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  1. Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll on Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Florian is not a blogger, he is a professional troll.

  2. Re:Oblig. on Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked To the ISS · · Score: 2

    I have heard some of this can be attributed to the clearness of the image since it is not being shot through air. Not sure if that is even close to true though.

  3. Re:passenger differentiation, aka profiling on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    No, the real reason it is not used is because it is expensive and error prone. Drugs are a fairly simple way to defeat it, with enough Valium you could be calm during anything.

  4. Re:passenger differentiation, aka profiling on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    It also would not work. Thing dingbat that decided to roast his chestnuts was not an Arab.

    I would rather they just stop with all the BS, lock the cabin door and call it over with.

  5. Re:Terrorism, what terrorism? on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    That is not a pandemic, that is a few isolated incidences.

  6. Re:Wow on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    Hotel stops?
    You have 2 drivers, one sleeps while the other drives.

  7. Re:Is the risk really that big? on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    Try more deaths than a typical flight, being indoors does wonders for the effect of a small bomb. If Abdul Hassan Gamal ibn al Azad decides to make sure he is near a support beam/column he might get really lucky and shutdown that airport for days.

  8. Re:Well that didn't take long. on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Without the placement on the store you're doomed. No one outside a few enthusiasts will know you exist -- if you're going to sell Android apps, placement in the Market (and the cobranding and Google imprimatur) is obligatory, otherwise you're just some hack selling Palm software on a rack at the Office Depot circa 2001.

    Amazon app store disagrees with you, it is doing quite well.

    If you buy a Motorola, how do you delete MOTOBLUR without rooting? If you buy a Verizon phone, how do delete VZ Navigator without rooting?

    It's the whole point really. People whine about Apple taking away their freedom and act like Android can polish the OEM's and carrier's shit, when in the end if you want to "do what you want with your own phone" you either have to jailbreak, Android OR iOS, or your options are very limited.

    You buy a phone with vanilla android, a Nexus model is a good example. I would rather have a slim selection of phones that run Android that I can own, vs no selection of iPhones I can actually own.

  9. Re:They own the network. on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    It seems to work in Europe where all the carriers are on GSM and switching providers is as simple as a sim card swap.

  10. Re:Well that didn't take long. on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    You can sell apps outside the market, the amazon app store is one location. You could even sell them from your own website if you wanted too.

    Not sure what you mean about me not disposing of your second point, but root is not needed for wired tether.

  11. Re:It blows my mind on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    No, just the law to recognize that this is leasing or renting and if not sold that way then it is fraud.

  12. Re:Nope. on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    iMac will be the iOS desktop.

    The Pro line will be what keeps proper OSX.

  13. Re:Nonsense on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    The Mac Pro line maybe, but something like IOS will be coming to the MacBook and iMac Lines.

  14. Re:They own the network. on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Only when they limit their liability by use of a fictional person commonly referred to as a corporation. If you want full rights, you should take the full risk a natural person takes.

  15. Re:Why does anyone care? on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Since you do not have the source and could not therefore patch the vulnerabilities no it is not that same at all.

  16. Re:Well that didn't take long. on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    No matter what google does you can still install from outside the market. Meaning that wired tether can be done without rooting.

    Try knowing what you are talking about, before you say something.

  17. Re:It blows my mind on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Ownership of a good would come with control of it in a healthy system. This current iphone method has all the failings of leasing/renting, lack of full control and recurring payments for full usability, with none of the advantages like replacement in case of damage.

    I fail to see how this would hurt anyone who runs a phone company. HTC seems to be doing just fine, same with carriers. This seems to just be about keeping control of hardware in the hands of those blessed by apple.

  18. Re:Verizon does enable tethering on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Which is a ripoff.
    I want 5GB of data, to use however I see fit. They are fucking transport, that is it. I want to buy a dumb pipe.

  19. Re:How about... on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Install android-wifi-tether, turns the phone into a wifi access point. Since not every device you might want to use has a host usb port.

  20. Re:They own the network. on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. Unless the T-mobile deal falls through that is who I will be switching too. Even if it means I have no cell coverage when I visit my parents in bumblefuck PA.

  21. Re:Community workarounds ? on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Only 1 or 2 devices?
    CM supports 27 devices officially, there are plenty more unofficial ports of CM for other devices.

  22. Re:Community workarounds ? on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 2

    There are plenty of OSS apps that do tethering. Google has no lockdown on Android, you can install out of market apps. Heck, CM7 makes all kinds of changes to android, CM7.1 adds the ability to block permissions.

    http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
    It is GPLv3.

    You might not be trolling, but you are quite uninformed.

  23. Re:They own the network. on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Which carrier allows this?
    This is a market failure, no option for this exists.

    T-mobile was once an option, but with the pending AT&T purchase it is not an option.

    I will be leaving Verizon at the end of my contract, but it seems the best I can do is Sprint. Their coverage is not very good and what is to say they don't start to do similar things?

    We need regulations forcing all carriers onto the same types of networks and that they all sell each other transport. This way competition can exist.

  24. Re:Great...? on Foxconn International Removed From Hang Seng Index · · Score: 1

    There is a limit to that game, the nation you want to move labor to has to have infrastructure of a reasonable nature. These days the time between reasonable infrastructure and enough middle class to enact workers rights is getting pretty short. I fully expect the Chinese to be there in the next 20 years, probably less. India is probably going to be shortly there after, and while much of Africa has labor that works for very little infrastructure issue really hinder many of those nations from being used for cheap labor.

  25. Re:It blows my mind on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Either way this $99 to rent the right to use your device is a sick system. We really needs laws against this sort of thing.