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  1. Re:3G Reception? on The State of iPad Satisfaction · · Score: 0, Troll

    we are all individuals, with our own likes, dislikes, and priorities.

    Are we still talking about Apple customers here? I thought it was all about burying your individuality, and being part of some in-group? hence the conspicuous white earphone leads, lack of options, etc.

  2. Re:The real reason theyre renting us on Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh dear. Its the Japanese who have problems with those sounds, not the Chinese. How lacist.

  3. Re:Ha! on Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. MOST voicemail systems assume calls from the same number are from the owner of record. ATT IS NOT ALONE.

    I can vouch for that. Same with Three in Australia at least.
    ( I have a PIN on my voicemail in Australia, but if I call from mobile voicemail my VoIP line, which has CID set to my mobile number, it bypasses the PIN.
    Caller-ID is accepted as proof of identity, even when it comes from another network.)

  4. Re:Relativity is just a model on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 1

    So the world *should be* flat. . .

    (OK, less tongue-in-cheek)
    There is no flat-earth theory of note, just a naive hypothesis. There is the "flat" Cartesian space of classical physics. Relativity with its bent space does not make Newton wrong, it just makes a new model that is closer to observations. But relativity never claimed to be complete either.

  5. Re:I don't need to confirm my own idenity. on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 2, Informative

    but why do I need to check my own ID?

    MiTM attack. e.g. using an internet cafe, which installs a transparent SSL proxy and can monitor all your transactions. Its OK if you have your own browser device, and previously installed your SSL certificate over a secure channel. But if you get the 'stop sign' over an insecure channel, take it seriously. They don't need to clone your server to compromise you, just a man-in-the-middle.

  6. Re:E-Series Nokia or other WiFi-capable Symbian ph on Best Phone For a Wi-Fi-Only Location? · · Score: 4, Informative

    IF you have the cash I would definitely go for the N900.

    Or, since the submitter wanted "most economical", you could get an N800 or N810 for much less off fleabay etc. A bit bigger, but much better battery life than the N900. (no GSM/3G) Does skype and SIP very well.

  7. codec? on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and wrote their own native decoder

    It sounds like more of a dec than a codec.

  8. Re:Relativity is just a model on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So there is nothing wrong with relativity, unless you find an internal inconsistency?
    It is reality at fault, for failing to follow the more elegant model.

  9. Re:What does being a widow have to do with anythin on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    No, no, I don't care if your husband just died defending my freedom,

    Spare us the nationalism. The US was never under threat. Or you mean your freedom to drive oil-guzzling SUVs?
    I don't think the military can claim higher moral ground than Verizon.

    (reread) Oh ... you were being ironic. sorry :)

    However if you fight for the rights of people over corporations, you may get a law that early termination fees may only reflect actual costs to the company.
    So if your contract includes a $500 subsidy on an smartphone, and you cancel halfway through, you should have to pay back half of that subsidy.
    Fixed break fees have no justification.

  10. Re:Spain, Really? on 178 Arrested In US/EU Credit Card Cloning Ops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TFA is to PC to say it outright, but putting Romania at the head or the list says it is a Gypsy operation.
    These are multi-generational career criminal families. And the Spanish police seem unable to do anything about it.
    There was a good documentary on the BBC:

    How Gypsy gangs use child thieves

  11. Re:If they really want to be popular on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Or pussy.

    How good will it be when humans can't tell the difference between a pussy and a face?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq6xjTyw7zM&feature=related

  12. Re:If they really want to be popular on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    They should make an algorithm that filters IN tits.

    That will do nothing but invite a deluge of plumber's crack.

  13. Re:The word "phallic" on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    so many things look like dicks when they are, in fact, not actually dicks.

    Have you talked to a counsellor about that?
    (I'm imagining parent doing the Rorschach test: "dick ... dick ...")

  14. Re:Scary on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This morning's unprecedented solar eclipse - Is no cause for alarm ... Only Doctor Hans Zarkov formerly at NASA - Has provided any explanation

    Flash will save us all. Except for iPhone/Pad users.

  15. Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    Luckily the OP asked to solve a problem on Windows 7,

    Not possible. This is slashdot, and while server statistics show that a number of readers use Windows, it is strictly on a "don't ask, don't tell" basis.

  16. Paper or plastic? on Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    For *real* archiving, you cannot beat paper tape. I don't trust it unless I can see the holes.

  17. problem is not complexity on Second Straight Rocket Failure For South Korea · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Problem is not complexity, but lack of error margin.
    In any other field, even aircraft, you can over-engineer it a lot more. But with satellite launch rockets, everything has to be cut to absolute minimum. And even then, payload is only a miniscule fraction of launch weight.
        The other problem is that tests are expensive and failures tend to get noticed. If a new car engine prototype seizes up on the test track, it does not make the news.

  18. Re:A couple of the potential uses on New Handheld Computer Is 100% Open Source · · Score: 1

    32MB is plenty. It comes with a choice of Slackware, Yggdrasil or MCC Linux.

  19. Re:For a Whole Fifteen Minutes on Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did everyone suddenly skip over the line where it says it will be cancelled?

    Since they had said it was damaged, I took that to mean he needed to go to the post office and get it replaced with a new one. Still not nice, as they cost $200!
        Cancelling a passport is like cancelling a lost credit card, not like seizing the account.

  20. Re:Upshot: display tech dominates battery life on Apple A4 Processor Teardown · · Score: 1

    Considering its a cellphone CPU attached to a laptop screen: No shit!

  21. Re:The difference between stereo and surround soun on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    So if this 3D movie/tv fad, which is really just stereoscopic, ever takes off, will the next gimmick be "surround cam"?

  22. Re:Prove it on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Comparing infant mortality etc is pointless, unless you control for differeing definitions, race and other factors.
    What significance does the "average" have in the US when infant mortality for blacks is four times that for ethnic Chinese Americans? The number tells you as much about the racial mix than about the health care system.
    (not that I am one to defend the US system!)

  23. Re:Location Location Location on Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers · · Score: 1

    We Austrians have t-shirts explaining the difference because we're sick of talking ourselves black in the face.

    You actually wear those? I thought they were only for selling to amused Australian backpackers who got lost on the way to Oktoberfest.

  24. Re:Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants on The 4G iPhone's Finder Reportedly Located · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You kidding? Jason Chen at Gizmodo did nothing wrong. He notified Apple and promptly returned the phone. That did not stop Apple form getting the police to harass him by seizing his computers.
    When you are as rich as Apple, cops and magistrates come easily.

    Do they put you kids through a civics course in school anymore?

    What is "civics"? My kids have something called "society and environment", but they learn sadly little about law and government in their own country, let along foreign ones.

  25. Re:Sold Stolen Property to Highest Bidder on The 4G iPhone's Finder Reportedly Located · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The guy is an idiot. Instead of stealing the phone, he could have just taken lots of photos, including the insides.
    He could then promptly return it to Apple, and openly auction off the photos. Apple would still scream blue murder and harass him with search warrants, but he would not be a criminal.

    Heck, according to US government precedent, you could have sent it back in pieces.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko