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Re:The Internet of Incompatible Things on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:46AM (#10258166)
Maybe the European government will do something similar to what they did for cellphone's charging ports (require all manufacturers to use micro USB). And as for the cellphone change, it would hopefully be applied mostly across the board by manufacturers (in USA too).
Re:Oyster is shutting down on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:08AM (#10256584)
Re:Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded on Monday September 21, 2015 @07:00PM (#10255673)
Do you go to 110x first for quadrupling?
Re:The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:48PM (#10255623)
Do they do this because they don't have the resources to enforce the law?
Re:The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:51PM (#10255377)
I don't know if it is true, but I think that many commercial receivers that you can buy nowadays don't allow you to listen to those frequencies
Re:Apple Speeds Up Electric-Car Work on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:29PM (#10255263)
I don't know, but you probably won't be able to put groceries from some stores in that car... unless said stores shell out 30% or something crazy.
Re:The Death of the Party on Sunday September 20, 2015 @03:53PM (#10248787)
both in Canada and USA, there is plenty of house parties but you can get in trouble for drinking in the streets... but there is private beaches and such, at hotels for example.

Also, the pictures that you posted appear to be a private area...

Re:PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet on Sunday September 20, 2015 @07:39AM (#10247193)
I'm not sure how long it would last but how about something like a bubblegram [1] (laser crystal)... You could use a flatter plastic block and create a 2D image inside. Also, maybe other materials can be used.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegram

Re:$1 Unistroke Recognizer on Saturday September 19, 2015 @08:55PM (#10246134)
backward C gives me a caret
Re:A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 1) [video] on Saturday September 19, 2015 @03:09PM (#10245242)
I wish ad-hoc/mesh networks would be more popular... it would help if Google would not block ad-hoc WiFi on Android.
Re:Searching for the "grey market" foods of New York City on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:23PM (#10243167)
it's only restricted for being used in commercial foods/drinks... you can buy some on Ebay ... or grow some wherever the climate is good for it
Re:How Facebook Copes with Scale: Three Approaches on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:24PM (#10242938)
it is probably actually much less then that since Facebook doesn't appear to store full resolutions... for example, they serve a very low quality version of the original picture...
Re:A Simple AI Capable of Basic Reading Comprehension on Friday September 18, 2015 @03:46PM (#10241621)
I think that it means that thing #1 and thing $2 might appear to be just as difficult to untrained eyes while one would require very little work because of what's already available (libraries, data or whatever) and the other would be a very large task because most of the work hasn't been done yet (but of course a different engineer might be able to find more efficient ways to do things)
Re:D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake on Thursday September 17, 2015 @06:45PM (#10236546)
if this allows anyone to use their D-Link hardware however they see fit, I'm all for this kind of mistakes...
Re:Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:25AM (#10233853)
If they would block ads in native mobile apps and web equally, it would seem fair, but they pick and choose.
Re:Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:56AM (#10233050)
if Apple allows blocking of ads on the web, it should allow blocking of ads on native apps also...
lookup dutch bucket system ... it is soil-less and use the same water/nutrients solution over and over (recirculating), you just need to fill the thank
you can't go to jail for violating a gag order then?
Re:Stripe: Relay on Monday September 14, 2015 @09:22PM (#10218479)
I'm seriously surprised that you haven't switched back to Firefox yet
Re:Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen on Monday September 14, 2015 @09:15PM (#10218453)
I guess you could setup two factor auth. locally without a third party...
Re:TED, David Rothkopf: How Fear Drives American Politics on Monday September 14, 2015 @02:36PM (#10216637)
I agree that the way the American government focuses on terrorism is more then likely hurtful to Americans.