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Comment: Re:Fixing the patent system (Score 1) 347

by remadeus (#41962167) Attached to: Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL
> This is just another in a long series of slashdot articles that have pointed out the broken nature of our patent system I assume you mean the US patent system. I my section of the world something like this would never see the light of day. From my point of view, there must be many parties of interest, who make billions of dollars (per decade), resulting in the delays in reforms. There is just too much money to be made. This problem is so bad in the US, it looks like Third World country politics, horifficly infantile

The Amiga Turns 25 289

Posted by kdawson
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Comment: Re:Ok, honestly (Score 1) 244

by remadeus (#32069172) Attached to: Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"
The most [b]sneaky[/b] of all these evil interfaces are the ones which ask you for your mobile phone number (like in mafia wars) so they can verify the link between your identity and your name. I have made sure my FB account has garbage as info (I only use it for MW), and I laugh at the attempts to get any of my phone numbers through the appps

Comment: Re:Justice (Score 1) 353

by aix tom (#31793274) Attached to: PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS"

Actually, customer relations was one of the reasons Walmart failed in Europe (especially in Germany) when it tried to expand to over here a few years ago. ;-P

The other thing regarding this case might be that every retailer has to give a 2 year warranty on any product. One more important fact is that in the first 6 month after the purchase, the law specifies that a consumer that claims the product is at fault is right unless the retailer can PROVE that the product works as advertised, or the customer damaged it on purpose. So there would be not much to gain for the retailer by going to court, unless he can prove that in court.

For the remaining 18 month of the warranty the burden of proof is reversed, so there the customer would have to prove that the product was already defective by design when he bought it.

Comment: Re:It's a freakin' PHONE (Score 1) 345

by hazydave (#31449294) Attached to: Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0?
With rare exception, programs in the background are consuming little or no power in Android. This is Linux after all... a program that's not doing something or waiting to do something is sitting on a wait-task queue... it's not consuming any power until the thing it's waiting for (a timer, an I/O event, etc) happens. Sure, it's possible to write an evil application that sucks power in the background... I've seen one of these since I started using Android five months ago. The small win with multitasking is the ability to very rapidly switch between applications. I do this all the time, and it's dramatically more efficient than on any single tasking OS, like PalmOS or iPhoneOS. The big win is intentional background processes, eg, daemons in Linux-speak. So any application can stick around and do its job, monitoring other forms of communications, checking the weather, tracking or changing settings based on locale, or simply offering me the same ability in any old program (Pandora, Museek) that Apple reserves for just their apps on the iPhone.

+ - SPAM: root access on Linux based cellular devices

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viralMeme (1461143) writes "Security researchers have turned their attention to femtocells, and have discovered that gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope

Whoever designed these devices should be sent back to computer school. An authentication device that can be bypassed is a contradiction in terms. Or as some pen pusher would put it in a report: an unantipicate security excursion. Did not anyone check these devices for security vulnerabilities. What are they teaching them in college nowadays ?

"Uh you've reached stewie and brian, we're not here right now, uh and if this is mom, uh send money because we're college students and we need money for books...and highlighters...and.... ramen noodles...and condoms, for sexual relations with our classmates""

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Heavy Rain Previews Show Promise 84

Posted by Soulskill
from the blue-skies dept.

History In Video Games — a Closer Look 139

Posted by Soulskill
from the begins-and-ends-in-the-1940s dept.
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+ - Driving games make drivers dangerous

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kilauea writes "According to this BBC new story, some german scientists are telling us that playing driving games makes you take more risks while "doing the real thing". Sounds fishy to me. For one they state that people who play games are more likely to crash, well we already knew that the demographic here overlaps. Secondly they state they reaction times are a second slower, and there is more than enough science to suggest that playing games will actualy increas your reaction times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6457353.stm"
