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  1. Re:Do as a I say... on Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case · · Score: 2

    I fail to see how a subpoena to Facebook and her mail provider couldn't accomplish the same thing without having to give out passwords.

  2. Re:Shhh... on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing the Olympic torch didn't get run through there

  3. Re:Don't innovate, litigate! on Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of patents for somewhat obvious things.

    I don't think stereolithography is one of them, to be honest. This isn't even in the same class as rounded corners or rangeCheck().

  4. Re:Yay! Democrats! on Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    They're only willing because they're even more afraid of what the other of the major two parties will do to them.

    Votes aren't at all about what people want, but instead what people are afraid of. Alternative vote is a way to solve this that will never see the light of day, unfortunately.

  5. Re:They figured out how to weaponize it... on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 2

    Can we shoot him into space anyway, though?

  6. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point of striking unions is to twist the arm of the company. Well, in this case, the arm broke off and now none of them will have jobs. The CEO is out of a job, too, after all.

    How does the story about the Golden Goose go again?

  7. Re:Obama is a racist on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    The Fanboi culture has spread from love of your favorite brand of gadget into politics, been that way since Monica Lewinsky, in my opinion.

    It's fine when you're arguing about what you should have in your pocket, but when it's the leader of a major superpower...

  8. Re:and salon on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    the often heralded myth by of the GOP that racism happened a long time ago and we don't need to talk about it, as they did during the Treyvon Martin murder.

    You seem to have a memory problem. In the Treyvon Martin case it was the "liberals" that were knee-jerk racists, and it was the "conservatives" (including Fox News to their credit) that were saying we should actually look at the facts.

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day. :)

  9. Re:Patriot Act 2.0 on Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? · · Score: 1

    A "cyber-Pearl Harbor" would break congressional deadlock in only one sense: You'd get the online equivalent of the Patriot Act. Politicians only seem to be able to agree on conceding civil liberties for the fake perception of security.

    +1, Depressing

    I can only hope I'm killed in such an attack so I don't have to endure the new cyber police state that will be created as a result.

  10. Re:Android users are poor and can't afford apps. on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    True, I'm not involved in advertising. But why then is anyone still giving anything away? If there was so little money, clearly the number of apps overall should be contracting, wouldn't it?

  11. Re:I had anticipated this a long time ago on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thread.sleep()

    Reminds me of one of my favorite stories: The Speed-up Loop.

  12. Re:Android users are poor and can't afford apps. on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    Because you can give you app away for free and monetize ads and tracking data?

  13. Re:APPLE STILL MAKES 90% OF SMARTPHONE CASH !! on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact remains, that the iPhone costs almost the same as a top Android handset. It costs *a lot* more than the average Android handset price though... but so does the SIII.

    Well, like any market with high end offerings and low end offerings, the high end is making up for the thin margins at the low end. If Generic Android Handset Free with 2 Year Contract wasn't sold at cost to the cell providers, there would be no need to inflate the price on the high end to cover development.

    Apple doesn't really make a low end anything. Even the iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini are not positioned as competition against commodity mp3 players and cheap PCs.

  14. Re:Recording avialability on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    The jury won't be told that a recording ever existed. They still won't believe the police, but the lack of a video won't be admissible.

    At the very least they'll know there should be a recording, and I don't see any reason the defense attorney would be barred from asking the officer on the stand "Were you wearing your department-issued officer-cam during the incident? Have you reviewed the footage from your camera? Was the footage consistent with your testimony here today?"

    If you can afford a defense attorney. The provided ones for those too poor to afford it won't even get there and go straight to plea bargain, mysteriously disappearing video or not.

  15. Re:Well duh on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    The nice part about Jury Nullification is that you don't need to draw the line. By definition, it's invoked at a trial when the specifics are put into play, so there's no need for generalized guidelines since you're already sweating the details when you get there.

  16. Re:And how much is this, really? on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 1

    TSMC was an example. Another example is Global Foundries, which does have a mature 32nm process. Point being, there are a lot of companies able to spin wafers today to the technical abilities of Samsung, all over the world.

    That said, I'd be very very surprised if those talks haven't already happened with a variety of fabricators.

  17. Re:Inevitable on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought I lived in the US until I opened Apple Maps.

  18. Re:And for all of us who prefer RPN? on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 1

    So, what exactly is the benefit of RPN? Aside from the fact that one might be habituated to it?

    I can klutz through a reasonably complex expression, but I would much rather enter it in like I would write it out on paper. Dropping a few parentheses isn't really that much of a bother. I don't really ever see it written out that way, so it's not like people used to the format have forgotten regular infix expressions.

    I'm not trying to be confrontational, because if there really are benefits I wouldn't mind switching to a new calculator because "yay new toy. "

    And why isn't there a calculator can can operate in Prefix, Postfix, and Infix? One would think the actual data entry to the calculator should be notation agnostic by now.

  19. Re:They're not coming down on A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High · · Score: 1

    I think he's referring to the loss of value (ie. inflation) of the dollar.

  20. Re:What? on A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're all overpaying. I stole all my hard drives.

  21. Re:State gone Mad on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    The point is that people kept doing stupid shit with the magnets despite having been extensively warned NOT to stupid shit.
    One quote states: "The warnings were not effective."
    So we should banning matches, because people still do stupid shit with matches.

    The legal question is whether these magnets are inherently dangerous. They clearly are not, imho. Dynamite, gasoline...these are examples of inherently dangerous products.

    But this company has small resources to fight the good fight, and more critically, no pro-magnet-toys lobby.

    I'm not in favor of a ban, but the obvious counter to that argument is that matches, dynamite, and gasoline have great value to society, so is worth the risk. Magnet executive toys are just, well, toys. The premise behind the ban is that the benefit of mere amusement isn't worth the risk.

    I'd much rather see charges levied against parents ignoring the warnings and allowing those delicious delicious spheres to be eaten.

  22. Re:Apple's also has a supply dilemma on Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, Apple's got enough cash and not paying dividends to buy up Sharp now, and probably on the cheap when they fold, so why wouldn't they let that happen? I'm sure they would like to get their panels at cost and liquidate the rest of Sharp.

    Are there any business majors in the house?

  23. Re:not quite on Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't competing on price, and arguably never have. If the costs were raised $XX per unit to cover some license, they'd pass it along, and I don't think I'm being unrealistic in that most people in the market for an Apple device would not change their mind. While, yes, customers do like a deal and would grumble about paying more, but if Apple customers were shopping on price, they would have turned towards more commodity-priced hardware alternatives.

  24. Re:Voting in virtual worlds on 'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election · · Score: 1

    I can see it now.

    "It's great to be able to vote here in Second Life!"
    "I agree! And isn't the penis skyscape lovely today?"

  25. Re:Oh No! Global warming is wrong! on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Always check your own mileage. Keep the reciept from when you fill up and write the current mileage down on the back of it then do math next time you fill up

    Mine has an onboard MPG meter actually.

    Not so fast: trust, but verify.

    Case in point: Honda was caught for defective odometers reading faster than the true miles traveled. In this case, warranty was the big deal, but that same number goes into the on-board computer MPG calculations.