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  1. So why buy an android or jobsian phone? on Privacy Concerns With Android and iPhone Apps · · Score: 2

    ...when you could have a Nokia N900?

  2. Re:The consequences for Carbon Dating... on Atomic Weight Not So Constant · · Score: 1

    Keep guessing, coward.

  3. The consequences for Carbon Dating... on Atomic Weight Not So Constant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...are that it's proved to be a completely inappropriate way of measuring the age of a sample, particularly for older samples.

    In fact for any sample over 2000 years old the errors are absolute.

    So in fact, this is big, big news.

  4. It's difficult to take Moore seriously... on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 0

    Attention Whore Moore strikes again.

    The basic problem with Michael Moore is that he has only one true agenda - that is the promotion of Michael Moore. He is willing to sacrifice integrity and the truth in order to make himself look good and others look bad.

    Whilst not everything he says is wrong per se - for instance his call to the ordinary citizens of the USA to join and take over the running of the Republican and Democrat parties - almost everything he does is self-serving.

    In fact, he's rather similar to one Julian Assange and will probably end up in jail with him should he follow up on his stated aim to post some of the WikiLeaks documents on his own website.

  5. Re:Meanwhile, in Britain on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    Oh dear, after all that effort you stopped concentrating at the end and called two different connections "ultra cool home internet connection" by name and three UCHIC by acronym.

    More interestingly hardly anyone has1Mbps upstream in the UK. I haven't searched for figures but it would be much smaller than 68%.

  6. I'm not surprised they missed the razor blades... on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they are a cutting edge technology after all.

  7. Is it compliant... on 'Smart' Vending Machines Triple Sales · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Why on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    Live bootlegs were captured to tape not vinyl.

  9. We need far, far more than we've got on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    There are dozens of examples of where we need better and more vocational Mathematical skills.

    As a sucker for buy-one-get-one-free offers and 3 for 2's I regularly find that my till receipt reveals that I've been incorrectly billed.

    When paying in cash, the number of times I start counting my change and get offered more that the staff "accidentally" failed to give me is astounding.

    Schools fail to teach the most key mathematical skill that children need when they grow up - how to budget. The debt society that we live in is driven most of all by the inability of so many people to understand the Micawber Principle - "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

    Just because Mathematics is a pure subject http://xkcd.com/435/ it doesn't mean that it doesn't underpin almost every other subject in some way.

  10. Re:Ahh yes, on Research Shows How Deaf Cats' Brains Re-Purpose Auditory Centers · · Score: 1

    Actually, you mean Def Leppard.

  11. Minor correction: Britain != England and Wales on Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle · · Score: 1

    You mean England *and Wales* not just England.

  12. Speed Kills on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    I pity the fool that doesn't obey the speed limit in built up areas and then suffers the consequences when someone steps out in front of him. Why assume that the other party is in another car?

      - At a greater speed your thinking distance is longer.
      - At a greater speed your braking distance is longer.
      - Hit at 30mph 80% of people live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5f73EHRhA
      - Your chances of living if hit at over 30mph drop away very rapidly for every 1mph the car's speed increases.

    To quote a well known UK Road Safety Campaign - Kill your speed, not a child!

  13. Text message charging is much much worse than that on iPhone 4 Beta Shows AT&T Tethering · · Score: 1

    Text messages cost your provider NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. The text message data is sent in the free space that's not used in the packet communication with the mobile tower.

    Per GB of data, text messaging is the most expensive form of communication anywhere.

  14. Re:Take some time and think on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    Of course someone can be under further restrictions after they have served their sentence. In the UK for instance sex offenders are made to sign the Sex Offenders Register http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8634239.stm , will be restricted from working with children and may have restrictions on where they can live. Persons subject to a Football Banning order may be required to give up their passports at their local Police Station when England are playing abroad in order to stop them from travelling. I'm sure I read of a hacker being banned from using computers/the internet recently as well which would be more relevant to the Terry Childs case.

  15. The complementary problem on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The more mathematically literate would note here that the complement of requiring 2/3 to pass is that if *more than* 1/3 vote against it should fail.

    70 people voted against. 206 people voted in total. 70 is a third of 210 therefore it is more than a third of 206. Therefore the vote fails. Q.E.D.

  16. Re:Labour just lost my vote on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 1

    New Labour have been to the right of the Conservative Party since they were elected in 1997. The minimum wage is about the only even vaguely socialist policy that they have enacted in 13 "Glorious" years.

  17. Re:It was a farce... on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Plaid MPs who did not vote may well be paired with ministers who were absent on Government business and therefore unable to vote. The pairing system exists to avoid the Government being disadvantaged in votes because of their need to actually govern. Why it would be relevant in this instance though I have no idea.

  18. Andy Green on Another Contender For the Land Speed Record · · Score: 1

    ...holds the current record, not the previous record as incorrectly stated by kdawson.

  19. SRWare Iron = Chrome without the privacy issues on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want to use Chrome without Google spying on you then use SRWare Iron instead. This page details the major differences between the two Chromium sourced browsers: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php Download SRWare Iron here: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

  20. This is NOT Christmas. on Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is NOT Christmas. It's not even Advent yet. Admit it, you're in Marketing aren't you.

  21. It's nothing new... on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 1

    AOL used to censor e-mails that mentioned Scunthorpe. (Notice letters 2-5). Link for Americans and other aliens --> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Scunthorpe&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&iwloc=addr The next thing will be a soundex filter. Goodness knows what they'd do if you wanted to fly to Fukuoka (via Phuket International, of course) to buy some Shiitake mushrooms?

  22. Re:Back to dumb terminals on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, we have a government who jumped into bed with Bill Gates and Microsoft at the first available opportunity. On the flip side, we have an opposition who identified the huge cost savings that are available and are advocating moving Whitehall onto Linux and other Open Source software.

  23. Department of Justice? on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You *know* a country's going to the dogs when it suddenly creates a Department of Justice and puts a Muppet in charge of it. A semantic point - they didn't *lose* the data, they put it in the public domain through incompetence when the data should have been kept private.

  24. Re:encryption on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    1984 was written in 1948. Orwell, quite famously, swapped the last two digits of the year.

  25. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law Whilst some people disagree didn't Moore himself suggest that Moore's law will fail in around 2020?