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  1. Re:Wrong metaphor on German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed · · Score: 1

    i don't know about american atms, but here in germany people actually prefer them to the clerks at the counter.

    anyway, it is the same as with most software - it is easy enough to use as long as you read the information on the screen and follow it. some people are just too lazy to read.

  2. Re:about time, really on German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed · · Score: 1

    three people were needed to do it in just 1 minute of time.

  3. about time, really on German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed · · Score: 3, Informative

    while those nedap voting machines were easy to use (i voted using them four times), they were so insecure (you would need three guys and one minute of time to hack them as this youtube video shows) that they were already banned in their home country a year ago.

  4. Re:Your ignorance is showing. on Intel Recruits TSMC To Produce Atom CPUs · · Score: 1

    The key distinction is that quality is guaranteed and the companies are more trustworthy.

    ha! like pcchips with their fake cache and fake vx pro mainboards.

  5. Re:Long time coming on Intel Recruits TSMC To Produce Atom CPUs · · Score: 1

    cpus are not the only thing that intel makes. there are also chipsets, networking chips and so on.
    it is possible, that they are second sourced from other fabs.

  6. Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 1

    some parts of dx2 were fun - like ng resonace. but the whole game was dumbed down, and the all fitting ammo and especially the extremely small levels were typical console.

  7. Re:Britney Spears School of Publicity on Psion Accuses Intel of Cybersquatting · · Score: 1

    i might have a pcmcia card that works with your netbook - an old siemens i-gate 11m with the intersil prism chipset (used it with my simpad sl4).

  8. Re:Smart move on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    folk medicine sucks more often than you think, which is pretty much explainable, given the much shorter lifespans centures ago.

    a healthy society is much more productive and works better than a society where health is a luxury. sick persons tend to infect others. that is why for example tuberculosis was just a scary story in the later days soviet russia, when health still was a basic right but now, in the modern russia, where health is a luxury, tuberculosis kills 25000 people every year.

  9. Re:Smart move on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    the burden is on the socialized medicine people to explain why health insurance is UNIQUE among all other types of insurance and cannot be left in the hands of private insurance and instead must be provided by the government making regular third-party (i.e. the worst and least efficient kind) payments on routine citizen needs. After all, if the government was or is so efficient at providing health care then why not have them provide other things too like cars, vacations, computers, designer clothing, and everything else that people want.

    because it is different. cars, vacations, computers, designer clothing are all luxuries. you can do perfectly well without.
    health is not a luxury and you literally cannot live without it.

  10. Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 1

    I see that you never have played Deus Ex 2.

  11. Re:A Hard Lesson Learned on Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC · · Score: 1

    that too, yes. but they achieved their goal - getting a revenge on rambus - pretty well.

  12. Re:This seems to completely miss the problem on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    why funny? it is a fact and it is pretty much what 98lite did back then - so it needed not only the win98 cd but also the win95 cd.

    if you don't believe me, read it up

  13. Re:This seems to completely miss the problem on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    now come on, stop bullshitting kids. in 1996, v.34 and the predcessor v.fast were already everywhere and a netscape navigator 2.0 (the current version in mid '96) download weighed about 2.6 megabytes, NOT 40-60 megabytes you mentioned. waiting fifteen minutes for the browser download was bearable and if you couldn't afford that, you could always buy a computer magazine full of such software for a couple of bucks.

    also, the first three versions of internet explorer versions sucked - they couldn't do much and were very slow. many netscape crashes were actualy the faults of cheap bad memory which was quite a plague back then.

  14. Re:A Hard Lesson Learned on Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually, the memory manufacturers priced rdram chips so high (and ddr ram so low they made losses with it) as a revenge for rambus lawsuits and to drive rambus out of market.

  15. Re:This seems to completely miss the problem on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 2, Funny

    it was windows 98, where internet explorer was removed and parts of it were replaced with parts of windows 95.

  16. Re:Er, no thanks. on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 1

    desktops larger than the screen resolution are possible with windows, too.

  17. Re:Er, no thanks. on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 1

    well, 640x480 is fine for xp classic (tried it with htc universal & remote desktop). so there.

  18. Re:the secret: on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    Actually, HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile devices ever sold.

    uhm, not windows mobile devices, just windows mobile phone edition devices. there are lots of pdas with windows mobile but without a phone function. still, i own probably a good half of all htc models they ever made.

    And why are they both still making Android phones if they're happy with Microsoft?

    because they can? it is an easy task for htc to make an android phone - they basically have to rebadge an existing windows mobile device. most of their older devices can boot android already. it is not that either of them are somehow forced to use a single operating system for their products.

  19. Re:the secret: on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    bullshit. htc currently manufactures one single (and very lonely) android device while making 10 different wm models.

  20. Re:Psion is still around???!??!?!? on Dell Accuses Psion of "Fraud" Over Netbook · · Score: 1

    they sell nice but way overpriced windows ce mobile devices for warehouses and telematics applications.

    anyway, symbian os is a psion invention.

  21. Re:"Easy"? on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    on most notebooks i know the hard drives are pretty removable. two phillips screws in the worst case.

  22. Re:Oh James... on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 4, Funny

    could be worse - imagine that you are in a tom clancy novel

  23. Re:And how's it deal with multiple shooters? on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    in that case even a bulletproof vest would be irrelevant because it cannot stand repeated hits anyway.

    that's why a .22lr smg can be far more dangerous than a 9x19mm pistol.

  24. Re:wtf on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    getting really, really drunk and watching "The Tuxedo."

    Redundant. As much as I love Jackie's movies, Tuxedo can only be watched while really really drunk.

  25. Re:I've bought my last Palm product anyway on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    copy&paste?