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  1. Re:iPhone 5? on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Right, because Apple wants to look like they can't count from 4 to 5.

  2. Re:Just like Siri... on Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android · · Score: 1

    The original iPod also had none of that scale and ecosystem you're talking about.

  3. Re:Europa on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    Seems to me it's much, much easier than all that.

    You need a base station and a penetrator. The penetrator is hooked to the base station via a tether that can play out. It has a nuclear power source that allows it to heat its exterior above the melting point of ice. The penetrator melts a hole, gravity pulls it down, and the tether gets nicely secured above it as the ice refreezes. Keep melting and playing tether out until you hit water, then do whatever - deploy a sub, sit around and look, etc.

  4. Re:Another Article on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    And you know it's pain-free and euphoric... how?

  5. Re:Amazon: Remember to remove the Bible too! on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    If you tally it up, God is directly responsible for somewhere between 2 and 25 million deaths in the Bible. Satan is responsible for somewhere between 10 and 60.

  6. Re:This doesn't prove anything on Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies · · Score: 1

    It'd be possible to do in a sensible manner. If half the class falls in the "statistical abnormality" category, and they have the same or similar abnormality, there are some pretty good conclusions you can draw. The same for someone who consistently shows the same abnormality across multiple tests.

    The response might not be to fail someone immediately, either. It might be to watch them more closely on future tests, or to swap out the suspected compromised test at the last minute without anyone but the professor knowing it'll happen.

  7. Re:supply lines to ISS already secure on SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit · · Score: 2

    The Shuttle has a higher payload to LEO than Ariane and Soyuz - IIRC, it's the only current launch system that can take some satellites up. The Falcon 9 Heavy has a higher payload than all three.

  8. Re:Apple gets a cut of subscriptions? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 1

    That'd be an interesting approach. I've never tried a PDF with security settings that prevent redistribution on iOS, wonder how it works.

  9. Re:Apple gets a cut of subscriptions? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 1

    A credit card transaction isn't a flat rate, though - it's a fee plus a percentage of the transaction, in most cases. And, again, Apple's using the money they make to, among other things, provide and enhance the platform (hardware, software, and infrastructure) these magazines are taking advantage of. If magazines don't like the cut, they're by no means forced to put their content on the iPad/iPhone.

  10. Re:Apple gets a cut of subscriptions? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 1

    AT&T's handling the user side of delivery, for which I pay them. Apple's handling the server side of delivery, for which they pay their own bandwidth and server bills.

    I suspect Apple will be handling the data. Magazines'll provide the content to be pushed out to Apple, but Apple'll do the delivery to devices.

  11. Re:Apple gets a cut of subscriptions? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 2

    Yes, they get a cut of subscription revenue. Apple is handling the platform, billing, and content delivery, so they get paid for doing what would be printing, billing, and postage in a paper subscription. It's using Apple's merchant account and bandwidth, so that seems fair.

    The apps will probably be free or include a "free" month's subscription to offset the purchase price.

  12. Re:why must "spy" satellites alway be "secret" on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 1

    The fact that it has been launched isn't the secret. Its capabilities and purpose are. Those tend not to be precisely determinable at a distance.

  13. Re:iPad multi-tasking, surely you're joking... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    How so?

    Apple requires approval, and background processes are allowed but they can only do certain things that I've permitted.

    My server room requires approval, and people are allowed but they can only do certain things that I've permitted.

  14. Re:iPad multi-tasking, surely you're joking... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    People can work there, but only once I've approved them, and if they follow my rules.

  15. Re:iPad multi-tasking, surely you're joking... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with daemons/services - Apple runs plenty of them on your phone for you already, they just don't let anyone else do it.

    There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people in my server room, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let people I don't know in.

  16. Re:Illustrates the problem with mob justice on Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain · · Score: 1

    The magazine doesn't look big enough to have a separate owner and editor. I'd suspect it's one employee.

  17. Re:How about... on HP CEO Goes On the Lam As Oracle Hunts Him Down · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you have to be served a subpoena directly.

  18. Re:iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    No, that Google - as they did here - should probably reject ethically suspect apps that are pretty easily deemed malware.

  19. Re:iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    Let me know when syslog defaults to shipping those logs off to a third-party.

  20. Re:iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if I trust someone, and that trust winds up violated? It happens.

  21. Re:iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyhow, it's not like Android doesn't warn you - isn't that widely approved "permission list" that it pops up going to tell you it has access to SMS and the like?

    If you have access to someone else's phone to install this spyware, you have access to approve the SMS permissions on install. The person being spied on gets no warning.

    Finally, I think it's an app that has been marketed truthfully.

    It's an app designed to be installed on someone else's phone without their consent.

  22. iPhone version? on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 4, Informative

    DLP Mobile also tried to sell the app on Apple's iPhone app store but was rejected.

    I doubt that. The iPhone walls off SMS messages from apps. Apple can't have rejected it - you can't write it.

  23. Re:Without firefox we'd be screwed on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    The point of his post is invalid these days. IE is below 50% market share. There is no monopoly in the browser market any more, and even if you got rid of Firefox there'd still be Chromium and Webkit (both open-source) to fill the gap and continue innovating.

  24. Re:Mozilla Suite vs. Firefox on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    OK, what are the Firefox features that Chrome and Safari lack that require massively more RAM and CPU usage?

  25. Re:Without firefox we'd be screwed on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    The argument is that Chromium and Webkit can take over that job, and have major corporate support behind them to boot.