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  1. Re:Many apps require location services by design, on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    Doesn' s eem to be a problem on my phone. And how can you triangulate cell towers with a single phone?

  2. Re:What? Me Worry? on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the hivemind opinion that Apple can do no wrong?

  3. Re:What? Me Worry? on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    Of course, the opposite is true. You could leave your phone somewhere to provide evidence that you were there, rather than the crime scene.

  4. Re:Many apps require location services by design, on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 1

    You post on Slashdot and can't think of a reason why? iPhones with GPS help updating Apple's database by reporting precise information about nearby routers to Apple's database. Now you don't want your phone to report the same information over and over and over again. Like my phone sending exactly where my neighbours' routers are every five minutes. And all the routers on my way to work twice every day. So how do you avoid this? You keep a list of known locations that you have sent, and don't send that information again. Why would an iPhone need to know about routers? Doesn't it use 3G?

  5. English? on Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student · · Score: 1

    So Indian schools are no better at teaching English than American schools?

  6. Re:Record the Teacher on Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student · · Score: 1

    Because there's more to life than striking it rich?

  7. Re:Only Power Users will notice on Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps something was impeding his understanding?

  8. Re:This has gone too far on Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status · · Score: 1

    Ayn Rand made a mistake because she was only human, despite what some randroids may think.

    Or she may have wanted the royalties

  9. Re:Silicon Valley is a loss on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    But how much does it cost Google to get that revenue?

  10. Car analogy on Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract · · Score: 2

    Correcting apostrophe errors on Slashdot is, in the words of Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

  11. Barnes and Noble Nook on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does he know that Barnes and Noble has its own e-reader? Or that Amazon had one before the iPad?

  12. Re:Great, now implement 3 and 4 properly. on Rivals Mock Microsoft's 'Native HTML5' Claims · · Score: 1

    So Internet Explorer supports MathML?

  13. Re:Wow now I feel old on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Hmm, if I remember corectly, the philosophy would be that it is too bad if you don't want someone to link to your text, that should not be your decision to make.

    But that isn't the issue. Current HTML allows linking to text. What I asked about was two-way linking, which I guess is different. As for the technical issues of two-way linking, how does it deal with 404?

  14. Re:Wow now I feel old on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    For instance, he discussed that links embedded into documents are a bad idea because they get broken and can only be placed there by the owner of the document. He discusses that links should always be two-way.

    What if the owner of a document doesn't want two-way linking? And as others have asked, how do you implement two-way linking?

  15. Re:let's compare it to MIT's 1869 entrance exam on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    The math part of the Harvard test looks harder.

  16. Re:Money, motivation, and prestige in 1869 on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Did Harvard even teach astronomy in 1642?

  17. Re:hoax? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Do you realize that people could typeset entire books with two-sided justification in the 1860s?

  18. Re:Dead batteries ... on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    That's why you have a solar-powered calculator as a backup.

  19. Re:PDF Files? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    No. Portable document format file lacks the redundancy of automated teller machine machine.

  20. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    Does the law say that it holds everywhere, or somewhere. The former, that's why it's a universal law.

  21. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    It isn't infinite?

  22. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    But the laws of gravity are not existential claims. How can you falsify something that requires an infinite search?

  23. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    But to fail to find the equal but opposite force might require an infinite search ("you can't prove a negative").

  24. If you can;t afford the airfare on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    If an idea is not falsifiable, it is by definition not science.

    That may be fine with universal claims, but what about existential claims? We have Newton's Third Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.