Comment Phail (Score 1) 412
I=1; V=5; X=10. Answer is (3).
Answer 3: 6-10
Answer 4: 10-20
It would seem this was actually a trick question.
Comment Re:Many things are hurting the PSP... (Score 1) 272
Third, the pirates offered a better product. Games load quickly off memory stick, and save battery life as well. And heck, you can dump your games yourself easily nowadays (insert UMD into PSP, enable USB on the UMD drive, and a little
To be fair, I think Sony does understand this point because they are releasing Patapon 2 only for download from the online store and the PSP2 is rumored not to have a UMD drive.
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 1, Offtopic) 100
...Jack WHO? The man was barely relevant before. Now he is irrelevant.
So was Joe the Plumber but he's still doing talk shows and appearing in the media.
Controversy sells. This won't be the last we hear from him.
Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 114
nevermind, actually RTS and it said e-voting. I r troll. /bends over for Mods
Comment Let me guess... (Score 0) 114
these were Diebold voting machines?
Comment Re:Been tried, major fail (Score 1) 432
Radiation is a problem, but over 2000 nuclear test have been carried out, and we haven't all dropped dead. A few more explosions that have specifically designed to minimize fallout won't kill us either.
Right... but how many people have cancer? I find it much more likely that small amounts of radiation in the environment are causing cancer than some of the "carcinogens" found by scientists such as sugar.
Submission + - Copyright Scholar Challenges RIAA/DOJ Position (blogspot.com) 1
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Leading Copyright Law scholar Prof. Pamela Samuelson, of the University of California law school, has published a 'working paper' which directly refutes the position taken by the US Department of Justice in RIAA cases on the constitutionality of the RIAA's statutory damages theories. The Department of Justice had argued in its briefs that the Court should follow a 1919 United States Supreme Court case which upheld the constitutionality of a statutory damages award that was 116 times the actual damages sustained, under a statute which gave consumers a right of action against railway companies. The Free Software Foundation filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the view that the more modern, State Farm/Gore test applied by the United States Supreme Court to punitive damages awards is controlling. The paper with Prof. Samuelson is consistent with the FSF brief, and contradicts the DOJ briefs, arguing that the Gore test should be applied. A full copy of the paper, in *pdf format, is available for download online here."
Submission + - Apple switching to quanity over quality? (digitimes.com) 1
Trintech writes: Apple has reportedly placed orders for 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips. (Note: The chips hold 8 Gigabits which equals 1 GigaByte) This is an odd move for Apple because they generally use much higher density chips even in small storage products like the 4GB iPod shuffle which uses a single 32Gb NAND chip. There has been some speculation as to what Apple might do with all these low density chips and, as usual, Apple refuses to comment.
1GB iPod Femto anyone?
1GB iPod Femto anyone?
Comment Re:Speaking of ignorant (Score 1) 332
Ah, ok. So as long as it's called the National Debt (which is caused by repeated budget deficits) and not "perpetual budget deficits", it's ok. The United States is owned by other nations, but we have good credit, so it doesn't matter. We just have to make sure that none of those other nations call in those debts, though, because if they do, we don't actually have enough economy PERIOD to pay them back. Maybe we'll just use our stellar credit again to pay them off with money from someone else which we can in turn owe far more to.
You work for HSBC, don't you? Well, stick to counting your dollar bills, because negative numbers are clearly beyond your grasp.
You work for HSBC, don't you? Well, stick to counting your dollar bills, because negative numbers are clearly beyond your grasp.
Submission + - Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released
BrianGKUAC writes: "Fedora 9 has been releaesed as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative to yum, known as PackageKit. This release also includes GNOME 2.22 and/or KDE 4.0.3, and Firefox 3 beta 5. Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively."
Comment Re:This is why you should need a court order (Score 1) 185
Otherwise you are guilty until proven innocent.
No, you are guilty until you have filed a counterclaim at which point you can resume using the DMCAed material until proven guilty in court.
China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet 279
jp_papin writes "The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged. The Chinese government is requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to 'monitor and restrict information coming in and out of China,' Brownback said Thursday. 'This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affront to American businesses,' he said. 'I call on China to immediately rescind this demand.' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn't aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but Brownback said he got the information on Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but confidential sources.' The State Department is apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."
Submission + - New iMac screens show 98% fewer colors (appleinsider.com) 1
Trintech writes:
According to the new suit, filed in a San Jose court Monday by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP, Apple is deceiving consumers by concealing that its new 20-inch iMac monitors are inferior to the previous generation's and those of the new 24-inch iMac. Specifically, the firm takes issue with a marketing claim from the Mac maker that both the 20-inch and 24-inch iMac are capable of displaying "millions of colors at all resolutions." While this claim holds true for the current 24-inch model and previous generation 20-inch model — both of which display 16,777,216 colors on 8-bit, in-plane switching (IPS) screens — the new 20-inch iMac display is said to be capable of 98 percent fewer colors (262,144).
Can REDFLY sell in an EeePC market? 132
palmsolo (aka Matthew Miller) writes "I was lucky enough to get a chance to evaluate an early beta of the REDFLY device and just posted some initial impressions at ZDNet. As a person who commutes on the train 2 hours every day and usually always has a Windows Mobile device in tow, this is actually a perfect device for me; real productivity is possible with text entry and enjoy surfing on a larger display. However, at $500 can this device really compete in the Asus EeePC market or will it die like the Palm Foleo?"
Submission + - Apple, Starbucks sued over custom music gift cards (appleinsider.com) 1
Trintech writes: A Utah couple acting as their own attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Apple and Starbucks over the retailers' recent "Song of the Day" promotion, which offers Starbucks customers a iTunes gift card for a complimentary, pre-selected song download.
In a seven-page formal complaint, James and Marguerite Driessen of Lindon, Utah say they developed in 2000 (and successfully patented in February 2006) a utility dubbed RPOS, or retail point of sale, for Internet merchandising. The concept, which forms the heart of the infringement lawsuit, would allow gift cards for pre-defined items that can be sold at a brick-and-mortar store but used online; customers could redeem a card for a dining room set or a DVD, for example.
In a seven-page formal complaint, James and Marguerite Driessen of Lindon, Utah say they developed in 2000 (and successfully patented in February 2006) a utility dubbed RPOS, or retail point of sale, for Internet merchandising. The concept, which forms the heart of the infringement lawsuit, would allow gift cards for pre-defined items that can be sold at a brick-and-mortar store but used online; customers could redeem a card for a dining room set or a DVD, for example.
