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  1. Re:so why would i buy a blackberry? on RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days · · Score: 1

    easy to root implies easy to hijack with malware... not sure i like that possibility.
    sideloading is no problem on bb10/playbook.

  2. Re:The question is... on RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days · · Score: 1

    that is, free android apps or your own android apps. no piracy involved.

  3. Re:The question is... on RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days · · Score: 2

    have you missed the part where most android apps will work on BB10 and Playbook?
    simply only need to repackage/sign an existing android installer package into a BB package.
    anyone can do it. i've done it.

  4. Re:The question is... on RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days · · Score: 1

    we BB fans do not have to disparage anything. we're wayyy too happy :)

    and i want more weather apps! NEVER enough weather apps!

  5. Re:forget food, get on the internet on Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) · · Score: 1

    and since people are SO WILLING to believe everything they read on a network, it'll be great
    fun polluting a mesh with dis-information and watching them go out to get food and instead
    become the food. eliminate the naive early as possible in the game to ensure better supply
    of resources later on :)

  6. Re:forget food, get on the internet on Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) · · Score: 1

    wouldn't you WANT to eavesdrop on the naive morons sharing their food and ammo locations?
    darwin is all about survival of the most adaptable, not the strongest/fittest :)

  7. Re:Ask for a refund on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    the shear raving implausibility of Corporations being able to easily dump liabilities with sleight of hand sales tricks makes me think it MUST be true in the USA :) :) :)

  8. Re:Posting doesn't match up with the speed of ligh on $1.5 Billion: the Cost of Cutting London-Tokyo Latency By 60ms · · Score: 1

    fibre optic repeaters (amplifiers) had huge latencies (relatively speaking.)

  9. only hope? not really. on Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany · · Score: 3, Informative

    invalidating the patent is not apples only hope.
    they could, heaven forbid, licence the patent for actual money.

  10. push comes to shove on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 1

    well, didnt RIM really develop 'push' technology? :)

  11. Re:5th Amendment doesn't apply on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 2

    well, even you cooperate to the fullest to get your property/equipment/data back there are MANY MANY stories of police refusing
    to return things, or when finally forced to do so, the equipment has suffered mysterious inexplicable damage.

    any equipment/data confiscated by police must automatically be assumed lost.
    offsite backups are wise for many reasons, this is one.

  12. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    he's an honourary "chair" at the PI, but does not reside in Canada. he made one extended summer visit a couple years ago.
    another extended visit got cancelled due to some health issue or something. as a visitor he would not have to worry about
    "emergency" healthcare, but regular maintenance stuff he would have had to make his own arrangements.

  13. Re:Open Source Project on OnStar Terms and Conditions Update Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    or at least, splice the one mic you found easily... :) (damn, this foil hat is itchy)

  14. Re:Disconnecting ? on OnStar Terms and Conditions Update Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    are you *sure* no passive analog equipment is operational?... (donning foil hat...)

  15. Re:You have to spend money to make money.. on IBM Chief: All CEOs Reluctant To Invest In R&D · · Score: 1

    dame time?
    THAT would improve morale :) :) :)

  16. Re:Innovation is gambling on IBM Chief: All CEOs Reluctant To Invest In R&D · · Score: 1

    companies taking on large debt while betting on infinite/large growth is a whole 'nuther topic.
    but certainly not a legit justification for avoiding R&D.

    sure, they don't have the money for the R&D, but it's a position they cannot justify.

  17. Re:because bleed over is oh so awesome. on NAND Flash Can Verify a Device's Identity · · Score: 1

    wasnt SD supposed to have been the uniquely identifiable memory stick for copy protection?

  18. don't sweat the terrorism on In German Trials, Airport Body Scanners Easily Confused · · Score: 1

    sweaty armpits in the close confines of an airplane *is* terrorism.
    he should not be allowed to board :)

  19. Re:Nothing will change. on Customer Asks For Itemized Bill, Verizon Tells Her To Get a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    actually NOT wearing a seatbelt could harm someone else.
    the theory is the harness keeps you more in front of the wheel providing
    more opportunity for you to retain/wrestle some sort of control over
    the vehicle and reduce collateral damages.

  20. Re:horseshit on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 1

    you didnt have to have a kid...

  21. Re:Why not link to the original video? on Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile · · Score: 1

    awww, i was hoping the streaks were lasers being fired at some alien menace

  22. Re:I'm not sure what's more amusing... on US Reneges On SWIFT Agreement · · Score: 1

    well, it was all Bush's fault at the beginning, so why wouldn't it be at the end?

    oh, :) for the impaired.

  23. something's wrong... on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    i notice this post like 15 minutes ago, and STILL no frist post?
    aliens abducted everyone?

  24. Re:I have to applaud the ACLU... on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 1

    how do you know that job applicant was white?
    heh heh, couldnt resist...

  25. Re:This is why I don't use facebook on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the fact you knowingly allow someone else to continue using your name online would make
    me wonder if i really want you working for me. you seem 'irresponsible' in employer speak.