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Comment Endless Apple Patent Discussions (Score 4, Insightful) 326

Hardly anybody on here can even discuss this story from anything but a lay perspective. This isn't a technology story, it's a story better discussed on lawyers.com. I hate when people complain about what stories get voted on, but I just don't think many on here are qualified to discuss this intelligently, so in the end, a lot of otherwise smart people end up sounding like twits. You know, like when your mother explains what you do as "computer stuff"...that's how you all sound discussing intellectual property. This patent seems routine and meaningless, but I'm not an intellectual property attorney, I'm an engineer, Jim, so who knows.

Comment Re:Look, this is stupid (Score 1) 544

The most shocking thing about this article, to me, is the number of people who think it's quite OK for children to view porn.

That's because a 5 year old won't know what he's looking at anyway and you'll never a stop 14 year old viewing it in your wildest fascist dreams, so what do you recommend? Shut the internet down to "protect the children"? Censor everything? Forget it. How about watch your fucking kids closer? Do you expect others to want to protect your children? Watch out for your own seems a simpler solution. If nobody cares enough to watch out for them, they've got bigger problems coming than seeing online porn.

Censorship

Submission + - Google Mail now blocked in China

An anonymous reader writes: For some time, access to Gmail has been deliberately "delayed" in China.
Since about 6pm on Friday, local time it has been completely blocked. The login screen "may" come up, but login itself just times out.

Comment Your kid's still going to beat off (Score 1) 544

And do you really want them looking at second rate porn, whether homo, hetero, bi or tranny? Kids need an education and do you really want to be the one to teach them? I learned how to beat off from porn, thank God. I certainly wouldn't want a lesson from a family member or dear friend. What if your kid is actually a huge tranny and needs to learn how to cross dress? Wouldn't you rather Wikipedia show him how to was his bikini line? Think of Wikipedia as that parent you were too repressed to be. Let Wikipedia or Youtube teach your daughter to lick the alphabet on her girlfriend's birthday. She's going to do it in college anyway.
China

Submission + - China arrested a CIA spy (latimes.com)

Taco Cowboy writes: A 38-year-old Chinese national, who was a secretary to Qiu Jin, the deputy minister of state security, is alleged to have been recruited and trained by the CIA and was arrested by the Chinese authority sometime this year

It was reported that the man was approached by the CIA while he was a student studying in the USA

To "cement" the relationship, the CIA arranged a classic "honey trap", where the guy was photographed with a woman in a compromising setting in a Hong Kong apartment. And with that, the guy is coerced into spying for the CIA

Space

Submission + - So that is why Big Bird is yellow (space.com)

davekleiman writes: "A new photo from a NASA sun-watching spacecraft highlights a huge solar feature that looks a lot like the beloved Big Bird from the children's television show "Sesame Street." "I can't get over how much this looks like Big Bird — but it is a coronal hole on the sun," reads a Twitter post today by Camilla Corona SDO, the spacecraft's rubber chicken mascot."
Now the big question is where are Bert and Ernie, maybe it was them that flew the ship that landed Big Bird there."

Comment Re:Look, this is stupid (Score 1) 544

Would you rather my dad teach me? Would you like to teach your kid to whack off, have him learn from a friend (real close and personal like), or would you like him to learn how to wank it from the comfort of his own bed. The results you have there aren't exactly blatino on white interracial gang bang double penetration videos.

Submission + - Making use of the LLVM project on Linux (llvm.org)

An anonymous reader writes: We're currently working on a C++ project, where we're able to use some new C++11 features and thus have decided to use a recent version of the Clang compiler and libc++, both from the LLVM(http://llvm.org) project. After manually editing and adapting some libc++ Makefiles for Linux specific settings we're very pleased, so far.
But why aren't tools like libc++(http://libcxx.llvm.org/) or the debugger lldb(http://lldb.llvm.org/) from LLVM more popular on Linux?
It seems to me that to some extend not even the buildsystem for those tools are Linux-friendly and you have to fiddle with it, by yourself.
May this be the case, or even cause of the low popularity?

Wireless Networking

Submission + - Your Neighbor's WiFi Wants You to Vote for Romney

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Megan Garber writes that wireless routers have become the lawn signs of the digital age particularly in large apartment buildings, where almost every unit has a unique wifi network that will be detected in turn by all the other unique wifi networks, SSIDs can be a cheeky, geeky way to broadcast messages to your immediate neighbors. Most of us keep it simple with "275_Elm_Street," "Apt23," or "my_network" but some get more creative with names like: "Apt112IHaveYourMail," "PrettyFlyForAWiFi," or "WeCanHearYouHavingSex" — a great way to freak out your annoying neighbors without hiding in their bushes or peeping in their windows late at night. Now the team at OpenSignalMaps, which maintains a database of geolocated wifi access points, analyzed the data they've collected about wireless routers to see whether wifi names are "being used to fly political colors" and have found, globally, 1,140 results for "Obama" and an additional six for "Romney" — an indication not necessarily of Romney's popularity relative to the president's, but of the attention that four years as president can confer. "There's something uniquely contemporary and incredibly old-school about that kind of broadcasting: It's messaging meant only for your immediate neighbors," writes Garber "It's both intimate and isolating, both invasive and impersonal, both omnipresent and invisible, both passive and aggressive." Which makes them a good metaphor for political discourse as it looks in the US today with its particular mix of intimacy and impersonality. "The politicized network names are like lawn signs for people who don't have lawns.""

Submission + - SETI reasearch with Very Large Baseline Interferometry (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Radio astronomers in Australia have tried a to detect a transmission from Gliese 581 using Very Large Baseline Interferometry with the Australian Large Baseline Array http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6466. The star Gliese 581 (Gl581) is 20 light years away and is orbited by at least two planets in habitable zone. While the astronomers haven't detected any signal from Gl581, they have derived a limit on the strength of the signal that could be detected from Earth. In simple terms, if a transmitter like Arecibo would have been in operation in the Gl581 system and beaming in our direction, the signal would have been picked.
This is a breakthrough method to examine extraterrestrial transmissions and will be implemented with the Square Kilometre Array, the gigantic radio interferometer that will be built in South Africa and Australia. With this technique, the SKA will lift the SETI exploration to an amazing new regime.

Idle

Submission + - Toddler's iPad Tantrum Gets Him Kicked Off Plane 3

theodp writes: A three-year-old boy on an Alaska Airlines flight to St. Martin Island from Seattle threw such severe conniptions after his iPad was taken away before takeoff that he and his family were removed from the plane. Alaska Airlines said this was a judgment call on the captain's part — the boy reportedly wouldn't sit upright and wouldn't keep his seatbelt on. No word if the little tyke tweeted his disgust with how the airline deprived him of his iPad rights, a la Alec Baldwin.

Submission + - White House responds to ACTA petition (whitehouse.gov)

hguorbray writes: Predictably tepid response from the Whitehouse saying that they want to hear from all stakeholders -unfortunately 'he who has the gold makes the rules' will continue to prevail and it will probably take more than the 50k petition signers to make the people's voices be heard

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