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Submission + - Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo on Apple Store 1

theodp writes: Working calmly in broad daylight and filming their efforts for YouTube posterity, a fake construction crew attached a large Microsoft Windows logo to the black facade of a soon-to-open Hamburg Apple Store. Neat hack in the MIT vein, but next time the crew might want to take along a pic of the Windows logo — with the adrenaline flowing, some of the colors got rearranged and were hung upside down.

Comment Re:Unencrypted = Stupid (Score 1) 645

Yes, it is likely that Sony will NEVER live down the installation of a rootkit on unsuspecting clients computers. So many otherwise responsible people will feel no sympathy for them, in fact they may ENJOY seeing Sony twist in the breeze. Unfortunate for their customers, but it shows how unwise it may be to be a Sony customer

Comment Re:Not so bad to have different systems. (Score 1) 2288

The thing is, even if they are both based on arbitrary fundamental measures, SI units are self-consistent, while imperial measurements are not. So a lot of arbitrary constants are required in the US that are not needed elsewhere.

...and this self-consistency has exactly what advantage, please?

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