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  1. Useful review for the single man on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.

    IPad3 != jerk off friendly. See this is the important information they don't seem to tell you in the shops.

  2. GMail man is not new on Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign · · Score: 1

    Under a month ago, they launched a spoof called GMail man

    No, the YouTube video you have featured was _posted_ less than a month ago, 10 seconds of checking found reference to this video over 6 months ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCSp23xl40

    I'm sorry but businesses will always try to show the weaknesses of their competitors, yes this isn't subtle but it's also not particularly special. Let them spend money on trying to trash Google while everyone else spends that money on dev and better products.

    Oh and good work on giving them lots of views to encourage more of this behaviour.

  3. Re:I have an idea for the style guide on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No we should not. Programmers and software engineers should only use Vi or Emacs (Notepad if you are forced to use Windows).

    Hint: It's useful to justify your arguments, not just disagree with the last poster because it makes you feel elite.

    If you're writing anything more taxing than a shell script in a text editor, not only are you incredibly unproductive, you're also probably in denial about many aspects of development because you believe you're 'better' than all the other 'lazy' developers.

    IDEs are there to help make development faster and of a higher quality. Using bolt ons to help with testing, style and source control make the IDEs even more powerful. Look it up, you might learn something.

  4. Not constructed - Completed on First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th · · Score: 4, Informative

    Raspberry Pi has confirmed the first batch of $35 PCs will be constructed on February 20

    To save any ambiguity, the actual release says:

    The good news is that this finally means we have a date for the first batch: the boards will be finished on February 20

  5. Re:Google, please don't... on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 2

    (Mind you, I use Yahoo, so Google needn't listen to me too much.)

    Holy crap, I knew someone out there had to be using Yahoo search but I didn't think I'd ever find them - and I knew they wouldn't have a hope of finding me...

  6. It's a TRAP! on Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTA:

    "In a response Buma/Stemra issued a press release stating that their IP-addresses were spoofed. A very unlikely scenario, but one that will be welcomed by BitTorrent pirates worldwide. In fact, they’d encourage Sony, Universal and Fox to say something similar. After all, if it’s so easy to spoof an IP-address, then accused file-sharers can use this same defense against copyright holders."

    This is quite a smart move. Getting these big organisations to explain this away will only add credence to the valid reasons that the public should be able to use to protect themselves. It doesn't matter what your personal opinion is on the morals of the situation the plain fact is an IP is not a person and the clearer this is made to the judges the better. Of course there is a the chance that the IPs were added manually by the guys who set the project up, they already admitted that there is still test data in there (do a check for 192.168.*.*) so it's far from perfect.

  7. Re:Woohoo! on Earth's Core Made In Miniature · · Score: 1

    Shows you how close the Aperture science videos were to the truth!

  8. Re:Safer? on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 2

    Until the batteries catch fire.

    Yeah - batteries catching fire after a crash is serious problem! I'm glad my petrol car doesn't have a large amount of flammable liquid on board that could catch fire after a crash...

  9. It's down - I wouldn't be so sure... on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Less Deserved on Happy Programmer Day! · · Score: 1

    The final bit: the infrastructure will crash and burn without sysadmins, but without programmers, it'll just cease to advance.

    Sounds to me like your infrastructure is pretty bad if it needs your constant input to stop it failing.. If a programmer wrote software like that they would be out of a job very quickly.

  11. Re:How are they handling the heat? on Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM · · Score: 1

    But Sir, it is only wafer thin!

  12. Re:And? on Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films · · Score: 1

    Legally blind does not mean "can't watch a movie" in any respect.

    FTA: "Her husband is legally blind, with vision roughly 1/100th of that of a person with normal sight. He is physically incapable of watching any film, this particular porno included."

  13. Image of him running(actual link) on World's First Cybernetic Athlete To Compete · · Score: 1

    As the article seems to be missing a picture, you can find one here - http://olympics.scmp.com/Images/UploadImages/20080517/20080517143425.jpg Also Wiki has some interesting information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius

  14. Re:Five months maternity leave? on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    Working for a company as rich as Google comes with an incredible number of fringe benefits: the free food, the free laundry, the doctor on duty at company headquarters and the impressive five months of maternity leave with full pay and benefits, to mention a few.

    The benefit is five months FULL pay and benefits, UK law does not entitle you to that. As with all UK benefit it's a step system 6 weeks at 90% of full pay and remainder at a flat rate (as of 2009 = £123.06) or 90% of your salary if that is less than the flat rate.