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  1. Re:No room to differentiate? on RIM CEO Says Company 'Seriously' Considered Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    There are virtually no Android handsets with keyboards, and most of those that do have keyboards are low to mid range phones. As RIM have a reputation for building phones which have very good keyboards, surely this could be part of their differentiation strategy.

    Exactly.

    A Torch 9810 with Android would be excellent and would almost certainly sell like crazy. I don't imagine the porting would even be that difficult. Several Android devices use the same SoC.

  2. Re:But this is India we are talking about on RIM Agrees To Hand Over Its Encryption Keys To India · · Score: 1

    In other words, you use a stream cipher.

  3. Re:Wow on Existing Solar Tech Could Power Entire US, Says NREL · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure you can. That's the entire concept of a peaking plant and any oil plant would be rigged for peaking. It's too expensive to run it as base load.

    Peaking plants can and do spin up and down quite quickly. The GE LM6000 (basically a modified 747 engine) units they use in one of our newest natgas plants can go from standing still to maximum output in under 5 minutes and back down at about the same rate.

  4. Re:Do the words "go to hell" mean anything to them on Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings · · Score: 1

    "Do the words "go to hell" mean anything to them?"

    Nope. Closest they have Ann Arbor.

  5. Re:Why is Craigslist so popular? on Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings · · Score: 1

    UsedEverywhere is also a sizable force, at least here in the prairies.

  6. Re:I don't know about these "Dolly" scientists on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    He does know Dolly died at the age of six, while the average life span of sheep is at least twice that long and lots of sheep (when properly cared for) live up to 20 years?

    Dolly's short life wasn't anything to do with being cloned. She developed a type of viral lung cancer common to sheep, which several non-cloned sheep in her flock also died from.

  7. Re:Would be nice for family guys on Google Announces Plans, Pricing For Kansas City Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    The $75/month will get you a 50/10Mb connection over here with no caps or such soonish depending on where in what city you're in. 200/30 will run you $140.

  8. Re:Something else... on Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London · · Score: 1

    Plugs wear out and are vulnerable to vandalism.

    Barring the vandals packing jackhammers, you're not going to vandalize something embedded in the pavement.

  9. Re:That's good news! on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 2

    As usual.

    No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.
    No inspection-ready unit has ever passed combat.

  10. Re:That's good news! on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1

    Step 2 : Ask the Canadian Forces how they dealt with this 20 years ago.

  11. Re:Doubtful on USB 3.0 100W Power Standard Seeks To End Proprietary Chargers · · Score: 1

    Any particular reason they couldn't simply add a USB-magsafe adapter, like they do currently to technically company with the EU thine-cell-phone-shalt-charge-over-microUSB directive with the iPhone?

  12. Re:Doubtful on USB 3.0 100W Power Standard Seeks To End Proprietary Chargers · · Score: 1

    Because back when they designed the connector (in 2003, for the 3rd generation ipod), firewire was still a serious competitor to USB.

  13. Re:Bigger != Better on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    However, I'd be even more happy if the phones were twice as thick, and 3-4 times as heavy, if the space/weight were effectively spent on improving battery life and recepetion.

    You would appear to be Mugen Power's target market.

  14. Re:Carbon Footprint? on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 1

    It'd be a rounding error on my bill too. 500 TW over the pulse time is about 0.5 kilowatt-hours, which would cost about 5 cents.

  15. Re:Faulty logic on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    Income appears to be somewhat correlated with speeding.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96698#.UABqtPVH1yY

  16. Re:if it ain't green. on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 1

    The $1000 bill is still legal tender, but is withdrawn from circulation.

    Unless they keep a few on hand for sale as collector's items, I wouldn't think any banks would keep $1000 bills around. All the major ones just send them back to the Bank of Canada for destruction.

  17. Re:if it ain't green. on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 2

    Was pink. The $1000 bill was withdrawn back in 2000 due to money laundering concerns.

  18. Re:Good For You, Canadians on Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video · · Score: 1

    There's actually 5 cases here, 3 of them decided unanimously, and the other two decided 5-4

    All 3 of the soon-to-retired plus Cromwell dissented on ESA v. SOCAN

    Fish and Rothstein plus Cromwell and Deschamps dissented on Alberta v. CCLA.

  19. Re:Good For You, Canadians on Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video · · Score: 5, Informative

    They'll be replaced anyway.

    3 of the Justices are due for retirement (SCC justices, like all other federal court justices, are subject to mandatory retirement at age 75) soon. Fish will be retiring no later than next year, LeBel no later than the year after that, and Rothstein by the end of 2015.

  20. Re:Sixty Bucks a Day? on Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money · · Score: 1

    Closer to $6,000 actually. Iceland follows the "Screw decimals. Let's just use whole numbers" philosophy of currency and 1 ISK is about 0.78 cents USD.

  21. Re:reduced short time memory and concentration on Study Finds Alcohol, Not Marijuana, Is the Biggest Gateway Drug For Teens · · Score: 4, Informative

    Weeks, yes, months, no.

    A study at Harvard found no significant effects on memory, etc. after quitting for 28 days.

    http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/10.11/marijuana.html

  22. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    He never specified the font size.

  23. Re:In other words, on US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform · · Score: 1

    AFAIK Florida still uses punch cards.

    And practice creative incompetence with their seeming inability to deploy machines that can reliably punch holes in paper.

  24. Re:Republican policies at work on FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit · · Score: 1

    I am HIV positive. I am a registered Republican. And I am an atheist.

    Not all Republicans are religious nutjobs in the same way that not all Democrats are hippie nutjobs.

    So you're either delusional and think Goldwater and his ilk are still in charge of the Republican Party, you're delusional and think you're going to change the party from within and wrest control back from the religious nuts, you're wealthy and look to benefit from the tax policies the Republicans endorse, or you're delusional and think that IT (The Dream Job, The Lottery Win, The Inheritance, etc.) will happen to you and you'll then benefit from the aforementioned tax policies.

  25. Re:Too bad no one will get it on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review · · Score: 1

    Latest market stats (as of July 2) say 10.9% are on ICS and slowly growing. 64% are still on some version of Gingerbread and 2.4% on Honeycomb tablets.

    Growth rate might experience an uptick in the next couple months as carriers roll out HTC's ICS upgrades for a few of their phones, such as my Incredible S.