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  1. Re:So? on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    So buy a Nexus device and Flash whatever OS you want onto it. This is as close as you can get. Qualcomm will kill any dreams you have of fully-open.

  2. Re:Selective Statistics on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    No, the reality is that growth in non-first world markets of android devices is huge. They lost this share not by losing customers but that the total smartphone market is growing far faster than apple device sales.

  3. Re:most people buy cheap shit news at 11 on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    And AC's buy overpriced crap!

    I wish all companies would take Levi's model. No trying on, no fucking around, just get the 510s I want and get the hell out.

  4. Re:Uhh, phones != profit... on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would you care?

    Do you care if the company that makes your other things profits?

    I am at odds with these companies, I am trying to get the best price for the best goods. They are trying to get the most money.

  5. Re:blocked already on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    Harder than doing nothing, yes.
    I can't imagine a real router having trouble with that. A proxy is easier in that you don't have to copy the file over and over to each machine as it updates.

  6. Re:SSL ads? on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 2

    Why would that matter? Do you really think it is inspecting the packets to do this?

    I am betting it is just dropping traffic from known advertising domains.

  7. Re:blocked already on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    Why not just setup a proxy on one machine instead of bother to do this to every machine in your home? Or just do it on the router.

  8. Re:Embed ads into directly into HTML on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because these days ads are not served from the same source as the content. They used to be in the past and likely will again in the future if this sort of thing catches on.

  9. Re:power on Everspin Launches Non-Volatile MRAM That's 500 Times Faster Than NAND · · Score: 2

    Oh noes 800mw. Where ever will be get such levels of power?

    The cost is a much bigger issue.

  10. Re:I don't understand on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    If it were cheap enough I would think all women would want to go this route. Pregnancy takes a huge toll on a woman's body and health. Even worse are the possible complications. People still die in childbirth.

  11. Re:The window of opportunity, wave it bye-bye. on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    You need to take your medicine. Clearly it wore off.

    This is the next generation in fertility treatments, not some way to eliminate the female sex.

  12. Re:Not alive of course on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 2

    Why would you say that?

    I would think though this could nearly eliminate unwanted pregnancy. Everyone can be on birth control and enter into a legal binding contract when they want to order a child.

  13. Re:De-evolution on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 2

    Says who?

    What exactly is anymore wrong with needing a machine to reproduce than needing cooking to eat?

    We humans have moved most of our digestive system into technology, why not this too?

  14. Re:Wow... on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    Look at the pads or communicators in every Star Trek series. They can travel at greater than light speed but can't manage a decent tablet or smartphone.

  15. Re:What RIM needs to do to remain competitive on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    You also need the Blackberry company servers to be up. They have had outages that killed email for whole nations.

    Those products normally work. BES never does in my experience. I have never talked to a BES admin and not heard them make the same complaints. This would be literally dozens of people. I recently went to a dell hosted event in my city and someone having a BB made another person at my table announce how glad he was his company had also abandoned their BES. He complained of the exact same issues. I just nodded and laughed.

  16. Re:What RIM needs to do to remain competitive on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    I am not fond of a device that is not something I can examine, requires outside service to deliver my mail. Made by a company shown to give away keys to tinpot dictators.

    Nothing else would work, in these cases. If a mobile management server requires a course you did it wrong.

  17. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    If that were true were are all the combatants on both sides coming from? Clearly at least some of the population supports these activities.

  18. Re:What RIM needs to do to remain competitive on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    My IT dept led the charge to kill the BES. We will not support any Blackberry device. We justified this via the man hours spent dealing with the BES.

  19. Re:What is the security model? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 0

    You mean the company that gladly hands over the encryption keys to every tinpot dictator?

    I guaranty they already gave the keys to all the three letter agencies.

  20. Re:What RIM needs to do to remain competitive on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    BES servers are already disappearing fast. The BES server is a big part of what is killing RIM. Why have another crap product between you and your email?

    No one wants to resend servicebooks or have to reboot the BES and disconnect all users when one stops getting his mail.

  21. Re:Who needs free voice? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps someone could invent a way to modulate a data signal into something that would fit onto a voice channel. Then your phone could call that device and use this voice link for data transmission. Surely one day such a technology will be invented.

  22. Re:Until they roll out similar solutions? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    For gtalk at least it comes with every android phone and logging into the market I think logs you in to gtalk as well.

  23. Until they roll out similar solutions? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 3, Informative

    So facetime and gtalk are just figments of my imagination?

  24. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    It is indeed sad when children are harmed. Both sides in this conflict seem to busy blaming each other to make progress though.

    I am blaming all of them.

  25. Re:That being said... on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 1

    Not that big a deal where I am. We tend to hunt the edge of fields. BTW the hornady SSTs only drop a few inches at 200 yards. You should check them out.
    They also group very well for shotgun. 2-3" at 100 yards. Just a satisfied customer.