reduce the developer's share without having to ask permission

    Well, insofar as "within terms of accepted contract" could be construed as "without permission".

    Also, unless it's changed recently (and I haven't been keeping track) Amazon can, and will, adjust prices but the developer is guaranteed a minimum price. So Amazon could give away the app in a bundle and the developer still gets the agreed minimum pricing

  16. Why not blackberry on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 1

    we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market

    Well QNX is still the #1 embedded system, and owned by Blackberry. They've demo'd full automotive interfaces (including dashboard, not just entertainment) and, I'm led to understand, CarPlay is currently running atop QNX - I doubt that ios or osx or a variant would be taken up by any car maker as an embedded system.

    Regardless, wasn't there a recent survey that basically concluded that most Driver's really wanted car manufacturers to stop buggering around with in car entertainment - leave it at audio, navigation and hands free telephony and give up on all the trickery they're trying to employ to seem cool and attractive.

  17. Re:Shut up and take my money on Man Arrested For Parodying Mayor On Twitter Files Civil Rights Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You're driving a Mitsubishi compact sedan or hatchback. Unless you've tarted it up with bric-a-brac (spoilers, coffee can exhaust, stickers, etc) or you're a leadfoot the police think you're driving a Mitsubishi compact sedan or hatchback.

    this is a factory Evo: http://images.pistonheads.com/...

  18. Re:We seem to be missing a command here... on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need 10%. The 10% alluded to in the article is a reservation for Kinect use in game that was originally mandated for all games, even those without Kinect features, but can now be freed up if the game doesn't use Kinect.

    My reply was to the question "is this saying Kinect is always on, even if it isn't running anything for the game?", the answer being yes, and don't think about disabling it.

  19. Re:this has nothing to do with making kinect optio on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: -1

    damnit, just posted so can't use my mod points. Annoyingly this will get buried rather than the 'interesting' or 'insightful' it should have.

  20. Re:We seem to be missing a command here... on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Well yes, what would happen when you say "xbox play dead rising" launch the game and then say "xbox snap Skype" ( or "xbox home" etc) if the game suddenly overrides and disables your peripheral? Or using the feature to recognise new players as they come and sit on the couch, sign them in and allow them to join in.
    none of these are game features, but require the Kinect to be running for background tasks.
    if you don't want it, then don't buy it or don't plug it in and then the console has some extra room to play with, but don't allow games (or apps) to disable it as it will interrupt the desired UI.

  21. Re:Microsoft just does not get it... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    "By that time, we users will be used to something else" and that sir (maam?) is the point. They know you'll be used to it (past experience has shown they introduce things, people complain and then get over it) so they'll say they're looking at it and when the time comes they'll point out how users are getting along quite nicely without it (as they expected) and it would be silly to introduce a reversion.

  22. Re:Deja vu on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    Current roads last a decade? Where? Seems round here the roads are resurfaced annually.

  23. Re:ANOTHER DEAD BODY! SWEET JUSTICE! on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Generally, people don't shoot at them. Strange concept relating to NOT HAVING SO MANY F***ING GUNS.

  24. Re:Death throes .. on BlackBerry To Allow Rivals To Manage Its Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Plenty in the store, obviously since the decline there's little of the newer bigger apps like Netflix etc. but I'm one who owns a couple along with family and friends who are more than happy. Build quality, screen, audio and OS features were way ahead many of the contemporary tablets and mine's still going strong. There were a few of us waiting for the BB10 phones and it was those that turned us away from BB, not the playbook. If there were an updated 10" playbook released today I'd definitely consider it, though it would be a stretch.
    And "android support a joke"? It actually was able to run some apps from a completely different OS, and that was a joke? IOS and Android and Windows RT support for apps from other platforms is non-existent, but BB made an attempt at cross platform compatibility and you slate the effort!?

  25. Re:what??? on Group Wants To Recover 36-Year-Old Historic Spacecraft From Deep Space · · Score: 2
    oh dear, don't let that get out. I see a rush of new tech patents coming up:

    clicking on a dynamically generated link to information but in space