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  1. Re:Capacitive screen on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    To be honest I don't understand the capacitive scren craze. Resistive screens are much more precise and you can use them with gloves and with a stylus.

  2. Re:Makes no sense, to me on Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was actually fined by the EU a few times.

  3. Re:Ehmm, no. on Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks · · Score: 1

    So, the German company is the only one that is just "Merck"

    Not quite. The "KGaA" is by law (Â19 HGB) a part of the company name.

  4. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    Oh, but that was an old river dam design, I am sure, if they had a modern one, it surely would not have happened.

  5. Re:Sports? on The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately not as accessible as many other kinds of sports.

  6. Good old Windows Mobile on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1

    As strange as it sounds, you really have the most privacy with a WM6 phone. You don't even need a network connection with that one, it can be synchronised with Outlook, you can install applications from anywhere, you can develop your own applications and most of the WM6 devices are insanely hackable. On the one I own you can even install WP7, Android or Ubuntu.

  7. Re:Not factoid on The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story · · Score: 1

    And Baby oil is made of babies

  8. Re:Recoup the lobby dollars on France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music · · Score: 1

    Nah, GP probably a randroid, they consider themselves being reasonable and rational for some reason nobody else can explain and at the same time they are worshipping tobacco.

  9. Re:User Friendly Laws on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    Yes, because I could hand a ream of Pascal code to my non-computer-programming mother, and ask her to describe what the program does.

    Give it a try sometime, the outcome might surprise you.

    amazing as thinking that just because Pascal syntax is clearer and less-ambiguous that any layperson would be able to understand it perfectly

    Not perfectly, but certainly well enough.

    By the way, the EULAs and other types of standard form contracts are explicitly written to screw you in as many ways as possible. That is well known and accepted by German courts, so such contracts or parts of it can very easily be declared invalid because they are either unlawful, constrain one side too hard or are otherwise unconscientious (don't know if it is the right word, English is not my native tongue).

    Not a lawyer, but I used to fuck one and I still miss her.

  10. Re:As the French would say... on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 2

    Do you own a car? If yes, then you should better shut up about respiratory diseases. A car burns fossil fuels and creates particular matter that cause lung cancer both in the motor and through tire and brake wear. Over 80% of particulate matter in the cities is caused by transport, not by coal power plants.

    Also, nuclear fuel has also to be mined and uranium mining has caused more than enough deaths.

  11. Re:User Friendly Laws on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    This right here. I'm surprise at how many computer geeks think that making laws into plain English will accomplish anything. It's like, hey, fine, let's require you to do all of your programming in simple and plain English, rather than these arcane scribbles and symbols and grammars!

    These "arcane scribbles" is the legacy of C and people who were too lazy to type a few characters more than absolutely necessary. This is not the only way to write software. Programming languages like Pascal are, for most cases, simple and plain English without ambiguity and undefined behavior and where a symbol like * has got exactly one meaning instead of four possible interpretations that depend on the context.

  12. Re:Copyrights aren't property on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 1

    Exactly the same thing, that gives me any other right - a law, which is an agreement of a society I am a member of. Without such agreements the only basic right is the right of the might.

  13. Re:So if we do as they ask... on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Plants are not really carbon restricted. If it were the case, there would be no measurable carbon dioxide in the forrest air. Only fast growing plants need larger amounts of CO2, but they are restricted by the amount of sunlight they receive.

  14. Re:Spiritual Israel on Copyright Demands Push Largest European Usenet Provider Permanently Offline · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, one very important condition of a messiah is bringing peace on earth, and frankly that did not happen.

  15. Re:No (fission) Nukes on Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 · · Score: 1

    That's in theory. But in real life, coal is abundant, while uranium is not. Coal can be burned directly, while uranium has to be extracted from pitchblende first. So basically you've got to go through a lot of rock to get enough uranium for reactor operation.

  16. Re:Small, yes, but keep some perspective... on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    Turbo Pascal 5.5 had overlay file support, that was something like a dynamic linking library. Don't know whether older versions could do that, never used them.

  17. Re:Taught? on Why Fingernails On a Chalkboard Sound Painful · · Score: 1

    Matter of fact, on average it got way better. Especially comparing USSR in and after the seventies.

  18. Re:and yet... on HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US · · Score: 1

    Hipster!

  19. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    An acquaintance of me tried to quit smoking tobacco and marijuana. She had no difficults giving up tobacco, but has not managed to let cannabis go.

    As for caffeine, I drink tea (1-2 liters per day) when I am at work. I enjoy my tea very much. But when I am at home, I am too lazy to make tea (I normally drink the highest grades which have to be stepped carefully with a set temperature, filtered water and so on). Even if I am at home for three weeks in a row - on a vacation or so - I've got no cravings at all. I am sure that there is a caffeine addiction, but I do think that it is vastly overstimated.

  20. Re:You must be kidding on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude, was a misunderstanding.

  21. Re:False rumor on China Detains Internet Users For Spreading Rumors · · Score: 1

    More or less like that, yes.
    The second and the third Soviet constitutions (of 1936 and of 1977 respectively) indeed guarantees - among of other rights and freedoms - the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, the freedom of assembly and the right to protest. I haven't found anything about condemnations of the preventers there, but then again I only scanned quickly over the text.

  22. Re:You must be kidding on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows 98. While IE was semi-integrated into Windows 95 OSR3 you could uninstall it completely. Well, and you could also remove IE from Windows 98 if you substitute a few files from Windows 95.

    Windows 3.x never had a browser included. It did not have a built in TCP/IP stack FFS.

  23. Re:Wow. on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Windows Phone 7 is not just a renamed Windows Mobile, otherwise I would use it instead of Android.

  24. Re:If only big government had stayed off their bac on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 2

    Dude, there are almost no breeder reactors out there because they are very difficult to operate. There are currently no breeder reactors in Japan, that actually do any productive work. The one in Monju is still being tested after extensive repairs (it had a sodium leak and fire more than 15 years ago).

  25. Re:A well-written counter-point on /.! on A Decade of Apple Oddities · · Score: 1

    I still would take a WinMo6 phone over the first iPhones any day. Because while they were somewhat uncomfortable, they were also very powerful.