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  1. Re:Clueless on Microsoft Brings Back DRM · · Score: 1

    Most contracts are 12 or 18 months. Most providers give you a free or reduced phone at the start of a new contract period. Therefore, virtually all people on contracts get new phones every 12 or 18 months.

    Pay as you go phones are obviously a little different. A lot of people, particularly younger people, still replace theirs fairly frequently for whatever reason.

    Personally, I kept my 3510 for over seven years before it finally started dying (the nine key stopped working) and I replaced it.

  2. Re:Is it the Red October? on Boat Moves Without an Engine Or Sails · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's even lower energy!

  3. Re:Parallel theory... on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    I had a flat at university where it was easier to use the flat key to hook behind the door fastening and unlock it than to insert the key into the door in the normal fashion.

    This of course worked on other flats too.

  4. Re:Wow. Just wow. on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RIAA lawyers don't deserve death. They deserve a long and very painful and unpleasant life instead.

  5. Re:willingness to relocate on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    People can move freely within the EU. Just for clarity.

    That doesn't stop moving being impractical. The cost and hassle and uncertainty of moving to an unknown area put a lot of people off, even if there's no authority preventing them.

  6. Re:Nicholas Negroponte on OLPC Downsizes Half of Its Staff, Cuts Sugar · · Score: 1

    But teaching him how to fish and giving him a little bread to go with the first few fish probably works even better.

    Not that I'm sure how that analogy applies to the real world...

  7. Re:Journalists on Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only · · Score: 1

    Some people write books more for the sake of writing them than for money. When that's the case, the return's not important and the time it takes can be a bonus.

  8. Re:Open your mouth about security in an airport on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    That depends on the design of the aircraft and the nature of the crash.

    Mind you, near an emergency exit is probably a good rule of thumb in most aircraft.

  9. Re:A Moose... on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 4, Funny

    The person responsible for the previous firing has been sacked.

  10. Re:And then.. on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    "No one should die in a volvo" is an excellent target to aim at. It, however, is not something they should ever claim to already be the case.

  11. Re:"H2 commands respect" ;-) maybe not.. on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    Does that still apply to ex military APCs and so forth?

  12. Re:more importantly on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    That's going to hit you anyway. Either that or you'll hit the one in front, or both.

  13. Re:Good luck with that. on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    Volvos traditionally are already built like a tank, so that's not really a problem.

  14. Re:A Moose... on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 4, Funny

    We apologise for the previous posts. The posters involved have been fired.

  15. Re:Good luck with that. on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ABS doesn't decrease ideal braking distances - but then it's not designed to. It's designed to help maintain traction, especially in the hands of those not skilled in driving in such a situation.

    ABS is for Joe Public, not Lewis Hamilton.

  16. Re:NTP and the leap second on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Failing to update surely shouldn't be a matter of crashing, however. Network services do go down; it's something you plan to cope with.

  17. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    I read the article if I think the article itself will interest me. Sometimes, I feel without looking that the article might not interest me but the comments here still will.

  18. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    Can't argue with that, as I didn't read it either.

  19. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You've given up reading, but not commenting?

  20. Re:hmmmm on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As did I.

  21. Re:Lets think about this for a while on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    You forgot the $deityknowshowmanywatts of radiation from that big lump of glowing plasma in the sky.

  22. Re:hmmmm on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wasteful, but extremely useful for certain purposes. Most electric toothbrushes are a perfect example, if solved slightly differently - you don't want unsealed electrical points on a device that gets wet in normal use. Any other sealed device that needs charging could possibly benefit from this.

  23. Re:Charge more? on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 2, Informative

    If the government had just stayed out of it, there wouldn't be a problem.

    Alternatively, if the companies had been less greedy and, y'know, invested some of their huge profits back into infrastructure...

  24. Re:no demos on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To stop people comparing the demo and the game files to see where the protection was added.

    At least, that's what I've seen claimed.

  25. Re:Would people have even used it? on Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody · · Score: 1

    That is, unless we want a paper copy of a book, in which case I'll look on amazon (or more likely, in my local brick-and-mortar bookshop to browse what's available).