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Comment I almost always use Bluetooth, so... (Score 1) 446

I didn't notice the problem at first. The phone also has lots of issues with Bluetooth, so I got fed up once and tried holding it and using it the "normal" way while shopping and the face sensor was clearly malfunctioning compared with my previous iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. I simply couldn't hold a conversation. In the time I was shopping, it hung up on my brother, muted me (more than once), went to the number pad and started punching numbers (more than once), tried to add another call and ended up editing a contact... It was completely unusable. I exchanged it. I only briefly used the replacement that way and assumed that it was working better than the first, but I haven't actually tried to use it the "normal" way for an entire conversation. I have always used case that covers the antenna band.

Comment A geneticist would know better than me, but... (Score 1) 554

...how does putting human DNA into an egg cell make the resulting cells partly animal? Basically, the egg cell isn't much more than a container for the human DNA in the nucleus. If the cells reproduce, and keep duplicating the *human* DNA, and the human DNA determines how those cells develop and form specific functions, then it's still human. I just don't see where DNA-coded information from the animal's DNA gets mixed.

Comment Re:WPA (Score 1) 261

It is very possible for the new device to encapsulate networking for older "legacy" DS games and allow connecting to secure wireless networks. There are several elegant ways to do this.

All network settings could be managed from the new device's BIOS menu. Profiles could be saved as "Home", "Work", etc.

Legacy DS games could see a virtual, open access point called "default". Alternatively legacy games could see several logical AP connections; named for each named connection that was configured in the BIOS menu ("Home", "Work", etc). These logical connections all bridge to the connection profiles that were configured in the new device's BIOS menu. These could be 802.11a/b/g/n, WEP/WPA/WPA2, and even GSM/CDMA!

Another method would be to suspend the legacy DS title and hook into the new firmware network chooser whenever a single logical AP is chosen.

It should even be possible for the new device to hook into the legacy DS game's code and hijack execution every time the legacy game calls to Nintendo WFC code libraries. This would be the most complicated to implement, but it's VERY possible and would be the most elegant solution.

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