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Comment Re:First they laughed at me. (Score -1) 271

But those aren't all my songs though, I have a lot of songs I got from CDs, Amazon MP3, free downloads from bands, etc. On the other hand I can do the same thing through my phone and get -everything- faster, plus, on any halfway modern OS, you don't have to install anything.

And you move them from one computer to the other you use your phone with a USB cable instead of any form of network. You are my hero.

Comment Re:ew quicktime? (Score -1) 162

Quicktime does not properly use either ASLR or DEP. The application is at fault.

You have to "use properly" a security feature that is build into the OS for it not to break? Who is the fanboy here?

BTW, why will this bug only work with IE? Gee, maybe its a bug in Quicktime that does nothing if the browser uses ASLR or DEP properly?

Comment Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? (Score -1) 432

I'm a dreamer I envision a day when the truth is the only acceptable and legal form of advertising. Any time a company falls short of that they pay triple the profits they generated as damages and that goes into a public fund so that victims can make claims against it. In this current day and age I'd expect that fund to be worth a trillion dollars within a couple of years.

Ahh, so you want to drive all those phone companies out of business, who spend much more on advertising than Apple, and have ads where using their phone assembles huge crowds in seconds adoring you, or allow you to take the sun from the sky. Good idea.

Businesses

Submission + - The iPad Invades Corporate America (wsj.com)

pickens writes: The WSJ reports that when Apple's first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn't appropriate for the workplace but the iPad is a different story. "Everyone in IT is jumping on this one," says Ted Schadler, an analyst at Forrester Research. "Rather than wait for people to start complaining they're saying why don't we get a few of them in and see what they are good for." Companies have often imposed policies against consumer-oriented technologies—ranging from thumb drives to Web-based email accounts—because of worries that include keeping corporate data secure and other impact on internal computing systems. But Apple has addressed these and other issues, including the ability for companies to encrypt information on iPhones and set up secure ways for employees to connect to corporate networks. Another selling point is that the iPad starts up much more quickly than laptops and has a longer-lasting battery. "We don't get a lot of time in front of a customer," says Simon Woods, Bausch & Lomb's vice president of global technologies and applications.

Submission + - Mother wins MMR case (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: A mother from the UK has won her case claiming that the MMR vaccine severely retarded her child. The main factor in her winning the case was, as the panel put it, "the balance of probabilities". A doctor Michael Fitzpatrick said, "...although a causal link has been established in law in this instance, exhaustive scientific research has failed to establish any link between MMR and brain damage." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7970199/Mother-wins-MMR-payout-after-18-years.html) Since when did law trump exhaustive scientific research in scientific matters?

It's a shock that such a case has succeeded as, despite the mother's claims that she is not anti-vaccination and it has been stated in every article which prints the story that it does not confirm a link between MMR and autism, this will only fuel the anti-vaccination movement.

Does anyone else find this story slightly troubling?

Submission + - Gun buy back in Aust --stunning fall in suicides (smh.com.au) 6

Phurge writes: TEN years of suicide data after John Howard's decision to ban and then buy back 600,000 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns has had a stunning effect.

The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.

A former Australian Treasury economist, Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.

''I fully expected to find no effect at all,'' she told the Herald. ''That we found such a big effect and that it meshed with a range of other data was just shocking, completely unexpected.''

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Apple

Submission + - Liquid cooling makes overclocked Mac Pro silent (geek.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Chances are, if you own an 8-core Mac Pro then you really don’t need to consider overclocking it as the system is more than fast enough. But if you’d like a quieter machine with the option of overclocking, then liquid cooling is the way forward.

Asetek have carried out just such an experiment pitting a liquid-cooled Mac Pro 2.8GHz against a faster, stock air-cooled 3.2GHz model. The results were pleasing for both your ears and the speed of your system.

Programming

Submission + - Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary (flax.ie)

FlaxProject writes: A look into the development progress of the HTML5 Flax web game engine currently been developed using GWT by two Carlow IT Game Development students Ciarán McCann and Carl Lange

Submission + - New HTML5 Canvas-Based Isometric Game Engine Demo (youtube.com)

An anonymous reader writes: New youtube vid shows isometric game engine running at very nice speeds. Although still in alpha, I can't wait to get my hands on the finished product so I can make an even more annoying game than Farmville :o)

Comment Re:i guess apple hasn't learned from MS and IBM (Score -1, Flamebait) 239

I didn't have a 3gs, but an old-school 3g.

I know, but the 3gs is still on sale, and for half the price of the cheapest iPhone4. And without the attenuation issues :)

There's no doubt in my mind this iPhone gets the best cellular reception yet, even though measured signal is lower than the 3GS.

Looks like some crackpot mod is calling Anand a troll.

Comment Re:Subscription service (Score -1, Troll) 274

So? Do shows become worse somehow a few months later?

Ermm? What part of the implied "see an episode before the next episode, wich you may need information from the missed episode for to fully understand/enjoy" did you miss? Do I need to write out everything in this place? How much did you enjoy "The Rockford Files" To Protect and Serve: Part 2 back in 1977 before seeing Part 1 sometime in the 80s?

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