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Comment Re:Gamestop Fail (Score 1) 370

TBH I saw this coming a mile away when I first heard of the DSi having a camera. I'm just waiting for the case of a refurbished 3ds with pics a teenager took of themselves nude.

But if you buy a refurbished 3DS with pics of a teenager, doesn't that make you guilty of both possession and purchase of kiddie-porn?
Go directly to the sex offender list, do not pass go, do not collect $200

Comment Re:Irrelevant Company (Score 1) 102

And an interesting thing about this case - Ericsson is doing to Samsung what Samsung is doing to Apple, and indeed, Ericsson's arguments are practically identical. It's a very interesting situation, to say the least. (Likewise, it's probably similar to the rates Google/Motorola are asking from Apple and Microsoft and such, too.

So, the smart thing for Samsung to do is to take it to court, make sure they lose and then use the loss as precedent against Apple.

Comment Re:How many more? (Score 2) 409

The micro-USB charger for the phone DOES charge the Playbook.

But due to the current limitation in the phone charger it will only charge it when the playbook is in standby mode. If the playbook is in use the phone charger only supplies enough current that the playbook runs on power from the charger and thus does not use the battery.

There is no possible way for a 500 mA charger to charge a device while the device is using 450-500 mA to stay on.
However the Playbook charger which delivers more than 1A over micro-USB works perfectly fine as a quick charger for a BlackBerry phone.
Why would it have been better to NOT use micro-USB??

Comment Re:Pro death == pro stupid (Score 1) 761

Prosecutors have been discovered falsifying evidence, tampering with witnesses, hiding exculpatory evidence that would exonerate the defendant, in short doing every dirty deed under the sun to win a high profile case and maybe be politically set for life. As long as our system of justice is more interested in winning than in finding justice we can expect innocent men going to prison in general and death row specifically.

Doing this should be legally considered premeditated murder (attempted murder if the victim is not convicted or gets out before getting executed) and should as a rule have a mandatory death sentence for the prosecutor.

Comment Re:Bill of Digital Rights (Score 3, Interesting) 133

Nothing in the Berne Convention prohibits a government from taxing Intellectual Property.
If Big Content was taxed according to the official **AA value of their properties, they would soon start delivering to public domain.

Same of course could be applied to the broadcasters with "broadcaster eternal copyright". Tax them until they either release copyrights or go bust.

Comment Re:stopped using it? (Score 2) 857

Assuming you know exactly which program you want. At work I am constantly using 3 or 4 remote, virtual and local dekstops. None of which have the same set of software.
By using the Start menu I can instantly spot if the one I am currently using has MS, Open or Libre Office. All three let me edit a document, but I don't really care which is on which desktop. I just want to edit a document.
And if I want to edit XML then I look for XMLSpy first, then Notepad++ and if neither of them are available either eclipse or plain notepad.
One glance at the Start Menu tells me which I have to choose from on this particurlar desktop.
Australia

Submission + - Australian parliament scared of ACTA? (aph.gov.au) 1

lhuiz writes: "A committee of the Australian House of Representatives said in a report today that Australia would be wise not to rush into adopting ACTA. They feel they should take into account opposition in similar countries, like the EU. Oz has long been one of the countries most willing to extend protection of intellectual rights — if they start to stall, ACTA might not make it to 6 signatories. This would mean that ACTA will never be activated."
Patents

Submission + - US patent trolling costs $29 billion a year (itnews.com.au)

Bismillah writes: "This piece of research from Boston University seems to put an end to claims that patent trolling is "socially valuable" and instead, is a social loss.

The total cost to society could be around $80 billion according to the researchers. What's more, the costs have gone up fourfold since 2005."

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