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  1. Re:Too much hysteria from the peanut gallery. on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like The Register I know than the GP's comment. :p

  2. Re:Semantics, bah on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 1

    Given that the finder is the one who opened the phone's Facebook app and got the guy's name, that seems pretty cut-and-dry.

  3. Re:Slashdot: on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple Apple Apple, Apple Apple Apple.

  4. Re:And how long? on The Nuts and Bolts of PlayStation 3D · · Score: 1

    You're right, the last thing Sony wants to do with 3D is use it to actually sell some consoles. They're going to want to get that lucrative trade-show and press-junket dime instead.

  5. Re:first post! on The Nuts and Bolts of PlayStation 3D · · Score: 1

    120Hz doesn't solve the framerate issue, it just allows you to actually deliver those frames to the user. You still have to run at double the framerate of a 2D game, which is non-trivial.

  6. Re:How did it end up at Gizmoto? on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gruber is reporting that Apple considers the device stolen, and it's been well-known that someone's been shopping it around tech sites asking $10,000 for some hands-on time.

  7. Re:iPhone - NOT on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only can a true fanboy turn the phrase "like a Braun product from the 70s" into a compliment. Because we all want to show off our new iEpilators.

    Only someone with zero knowledge of design history would make such a statement. Braun's industrial design has been an explicit influence on Jonathan Ive's work at Apple.

  8. Re:FAIL! on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    Engadget never got its hands on the device. They got their hands on photos of it.

  9. Re:Really? on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a common moral squeamishness about deciding, for the greater financial good, who gets to precreate. It's a squeamishness I happen to share. If you're going to refuse to pay for their vanity kids, why pay for those of infertile couples? Why pay for a guy to store a sperm sample when he has a vascectomy? I guess it would take something like the US healthcare system to turn a free-market economy into a cold-war totalitarian nightmare.

  10. Re:Unsurprising on Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds · · Score: 1

    That was an EU directive which individual nations are expected, but not obliged, to turn into a local law.

  11. Re:Spy Satellite. Duh! on Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States · · Score: 1

    The path doesn't have to be 700 miles long to be visible over 700 miles of ground. An apparently stationary object 200 miles up will only be overhead of a single point on the ground, but will be 45 degrees or higher above the horizon for about 700 miles in every direction. This thing could've exploded in place and been visible over as long a track.

  12. Re:Interesting on In EU, Google Accused of YouTube "Free Ride" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're using "The EU" to refer to both the EU's competition regulators, and EU-based businesses. The former have nothing to do with the current action, and the latter are behaving as they would be expected to in an unregulated free market: petulantly and with no regard for their customers.

  13. Isn't someone already paying for this traffic? on In EU, Google Accused of YouTube "Free Ride" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like, the customers? If I'm paying for 10GB of data at 10Mbps each month, and the ISP is oversubscribed to uselessness, that's not Google's vault, that's the ISP's false advertising at work.

  14. Re:The flip side of their libel law should be... on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    It'd only be actionable if "made a false statement" was a sufficient condition for libel. It's only a necessary condition. In fact there's no tort which allows you to prosecute someone for simply making a false statement.

  15. Re:Its like 1000's of customers cried out on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 1

    There aren't any. It's the BBC.

  16. Re:Its like 1000's of customers cried out on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 4, Informative

    They'll let you off if they visit and you don't have any receiving equipment set up, i.e. no cable or satellite box in your home, and no antenna connected. There was talk of them changing the licence fee so that anyone who could use the iPlayer (i.e. anyone with flash and an internet connection) would be billable though.

  17. Re:A Misunderstanding? on Yelp Founder Says "No Extortion — Just a Misunderstood Algorithm" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I expect a more nuanced response to his denial. One that might, perhaps, refute it. As it stands that comment could refer to any company except for the side-splitting double meaning of "yelp" and one word from the article title, suggesting that you have perhaps put a rash need to appear witty above the more significant issue of fraud versus innuendo and human pattern-matching.

  18. Re:A Misunderstanding? on Yelp Founder Says "No Extortion — Just a Misunderstood Algorithm" · · Score: 1

    You of all people should understand how misunderstandings happen. Maybe you read the title of something and completely disregard the content, say.

  19. Journalists? That'll end well on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nobody writes neutral, well-referenced articles like journalists! And they're great at engaging viewpoints that undermine their article's thesis!

  20. Re:Canada on Full ACTA Leak Online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "-1 overrated" is meant to be used for mismoderated comments, in much the same way as "+1 underrated", isn't it?

  21. Not Commodore 64 on Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called the "Phoenix". "Commodore" is just the brand.

  22. Re:GTV on PS3? on I Want My GTV · · Score: 1

    Why would Sony be getting on board the project if they objected to the centrepiece device's very existence?

  23. Re:This is still no remedy... on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    XP grinding their degree will thoroughly prepare them for the tedium of working on software design, though.

  24. Re:Duality in Leadership on Google Readying To Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    Schmidt, however, owes his allegience to the shareholders. Or at least feels the pull and responsibility of profit more so than any sort of ethical dilemma.

    His responsibility to his shareholders is an ethical issue. If he makes a decision that affects Google's share price, he's burning other people's money in a big fire, so the effect on the world at large has to be weighed against the effect on shareholders. Of course, if Google had stayed out of censorship in the first place, he wouldn't have to make that decision. I imagine that's why "don't be evil" was implimented. Staying out of a market on principle doesn't look as bad as having to abandon one on principle.

  25. Re:So you think its really that easy? on MySpace To Sell User Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better yet, poison the well. Change your account data to be complete garbage. It's going to skew their demographics and reduce the value of the data.