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  1. Re:Free as in Beer? on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 1

    Unless your books from other sources have no DRM (or you can find some my to remove it) and there's some way to convert it to a compatible format, you're out of luck.

  2. Shock! on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 1

    Do you mean to tell we that Amazon, a reader that makes money by selling things, aren't talking too much about ways to get non-Amazon content? Besides, what is non-Amazon content? Blogs, RSS feeds, and stuff you upload onto the device. Methinks PR didn't think these were great selling points. That's interesting...

  3. Re:PSP isn't very good on PSP Slim Sells Over A Million in Japan · · Score: 1

    ...except the controls are reportedly improved and the internal RAM has been doubled, cutting down on disk loading. The speakers have also been moved to a more appropriate location. As for the screen, f it were higher resolution, you id be complaining about diminished battery life.

  4. Re:Did they fix it? on PSP Slim Sells Over A Million in Japan · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. The controls area little more tactile. The UMD slot now just cracks open and the user manually puts in or takes out the disk.

  5. Re:Oh, Thank Heavens! on New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It must be really nice to live in a household where one parent earns enough so that the other can stay at home at all times.

  6. Re:Fine, but Apple's handwriting recognition sucks on Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real · · Score: 1

    Two things:
    1) No offense, but the Transmeta chip in the TC1000 sucks. I'm using a TC1100 (1.1 Ghz Pentium M, 1 GiB RAM) and it can read my illegible scrawl 95+% of the time. And it anything requires computing power, it's handwriting recognition.

    2) Vista Tablet HWR is indeed much, much better, even on TC1100s with Vista shoehorned onto them.

    BTW, I wrote this post on my tablet with the stylus (in class it looks like I'm taking notes).

  7. Re:Now Google??? on Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases · · Score: 0

    /me wonders why you're surprised when Google created GMail and all...

  8. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    There are many legitimate reasons to have dual citizenship. For instance, having family in one country while moving to another: the first country may have very stringent regulations on the abilities of non-citizens to enter the country. It would then be more practical to hold dual citizenship in order to visit one's parents. Anyways, funny that you're now appealing to culture, values, and rights, when just a bit earlier you were arguing passionately in favor of the practical and that, essentially, the ends justifies the means.

  9. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    That's a nice thought and all, except for one assumption: that the TSA can hire enough security personnel who are actually competent to cover all the airports AND train them AND make everything run smoothly enough so that not all planes are delayed by 3 hours. Good luck. What's occuring now is even worse - giving the people the impression of security when in fact nothing effective is being done.

    By all accounts, we should just anesthetize everyone going on a plane a la The Fifth Element. That, or make everybody board manacled and naked, with no luggage.

  10. Re:Assumed Guilt on NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    Wait, so you'd want to do all of this over your wireless CELLPHONE connection?

  11. Re:Surprise surprise on Interview with 'Anti-Gamer' Senator Leland · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And it's because most people think the way that you do and simply go along with it that the situation has become what it has today.

  12. Re:They're not brick & Apple had no choice &am on Hacked iPhones Confirmed As Bricking With Latest Update · · Score: 1

    Incorecct. The upgraded phone fails to recognize even valid AT&T SIM cards. In other words, for many people, if you previously unlocked your phone (and in some cases DIDN'T unlock your phone), it refuses to activate.

  13. Re:Can they afford it? on FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1

    None of the mobile phone service providers have enough cash reserves to even meet the minimum bid; only Google does. I suspect they aren't expecting to be paid in cash, or if so, not in one lump sum.

  14. Up Up Down Down Left Left Right Right B A Start? on Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that what I'll need to input in order to access the graphics-related functionality in Google Earth?

  15. Later that day... on Largest-Known Planet Befuddles Scientists · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...scientists discovered the "puffy" nature was due to its interior being mostly made of a substance remarkably similar to "fluffy chocolate nougat". Mars, Incorporated could not be reached for comment.

  16. Re:'Protocol' /= 'client application' on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    While it's nice and all to use other clients, it doesn't do much good when, say, filtering is *server*-implemented per FP.

  17. In a straight line, eh? on Nissan Turns to Technology to Stop Drunk Driving · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I guess if you're going to drive drunk in a Nissan equipped with one of these systems, don't travel anywhere with curves?

  18. Re:Anything like this is a good thing on America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant · · Score: 1

    Well sure, but the point is if it's a human-caused, and you could somehow auto-magically change all fossil fuel to ethanol/biodiesel/etc, at the very least the CO2 concentration shouldn't rise as much as it has prior to the switch.

  19. Re:NOT all MXM cards will fit into all MXM slots on The Next-Gen iMac With Brushed Aluminum In August? · · Score: 1

    Ugh. Got cut off. To continue... If the MXM slot in the iMac doesn't provide enough space to physically fit the class 3 MXM card, clearly it's not going to work.

  20. NOT all MXM cards will fit into all MXM slots on The Next-Gen iMac With Brushed Aluminum In August? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not true. There are three classes of MXM cards, each with a slightly different size and power demand.

  21. Re:Never saw it coming! on Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correction. They couldn't set up a service with Verizon Wireless because Verizon wouldn't kowtow to Apple's demands. Apple went to Verizon first.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/verizon_tu rned_down_iphone/

  22. O rly? on AT&T Vs. Apple Store At the iPhone Launch · · Score: 1

    I suppose it depends on who you trust. Do you trust the J.D. Power rankings?

  23. Re:errr... on When Does Technolust Become An Addiction? · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that, when they say "give up their mobile", they meant that as in, "Never have a cellphone for the rest of their life."

  24. Not really that cheap... on AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL · · Score: 1

    You would probably need six separate phone lines, each with its own monthly costs.

  25. And what's to stop them from... on AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...oversubscribing on a small amount of bandwidth and end up clipping real-world performance down to ISDN or dial-up levels on a regular basis?