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Comment Re:Yes this is grossly irresponsible (Score 2) 119

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Yes this run was grossly irresponsible, but so is every other Cannonball run. There is no real point in criticizing this run in particular.

These runs are typically done in the middle of the night when there are very few, if any people on the roads. During a time when the government is ordering people to stay home under threat of a 1k fine, there will be even fewer people. Yes, it's still dangerous but, this was pretty unique scenario where it was the least likely to result in bystanders being hurt or killed.

Comment Flash (Score 3, Interesting) 39

If I recall correctly the main reason for disallowing third-party browsers as the default in the early days was so that Adobe Flash couldn't take a foothold on the platform and bypass Security and Apple's revenue stream that derives from people developing apps in XCode. Flash is dead and Safari/Webkit has stagnated quite a bit compared to Blink & Gecko.

Comment Re:For 3rd party batteries, I've had good luck wit (Score 2) 131

I bought Anker batteries for my (now Ancient) Thinkpad T42p and Macbook Pro 4,1. Prior to the purchases, I bought some cheep ones for the thinkpad and dropped (a lot of) money on the OEM replacement for the macbook and the Anker battery is actually better than Apple's.

This was over a year ago and half ago, and They're still in use.

Comment Re:I wonder .. (Score 1) 475

The IBM PC opened the flood gates to our current standard of general purpose computing devices and it would be quite a divergence, now, for a Lenovo to hardwire their hardware to run only Windows. Not to give them any ideas...

Too late: Windows 8 "secure boot" is about to be rammed down our throats. Say good bye to "general purpose" computing.

Comment Re:Not tooo worried about this one (Score 1) 213

One important difference is that in the credit card industry there are published rules that you must comply with called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), or in the case of an application, Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). If TFA is accurate, then Google Wallet is not following the PCI guidelines.

Much Like the Pirate code, They're more like "Guidelines" than actual rules...

Comment Re:Perception (Score 1) 722

As a subscriber, I find that the DVD/Bluray Library is more comprehensive than the Streaming library. I base that on the my own experience of searching for movies and finding that they're only available on DVD. That said, I changed to the streaming only plan since I wanted to keep the price down. (from Streaming + 1 DVD). 7.99 for 1 DVD is absurd and I would be better served by Redbox.

I really wish that netflix would of announced that they were significantly expanding the Streaming library or at least getting new releases quicker. That would make the price hike tolerable in my opinion.

Comment Re:Wii U Shop channel (Score 1) 223

Digital Purchases have been with us some time now. You really can't get your mind around the convenience that offers?

Everyone brings up the worst case scenario of the company running the DRM server goes bust and you lose your purchases. It happens, Yes; it is a risk. But I would also argue that things like Valve's Steam for example, is DRM done right. And that Valve's model is what these companies should aspire to. With the ideal scenario being no DRM at all. Sadly, we don't live in an ideal world.

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