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  1. What ever happened to the PIC 1000/2000 on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 1

    It seems these were much further along and advanced than anything at the time.

  2. Dick Tease!!! on Mandriva 2011 Out · · Score: 1

    Fucking 10 minutes and 7 seconds until release. You are IT edging and you know it!

  3. 'Smartphones' have never been full of anything ... on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    butt crapware.

  4. No big surprise... on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 2

    The masses are hooked on mediocrity in functionality, but will buy anything looking Gucci. Apple may become the first Trillion dollar valuation company in the world based on this kind of blind consumer interest.

  5. Re:Chrome OS = thin client all over again on Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, native software is in my hands, I can re/move it whenever/however I want. I don't like giving up power to the man.

  6. Apple is just pure evil, much like Google... on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 1

    Its sad, there was a day I was proud to be an Apple employee, then a contractor on Wall Street, and then back as an OE and consultant with Apple when we were trying to do great things with Entrerprise software and tools. Now that Apple has migrated to a consumer electronics company and behaving as they are, it just stinks and I can't stand the company any more.

  7. And so King ain't so Kong after all... on 30th Anniversary of Donkey Kong · · Score: 1

    The movie, if you have not seen it, is a complete waste of time. The game though, it still rules.

  8. Snipped off right before... on Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction · · Score: 0

    the rest of the flag went to Studio #2 in Hollywood.

  9. The message the SS has is universally understood.. on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 1

    If you put money into the ponzi scheme, you my american (and foreign in many cases) are totally screwed. Thanks for playing, try again on the next shit this government sells the public.

  10. Ya just don't set up large clouds overnight... on Dell Sets Stage To Take On Apple's iCloud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So the title should maybe read better and more accurately... "Dell rushed to market a delayed release of a copy of a competitors product"

  11. Great ruling... on US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment · · Score: 1

    The issue is that we have a huge responsibility as a society to have some values, they may and often do vary, for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If a family doesn't value life then feed them violent games and let the mayhem begin. But don't expect me to pay for the jailing of those offenders when they act out their fantasy in a violent or criminal manner. Teach someone caring, love, tranquility and happiness and likely you will have just that in their and your lives. Teach them violence and they will often result to this as the way to play out their understanding of resolution to a situation. Society, freedom comes with a price. That price is responsible, reasonable teachings to the children and adults if needed via either education in a free society or in the penal system. The US penal system I can only guess loves this ruling, it means more folks showing up for 'work' at the jails.

  12. In most of the world... on New Technology Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    You can use passive heating and cooling in the design of a structure and do without HVAC for most of the year. Bottom line is architecture and society's whim is responsible for selling inefficient systems to the public, the public is guilty of being dumb/ignorant, and the oil industry sells the stupid people what they want for 2000% over their cost and get stinking filthy rich and powerful. Who's to blame? Nearly everyone!

  13. Welcome to Apple X ... on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    Where the X means they used to be, were at some point, and now are MicroShaft 2.0 done wrong (if there could be a right).

  14. When will these organizations fleece from ... on Conficker Blamed In $72M Scareware Ring · · Score: 1

    the governments they seem to be truly angry at and bring them down? I'm curious is there any virus or network that is exclusively targeting governments rather than average consumers that are ill informed or unfortunate to click and install some otherwise obvious infection?

  15. Globalization at work... on WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright · · Score: 3

    No law or treaty is being designed to help someone, all of them are being designed by special interest groups and bought by lobbyists to help some massive money mongering corporate machine.

  16. Maybe its meant as a reminder... on iPad Account Hacker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    To never forget the Goatse itself may be a shitter of an organization but the people it targets may be even bigger shits.

  17. Just punch in ... on FCC Ups Penalties For Caller ID Spoofing · · Score: 1

    *67 in the states to get around it and go anonymous. Nobody is likely to answer, but you can always leave a message or try again later. I recall (no pun intended) that a fella craiglisting some game I wanted to buy wouldn't answer his phone but posted it in his duplicate ad on FleeBay. I called, and called, and 2 months later the guy finally answered and explained why he had not been answering. I told him, hey, answer your damn phone if you post an ad with the number. Lesson is you can spoof, you can hike (Skype out has no real numbers associated with it) and of course you can just not call or answer if you choose. But stop wasting time with people if you ask to be called, and then don't answer your phone.

  18. Hard to believe anyone... on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 1

    would allow an 11 year old to drive a car of any type. Maybe it goes the speed of one of the battery powered or wind up 'toy cars' that kids putz around on at home.

  19. Didn't is already get pumped and dumped in 1999... on Practical "Smell-o-Vision" System Being Developed · · Score: 1

    Right around when we were all to be partying like it was 1999? There was in the hype of the .com boom, and subsequent bust the promotional idea that this was a great idea and someone came out with a 4000 smell combo unit for the market. Nobody wanted to smell that crap, so it never sold. I think the biggest market is to test the porn industry smells, get them perfectionarily perfected and then it is no longer a proof of concept vapor ware IPO POS.

  20. As a follow up review/study, maybe... on Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? · · Score: 1

    make magazine should take a look at the increase in cancer and sterility as a result of always on devices (or even sometimes on) and proximity to the point of the cancer. We are entering a new era for sure, and it may not be too pretty either.

  21. Why isn't this public information on Apple Agrees To Pay Licensing Fees To Nokia · · Score: 1

    Why isn't the details of this transaction public information, it completely destroys both company's credibility to not immediately disclose the financial costs in this agreement.

  22. I remember... on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, OpenIt! :) I think I even wrote some of that code. How times change, but ObjC still is the best damn mistake to ever happen in programming.

  23. 7 Deadly Sins... on Human Powered Helicopter Aims To Break Records · · Score: 1

    Pride is certainly one of them, and they spell it out in the promo. I have to hand it to the PR group at the UM that seem to have done a better job of actually finishing their project than the HPH have done to date. Setting up testing apps, fixtures are all great, but really what is the world is this going to do for practical aviation based on technology that is 100s of years old now? What is the economic and ecological footprint of this project? To achieve a goal, sure it is notable. But is it really worth it in the careers and advancement of education? I ask, wouldn't the money, time be better spent on more practical and useful applications? I say yes.

  24. Re:Part of a general pattern on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    The current status quo can continue to grow, demand is ever higher every day. The source of freedom will be some other form of fuel, sun, electric, gas, hydrogen, whatever. However limited, the world will demand personal travel freedoms and markets resulting. Its just the way it will be, and the poor or unable to afford the costs will be in the bus watching others eating at the diner they just passed.

  25. Might be already stated... on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    Today it would cost billions, and take years to do this. Just how far has the US come in flexible able engineering? It has gone backwards.