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  1. Re:mentioned before but.... on Samsung Wants To See iPhone 5 and iPad 3 · · Score: 1

    Access is access.
    (paid) "Outside counsel" is compliant counsel - especially for apple which is the kind of customer no lawyer can afford to offend.

    So apple should have no objections to exposing its future designs to "outside" counsel of Samsung's choosing - in south korea of course.

  2. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Samsung Wants To See iPhone 5 and iPad 3 · · Score: 1

    It's a moot point - that is, made to demonstrate the one-sidedness of the equation.

  3. Re:Well... on What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies? · · Score: 1

    You're also taking chances when you host data "within" your control - in that Fires, Earthquakes, tornadoes, and nuclear power plant explosions are never "within" your control. Distributed storage mitigates more risks than sitting on your own eggs.

  4. Re:International agreements on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    Here's the math, HAM geezers have successfully fought to exclude most people from their group - with arbitrary tests and Morse code requirements. Consequentially, no one cares about their interests.

    Let this be a warning to group who seek exclusivity....

  5. Re:So the answer is yes on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Say Google set up an "Experiment" to protect and obfuscate its core IP, by, operating an army of IE applications, and running search terms through them followed by arbitrary clicking and browsing behavior?

  6. Re:I agree on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    I think we're missing the bigger picture.
    Google started with nothing and said, how can we make sense of the Web as Observers - they invented "Linking".
    Microsoft started with the #1 Browser (or whatever) and said how can /we/ make sense of the web, and they said "clicking and sticking".
    This is information Google didn't have, but they built a browser to get it because they understood Microsoft's advantage.

    To leverage its browser advantage, MS needs a syntax which connects a term searched to results pages. It would naturally code all the available search engines as the natural source of this relationship. It is less interested in the list of results, than it is in the clicked-through link; and MS would argue there's a difference, while GOOG would argue that it picks the candidates, thus MS is leaching.

    In response, GOOG will likely engage in very heavy duty "testing" of this theory by designing proxy servers which reports consistently misleading results for more and more search terms.

  7. Re:Does anybody else think this sounds ominous? on Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug · · Score: 1

    I think his point is that the chip is non-deterministic. This is a rare defect which appears more mechanical (thermal or electrical "wear") than oops, a transistor is in the wrong place.

  8. Re:This is Why on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 1

    uh, Jobs gets plenty of money in the form of Apple Stocks. It's a perfectly fair point.

  9. Re:Open standards on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    DeviantArt.com

  10. Re:Market Share? on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Oh dearie me. Someone forgot who bought YouTube 3 years ago.

  11. Re:It's funny on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 1

    Cool. Like maybe a JetPack app? That will be unimaginably awesome.

  12. Re:It's funny on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 1

    I suppose iPhones lack of turn-by-turn navigation is ... a feature?

  13. Re:Oh yeah? on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not one to gush about Apple; however, let's agree that whatever birthright apple sold to Singular, it sold in exchange for user's rights; specifically, the right of the user to shop for applications provided by other than the network carrier. For that I am a grateful Android customer.

  14. Re:Safety on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    I might be safer with someone contently listening to XM Radio, not fidgeting with a map because they have GPS guidance, and not digging in their purse for their ringing phone, because its linked into the Car Bluetooth.

  15. Safety on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    One might argue that competing on Horsepower is a path to mutual destruction - as cars get bigger and more aggressive, accidents are more dangerous. On the other hand, if people are more concerned with enjoying the time in their car, than driving fast and aggressively, it could be a net improvement in safety.
    BTW nothing you do will make people pay more attention to driving - they will always pay only as much attention as is necessary 95% of the time.

  16. Re:The Gist on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    The first is a slander against Wikileaks - in that it has in fact released only a sliver of its haul - while making an effort to redact, and asking the gov to help in doing so. (you might have thought of that before repeating the slander yourself - but take no offense.)

    To the second; this is hugely inadvisable - for the government to smash journalism would only decentralize the institution (even more). So long as the media have addresses, and working contacts, they can be persuaded from time to time to hold a story here or there for patriotic reasons - once the media is reduced to a fractured series of Wikileaks, Kazzaa, Limewire, Napster, and similar shadow media outlets, there will never be any hope of cooperation; That said, the concern is overblown, politicians who poke media with a sharp stick are likely to draw back a stump.

  17. Re:No it's not Wikileaks that is negative impactin on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    The Jews did play a role in inciting hatred; The Jewish religion is essentially a race-baiting exercise in which the Jews get to simultaneously claim racial superiority (Choseness) and their own brand of racism (antisemitism - which ironically can't be claimed in reverse). Now: two wrongs don't make a right, and the Nazi response is intolerable; but remember the Jews "invented" their own history in which they were the victors in a series of gruesome genocides in which they killed even the children. In a disturbing way their earlier religious fiction foreshadowed their later reality. People should be discouraged from claiming genocidal victories as justification for present landholding, for example, if they want my respect for their superstitions. The Germans on the other hand were victims of Luther's success which quite oddly ended in Luther's failure to convert the Jews - resulting in a surly condemnation of Jews as dogs etc... an attitude which grew cheek by jowl with the protestant movement in Germany - bringing us the Fuhrer and "gott mit uns" on the belt buckle of every Nazi. Imagine no religion.

  18. Re:Secrecy is necessary for Diplomacy on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 2

    If you cherry-pick examples, you can snow the ignorant either way; however, as a principle - the world would be better off with near-full disclosure both of what the Nazi were doing, and what the Catholics were doing to help them, and if the price of governmental disclosure were the transparency of small group doing good work - then on balance the scale would tilt in favor of exposure. Put another way, if you balance all the good done in secret against the bad also done in secret, the bad will outweigh the good 10 to 1 in the best century. I'll take my chances with disclosure.

  19. Re:wtf on Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? · · Score: 1

    It isn't voluntary if it is coerced as a condition of employment.

    I'm very opposed to the notion of the Government negotiating away individual liberties. The government has no business asking people to give up their rights and they do it to often. That said, I could narrowly agree that yes, it does have a need to keep secrets; however, if it asks him to conspiring in covering up a warcrime - the government has overstepped, and I say Free Speech overrides. The video is most definitely a war crime - case closed if I'm on the jury.

  20. Re:Fast Well on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Cool if it works for you of course. But the list of people with typing problems is pretty long.

  21. Re:Green power on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    here's a quick link suggesting $150 per barrel.

    http://www.oilgae.com/blog/2009/02/algae-biodiesel-costs-33-gallon.html

    There are many estimates of course, that's in the ballpark.

  22. On Women on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    May I suggest politely, that women, in the main, have /two/ paths to success, (or evolutionary strategies) whilst men may have merely one.
    That is that Women can, by merely looking fabulous, simply attach themselves to the success of a /competent/ male, while few males have managed a similar trick in reverse, and that these two strategies compete with each other in a way that dilutes the pressure to be competent. Fabulous women out-compete women who are merely competent in propagating their genes. I would wonder whether, in any species, both genders can adopt the same evolutionary strategy, this is likely not the case, as sexual reproduction leads to mutual exploitation by definition (as each gender conspires to make the other partner more responsible for the child rearing)

  23. Fast Well on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a programmer, and I think I type very well; much better in fact than people who can touch type - but not because I type faster. The way I type does not requires me to bend my wrists; i've gotten pretty fast without stressing my wrists, while people I know have been forced into an early retirement because they can no longer type.

    The first rule of typing should be: DO NO HARM,.

    after that, suit yourself.

  24. Re:And so on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank two private organizations: the RNC and the DNC - which conspire to begin primaries in Iowa. The solution to obesity in America is single-day primaries.

  25. Re:He didn't pull out just for market concerns on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    That is a real shame - plain and simple. I might have hoped a less distracted President might have made green energy more of a priority.