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  1. Knock-off makers dream come true? on Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers · · Score: -1, Troll
    Now they can print out a genuine Nokia case and pack inside whatever cheap Huawei phone they want to.

    Excuse me, [my best impression of Jon Stewart listening to his ear phone]

    I am told, Nokia is a cheap knock off of Huawei.

  2. Re:But that is quite logical... on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 2
    Look at all the titles and decorations he has. Everything from the Grand Cross to the Order of The Peacock, second class.

    Look! even the Collar of the Grand Cross of the Order of a Million Elephants and White Parasol (Kingdom of Laos)

    Bhumibol has received numerous royal and state orders appropriate to his status. He is the Grand Master of all twelve Thai royal orders. Foreign decorations Cambodia: Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia, 1954 Burma: The Most Glorious Order of Truth (Thiri Thudhamma Thingaha), 1960 United States: Chief Commander of Legion of Merit, 1960,[101] : Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain, 1960 Portugal: Grand Sash and Cross of the Three Orders of Christ, Aviz and Saint James of the Sword, 1960 Denmark: Knight with Collar of the Order of the Elephant, 1960 Norway: Grand Cross with Collar of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, 1960 Sweden: Knight of the Order of the Seraphim, 1960 Germany: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960 Italy: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, (22 September 1960)[102] Vatican City: Knight of the Collar of the Order of Pius IX, 1960 Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 1960 France: Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur, 1960 Luxembourg: Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, 1960 Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 1960 Spain Collar of the Order of Civil Merit (Spain) - 1960 Indonesia: Order of the Star of the Republic of Indonesia, 1961 Pakistan: The Order of Pakistan (Nishan-e-Pakistan), 1962 Malaysia: Order of the Crown of the Realm (Darjah Yang Maha Utama Kerabat Diraja Malaysia), 1963 Argentina: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of The Order of the Liberator San Martin, 1963 Japan: Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1963 Taiwan: Grand Cordon of the Order of Brilliant Jade, 1963 Greece: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, 1963 Laos: Collar of the Grand Cross of the Order of a Million Elephants and White Parasol (Kingdom of Laos), 1963 Austria :Great Star of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 1964[103] Iran: Collar of the Order of Pahlevi (Empire of Iran), 1968 Ethiopia: Knight and Collar of the Order of the Queen of Sheba (Empire of Ethiopia), 1968 Philippines: Order of Sikatuna, 1968 Korea: Grand Order of Mugunghwa, 1981 Nepal: Nepal Pratap Bhaskara, 1986 Spain: Grand Cross Collar of the Order of Charles III, 1987 Brunei: Collar of The Royal Family Order of the Crown of Brunei, 1990 Laos: Phoxay Lane Xang, 1992[104] Spain: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spain), 2006 Foreign State Decorations : Grand Cross of The Most Most Esteemed Royal Family Order of Selangor (Darjah Kerabat Yang Amat Dihormati Kelas Pertama), 1999 : Grand Cross of The Most Distinguished Royal Family Order of Trengganu (Darjah Kerabat di-Raja Terengganu Yang Amat Mulia), 2009

  3. The dangers of grandiloquance! on iPod Engineer Tony Fadell On the Unique Nature of Apple's Design Process · · Score: 1
    All he meant to say was, "Apple picks its projects more carefully, and sticks to it longer and more of its projects result in shipped products compared to competition". But it does not sound like any great insight. So they added "pass internal milestones" and some percentages to sound more rigorous. But the addition of meaningless fluff made the whole statement stupid.

    It is definitely possible Apple was sticking to its project for longer than competition. Jobs was bull headed that way. He once re-laid the assembly line of NeXT computer so that the product will move from left to right, as seen from his office. When you have that level of dominance over how the company is run, once Jobs approves the project, it goes on, nobody would stop it. Jobs would never admit that project was a mistake to begin with. So they would end up throwing resources in it and and end up shipping a product out of it. The only feed back loop was the free market. Free market killed NeXT, Newton etc. Phillips probably would have nixed them earlier and saved some money.

  4. But that is quite logical... on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 5, Funny

    His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the ninth incarnation of Lord Rama, who himself was the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe. His Majesty is omniscient and He knows what everyone is thinking. It might look odd to the West with its mechanistic interpretation of the observable universe. But, rest assured, they know what was on his mind and they know what he would have done. The only thing that perplexes the holistic Eastern minded Thai people is, "Why is His Majesty using the mechanistic physical instruments like courts and jail, like the simple minded Westerners, and is not using His omnipotent powers to punish him directly and demonstrate His powers over nature for all to see?"

  5. Re:Summary: on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    Probably true. My benchmarks might by sucky, hell, my own coding skills could be sucky. But I am not publishing answers to deep, complex and highly subjective questions based on my simplistic benchmarks. "Real world" does not call a web page without a single hyper link "full web site" for example.

  6. Summary: on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Test 1: a low level function, usually done by the http server, is written by the user in java and c#. C# beats java handsdown.

    Test 2: A function to generate a "full web site", (actually a simple web page with all the elements and trivial content). Java beats C# hands down.

    Conclusion:

    1. The testing guy has absolutely no idea of how to write low level function efficiently.

    2. The testing guy's idea of a "full web site" is woe fully inadequate. He could have been the guy designing "full continental breakfast" in Roach Motel Inc.

  7. Social insects and animals are totally different. on First Known 'Social Chromosome' Found · · Score: 1
    Insects have diverged from the reptilian/mammalian lines long time ago and have pursued a completely different strategy. In some sense you could consider an entire ant colony as a single animal. The queen and the drones are the equivalents of the gonads (ovaries and testes). The various castes of worker bees doing various functions are actually organs of the animal. Some bees flap wings to circulate air through the hive, kind of lungs/sweat glands. Soldier caste of army ants are like antlers or talons. All the workers are genetic clones of one another like all our organs have the same DNA. The non-germ line cells in our bodies, (i.e. all cells in hearts, lungs, livers, eyes, etc etc) voluntarily give up the ability to reproduce on their own, obey the cell-death command and die on command. Only the germ line cells, the ones in the gonads get to produce cells that will survive independently in the next generation, like the queen and the drones.

    So finding a huge social organization gene complex in ants or bees is not likely to help us find what makes us social or anti-social.

  8. Meanwhile, on the beach in Pakistan: on DARPA Wants Distributed Network of Deep Sea Storage Units · · Score: 1
    Police officer: Kareem, where did you get that RPG and the bazooka?

    Fisherman: Sir, I found them just floating in the water, sir

    Police officer: Kareem, you know me. Don't make me break your jaw bone. Tell me did you get them from the ashram-e-talbi group?

    Fisherman: Sir, no sir. I was just fishing sir. My net got trapped in something on the seabed sir. I jumped down and dived in, and saw it was caught in some kind of handle sir. I twisted the handle, released the net, came up for air, I was floating in the middle of so many bazookas and rifles and RPGs etc etc, Sir, Honest sir. That is what happened sir.

    Police officer: Not even asham group is going to coach this story. It is too dumb. You must be getting it from the stupid zulficar-e-islami group. They are the really weird ones. Now have a nice conversation with my billy club and after you pick your teeth from the floor, you will tell me exactly where you got it all from. OK?

    Fisherman: Sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir. it is the truth sir.

  9. Re:Sucks to be him on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 1

    Did you try to get help from a house rep or a senator?

  10. Re:Simply put.. on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Great job, Sherlock. No one had figured out why most of the frist psots suck. Your powers of observation are great. You would make a killing working for H&R block with your amazing deductions.

  11. Re:Turn it off, or leave on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    This owner has a cheap and effective remedy so it does not matter. But can theater owners use passive interference? May be paint the interior of the theater with conductive paint, thus turning the whole theater into a Faraday's cage and no outside radiation penetrates?

  12. Cant do it. Violates first amendment rights. on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1
    What Microsoft is saying is plausible, it might even be patentable, but it won't fly because it is unconstitutional.

    It unfairly and unilaterally impedes the first amendment rights of the callers who have the right to express their opinion that the callee would benefit by the new and exciting services the caller has to offer. Corporations are people my friend. Robot autodialers are agents of the corporate-people who are assigned the right from the corporate people.

  13. Re:Already got it. on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    Minor bitch, a script that takes input from existing sensors and uses said input to cause a particular action in existing hardware is not what I would refer to as "technology."

    What? I have seen some teams use the word technology to describe replacing a std::vector data member with an std::multimap data member.

    Pointy-haired-team-lead: "Coming the defect DR-34123 Record selection dialog slows down as the number of selections increase on large data sets. We have implemented a new optimal datastructure technology in the module foo...".

  14. Re:Ask Hostess How Well That Worked Out on Dell Said To Be In Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms · · Score: 1
    You missed one more trip to the salad bar. The local municipality will be forced to give large tax breaks and tax abatement programs, sometime it might even issue a bond to do "an infrastructure investment". All that will be used to increase the scrap value of the company when it was dismembered and sold off in pieces.

    The cool thing is, with fox running the chicken coop, every cent of revenue will be given to the new investors, and every cent of liability will be charged to the employees, their pension funds, their creditors and the municipality.

  15. It is an Apple patent. on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most people thought Apple patented rounded rectangles. But in reality they have patented all roundings including rounded numbers. So that explains the difference.

  16. Re:What changed? on Apple and Mozilla Block Vulnerable Java Plug-ins · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 says:

    Description The Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7 allows users to run Java applications in a browser or as standalone programs. Oracle has made the JRE available for multiple operating systems. The Java JRE plug-in provides its own Security Manager. Typically, a web applet runs with a security manager provided by the browser or Java Web Start plugin. Oracle's document states, "If there is a security manager already installed, this method first calls the security manager's checkPermission method with a RuntimePermission("setSecurityManager") permission to ensure it's safe to replace the existing security manager. This may result in throwing a SecurityException". By leveraging the a vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBean components, unprivileged Java code can access restricted classes. By using that vulnerability in conjunction with a second vulnerability involving the Reflection API and the invokeWithArguments method of the MethodHandle class, an untrusted Java applet can escalate its privileges by calling the the setSecurityManager() function to allow full privileges, without requiring code signing. Oracle Java 7 update 10 and earlier are affected. This vulnerability is being attacked in the wild, and is reported to be incorporated into exploit kits. Exploit code for this vulnerability is also publicly available.

  17. What changed? on Apple and Mozilla Block Vulnerable Java Plug-ins · · Score: 1

    What changed in these updates? What "new and exciting" feature Oracle decided Java must have and pushed it out? Will there be notification when the hole is fixed by Oracle? Will we be nagged till then "Your browser does not support Java. Download java from..."?

  18. I thought it was Huawei routers.... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    I thought the new rule is every new home must have a single point of connection to the internet via a Huawei router, with firmware version more recent than 8.2.2012.build 1346- known in the industry as the Beiging T Tap version.

  19. ISPs can do the same thing. on Nokia Redirecting Traffic On Some of Its Phones, Including HTTPS · · Score: 2

    Technically all ISPs can do it. Right? Or am I wrong, and what Nokia does is far more sinister than what a plain vanilla ISP can do to home internet connection?

  20. Piracy of expensive CAD software. on Chinese Man Pleads Guilty To $100M Piracy Operation · · Score: 2
    I know there is a strong resentment of the heavy handed tactics by MPAA and RIAA and various other copyright extortion rackets. In slashdot this has created some sympathy for anyone accused of piracy. But this is different folks.

    This guy is not pirating DVDs that sell at 10$ a pop. The software mentioned in the document, Ansoft Designer, Ansoft HFSS, Ansoft SIWave, Ansys Multiphysics etc sell at USD 50K down + 10K a year typically. The R&D content of these products are measured in man-decades. Even the entry level developer positions in such companies require a Masters in a STEM field. Computer aided design tool making companies like Ansys, Ansoft, Fluent, Abacus, *CCM++ are the last few companies that pay decent wages for American ^H^H^H^H STEM grads from American univs. It is not fair to club these companies with RIAA and MPAA and paint them all with a broad brush.

    Piracy of these software bleeds these companies and actually hurt earning potentials of nerds in America. These companies are places where it is cool to be a nerd. They treat their employees well because PhDs do not work to the drum beat of a slave driver. You have to convince them to be productive voluntarily.

  21. Pump and dump scheme. on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 1

    I would not put anything beyond the messed up court system when it comes to lawsuits asking for billions of dollars in damages. But it smells more like a pump and dump scheme. People must have purchased lots of AIG stock quietly over the last two years. There will be a media flurry. A few shills will mention the law suits has merits. That is the pumping. A few wealthy but gullible investors, mostly trust fund babies who think they are competent to manage their trust funds themselves, will be induced buy this stock. That will be the dumping. Then who knows what happens in the courts?

  22. source of funding for this project. on Hiding Secret Messages In Skype Silences · · Score: 0

    Apparently a consortium of "socialites" in Tampa, FL and a bevy of four star generals in Pentagon, searched through their couch cushions and scrounged up enough spare change to fund this project.

  23. Say "No Way" to this highway. on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1
    This is insane bait and switch. We had been sold a bill of goods for the last five decades. Personal jetplanes that takes off from the drive way vertically and land wherever we want, flying at hypersonic speeds in between. There was no talk of this stupid glow in the dark highway. We were told highways will be obsolete, and so would be the cars. We have been waiting for personal VTOL jet planes for so long, and now suddenly we are back to the stupid cars, with four real round wheels I suppose. No crystallic fusion yet, just the same fossil fuels. What? "Got double As" jeez! Thats for toys.

    It is the mechanical engineers who have fallen so short of their assigned task. The other things they talked about constantly, video-phone and TV that hangs like a picture on the wall have been delivered by the electronic engineers. Even the hand held communicator that will put all the knowledge of the human race at the finger tips have been delivered. Though it is a big let down to realize that a huge percentage of knowledge of human race consists of cat videos and spoofed sub-titles of the Hitler movie.

    Come on, Mech engineers. Step up to the plate. I am putting "Violate the Second law of thermodynamics" on the Kanban board. Deliverable as a beta feature for the preview release this quarter. And quantum mechanics. You are next. When are we getting the worm-hole to Andremeda? You guys keep going in circles. Just like your particles in that superconducting super-collider ring.

  24. Re:I thought you were talking about JEE. on Best Tech Colleges Are Harder Than Ever To Get In · · Score: 1

    MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

    Cute. So that I would not confuse it with Madras Institute of Technology, the alma mater of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam ;-)

    I think it is not the application fees that is responsible for the low applicant/seat ratio for the top American engg schools. In USA to the students with good academic records get evenly distributed in many areas, journalism, art, literature, law, economics, business degrees etc. In India Engineering and Medecine still garner the lions share of the top students. It is changing now I hear. Degrees like B Sc Visual Communications (video camera, editing, animation etc) are super hot in Chennai I hear.

  25. Re:Not as new as it seems on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    Epic fail. Every Jedi knight builds his own light sabre. What the galaxy is coming to now a days, aspiring jedi knights nonchalantly ordering their light sabre by mail order... What next? Subject verb object order Yoda learns?