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  1. Flashing? on Cell Phone Owners Allowed To Break Software Locks · · Score: 1

    What about flashing your cell phone to get previously crippled features back? Is that legal? Like flashing your V3 to make it able to capture video.

    Of course I didn't RTFA so apologies if this is clearly specified in the FA's text

  2. Re:How about SD? on Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones · · Score: 1

    Motorola has it's L7 wich uses miniSD cards, as far as I know, those use the same format as SD cards but with a different size. There's an adapter that makes fit a miniSD into an SD slot. It has an mp3 player..not a wonder, but works. And if you feel spendy, you can buy Motorola's cordless bluetooth auriculars. But in that case, you would have to remember to charge them!

  3. I wonder on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What are indians doing in the Amazon jungle? Don't they have their own problems in India? You know, their home country?

  4. Not for non US residents on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 1

    For non uS customers, the most bummer factor is that almost every online shop accepts only US-issued CCs, no matter wether they are Visa, MC or AMEX. For Buddha's sake! You can't even get an iTunes account cause they accept only US cards!! And we are talking about Apple, not some little store.

  5. Re:A show trial in every sense. on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that 2 of his defending lawyers were killed. Talk about a fair trial...

  6. Re:Follow the money on Gore Pushes for Private Investment in Space · · Score: 1

    Speaking of UAC... X prize foundation should make a prize for the first team to deliver (and use) a chainsaw in space. Opening the doors for a new era of space marines.

  7. I'm in Beijing right now... on Chinese Ban Internet Rumors · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and I can tell you there's no such thing as Bar-tender rum hours around here...

  8. Great on Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox · · Score: 1

    Now you can offer IT positions for your on-board slaves.

  9. Re:I Miss My Commodore 16 on A History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads · · Score: 1

    Commodore 16??...boy and I thought I was old school :)

    Another visitor. Stay a while...staaaayyyforeveeeerrrrRRR!!

  10. Uses for this info? on 911 Call Tracking Site Stirs Concern · · Score: 1

    It'd be cool to have the site email you to your phone if there's a call in one of your previously-listed addresses. So you know realtime wether [your house | your parents' house | your kid's school] is burning or not.

  11. Marriage is flawed by design on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 1

    The human is poligam by nature. Living and sleeping with the same woman all your life is an almost impossible thing to do.

    Once I has been told that an old arab proverb stated something like:
    "The age of the perfect woman for you equals your age divided by two plus seven"

    So if her_age = your_age / 2 +7 then:
    At 13 you deserve a 13.5 year old girl
    At 16 you get a 15 year old girl
    At 20, her's goes to 17. Not bad uh? but wait..
    At 30, she should be 22!!!
    At 40, she should be 27!!!!
    At 80, 47
    And so on.

    See the pattern? In order to get the perfect woman for you, every year, you have to change her for a new one each year.

  12. How much time on Libya Purchases 1.2 mil Wind-up Laptops · · Score: 1

    ...before you see these on eBay? I bet that many of us would pay more than $100 just to toy with it. That will create a demand for the product and will make the price go high.
    If the kids don't sell them themselves, then bigger kids will take them off their hands to sell them.

    I don't know exactly what USD $100 represent in Lybia but must be a lot of money for a kid, anywhere.

    Sad, isn't it? Well, don't buy one of these when they hit eBay.

  13. I don't know about psychatric patients... on A Vest to Hug You · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it will be a top seller among the ravers

  14. Information on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    If the information can be stored, you could do a backup of you. Better yet, a Time Machine 'a la' Mac's Leopard for pretty interface that guarantees Ooohhs and Ahhhss while you go back to a previous state of you. You'll will be able to browse back until you see your liver as it was before THAT night.

  15. Confusing Users 2.0 on Nokia's Wibree Takes on Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Another acronym to confuse users. Wich BTW still don't get that a BT device may not have the same services as another BT device. For example, a BT camera phone may let you use its camera as webcam while another one won't. But still both advertise as BT devices. Why do they/us let them do this??

  16. If screaming isn't enough on UK Firm To Release 'Screaming' Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    What about making the battery of the phone explode in the thief's pocket?

    Disclaimer: Any Sony reference is purely coincidental. No batteries or global evil empires were harm in the making of this post.

  17. Black hole?? Newbies! on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    If you really want to put all of us in danger, try harder. Like these guys at www.worldjumpday.org who want to shift earth from its orbit by jumping all at once!

  18. Obligatory on Will Vista Overload the DNS? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one, welcome our new DNS overloads!

  19. Go for LED lightbulbs on The Light Bulb That Can Change the World · · Score: 1


    I have some in my house and my experience is that they are OK but you can't replace incandescence as the main light source. Even if you don't notice the flickering, it's still there, hurting your eyes. You don't want to read a book with CFL light, no matter how warm they may be.

    I'm looking forward to "cheap" LED lightbulbs, they look far more promising than the CFLs.

  20. Excuse me but on Harvard Phd Vs. About.com over Gaming · · Score: 1

    Since when exactly is Hardvard (or she) a recognized institution on gaming matters?

    Thanks

  21. In related news... on China and Russia to Launch Joint Mars Mission · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nasa confirmed the aquisition of Pixar 3D animation studios to fake another landing.
    "We hope to launch HDTV as a global mass media comunication tool as we did with the TV back in the 60's but we are going to need some serious rendering power to fill all these pixels and make it right. Oh, and don't miss the trailer (spoiler warning!) coming to theaters near you!" - the spokeman said. ;)

  22. Low price on IBM to Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Isn't 1.3 billion dollars a bit low for the International Space Station? Wait..umm..nevermind.

  23. Re:The number one feature they need... on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    give me Third World cell phone prices. If they can have it, so should I.

    Sure, just come to live to Argentina and get one. And, if it isn't too much trouble, bring me a MacBook Pro please. They cost USD $1000 more here (for an older model!) than in apple.com. Hell, even a Mac Mini it's overpriced.

  24. Wrong approach on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 1

    Banning common stuff that can be used as weapons is not a solution, it's a hotfix.
    So, what will happen when terrorists develop explosive clothing? Will they make all of us fly naked?

    Do more profiling, background searches and stop banning these things. Get the terrorists, nor their weapons.

  25. Re:Propaganda on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Well bubble boy, seems you are about to come out of your bubble!

    Let me tell you a few things:

    Every action has a reaction.

    We have plenty of everything in this world. Extremists exists in both sides, and they are sadly both in charge now. Your president/leader serves his own interests, not your nation's.
    So don't be surprised if anyone whants to kill you when the administration in charge do whatever they want in every other country of the world.

    "Terrorism" is a reaction. You should question yourself what the action is.

    BTW, of course there are people that would kill you because of they don't like your god, just like there are people that would kill you for any other reason you can imagine:
    Cause they don't like your haircut
    Cause they don't like your race
    Cause your car stopped in middle of a highway
    Cause you smell bad
    Cause they envy you...or your wife
    Cause they are insane and dangerous
    Cause you happened to be a colored person and missed a stop sign in LA
    Cause it's good for their interests
    Cause you lead a minority group that fights for their rights
    Cause you think different
    Cause political reasons
    Cause she/he found you with your lover
    Cause you are pregnant of an arab prince or something
    Cause you know too much
    Cause you refused an offer you weren't supposed to refuse
    Cause you attacked them
    Cause you invaded their country
    Cause you destroyed their economy and made them live day to day what you would call hell
    Cause you happen to be a jock in high school
    etc ...

    Get the point? Yeah, that sucks.