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  1. Re:Enough on Brazil Sues Samsung Over Worker Conditions · · Score: 1

    It's paraphrased, but here's a source NY Times

  2. Re:More information on Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, [...] On the other hand.

    Y-you have three hands?! You're a Martian aren't you? Oh! Was that your mom in Total Recall?

    He's just zis guy, you know! He's Zaphod Beeblebrox

  3. Re:But... on MS Researchers Develop Acoustic Data Transfer System For Phones · · Score: 2

    ...did they patent it yet?

    Of course - It's on a cell phone!

  4. Re:Just start with converting a normal highway on Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop': More Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    You think tires are the limiting factor for speed of cars? Seems unlikely to me.

    The Bugatti Veyrons tires will explode after about 15 minutes at top speed. Which is fine because you run out of fuel (100 litres) after 12 minutes.

  5. Re:Who cares? on Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case · · Score: 1

    I wonder what lying to the American public is in your book.

    Unfortunately, it's called "The American Way" and is steeped in a very long tradition.

    Actually it is politics, and is, unfortunatley a worldwide problem, not just American.

  6. Re:How many knew that it was a global release? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 1

    Music gets changed often on DVD releases of many shows due to licencing problems. One example is WKRP.

  7. Re:in short, they want to be IBM on Microsoft Is Working On a Cloud Operating System For the US Government · · Score: 1

    IBM created Watson

    And MS created Dr. Watson

  8. Re:Kids these days on Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity · · Score: 1

    This would be more akin to Stacker or DoubleSpace since it's storage, not RAM.

  9. Re:Moving parts and fatigue on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I'd assume hybrid drives to be just as good as pure HDDs, actually a bit better since the SSD part will save wear and tear on the HDD part. Bugs notwithstanding.

    I'd expect the opposite. Large SSD are more reliable because of the large space available and wear leveling algorithms. Much of the data on an SSD will not be changing at all. The writing and erasing causes the wear on the SSD portion, while reading causes little/none. In a small solid state cache, like in the hybrid drives, each memory location will be subject to much more read/write/erase cycles than in a larger SSD.

  10. Re:Carrier? on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    Though technically a destroyer, some experts believe the new Japanese ship could potentially be used in the future to launch fighter jets or other aircraft

    Anybody know how this thing can be classified as a destroyer?

  11. Re:Android 4.3? on Hands On With Motorola's Moto X · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. If Nexus and iOS devices can be updated without carrier interference, why can't everything else be similarly updated.

    It's because of all the extra crap that the carriers put on the phones. Google releases the OS to the carriers, then the carriers test/update their crap to make sure ir works, then they release it. In Apple's case, they don't allow any carrier modifications AFAIK and Nexus devices don't have that either.

    For the new X, it has a customized camera app and possibly other things that, I guess, need to be tested.

  12. Re:yes but.... on Hands On With Motorola's Moto X · · Score: 1

    Motorola was caught red-handed sending *all* data you put on the phone back to Motorola over unencrypted HTTP. The data included passwords, pictures you have taken, etc.

    Motorola is now right next to Sony on my "do not trust" list.

    You should maybe take into consideration, that this phone is really the 1st from Motorola where it's been owned by Google. Others have been released, but those would have been disigned, at least partially, before the acquisition.

  13. Re:Wireshark on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Aw crap! Get rid of the 'not' in there.

  14. Re:Wireshark on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    But, but...the NSA head and several Congressmen have assured us that they aren't blanket monitoring everyone. And surely they wouldn't lie!

    You're right of course, not everybody. Just everybody outside of the government and all the related agencies are not being monitored.

  15. Re:Neat stuff, but... on Watch the Crab Nebula Expand Over a 13 Year Period · · Score: 1

    be glad they didn't make a 10 hours youtube loop

    Or real-time.

  16. Re:Actually Useful on Aussie Wi-Fi Patent Nears Expiry In the United States · · Score: 2

    CSIRO is not really a patent troll that produces nothing. They do have some software released under GPL or Mozilla Public License. They've also develped software that has been sold off to private companies to become comercial products.

  17. Re:Call it by a traditional Microsoft name on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Cloud Drive Storage Home Edition Microsoft Cloud Drive Storage Premium Edition Microsoft Cloud Drive Storage Enterprise Edition

    Chair drive is better.

  18. Re:I think we should end this on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Also when 80% of the apps on the Android platform are unstable POS then I don't care about how fast they crash. Even Chrome quits unexpectedly repeatedly and this is by the company that makes the Android platform on their own Nexus brand devices.

    That's odd. I never expierence that with either my phone or tablet. I also never turn either of them off, except when rebooting for OS updates. My phone has a current up time of over 668 hours.

  19. Re:Still way behind even after stacking the deck on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Shows how far behind Samsung is in terms of hardware engineering.

    If by engineering, you meen choosing an off the shelf triple core PowerVR graphics processor over the single core Adreno 320 that Samsung uses.

  20. Re:Almost the same damn title! on Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    That depends. Is your IQ above room temperature?

    Celcius or fahrenheit?

  21. Re:Solution timetable on Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shouldnt Volkswagen be forced to provide a timetable as to when this will be fixed so the temporary egregious act of suspending the First for this person can be lifted? It is Volkswagen's fault, they need to fix it now.

    So it seems that some form of this Megamos Crypto is used by just about all manufacturers. Does anyone know if all versions are broken? Since they all use it, it may come from a 3rd party, so Volkswagen may noy know when or how to fix it.

  22. Re:Bullshit on Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Listen.... Management dosen't like being referred to as children!

  23. Re:One other point on Forget Apple: Samsung Could Be Google's Next Big Rival · · Score: 1

    I don't think the Quad core is what make Touch-Wiz finally run smoothly

    It definitely isn't. I've got touchwiz (custom ROM) running on an underclocked dual core phone, and it's silky smooth.

  24. Re:power on NOAA Goes Live With New Forecasting Supercomputers · · Score: 2

    "The system uses so much power that its emissions directly influence the weather on all continents and mars."

    The best way to predict the weather is to control it, obviously.

  25. Re:How would you know on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    That's easy: Make them sit on the Group W bench and fill out a form with the following words: "KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?"

    What? With the mother rapers, father stabbers and father rapers! That's just cruel!