Comment Re:Close... (Score 1) 294
What's to discuss? When a particular "mission" is taken to "religious" extremes, with no good can come of it.
Comment Poor security/subterfuge/sloppy coding (Score 5, Funny) 159
Vendor: "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find information being leaked here!"
Waiter: "Here's your mined data sir..."
Vendor: "Thank you"
Comment Cash is not going away (Score 2) 391
Cash will ALWAYS exist. Whether out of the desire for anonymity, the convenience or the underground economy.
Comment Why, these things practically sell (Score 1) 316
themselves!
Comment It's not what you say, it's what people hear (Score 1) 125
It's not the quality of the app you write, it's how easy people find it and perceive it. I am very slowly learning this. Go read the book "Words That Work" by Frank Luntz. Whether you like it or not, it's true.
Comment One word of warning: (Score 2) 156
Kudzu!
Comment Re:Enough of this already (Score 1) 433
"Fortunately, the trademark laws are fairly cut and dried. To be in violation, you either need to be using a trademark without permission in a way likely to cause confusion, or using the trademark in a way that causes "trademark dilution" which "dilutes the distinctive quality of the trademark". You seem to be doing neither in this case."
Note - I am not a lawyer, I just found and paraphrased this by googling "referencing a trademark"
Comment Ok, maybe this is too simple but (Score 1) 155
at least at the start of this next frontier how about testing for the chip profiling software. It's one thing to be able to "detect subtle differences" in floating point operations but another to do it while also trying to avoid detection while you're doing it.
Comment When the accounts were created (Score 1) 99
See Karl?!?!? I TOLD YOU we shouldn't have created those accounts so closely together...
Comment Re:Same song (Score 5, Funny) 703
Step away from the song lyrics. Or there will be... trouble.
Comment Where are the Sand (or Playdough) Tables? (Score 2, Insightful) 290
I am a "computer guy" for a fairly affleunt K-12 district, and for years I have been saying that for K, 1 & 2 there shouldn't even be computers or other "gadgets". As Clifford Stoll asked in his book "Silicon Snake Oil", "Where are the sand tables?" and other hands-on, tactile, open ended learning stations. Most teachers, even Principals I bring it up to more or less agree... but... everyone says the parents won't stand for it.
Comment Re:How Much? (Score 3, Insightful) 135
Exactly! It's not like this is going to hurt their reputation in any significant way, so the fines HAVE to be higher than the illicit profits for them to have any real teeth.
Comment Youtube Link to Ad I saw last night... (Score 1) 736
and do NOT believe is true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9urNUFzAM
Would love for Consumer Reports to do an expose on it.
Submission + - NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows (mathaba.net) 6
Anonymous Coward writes: "The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA."
Submission + - Another DENT in Apples "Honest Advertising"
Webster Phreaky writes: "Apple settles colour lawsuit
Apple has reached an out of court settlement to outstanding action over colour in its laptops — "Apple has agreed an out of court settlement to a ten-month old complaint against the way it has claimed its Macs display "millions of colours"."
"They claimed that they had been fooled into purchasing Apple laptops by Apple's claimed support for millions of colours. "The displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as 'dithering,' " the lawsuit said."
Bwah ha ha ha ha ..... Apple "armour" is looking PRETTY DENTED! (Webster Phreaky)"
"They claimed that they had been fooled into purchasing Apple laptops by Apple's claimed support for millions of colours. "The displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as 'dithering,' " the lawsuit said."
Bwah ha ha ha ha
