Comment More than particle deflection... (Score -1, Offtopic) 76
Comment Forget RTFM (Score 1) 248
Microsoft ended up buying just the handset business for $7.2 billion and licensed HERE maps from Nokia.
Comment Stop it. (Score 5, Insightful) 376
Comment Not just a Romanian problem. (Score 5, Insightful) 156
Comment Re:Good news for stockholders (Score 4, Funny) 633
Comment NBD, it seems (Score 5, Insightful) 159
"These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground," NASA officials explained in a statement. [Solar Max Photos: Sun Storms of 2013]
Wednesday's solar storm erupted just 21 hours after another powerful coronal mass ejection (NASA calls them CMEs) on Tuesday (Aug. 20). That solar tempest also sent billions of tons of solar particles on their way to Earth.
So maybe if you have satellite TV you'll see a few spotty moments, but nothing to worry about.
Comment Re:Windows 8 woohoo! (Score 5, Funny) 210
Comment Re:Generic business plan (Score 2, Insightful) 14
Comment Re:Missing the point. (Score 4, Insightful) 214
The more I read into it, it's just a mess. Graphs correlating phone use with internet use (no bearing on safety?), alcohol use during the last year with phone use during the last month, and importantly, correlates the frequency of car crashes over two years with cell phone use over one month. In that point, which should have been their most relevant, it even showed no statistical difference between the self-reported phone use of "once/rarely" and "often/regularly."
Here is a link to the primary source.
Comment Missing the point. (Score 5, Interesting) 214
Comment Re:I have a hard time (Score 1) 414
Comment Re:ASUS is Out of the RT Market?? (Score 2) 246
Comment Standing up to the Feds (Score 1) 339
"There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"
I wonder how that really works out, in the long-run. What if you're an online start-up, with little legal know-how? Are you really going to resist demands from such a high level?