Posts by ratfox

Yes, but was this reported by inside sources that have been reliable in the past??

If you don't tell us that, how do we know whether we should believe it or not??

Testing

We've heard of it.

You fail statistics forever

There is nothing in the article that suggests that more than 30% of search results are poisoned.

Speed of sound

Interesting: I was going to complain that the speed of sound is very different at that altitude, but apparently not really. Wikipedia says that because sound goes faster in low density and slower in low pressure, the only real difference comes with temperature, and so the lowest speed of sound he should encounter is about 270 m/s.

Powered by six AA batteries…

Scary how power hungry computers have become now. Well, admittedly, the specs also raised a chuckle…

"live filters will be phased out as we work to improve the Instagram experience for all users"

How is it possible to parse that sentence in a way that make sense?? They are removing an option that many users liked…

Is it that Facebook wants a chance to grab the picture before filters got applied?

"Google's map app - which was recently thrown off Apple's iOS platform"

Will you people please finally get it!?

The app which was on iOS up to iOS 5 was not an app from Google, but an app from Apple, using Google data.

The worst is yet to come

If I understand correctly, almost half of the stock is held by employees, who can only start selling it in a few weeks.

"These are not ads because they are not paid placement."

So these are links which direct you to a store where you can buy things, and if you click on them, somebody will receive money for it. But, they are not ads!

Only a matter of time…

Until all this becomes a commodity. BTW, do the rules forbid selling what you bought at a discount, without telling Amazon? If a company just acts as a proxy transferring jobs to EC2, more like a retailer than a broker?

"On Bing, your Facebook privacy settings are always respected"

Oh, good to know that Microsoft is following Facebook's lead on privacy…

How useful

Why not go for the guys who DDoSed Wikileaks instead?

Let the Schadenfreude begin…

It is, after all, the reinste Freude.

Curious and impatient to see the reaction of Anonymous

…oh, and of justice systems. DDoS is a crime, amirite?

Interoperability

I wish some of them could act as Google did in the US spectrum auction; i.e. pledging a whole bunch of money on condition that all participants have to accept interoperability no matter what.

It may be just my opinion, but I think government regulation about minimum interoperability is coming no matter what. There are just not enough players to guarantee a fair competition. If so, the sooner governements force interoperability, the better.

"virtually no explanation other than climate change"

What lack of imagination. Is this what passes for science these days?

"Ice ages were caused by aliens. There is virtually no other explanation"… Because we have no explanation at all.

Well done

This was obviously a credible threat. I hope they investigate his relationship with Al-Qaeda.

Universal search is lame anyway

Seriously. I can't remember ever wanting to search for something without knowing whether I was going to find it on the web or on my cell phone.