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Comment Thanks all for the heads up! (Score 1) 280

Thanks everyone for the heads-up.
I have an older HTC smartphone and I really like it. An HTC Hero now way outdated and underpowered. Its small when everyone was going big. It has been very reliable, it uses a pretty standard USB connector that ive never had any problems with.

Compare this to my wife's Samsung Moment, we have had to replace the power adapter 5 times because the little conenctor is just too thin to take the abuse of regular use.

I had been looking at buying another HTC but now I probably wont. It's too bad because I really like my phone and the new HTC's look good.

Comment Your F'd (Score 1) 2

It is extremely difficult to use the legal system to force a domain squatter to give up the domain.
All the good to almost shitty .coms are taken.

Buy it from them or pick a different name. $2000 sounds reasonable for the .com.au

Six figures for a .com... well thats just silly when you can buy a TLD for $180,000
But they are probably hoping some large company will put out a technopurse and gladly pay the ransom for technopurse.com

Submission + - What number taken to the root of itself yields the highest value? (google.com) 3

uslurper writes: I should probably be working, but for some reason my mind was wandering about square roots and roots. Then cube roots, then 4th roots. I tried plugging in the equations to Excel but apparently it doesn't do radians. Googling "4th root of 4" gave me results. And I found that the cube root of 3 was the integer that gave me the highest number. However I found that "2.9th root of 2.9" was higher. So.. What Real number to the root of itself yields the highest number?

Comment A US-Made Video (Score 1) 862

" They're so used to living in a theocracy, that they presume that if a film is released in the United States, the United States Government must be behind it! How could it be otherwise?"

-It doesnt help that the news, even our local news, headlined it as a "US-made" video when actually it was just some random guy.

Comment Because its taught in school. (Score 2) 862

"I can think of no other reason why, of all the scientific facts that people might disagree with or disbelieve, [evolution] is the one they pick on. Physics gets through OK. Chemistry gets through Ok. But not biology/geology, and I think it's got to be because of religion."

Thats an easy answer. Biology and Geology are taught in school. For most middle-aged adults, these were high school requirements. Or the easiest versions were "Life Science" and "Earth Science". Physics and chemistry are electives for the nerds who are interested in the stuff.

Those that just don't "get it" are more apt to dismiss science and fall back on mysticism.

Comment Is this really news??? (Score 1) 150

Is this really news? We know that each element has N protons and electrons, and then some neutrons(not sure how that number is derived).
So its not really a 'discovery' as much as a logical step. And of what use are the super dense elements when they will all require a huge amount of energy to produce AND they decay rapidly?

Now if in theory we knew that element 1337 could produce anti-gravity or some such effect not normally possible, that would give us a reason for research and producing that may be a real discovery. Otherwise, YAWN.

Comment Not a government website! (Score 2, Informative) 234

The description of the article is misleading..
"available from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism."

-makes it sound like it is a government-sponsored website when it is fact a privately owned and operated site.

from the site:
"About the Bureau
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is a not-for-profit organisation based at City University, London. The Bureau bolsters original journalism by producing high-quality investigations for press and broadcast media with the aim of educating the public and the media on both the realities of today’s world and the value of honest reporting."

"Donations
  The Bureau was established with a £2 million donation from the David & Elaine Potter Foundation. We have also received funding from the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust, and the Green Park Foundation (based in the US).
Media income
  We have received part payment for our stories from the BBC, Channel4, Al Jazeera, ITN, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
Non media income
  We have received monies from Oxfam.
City University
The Bureau receives subsidised office space and facilities from City University. The Bureau has an ongoing relationship with City University’s Department of Journalism which includes offering work experience and internships to its journalism students. Senior members of the Bureau’s staff guest lecture at the department.
Google
The Bureau receives free email and document-sharing services from Google.
Simons Muirhead & Burton Solicitors
The Bureau has a relationship with Simons Muirhead & Burton, one of London’s leading law firms. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services particularly to those in the media. It advises the Bureau on a wide range of legal issues, with some of the work done on a pro bono basis.
Managing Editor
Iain Overton is employed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. His annual salary is just under £65,000 with an additional pension provision on top. He has no political or commercial affiliations."
also misleading from the description:

" the app in question merely relays and positions strikes as available"
-the app writer may not have permission to relay this information:
also from the site:
"Steal our stories
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out research in the public interest. Unless otherwise stated our articles and graphics can be republished without charge. However, there are a few things we ask you to bear in mind:
- If republishing online please link to us and include all of the links from our story.
- Our material cannot be sold separately.
- Photographs and video cannot be republished without specific permission from the licence holder.
- If quoting from our research the Bureau of Investigative Journalism must be credited.
The Bureau is licenced under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details. "

Programming

Submission + - The Truth About 'Rock-Star' Developers (infoworld.com)

snydeq writes: "You want the best and the brightest money can buy. Or do you? Andrew Oliver offers six hard truths about 'rock-star' developers, arguing in favor of mixed skill levels with a focus on getting the job done: 'A big, important project has launched — and abruptly crashed to the ground. The horrible spaghetti code is beyond debugging. There are no unit tests, and every change requires a meeting with, like, 40 people. Oh, if only we'd had a team of 10 "rock star" developers working on this project instead! It would have been done in half the time with twice the features and five-nines availabilty. On the other hand, maybe not. A team of senior developers will often produce a complex design and no code, thanks to the reasons listed below.'"
Science

Submission + - Genome of Human Ancestor Mapped, There Might Be Other Undiscovered Ancestors Yet (medicaldaily.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have managed to map an entire genome of a human ancestor and also suspect that there are more species that existed in the past that we have not yet found, particularly in Asia.
Researchers have managed to map an entire genome of a human ancestor. The ancestor is a member of the Denisovan group, a cousin of the Neanderthals. Researchers are hesitant to label them as a different species, choosing to call them instead a different group of humans. They also suspect that there are more species that existed in the past that we have not yet found, particularly in Asia.

The Internet

Submission + - Obama: Web freedom will be part of Democratic platform (cnn.com)

NeverVotedBush writes: On Wednesday, during a visit with some of the most ardent open-Web supporters, President Barack Obama said Democrats will make a free and open Internet part of their party's 2012 platform.

"Internet freedom is something I know you all care passionately about; I do too," Obama wrote during an AMA ("ask me anything") on social-news site Reddit. "We will fight hard to make sure that the Internet remains the open forum for everybody — from those who are expressing an idea to those to want to start a business."

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