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  1. The beginning of the end on The Story of the Original iPhone's Development · · Score: 1

    And it all lead to that moment Steve Jobs announced the iPhone to the world, and started the downward fall of Blackberry.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside-story-of-why-blackberry-is-failing/article14563602/?page=all

  2. Re:good thing on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, via their corporate TLP (Transactional Licensing Program). Unfortunately, it's not the latest and greatest version, but for many people, that isn't critical.

  3. Re:Why iPads in the first place? on Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week · · Score: 1

    Why iPads? Because of educational software. It's not about the hardware, it's about the software.

  4. Re:Why was it a mistake? on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
    Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
    No file saved, just the image saved to the clipboard ready to paste into your document.

  5. Bureaucracy on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 2

    "The airport said it had complained to the phone-maker through the local attorney general's office."
    The airport couldn't contact Apple directly? Instead they need to involve other levels of bureaucracy and red tape?

  6. Re:I'm puzzled... on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 2

    Paragraph 1 of the article:

    By producing fake reviews, these companies violated multiple state laws against false advertising and engaged in illegal and deceptive business practices.

  7. Nothing to see here on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    Anyone who buys one of those cheap alarm systems probably doesn't have anything worth stealing anyway.

  8. Re:Fifth Amendment should be extended on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Fifth Amendment should be extended to any party in any type of court.

    Have you read the Fifth Amendment?
    No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

    There is nothing in there that relates at all to third-party testimony. There is zero foundation for the position that third-party testimony be protected by an amendment that has nothing to do with third-party testimony.

    If you want to make the argument that all testimony should be voluntary, you're going to have to come up with a lot better reason.

  9. Sexist, or just stupid? on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure this is sexist. I see it as just plain stupid to present something like this to a conference. It's two young programmers who didn't really think things through.

  10. Holy buzzword Batman! on Survey: Most IT Staff Don't Communicate Security Risks · · Score: 2

    "However, it's clear from this report that most organizations are missing the majority of opportunities to integrate security risks into day-to-day business decisions. Changing this paradigm will require security professionals to develop new communication skills so they can talk about security risks in terms that are clearly relevant to the top-level business goals."

    Is it possible to cram any more buzzwords into that paragraph?

  11. Re:Why? on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    2560x1440 or 2560x1600 monitors are fairly commonplace these days. What will happen in the next few years with TV and computer monitor resolutions?

    Just because you don't need or want a higher resolution standard doesn't mean others don't.

  12. Re:NHTSA pushed a 5 star rating on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    I wasn't sure if I wanted to mod you as a troll, or reply. Dammit! Now I've responded. When did the government get into the marketing business? When HASN'T the government been in the marketing business?

  13. Re:Implied license... on Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents · · Score: 4, Funny

    Walking is more natural than driving, but I'll take a Porsche over a pair of running shoes anyday.

  14. Trespassing on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems no difference than trespassing. Putting on a fake mustache, sunglasses, and a wig doesn't mean you can ignore the trespass order.

  15. The last time... on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 2

    The last time the magnetic field flipped (Feb 2001), Brendan Fraser starred in Monkeybone. What colossal box office flop awaits us this time around?

  16. Really? on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Scanning 7pt text at 200dpi with consumer level scanner technology and you're complaining about scan errors. Really?

  17. Surprising... on The History of The Oregon Trail · · Score: 5, Funny

    That he didn't die of dysentery.

  18. RT more than Pro? on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 2

    According to the article, the RT version outsold the Pro version 2-to-1. Yet everyone seems to agree that RT is useless. The RT is most likely selling based on low price point. The Pro version isn't selling at all. Disaster is putting it mildly.

  19. Re:No killer app on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 5, Funny

    A version of MS Office which supports touch poorly is not a killer app.

    Well, it killed the Windows RT tablet pretty well.

  20. Re:I fail to see the 'Pro' in this Mac Pro. on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    Professionals don't upgrade their CPU. They upgrade their whole system. What is the upgrade cycle? Three years? The latest CPUs need a new motherboard. New motherboard and CPU need new RAM. New mb, CPU, RAM + video card = new power supply. By the time you upgrade everything, the only thing remaining from your original built is the case which is of minimal value. And Apple doesn't own Thunderbolt. Educate yourself. Ignorance is not the new intelligence.

  21. Re:Cool! All we have to do is create code to math. on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 1

    What an inane argurment. The claim is "Code is math". Therefore the onis is on the person making the claim to prove a simple printf command is a mathematical formula or equation.

  22. Really? on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    Question 18: When Kelsey Grammer appeared on "Star Trek NG," what was his character's name and which ship did he captain?
    Correct Answer: Captain Morgan Bateson, USS Bozeman
    Your Answer: Captain Morgan Bateson, USS Bozeman
    If you got this right without the Internet, you should get a trophy. And a hooker.

    Really? The options were:
    Captain William Larkin, USS Andromeda - Any reasonable sci-fi geek knows Andromeda is the other Roddenberry series.
    Captain Morgan Bateson, USS Bozeman - This is the only one that makes sense
    Captain Jonathan Archer, USS Enterprise 1 - Uh, no. Different series, different decade of production.
    Captain Han Solo, USS Millennium Falcon - Fairly obvious this one is wrong even to non-sci-fi geeks

  23. Sony botched it. on Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I worked in the radio industry from 2003-2005. MiniDisc was huge then. Unfortunately, Sony in all their "stop piracy" wisdom made it almost impossible to transfer digital content OFF a disc. It was easy enough to record digital content onto the disc (I would hook it up to digital out on my cable box, and record hours of music), but if you wanted to transfer off the disc, you had to do it via the analogue headphone port, or you need a specialized high-end deck.

    That was the most frustrating part of the MiniDisc format. My $300 MD player/recorder was crippled. It would have been nice to record an event (plugged into the board at a wedding), and then dump the audio to my computer for editing. But nooooo....Sony didn't want to give me that flexibility.

  24. Widescreen? Really? on Motorola's XOOM Tablet To Cost $799; Wi-Fi Requires 3G Activation? · · Score: 2

    A lot of people criticized Apple for going with a 4:3 display but in reality it's the better choice for tablets.

  25. Has anyone checked the Bible? on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    It's never wrong, and it was written by God. I'm sure there is some reference in there that can solve this all.