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Comment Public keys can be thrown away (Score 1) 858

People are saying it's untraceable because you can generate new public keys whenever you want. In this way, you can use a different key for each person/vendor you interact with, or you can use a new key for each transaction if so desired. Whether going to these extremes makes it completely untraceable or not, I cannot say, but it does make it a heck of a lot harder if you do go to such extremes.

Comment Re:Critical analysis (Score 1) 120

One demo device they showed me (No disclosure of details because I am under NDA) would slide to attract just as if it were a standard magnet and then it would break away just upon being pushed past the lock point. Think of this one. Ponder it for a while. You mean I could have a motor pole that attracted in just like normal and then actually got repelled away as soon as it passed without any added energy? (no coils or electricity????) Thought you might like to think a long time on this one. This is much more of a discovery set than you might think. No CMR isn't publically proposing to use it for this. Just study on this for a while.

So they created a magnetic spring that will pull as well as push. I can see how that would be an improvement over metal springs that will break over time, but I can see a whole slew of other problems arising from the need to properly shield the darn things to keep particulates from sticking and creating friction.

Comment Twitter not good enough for you? (Score 3, Informative) 560

Or, to save time, you could just try querying the Twitter API for any tweets with the #earthquake tag, check the location of said tweets, and plug those into Google maps. Or, for an even faster (but more constrained) result, you could just check the USGS Did You Feel It? map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/index.html

Comment Too bad they kind of cheated on the fetch speeds (Score 1, Informative) 140

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9840543&postcount=11 All the pages loaded from a local source (as seen in the image linked), so this is a render demo only. I will admit that the render speeds are lightning fast and I've come to prefer Chrome over FF for my casual browsing. However, If I'm doing research of any kind, I know I'm going to have some 50+ tabs and until Chrome has a tree style tab plugin, FF has the job.

Comment So Apple doesn't trust the end user (Score 1) 539

I personally find this interesting as it essentially states that Apple doesn't trust the end user. Now read my logic before you mod me troll.

A company rarely researches something without a reason, so Apple has obviously seen enough loss from warranty replacement to try to find some way to shift the blame from themselves to the consumer for a product's failure. They have also apparently justified this by seeing a large percentage of these replacements being approved by inaccurate failure descriptions from users. If this is true, the new sensors would be a (somewhat) legitimate countermeasure.

Or Apple could just be looking for a way to shift the blame to the users by just stating, "You broke it, we have sensors that prove it," regardless of what really happened.

Either way, it amounts to declaring war on the end users on the warranty front.

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