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  1. Flying Car Operations Degree on Embry-Riddle To Offer Degree In Space Operations · · Score: 0

    Next, Embry Riddle can can launch the nation's first ever bachelor's degree in Flying Car Operations to supply the commercial flying car industry with skilled graduates in the areas of flying car policy, operations, regulation and certification, as well as flying car safety, and flying car driving program training, management and planning.

    Once there is a viable commercial space industry and Flying Car Industry, Embry Riddle will becomes the Harvard for these industries.

  2. Good on Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda · · Score: 1

    So what exactly was the good which happened by taking down the video?

  3. Fair Use on Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it covered by 'Fair Use'?

  4. Re:Sooo. on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Submit your billing on Tuesday.

  5. Apple on Microsoft May Be Seeking Protection From Linux With Dell Loan · · Score: 1

    Any time a company takes money from Microsoft, they die very soon thereafter. Microsoft's money (not to be confused with Microsoft Money) is literally poison.

    Yes. MS invested 150 million $ in Apple in 1997.

  6. I interviewed for CERN on Making Sure Interviews Don't Turn Into Free Consulting · · Score: 4, Funny

    In early 1989, I was called for an interview at CERN. The guy who interviewed me was called Tim. He asked me to call him Timbo. The interview went normally and then Timbo took me to the CERN cafeteria for lunch. I told him about my idea about taking hypertext and connecting it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas andâ"ta-da!â"you all know what happened next.

  7. Re:PCR on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, PCR was invited 30 years ago now

    Where was it invited?
    Who invited it?
    Did it go?

  8. Re:Who watches the watchers? on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't trust anything you write.

  9. Re:Due Process on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 2

    So what's to prevent the Govt to kill someone and then claim he was the operating leader of an enemy group? Is this trust based?

  10. Due Process on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 2

    So does the Govt have to prove the said person did whatever they did which led to their relinquishing citizenship?

  11. Re:I'm not a member of the hive on this one on Wolfram Alpha Number-Crunches the Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    That's the super bowl what?

  12. You? on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 4, Funny
  13. Re:I'm not a member of the hive on this one on Wolfram Alpha Number-Crunches the Super Bowl · · Score: 2

    World cup soccer only comes once every four years

    What about the World Cup of American Football - once in how many years is it held?

  14. Re:Ahhh the good old days... on US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy · · Score: 1

    You mean like Google what?

  15. Re:Missing the point? on US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy · · Score: 1

    Or making sure these companies, including Facebook, provide a mechanism for data portability, provisioned by a script?

    Here's how it would work: I, the user, run this script through an interface, the result of which should be the "porting" of all my data from one provider to another in a 'reasonable time.'

    Nobody is forcing you to store your data with them.

  16. Re:So we're ASKING them? on US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy · · Score: 1

    Is there a difference?

    They will write up the regulatory laws and send them to regulators. You are just bypassing some steps by asking them. This saves money and time.

  17. Re:Ahhh the good old days... on US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Imagine if you could buy something like a SIM card that worked on all the networks in the United States, not just some, and all you had to do when getting a new phone is slide your SIM into it.

    You can actually. It would work on any GSM network in the USA. Of course, you need to buy your phone from a Phone Vendor rather than a Service Provider.

    That's what I did when I spent a few years in the USA. It used SIM cards from 4 different US Service Providers.

    But Americans want subsidised phones so they don't do this.

  18. Re:Running Mountain Lion.... on Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac · · Score: 2

    You are holding it right. The others aren't.

  19. Re:Gutless. on 60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the point here is that Google needed them far more than they needed Google. Hence Google agreed to pay whatever was required.

  20. Re:Gutless. on 60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers · · Score: 1

    Yes. Google needed the French Market for news aggregation much more than the French news sites needed Google to index them.

  21. Re:Gutless. on 60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers · · Score: 1

    Why is that relevant? If Google didn't need the French newspapers more than the newspapers needed them, then Google can stop indexing Fresh newspapers and be over with it. It doesn't matter who has more influence.

  22. Re:Gutless. on 60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google should have just told them "you don't want us showing your links? Ok, have it your way", and dropped them into oblivion.

    Fact that Google didn't shows that Google needs them more than they need Google.

  23. Rubbish on Twitter #Hacked · · Score: 4, Informative

    If a security hole in Java running on a Twitter user's browser allowed someone to get to Twitter's internal data (i.e. not just the data of the user whose browser who had Java) - then it's a security hole in Twitter.

    I think Twitter is being dishonest here.

  24. Steve Bennett on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    Steve Bennett - is that you? Don't spread rumours anonymously.

  25. BitTorrent in 1994 on Aaron Swartz Case: Deja Vu All Over Again For MIT · · Score: 1

    The author of the LaMacchia Loophole seems to think BitTorrent existed in 1994. The BitTorrent protocol was designed in 2001. May be the author thinks BitTorrent is a generic term for downloading stuff.