No, it's not just him. Those idiots keep rerouting me to the gizmodo.de front page, where I can't see TFA.

I'd rather place my bet on Charlie Eppes, Amita and Larry (Numb3rs). I prefer to hear some of Larry's thoughts instead of having to watch Angela flirt with her fuck of the week.

The story fails to mention the name of the newspaper, here it is: The Guttenberg Post

Please ban parent poster for falling into one of the more obvious goatse traps and then even lamenting about it. If you haven't gotten it before, this is Slashdot!

Sony is on my personal blacklist since the rootkit affair.

Not even a jury. Remember, even average people have been trained for years now, that a part of a computer screen can be called button. Except for a jury chosen only from amish people or other idiots of that kind, of course.

And just to shorten any possible blabla, for whomever who refuses normal medical treatment even for their kids, like amish people and those jehova's witness do, idiot is a compliment, not an insult. No offense to any adult who chooses a way of life without modern technology, that's their problem (or no problem). But don't ruin your kid's lives with indoctrinating them in that way! Besides forcing them to have incest-like relationships, because there are less idiots than needed to maintain a (genetically) healthy population.

Maybe that will bring RAW to the less expensive cameras, which would be a good thing for the customers. I always disliked that if you want to have RAW, you often have to buy a much "bigger" camera than you'd really need. After all, RAW is not an extra feature where they have to implement extra code in the firmware, like is is with the ability to save pictures in JPG.

Nice argumentation, but do you really think that a judge or a jury, who have learned that the zone on the monitor around "OK", where they point the cursor and click, is called a button, will follow that?

Don't know how the patent law is in the USA, but to make sense, a patent law must include some kind of lower limit (in German "Schöpfungshöhe"), to distinguish between real inventions and non-patentable trivialities. Does patent law in the USA really lack that, are their employees so incompetent that they may have missed how trivial this is, or have they been bribed for granting the patent anyway?

With a sensor like the CCDs in digital cameras, which deliver a constant stream of data, it is most obvious that you will display that stream (the "motion pictures"), even when the device's main use is to take still images.

No invention to see here, Kodak, move on.

I admit I'm too lazy to do the search now, but I doubt that water is the best solution. Any substance that is liquid under the circumstances given in a nuclear site (pressure, temperature, ...), isn't toxic itself and won't decompose or at least will decompose into non-toxic and less reactive stuff than hydrogen would make a candidate. My bet is that they exist, but are not as cheap as water.

ATM, I own an ISDN DECT phone, together with a DECT headset, and three cell phones.

Is the poll about stuff like cracking (nor not cracking) this absurd crippling of a mobile phone to work only in a specific provider's net, things like jailbreaking an iPhone, or "locking" my DECT base station to the place where it belongs with a Kensington-like lock?

I'm certain, that if telepathy ever will be proven to exist, that this proof will contain a description of the used medium.

1. Buy "new" computer
2. Discover said documents
3. Return computer for full refund
4. Claim the tax returns for you and sue the seller for attempted fraud
Profit!

How much did you get out of suing them?

With "worse" I meant "worse than it is now", not "worse than Chernobyl".

And if I look at the current situation, it has become worse than it was when this discussion started. I'm really happy to be far far away from Japan. The news concerning Fukushima decreased somewhat after some countries finally found their balls and started to keep Gaddafi from bombing his own people until they shut up again (out of fear or out of being dead), and I'm a bit too lazy, so please excuse me not waving around numbers, but I think that we should learn out of this, that nuclear power is much less safe than most governments and all the companies involved would like us to believe. Just look at what came up how Tepco acted and is acting - playing everything down, neglecting their duties, etc.