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  1. Re:It true !!!! on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 3, Informative

    An android phone is quite flexible and allows quite a bit of freedom to the user. An Apple phone may look cool, but as soon as you think of stuff that you like (other favorite web browser etc.) you are toast.

    My daughter pestered and pestered for an iphone, as all her friends had one. Once she got one and found that there were much fewer free apps, and those that were free were mostly demos the novelty wore off.

  2. Re:Supporters are Delusional on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    I heard a supporter of this law on a radio report saying he'd be surprised if Google got more than "a few hundred" requests. Complete lack of logic on this one.

    Ridiculous, just think of the number of paedophiles, Muslims convicted of supporting terror, corrupt politicians, and business men fined for sharp practice that there must be in Europe.

    Ideally they would have a chance to add notes so you could make up your own mind, such as "I've stopped child molesting after being released in 2008", "I am no longer a Muslim", "Honestly I thought the brown paper envelope full of cash was a campaign donation and I hadn't got round to recording it", etc.

    So you want to deny all of these categories, and no doubt many more, any chance of rehabilitation and re-integration into society? It is a fallacy that all pedophiles cannot be helped to control their urges - many obviously do, since in some studies many adult males experience such urges at some time but do not offend.

  3. How long before on Patent Troll Ordered To Pay For the Costs of Fighting a Bad Patent · · Score: 1

    How long before Lumen View ask for this to be removed from search engines in Europe?

  4. Re:Supporters are Delusional on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    I heard a supporter of this law on a radio report saying he'd be surprised if Google got more than "a few hundred" requests. Complete lack of logic on this one.

    Ridiculous, just think of the number of paedophiles, Muslims convicted of supporting terror, corrupt politicians, and business men fined for sharp practice that there must be in Europe.

  5. Re:How is the problem the search engine... on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    ...and not the website hosting the information?

    Because the search engines have operations and sales in Europe, and so can be made to comply, some of the hosting sites may be outside the European court's jurisdiction. Also its an easier shot than a newspaper, which probably has lawyers ready and well versed in public interest arguments - and would almost certainly publish about their success as well as reminding people about the original incident if the succeeded.

  6. Playing Devil's advocate on Proposed SpaceX Spaceport Passes Its Final Federal Environmental Review · · Score: 2

    I've seldom seen such large expanses of unspoiled habitat than at Cape Canaveral. The "safety areas" between launch and observation areas are so huge that most of it becomes some of the best protected environment you can have.

  7. Re:FTFY on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 2

    Amazon Wants Your Money FTFY

    Be fair, Think of all the taxes the have to pay and the living wages for staff ... oh wait

  8. Somewhere there is a Muzzy futurist on Scott Adams's Plan For Building Giant Energy-Generating Pyramids · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Somewhere there is a Muzzy futurist working out how to destroy all these "idolatrous" structures. Unmaker bots are on their way.

  9. Eastern Finland have found that .. on Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia · · Score: 1

    Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia

    But can you trust the Finns?

  10. Re:Great, That's all I need... on Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel · · Score: 1

    A car which automatically takes me places I don't want to go, based on my browsing history.

    Seriously a car will take you where you want to go but I wouldn't mind betting you will be given a load of alternatives:

    "Take me to the westgate Mall"
    Meadowhall has an excellent choice and is only half an hour further
    "No, take me to the westgate Mall"
    OK. When you are in the Mall, Mcdonalds has a special meal offer, and Marks and Spencer is introducing a new line of ....

  11. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 1

    That article you linked to is nonsense. The EU tests require production spec cars, unmodified and operated by staff at the test centre.

    Its on the BBC site as well (Also multiple other sites, google search. The claim is they find loopholes that don't count as modification.

  12. Re:Encryption on PHK: HTTP 2.0 Should Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    No, you really don't. Encryption is good for Facebook, but enforcing it for your Internet-of-Everything lightbulb or temperature probe in the basement gains nothing other than more complex bugs and lower battery life.

    By default is not the same as being mandatory. I don't see anything wrong in principle in having the endpoints explicitly agree to use an unencrypted connection. In practice I'd only want if it it did not add a significant overhead or make it more difficult to set up a server without certificates.

  13. Exactly. By the time this question is germane it will be equivalent of "would you let your kid ride in a taxi without you?"

    Maybe slightly different, you'd probably be less worried about sending an attractive teenage daughter alone (is the taxi driver a purv?), but more worried about sending a kit that could get mischievous when bored. Its probably akin to "would you leave them at home alone when you went to the shops?".

  14. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 1

    All the tricks you mention would only improve the number by a fairly small percentarge, likely low double digits.

    You are claiming that your normal usage doubles your fuel consumption. That suggests that most of the problem is in your driving style.

    No its down to my normal commute being short (engine cold most of the time), stop-start due to traffic, and over a lot of hills. I've had to refine my style to mean that I only reduce my mpg from 54 to 35 compared to a long straight drive.

  15. Re:buh on Mental Illness Reduces Lifespan As Much as Smoking · · Score: 1

    Another attempt by the Criminal Democratic Party to justify stealing money. It won't work. Anyone still believing the leftist ideas is beyond help.

    I'd worry - indications are that you may have a short lifespan

  16. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Under-inflated tires, lousy fuel, ignored maintenance, rapid acceleration, more than one occupant / actual cargo, stop-and-go traffic, air pollution, air pressure variation, air temperature variation, elevation variation...

    And these are just a few of the things that would cause your "official" MPG figures to deviate from observations.

    That's all true, but manufacturers go to great lengths to inflate the figure. They disconnect the alternator, tape up cracks in the bodywork to improve airflow, remove wing mirrors(!), disconnect the brakes to reduce friction and use special oils in the engine to improve efficiency. Figures are not just a bit off but way off. My car has an official figure of 68.9mpg. On a good trip, driving on a flat road at about 70 mph I can get 54, but my usual average is 35 mpg. This is with gentle driving, I can easily take it down to 25 if I don't take care.

  17. Re:Indirect tax on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Everything is relative. If you're making 87 cents an hour then almost any tax is high.

    many people would love to earn $87 an hour

  18. European "right to be forgotten" on Interviews: Ask Jennifer Granick What You Will · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What are your views on the European "right to be forgotten"? Is the recent court ruling that search engines should filter results to outdated or irrelevant information workable? Is freedom of speech more important than an individual's freedom not to be talked about?

  19. Capitals are your friend on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    Then it's a "Global Positioning System"... GPS.

    There is no doubt that it is a "global positioning system". It just isn't the "Global Positioning System".

  20. Re:No Way on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1

    I should agree to terms that haven't been made available? Sure, I'll sign away ALL my rights blindly, why not? What could possibly go wrong?

    Hey, is that you Wyclef Jean?

  21. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    OK, so "there has been no significant correlation between successful strikes and a reduction in al-Qaeda attacks".

    Am I the only one thinking things might have been much worse if no terrorist leaders had been taken out at all?

    Absolutely. I don't believe that the removal of certain individuals will stop them but it will add to their "management overheads", someone else will have to take control, people trust them and so on. If we're really lucky it could lead to power struggles and in-fighting within the group

  22. Recursion: Any engineer will tell you on How the Emerging Science of Proteotronics Will Change Electronics · · Score: 1

    That following the advice and replacing "safety" with "has potential safety implications" will have a disastrous result>

    has potential has potential has potential has potential has potential has potential ..... implications implications implications implications implications implications

  23. Re:UK EU more problems than solutions? on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 2

    Are there any benefits that a random British person could point out, that are the result of UK being in the EU?

    As a random British person, no.

    No be fair - You can go through the "quick queue" in European airports.

  24. Re:Good on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't need net neutrality laws in the UK. We have real competition, everyone has the choice of hundreds of different ISPs.

    Many of those ISPs are just reselling BT bandwidth. If BT throttles certain sites all these will be effected.

  25. Re:I did man... apk on Pentagon Document Lays Out Battle Plan Against Zombies · · Score: 1