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Comment: Re:"feels just like clicking a button" (Score 5, Interesting) 213

by bluesky74656 (#29758207) Attached to: Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2

I think there's something to the fact that the iPhone's auto-correction is more suited to a touchscreen than the Blackberry's. I've found that while the Blackberry's spell-check is very good for people who sometimes make spelling errors, the iPhone's is much better about fixing fat-finger syndrome.

I would almost be tempted to say that the iPhone's spell-check puts more weight on where keys are located, while the Blackberry's is more of a straight dictionary search

Comment: Re:As a former Storm owner (Score 2, Funny) 213

by bluesky74656 (#29758145) Attached to: Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2

And the OS have a propensity to leak memory so that as the day went on your usable memory level would continue to fall to the point where you had to pull the battery to reset the phone.

My Storm seems to have a feature that automatically resets the phone at random intervals. It handily solves that problem, but can be annoying when you're actually trying to do something with it.

Seriously, though, the sluggishness of the phone is a big drawback. If it could keep up with how fast I type and not randomly reset I would be very happy with it.

Biotech

Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation 2

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Mundocani writes "The NY Times reports about research in out-of-body experiences. From the article: "Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences — the sensation of drifting outside of one's own body — - in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science.""
Hardware Hacking

Joe Engressia, Expert 'Phone Phreak,' Dies->

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sarwer writes "All Things Considered on August 20, 2007 ran a interesting story about "phone phreaking" pioneer Joe Engressia. An article in Esquire in 1971 revealed a world of "phone phreaking." At the center of that world was a young man named Joe Engressia, who later changed his name to Joybubbles. Engressia died in Minneapolis earlier this month. Engressia had an unusual relationship with the telephone: He was born blind and used his unusual auditory gifts to pioneer the practice of "phone phreaking," which involved manipulating public telephone networks."
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The Internet

Comcast Blocks BitTorrent->

Submitted by FsG
FsG writes "Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn't seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren't helping. If more ISPs adopt their strategy, could this mean the end of BitTorrent?"
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Security

Americans may need passports to board flights?->

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xanadu113 writes "Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.

The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain."
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