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  1. Re:'Bout time on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 1
    Well they are exceptional everyone else is manufacturing crap.

    11:04AM Q: Is there a hardware redesign in this generation that could fix this problem? A: You can go on the web and look at pictures of Nokia phones that ship with stickers on the back that say "don't touch here" -- you can go on YouTube and see these. We should you three phones today, all good phones. So right now the state of the art of the entire industry is that no one has solved this problem. Would I like Apple to be first? Yes. Can we make it better right now? Maybe, we'll see.

    Can anybody produce a link or is this slander? I couldn't find any stickers.

  2. Re:Um ... on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1

    now now, soccer players are not athletes, they are artists.

  3. Re:Er, not to intrude on the soapbox on Skype App Updated, Allows 3G Calling On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Heretic!

  4. Re:In Time? on NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill · · Score: 1

    Considering that BP doesn't even bother measuring how much oil is spilling I think the modellers will have some trouble coming up with anything else than cable news entertainment animation.

  5. Prior art on What the Mobile Patent Fight Is All About · · Score: 1

    Gentlemen and Ladies, there is prior art to pinching motion. Here it is. Although this might invalidate my patent on eye roll motion, which automatically posts sarcastic replies to patent threads on /.

  6. Re:Woo, witchhunts! on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 1

    Right, I forgot this was Wikipedia...

  7. Re:Woo, witchhunts! on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 1

    Even if he is right, the reason for Cuccinellis witch hunt is political. Should every scientist consult a lawyer when applying for a grant? You never know when your research goes against the grain of a fundamentalists rising to power. Well, at least they are not shooting the infidels yet. In his righteous march towards world without dissident Mr. Cuccinelli will hurt Virginias reputation as a place to do research. Little by little people will think of other places to go and soon Virginia will be left for lovers of right sexual and probably ethnic characteristics. Why do people turn to idiots for solutions?

  8. Re:Too bad if the connection drops out... on UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod parent up! When I'm downloading smut, last thing I want is some heart surgery interfering.

  9. Re:Let's write out the pseudocode... on No Linking To Japanese Newspaper Without Permission · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite. Digest is calculated using hash from concatenation of username realm & passwd.

    request-digest = See below for the definitions for A1 and A2.

    3.2.2.2 A1 If the "algorithm" directive's value is "MD5" or is unspecified, then A1 is:

    A1 = unq(username-value) ":" unq(realm-value) ":" passwd

    So you can store A1 hash and forget the username & password.

    see RFC 2617 for details.

  10. Re:science journal DUH! on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, maybe your atom clock is more accurate, but my pulsar timepiece has way brighter display.

  11. Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground on iPad Review · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you think Apple will come up with new pad design ever? Sort of like the current one, but have a hinge at a bottom, which would be connected to an equal sized square. Then you could open it sort of like this -> \__ or close it like -> o__ Perhaps you could add some input devices to the bottom part, perhaps qwerty keyboard and a separate input pad so the screen wouldn't get dirty when it is in use. Some new catchy title could be used for this new iPad. iMaxiPad is obvious, but what is a pad? It's a thing for taking notes right? How about iNotes or since it can be closed like a book. iNotesbook or Notebook for short. Go figure.

  12. Re:Is it time yet? on Government Could Forge SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    I like the way you think. You are thinking defending your CA using trebuchets, aren't you? I know they are siege weapon, but still centuries old.

  13. Re:The road ahead on Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors · · Score: 1

    Bill got the idea from Nokias Mr. Kallasvuos YouTube video.

  14. Re:Apple and patents... on Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NFC has been patented for the purposes mentioned in apples patent for sure. Where is apple in this chart? Of course the innovation here is that it is an iPhone that uses NFC and not some other manufacturers phone.

  15. Re:typical Apple on Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because a product isn't on the market doesn't mean that it hasn't been invented. Apple did a good job on the phone and its marketing, but to say that they invented all that is a long stretch.

  16. Revolutionary it is not on Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember doing this like ten years ago.

  17. Re:The Sun on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Ok, it's been a while since I've looked at the sky with a telescope. I thought we had a 4" one, but it could have been bigger.

  18. Re:The Sun on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    I'm tempted to make Uranus joke... Anyway, Jupiters moons and red spot are pretty cool and and so is Saturn. Download a starmap application or I guess there are some online so you know what's up there and when.

  19. Re:Is that an OLED screen? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 0, Troll

    OLED screen comes with iMaxiPad

  20. Re:I'm off-duty on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    So there is 50% gay and 50% straight students?

  21. Re:What is the bandwith to iceland anyways? on Iceland's Data Center Push Finally Gets Traction · · Score: 1

    It also sits on a massive fault line. "Sir, where would you like to have your data center?" "Well, why don't you put in on top of a F:n VOLCANO!"

  22. Re:3G GSM ? on Second 3G GSM Cipher Cracked · · Score: 1

    Right, I work too close to terminals. Over air can't it be actually even unencrypted between towers.

  23. Re:3G GSM ? on Second 3G GSM Cipher Cracked · · Score: 3, Interesting
    UMTS allows operator to choose chiphers as long as it confirms to the 3GPP specification see: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/33105.htm .

    All 3G cards I've seen have used rijndael (AES).

  24. Re:They now need a "pee fee" - not what you think on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    plus and prices in Euros ... so multiply by about 1.45 to get dollars

  25. Re:They now need a "pee fee" - not what you think on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    I just visited states to see relatives. Trip from Helsinki to Newark and back costs 255, which is quite reasonable until you add taxes 260,47. So I think they have the pee fee already figured into that. I bet some senator will think of some new measure that will add another hundred bucks to the tax. I don't mind some security, but this is getting out of hand and we are not getting our moneys worth.