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  1. Re:There's a likelyhood I'm about to post this. on Blu-ray Capacity Increase Via Firmware · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Response_Maximum_Likelihood
    There's nothing wrong with taking a best guess, it's already being done.

  2. Re:I will need some help with this. on How Apple Orchestrates Controlled Leaks, and Why · · Score: 1

    The price does go down, it's just not generally well known. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals - great deals (?) on "refurbished" products. Which you know is just old stock they didn't clear last christmas.

  3. Re:Of course on Android Phone Demand Up 250%, iPhone Down · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how this market model differs from Microsoft's, well except for the licensing costs of course. And the windows mobile "marketplace" is far more open and varied, it's just the stability and usability that sucks.

  4. Re:What? on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    If making 1 person's work easier causes risk for everyone else, it makes sense not to make his work easier. Admin rights means risk of compromise, leading to leaked passwords, attack vectors from within your intranet, DDOS. Things that can break the entire network.

  5. Re:What? on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    Test machines? I give my guys VM images. Not that they ever learned how to use them anyway. AFAIK a test machine is a wasted machine, as a developer rarely uses it, and nobody else can use it while they are holding on to it.

  6. Re:Conspiracy, or just idiocy? on The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Coming from a nation full of chinese immigrants, I think the main problem of the one-child policy is that it does not end up in a lot of abortions, hidden children or what not, the main problem is that the family structure is totally broken down. The children are now the bosses, the little kings, leading to an entire generation of sociopaths and socially-inept people. Think of this - what if everyone in your country did not have a brother or sister? Where do you learn your family values?

  7. Re:What a nightmare. on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    Where I live they don't discount the line charges after your contract ends. This leaves you paying off a phone that you've already paid for in full. Therefore it makes sense to buy a new phone, sell your old one, and continue paying it off under your new contract. It doesn't make it any cheaper, but at least you're getting somewhere closer to your money's worth. And you get a new phone, which is more reliable that an aging one and it's dying battery.

  8. Re:More power is nice, but has everyone forgotten. on First Look At Latest Ion-Infused Asus Eee PC · · Score: 1

    They also don't sell it anymore. What was your point?

  9. Re:Too bad the US can't comprehend this concept on Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates · · Score: 1

    Say that again? The judge ruled that the reporter owed Fox 2 million dollars for being fired?

  10. Re:Adobe vs Apple on Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? There's a problem with flash on osx? How is it I've never run across it?

  11. Re:I'm not sure you have it right on Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Of course people confuse political Islam with religious Islam. Whereas religious Islam calls them 2 separate entities, political Islam calls them one and the same.
    - This and other stuff, pulled out of my ass.

  12. Re:Oblig Simpson Quote on Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share · · Score: 1

    With the Dell Mini 9 there was a restriction on the amount of HD space available if buying XP - 8GB max. People buying the linux edition had the option of getting 16GB. So in this case Microsoft licensing terms turned around and bit them in the ass.

  13. Re:I am scared. I am intrigued. on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    Since when have we ever returned land to the wild? We'd just put a mall there or something. Take your idealist thinking somewhere else, this is the real world we're talking about.

  14. Re:Why not real guns? on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Oh great, so now people can be trigger-happy with these things.

  15. Re:I don't know on Don't Design Angry · · Score: 1

    Have you gone through the rest of the blog? This guy can't take anything seriously, putting this entire entry in the region of "really?"

  16. Re:What is the deal here? on Italian Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences For Google Execs · · Score: 1

    "Does not play well with others." That's the big sign this prosecutor is holding up. The next time he needs a major corporation to assist in finding and identifying a criminal... well, it's going to get interesting.

  17. Re:Peter Fleischer's blog on this... on Italian Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences For Google Execs · · Score: 1

    Just to add a second thought:

    Italy has a legal concept which is unknown in Anglo-Saxon countries: namely, that an employee of a company can be held personally criminally liable for the actions or non-actions of the corporation he works for.

    This is a variant of a dream that many slashdotters have had - to hold executives responsible to the actions of the companies they represent. How bitter it is when an ideal is perverted thus.

  18. Re:Peter Fleischer's blog on this... on Italian Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences For Google Execs · · Score: 1

    His lawyers are smart people. Since this case is so obviously farcial, it would be really dangerous to be around town as there is no guarantee that anything resembling justice will be carried out. If you ask me, some other agenda is being carried out here. Someone's being blackmailed, somebody needs leverage. Something.

  19. Re:RIDICULOUS... on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 1

    That's alot of words just to say "Barbara Streisand".

  20. Re:Explain this for the benefit of us foreigners on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    Speaking as another foreigner, isn't it nice when people are up-front about their bigotry, instead of being all sneaky and non-accountable about it?

  21. Re:There is one problem, though on Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let me introduce you to Madobe Nanami, the official mascot of Windows 7 Japanese edition. Voiced by a popular voice actress even. Microsoft feels anime is good enough for mainstream.

  22. Re:Remote Assistance on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 1

    1. What is the router IP address?
    Open up a command prompt to run ipconfig and get the guy to read you a bunch of numbers he may or may not understand. Hope that his brain doesn't switch off in the process. Get him to log into the router and configure it.
    2. What is the router password?
    Hope that it's still the default! otherwise you're SOL
    3. Where do you find port forwarding in the web interface? Is there a web interface? ...
    Remote Assistance is hardly ideal.

  23. Re:They will find the BFG9000 useless, however on New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks · · Score: 1

    -1, redundant

  24. Re:or we start treating it like a war on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    We bomb the americans! That's change I can believe in.

  25. Re:A better "I'm a Mac" ad... on Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Quick check - who would you ream? Justin Long or John Hodgman?