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  1. Re:Smart Move? on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Right, and when there are only two contenders for the contract, said moving of goalposts is illegal, which is the thing Google is suing over.

  2. Re:Smart Move? on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    For a $10B contract, it is quite likely Google would simply implement any missing features that are listed in the requirements. A win for everyone.

  3. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    In which case I believe he was incorrect. The lower weight is caused by a greater displacement of air. Lower mass has no explanation that I can find.

  4. Re:Just another reason on Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers' Access To Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed the 2600, and enjoy my GP2Xs greatly. I'll love my Pandora when it arrives.

  5. Re:Cherrypal scam? on Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet · · Score: 1

    Link to the case? I've been looking for such a device for years, and nothing bigger than a PDA has fit.

  6. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    There is no requirement for natural-born citizens to exhibit a proficiency in English.
    There is also no federal requirement that local elections be limited to citizens.

  7. Re:THey should house a server farm in it on Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence · · Score: 1

    Who said brand new?

  8. Re:$1000 a PC? on Generic PCs For Corporate Use? · · Score: 1

    No onboard graphics, no video card, sounds perfect for an array of machines whose purpose is number crunching.

  9. Re:This is how train and air travel began, too. on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do you have to continue accelerating in space? As the air thins, accelerate less. You're still doing Mach 10+ when you leave the minimum air density for your engines to work. (of course no one does JUST this, but it's an option to go along with rockets)

  10. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected

  11. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    Consider a country with ten people, one making $1M and nine making $1k. If the first guy's income doubles and the other nine are halved, then the mean, median, and total all go up, while the average quality of life goes down. This may sound silly, but the situation in the USA is *worse* than this, proportionally.

  12. Re:That's the wrong question on US Banks That Offer Transaction History? · · Score: 1

    So have the script put said URL in your saved browser session, so that the next time you open the browser you get sent to the page to download the data, with all the appropriate security precautions. This serves as a reminder and takes all the work out of following through on it, but without security problems or complete automation.

  13. Re:Bring it on on Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack · · Score: 1

    The primary use is to watch legally-purchased HD movies in HD on my non-HDCP HDTV.

  14. Re:GOG was great, but Steam is easier on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 1

    Many of us still have a mountain of objections to Steam. Long live GoG!

  15. Re:Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    I have HDMI hardware without HDCP. I refuse to buy HDCP-enabled hardware (or any other sort of hardware DRM that isn't broken). Until now, that is, since if this is true then HDCP is broken and I don't have to worry about it any more.

  16. Re:iPhone secret screenshots? on Hacker Teaches iPhone Forensics To Police · · Score: 1

    4) Start the application in the background or minimized, with an indicator on a status/task bar of some sort showing when it is ready to be used

    5) Start the application using less than the full screen, allowing the previously focused application to be used on the other half.

    6) Give feedback that the button was clicked (audible clicks, a visual blink or pulse, etc).

    6 can be mixed with any of the others, as can 5. Just 6 is how most classic PDA interfaces worked, along with some of 4.

    PS: 3 makes starting every app take longer, because it has to load and display the image before doing anything else.

    PPS: "It's ok to lie to our users, they want us to!".

  17. Re:iPhone secret screenshots? on Hacker Teaches iPhone Forensics To Police · · Score: 1

    Storing screenshots to trick the user into think the phone is faster than it really is is secretive, nefarious, and underhanded. I said as much when the feature was first revealed, and I stand by it.

  18. Re:VoIP; Archos and the Market on India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit out of touch... When did Apple cease the big "Fuck You" to its customers in the form of not approving VOIP apps?

  19. Re:It Shouldn't Be on Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    Why isn't the boilerplate a copyrightable work? There are a million different ways to convey the intended message, and the one they chose is a matter of expression in the same way that a news article is.

  20. Re:Why has no one taken this thread seriously... on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If paying your nurses overtime for back-to-back 12 hour shifts is a "cost-cutting" measure compared to just hiring another nurse, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

  21. Re:What a coincidence on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    I've read about this. Can you provide a citation? I play CC-licensed music over internet radio all the time, and fair-use-ly sampled stuff as well. I'd love to see the RIAA come after me, I've got nothing better to do than fight a lawsuit like that.

  22. Re:Erm... on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 1

    Because five years from now when someone sues that asshole for posting such photos, he doesn't want them to be able to argue that this sort of censorship is common practice. "Everyone does it that way" is a compelling argument in some courts.

  23. Re:Erm... on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stiltwalkers of the world disagree.

  24. Re:how about more inner city rail as well? on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Bikes are nice, I ride an e-bike as my primary mode of transportation, but the masses won't ever adopt something that:
    A) requires exercise
    B) results in arriving to work sweaty
    C) exposes them to the rain
    D) can't carry a decent load of groceries

  25. Re:Don't target cars on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I've logged at least a thousand hours on MARTA and never seen violence stronger than a shove. You can check the police blotter or the AJC or any of the smaller papers if you want, violence on MARTA is pretty darn rare. Horribly unproportional amount of fear on this issue for potential riders, thanks for propagating it :(