Posts by stpete

FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge

Re: I'm Shocked, Shocked!

No, it has not always been that way.

LBJ pulled his strings for ladybird 75 years ago, but there have been many excellent FCC administrators and commissions, just as there have also been many, many other excellent, conscientious and effective members of congress and governmental bodies.

Stop minimizing the absolute evil and corruption of the Trump administration.

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

“...determined to kill off the laptop for iPads.”

You said, “...determined to kill off the laptop for iPads.”

WTF does that even mean?

Smartphone passcodes protected by the Fifth Amendment – US court

Re: Unsolder the flash memory ICs, and then read them

And if you want to annoy someone who wants to annoy an iPhone user, just remind them that everything on that phone is probably on iCloud.

Lenovo CTO: Hey, look around – we're not the only ones with a crapware infection

No. "everyone" is...

...most people who still use PC's!

LOL

Bitcoin is great and safe, says, er, the Bitcoin Foundation

Shaky or not, Bitcoin is sponsoring a college bowl game...

http://stpetersburgbowl.com

Re: Bitcoin is not a currency.

re: "What's not to like?"

There's plenty not to like if you're a banker, and watching your world slowly crumble around you.

Apple to ditch Intel – report

Re: @ M Gale

"No need to be rational?"

M Gale, All through the 90's and 00's it was a few rational Apple customers among millions of personal computer users who persistently purchased machines which "just worked" over balky, clunky, virus laden, Windoze PCs.

(They're not much better these days.) So as you say, "Who cares what's in it?" Who indeed, just as long as it works. That seems pretty rational to me.

Mars rover will.i.am 'cast: A depressing day for space and technology

The only depressing thing I see...

The only depressing thing I see in connection with Rover and NASA is this self important little screed in The Register, muttering on about a lack of interplanetary gravitas amongst geeks. Meh.

Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact

So then who's Germany?

Who's going to attack who?

ALIEN ARTIFACTS can best be FOUND ON MOON

Smudges in old govt lunar pics?

Governments have been altering photos since for ever, but without Photoshop or computers to digitize lunar pix and smoothly alter photos in the 60's & 70's, lunar photos released back then feature many clumsy (by modern standards) smudges. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13TmpnWwAJ8&feature=related>