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  1. Re:Figures provided by analysts, not the companies on HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US · · Score: 0

    Article doesn't say highest selling, it says highest shipping. It may be a meaningless metric, but it is not deceptive.

  2. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Those who smoke marijuana all know that they can stop any time they want!"

    Of course. Its just that they dont want to.

  3. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    What feature is it that your mother needs from the latest Android OS that her current phone lacks?

  4. Re:Unmanned drones are not soldiers on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 1

    Naw, he was only a toy. It took Mork to be more then one.

  5. Re:Unmanned drones are not soldiers on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought that the movie Toys was a grim warning from the future.

  6. No amount of proof is enough. on Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who believe that cell phones cause cancer and vaccines cause autism will never be convenced by any amount of evidence.

  7. But we just deregulated mercury. on Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines · · Score: 1

    We just removed regulations preventing cement factories from spewing mercury into the air, I doubt this congres will let the UN attack the "job creators" profits.

  8. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Its not just debts, its all public transactions.

    U.S.C. 5103, Section 31 which states "United States coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

  9. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    By saying you cant spend the money, they are in fact saying that it has no value. Next step will be for them to issue "Louisiana Fun Bucks" that must be used instead of cash.

  10. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only way a transaction does not involve "debt" is if the parties involved agree to it before hand. And if there is no debt for the transaction, I dont need to give you a traceable payment. If I do, then its debt and US currency is good for it. There are a bunch of federal trade and commerce laws out there to back this up and it could also be argued that it falls under the US Constitution. Having a legal requirement that the government can track all sales transactions violates a whole bunch o' stuff.

  11. Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry Louisiana, you dont get to decide what federal currency can be used for.

  12. Re:Key word is "in the app store". on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    It would also apear to not be true, so what ever. I just dont care that much despite using the software. Its not like the copy I have will stop working.

  13. Re:Librarians are touchy that way on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 1

    So they dont know what books they have, which have been loaned out and to whom? Thats not a library, thats a "free book box".

  14. Key word is "in the app store". on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Licensing gets strange when you start to use the App Store. So this is not a shocking development.

  15. In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.

  16. Re:Gingerbread is still a GPL violation on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 1

    So sue if you're so sure. But articles such as this are pure FUD, there is nothing to indicate that they wont release the source code to ICS.

  17. Re:Drobo? on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Drobo is nifty, got one myself. But its a proprietary "RAID" system that they would have had to devote a fair amount of time to explaining and can not be well compared to systems that use more standard RAID 0/1/5 setups.

  18. Re:Android isn't for everyone on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    So he only wants internet and a bar code reader, but its some how required that he have the latest OS as well? Why?

  19. Re:Out there on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unlike with a Windows phone where you can... still do nothing about that. If a hardware vendor wont update the software the way you like it, you dont buy from them again. Which OS they refuse to update has little to do with it.

  20. Re:Galaxy SII on Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents · · Score: 4, Funny

    You dont understand. Anything released by any company in any field is an "answer to the iPhone xx" where xx is the model of the last iPhone released. Black and Deckers new toaster oven? Their answer to the iPhone 4s. The new Toyota Prius? Their answer to the iPhone 4s. And so on.

  21. "WiFi" - This refers to using wireless networking to connect to the Android phone and access the 3G/4G network. Can not use PDAnet for that.

  22. Re:Not (primarily) about round-rects on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like how they have an angled picture of the Q1 so you cant see that other then having more buttons, it is basically the same rounded corner rectangle as the iPad. Its just a different aspect ratio and is used in landscape mode primarily. Sound familiar?

    Regardless of if Samsung did "copy" Apple, the idea that Apple should own a shape should be fought. Especially when that shape is the only practical one for tablets (and always has been).

  23. Re:Amazon is just another publisher. on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    Which is fine, but of they had an existing contract they would be in breach of it. If the penalties do not out weight the benefits, more power to them. But they dont get to complain about breaking the contract when they are willingly doing so.

  24. Amazon is just another publisher. on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 2

    If the contract gave exclusive distribution rights to Penguin then the author is in breach of contract. Seems simple to me.

  25. Re:Big whoop on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Go back more then that. My first tablet ran Windows 3.1 for Pens. Good ol' Dauphin DTR-1. 486-25mhz with a passive matrix grey scale screen.

    Not that it matters. The argument is if Apple should be able to own rounded rectangles with LCDs and cameras. The first prototype iPad was around 2009, so there's no denying that they had the design early. But it seems to me to be an expected evolution of the tablet archetype rather then something new and patentable.