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Comment How about a one-way enable? (Score 1) 210

What if computers were shipped with the Secure Boot disabled, and then a BIOS setting would allow it to be enabled? Then Linux users could use it normally, and Windows users could switch it on. You would have no option to disable it once it was enabled so it would remain "secure" for the Windows folks.

Comment Re:Censorship (Score 1) 204

If you got rid of corporations, you'd basically destroy the economy, and prevent a new one from growing.

Well I (and I think most people) don't want to get rid of corporations, I just want to get rid of my government being run by corporations. Would it destroy our economy to have our representatives beholden solely to the citizens that elected them?

Comment Re:Bait and swtich? (Score 1) 572

Me: "Hi, I'd like to complete your cancellation of our contract."

AT&T: "OUR cancellation? How do you figure that?"

Me: "Well our contract was for unlimited data access, and you have announced that you no longer offer unlimited data access, so that means you've canceled our contract."

Comment Too little resolution (Score 1) 626

You are on to the problem - lack of resolution - but a little off in the numbers.

At 687 meters in 0.3433 seconds it is traveling 2000 m/s. So with only 0.1 second accuracy you can only get within +/- 200 meters. Even if there were no floating point conversion error, or accumulation of errors, 0.1 second is simply not enough resolution of time to intercept the missile.

How could they ever think this would work?

Comment Re:Cold climates? (Score 1) 117

I was wondering that myself. Aside from all the talk of losing your data if it gets too warm, what if the phone got really cold. Wouldn't that make it harder to heat up and write the data? Would it be temporarily unwritable when cold? Not a deal-breaker, but I just wonder.

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