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Comment Re:Barbara Streisand Effect (Score 1) 213

by lederhosen (#34508246) Attached to: China Blocks News Websites In Protest of Nobel

In my country (to my knowledge, in modern time) no one has been put in jail because they criticize the government, and we have plenty of people that do criticize the government in news papers, radio, television and on the net.
If they have been put to jail it has been because they have leaked classified information or been spying for foreign countries or similar. Not because they are crazy and believe that China and north Korea are the paradise on earth.

We even have such lunatics that regularly write such stuff in the papers!
Crime

Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick 352

Posted by samzenpus from the it's-been-a-pleasure-being-your-victim dept.
While it's true that Sweden is responsible for unleashing IKEA and ABBA on humanity, not everything they produce is terrible. Their thieves are some of the most considerate in the world. An unnamed professor at Umeå University received a USB stick with all his data after his laptop was stolen. From the article: "The professor, who teaches at Umeå University in northern Sweden, was devastated when ten years of work stored on his laptop was stolen. But to his surprise, a week after the theft, the entire contents of his laptop were posted to him on a USB stick. 'I am very happy,' the unnamed professor told the local Västerbottens-Kuriren newspaper. 'This story makes me feel hope for humanity.'"
Image

Medieval Copy Protection 226

Posted by samzenpus from the thou-shall-write-your-own-book dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In medieval times a 'book curse' was often included on the inside cover or on the last leaf of a manuscripts, warning away anyone who might do the book some harm. Here's a particularly pretty one from Yale's Beinecke MS 214: 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
Patents

Apple Wants Patent On Video Game-Based iBooks 104

Posted by Soulskill from the making-your-own-stories dept.
theodp writes "Patently Apple reports that a new Apple patent application has surfaced describing an application that would record your personal journey through a video game and turn it into a custom comic or iBook when you're done playing. Imagine how thrilled little Billy's Mommy would have been if she only had the chance to read the story of her son's foray into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas or see how he dealt with BioShock's Little Sisters."
Image

Rupert Murdoch Claims To Own the 'Sky' In 'Skype' 186

Posted by samzenpus from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.
Crudely_Indecent writes "Not content to own just news stories, Rupert Murdoch is now going after individual words! His BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with Skype, claiming that it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype.' From the article: 'A spokesman for Sky confirmed that the company has been involved in a "five-year dispute with Skype" over trademark applications filed by the telecomms company. These are, the spokesman added: "including, but not limited to, television-related goods and services."'"
The Internet

Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197

Posted by samzenpus from the how-was-your-service-today? dept.
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
Earth

Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635

Posted by samzenpus from the sunlight-is-free dept.
js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."

Comment Re:iOS4 = Windows 3.0? (Score 1) 568

by lederhosen (#32683396) Attached to: iPhone 4 News Roundup

No, you are wrong. Windows 3.x did cooperative multitasking poorly, but you could have several applications up at the same time, as long as they were not buggy. same for mac os = 9.

IOS has the technical ability to be a sane operating system with a true preemptive multitasking OS as core. For some reason Apple limits the applications of the OS to cooperate -- much more so than windows 3.x.

Comment Re:What the fuck are you talking about? (Score 1) 568

by lederhosen (#32683280) Attached to: iPhone 4 News Roundup

What he says is that ios is technically able to multitask (and are doing so on apple core utilities). For some *magic* reason an app developer is *restricted* to run in the foreground.

So as an non apple developer you must build programs with capabilities less then those for windows 3, just because apple wants you.

Comment Re:You're spreading something for sure (Score 1) 245

by lederhosen (#32614874) Attached to: A Close Look At Apple's A4 Chip

If Apple is so innocent, why do you even have to mention the names of the other companies???

If Apple is so guilty, then why NOT mention those other companies?

You have to answer that first before you are allowed any more paranoid rants. You are trying to defect all ills of the world to fall upon Apple's shoulders. Has any other company but Apple in fact even offered a bonus to workers who work on the products the companies are having produced there?

Even if all of them are evil, Apple is less so if only because of that one aspect. Yet, you single Apple out - so obviously you have some other motive in mind rather than Foxconn worker well being. It's pretty sick to take advantage of Chinese suicides to further your own holy crusade against Apple (and Apple only).

I did not single Apple out, did I??? In what way did I single out Apple???

What I basically said is: if you argue that someone is innocent, then its bad argumentation to line up a lot of others calling them equally guilty, and that was what Lunix Nutcase basically did.

*All* companies know why the salaries are lover in China, and how the workers are treated. So there you have it. The topic is Apple, The parant said that Apple did not do anything wrong, why the fuck should I line up all companies that abuse chinese workers, *WHY*.

Comment Re:Not interesting. It's a consumer-grade processo (Score 1, Interesting) 245

by lederhosen (#32605166) Attached to: A Close Look At Apple's A4 Chip

Of course its not literally off-the-shelf.

Neither is a Atom CPU with a different logo painted on it (and to be specific so that you do not misinterpret me, I do not claim that the only difference of the A4 is the logo).

The parent of my post said was:
"While the A4 is nothing revolutionary, it's not an off-the-shelf item either. Apple took a general purpose processor and re-designed it specifically for use in its mobile devices."

I see no evidence for that Apple redesigned anything. Do you know any re-design that is made "specifically for use in its mobile devices"?

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