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Comment Re:Foul playback (Score 1) 198

If you're willing to assume that all companies are going to keep your data safe, you're awfully naive. Whether or not they should is one thing... whether or not they will is another.

Besides, it's not like you couldn't have seen this coming. When you install the app to your Android phone, you get the following screen:

This application has access to the following:
* Network communication (create Bluetooth connections, full Internet access, view network state, view Wi-Fi state)
* Your personal information (add or modify calendar events and send email to guests, read contact data)
* Phone calls (read phone state and identity)
* System tools (Bluetooth administration, change network connectivity, change Wi-Fi state, modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, automatically start at boot)

If that doesn't scream "We are going to take data about you and sell it", I don't know what does.

Comment Re:A new captcha idea. (Score 1) 105

Except those can be solved brute-force with a simple "yes" or "no"... you're guaranteed to be right half the time. You'd need questions with more ambiguous or context-sensitive answers like:

If train A leaves Chicago traveling 100MPH and train B leaves New York traveling 150MPH and the distance between the two cites is 600 miles how far from New York will it be when the two trains meet?

And you thought word problems would never be useful!

Comment Enter By Tomorrow (Score 4, Informative) 77

From the contest website:

The goal of the contest is to develop new interactions on unique hardware that you cannot get anywhere else. We supply you with the special hardware and you show us how innovative you can be with it. ... To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010.

You also have to return the keyboard by October, so it's not yours forever. http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html

Comment Re:KDE is great (Score 1) 302

I really like KDE and I believe that it needs to be supported better by distributions. Kubuntu is a mess.

I've been running KDE on Arch Linux since 4.1, and it's been great.

Comment Re:Shame the ground game sucks. (Score 1) 62

Glad you're enjoying it.

I found PvE space combat to be ridiculously boring. Fly forward, hold D to start circling my target, and let phaser turrets and photo torpedoes auto-fire until it's dead. Select next target. Hold A this time so the enemy wears down a different shield facing. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something. PvP combat at least had enough "oh crap I'm being primaried aaaaaaand I'm dead" excitement to keep me somewhat interested.

Ground combat wasn't any better: walk forward, fire a few times, if something comes into melee range, punch it. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something.

I'm sorry, but weekly installments of more of the same just isn't going to get me to resubscribe.

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