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  1. Re:Ultimate tech hipsters on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An awful lot of stuff doesn't need that kind of compute power.

    And AVR chips actually pack a massive amount of power. 24mhz is faster than a 486 and when you are reading sensors and similar things thats tons.
    Its only 6.5khz if you try emulating a ARM chip on it.

  2. Re:Break Out The Australian Sparkling White Wine on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah well thats the fault of the bloody US companies, not the CSIRO.
    Some money is better than none for a research organisation.

  3. Re:Nice on Google Maps Introduces 8-Bit Quest Maps · · Score: 1

    Some times they spend half the year working on these. They take their jokes extremely seriously.

  4. Re:In other news... on Blind Man Test Drives Google's Autonomous Car · · Score: 1

    Yep everyone else needs self driving cars, but not you. Your special.

  5. Its close on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    Its close but its not April 1st yet guys!

  6. Re:Copyright vs Education on German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a massive stigma that if it is free then it can't be any good. Its the 'open' movement's worst problem, whether it is books or software.

  7. Re:This is what happens when you trust Google. on Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed · · Score: 1

    Erm...how is that related in the slightest?

    If they wanted this to happen, it would have been made an awful lot easier to do.

  8. Re:Only a partial list on Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its not a 'dump every extension' exploit. It has to check for each one specifically based on a list.
    Your extensions simply aren't on the list.

  9. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    Erm....didn't you read the summary?

    You can probably freely put IR leds everywhere. You'll just never fill up your car again.

  10. Re:Commercial? on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    C) And kill your battery

  11. Re:we get approached all the time on Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up · · Score: 1

    That sounds like someone with a computer with a couple of external hard drives plugged in using cloud as a buzzword.

    Although I've always been curious how Amazon can offer pricing for 5 petabytes and above.

  12. Re:Impractical to who? on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 2

    When the starting value is $0, Google doesn't really care if you'd prefer things differently.

    Now if you paid $1 per search they most certainly would listen to your feedback and try and 'increase the value to you'.

  13. Re:So... on Microsoft Accuses Google of Violating Internet Explorer's Privacy Settings · · Score: 4, Informative

    Course it is deliberate. Question: So what?

    It doesn't do anything to IE and is ignored by every other browser.
    P3P is deprecated and has been for years - no other browser pays any attention to it.
    All it does is make Google's products work properly with IE (not just ad tracking).

    If I needed to add gibberish to one of my sites like that P3P policy to make it work, I would.

  14. Re:Considering sub queries in IN statements. on Oracle Claims Dramatic MySQL Performance Improvements · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The poor RDBMS has to put up with crap like that over and over again.
    It will probably need therapy after you are through with it.

    The programmer is supposed to know how to use the tool effectively to get the best performance.
    In that example there is a stupidly obvious solution - use a join.

  15. Re:And soon... on Brain Implants Can Detect What Patients Hear · · Score: 3, Informative

    That could be fatal and probably very very messy for the would-be snitch.

  16. Re:Problem here is "racism" on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 3, Informative

    So? That doesn't nullify the fact that the roots for all 3 are the same.

    Anyone saying otherwise is just having a "My god is better than your god" pissing match, not realising that the god is one and the same.

  17. Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 2

    I needed about 30 meters of low voltage DC cable (figure 8) which my local Dick Smith had in stock.

    Took 30 minutes to buy it. I couldn't see it anywhere and when I asked someone they pointed at the opposite side of the store.
    After I went through isle by isle I found it between the printers and cordless phones. Once I had found it it was easy though.

  18. Re:Wow, that's what passes for best these days on Labor Activist: Apple May Be Terrible, But All Others Are Worse · · Score: 1

    Yep. Only kids 12 and under worked on this item - they are cheaper than the 13 year olds.

  19. Re:babysrus does alread on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Brother printers are similar. Over here in Australia, you can get the HL-2240 but in Office works the exact same printer is the HL-2242.

    I think that is to get around the 'we'll beat any other price by 10%' gimmicks though.

  20. Re:Ban the use of faucets! on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    Cue lawsuits between the bottled water companies.

    "Their water is chemically identical to ours. We have a patent on ours and they are infringing!"
    "We claim the exact same thing but in reverse!"

  21. Re:I call slashvertizing on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 2

    The interesting part is they took the battery cover off underwater.

    Now usually on most phones I've seen, the battery connects via bare copper. How can it still actually function, without allowing water to short circuit it?
    Ditto for headphone jack. Either it covers the connection or it lets water in.

  22. Re:That's a ton of bandwidth on Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone · · Score: 1

    Lossless compression is a hell of a lot better than 2:1.

  23. Re:That's a ton of bandwidth on Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone · · Score: 1

    Yes but 500mb/s sounds like no compression at all which is plain excessive.

  24. Re:He seems to confuse the purpose of copyright on Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So....our civil rights are being forfeited so the music and movie industries to subsidise musicians/movies?

    What was the ratio between cost and profit on Avatar again? Somehow I don't think cost comes in to it - they are rolling in it.

  25. Re:Yay on CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S · · Score: 1

    N900 fits your bill.

    Runs Android too if you feel in the mood. :)