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  1. Re:Oh boy! on Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing · · Score: 1

    I don't see such an issue with Amazon and Firefox. Maybe that's because I run NoScript which blocks a lot of the annoying things sites want to do unless I allow it.

  2. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    I experienced the same thing heading out to Phoenix at the end of August some years back from Atlanta. It rained there which just made it that much more comfortable. I even went out for a drive to some of the sights and even with 95 degree temps it felt comfortable unlike 95F and >60% humidity.

  3. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Kids playing cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers should hide their fingers as there has been at least one case of a kid getting in trouble for shooting another kid with a finger.

  4. Re:To be more precise, Amazon will collect on taxe on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the money being taxed through the corporation often comes from elsewhere. In the case of Google and other multi-nationals the money can be coming from other countries so it essentially can be like free money to the people of the host country for the corporation because the net tax rate (corporate plus income) can be lower because of the money flowing in from outside the country.

    Of course that means the reverse can also be true and money can be flowing out of the country because few corporations are located within it.

  5. Re:Camer was owned by the school on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1
    If you read the article it points out

    the District's Board Policy Manual explicitly states "a student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources."

  6. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    In recent years, however, it was determined that the relationship between axle weights and pavement damage is complex and varies based on numerous variables, including environmental factors, type of terrain and roadway design. The National Pavement Cost Model (NAPCOM), which is the pavement model currently used by FHWA, estimates that for some types of pavement deterioration, doubling the axle load causes 15 to 20 times as much damage; for other types of deterioration, doubling the load only doubles the damage.

    The U.S. Department of Transportation in its most recent Highway Cost Allocation Study estimated that light single-unit trucks, operating at less than 25,000 pounds, pay 150 percent of their road costs while the heaviest tractor-trailer combination trucks, weighing over 100,000 pounds, pay only 50 percent of their road costs.

    http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/091116/03.htm

  7. Re:Resource Hog? on Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android · · Score: 1

    I tried to use uBlock but found it more difficult to use than AdBlock or Adblock Plus. The problem is that I'll go into a site with all sites disabled and nothing gets displayed. So I'll have to enable sites one at a time to find out which one enables the display of the site. With ABP or AB it's a quick run through the listed sites to temporarily enable sites one at a time until the web site is properly displayed. That was much more difficult with uBlock.

  8. Re:Satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Okay, since you say satellites are out of the question what do you think will still be working after the last satellite falls out of the sky. Keep in mind we are talking hundreds of years (using your own words.)

  9. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they just start by doing the normal thing and treating the women/girls they meet as people, no different from the guys they meet. If a romance develops then the relationship changes but otherwise I'm not sure why anyone would take their cue from porn, and I can't think of many games that give any sort of clue (bad or good) on how to treat women.

  10. Re:I work in Seattle on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    I don't think the replacements are that nice. Maybe if they were combining the town homes so that instead of 4 in those pics there were two but the super narrow town homes look like something out of NYC or Tokyo.

  11. Re:Firefox on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    Why would you shoot the damsel?

  12. Re:Google Streams on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1

    I know what you are talking about. I had a Gmail account and a Youtube account. Thanks to Google playing around with the settings and at one time requiring people to sign up to G+ I have three Google+ accounts. Of which I wanted and use none. I can't be the only one that ended up with something like that.

  13. Re:Well... on FCC Chairman: a Former Cable Lobbyist Who Helped Kill the Comcast Merger · · Score: 1

    Unless Charter buys Time Warner before Comcast gets a second shot.

  14. Re:Sadly, I don't see an "out" for AMD on AMD Withdraws From High-Density Server Business · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you want to do with it. Older games would work fine with an I3. Newer games could run a bit slower as some of the latest can take advantage of extra cores. Though it seems to fall off rapidly once you get past 3 cores. This may all change once games start utilizing Direct X 12 as it moves more of the workload on to the GPU.

  15. Re:Sadly, I don't see an "out" for AMD on AMD Withdraws From High-Density Server Business · · Score: 1

    Look up XSplit. The newest version of XSplit Broadcaster natively supports x264 software encoding as well as Intel QuickSync, NVIDIA NVENC, AMD VCE, and AVerMedia H.264 hardware encoding. What I couldn't tell from a quick look around the site is if XSplit Gamecaster also supports the same hardware encoding options as XSplit Broadcaster.

  16. Re:Singled out? on EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1

    I don't know but the fact that Bing and DuckDuckGo show up would say that Google isn't hiding them since DuckDuckGo is used to avoid giving Google ad revenue and Bing is pure competition. The others you mentioned do show up at the bottom of the page in alternative searches so my guess is Yahoo doesn't appear due to the SEO and not some nefarious scheme by Google.

  17. Re:*IF* that was true on EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1

    At what point is that abusive versus just good business. What if Google had two prices where one was for customers that used their android services (store, geo-location, etc.) and the other was for those that didn't want the geo-location service. It makes sense for Google to offer the clients getting everything a lower price as they can make it up with their geo-location service.

    Is that considered abusive? If so then most companies would have to be considered abusive.

  18. Re:Patent? on Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue · · Score: 1

    So the guy could renew the trademark and force Apple to pay him money to take over the trademark? Or just release a product that uses the trademark (even if they only make and try to sell a few copies of said product.) Candied apples with the APPLE trademark, anyone?

  19. Re: It was inevitible on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 2

    Simply sticking to what he knows. He doesn't really understand technology so he isn't in a good position to judge what will succeed. So he stays away from it and stick with things like consumables that he can fully understand and see if it is likely to succeed like Kraft foods.

  20. Re:Buh buh but ComCast is Evil. on Comcast Planning 2Gbps Service, Starting With Atlanta · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sure they will roll it out in time to compete with Google Fiber. It will only be in a very limited area and it will come with the 300GB/month limit.

  21. Re:It may survive a court challenge... on FCC Chairman: Net Rules Will Withstand Court Challenge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see it as a sudden change since they had been fighting this war for a number of years. Sure, the FCC had come down on the side of the cable companies most of the time but the fact that the issue of network neutrality came and kept coming up year after year shows that this isn't some sort of massive change out of nowhere. It was a clear reaction to the cable companies refusal to work with the FCC as they clearly kept saying 'I'm not going to do what you want and you can't make me.' This is just the FCC stepping and saying that they can make them do what they want.

    Given what the courts have said in the past I don't see a challenge to the FCC rules coming from the courts. Congress is another matter.

  22. Re:Conditional recording on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Passengers have zero rights to know what is going on in the cockpit at any time. The airlines and the FAA or relevant local agencies, on the other hand, do have rights to know what is going in the cockpit. Especially if it impacts air safety. The question that I have not seen answered is will adding video surveillance to the cockpit increase air safety in any noticeable way.

  23. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    For the most part they weren't even opinions. The last comment that got him into trouble was when they had been filming a segment for a while where Clarkson needed to pick between three (cars, I think) and he choose the 'Eeney Meeney Miney Moe' nursery rhyme only he supposedly used the N word instead of tiger. That was done while they were filming but not in public. So it was bad form and certainly something not to be proud of but not anything like an assault and not something that was clearly racist. More like Clarkson being bored and trying to be funny.

  24. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    The BBC isn't the government but it operates under the rules that the government sets. This means that they are especially careful about what any of their employees say which is why they came down hard on Clarkson for his supposed racist remarks. It was a pre-emptive strike to stave off a possible reaction by the government. I've read some reports about what speech can get you into trouble in the UK and it's pretty amazing when you consider what people get away with in the USA.

  25. Re:in further news show tanks on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Fifth Gear is still going. I don't think it's as entertaining a show as Top Gear but it clearly gets enough viewers that they keep it going.