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  1. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    You will like the rOOted version even better because you can get get more apps that way. You know the cool stuff.

  2. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately when you are doing remote access while driving (your state may have a law). Maybe the iPAD 2 has some type of LogMe In program but I haven't found it. An iPAD is a cool toy. You know Microsoft Office on a netbook is going to just work and having Outlook well I don't think the IPAD has that not that it wont do what other devices will.

    It's just very expensive for the things it's best at like watching the end of the world with in high def. That's what people really want to be able to do is have a tiny device do it all and being able to point a netbook up to capture end of the world images is about their only down side. Some are extremely small and you can just about do anything with one. If you want 3g, you got it. If you don't no big deal.

    Watching videos don't make money. Reading might depending upon what you are reading but all of this could still be described as leisure activity. To each his own.

  3. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    Netbooks are cheaper and do more. It's just the novelty of that screen on the Apple. I really don't see why a 32gb iPAD is worth $799. I would stay away from the pads right now unless you want a black and white kindle.

  4. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    You need to look into netbooks. They are really handy where say an iPAD 2 is a toy.

  5. Re:Stock roms, lawl on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    Yeah I never had to pull my sd card to root an Android, but what the real question is, is 4.0 been rooted?

  6. Re:Stock roms, lawl on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    I Don't think it has yet been rooted and the Nook Color lacks one thing, 3g I think.

  7. Re:You mean... on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well there you go. Can you think of a better name and better yet Microsoft is not using it.

  8. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Currier: It worked jolly well good for the Romans. Anybody that's really doing anything is never even going to put anything like that on the net. They are going CIA with dead drops and very low key.

    Note various serial killers mentioned from here on so be warned....

    They will get you phone number and all of your internet communication just like that dude maybe 5 minutes max. for your entire life history including that bugger you ate when you were twelve. Look how long the Unibomber lasted. He was off the grid pretty much and didn't talk on phones. His brother turned him in.

    The Zodiac killer has never been caught or at least it was for something else or died of old age. That cipher has never been broke although we do have a new method, it will probably take a couple of years then it will break like everything else and we will finally know the truth that no JFK really did get shot by just a lone gunman that was pretty far out there.

  9. Re:Heck, I'll one up that on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Stack Overflow. Well just take that out at the hardware level so that any crap code will work on this machine.

  10. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Yep there is always that IMEI number.

  11. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    SIM cards are sometimes got without warrants.

  12. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    If you are doing all of that just don't use a cell phone for that type of thing. Duh.

  13. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we live in an amazing time when $30 will buy you a GPS tracking device but those also have to be retrieved. The police version doesn't need retrieval but what difference does it make. They will just get a nark and give him a $30 device. The cops are fine as they didn't carry out that action.

    I would think about what is inside my pocket more. It can monitor everything you do.

  14. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Well for one thing it can be enabled on a vastly greater scale and for another you are less likely to be "made" as no one follows you around as you would have to do with traditional police surveillance. It feels wrong because it is wrong.

  15. Re:You mean... on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just call it "office 2013"? It has a better ring to it. Google also seems less buggy these days but not immune. I would be better of course that a native application would have less of these things going on than one that has merely been ported from a Linux build hence the sole remaining purpose for IE (internet banking).

    FireFox has become fat to say the least and using 8 for a version number sure wont help their cause.

  16. Re:Nuclear waste on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Because the earth turns. Grammar people?

  17. Re:This has happened before. on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Really....

  18. Re:Relax your requirements on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 2

    That is already being done but it seems to be happening at such a slow pace. There have been plenty of coal plants put online at the same time. OK what should Hudson Bay do or New Jersey? I'm not saying you should build wind solar, etc. but it isn't enough and if global warming has to be dealt with swiftly I think a Nuclear power plant would be safer to more people than a coal fired one.

    And another one comes online.

    http://www.dom.com/about/stations/fossil/virginia-city-hybrid-energy-center.jsp

  19. Re:Nuclear waste on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Very true. I have heard that is hard to get a permit on one of these because of the area of land they consume and might hurt some desert creature. This king of thing may work out west, but what about back east? Here we weren't even allowed to put wind up on top of the Appalachian Mountains. It might hurt the scenery. Yet while all of the debate another coal fired plant came online. It is built on top of old mine works and one day they plan on pumping the CO@ back back where it came from. As the water table is already ruined there maybe it might work but I doubt it.

    I haven't really looked into carbon sequestration but if it can be done cheaply and it works then we may not have to change a thing. Unfortunately every place isn't like out West where they could probably meet their needs that way. Some place like Japan just have too many people and not enough land. A thing called Ohm's Law prevents the power plants being to far from the population centers they serve hence building nuclear power plants on fault lines.

    And yeah passive solar is a lot better than active. Many homes can be built to take advantage of this. The second thing is vehicles all with millions of tiny power plants but what really uses the electrical load and produces the CO2 is industry, but the US doesn't have to worry about that as we have off shored that to China not necessarily because of cost but because of NIMBY's. You can't build nothing here anymore. Someone always complains about solar plants ruining the desert or wind farms killing a few birds or water plants of various kinds killing fish.

    What a bummer. Coal still produces half of the power in the US and probably gives everyone a higher dose of radiation every day through the air we breath than any nuclear power plant.

    Getting back to the point as I understand it Thorium is supposed to produced a lot smaller amounts of high level waste (the stuff that doesn't go away after 1000 years. If it's only 100 years, we can deal with that. 30,000 is a problem but a least it doesn't take up as much space as the waste from other current power plants.

    Fusion power is also a possibility IF someone would through enough money at the problem as it seems this is on a matter of scale. The larger the test plant the closer they get to breaking even. They need to go bigger. Much bigger to get fusion to work. That's my idea of the perfect source of power. Storing energy is always more costly than being able to produce it on demand.

    California is the largest importer of electricity when they have pretty much the Saudi Arabia of solar but no on can hardly get a permit to build because it might hurt some rare snake or something. They have deserts where the sun shine practically all of the time. In the North East the sun doesn't shine so much and the peak load may be at night in the winter. There is not enough wind and solar there to power NYC much less the rest of the east coast as far as I know.

  20. This has happened before. on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Yep none of his data can be trusted now. What a shame.

  21. Re:Nuclear waste on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's the real problem. People need energy. You have a bunch of bad choices here. Pick one that doesn't produce CO2 and has enough power to handle base load which leaves out solar and wind because the sun doesn't shine constantly, wind doesn't blow all of the time, batteries aren't yet capable of storing this base load and do it because doing nothing is worse OR maybe we could spend all of our time on carbon sequestration which wont work on cars unless they are electric.

    It's a big complicated problem to fix but needs to be fixed now and maybe nukes would buy us some time until solar, wind, and batteries to hold the base load are perfected.

    I hear a lot of talk about how dangerous nuclear power is. Have you every toured a refinery or a large scale chemical plant that is crucial to your every day tech lives? Sure it's dangerous but we live around much more dangerous plants than that. Coal plants simply put their radiation into the air. Any reactor that can lower the level of high level waste is OK by me. Anything under 1000 years can be dealt with by dumping it in a salt mine and really that high level stuff most could be reprocessed but we are just so afraid of proliferation to build breeder reactors and such here in the US to get the high level waste down AND don't build them across fault lines or in tsunami regions. We have a few in CA like that just like Japan.

    I don't care mod me as a troll but don't just do that because you disagree with my opinion. There is also a difference between green marketing and what really is green. That BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico probably caused more health effects long term than Japans reactor disaster.

    While everyone debates this new coal plants come online every day.

  22. Re:Nuclear waste on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Would you rather them build a coal plant instead?

  23. Re:Well well on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better idea as to how supply the power needs of 1.2 billion people? I don't believe they have enough places to put solar and wind to power their entire country without C02. As far as Japan goes they have little choice but to put these things on earthquake faults and in area subject to tsunami's. I think it fare just as good as a refinery or a chemical plant in the same location.

    I believe Thorium is actually supposed to be safer producing less high level waste but we shall see.

  24. Re:Who Cares on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    It's really weird, I actually wasn't trolling. Two people moderated me as a troll and one moderated me insightful. It just to me an old story that has been brought up 10 years ago. BTW Netscape didn't invent the first browser. Remember Mosaic? Netscape actually hurt themselves a lot too.

  25. Re:Euphemisms on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    Yeah bank presidents and such. I know a few.