Comment: Re:WTF (Score 1, Insightful) 93
I've auditioned some pretty amazing earbuds.
As opposed to "tried"?
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Comment: Witch? (Score 0) 102
... karma is a real witch.
Pretty sure that's not the right word - unless you're Lanie Jordan. Get some balls Washington Post.
Comment: Re: Concentration of power is evil (Score 2) 181
DHT will replace DNS
Dihydrotestosterone will replace DNS? Just great, now we'll all go bald.
Comment: AKA (Score 1) 382
... opposed by cable and telephone companies that fear it will curb Internet growth and stifle payback on network investment.
Snooping for ad revenues and obscene profit margins
Comment: Re:Then why live on mars? (Score 1) 131
Anything you can do on mars, robots can do better. already.
Anything? Says you, your wife, or the battery-powered robot in her bed-side table?
Comment: Re:Congress (Score 1) 209
Interesting, I didn't know that if someone had a beautiful body they had a non-functional brain.
That's one of the advantages of having a beautiful body.
Unfortunately, one disadvantage is usually the math: Beauty x Brains = Constant
Comment: Re:WTF with the /. Interface?!?!? (Score 1) 77
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No, it's not beta. Beta's a lot worse (think full of AJAX).
"Oh my God; it's full of AJAX !" was the original line in 2010, but they eventually changed it to "stars !"
Comment: Xeroxed ? (Score 2) 92
You mean photocopied or something having to do with a registered trademark? Why not simply "Copied".
Comment: So, 3 laws *and* 10 commandments? (Score 1) 513
From what I can tell, machines have enough trouble getting the Three Laws correct; I'm not sure I want to throw the Ten Commandments in there too... Let me re-watch Futurama to see how robots and religion work out.
Comment: Re:New patent strategy (Score 1) 101
So Amazon just patented 3-D printing... ON A TRUCK? What other existing technologies can we add "on a truck" to to create a novel invention?
Why is this surprising? How many "new" ideas have been patented by adding "on the Internet" to an existing idea?
Comment: Next on the docket... (Score 1) 114
She also accused Lenovo and Superfish of invading her privacy and making money by studying her Internet browsing habits.
Is she going to sue her ISP for doing the same thing?
Comment: Re:someone explain for the ignorant (Score 2) 448
This is an RFID only card - "VISA PayWave" - not a smart card so there's no chip+pin. Using the hole-punch on the RFID chip was very satisfying. Contact-less CCs are a gimmick to encourage thoughtless purchasing.
Comment: Re:Well... (Score 1) 448
One of my RFID-enabled cards came with a blocking sleeve for it. We've had these for years in Canada.
As I posted earlier, I blocked the RFID chip in my VISA card with a hole-punch and hammer. It's very secure now.
Comment: Re:someone explain for the ignorant (Score 1) 448
EMV is NOT contactless. If your new card(s) include electrical contacts, It's EMV
Cool, cool, cool. I'm not a fan of contact-less and don't really see the point/benefit. My VISA card has Pay Wave - or, rather, had until I got a hole punch and hammer...
Comment: Ya, no. (Score 1) 318
While it may have been unthinkable 20 years ago, Java and JavaScript are now locked in a battle of sorts for control of the programming world.
Hyperbolic much? Ya, no. It's still unthinkable.
