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

    I imagine it is similar to someone picking up a landline phone while you're on dial up.

  2. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 0

    free tethering

    citation needed

  3. i'm interested in an android app for ssh tunnellin on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    i'm sure there out there, but the market is getting harder and harder to sort through. can anyone recommend a good one?

  4. Re:Data plan limits are a scam on Does Windows Phone 7 Have a Data Transmission Bug? · · Score: 3, Informative

    in some countries, ISPs do actually do this.

  5. Re:The usual $50.00 question... on Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Galaxy S phones are ridiculously easy to get root access. It's just a manual software update using the normal update mechanism. Samsung doesn't do the things that Motorola and HTC have been putting in their phones to try and prevent rooting. I suspect that the Galaxy Player would be the same.

  6. android asks the user for permissions on Apple Privacy Concerns Go To Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that is why there is no issue with google.

  7. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    Full direct democracy would be a pain in the ass. The reason we have politicians is because it is their full time job to read through legislation and decide if it is in their constituents best interest. There would be no way in hell I could hold a full time job as well as responsibly vote on all legislation (which would generally mean reading it and researching all the context).

  8. maybe we should have some other method of authenti on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 0

    cation rather than passwords. clearly human beings are not going to make sure they are secure.

  9. Re:Yikes! on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 2, Informative

    It looks like a flaw on the part of the cover maker. Amazon could put some amperage limiting circuitry, but I imagine it would raise the cost.

  10. Re:OCR errors on Google Books Makes a Word Cloud of Human History · · Score: 1

    Doesn't google books use reCaptcha? It's not perfect, but I'm sure it fixes a very significant portion of OCR errors

  11. Re:The real failure was storing passwords. on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    one way hashing. compare your stored hash with the hash of what the user entered.

  12. Re:Description of hack? on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 2

    coding horror has a good writeup

  13. !quietly on Google Quietly Posts Big JavaScript Engine Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    this was part of their big chrome os announcement. i would say that is the opposite of quietly

  14. Re:This topic begs the question... on NASA Launches Micro Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    i think in the beginning they probably thought the future scientists and engineers would deal with it because there was so much space relative to the number of satellites that it wasn't an issue 30-50yrs ago. now it is, and we are now the future scientists.

  15. Re:Still not good on Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    proof of piracy is not proof of a lost sale

  16. Re:Not Phosphorus-Free on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 1

    Correct, but the panel considers it on par with finding a silicon-based life form ala star trek.

  17. Re:Not Phosphorus-Free on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be very clear, Felisa (the primary paper author) stated during the Q&A that all they know for sure is that there is not enough phosphorus in the bacteria for it's biochemical processes and the only reasonable conclusion is that arsenic is taking it's place. Not enough analysis to know percentages of what is using what.

  18. Re:Warning! Source article image is a JPEG. on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    Lossless PNG compression will introduce no changes to how it is viewed in its source JPEG form.

  19. Re:USER-AGENT on How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV · · Score: 1

    Proxy

  20. Re:One tiny problem... on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    (and canada)

  21. Re:Dangerous claim on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    under a very specific license. if you copy code, yet don't abide by the terms of the rest of the license, you are in violation of copyright.

  22. Re:Dospad on DOS Emulator In and Out of App Store · · Score: 1

    iDOS is apparently a build of DOSpad

  23. Re:So? on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    You couldn't write a bytecode interpreter in XCode?

  24. Re:So? on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    Both Java and Flash apps are not compiled for specific processor types. They are also "Universal Binaries" in that they are interpreted bytecode.

  25. Re:This is not for students on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 1

    i assume there is still a sizable population of students who live off campus...