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  1. Re:Unix way on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 1

    My app, for example, can for example make use of Google's picture browsing or the google map activity , no need to write one myself.

    Interesting. How does Android protect against a rouge app stealing my Google contacts and mass-mailing out Google mail?

  2. Re:Better ads on Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy · · Score: 1

    Help me understand why I care if there are pictures of me on the Internet? Am I going to get spam from my collage pictures?

  3. Re:Don't shoot for all, shoot for 3+ nines on FCC Wants More Time To Craft Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    To some extent, I agree with you. I do the same thing when choosing where to live. However, I also understand that getting remote areas beyond 20k dial-up (I know 10 people that have that right now), also helps me. They don't need 10mb even, just getting .5mb to 1mb allows a lot of basic service to happen. That saves me from driving to help work on a computer in a remote area, it gives me access to VPN when I'm on vacation in a remote area, etc...

  4. Re:I Actually Side with Dick's Estate on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you're not confusing copyright & trademark? My understanding was that the author had copyright in the USA without doing anything once the work was created, but that has nothing to do with trademark.

  5. Re:Good way to end this BS on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 1

    in particular law suit settlements that quite frequent impose severe penalties for disclosure even to the courts

    IANAL, but wouldn't that mean your settlement isn't worth the paper it is printed on? After all, couldn't the person ordered to pay just say "Screw you", since no court can see the ruling to enforce it?

  6. Re:New York Times... on The Need For Search Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The problem is that results are sorted by how "relevant" they are, and people don't go to page 1034 of the search results before deciding where to click. The sorting is one of the issues. It should not be a regulation, though. Define "relevance" and you can also define "porn" vs "art".

  7. Re:Factors of 10 on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    I'll bite. The third type is...? People that can read binary but don't understand why you say there are three types and list only two?

  8. Re:More interesting opinion on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    then you are going to come back with a way to kill everything hint of resistance on the planet in about 10 years. And gaia isn't going to be able to do a damn thing about bombardment from space.

    ALL I could hear in the last 40 minutes of that movie was "Nuke the site from orbit, it is the only way to be sure"

  9. Re:This has been an issue for quite awhile. on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just visited Hoboken, NJ. I had one good call out of 4, on average. Most were dropped with high-frequency garbage, like a corrupted MP3. No issues like that in Indiana.

  10. Re:Water on Computer Scientist Looks At ICBM Security · · Score: 1

    Only if the swimming pool was empty. If it was full, the water cooled the reactor, and you had radioactive water useful for other things.

  11. Re:It's called a team on When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hard to find a smoker in environments I've worked in the past 15 years

    It's called the Midwest. I have just recently found programmers that have quit smoking, but all of them smoked at some point.

  12. Re:You do install 200 of MS Office and call the bs on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    Ok, that somewhat answers my first question, but what about the second, and a 100 other business ethics examples I could come up with that the BSA doesn't solve?

  13. Re:Childs should get twenty years on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    Christ, how is this even a question? Your *boss* tells you to do something? Then you fucking do it!

    Like, "Hey, install 200 copies of MS Office with this single license we have" or "Even though our procedures say only HR can read emails, give me access to Joe's email account"? Seriously, you don't have any integrity.

    Have a problem with it? Go over his head to his boss.

    He did. He gave the passwords to the mayor. Learn WTF you're talking about before being such an ass. This guy is having his life ruined because he did his job.

  14. Re:welleee on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd certainly lean towards the one that never got caught for anything... even if he's just as devious, at least he's not dumb enough to get caught!

    No, I want the one that would get caught. I don't need someone stealing from me, I want to catch them. At the same time, I'm not going to force my employees to do something illegal, so their ability to break the law well doesn't help.

  15. Re:Don't be evil? on Google CEO Says Privacy Worries Are For Wrongdoers · · Score: 1

    rape our privacy at the same time

    They can only use the info you give them, like Facebook. If you care that much, don't use them.

  16. Re:You just... on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean "The only winning move is not to play". Yeah, I'm being an ass.

  17. Re:Javascript is actually a great language on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the lack of threading.

    So, how does it get faster? I'm not sure you've noticed, but we're not getting faster clock speeds anymore. I had a 3 Ghz computer 7 years ago, now most computers are in the 2.5Ghz range. We're running more cores, and that needs threading.

  18. Re:like BitTorrent on Cool-Tether Links Phones' Bandwidth To Make High-Speed Hotspots · · Score: 2, Informative

    Specifically, the issue is that HSDPA only gives about 3Mbps per tower

    I'm pretty sure you mean per channel. Multiple devices can use different frequencies from the same tower.

  19. Re:VAC on Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters · · Score: 1

    The point isn't the 833 members, it is that almost all of the 833 members of the "boycott" group were playing the game. It is pretty easy to assume based on that image that even if 2 million people boycotted, almost all of them would still buy the game.

  20. Re:Creative destruction on Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored · · Score: 1

    I'm left with the choice of eating an annual fee or closing two of my oldest accounts and seeing my credit score drop.

    Here's an idea: cancel the credit cards and use your debit card. If you say "Some times I need to cash-flow it", then stop buying crap for a few months, save up $1000 to $5000 (whatever you need to cash flow), and put it on its own debit account. Be your own credit card company.

    As for your credit score, stop worshiping FICO. You can be quite rich and have no credit score

  21. Re:lol @ 'finally standing up' on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is banning customers, but not returning the subscription money

    Do you not understand that they didn't ban the customer, at all? I had a Gold account before I had my own Xbox. They did not ban the account, they banned the console. If you already had two xboxes (I know people that do), and one was modded and banned, you don't have to spend a dime to log into the other console and use the service that you paid for.

  22. Re:lol @ 'finally standing up' on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    All of those features require their service to run. Netflix is a feature of Xbox live, not your xbox. Extra content is a feature of xbox live, not your xbox, etc...

  23. Re:2010 Year of the linux on Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen any apps in Google Market that looked worth spending any amount of money.

    Give them time. They're just now jumping ship. I'm glad my iPhone has 20 months to go on the contract. If Apple changes their tune and retains the devs, I'll continue to have good apps. If they all jump ship, I'll be ready for an Android in 2011 when things are more clear.

  24. Re:OH NO!!! on Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming · · Score: 1

    Why Æ?

    *BELCH* Why not?

  25. Re:I hope it catches on on Apple's Mini DisplayPort Officially Adopted By VESA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since I have not needed one, I have not shopped.

    However, 30 seconds of Google and I found 2 serial and 1 parallel in a single PCIe card: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TH78QC

    Amazon also has them in ExpressCard formats. Need me to do any other shopping for you? :)