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Comment Re:Gentlemen, start your engines. (Score 1) 701

Remember that Denning is addressing the Heartland Institute organised ICCC6 conference.

You say that as if it is supposed to mean something to me - as if I am supposed to respond with "Oh! The HEARTLAND INSTITUTE organized the conference? Why didn't you say so! Oh, the irony! Denning is going to tear them a new corn hole!". Well, let me share my contextual understanding of your sentence: Remember that [Unknown individual] is addressing the [Unknown Institute] organised [Unknown Acronym] conference.

Comment Re:No so much actually. (Score 1) 749

This isn't a case of the U.S. reaching across a border. Microsoft is _here_. Microsoft is doing business _here_. The court _here_ is ordering microsoft _here_ do produce documents _here_. Microsoft's claims that the docuements are "in their other pants" (e.g. on a server in Ireland) is immaterial because microsoft is _here_ and _microsoft_ owns those documents.

But what if, under Irish law, that data cannot leave Ireland without Ireland's say-so. Then it becomes a case of the court _here_ is ordering microsoft _here_ do produce documents _that-are-not-here_.

Comment Re:For any particular reason? What use? (Score 1) 129

Actually, modern OLED screens are fine outside.

I'll believe it when I see it. Besides that, there's the power requirements. My phone needs to be charged daily, whereas my e-ink Kobo can go for a month between charges. Granted, the Kobo is monochrome and is only switching between pages. whereas the cell phone is contacting cell towers periodically, and such, but still, the display on the phone eats up an extraordinary amount of energy.

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