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  1. Re:nVidia on Frame Latency Spikes Plague Radeon Graphics Cards · · Score: 4, Informative
  2. Re:Google Fiber 2.55 MB/s? on Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Netflix says for the best quality setting to expect about 600 kB/s of traffic for HD programming (or 5 Mbps), so only households with multiple streams going will exceed that.

  3. Get closer on High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech · · Score: 2

    If your orders have to transit hundreds of km, whether it's at 3e8 or 2e8 m/s, you're already at a disadvantage compared to those that have their servers co-located with or next door to the exchange's servers.

  4. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    The change jar might be the only savings/pension plan many people are left with ...

    But in this Canadian's experience, the toonies, loonies, and maybe some quarters get retained as pocket change, since you can still buy stuff with only a few such coins or top up a purchase otherwise using bills. What pocket change used to be. The main purpose now, it seems, for quarters and smaller coins is to give the impatient cause to groan when somone ahead in line dumps literal handfuls of change on the counter.

  5. Re:Who prints a 60 page PDF? on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    The author was volunteering as a poll-watcher, so needed a physical list to bring to the polling place, where even having somewhere to sit isn't a given. It does seem an ideal situation for doing on a tablet, if one happens to have one.

  6. Re:Put the shoe on the other foot on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Politics doesn't belong in the work place. Anyone who can't save it for the after work happy hours should be fired.

    Unless your company (or union) tells you it's part of the workplace.

    FEC Concludes Corporations And Unions May Force Workers To Campaign For Political Candidates Of Their Choice

  7. Re:Sunk? on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    Yes. They use attack aircraft with 'buddy stores' (essentially an external fuel tank with aerial refueling hardware) to top-up other aircraft. At present they use the F/A-18.

  8. Re:people who can't afford the iPhone/Android mode on Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low · · Score: 1

    When you're just swapping pre-paid SIM cards to go from one provider to another, there's nobody to subsidize your phones for you.

    I wish using the word "subsidize," especially by the telcos, to describe this would end. The one subsidizing the phone is the buyer, by locking themselves into an inflated monthly fee.

  9. Re:Not too bad? on Sea Level Rise Can't Be Stopped · · Score: 1

    If you are in the USA you are either covered by a federal insurance scheme or more likely SOL, as the private insurers won't provide flood insurance.

  10. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    . . . I don't know where you get forty percent. Perhaps you need to seek shelter before the cold impairs more than your arithmetic.

    A couple possibilities: Anonymous only counts the red states as part of the country, or is using a Mercator-projection map to visually compare areas.

  11. Re:$5m fir $200? on Federal Court Allows Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 1

    And in the end, the law firm will earn a few million in fees, and the members of the class will each get a $10 app store credit.

  12. Re:impressive adaptation on Jack Tramiel, Founder of Commodore Business Machines, Dies At Age 83 · · Score: 1

    TI using their own chips to produce their own calculators cheaper than Commodore could sourcing their chips from TI, plus the cheaper LCD calculators starting to come out of Japan, drove Commodore out of the calculator market. Which drove Tramiel to acquire his own chip fab (MOS) so that he'd never be dependent on outside suppliers for core components of his products, and an almost pathological need to undercut the competition.

  13. Re:RAID is not a backup solution on Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? · · Score: 1

    I figure if the home and offsite backups (15km away) are taken out in the same event, my data is the least of my worries, assuming I'm still alive to worry.

  14. Re:hello tsa: on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    You'll be happy to know that the Border Patrol are already on the job.

  15. Re:An agenda on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    I suspect he was referring to the time it takes for the actual reversal to take place rather than the time between reversals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Duration

  16. Convergence on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have visions of a dozen vehicles all converging on the one parking spot that has opened up.

  17. Re:cookie on Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring · · Score: 1

    As long as you were not acting as an agent for law enforcement, but acting on your own or for a non-government entity, the gathered info is probably usable by the law.

  18. Re:Good luck with that on Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Copyright and trademark infringement can be criminal - see criminal liability. China and the US are members of the WTO and signatory to various copyright/IP treaties, so have some obligations to protect foreign copyrights and trademarks. And most countries, to some degree, have laws restricting one from using another's name or image for commercial purposes without permission. Plus, for all we know Apple specifically trademarked Jobs name and likeness in China.

  19. Re:It was the computer for us commoner kids on Looking Back At the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    When introduced in 1982, the C64 was $595 in the US, compared to $1500 for the PC and Apple II, and $900 for the Atari 800 at that time. There was a price war and shakeout in 1983 while Commodore aggressively undercut the competition, starting the year dropping the C64 to $400, and $200 after the summer.

  20. Re:Early morning on Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're saying the best time to view the shower is after the moon sets, which will be roughly 3am local for each time zone.

  21. Re:I can breathe easier now... on Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club · · Score: 1

    I have no idea how Wal-Mart reacted to it, but see Book of Genesis by R Crumb for an uncensored graphic novel based on the Bible.

  22. Re:What countries? on Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints · · Score: 2

    Japan and the US, though the US doesn't require it of visitors from certain nations.

  23. Re:Refuse Permission? on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 2

    Wait, on what grounds? You can't copyright/patent/trademark facts. Why did they even bother asking?

    Perhaps not, but you can hold the facts as confidential, and require anyone you give the facts to to agree to treat the data as confidential. By breaking that agreement you risk sanctions such as not being given facts in the future.

    Whether there's any good reason to keep this data confidential is another matter.

  24. Re:Truecrypt on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps worse, there is no hidden encrypted partition but your lead-pipe cryptoanalyst assumes there is?

  25. Re:Why does everything have to be monetized? on Markets For IPv4 Addresses Emerging · · Score: 2

    ARIN can probably do so for blocks assigned under their authority. However, the same is not true for blocks handed out pre-ARIN (1997), which applies to most all of the huge unused blocks. And the demand for addresses means it'd be a stop-gap measure at best.