Posts by ratfox

It's going to be tough to make it look like the F35 won. The A10 is a specialist without equals.

I wonder what the pilots would choose; I would choose reliability.

Impressive for Fitbit

It's impressive that they managed to keep their lead on Apple. I'd bet on them keeping that lead. I would say that most of the people who were going to buy an Apple watch bought one already, and the demand for next quarters is going to be lower, until they release a second model. Fitbit, on the other hand, probably is selling the same amount regularly, and did not get a particular bump this quarter.

The statements of competitors notwithstanding, the only other subject that didn't seem to be solved was the subject of scraping… and that was before the German publishers admitted they preferred Google to scrape and display snippets rather than just display titles.

Then again, maybe they prefer the Spanish solution.

I hope Verisign is forced to pay for their opponents' lawyers.

That should really be mandatory when a massive corporation loses a groundless lawsuit against a much smaller business.

So is there a statute of limitations about skipping bail?

I'm unsure if that is the case. IIRC, Roman Polanski would still be put in jail if he is ever caught in the US, almost forty years after sex with a minor. There is no statute of limitations that apply, not due to the nature of the crime, but due to the particulars of how he escaped after pleading guilty.

My first SMS while visiting India was "You can also surf the web here with roaming". The second was "Entertain yourself! Watch a few videos on www.YouTube.com".

Nice try…

as far as I know, the last was Sweden in the 1950s

Sweden changed in 1967, Iceland in 1968. A smattering of African and Asian countries changed since, most recently Samoa, which switched to the English side of the road in 2009.

Nice business

1. Stop random cars

2. Ask if they have money

3. Confiscate the money under civil asset forfeiture laws

4. Profit

It would be funnier if some actual cops were not already doing that.

Cognitive dissonance

Is it just me, or is David Cameron really, really off base on this? What can possibly the reason he's so obsessed with the subject, when frankly there are so many other more worthy of his attention?

I think this must have been what it felt like in the US during the prohibition.

I wonder how many people actually care about the fact that they are tracked with cookies. Certainly, it feels like the we-use-cookies popups are being either ignored or clicked without much attention.

Deja vu?

Wasn't this already one of the topics of the investigation started by Almunia?

It's a head-scratch how a company can bleed red ink for years and keep going up...

What are you talking about? They have not been bleeding red ink. Were it not for that augmentation in traffic acquisition costs, they would have made a profit, same as every quarter since many years.

Feels they should decouple their tests

There should be one set of tests checking that the car can actually detect reliably what's around it, and another set of tests (fully virtual) checking the behavior of the car given surroundings.

Building an empty city for tests feels overcomplicated.

I don't get this

The researchers call for far greater disclosure from Google, which has disappointed privacy advocates

by choosing to act as secret judge and jury on every RTBF case.

If I remember correctly, the ruling of the European Court of Justice specifically demanded from Google to accept requests from individuals, instead of making people go through privacy regulators, and now people complain Google should not be allowed to act as secret judge and jury. They're just doing what the law forces them to do! Otherwise, what would have been the point of the ruling of the ECJ?

Photos are special; they do not belong to a single app

I remember there used to be two applications for looking at your pictures, the stock Android one and the Google one. In fact, I believe that Samsung phones carry an additional app built by Samsung.

So this user seemed to think that deleting the app would delete all pictures taken with the app. Not so, since multiple apps can access the pictures…

Admittedly, it's a bit confusing. For most apps, deleting the app removes all data associated with the app.