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  1. Re:Already here for a while now on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    The bigger the coil refers to the number of loops, not actually the physical size (although there is a relationship, obviously).

    If it was possible to make the wires thinner, that would work.

  2. Re:So a step back green wise then on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    " ... I want to know how much desk space my eight charging pads will take up (one for each device - you can bet they won't be compatible). ... "

    Erm, the summary says: " ... can simultaneously charge a variety of portable gadgets ... "

  3. Re:So a step back green wise then on Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 · · Score: 1

    " ... Why would you need your desktop computer or TV to have wireless power? ... "

    Because I have a computer, a laptop, my wife's laptop, a tv, a sky box, a DVD player, a video player (Yes we do still have one) and a standard lamp all competing for socket space.

  4. Security risk? on Browser-Based Jailbreak For iPhone 4 Released · · Score: 1

    If this is just a URL couldn't a user be pointed to this unwittingly and there phone would have it's warranty nullified without the user having done anything?

  5. 1st and second post :-) on Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Funny

    1st and second post simoultaneously :-)

  6. Re:What is the issue? on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 1

    When I walk out at the end of a production I tend to find people humming the tunes rather than commenting on the lighting. The do comment on lighting/stage sets sometimes, if they are spectacular but the music is the whole point of the production in the first place.

  7. Re:What is the issue? on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 1

    " ... They relish in what is the same as well as what is different in each performance. A synth is not even close to a live performer ... "

    I second that.

  8. Re:What is the issue? on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't have a musical ear, doesn't mean you have to berate others who do. Anyone with any musical knowlege/ability/experience can easily tell the difference between real violins and fake ones, no matter how good the technology. The differences are not just subtle nuances.

  9. Hmm on Fring Calls Skype 'Cowards'; Skype Responds · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like Skype are doing to Fring what the land-based networks/ISPs did to Skype when it started up.

  10. Re:Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " After 10 years, it still doesn't work well on modern computers or mobile devices"
    [citation needed]

    Flash allows proper streamnig, video tag does not. Proper streaming needs a server side solution. If HTML5 isn't going to be ready till 2022 for a browser standard, how long will it take for a server-side standard?

  11. Re:Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 2, Insightful

    " ... Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice? ... "

    I do! I like the fact that I can jump to any part of the video and even direct people to that part of the video with a single url. the video tag doesn't really do steaming in that sense.

    "The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior"

    ORLY? name a major media format that is used widely that IS open format! Your idea that open format is superior is an opinion with very little to back that up.

  12. Re:Youtube? on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 1

    He did say "plz". :-)

  13. Heart of Gold on "Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers · · Score: 1

    Now we know what music Disaster Area were playing!

  14. Re:Driving is a privilege, on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless "Honk" is the product. :-)

  15. Re:Spammers will LOVE this on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, I think he meant printer ink!

  16. Re:SQL Injection on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote · · Score: 1

    the "" above should read &[hash]69;

  17. SQL Injection on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote · · Score: 1

    You'd think that preventing SQL injection attacks was difficult. Basically don't allow multiple queries per request on your db and filter out semi-colons (or replace them with "") from post/get vars.

  18. Problems? on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 1

    I think researchers have already found ways of compromising this.

  19. Re:So... on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 1

    Erm, shouldn't you be writing to standards rather than to browsers anyhoo?

  20. Re:Civil war? on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    You are right that move has never been pulled before and you are pushing the limits, but the Livingstone Orbital (Phase II) rules are new and it can be accepted.

    I call Goodge Street. There, I've said it. Just don't judge me. :-)

  21. Re:I was asked to join this .. on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    Perhaps:

    Xaxa GA BOR

    :-)

  22. Migration on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    I assume by migration you mean from XP to Ubuntu, yes?

  23. Re:Bzzt! Wrong on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    Surely none of them are technically different species then.

    I thought ring species were normally used as a demonstration of how new species could evolve through geographical separation.

  24. Re:Civil war? on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    Oops, my bad. However, I believe that through Stovold's law (1949?), I think I can skip that and say "Totteridge & Whetstone".

  25. Aww ... on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 4, Funny

    This was going to be first post but I was using IE.