User: nghate

Re: Anti competitive

On: Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com)

Why hasnâ(TM)t Apple been sued yet? They are a monopoly and abusing their powers.... EU should breakup apple App Store monopoly on iOS and allow other app stores the ability to install apps on iOS

Re: I do this sometimes

On: AI Can Scour Code To Find Accidentally Public Passwords (qz.com)

This wouldnâ(TM)t scale very well if you started using unique passwords per site as you should....

Re:any sound in the world....

On: Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound

Can I add this to my non-electric car and pump up the volume?
maybe while I am at it, can I get the sound track to match a really expensive sports car?

My "Geo Metro" is better than your car cos it is louder !!! ;-)

Charging will cause larger change...

On: The Weight of an e-Book

Forget the eBooks... Charging the eReader will add more energy ( => some more mass) to the device... much more significant than downloading the books! ... but I am afraid, your finger prints will add larger mass !

Not feeling well? That's easy to fix!!!

On: Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad2

There's an app for it ! ;-)

Can I sell YOUR information?

On: How To Protect Your Privacy and Make Money

I wonder how long before ID theft get's applied to make money this way...

Very interesting possibilities...

On: MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed On Paper

Being able to print solar cells, along with the possibility of being able to print OLEDs could open up a world of opportunities... specifically for advertisements. and magazines...

Re:Internet on TV? Really?

On: I Want My GTV

Don't equate "internet on TV" to "browse the Web on TV"... "Internet on TV" is more like various services provided via internet and delivered via the TV.

Re:idea

On: Cable Management To Defeat Clutter?

You can find those in IKEA as well... http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20097954

Re:What does this get them?

On: Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes

How is giving rebates same as giving bribes?

Encrypted Block Storage?

On: Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage?

Hmm... You could think of using the remote storage as a block storage for encrypted data... might not be the most efficient, but it could get you the functionality you seek...

Re:am i the only one

On: Intel Branding Media Center PCs as "Viiv"

Viiv... its supposed to be similar to Five (5)...

Re:TACO IS AN IDIOT

On: Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware

You think the original image link was funny? Have a look at this one !!!

http://img119.exs.cx/img119/2912/xpspyware9yo.png

It says the same thing about Windows XP :P

Linux better for desktops?

On: Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows

For people who use a desktop just to check e-mails and browse the internet, do you think that a linux system provides a better TCO?

Re:It must be true

On: Apple, Google World's Top Brands

Right... and they asked 26 people in each region for their opinions !!!
This result has no statistical significance...

Legal MP3s?

On: Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage

Recording Radio is legal, so would it make the MP3s recorded by the Digital Radio legal too? If some one put them out on P2P, would it be legal to download and play these MP3? How would one differentiate between such MP3s v/s the CD ripped versions?