Comment Outdoor Sport (Score 3, Informative) 127
Go outside and do something, or the health costs will be enormous in later years.
Comment Re:Is Nuclear going to be acknowledged? (Score 1) 652
And nobody is talking about reactors using Thorium or mixed fuel reactors. Oh wait your can't reprocess the waste to make bombs. they will never go for it.
Comment Vent God (Score 1) 216
Will you quit whining, I control the heat and air. You have a problem? Sucks!
Comment Montana Paradox (Score 1) 992
Before Montana lowered it's speed limit in 1999, or there about, it had a lower fatality rate, than after it brought in the 75 mph limit.
http://www.hwysafety.com/hwy_montana_2001.htm
Please read, and make up your mind from there.
Comment Re:Followup question: Why doesnt my bike do the sa (Score 1) 85
Aluminum is neurotoxic, no?
Comment Timing of release (Score 1) 126
Cowboys and Aliens, after Moss, I think, well before PhD. No?!?
Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10 176
A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: "Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. 'I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,' the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day."
Comment Re:Uh No (Score 1) 582
As the song goes 'Beautiful Dreamer Wake Unto Me'.
You will look really good manacled by your ankles to the roof, in which ever lockup they decide to drop you in.
You are also very right, Sigh, thankfully, the terrorists are not the brightest lights on the street, or we would have Real problems.
Unfortunately our security is done by the lowest price contractors, ain't free enterprise wonderful?!!!!!!!!
Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later 407
This week the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a surprisingly (although I guess it shouldn't be) broad patent for a "mobile entertainment and communication device". Upon closer inspection you may notice that it pretty much outlines the ubiquitous smartphone concept. "It's a patent for a mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files. The patent holding firm who has the rights to this patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, ATT, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others. Amusingly, the company actually first filed the lawsuits on Monday, but realized it was jumping the gun and pulled them, only to refile just past the stroke of midnight. "
Math on iPhones Just Doesn't Add Up? 289
Tech Dirt is reporting that recently announced numbers by Apple and AT&T suggest that there is a large gap (1.7 million) between the number of iPhones being sold and those being activated. Taking into account factors like the iPhone launching outside the US and a 20% estimate of people buying the iPhone just for the purposes of unlocking, there are still 700,000 iPhones unaccounted for. "[...] suggesting that they're sitting on store shelves, piling up as unsold inventory. That number suggests at least some gap between perceived demand and actual demand -- while also raising questions about how much effort it will take to eat through that inventory."
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