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Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 284

by Anonvmous Coward on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:48PM (#36755052) Attached to: Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns

Read the articles you linked to.

"Keeping up with their promise to make smartphones more root-friendly,"

"They didn't specify which handsets will receive the capability or when we can expect to see it, but the company promises to keep us updated "every few weeks.""

"Motorola said it plans to enable the unlockable/relockable bootloader currently found on Motorola XOOM across its portfolio of devices starting in late 2011, "where carriers and operators will allow it.""

What's funny is you lot sure like to drag out the 'reality distortion field' a lot.

Why was this modded down instead of up?

Comment Re:If you want CD-quality audio, buy CDs (Score 1) 550

by Wild Bill TX on Sunday March 13, 2011 @01:14PM (#35472388) Attached to: Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC

I don't buy CDs because I don't want the clutter or the hassle of ripping them to a more practical location. The physical backup is nice, yes, but not worth the space it consumes.

Also, online downloads offer us the opportunity to surpass CD quality. It's time for the CD to die.

Comment Fast != good (Score 1) 360

by Wild Bill TX on Sunday September 12, 2010 @05:52PM (#33555846) Attached to: IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours"

And their rendering engine is still worse than everybody else's. So IE9 can render broken pages faster than any other browser. Whoo!

Comment Re:Just hilarious (Score 1) 339

by Anonvmous Coward on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:40PM (#32734542) Attached to: Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8

Actually he's got a point. Nobody arguse about it is using the right numbers for the right purpose. It has been going on for ages on this site.

Comment Re:After reading the tech specs I can see (Score 1) 179

by Wild Bill TX on Thursday October 29, 2009 @07:01PM (#29918027) Attached to: Nintendo Announces DSi XL

No, DS and GBA use completely different plugs on the device's end.

Comment How to make science popular again (Score 1) 94

by Wild Bill TX on Monday September 14, 2009 @03:40PM (#29417999) Attached to: Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells

"How To Make Science Popular Again?"
"Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells"

Hey, that works!

Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells 94

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 14, 2009 @02:46PM from the nature's-lightswitch dept.

Scientists claim to have identified a master gene which is able to transform blood stem cells into disease-fighting immune cells. The hope is that this discovery will allow for new treatments for cancer. "The researchers have 'knocked out' the gene in question, known as E4bp4, in a mouse model, creating the world's first animal model entirely lacking NK cells, but with all other blood cells and immune cells intact. This breakthrough model should help solve the mystery of the role that Natural Killer cells play in autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Some scientists think that these diseases are caused by malfunctioning NK cells that turn on the body and attack healthy cells, causing disease instead of fighting it. Clarifying NK cells' role could lead to new ways of treating these conditions."

Comment Re:Phenomenal browser (Score 2, Informative) 277

by Wild Bill TX on Thursday June 04, 2009 @12:31PM (#28211159) Attached to: Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

Facebook's new brokenness in Opera has been driving me insane. You can join the discussion on it and bug report here: http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=34783

It's fairly absurd, really. The push that broke things did not seem to introduce any visible changes to the site, only internal changes that don't work in Opera. The errors also affect Facebook Connect, so every site on the Internet using Facebook connect suddenly no longer works in Opera.

Comment Re:Smart enough... (Score 1) 515

by Wild Bill TX on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @07:51PM (#27681145) Attached to: "Good Enough" Computers Are the Future

The Windows desktop environment is at least as polished as GNOME, quite possibly more than GNOME as of Windows 7, and there are many shell replacements available if you don't like it.

Comment Re:They haven't ended the relationship... (Score 4, Funny) 137

by Wild Bill TX on Thursday April 09, 2009 @01:15PM (#27520775) Attached to: Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links

I'm not sure I understand what place free content has on The Pirate Bay...

Comment Re:Yeah.. (Score 1) 429

by Wild Bill TX on Sunday March 22, 2009 @09:30PM (#27293569) Attached to: Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

You're not using Blu-ray, so no wonder you don't need a dedicated theater!

Comment Re:Why stop there? (Score 1) 155

by Wild Bill TX on Saturday February 21, 2009 @12:12AM (#26938387) Attached to: Bands Bypass iTunes With iPhone Apps

I was going to say use "musics". These are the Internets... saying stuff like "musics" fits right in! Loved the parody regardless. Made me smile.

Comment Re:Adopt a git... (Score 5, Informative) 346

by Wild Bill TX on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:05AM (#26397233) Attached to: Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies?

Quoth Linus Torvalds, "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git." :)

Comment Re:Humorless bastards (Score 1) 389

by Wild Bill TX on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:48PM (#26123325) Attached to: Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia

If sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, irony must be pretty up there considering sarcasm + irony > all.

The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections 223

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:40PM from the no-paper-trail-no-problem dept.

Geek Satire writes "Voting works only if you believe your vote gets counted accurately. The 2008 US elections have avoided many well-known problems of the 2004 and 2000 elections, but many problems remain. O'Reilly News interviewed Dr. Barbara Simons, advisor to the Federal Election Assistance Commission, to review electronic voting in the 2008 US elections, discussing the physical security of storing and maintaining election machines, the move from electronic back to paper ballots, and why open source voting machines don't necessarily solve problems of bugs, backdoors, and audits."

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