Comment Re:Quiet? Lonely? (Score 1) 110
, followed by the JST (Joint Sales Tax).
They are going to legalize marijuana in Canada and start taxing joints? Should have done this a long time ago, me thinks...
Comment Re:Like the cat (Score 1) 324
All possible results are there until you observe, this causes the wave form to collapse.
Comment A name change (Score 2) 116
If they would change their name to the Privacy Party then they may find they do a lot better...
Comment Grown in displays (Score 1) 90
Sounds like there may be a day when you will be able to get your cell phone display tattooed on your hand. Not clear
how they would incorporate the speaker, mic and camera... In addition, laser beam eyes would be cool at night.
Comment CPU power usage, really? (Score 1) 137
So here is the power usage breakdown from my Samsung Galaxy S running Froyo:
Display: 89%
Maps: 5%
Wifi: 3%
Cell Standby: 2%
So how is enabling "Dark Silicon" going to help the power usage on my phone when the display uses the
vast majority of the power?
Comment Re:So don't worry about it (Score 1) 173
I tend to make the assumption that if it's about some silly law(-suit), patent or other silly legalese problem, then the poster resides in the US of A. else { Europe }. Occasionally I get a false positive, but then nothing of value was lost at that.
Hey don't forget about Canada we are not with the USofAs crazy patent system. Canada doesn't allow software patents either. I'm not sure why more American software companies haven't closed up shop in the US and moved to more friendly patent free climes...
Comment Re:Time and money? (Score 4, Informative) 103
Wrong, the median family income is closer to 65K a year in Canada. http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil108a-eng.htm
Comment Re:JUSTIFIED TOP POST (Score 1) 459
Hmmm I guess that depends are where you live. I've been running Froyo on my Galaxy S since December. It bricked the phone and Samsung had
to replace it but, hey, you can't have everything...
Comment You cannot stop the progression of technology. (Score 1) 804
My handwriting has become so bad I'd hate to have to take notes by hand. I'd never be able to read them after-wards.
Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5
Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.
Comment Re:Nicely twisted summary (Score 1) 286
Interesting, does anybody know of a map of the world that shows which countries actually allow software patents? It can't be that many.
I know that in Canada, Europe, China and New Zealand software is not patentable. I think besides the US, a few South American
countries and South Korea software patents are not allowed.
Comment Re:If they want to be taken seriously (Score 1) 224
How about the Privacy Party?
The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug 230
RazvanM writes "At the beginning of this month the Mac OS X 10.5.8 closed a kernel vulnerability that lasted more than 4 years, covering all the 10.4 and (almost all) 10.5 Mac OS X releases. This article presents some twitter-size programs that trigger the bug. The mechanics are so simple that can be easily explained to anybody possessing some minimal knowledge about how operating systems works. Beside being a good educational example this is also a scary proof that very mature code can still be vulnerable in rather unsophisticated ways."
Comment Re:Please repost your article. (Score 2, Insightful) 197
Geeze FF with adblock and some half decent filters.
Why Doctors Hate Science 1064
theodp writes "A 2004 study found some 10 million women lacking a cervix were still getting Pap tests. Only problem is, a Pap test screens for cervical cancer — no cervix, no cancer. With this tale, Newsweek's Sharon Begley makes her case for comparative-effectiveness research (CER), which is receiving $1 billion under the stimulus bill for studies to determine which treatments, including drugs, are more medically sound and cost-effective than others for a given ailment. Physicians, Begley says, must stop treatments that are rooted more in local medical culture than in medical science, embrace practices that have been shown scientifically to be superior to others, and ignore critics who paint CER as government control of doctors' decision-making."
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