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  1. Re:NFC on Google Ready To Rule NFC-Based Mobile Payments? · · Score: 1

    Many people use Xerox brand machines and Hoover vacuum cleaners.

  2. Re:CS students != Mac packing on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    I have always been confused about the ban on using the internet during exams, in the real world you would use any resource at your disposal to get the solution to a problem.

  3. Re:It's not the laptop on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    It's not the laptop which is disruptive, it's the student who thinks he has to accumulate seat time to get a good grade.

    If you do not show up to the lectures you will get dropped from the class.

  4. Re:Classroom when you have a laptop ? on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    I agree with this, college should be much more hands on. There is no better way to learn than through experience.

  5. If It Bothers Students So Much on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't be staring at my Goatse background.

  6. Re:Epic Fail? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 2

    That was intentionally done for game developers.

  7. Re:Puffed air.... on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how many TSA agents there are? You'd be blowing them for the next several years.

  8. Re:Application usage logs and restrictions on Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting · · Score: 1

    You can use send fake GPS coordinates to every app with programs such as My Face Location. All you need to do is enable the fake GPS feature under development in the phone settings and install the app.

    http://www.appbrain.com/app/my-fake-location/com.my.fake.location

  9. Re:Their own bottom line... on Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting · · Score: 1

    To keep you in a perpeptually renewing contract. If you weren't constantly buying a new phone, subsidized by contract, you would have no reason to sign a contract in the first place and would be much more free to switch carriers at anytime.

  10. Re:That's okay on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 2

    Every transaction involves debt. The definition of the word even says so. When you buy something you owe a debt to the retailer when they agree to the transaction.

    "Something owed, such as money, goods, or services."

  11. Re:Goodbye Cash Anonymity on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    A sale is a debt, once an item is rung up you are indebted to the retailer for the full price of the sale.

  12. Re:Goodbye Cash Anonymity on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    This is only legal if it is made known before the transaction, once something is rung up a merchant has to accept any legal tender offered.

  13. Re:Bout time on Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead · · Score: 1

    Root you phone and you can remove that stuff with Titanium Backup, it's free in the market.

  14. Re:Landfill? on JBI's Plastic To Oil Gets Operating Permit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Walmart does this with car batteries, charging something like $8 and gives it back when you bring you're old one in. But I don't know if that is voluntary on Walmart's behalf, and limited to my state or other states -- but it's a good system.

    Every place that sells car batteries does that, it's called a core fee. Most auto parts that can be re-manufactured have it.

  15. Re:Black??? on Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook · · Score: 1

    Probably, it appears to have the same icon on it as the search button on Android phones.

  16. Re:Oh yeah on Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design · · Score: 1

    In fact, Android doesn't support it yet either. (but hey, its not a google protocol or server, so i cut them slack). In fact, the only mainstream device that does support it is the iPhone.

    No native support but there are apps that have full EAS support on Android.

    http://www.moxier.com/mail/

  17. Re:Old people already use that in Japan on Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Strange, because in Japan credit cards are practically useless. You have to go to the post office to even find an ATM, and retailers only accept cash.

  18. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    However the TSA doesn't grope you to completion, no happy ending.

  19. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    You have a right to a livelihood, you also have a right to travel freely between the states.

  20. Re:thx for helping us, Love M$ on Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out · · Score: 1

    The only real issue with Vista was hardware manufactures not having drivers ready in time for its release, this is not something that you can blame on Microsoft.

  21. Re:thx for helping us, Love M$ on Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out · · Score: 1

    Damn you're cheap, for less then it costs to purchase Windows you could just get a MSDN subscription and download all the MS software you want.

  22. Re:What OS? on New Video of Apple's Enormous iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    OS X is Mach, not BSD.

  23. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    That is why we don't have computer-piloted cars/planes/etc. Our assignment of liability is way off. The first thing I thought of when I read this article was that this guy would going to get the book thrown at him. Sure, he did the right thing, but that isn't what counts in court. Fortunately everybody else seems to be doing the right thing as well, which is a rarity.

    Commercial aircraft are largely piloted by the computer now, the pilots are there mainly as a fail safe.

  24. What do you mean they came up with this? on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    The British came up with this back in WW1 and the US Army used inflatable decoys in WW2 to deceive the Germans.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army

  25. Re:Rotate on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    If you order from the manufacture you get more screen resolution options. Most of the laptops sold in stores come with the lowest resolution available since it helps keep the price low.