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  1. Re:Can I buy a new phone without a camera please? on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    You are asking for two conflicting things. Do you want a high end model or do you want a reasonably priced model? You generally cannot have both. An example of a reasonably priced model is the Samsung A227. An example of a high end model is the HTC Fuze.

    You have to decide what you want and realize you can't have two mutually exclusive things.

  2. Re:Can I buy a new phone without a camera please? on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    It is not at all impossible. There are several models that do not have cameras.

    Here are a few: http://reviews.cnet.com/best-basic-phones/

  3. Think about it... on Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT · · Score: 1

    The thing can draw no power if it uses the power that enters the box in an Ethernet frame to throw the switch that turns it on.. same for Bluetooth. All you have to do is rectify the incoming energy from the antenna and I'll bet it's enough to charge the gate capacitance of an "ON" pin on a power controller somewhere.

    Simple, really... where there is any current at all, there is probably enough energy to turn on the switch.

  4. Wow, epicfail is right on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    And yet again, for the umpteenth time in the last two decades, I am reminded why I never ever ever ever buy a Seagate product, EVER.

  5. Re:illegal search? on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 1

    Yes. School Administrators are acting en loco parentis, which means they have the same rights as the parents with respect to the child. They can search the child, their person, and their belongings, just as a parent can.

  6. Whitehouse.gov on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Looking at whitehouse.gov, I am not sure he realizes he is President yet. It seems like he is still campaigning...

    Enough with the rhetoric already.

  7. Re:Utilities need 2 invest in their infrastructure on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    Utilities would LOVE to invest in infrastructure, but the government doesn't even let them charge enough to operate with a profit, let alone enough of a profit to upgrade or even maintain existing infrastructure. Yay, regulation.

    Look at the bright side, though. With CO2 limits and a virtual ban on coal, we won't have enough electricity available to overload our existing infrastructure, anyway.

  8. Re:Merloni/Indesit did this in 1990s on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    Holy cow, man, 3kW? That's it? One good slug from an AC motor (such as in a table saw or something) can wipe that out, at least for a few milliseconds.

  9. Pancreatic Cancer on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Funny thing about Pancreatic Cancer. It can easily cause a "hormone imbalance" because the pancreas secretes essential hormones like insulin. Pancreatic cancer is also usually incurable once it is diagnosed, with a less than 5% 5 year survival rate.

    He's as good as dead. Let's move on, shall we?

  10. Re:nope on FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus · · Score: 1

    This is actually the Wikipedia Fallacy.

    Manufacturing a bottle of Coke only goes to replace another bottle of Coke that was previously existent, thus reducing economic growth. Multiply that by the millions upon millions of bottles of Coke that are manufactured every year, and whoa nellie, I am surprised we have had any economic growth at all since the advent of cola.

    Whether the shopkeeper enriches the cobbler, bread maker, or window maker, is completely irrelevant, and depends on the assumption that the shopkeeper is going to spend those resources at all instead of saving them, which is only true if someone does indeed break his window.

  11. Another black eye... on Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is yet another self-inflicted black eye for open source. The driver is not compliant with the standard, but they released it anyway. Nice going. Now we'll have all these non-standard devices doing god-knows-what to networks everywhere.

  12. Wow, you learn something every day! on New Memristor Makes Low-Cost, High-Density Memory · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't know that resistors, capacitors, and inductors were only discovered last year. Wow, that's really cool! Now we can start making really cool electrical gizmos as opposed to what we've been using these last hundred years or so.

  13. Re:Constitutionality on Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords · · Score: 1

    "The point that I am making is that he didn't "rape" anyone."

    Yes, he did. The girl was underage, and statutory rape is still rape, even if you put "quotes" around it. That's just the way it is.

  14. Re:Constitutionality on Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords · · Score: 1

    Having sex with a 17 year old is legally no different than having sex with a 10 year old. What changes is that the consent of the 17 year old might be seen as a mitigating circumstance whereas the naiveté of the 10 year old would be seen as an aggravating circumstance.

    So, I doubt that he would have been treated the same had he raped a 10 year old. The fact that he raped a 17 year old probably just resulted in less prison time. There's your differential.

  15. The question on HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran · · Score: 1

    "Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology or have they been trying to secretly get by the U.S. governement's export restrictions?"

    Nope! They haven't been doing it unknowingly.

  16. Re:Note that none of the major commercial scanners on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 1

    Here ya go

  17. Prior Art? on Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids · · Score: 1

    Doesn't AT&T already nickel and dime you to death for the privilege of using hardware that you supposedly own?

    Want to use the internal GPS receiver? That'll be $10/month. How about playing games? Well, that'll be another fee.

  18. Re:Oil is ~$36. The electric car is DEAD. Again... on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    The electric car isn't dead because of cheap oil. The electric car is dead because electric cars are twice as polluting as gasoline cars when the environmental impact of battery manufacturing is taken into account.

    GoogleMap Sudbury Ontario and view the 20 mile circle of death around the nickel mines. The Toyota Prius is singly responsible for destroying those 300 square miles of formerly pristine habitat.

  19. Re:My data is worth any cost on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    If your data is that important, you need to take a serious look at some _real_ data integrity and disaster recovery plans.

  20. Re:Scared, paranoid? on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard · · Score: 1

    You need help. Seriously.

  21. Re:Diet soda is toxic chemical waste water on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    HFCS is not significantly different than cane sugar.

    Cane sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. HFCS is 45% glucose and 55% fructose, unless you get the "low fructose" HFCS, which is only 42% fructose and 58% glucose.

    HFCS is being unjustly demonized not because it is unhealthy, but because of peoples' tendency to consume so damn much of it.

    Guess what, if you overconsume cane sugar, the exact same thing is going to happen to you.

  22. Re:Matter and Energy...or not? on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Welcome to "Science by Consensus."

  23. Re:Another Altera inside sales job... on Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 · · Score: 1

    I did not even remotely sound like a Xilinx "fanboy," as you put it, neither was my post anti-Altera.

    My post was meant to call attention to the forced polarization of education by corporate interests. Instead of "learning to learn," students are "trained" in the use of one particular toolchain to the exclusion of all others. Instead, students should be taught to learn things, not taught to use things.

    One thing that bugs me to no end when I hire kids out of school is that they don't know how to DO anything. They only know how to regurgitate things. They know how to "turn this knob and hit this button" on the scope, according to their lab manual instructions, but they have no Earthly clue what it is that those things are doing. It's the same thing with these "trained" toolchains.

    I hope that clears it up a bit..

  24. Re:Another Altera inside sales job... on Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 · · Score: 1

    I didn't make any statements with respect to Xilinx. Don't put words in my mouth.

  25. Re:Bail Out Madness on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 5, Informative

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: '>From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.

    Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)