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  1. You can have GMO labelling if you want on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 0

    There's absolutely nothing stopping grocers from giving you this information. Forcing them to do so would imply that there's something harmful about GMO foods, which is what you technophobes really want to do.

  2. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 0

    If there was something wrong with GM food it would be selected against in nature, and thus not spread.

  3. That is blatant technophobia on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 0

    If there were a reason to believe GM foods were unsafe, you might have a point, but there isn't. It's just blind superstition.

  4. I hear the RightHaven name is available for cheap on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 2

    They might as well go with an already established brand.

  5. By that logic on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech and press don't qualify, since they're just specific communications technologies.

  6. Licenses on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    I have a half dozen or so XP licenses, and only one 7 license. The latter goes to a partition on a gaming capable system, and the others go to VMs for running things like Office where needed.

    Why would I update those XP instances? They serve their purpose. What would justify the multi-hundred dollar purchase of a license that's going be made as redundant as XP in a year or two?

  7. Lookout is malware on Fake Antivirus Scams Spread To Android · · Score: 1

    It doesn't actually do anything that reading permissions when you install apps won't do better. Except drain your battery.

  8. Brands are exactly the opposite direction on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Those have always been available. You've been able to purchase apps from the carrier, or handset maker for a long time. They've always been awful and horrifically overpriced, because only those brands could enter the marketplace.

  9. Do it soon on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    The moon is no longer really out of reach of private activity. For the moment it still takes noticeable economic activity, but don't count it staying that way.

  10. Re:Faulty premise on Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    So... except for the OS? ;)

  11. Faulty premise on Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but face the facts. WinCE is a terrible OS, and it always has been. If you have a decent product you don't need to change the name every few years.

    If customers just did what they were told Android wouldn't be popular.

  12. The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't be surprised when an international audience (like the internet) laughs at you for it.

  13. If the publishers won't let libraries function... on The Looming Library Lending Battle · · Score: 1

    Then we'll build our own on the internets. Needless to say they won't pay any royalties.

  14. Re:That's how money works on The Bitcoin Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    They do get valued by the amount of work they took to produced, but it's measured as a proportion of the total network. Earlier coins could be produced in less time because there were fewer people setting up nodes to run the bitcoin infrastructure.

  15. Re:That's how money works on The Bitcoin Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Most people businesses will only accept one currency. That doesn't really impact the others.

    The Euro is having trouble because of concerns about it's issuers. Bitcoin doesn't have any.

  16. Who cares about "criminal" uses? on The Bitcoin Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin isn't a national currency. National laws don't apply.

  17. That's how money works on The Bitcoin Strikes Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has value because we pretend it does.

    So stop pretending about the US $, then.

  18. Re:To be fair, consider the view of the consumer on Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 · · Score: 1

    That's a good argument for not baking in these silly UI replacements in the first place, not for keeping them.

  19. Re:No *official* port. on Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 · · Score: 2

    I don't see a problem with Google demanding handset makers demand less.

    If they must write craplets at least make them easy for users to remove.

  20. Re:You can't SMS a land line on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    I suppose I'd do whatever I'd do to contact those people who only have fax machines.

  21. Do you really need a phone? on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    Frankly I'd be happy to drop the phone part of my smartphone. If you want to talk to me, why don't we go have coffee somewhere? If you need to send me a quick message, use SMS or email. That way I'll get it even if I'm driving or pooping or whatever.

  22. Re:Maybe link to a more reputable source? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the link to the Toronto Sun "newspaper".

  23. Maybe link to a more reputable source? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can even have another Toronto paper if you like.

  24. Re:That's simply not going to happen in this decad on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 1

    If those attempts actually make the data less secure then yes, of course we should.

    If you make your security arrangements hostile to the users, you'll make the users hostile to the security arrangements and they'll undermine them.

  25. That's simply not going to happen in this decade on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 2

    There's always a way to get the data out. If you work with people most of them will work with you most of the time. If you set yourself up as an impediment, people will humour you with lies and work around you.

    You may occasionally catch one, but most will keep it out of your sight.