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  1. Re:There's no problem really. on Neal Stephenson On Fiction, Games, and Saving the World · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with you.

    You first. :P

  2. Re:Great news for Aussies on Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? · · Score: 2

    Actually the Galaxy S III LTE is virtually a completely different device to what we have. E.g. only dual core, not quad core. Completely different processor.

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

    So out of every 3 women you know, you know that 1 of them has been raped?

    That statistic doesn't make any sense and that should ring alarm bells immediately.
    The method of collection is clearly bunk.

  4. Re:Reasonable on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you expect the labels to also describe what kind of selective breeding has been performed? Dated at least back 1000 years?
    Exact same concern - what stops someone using selective breeding to increase tolerance to Glyphosate?

    People frankly don't care. Unless it is labelled that is - then it must be bad because they had to put a label on it.

    I'd be all for what you are proposing if it was a website or something.
    Just not a gimmicky scaremongering logo on the packaging.

  5. Re:Hype! on IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard · · Score: 1

    I've got two webservers and a database server connected via gigabit. It routinely blasts past 100mbps in DB traffic.
    Right now it averages over half a terrabyte of data a day and most of that is in certain peak hours.

  6. Re:You mean... little green men may help? on First Evidence That Some Insects May Rely On Photosynthesis · · Score: 1

    Then teach them to want to be eaten, then English so they can express exactly that and then we are all set. :)

  7. Re:Why? This: on The Panic Over Fukushima · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is exactly why it was created without a scale.

  8. Re:Proof at last! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 2

    I had a computer back in the day, a good Pentium 3 with a standard Intel motherboard and nothing too fancy at all.

    Windows XP out of the box had no: Network, video, usb, audio, or anything except basic video, keyboard, mouse and cdrom.
    To get it to work you'd have to download the drivers off the net, burn them to a CD on another computer then pop the cd in.
    The computer was a couple of years older than XP too!

  9. Re:Let the lawsuits begin.. on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    A cheap AVR chip (think Arduino) can do USB pretty easily and you'd have a microcontroller to make the radio/clock/etc... to work to begin with.
    No need for computer style electronics with usb hosts and so on.

  10. Re:Let the lawsuits begin.. on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    Wow Apple must actually have a magical connector after all if it doesn't need hardware to decode video and audio!

  11. Re:privacy? on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Yes but it used to be that you had to physically see it for it to be of any use.

    E.g. Police are looking for a stolen car with the plate ABC - 1234
    Or you are pulled over and they run your plate to double check.

    It was never there so police could track where you have gone for the last 5 years.

  12. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    He's not a fugitive. Not in Ecuador and technically that is where he is right now. He's on Ecuadorian soil.

  13. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    The Syrian ambassador was kicked out of Australia recently.

    The difference was he was asked and he left.
    No Australian Police storming the embassy.

  14. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Same net international effect. They might be able to do it, but the instant they do every single embassy in the UK will not be happy.

  15. Re:It will save them* on Office To Become Fully Open XML Compliant (at Last) · · Score: 1

    You can save your files in the new strict format, in the same way you can save your files in a decades old WordPerfect format.

    Doesn't mean anyone does it, let alone knows it exists.

  16. Re:Cookies suck on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    A forum?

    If you has a session id in the url alone, bookmarking/linking to a page would log you out.
    If you gave a link to a friend, it would log them out and depending on how secure it is, log them in to your account.
    It would be impossible to remember your login for the site.
    Search engines would get tripped up by them while crawling.

    Session IDs should really be kept out of reach from humans. They make everything really messy.

  17. Re:Cookies suck on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    Not to mention an awful lot of code for more than a simple site. E.g. ajax, forms, etc...

    How do you handle bookmarks? 'Remember me logged in on this site'? Session expiry? Links from a friend/email (would you get logged in as them)?

  18. Re:Cookies suck on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    No, but you are responsible for creating an acocunt and being logged in.

    What would you prefer? HTTP Auth?

  19. Re:Bletch on How Big Data Became So Big · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great post , very informative!

  20. Re:300,000 miles under what conditions? on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Thats 300,000 miles on city streets, not controlled tracks.

  21. Re:But how smart? on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the other conditions, but it can identify and read road signs.
    Does the same thing for traffic lights so it obeys them and it reads speed signs.

  22. Re:Many questions arise on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 2

    Your questions about whether it needs a human and if you can use your phone to request your car comes and picks you up: Soon.

    Google has golf carts doing just that to drive people around their HQ.
    You book it online or via your phone and it shows up outside your office, where you can either drive it yourself or let it take you somewhere.

  23. Re:They Didn't Pull This Kind of Muscle on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 2

    Yep. A unlocked door should have stumped the FBI that were present for hours!
    Pity a NZ cop got to the door first and used the handle. Dotcom's plan was foiled!

    Do you even read any of this fiasco? No barricades, no guns. He went to his safe room, left the door unlocked and sat there waiting for them.

  24. Re:Wait a minute, on Microsoft Reaffirms Default Do-Not-Track For IE10, Windows 8 Express Setup · · Score: 1

    Better as in a snail is faster than a rock, but isn't as fast as say an elderly woman, let alone a car.

  25. Re:Wait a minute, on Microsoft Reaffirms Default Do-Not-Track For IE10, Windows 8 Express Setup · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wow! A score of 319 is really impressive!

    Wait hang on.
    * Chrome 22: 442
    * Chrome 21: 437
    * Opera 12.50: 409
    * Firefox 14: 345

    Sure its better than IE 9, but a modern browser it is not.
    Doesn't even come close to stable Firefox.