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  1. Re:We are to blame. on Explosion At Foxconn Factory Kills 2, Injures 16 · · Score: 1

    The Alienware M17X is 2 inches thick and weighs over 11 lbs with 2 hours of battery life. The 17" Macbook Pro is 1 inch thick and weighs less than 7 pounds while giving 5.5 hours of battery life.

    That's where your extra 600 Euros is going. Half the thickness, 3/5 the weight, and over twice the battery life.

  2. Re:We are to blame. on Explosion At Foxconn Factory Kills 2, Injures 16 · · Score: 1

    No, they're actually not. iPhone is priced the same as other premium cell phones. iPads are generally cheaper than roughly-equivalent pads from other manufacturers. Macbook Pros are about the same price as other high-end laptops from Lenovo and others for the same specs/form factor/battery life.

  3. Re:peering at glowing electronic screens on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 1

    You can get the Kindle app on iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, WP7, and PC/Mac.

    Automatic synchronization across all platforms. Read a hundred pages on your Android and automatically pick up at the furthest read spot when you turn on your Kindle.

  4. Re:Weird decision on Betty Boop and Indefinite Copyright · · Score: 1

    Oh, and there are Mickey video games. There's a new big-budget Disney game for the Wii called Epic Mickey starring the mouse himself.

  5. Re:Weird decision on Betty Boop and Indefinite Copyright · · Score: 1

    Been to Disney World or Disneyland lately? Mickey is all over the place: in character, on rides, in artwork. This includes brand new stuff all the time.

  6. Re:Civ IV? on Civ IV's Baba Yetu Wins First Grammy For Video Game · · Score: 2

    The song was first published on an album in the past year, making it eligible for this category.

  7. Re:Maybe I'm missing something? on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    Does Apple allow other manufacturers to build and sell their own branded iOS phones, with various core apps removed and replaced by their own versions?

  8. Re:Best on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    I don't have an iPhone, but I've used up to 4GB of data in a month on my Evo.

  9. Re:wow... on Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Judges will generally already know the definitions of legal terms being used in a trial, and if they don't, they will get their clerk (a trained person with an actual law degree) to look up the actual law as well as any related case law and judicial decisions.

    Judges don't go to Wikipedia to look up the definitions of legal terms.

  10. Not sure how true this is. on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    Eh. The Close Door button in the elevators in my building definitely work. They make the doors close immediately after fully opening - they stay open for about 3-4 seconds otherwise. And they are Otis elevators.

    The pedestrian crossing buttons do something to. If you don't press them, the cross street/left turn light turns green immediately after the main street turns red and the Cross signal never comes on. I've gotten burned a couple of times by not pressing it.

  11. Awesome on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a great initiative to implement when facing massive, crippling budget deficits.

  12. Re:WIth all due repsect on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 1

    Honestly, as much of a douchebag as he is, I have to admit he is largely responsible for the current awesome state of the smartphone and media player market. Without Jobs, chances are none of us would be carrying around smartphones with awesome UIs loaded with dozens of great apps.

  13. Re:what about the dude in prison? on WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't support the law being changed, because I think there is some information that needs to stay classified.

    You can't make an exception in the law, saying that classified documents are OK to release as long as one person thinks they should be and, well shucks, just really means well.

    It *has* to be illegal for one low-level person to break confidentiality and distribute classified military information.

    I agree that governments grossly abuse how they determine information should be classified. Perhaps that process is what needs to change, but we can't simply say it's OK when a single person leaks thousands of classified documents.

  14. Re:what about the dude in prison? on WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs · · Score: 1

    If he's the one who leaked these documents, he frankly belongs in prison. He broke the law.

    I know that's harsh, but that's reality. He knew what the consequences were if he got caught. I'm highly sympathetic and indebted to him for doing something that I think was good and right, but he still clearly and willingly broke the law.

  15. Re:It works for Google on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they did, at least all the "Candlejack will get y...... [no carrier]" or "I torrent all the time and the CIA has never knocked down my doo... [end of line]" posts would make *some* semse.

  16. Re:What ? on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 1, Informative

    The TPB trackers are down, though. uTorrent is saying they are actively refusing connection.

  17. Re:I don't get it. on Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    They're saying that using a statement found in Wikipedia doesn't count as evidence, whether the statement was true or not.

  18. Re:That's retarded. on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD was founded 16 years before ATI and was producing branded processors before ATI existed.

  19. How do you define "different book"? on Counting the World's Books · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look at textbooks - new editions that are almost indistinguishable from the previous editions have new ISBNs. Do we count every single one as a different book?

  20. Re:Can't really hurt many US jobs... on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    The massive profits over the actual relatively low manufacturing costs go to the American designer/brand (assuming it's an American company like, say, Oakley).

  21. Re:Custom ROMs on 'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Or you can just delete the apps you don't want. A heck of a lot easier than cooking your own ROM.

  22. Re:Thats the least of their problems. on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    YEAAAAAAHHHH

  23. Re:Pitchforks down, please, no story here on Chrome Private Mode Not Quite Private · · Score: 3, Informative

    If it remembers zoom levels for particular websites, it must remember the websites themselves. That also means someone can potentially obtain a list of URLs you visited in incognito mode.

    That defeats the entire point of incognito mode. It's not supposed to remember anything.

  24. Re:No linux or unix.. on DNSSEC May Cause Problems On May 5 · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

    I am getting nothing but timeout errors, both here and on the Linux box at home. Oh well, try again later.

  25. No linux or unix.. on DNSSEC May Cause Problems On May 5 · · Score: 0

    So the test they list requires a CLI on a Linux or Unix machine of some sort?

    I don't have one available where I am. How can I test using Windows?