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Comment Re:But how precise is it? (Score 4, Funny) 253

The reason they drop the speed limits is because there is an increased risk of accident/injury in that particular area. If you really have a problem with it, shoot me the street name so I can check out the Google Maps images of the area. I guarantee the speed limit variation is perfectly justified. Also, there is no such thing as quotas for speeding tickets.

Comment Guess I'll be the first to go into battle (Score 1) 112

I believe the technical jargon makes it sound much more complicated than it is. Understanding what the scientists did requires knowing about 'random walks' and their significance. Think of a typical processor working on a problem that involves random walk sequences. Now imagine if that was replaced by getting 2 photons to calculate the 'random walk' part of the problem -- speed is massively increased, and quantum superpositions are now hopefully being utilized. The problem, in many cases, may have just become exponentially easier and faster.

Just another "small step" out of thousands we are blessed with being able to witness. Patience is a virtue.

Comment Re:XBMC - Now! (Score 1) 132

WRONG. Downloading is NOT ILLEGAL. No one has ever been sued for downloading a single thing. You are not breaking copyright laws by downloading.

[Citation Needed]. So you're saying there's absolutely nothing illegal about downloading copyrighted media such as television broadcasts, movies, and music from p2p? As long as I don't enable seeding and make the files available for download FROM me, it's perfectly legal? If you're being serious, you have changed my life, because I will leave right now and purchase a laptop to use as a media center for the living room.

Comment Re:No IE6 support (Score 1) 408

Exactly. People expect to be able to use all the innovative products on the same shitty hardware they were using even just 5 years ago. Less than two thousand dollars later I bought a computer this year that will never lag, and won't crash even if I try. Every single feature on nearly every innovative website/service works flawlessly for me, simply because I chose to upgrade hardware to keep up with the corresponding software upgrades. Get a computer with a good graphics card, i7/equivalent, and 6GB of RAM. Not expensive at all, and you will run Vista without any problems, ever, let alone a stable Windows 7 distro.

I just don't like when people refuse to upgrade and then cry because new tech is "resource intensive" - *Hint: get more resources.

Comment Re:You know what would make it instant? (Score 2, Interesting) 408

What fade? I see no fading at all. I see the search results constantly updating whenever I change the text in the search box, in real time, and it is absolutely badass. I'm a ghost-writer who gets paid to write uni papers, so this will increase my pay because of the smaller amount of time it will take to research a topic. i7 & 6GB of RAM, triple monitors, 50-100 tab browsing, searching multiple engines at once, research organization software/sidebar, and this feature == Less time to make x$, fitting more money into my workday. Thanks, Google.

Comment Re:Wheel of Bug Chasers! (Score 1, Troll) 177

Give ME a break. I can't believe the "bug bounty hunters" would really sell a Google vulnerability for a thousand dollars - I used to mindlessly wipe asses and roll people over for two weeks for that. It's an insult to their intelligence considering the amount of work they put into the penetration-testing/logic analysis involved. An average-sized college internet-portal exploit would be worth $1,000... let alone one of the largest web services company in the world. I think $10,000 is much more appropriate.

Submission + - Android Bug Puts A Family In Fear For Their Lives 1

An anonymous reader writes: Our lives are now in danger due to a well-known bug in the Android 2.1/2.2 operating system. The bug causes a text message to be sent to someone else without the sender being notified of it. The details are located in this thread http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=345259e6d424bad3&hl=en ... and if only we had been warned about it. As you can see in the thread, the issue has been raised by many people over the last six months and the Android developers have not even bothered to address it. Less than 24 hours ago, my sister knew someone who recently committed a very large crime in our area and decided it was in our community's best interest to turn him in. She texted her best friend to tell her what she was going to do, and the bug in her Android phone caused the text message to be sent to Person-B, who was more loyal to the criminal. Person-B replied by telling us that 'it's on and we will pay' and that he had forwarded the message to the criminal. Later on in the night, a car and a bicycle were stopped outside of our house (in a VERY rural area). As soon as we opened up the front door to say something, both of them sped off. We are scared to call the police, because if the criminal gets caught, all of his cronies will know it was us and will definitely seek revenge. Because the Android developers refused to fix a catastrophic programming error, two of their most outspoken supporters are now living in fear.

Comment Re:Commercial Payload Companies (Score 4, Insightful) 60

How can someone just whip out a "commercial satellite bus" business without having a launch vehicle? I'm sure as soon as the half-dozen companies you referenced (plus more that will inevitably be created) are fully functional, "payload launching" will be the next large commercial step.

Comment Re:Let me see if I've got this right... (Score 1, Funny) 186

Amen. I cannot even recall an occasion when Flash has crashed.

I must say, my Vista machine with an i7 and 6gb of RAM has never truly crashed. People piss and moan while I couldn't ask for more. There are over 30 tabs open on this browser instance, to the point where the tabs on the top show not even the favicon. On my second/minimized instance of Chrome, I have over 20 tabs, but at least the favicons are displayed. This includes multiple tabs of Pac-Man on level 5-15, and multiple Youtubes. My taskbar has so many applications minimized on it that it has switched from 1 column to 2 columns and I can no longer read the titles of anything I have open (I go mostly by memory/quick trial and error to find what I need when it gets to this point). I have 1 IE, 3 other Firefox windows, Limewire/MediaMonkey, 6 notepads, 3 OpenOffice Writers, my AV, Ventrilo, etc. I have VC#.Net IDE opened, along with BitPim (to fix a cellphone). My computer only costed $2,300 and still has a full warranty. So if anything goes wrong, I'll just send its ass in. RAM = 73% full, CPU = 4% (considering all of the above) while just reading.

People complain about Flash, Windows, etc, because they are attempting to fit ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

If only people would be disciplined enough to make/save and spend $2,000 on a high-quality machine, they wouldn't have so much to complain about. Vista is an incredible operating system for me, and runs so beautifully it is not funny. I got clocks, Youtube, Wikipedia, RAM/CPU monitors, calculator, notepad widget, and todo list on my Vista sidebar and they have ALWAYS worked FLAWLESSLY. Nearly everything on this machine has worked flawlessly.

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