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  1. Re:Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not knowing the specifics of US disclosure requirements, I would suspect that receiving a government salary would require more disclosure of other income and assets.

  2. Re:How many watches were preordered? on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 1

    The company that wrote the article estimates that 957,000 were sold based on the purchases of 9080 people. So all they can guarantee is 11,804 watches (9080 x 1.3)

  3. Re:Another child making unsupported claims on 15-Year-Old Developing a 3D Printer 10x Faster Than Anything On the Market · · Score: 1

    I'm skeptical since there doesn't seem to be an actual patent application

  4. Re:Pragmatic choice on Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home · · Score: 1

    3. So how did it come to pass that Rudd won, yet Labor's FTTH plan died and got replaced by the Liberal Party's FTTN?

    The Labor party lost and Rudd has subsequently quit as a Member of Parliament

  5. Re:Don't they have an fiber to the node cable netw on Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home · · Score: 1

    I used to live with an Optus cable technician and the Telstra and Optus networks are not Fibre to the Home. They are Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial networks, so fibre to a node point and then coaxial to the homes that node services, with only a few nodes per suburb. It's still better than ADSL but the copper component still limits the overall speeds.

  6. Re:Specs for the interested on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 1

    All the press releases aren't particularly clear, but it seems the next iteration will have 4 processor nodes per cartridge which should make it more feasible for creating HPC.

  7. Re:Specs for the interested on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 1

    One of the services that you can buy from a hosting company is your own dedicated physical server, this will allow them to sell that service cheaper than a Xeon server, but still marked up higher than a virtual.

  8. Re:450 servers, not 1800 on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 1

    1800 threads isn't particularly impressive in an entire rack considering filling the same rack space with blade servers you can easily get over 2000 threads.

  9. Re:Specs for the interested on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 1

    It looks like a decent option for hosting companies to sell dedicated web servers to people, or internally for a company that is running virtual desktops

  10. 450 servers, not 1800 on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone at Phoronix really needs to learn basic math. The Chassis is 4.3U and hold 45 of these Moonshot servers, so a 47U rack could fit 10 chassis' for a total of 450 servers.

  11. Re:Ouya on Has Kickstarter Peaked? · · Score: 1

    You just have to take Miyamoto's words to heart - a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is bad forever.

    I'll counter with Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever

  12. Re:Good on 41 Months In Prison For Man Who Leaked AT&T iPad Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    The request would be closer to "Hi, this is Bill. You have an account at Bank of America with account number 5551212 , what's your name, address, date of birth and social security number?"

  13. Re:UK Plutonium on NASA Restarts Plutonium Production · · Score: 1

    Protons. Electrons have no appreciable mass. But it would be easier to add protons to iridium to make gold.

  14. Re:Samsung's visibility on Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won't Wait For Appeal · · Score: 3, Informative

    I looked at the numbers that were used for those graphs and it's incredibly misleading. It cherry picks data to make it look like Samsung has a vastly higher marketing expenditure than other companies. The comparisons are also against companies that are really only in a few markets vs the nine that Samsung Electronics are involved in.
    Based on the 2011 annual reports.
    - Samsung lists $2.9 billion for advertising expenses and $4.5 billion on Sales promotion expenses. (total $7.4 billion)
    - Coca Cola lists $3.2 billion for advertising expenses and $5.8 billion for Promotions and Marketing programs (total $9 billion)
    - While Apple list $0.93 billion for advertising expenses, that is the only expense they give a value for in their SG&A of $7.6 billion which includes retail costs, marketing, professional services, advertising and "other".

    All that data shows is that everyone else hides their actual marketing expenditure better.

  15. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 1

    Samsung Electronics also covers their home appliances. I've seen more advertising for Samsung fridges and washing machines than phones/tablets.

  16. Re:Car analogy on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    That combination has been in existence for ~70 years, so the patent will have expired long ago

  17. It's a third party not the ATO on Australian Tax Office Stores Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1

    A separate company that is managing a Publication Ordering Service for the Tax Office is storing passwords in plain text. I had to help set up access to the ATO portal at my last job and it requires installing company specific certificates per user or to be running a specific security application which, requires installing company specific certificates, the for the login screen to even show up

  18. Re:This is what I get after installing in Debian x on Valve Officially Launches Steam For Linux · · Score: 1

    Apparently the latest version in Debian is 2.13 this thread suggests using the version from the experimental branch

  19. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Other way around. Horse owners/riders are crazier than the horses.

  20. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 1

    My domain (a .edu.au) started being blocked by the hotmail servers yesterday with BAY0-MC2-F2.Bay0.hotmail.com #550 OU-002 (BAY0-MC2-F2) Unfortunately, messages from 203.xxx.xxx.xxx weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list and it was due to not having an SPF record.
    After having one created mail goes through, but they seem to automatically be sent to the Junk folder with This message looks suspicious to our SmartScreen filters even though I don't see how. Maybe it's because I haven't had my domain registered with their third party "Safe Senders" list.

  21. Re:Oh, one more thing on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes · · Score: 1

    If you're playing some trickery where they're not "really" your houses, you merely have exclusive access to them and control over them but they're "actually" expenses on the balance sheet of a Burmuda Corp that you own through seven subsidiaries then I've got a problem with that.

    In Australia that would be classed as a Fringe Benifit which is taxed at a higher rate than normal income, and the value must match the market value for a year's rent in the property. If you're caught then they will request the back taxes (with interest) or have you prosecuted for tax evasion.

  22. Re:TF2 Or GTFO on Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam · · Score: 1

    You don't even need beta access to run TF2. The steam.deb is fairly easy to find and you can bypass the beta check by starting the client with "steam steam://open/games/" from a terminal window

    Being in the beta gets you access to extra features but there isn't a huge difference in what I could do before I received the beta invite to now.

  23. Re:The up to a meter claim. on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 1

    Reading the claims it looks like the range is increased by using a series of peripheral antennas. The language is hard to decipher but I think it might be along the lines of having a base station next to your computer which transmits power to your keyboard and mouse,the keyboard and mouse then retransmit to additional devices.
    IANAEE so my interpretation could be completely wrong

  24. Re:Get a couple of controllers and some games on Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? · · Score: 1

    Healthy eating habits

  25. Re:Why ? on Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? · · Score: 1

    Plus Lego LOTR has just come out and if they kept the cooperative play system the same as the last Lego Star Wars then it is great for one of the younger children to play with an older sibling