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  1. Re:Does this apply to the TSA? on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Not really, they're looking for porn and other related peripherals, not imminent threats.

  2. Re:Imminent Threat on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Oh, I suppose the device could be a dead-man switch to "something interesting." Or for kicks and giggles, the actual "something interesting." Regardless, SCOTUS doesn't have much power to control the boots on the ground.

  3. Re:Imminent Threat on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    The term "imminent threat" like everything else as it relates to matters of law is as fluid and malleable as the entity wielding the power wants it to be.

  4. Re:So they'll just add on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Actually they can, but it doesn't really matter much anyway what SCOTUS rules. These paramilitary groups and pentagon nerds will barely even notice the speed bump. The cops may have to rely more on parallel-construction when they get to the court room but that's the extent of the impact the ruling will have.

  5. Re:Thank you Elon on SpaceX Falcon 9R Vertical Take-Off and Landing Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Bigelow is providing a module scheduled to fly on the ISS beginning next year. Their more ambitious activities are waiting on SpaceX's man rated launch vehicle.

  6. Re:Flyout and back plan on SpaceX Falcon 9R Vertical Take-Off and Landing Test Flight · · Score: 1

    You're referring to the second stage. The first stage never get's anywhere close to orbit.

  7. Re:Minneapolis or Southern England? on There's No Wind Chill On Mars · · Score: 1

    As a Minnesota resident I also don't find their statements particularly comforting. An average Minnesotan winter day is still pretty F'ing cold, especially if they are allowing for the wind chill.

  8. Re:Clarification on New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure · · Score: 2

    Nefarious or otherwise, the security permissions were too course grained to begin with. This just makes the problem worse. They might as well flip everything over to 777 and be done with it for as secure as they've now made things. This isn't going to boost user adoption of apps (at least among people with a brain), it's going to make everyone more paranoid and gun shy about pulling the trigger on the "install" button. Call me old fashioned by I'm not terribly thrilled with the idea of conducting my day to day life publicly exposed, naked and vulnerable. While I'm willing to accept dropping my pants for my doctor in the context of a medical exam, I am certainly not inclined to do so for the convenience store clerk on the corner just because I want a bag of Cheetos.

  9. Re:Use firefox banner on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    There is logic to that, especially given the dumba$$ way web content is consumed/provided. First you start with content technology--HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, etc.--whose foundations were that of working/hacking around structural problems with content description and delivery. Then you couple that with a plethora of implementations for consuming that content, each with their own twist on how they interpret that content.

    For the provider of said content, the resources required to properly support all the variations in this environment is prohibitive. Instead, they choose a subset representing what they consider a reasonable balance between cost and coverage of users. If they were to simply let open the gates to everyone, any variation in the consumer's environment that isn't being perfectly supported will result in a bad experience for that user. This could result in any number of consequences for the content provider--technical support costs, a lost customer, a tarnished brand, etc.. Better to simple define the playground within which their customers can play, and they can support sufficiently well to ensure the consumers have a good experience.

  10. Re:Deja vu on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the hex grid might make it not matter so much that the ground beneath behaved like a rippling waterbed.

  11. Your carrier is Verizon I take it?

  12. Re:The Real Motivation Behind Curved TVs on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful

  13. Re:Cinema-like on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how simply curving the screen will make it more likely for me to get up from my couch after viewing a show with gum stuck to my arse.

  14. Re:No. on Printed Circuits as Part of a 3-D Printed Object (Video) · · Score: 1

    So you don't get it either?

  15. Re:Innovation? on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their CEOs don't believe they have a future. Better for them to loot and pillage before jumping off the boat.

  16. Re:It's sad what has happened to HP on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So instead of leveraging their assets (their employees) to develop new and relevant products they choose to gut the place to appease shareholders in the short-term. What a disgusting waste. The brand HP is meaningless without the talent that once stood behind it.

  17. Re:Antitrust on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err. in case the Nazis show up... "they're".

  18. Antitrust on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like their fishing for another round of EU antitrust proceedings.

  19. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Sorry for the flame but... are you really that much of a dumba**? Market forces are the very thing making this damn traffic prioritization bullsh*t possible. The ISPs are the ones pushing this and doing everything in their power to prevent their regulation as common carrier. The barriers to entry ensure natural monopolies and the exploitative powers that come along with that. BTW. the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) are by definition the folks that should be responsible for this.

  20. Re:Stupid question on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    I never said I advocated it. But, it is reality.

  21. Re:Stupid question on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Educated by school systems managed by those same short-sighted a**holes. Lacking a proper education, it's somewhat unfair to blame the illiterate. Lacking a proper shepherd, it's somewhat unfair to blame the sheep.

  22. Re:So many mistakes. on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Untrue, they could have played Kerbal Space Program.

  23. Re:How did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NASA's bureaucracy has had a long history driven into the ditch by Congress. No system can survive to function in any meaningful way when someone is constantly turning the steering wheel every which way while simultaneously and randomly jabbing the clutch, the brake, the accelerator, flipping switches and levers back and forth in the manner of a spastic three year old whom just finished downing the entire sugar bowl and six cans of Red Bull.

  24. Re:Space X, you're up. on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    I think it will do wonders for those DoD contracts SpaceX was blocked from bidding on now that ULA can't get engines from the Russians for those kinds of missions any longer.

  25. Re:Eric Burger asks, how did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    And return cargo. I don't believe any other system currently flying can do that.