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  1. Re: Apple made the same mistake on Smartphone Sales: Apple Squeezed, Blackberry Squashed, Android 81.3% · · Score: 1
    They even came out with a cheap version just like back then with the Apple IIe. Jobs must have seen the parallel given how angry he got the second time:

    I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Appleâ(TM)s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong... Iâ(TM)m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this.

  2. er, the other cable chaos on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 2

    I was sure this was going to be about cable TV.

  3. Re: To be honest on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    but you can change your password, and you don't "drop" your password on every single thing you touch. besides, the govts can just apply apple's hashing algorithm to their fingerprint database - has this been mentioned yet? hashing is pointless.

  4. Re: gave me a boner on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    but you can no longer afford beer! nooooooo! Welcome to the twilight zone.

  5. Re: Right for the wrong reasons on Galileo: Right On the Solar System, Wrong On Ice · · Score: 1

    or was the "other" merely the scientific establishment of his time telling the Pope what to think? This phenomenon needs a name. Something like 'model shift' or 'paradigm transfer'. Ptolemy wasn't Catholic afterall.

  6. Re: What is the point? on How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Horrible summary. The article points out states with larger numbers of tech per capita too - and by this measure, DC, Maryland, and Virginia are a leading cluster.

  7. MS on Red Hat CEO: Bring On the Clones · · Score: 1
    counterfeit Windows products sold on the streets in the Far East may have helped Microsoft â" by cementing their position as the technology standard

    This is highly debateable. Why not use Photoshop as an example.

  8. Re: Not So on Content Most Foul: the British Library's Nanny Filter Blocks 'Hamlet' · · Score: 1

    That's actually hilarious.

  9. Re: Next book on Content Most Foul: the British Library's Nanny Filter Blocks 'Hamlet' · · Score: 1

    How about Titus Andronicus? That has to be the most graphic Shakespeare play.

  10. Re: Betteridge is actually wrong this time on Is Europe's Recession Really Over? · · Score: 1

    I think the report is of real GDP, not nominal GDP. But in common parlance, a recession just means "the economy is not satisfactory" because of unemployment or inflation. It's like the word "Frankenstein". Meaning just ends up being usage, as Wittgenstein might say.

  11. Re: Released? on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 1

    True! When he said "American defendants" I assumed he meant federal statutes. My memory of those cases involved judges scheduling a trial, then granting the prosecution as many continuances as they wanted. The only Constitutional bar is something like years after indictment.

  12. Re: They're risking their lives in a hell hole on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 1

    Very true!

  13. Re: Released? on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It's really callous to ruin somebody's life with immoral abuse of the legal system, over an unjust law, then blame the victim for his own suicide, because you think it didn't count as harassment.

    Aaron's dad was right- the government murdered Aaron.

  14. Re: Released? on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 1

    No where is "speedy trial" defined as a particular length of time. In practice it works like "as soon as possible" considering all the recognized reasons/loopholes for a delay. Other than gitmo inmates nobody "invokes" their right to a speedy trial anymore than they invoke their right to a Republican form of government.

  15. Re: Cell phones must stop broadcasting MAC address on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 5, Informative

    What he meant was "The 802.11 protocol does not require cell phones to broadcast their MAC addresses when disconnected from an AP" Sure you need to send the MAC address to connect - he knows that. You don't need to send anything if you don't want to connect. It's not hard to write an app that turns off wifi outside of particular physical area. That addresses the concern they're talking about. They don't care about background data usage on the phone when they're not using it.

  16. Re: What I learned on my DeVry JD on New Zealand Court Orders Facebook Disclosure To Employer · · Score: 1

    You're right, it never happens in real life. Just my crazy idea! D'oh!

  17. Re: Counterargument on New Zealand Court Orders Facebook Disclosure To Employer · · Score: 1
    Overly broad discovery requests are fun but there's a good response - imagine getting 500,000 pages of text from the company's records department, in shuffled order, with hand written notes, and copies of faxed printouts of email so illegible OCR gives up. Oh, and the incriminating stuff is accidentally missing (or did you just not find it yet?)

    That's assuming the discovery request isn't ignored or thrown out by the court. Also, their lawyers are better than yours, and they're in-house (not hourly) and really bored. Your only recourse ends up being bad PR, but that makes finding a new job harder, so it's lose-lose.

    But if you have a union....

  18. Re: Quite a few posts about New Zealand lately on New Zealand Court Orders Facebook Disclosure To Employer · · Score: 2

    Don't feel bad - in America we have "at will employment" by default, so your employer doesn't even need a reason to fire you. For any reason or no reason, just not for an illegal reason. On the other hand, for gov't employees it's almost impossible to fire them; procedural due process applies for some reason, somewhere in the Constitution.

  19. Re: Web 3.0 on DEF CON Hackers Unveil a New Way of Visualizing Web Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Enough of your disruptive crowdsourcing.

  20. Re: Definitions on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    And it's not "ebook sales", it should read "ebook rental license" since you don't own the ebook like you do an actual book.

  21. Re: Have a look at Earth??? on NASA To Send Poems To Mars · · Score: 1

    Voyager's golden record was way better. Bulgarian Shepherdess Song ftw.

  22. Sorta on 4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Protein Resurrected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They took present-day versions of the protein in living organisms, used a computer to interpolate a hypothetical common ancestor, then 'found' sequence homology - but people already knew the sequence was highly conserved, it's evident in modern organisms. There were no "fossils" involved. And conserved sequences make for poor molecular clocks, so who knows if it was 4 billion years ago.

  23. Re: My First Thought... on Camels May Transmit New Middle Eastern Virus · · Score: 2

    Cameltoe is an STD.

  24. Re: I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bag on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 1
    Your penis is a weapon. The military needs to what ever it takes to ensure its fighting readiness.

    Dude, you missed out on a sword fighting pun!

  25. Re: They're risking their lives in a hell hole on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 1

    They're risking their lives in a hell hole Always felt weird calling somebody's home a "hell hole" ... but then again...