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  1. Re:iPad on Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims · · Score: 1

    My point is that a closed device will only provide specific workarounds for specific problems like "delete history" and "delete cookies" while an open device provides more options for privacy such as low level file deletion and chroot jails, so the open device should be more secure.

    I have a guest account on my linux laptop for situations where I need to lend it to other people. I am not aware of such a facility on the ipad.

  2. Re:iPad on Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On linux I can open a shell and go

    rm -rf ~/.mozilla

    Can I do that on an ipad?

  3. Re:hmm... on Google's Chrome OS To Launch In Fall · · Score: 1

    To be (somewhat) fair, I don't blame Daniel Radcliffe for asking for 20m/movie cause it isn't likely he's ever going to break that typecast. He's pretty much making his life's salary right now.

    But he can still work. My life's salary would be about 2 million. Conveniently one tenth his income from one movie.

  4. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    I have read a popularization of relativity by Albert Einstein where he makes it clear that the explosion did happen in 1987 at the location of the supernova.

    Now that's even more profound! A man who died in 1955 wrote about an event from 1987?

    Yeah in the book you imagined yourself walking forwards on a train, which was itself in motion. I realized my mistake after I posted.

  5. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    By which detector ? can you give me some references to this ?

    Yep

  6. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1


    It just took 168,000 years for 1987 to get to us.

    [head asplodes]

    Not really, but isn't relativity fun?

    More to the point, if I fly at the speed of light today to alpha centauri it will still be June 2 2010 when I get there.

  7. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Depends on your POV. I have read a popularization of relativity by Albert Einstein where he makes it clear that the explosion did happen in 1987 at the location of the supernova. It just took 168,000 years for 1987 to get to us.

  8. Re:Ok, now on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know.

  9. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Neutrinos were detected along with photons from the 1987 supernova. I expected that this would be the same, except closer and brighter.

  10. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    However, it may be really upsetting to Zaphod Beeblebrox!

    I bet he signed the form to build a bypass there though.

  11. Re:Ok, now on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone with a good telescope available?!

    The one thing I don't want to be doing if Betelgeuse goes supernova is looking at it with a telescope.

    (not with my remaining good eye that is).

  12. Check for puppeteers on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see any Pierson's Puppeteers around. I think we should get out of here.

  13. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    At least we would get a nice neutrino flux for our detectors to play with.

  14. Re:Could someone please post the phone number on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole · · Score: 1

    I assume thats the only way to stay warm at this time of year. So how is the hibernation going?

  15. Re:One really has to wonder... on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole · · Score: 1

    What I don't exactly see is how they're profiting off the number

    Probably doing it for the lulz.

  16. Re:One really has to wonder... on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know how UK mobile providers do it, but I had to call my cell provider (Sprint) to enable international dialing before I could dial past +1.

    My bet is that this is a US specific thing. Certainly in Australia new SIM cards can by default dial any number on Earth (and for all I know, some not on Earth). International roaming OTH is not always enabled by default and I have been bitten by this a few times.

  17. Re:Dogfood on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    IBM accounting hardware

    Whats that?

  18. Re:How in the universe? on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    neutrino osculations

    You learn something new every day

  19. Re:248 mile range? Big deal. on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    Tesla had so many dramas over battery power management that I wonder about the cooling in the batteries of this car from the UK. It wouldn't be nice to wreck the batteries at the end of the trip, or to have a meltdown once they hit warm weather.

    my Tesla

    Okay now I am envious.

  20. Re:I Think the Reason He Was Locked Out Was... on Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out? · · Score: 3, Funny

    douchebag filters were first created as an experiment by Google

    Do you know where I can get a copy? I want to install one for my employers HR department before it is too late.

  21. Re:248 mile range? Big deal. on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    A charger makes a pretty good heater so if they charge when stopped they should be okay.

  22. Re:pan american highway on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    With a car from the UK? 110 Volts may be a problem, but I'd be more worried about the charge time.

    My shaver seems to cope okay. Say five hours driving per day leaves them 19 hours to charge the car for the next day.

  23. Re:248 mile range? Big deal. on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    The big battery packs on the Tesla need active cooling so they might be okay in the north.

  24. Re:pan american highway on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    So....that 60 charges is going to grow. If it can find a place to charge....some of those countries have 110 volt outlets.

    You mean like the US?

  25. Re:BP != British on BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed · · Score: 1

    BP is just as american as British Aerospace

    foreign ownership of BAE SYSTEMS is limited by law to 29.5%