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  1. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Which may or may not be accurate, depending on a lot of factors.

    However, taking your average position over time and doing some simple math, you get a very accurate speed.

  2. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Note only -new- beacons at that. 121.5 is really only monitored by passing aircraft now, simply because they use the same frequency for distress.

  3. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Huh? ... also, shells? What?

  4. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    make sure that EPIRB is modern. If it's one of those 121.5mHz models it's not monitored for much these days. (just passing aircraft for the most part)

  5. Re:He was never IN solitary confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    This doesn't seem to jive, but I will admit it's an AC with no citations.

    Still. Just because they don't call it solitary (how could they? they speak Swedish!) doesn't mean it's not.

  6. Re:He was never IN solitary confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Sounds boring.

  7. Re:Misleading Summary on Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS · · Score: 1

    The "long" signal intended for military use requires a substantial key to decode. It's not jam-proof, but it should be spoof-proof.

    Of course, that all depends on the key remaining secret...

    I imagine the drone that was landed via GPS spoofing merely didn't have the equipment for the long signal. It's supposedly a pain in the ass to deal with.

  8. Re:Why not use another method? on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 1

    You just keep diggin' that hole deeper, loufoque. Keep on digging.

  9. Re:Why not use another method? on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You've just further reinforced our impression.

  10. Re:A sad day for whom, you say? on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 1

    Unless you want to drown in Gucci spam, you're still going to be moderated.

  11. Re:Sick leaves on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Ah. When you say sales I think of sales departments in a corporation.

    What you are speaking of I would simply call retail.

  12. Re:Fuck the owner on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    Do keep in mind this isn't a finch though. Greys are attached to their family.

  13. Re:Cruelty to animals on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    Mauled by a bear? Have some fucking perspective will you?

  14. Re:Awesome on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's like having a 2 to 5 year old that lives longer than you do.

    That said, they are damn smart birds.

  15. Re:Also called "multiple-tab syndrome" on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 1

    Usually I'll only be using one tab. The first thing I do when I install seamonkey/firefox is turn tab auto-hide back on.

    Tabs generally only get opened if I need to have multiple references open... or if I'm looking at something like a forum index, I'll open each thread I'm going to want to look at in a new tab.

    I'll then start going through the tabs one by one, closing them as I finish with them - finally back at only one or two open, which again tend to be things like indexes.

    Is this an unusual usage pattern?

  16. Re:Sick leaves on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    sales people can't sell from home

    Why not?

  17. Re:Come to work or else on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Huh, let me take a guess... you haven't seen the unemployment numbers lately?

  18. Re:Uh, nice try on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Six letters and a symbol:

    VPN + RDP

    My department uses this all the time, since it's not exactly practical to take the AS400s things rely on with you...

  19. Re:Uh, nice try on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    There's 0 need to by physically present for the meeting. It just makes things annoying for everyone involved.

  20. Re:What about families? on Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    Give us the Gmail app for cheap, leave the rest as an expensive package.

    It's not like a few extra records in their mailserver configs to allow mail in/out of our domain name is a terrible drain on their resources. It's the only difference between standard gmail and the one via apps.

    Hell, we're the ones who have to set up the MX records properly! They don't even have to do that!

  21. Re:What about families? on Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses · · Score: 1

    Then maybe they should let us use our own domains for regular gmail accounts? It's not like they are doing anything different.

  22. Re:I use apps for business as a family account on Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The only functions I use are Gmail, Calendar, and Drive.

    Mostly because I don't want to deal with the annoyances of running my own mail server and spam filters.

  23. Re:Android is NOT a useable tablet experience on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 1

    In my opinion yes. Nothing MS has done except for Windows 7 has been the best of anything.

    Wow, look at that?! I'm allowed to have an opinion!

  24. Re:Android is NOT a useable tablet experience on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 1

    Just because they post a lot doesn't mean they can't shill.

    Maybe they forgot to log out. Maybe they legitimately believe the propaganda.

  25. Re:So then... on As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism · · Score: 1

    Something tells me the leasing office would look down on my installing a chicken coop in my apartment.