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Comment Re:Seems reasonable. (Score 1) 53

Funny how you don't complain about Google's in-app-purchase policies.

Developers offering products within another category [but Games] of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except:

where payment is solely for physical products; or
where payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g., buying songs that can be played on other music players).

And yes, Google Play In-app Billing for digital products also is to be used for "Subscription services, such as streaming music".

So even if Google doesn't want a share of the profits (yet), they most certainly require apps on the Play Store to use their In App Purchase processing service. Something which you want to deny Apple.

Comment Re:Some precedent in the claimed wrongdoing (Score 1) 53

" If they aren't colluding with other companies"

Except they already are, so we can skip this clause. They are making contracts with their suppliers that fix the prices for other people who are not a party to the contract negotiations.

Which Spotify has done before Apple - you do agree that Apple should sue them.

Comment Re:can you imagine what would happen (Score 1) 92

That gives me an idea

If anyone sees an article about Steve Jobs coming back from the dead to lead Apple again, it's totally legit.

Knowing Wallstreet analysts, this will actually drive down AAPL. I can see Business Insider's headline: "Apple's need to bring back Steve Jobs from the dead proves they are doomed."

Not to mention that all the Steve-Jobs-would-never-do-this arguments from Apple critics would revert back to Steve-Jobs-and-his-usual-blunders.

Submission + - Reflection in Swift: Step-by-Step Tutorial (netguru.co)

Kasia Krn writes: With the introduction of Swift at WWDC one year ago, came something equally revolutionary for iOS and OS X developers – playgrounds. They’re a great tool for showcasing your work, by taking advantage of rich documentation and ready-to-play-with code snippets. This post explains how to use mirror reflection mechanism while programming with Swift's Result Views.

Submission + - Hollow and Recyclable Plastic Roads Being Tested (geekinspector.com)

An anonymous reader writes: VolkerWessels a road construction company in the Netherlands is looking to build its first recycled plastic road. Yes, they are building a road made completely of 100% recycled plastic instead of the typical concrete or asphalt roads that are being built today. Why a plastic road? Well, it's made from 100% recycled plastic bottles, the plastic roads can be built in less than half the time of asphalt roads and they can also last nearly three times longer. Another great feature of the plastic road ways is the ability to house cables, pipes, and other useful infrastructure beneath the road in its hollow cavity.

Comment Re:Coming soon to a denier argument by you (Score 1) 249

Soon to be featured in a denier argument near you!

"OK OK so burning fossil fuels DOES cause global warming, but we NEED to burn fossil fuels in order to compensate for the double solar whammy which will otherwise freeze the earth solid!"

I wonder if they will drop the "Climate scientists warned of a coming Ice Age in the 70s" bit instead.

Submission + - US Government detained Laura Poitras every time she flew .. (techdirt.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Since the 2006 release of “My Country, My Country,” Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., her plane has been met by DHS agents who stand at the airplane door or tarmac and inspect the passports of every de-planing passenger until they find her (on the handful of occasions where they did not meet her at the plane, agents were called when she arrived at immigration).

Each time, they detain her, and then interrogate her at length about where she went and with whom she met or spoke. They have exhibited a particular interest in finding out for whom she works.

Comment Re:What happened to Common Sense? (Score 1) 363

Yes, I have crossed traffic in a large city. I've also done a lot of walking in a large city. Open your damn eyes.

Better yet, wear a gun and shoot all who want to kill you. Is that legal in NYC?

Joking aside, the left-turners will usually come from behind you on your right side when you're only a few feet from reaching the curb[1]. Most people don't have eyes in the back of their head, and asking pedestrians to look behind them when they have almost finished crossing the street, instead of telling the drivers to fucking look ahead for pedestrians who have the right of way shows you are an asshole.

[1] Unless we're talking about those wankers who step on the gas to cross the lanes before oncoming traffic comes, usually forcing those to break, stalling all traffic.

Comment Re:WHAT radioactive materials? (Score 1) 242

Some people freak out about tritium because it's radioactive. But really, while tritiated water is poisonous, we deal with lots of stuff in our everyday lives that are far more dangerous, with far lower LD50s. And outside the body it does nothing, the beta is just too weak to penetrate. And given that tritium costs about $50k per gram, you're never going to encounter a large quantity of it at once.

We're not looking for a cost-efficient way to kill somebody, we're looking at the potential risk of an engine design. And that will use as much tritium as it needs, cost for a part of it will not matter much as long as the total cost will be acceptable for its use.

Comment Re:good idea (Score 1) 363

That's a supremely good idea. Left turns from/to two-way streets are difficult and disruptive in New York City.

Except... don't pedestrians fall under threat from right turns, too?

Short answer: when drivers finally find a gap in oncoming traffic while turning left, they are likely to be much faster at the pedestrian traffic than when doing a right turn.

Long answer - TLDR: accidents with pedestrians are >3 times as likely on left turns as on right turns.

Comment Re:or... (Score 2) 363

they could just put up "no left turn" signs

That wold be fine, if Google cared. Hey, they fixed the "turn left" where there's a "no left turn" they send me the last time - but the U-turn they want me to do on the next intersection where there's a "no U-turn" sign is hardly better. At least in Germany Google Maps' database is still lousy.

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