Comment Re:I'm conflicted (Score 1) 980
Hear that whooshing sound? Look up.
Comment Re:Security? (Score 1) 383
A seriously good lockpick will spend a good 15 minutes on his knees fiddling around with the tumblers
Not since some enterprising soul discovered bump keys. Now it's trivially easy for anyone to "pick" most pin locks.
Submission + - The Beginning of the End for Flash? (youtube.com)
qengho writes: YouTube is offering a beta test that substitutes HTML5 for Flash. The only drawback is that it makes it more difficult to snag a video for permanent (local) storage. Vimeo is following suit.
Comment Re:Dammit... (Score 1) 494
Whether in the end there's one copy sitting on a book shelf, one copy sitting on a hard drive, or three copies sitting on three hard drives makes no difference to the point that was being made.
Except that those three copies can be read concurrently instead of serially. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't make a huge difference, but it is a difference.
Comment Re:Dammit... (Score 5, Insightful) 494
If I lend a book to ten people, then copyright law considers that fine. If I put something on a P2P network and two people download it, I get a statutory fine of several thousand dollars (well, I would if I lived in the USA). There seems to be some disconnect there.
Not defending the publishing industry, but there is a material difference: your copy lent to ten people remains a single copy and returns to you (you hope), but the one you uploaded to two others has become three copies. Still, I don't doubt the publishing industry is inflating the losses.
Comment Re:No... (Score 1) 1100
While they're at it they should vote to make PI equal to three
Comment Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall (Score 1) 652
I, for one, welcome our Culture Mind overlords.
Comment Define "permanent" (Score 5, Informative) 121
It'll be permanent until the ISS is de-orbited in 2016, eh?
Comment They didn't go far enough. (Score 1) 287
Given the average IQ level of YouTube commenters, they should have blocked responses altogether and provided a URL to a forum on whitehouse.gov. That would at least eliminate the morons who can't read carefully.
Comment Re:My call... (Score 1) 358
"May I ask who I'm speaking to?"
*click*
Damn! They abandoned the scam just because you ended the sentence with a preposition?
No, it was because he used "who" instead of "whom."
Comment Re:Netizens are the new Jack Bauer (Score 1) 339
And why cats?
Quite. The Chinese eat cats.
Comment Re:Safari does clean up after itself. (Score 1) 200
But is the average Safari user's cache weighing in at several gigabytes? I don't think so. That was just put there to cause alarm for attention-getting reasons.
Mine was 1.38GB and I'm a fairly average user. And that was with Top Sites disabled.
Comment Re:real mug, but.. (Score 1) 571
An interesting approach to hotel stealing is going with the game and putting a price list somewhere visible. I've seen this in NYC.
A place we stay in AZ has nice bathrobes in the room, with a note mentioning that a $100 charge will be gladly added to your bill if a robe walks off.
Comment Re:real mug, but.. (Score 3, Funny) 571
Reminds me of the guy who complained about hotel towels.
Comment Re:Already removed my links. (Score 4, Informative) 470
Yeah, I gave up on Amazon when it started throwing its weight around in the print-on-demand arena. It's become as big a market-distorting force as Wal-mart, and I don't feel like supporting them anymore.
