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  1. Re:Stop using Youtube on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    I unGoogled a couple of months ago.

    I might reconsider and make a throwaway posting the local blackbird population just to annoy rumblefish.

  2. fixing a problem I didn't know I had on QuickTime Creator Brings Flash and Office To the iPad, By Subscription · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and adding injury to insult: charging for the privilege.

    In 21 months of iPad-use I've noticed the lack of flash perhaps five times.

    On the other hand: it saved me from annoying adds about a gazillion times.

    No thanks, I'll pass this one.

  3. I see no (big) problem on Chinese iPad Trademark Battle Hits California Court · · Score: 1

    just a quick adaptation of artwork on the device and the box.

    I don't care if the box reads 'Proview management pisses on their mothers graves®' in nice Chinese calligraphy. And that trademark isn't registered in China, at this time.

  4. Re:Making it even more important to verify. on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    So much for posting AC and slightly drunk..

    The carwash-point explained:

    A carwash in Dutch is called a 'carwashingstreet'. See, even you know what I'm talking about. When adding spaces between those words (which is what 'english disease' is all about) the meaning of 'washing' changes to 'used to be'. So, you get from 'car washing street' to 'car used to be street', which is just silly.

    Your 'trouble shooting' is as funny as a car that used to be street. Perhaps it's because I'm Dutch? You made me LOL.

  5. Re:uh.... on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    Read TFA? You need one very specific model TomTom. You can be certain is has the latest in gyroscopes, accelerometers and 3G data-connection. And measuring G's with modern accelerometers is a snap.

  6. Re:I guess it's time to say "I told you so"? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 2

    'Opt in' assumes you read the condition before you agree to a specific deal. You didn't even bother to RTFA, so it's probably better for you to skip this kind of insurance deal all together. Reading is required.

  7. 3-5% U-235 is typical ready-to-burn nuclear fuel. Raw ore contains 0.7% U-235. 'Enriching' uranium is quite hard and energy-wise very expensive.

  8. makes sense on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    Many (all?) pacemakers can be read and its settings altered via a datalink.

    Ignoring malice, who's to guarantee that a shoplifting detector gate doesn't interfere with your pacemaker?

    Even devices that were intented to be secure fail miserabely, so if it's your life, are you gonna trust the manufacturer?

  9. Re:Probably not just Apple on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    OT: You assume it was the intent of the people who wrote Stuxnet to ransack a nuclear facility without anybody noticing?

  10. Re:the question is... on New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End · · Score: 1

    It activates the James Bond-styled ejector seat.

    (or you use your key to start the car..)

  11. Re:What the story really means on UK Government Ditches Cloud Concept, Consolidates Data Centers · · Score: 1

    I thought that Amazon would be more reliable than even a system that I was maintaining myself, until that outage.

    You've missed one detail. Amazon delivers the 'tools' (calling it hardware seems somehow wrong) to build a resiliant and scalable application. But it's up to you to build that system. And most people/companies get it wrong.

    Netflix is using Amazon as well. Much of their normal operations take place in the datacenter which suffered first and most. Netflix was mostly unaffected by the outage. (http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html)

  12. Re:Information like this shouldn't be banned... on Judge Issues Gag Order For Twitter · · Score: 1

    A better approach would be to ignore or scorn those who would post such personal information about something that is purely a painful family issue.

    I'd guess you've never had to deal with the British press. I'd like to use the occasion to offer you earplugs, a ball-gag, a large amount of your favourite lube and copious amounts of a benzodiazepine-derivative. Might give you a fighting chance to survive the ordeal.

  13. Re:Anonymous? on Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It · · Score: 2

    The data contains only the last time your iPhone saw a specific BSSID. Insufficient data to map out regular journeys.

  14. Re:RDS astroturf for the First Post Win? on iPhone Tracking Ruckus Ongoing · · Score: 1

    Auto-correct fail:

    'Not online is telco-data realtime, it's also accurate.' should be 'Not only is telco-data real-time, it's also accurate.'

  15. Re:RDS astroturf for the First Post Win? on iPhone Tracking Ruckus Ongoing · · Score: 1

    Further, law enforcement would have a much easier time getting the location from the cell phone companies which can give them REAL TIME data.

    Not online is telco-data realtime, it's also accurate. The data in my iPad has miles of error and sometimes unexplainable data. Since I bought my iPad I haven't been outside my country, but it nevertheless contains data suggesting I've been to the UK and Germany. It shows me being in the north-west of the Netherlands (for ten minutes) while I was attending a meeting in the east and I have 12 people to vouch for my presence and most will remember my iPad since I gave a keynote-presentation with it. None will remember me teleporting to Den Helder for ten minutes.

    Any law-enforcement officer willing to use data like that deserves the scathing reactions it will produce. 'reasonable doubt', remember?

  16. Re:This is why profiling is so stupid on TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA · · Score: 1

    2) define weapon? I bet I could kill a man with a pen if I wanted.

    Newsflash: you could kill a man without if you wanted just as well. Some basic knowledge about human anatomy will suffice.

  17. Re:"Google doesn't need our help" on Groklaw Declares Victory, No More Articles · · Score: 1

    So what is IBM? Chopped liver?

    Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.

  18. Re:I don't think its correct on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    The EPA-dose pertains to exposure to manmade radiation. A third of your yearly exposure can be stuff like X-rays, but no more.

  19. Re:Where is the line? on Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Not a Criminal Offense · · Score: 1

    It is still illegal to use the network of the neighbours. The intent of the prosecutor was to slap this 14 year old boy with jailtime. That hasn't worked. But theft of services is still illegal. The court has esthablished that theft of services when it comes to illegal use of WiFi is a civil matter, not a criminal one.

  20. Re:monopolies on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2

    The comparison was made in 1994, 18 years ago.

  21. Re:First troll! on Making Data Centers More People-Friendly · · Score: 1

    This is why most data centers are kept so cool.

    Keeping your servers hot (but not too hot) will enable you to reuse the heat from the datacenter for other purposes. Keeping your servers cool will waste energy cooling them, and waste energy when re-using the energy you extracted from the datacenter.

    The sticky stuff is in the temperature-differential between 'inlet' and 'outlet'. If you pump a square yard of air through your server every second the differential will be low, and you have generated low-quality heat. Slow down the flow and the differential will rise to ten (or 31) degrees, which in terms of 'recycling heat' is much more valueable. You can't do shit with a single degree differential, but a ten-degree differential can be put to other uses.

    Today (a cold day) the inlet-temperature was 4 degrees (celsius). Outlet-temperature was, on average, 35 degrees (again celcius). That is an amount of energy you could monetize. Currently we use the energy thus generated to heat the offices and those of the neighbours. Our DC is small, 10.000 square feet, but produces enough heat to sell.

    Selling your waste. Think about it. It's in the order of 5 percent of our operating-costs. The way to go? (Open your garbage-bin. Look. Add up the value of everthing in there. Imagine getting one-twentieth from what you've spend at the mall. Would you go for it? We do.)

  22. Re:Linuxconf on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that's what will keep Linux competitive--the ability to meet novice computer users alongside having the power and the efficiency for die-hard CLI lovers.

    Don't worry. linuxconf is every bit as capable as vi of emacs with regards to fucking up your fresh linux install. It's the user, not the interface, who makes the mistakes.

  23. Re:what? linuxconf? on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    helpful comment

    You would'nt recognise a troll when it sat on your face and farted, right?

    g,d&r

  24. Re:I remember a friend racking up a huge phone bil on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    Horrendous international calling fees.

    I fondly remember a $1700 bill. And the shit I went through to pay it. Working double shifts and shit.

  25. what? linuxconf? on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1, Troll

    the best of the best was linuxconf

    What's that? Something to replace vi with a GUI?

    (15 years experience as an admin, never came across it)