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  1. Re:Holy crap! on China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole journey is 3620km long, and takes about 3 days to drive in normal traffic. Traffic is getting through, it is just running slowly because of road works to widen the road. The delays have been going on for 9 days, but that doesn't mean it is the same cars as 9 days ago.

  2. Re:Stolen phones on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the iPod touch doesn't have a camera.

  3. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    In Britain. the iPhone is available on all 5 major networks. Also, jailbreaking is different from SIM unlocking. If you buy a contract phone tied to a network, it will still be tied to that network if you jailbreak it. You can unlock it without jailbreaking it, or you can buy an unlocked phone.

  4. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    You can already remotely wipe an iPhone using Exchange or MobileMe. What's possibly new is being able to track where it is. You can do that on Microsoft MyPhone for Windows Mobile devices. I don't know about MobileMe, but you can't do it on exchange.

  5. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    I would want this to happen at my request if my phone was stolen, except Microsoft already offers this feature on Windows Mobile.

  6. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the wines do taste different, and taste is a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact. Whereas, with digitals cables, the 1s and 0s either get to the other end intact or they don't.

  7. Re:"We'll have young people reading newspapers." on Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US · · Score: 1

    I don't think that will work because every time you are about to click on a link, you have to make a decision about whether or not it is really worth the money. People don't like that.

  8. Re:What the frak is Konqueror? on WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is the default browser in KDE, unless your distro changed it to Firefox. If you use Gnome, or OSX or Windows, you probably won't get to see it.

  9. Re:Assisted GPS on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    My phone has something called "Quick GPS" which is scheduled to download something every week.

  10. Re:And... on The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed · · Score: 1

    Reiserfs died after Hans Reiser was jailed. What's to say the same thing won't happen to btrfs?

  11. Assisted GPS on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    A lot of phones download satellite positions from time to time to enable them to pick up a signal quicker. You could do this over wifi, but it isn't quite as convenient as having it doing it over the cell phone data connection automatically. Or you could not download it at all and wait a few more minutes every time to get a position.

  12. Re:So serious on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    But what if you are still in your death bed in hospital, or in hospital with a serious illness but likely to recover?

  13. Re:donation of HDTVs? on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    Except that they can't, because it contains pirated software. I'm sure the RIAA etc can explain how serious an offence it is to sell pirated materials.

  14. Re:Not what it seems on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    And if the GPL isn't a valid licence, it doesn't help you because nothing else gives you the right to copy it.

  15. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    No. See MySQL AG vs Progress Software.

  16. Re:More than feasible on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    It is not available as an external drive because it is a 5 platter drive which is too fat to fit inside standard sized drive bays.

  17. Re:Wierd, yes. Possible, maybe. on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    They've gone from zero high speed rail 5 years ago to more track than the whole of Europe now. Things can move a lot faster when you don't have to get local planning committees to vote on them.

  18. Re:Looks nifty assuming no one crashes into the ra on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    Midland Metro - between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Mostly ex-railway lines, but I believe it runs on the streets in Birmingham. However I've never seen it, so I may be wrong.

    Croydon - I've only ever seen it when passing through Wimbledon station on a train. There it is obviously running on a railway line. Elsewhere, I don't know.

  19. Re:Is it worth the effort? on Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    ZFS if you want to run a storage server. You can probably get ZFS running in Linux using FUSE, but it won't be so good, or you could port it as a kernel module, but it won't be legal.

  20. Re:The only feasible explanation... on String Quartets On the Web? · · Score: 1

    The stuff you are seeing on the iTunes weekly single is most likely "crossover" classical like The Three Tenors and so on. Real classical works tend not to be 5 minute singles. They tend to run from about an hour to 2.5 hours.

  21. Re:So, just plastics and lube then? on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    These things are still going to be carrying oil of some description rather than charged up batteries for most of their energy requirements. The additional weight of batteries is not going to make sense for an aircraft.

  22. Re:Question on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    The Hiroshima bomb was the size of a cricket ball. The was much more fuel than that inside Chernobyl.

  23. Re:How long till 'clean'? on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    Actually, given that the only people in your district would be nuclear workers, you probably would get lots of votes come election day.

  24. Re:What could OLPC learn? on Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, but allowing more affluent people to buy them as toys doesn't stop the poor people getting them, it helps them as they enjoy greater economies of scale, and more units to spread their fixed costs over.

  25. Re:What is the issue? on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The issue is that if they do that, I may as well buy a recording and play it on my iPod.