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Comment Re:Sports live and in person (Score 1) 321

I agree. I have season tickets to the local 2nd div (USL D1),4th div (USL PDL) and 5th div(PCSL) soccer teams, as as my local 3rd div hockey team (ECHL). I also try to go to all my old University's Soccer games (I still live in the same city). Although because of the other games I was only able to catch a single match. I also have traveled to four games out of country this year, and am going to seattle next weekend for the MLS final. I still play league soccer and the odd fill in game playing hockey. I have a sailboat and go out about twice a week, and try to hit up the gym three days a week. So yeah I might watch a dozen games a week on tv, but I think its fair to say I'm not too lazy.

Comment Sports and Crappy Slow Internet (Score 4, Insightful) 321

For me I will never give up cable until I can get sports with the ease and quality that I can on my TV. Sports really need to be watched live, and unless streaming makes leaps and bounds the internet is not going to catch up with HD TV anytime soon. I always find that on the internet the term HD is used very loosely. HD movies on Youtube don't compare to cable, neither does a single TV show downloaded with bittorrent that is labelled "HD". I have seen some "HD web streams" and they are ... if your lucky ...the same quality as digital cable.

Don't get me wrong, I hate my cable provider with a passion, but I can't give them up.

Comment Re:Wha? (Score 1) 239

Well, it's a teaser. It always amazes me at how advanced the Germans and Japanese were in some things, and just how arrogant and stupid the Americans were.

And still it was the primitive Russian Army that won the war. Technology is great, but in no way a recipe for success. Same still holds true today.

Comment Japan also attacked a lighthouse in Canada (Score 1) 239

On June 20, 1942 a submarine also attacked a Lighthouse in Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is the only attack on Canadian soil since the war of 1812, and I believe the only one since. While the attack was pretty useless it did cause all the lighthouses off the coast to be turned off. This was to prevent submarines from using them, but also created a nightmare for mariners. http://www.pinetreeline.org/rds/detail/rds99-34.html

Comment Re:ah, the eastern district of Texas (Score 4, Informative) 451

Interesting that a company located in Florida would choose to sue a Japanese company in the seemingly random location of Marshall, Texas.

Marshall, Texas is part of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The district has been criticized for a perceived bias towards plaintiffs in patent infringement lawsuits, including patent trolls and other holders of dubious patents.

Comment Re:Let's ban all hybrids in the US (Score 1) 451

Can anyone remember a, probably, fictional German movie from maybe thirty years ago that told the story of someone being hounded/murdered(?) by a massive oil conglomerate for producing a non petrol-burning car?

Are you talking about The Formula? It was an american movie, about a secret Nazi formula for turning coal into oil. The whole beginning is set in Nazi Germany, and then later in the film they return to Germany.

Comment Re:Tired of the re-definition of performance. (Score 1) 463

The only grey area I see is public performances of recorded media. I can see if you are a night club playing music, or a community group profiting from showing dvds with a projector.
One can argue that profit, or even derived profit, use of recorded media maybe should have to pay a fee. Radio already pays licence fees as far as I know.

Comment Re:damn! (Score 1) 439

On my current setup I have the option of Span or Dualview. With Span it will maximize across all my screens and I think the taskbar goes across all machines. I run my three 27" Sumsung's in Duelview though as the taskbar is only in the centre and when you maximize it stays within the screen. Works really well as both of the outside monitors use a poor mans kvm (rgb cable, and hit "Source") to connect to a labtop one one side and an eeebox on the other.
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Submission + - Man Jailed For Life Over Facebook Murder

piltdownman84 writes: "Brian Lewis, 31, of New Tredegar, Caerphilly county, has been jailed for life for killed mother-of-four Hayley Jones, 26, after she altered her facebook status from "married" to "single". Lewis accused her of chatting up men on Facebook an hour before he used a kitchen knife to stab his partner of 13 years through three layers of clothing and two sleeping bags."

Comment Not on Facebook, but on an obscure website? (Score 4, Insightful) 148

So I should feel safe using this tool because it allows 'sensitive data' to be stored on some third party website and not on the 'evil facebook servers'? I would rather facebook had it, as at least I know who they are and that I know its insecure.

I think I'll just stick with having my facebook profile as only a mask of myself, and not my entire life. Thanx

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