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  1. Re:Is it dead? on Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft · · Score: 2

    A mobile 'desktop' has its uses. I LOVE having an 8" tablet that can act as a server or AP if i need it to. No website ever tells me 'not available on mobiIe'. I bought it to make up for any bullshit deficiencies my ARM based mobiles devices might have, like transferring files to each other.

  2. Re:Is it dead? on Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Because I have an 8" x86 tablet that can run more software than any ARM tablet ever made.

  3. Re:Good for him on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    The problem is that this solution isnt really commercially viable. Sure you will get some shops using it to reduce their safety liability vector, but for the most part its just too expensive. Each stop costs SIGNIFICANT($70+) replacement costs and it false stops more than an acceptable amount.

  4. Re:Why would I work for free to make Apple rich? on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 2

    TO be fair, on your last point, Mavericks multi-monitor support really is a huge step up from the past. Being able to extend the desktop to Apple TV is a nice feature and works very well. The Mavericks multi-mon is definitely a step above Windows right now. Full Disclosure: I have Linux, Win 7, Win 8, Steam OS, and OSX on my desk right now. Every machine has a dedicated GPU.

  5. Re:Why is everything else allowed on the network? on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    The 'air' can only hold so much data. If you have an wireless Access Point on one network and I have an Access Point on another, we split the available 'air' bandwidth. The room can only hold so much data, and everyone shares the frequencies regardless of the network configuration.

  6. Re:Apple Products never play nice with WIFI on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Laptops have had them forever. 'First' is completely subjective in this case.

  7. Re:By your definition Samsung follows all on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Humidity sensor is usually packaged with a temperature sensor, (http://www.adafruit.com/products/1638) so its not that strange that they used it. Hell it might have been there for previous versions and they only exposed it via software in the S4.

  8. Re:OK, but ... on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    I really enjoy when CC and the words diverge slightly. It exposes how people interpret differently.

  9. Re:Hotel tax??? on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Taxes are the taking of money by force, under the color of law. It could definitely fit your definition.

  10. Re:Hotel tax??? on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    You are the kind of person that thinks it ok to pay for parking in city/county parks. Instead of making sure its part of the commons, it has to generate revenue. Tourist taxes are plain robbery by the local government.

  11. Re:Give 'em your Kool-Aid on Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? · · Score: 1

    Why would I learn to be an architect, there are buildings everywhere......

  12. Re:Grandfathering existing free accounts or not? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    So thats what people meant by their ' ad infested site'. The link in the email must take you to some ad dump, before letting you continue.

  13. Re:Plenty of Alternatives on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    Yeah 'the roll their own service' is shitty as hell, just ask LG

  14. Re:Their basic service is only $25 / year on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    Because $25/year doesn't give me one dynamic IP name, it gives me 32.

  15. Re:Viable Replacement? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    5 to 10 years ago most routers and NAS didnt come with Dyn support.

  16. Re:You cancel service? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 2

    $25/year gives you 32 changeable names.

  17. Re:Jerkfaces Usually Get Their Due on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    There is no default implicit agreement to not share the video, no matter how much you want there to be. You have to be proactive and state it, in writing or orally . The default state of copyright law is that if you give me consent to record you, i can share it. It is upon you to prove a further contract between us exists, disallowing sharing.

  18. Re:Jerkfaces Usually Get Their Due on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    If you consent to let someone film you (absent an agreement), you are by law giving them consent to do with it as they please. That is copyright 101. That wont be changing anytime soon. Im not discouraging anyone from making sex tapes, only educating them on the ramifications of if they do. Get an agreement, verbal or oral, and preferably use NON internet connected devices to do so to retain control of your image.

  19. Re:bad idea on Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus · · Score: 1

    We have 50 states, all with different plates and numbering schemes. Not only that but in California alone i can choose from almost a dozen different plates, all with different numbering schemes i.e. certain plates like veteran or purple heart use a different numbering format then a traditional plate. Your database would have to account for all of it, and be updated yearly.

  20. Re:The new Hitlers on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    Its not a fundamental right to have state sanctioned marriage, what IS the fundamental right is the 'equal protection under the law' clause.

  21. Re:Jerkfaces Usually Get Their Due on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    "This is a no-brainer. Revenge porn is an abuse of trust." This is a MASSIVE assumption. If you allow someone to record you in intimate acts, you have no one to blame but yourself. Free Speech trumps hurt feelings for 'lapses of morality'. Dont want to have a sex tape leaked? dont agree to be filmed.

  22. Re:bad idea on Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus · · Score: 1

    The license plate system as described by this idiot would not work.

  23. Re:We are the geeks, we are not tools for non-geek on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    And reacting to that can is NOT unprofessional?

  24. Re:morons! on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 0

    Calling CD Projekt Red a bunch of greedy idiots won't make you a lot of friends around here.

  25. Re:The Cloud! on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    So we are calling full x86 machines 'bricks'?