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  1. Re:No Loseless support? on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 1

    You need more than 255 channels?

    And Ogg is a recommended container format with Matroska support coming.

  2. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes but it is identical to three and a half decades ago.

    I can equally say that two decades ago there was a unusually high amount of sea ice.

  3. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Actually some of the other cameras turned out pretty good.

  4. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    With the amount of phones they will sell, that suggestion is now going straight to the marketing department so they can put it in to action asap.

    I can see the conversation:
    "If we bundle a DSLR for free, one guy will actually buy it! Yes! We are on a winning product now!"

  5. Re:universal connector on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    You want analog audio when you are already using USB data transfer?
    What bizarre contraption can do USB, but using USB for audio would make the cost skyrocket?

    The USB port is very flexible. It supports file access, audio access and a whole host of other things.
    The same port easily does HDMI with MHL which is *not* a hack, and it is possible to use MHL and USB at the same time (On the Galaxy S III at least I believe).
    It is cheap, compatible and is relatively easy to implement.

    It even allows you to use USB OTG which I notice the iPhone can't do even with its 30 pin plug.

  6. Re:universal connector on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is a standard and it is very much like usb. Its called micro usb which you might have heard of.
    Virtually every smart phone these days sold has a micro usb port.

    iPhones and iPads are not phones or tablets. They are purely fashion statements.
    No one would buy them otherwise.

  7. Re:Worse? on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1

    Not really. Doesn't the NSA have wholesale access to them to data mine them all they want?

    You do need the correct checks and balances of course.
    Probably don't need a court order in the case of an accident (that would be too much paperwork), but restrict them to only the 3 hours before the accident worth of data.

  8. Re:Worse? on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 2

    Yep you are basically saying that the information is only viewable in specific instances.
    Its only when someone has access to it without a specific reason when you get privacy implications.

  9. Re:i don't know ... on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah and all those other idiots are speeding because everyone else is too.

  10. Re:Any alternative? on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 1

    Google 'global warming religion'. You'll be scared.

  11. Re:Any alternative? on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 0

    Depends how you say it actually.

    If its along the lines of "I now see the light! Global warming is real and we must repent or otherwise our sins^H^H^H^HCO2 will strangle us all!" then yes they are a fanatic.

  12. Re:Driving style above 8bit on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 2

    What? They only use 8 bits to store the speed of the car which then crashes the system before it records the image?

  13. Re:And this is different from TV how? on Exposure to Backlit Displays Reduces Melatonin Production · · Score: 1

    Yes thats valid for about 60 - 100 Hz. Not kHz.
    Especially not say 100 - 250 kHz which you'll get with LEDs.

  14. Re:And this is different from TV how? on Exposure to Backlit Displays Reduces Melatonin Production · · Score: 1

    Erm by definition, at full brightness there is no flicker from the backlight.
    Any effect you noticed must have been something else.

  15. Re:And this is different from TV how? on Exposure to Backlit Displays Reduces Melatonin Production · · Score: 1

    Except the flicker you describe occurs at kHz.

    Keep telling yourself that you see it. You don't, and biologically can't.

  16. Re:Universal service. on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    In Australia we are getting the NBN - fiber to nearly every home, with everyone else covered by wireless or satellite under a universal service obligation.

    No tax over here for it.

  17. Re:It's okay on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 1

    Hardly rape if it is unwanted sex but the police are just too much of a hassle to bother with.

  18. Re:Used to be worse on Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws · · Score: 1

    No this is the first step. The previous proposal is still going through the motions.

  19. Re:Every keyboard is washable on Logitech Releases Washable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Better still: Don't spill your coffee or anything else on your keyboard.

    Problem instantly goes away. :)

  20. Re:Every keyboard is washable on Logitech Releases Washable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Seized?

    Easy solution - redissolve the sugar with water, then let dry again.
    You probably should have rinsed the keyboard off before allowing to dry in the first place.

  21. Re:I see a problem... on Sea Chair Project Harvests Plastic From the Oceans To Create Furniture · · Score: 1

    So....there is no problem at all with the plastic?

  22. Re:DOS on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    Whoops. I meant /dev/urandom. Not sure why I put /dev/null

  23. Re:It probably won't make a difference, but... on AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash · · Score: 1

    Oh you guys so have to join the 21st century and the rest of the world.
    Changing providers? Pop in the new SIM and at some point over the next 2 days your old number will be automatically transferred to your new SIM just after filling out a small online form with your new provider.

  24. Re:DOS on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    Just for kicks, make a program that takes output from /dev/null, manipulate it in to the correct format, then send.

  25. Re:It's okay on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 2

    Well I am Australian. Perhaps us bunch of ex-convicts just have higher standards of behaviour than the US.
    Rape over here is rare enough that it will actually hit the evening news every time there is a reported case.