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  1. Re:Were it not for Apple, on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: 1

    hmm, mobile internet would be nice a few times a year for me. Cameras on cell phones suck. Mine does make an OK music player (it's a nokia express music though) Other than that, a laptop is nicer to surf on, and a dedicated GPS/nav device is better, and just about any camera is better. so yes, they are all basicly the same.

  2. Re:Copyright weirdness on Supreme Court To Consider First Sale of Imports · · Score: 1

    but that not what they did, they went elsewhere and bought a bunch of legit watches legitimately and shipped them back to the US for sale and profit. I'm at a loss to explain what is wrong with the situation other than the manufacturer was hoping to get away with gouging the US market.

  3. Re:Whose lab is it anyway? on NASA Expands Role of International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Why can't we do what ever we want with our part/time/money put into the station. Also, there may be a condition that this gets shared internationally.

  4. Re:Free economy, regulate fraud on Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info · · Score: 3, Informative

    Last i knew you could NOT make facebook purge your data from their systems after you quit. So thats the big problem here for me, if i get new terms when i log in, and i disagree, i should get a button that lets me gather a copy of my data and then make you delete it.

  5. Re:Problem on Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info · · Score: 1

    and that i can't then quit and have all references of me purged.

  6. Re:Problem on Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info · · Score: 1

    you can close and have your data deleted from facebook? do you have a list of detailed steps to go about that?

  7. Re:Well... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    or not even student workers, but just engineers trying to make a faster way to get something done and into excel. yep, i've written code using IE6 to do just that. it it was messy and only worked right in IE, and, and, and. Let me know when firefox can load VBA dlls.

  8. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    in the world of ants, it would seem that some of the large bridges over streams they build would be similar to rockets for us (a transportation means to get to new land). In that sense, even a colony of ants has several different shaped ants in them, guards, queen, workers, offspring/egg care takers. All of them do their job for the good of the colony, hmm sounds like Marxism at work right there. Anyways we steal resources from birds and monkeys all the time, why would this alien see us as different than bird or a horse. For that matter, they may feel that we would make a good source of physical labor, and treat us like horses or donkeys.

  9. Re:Why run IPV6? on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    how about consumer devices. to pick on apple, does the ipad/iphone/itouch handle ipv6 only? how about Xboxen? ps3s? wiis? Nintendo DSs? internet connected TVs?

  10. Re:So now the question is... on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    guess it's about time i pony up for that linksys GL to replace my Gv8.0. As it stands right now my router will not do IPv6, i'm not sure that my wii and ps3 will either. looks like i would need to run IPv4 inside my home, and "NAT" it to a public IPv6 connection at the router. wonder how i would then get things like hosting an online game on the ps3 to work out then. ohh well.

  11. Re:Hmmm on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    i semi agree with XXX, it sure would make it easier to find, and hooking it to ipv6 might just cut down the bandwidth shaping some.

  12. Re:Degrades gracefully? I think not. Here's the pa on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 1

    You must not do much in python, they almost always go like that, it's from the outer most function call to the inner most that generated the error, they are also mostly in different files, so sorting by line number would be of little help.

  13. Re:Quick Question on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 1

    i won't call a parachute flying, there isn't likely to be any lift being produced.

  14. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    but if UI's were dpi independent this would be be an issue, your font would be the same size even on a higher DPI screen, but fonts would be smoother, and etc.

  15. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    if windowing systems would just start being DPI independent it would sort this whole thing out. For example 12pt font should be 12/72ths(1/6th) of an standard inch tall. So if you have a screen with a vertical DPI of 300, that means the font should be 50px tall. At the same time if you have a 150 dpi screen, it should be 25px tall. The displayed size shouldn't change, nor should his aging eyes change anything.

  16. Re:It's Phillip / Sony that lead the let down ! on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    thats a font renderer problem, pt size, # px, and dpi are all related but not the same. Pt is physical displayed size, where DPI is used to figure out the #px high it needs to be to be displayed at that size.

  17. Re:Nuke gets criticised - misdirect to coal on Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak · · Score: 1

    nukes experimental?! when did that happen, we've only been using them for how many decades now? It's not really experimental now.

  18. Re:Tell Your Wireless ... on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    and what would that do? let you drive over to it(like anyone else in the nearby area) and attempt to break into it? You still don't have his name, although I guess that you could look him up by address in a phone book(probably want to try that with an electronic copy). even if you have his name and address, you can do what, sign him up for the newspaper, a magazine? Really, if you don't want to be wardriven, turn off the wifi, limit it's power, or live in a faraday cage. This would be a problem if google was driving up to houses to get this info, but as it's viewable from a public location not too much of a problem. As for it picking up a mac address, oooo it knows the number from the wireless card...

  19. Re:Tell Your Wireless ... on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    or not be doing it in the front yard, however fun that might be.

  20. Re:Huh? on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 1
    consequences:
    • Not being able to connect to playstation network, making some games not work
    • Not being able to play newer bluray movies
    • Not being able to play back "purchased" content from the playstation store

    As for me i'm still running the version with otherOS support, as i have little interest in playing online, and all 2 of my bluray movies work just fine still.

  21. Re:1783 on Volcano Futures · · Score: 1

    currently the boats are built that way, no reason that a cruise liner for a few hundred people couldn't make the trip rather quickly. It's not like you would use a mega cruise liner, you know, 3000 quests, and 1000 crew size ship.

  22. Re:People Still Use Ubuntu? on Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak · · Score: 1

    right up until you have hardware that needs something special to work, for example, "if up eth0; mii-tool -A 10baseT-FD,10BaseT-HD ; $(get dhcp lease" Skip the mii-tool step and the card drops 98% of packets, use it and it is rock solid. nice and easy in gentoo using the post-up function. Pain in the ass on debian/ubuntu.

  23. Re:The processor is only one part of performance on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 1

    sort of like AMD did a number of years ago?

  24. Re:Figures... on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 1

    see AMD's AM2+/3 how many CPUS fit in those? i bet you can even drop a newer 6 core AM3 chips into a AM2+ and get at least 4 of the cores, even thin all that may be needed is a bios update.

  25. Re:.OGG on Volcano Futures · · Score: 1

    who really uses the default player on those formats, install VLC problem solved.