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  1. Re:High end phones have always been $650 on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention, he purchased it late last year, even in China prices do go down over time.

  2. Re:High end phones have always been $650 on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    Google Nexus is LG, not exactly top shelf either, also no SD Card slot and a smaller screen.

  3. Re: High end phones have always been $650 on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    The old version is dual core, google harder..

  4. Re:High end phones have always been $650 on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only idiots with to much money and no internet skills pay more than $400 for a so called high end phone. One of the guys at work recently purchased a 5.7" quad core IPS screen mobile from china for a little over $300 (Model# N7300, google it). I was thinking, naaw it will be a heap of crap, well it arrived and worked and not only that "it was pre-rooted". It played 720p mkv movies with no issues and has a dual sim and a SDCARD slot.

  5. Re:Yay! on In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    You do realise the English sent 10x more convicts to the USA than to Australia, in fact the worst convicts were sent to the USA.

  6. Re:Actually this is a good thing on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    also it will teach budding unemployed IT people who cant afford windows how to use Linux and run IE 6 under wine totally free

  7. Re:Two-edged sword? on Belgian Media Group Demanding Copyright Levy for Internet Access · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or the ISP's can copy what Google did in German, block all copyright material then watch the perpetrators of the legal action have a nervous break down when they realise they have just blown their own foot of with a 22mm canon. Media needs exposure to survive, even illegal downloaders assist in sales (most downloaders are also their biggest $$ customers). So when the media reps lose a major exposure channel trust me they start to hurt especially when they realise their advertising budget is now 5x higher to get the same income.

  8. Truth on Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa · · Score: 1

    If there was any truth in advertising Facebooks new data centre would be shaped like a huge vacuum cleaner.

  9. Re:Innovation on Indian Supreme Court Denies Novartis Cancer Drug Patent · · Score: 2

    you do realise drug companies can write of the research and testing period expenditure in many western countries, in many cases the write off exceeds 100% of the investment.

  10. Re:Innovation on Indian Supreme Court Denies Novartis Cancer Drug Patent · · Score: 1

    accept only 5% of all that money is related to research, the rest is marketing and lawyers and over paid management. Most of the money for drug research comes from the public purse and the average US citizen is getting royally screwed by the drug companies for drug research they paid for already.

  11. Prosopagnosia on Google Glass Will Identify People By Clothing · · Score: 1

    For people with Prosopagnosia (the inability to identify faces) this bit of technology will be a boon.

  12. Rent Slaves on Defending the First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 2

    So the multi nationals want to turn all consumers into rent slaves, you own nothing you merely rent it from them never knowing when your masters decide the change the rules and take what you rent away.

  13. New Oxygen Tax on Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    Today it was reported that the EU commission has submitted for review a new tax on Oxygen used while watching media. The director EU of silly taxes responded to criticism of the new tax "after years of research costing millions of Euro's we can confirm that 100% of pirates consume Oxygen while watching stolen movies or playing games so we have decided to tax Oxygen". Some questions have been raised by fellow EU members about the waiver of the tax for all EU officials especially considering how much Oxygen they wast on a daily basis.

  14. Re:epic on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah, one of my fellow male work associates loves apple, he met his new boyfriend at an apple store.

  15. Goes to show on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    There is a fine line between being smart and a douche.

  16. Re:This is cool. But... on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra · · Score: 1

    I can understand the logic of adding extra information to a transmission so the end point receiver can extrapolate the complete packet due to data loss. My question is what if there is no or very little data loss won't the extra overhead work against you ?

  17. Re:What do you think Edison and Ford did? on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    Actually Henry Ford didn't invent the first modern automobile assembly line Ransom Old's (Olds Motor Vehicle Company) did in 1901 and he even patented it. Were Ford was different was more a matter of scale to reduce the cost of manufacturing.

  18. Samsung Add on Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs · · Score: 1

    Samsung should do an advert now while the iron is hot. Showing hipsters stumbling around banging into buildings and going to the wrong place. "our phones wont leave you lost".

  19. Re:600 years. on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a reason we must die, social stagnation, for humanity to grow and accept new technologies and concepts the old must die and make way for the new. Imagine a large part of the US population being over 200 years old and blocking new technologies at the voting booth.

  20. Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1 on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 1

    just visit liveleak, they pretty much have everything from fluffy kittens falling over to al-qaeda thugs throwing blind folded fuel covered villagers into a pit then throwing in a match.

  21. Re:It's a screen with a keyboard... on Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dam Asus an their time machine, they must have gone into the future 3 years and used that knowledge to steal the design from Apple for the Asus Transformer.

  22. So whats the difference on First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store · · Score: 2

    "The app steals your contact data and uploads it to a remote server before sending spam SMS messages to all your contacts, but the messages look like they are coming from you."

    So facebook is malware now ?

  23. Re:Bullshit on Space Tourist Trips To the Moon May Fly On Recycled Spaceships · · Score: 0

    also with Russian corruption reaching 20% of GDP and the sliding internation perception of corruption now 154th out of 178 (higher is worse) you have to wonder about any investment made in that nation now. Even BP is sick of all the corruption and back sliding that they have pulled out even though russia is up to it's eye balls in natural resources.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia

  24. Re:Oh come on... on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see a monty pythonish like skit on this in the making

    IT Manager "yes sir as you can see 80% of our staff are female"
    Govt official "are you sure, to be honest they just look like a bunch of men in skirts"
    IT Manager "no I can asure you our IT staff are 80% female, just ask eeer John eerr itta any question you like"

  25. You can write the same on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 1

    article and change IT to "social care" positions and female to "male" and get away with it. Day care centres and nursing are predominant staffed by females so one could say those types of services are hurting themselves with e disconnect with about half of the population..