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  1. Re:The unaccomplished always envy achievement, eh? on High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing on this device that slapping openwrt on any freescale/arm device with wifi and a couple gigabit interfaces can't solve, and it's *still* twice the price of most of these openwrt-compatible devices: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/s... What's that? They have "threat detection"? You can also just run snort on many of those devices. The point you missed is that this project is re-inventing the wheel. Check yo'self.

  2. Re:Waste of time and effort on High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) · · Score: 1

    Agree. I also wonder what about this project makes it more attractive than picking up a $59 Asus router and throwing open-wrt on it.

  3. Re:Sounds like a great idea on High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) · · Score: 1

    Cause arm is sooooo cutting-edge secure.

  4. Pfizer is indeed being patriotic, for their loyalties lie in the dollar/pound/Euro, not to any state.

  5. GIG economy is a misnomer on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    We all are freelancers to a degree: we bid on recurring contracts for our employment. There will always be a cohort of workers who want nothing to do with managing the ins and outs of "working for oneself".

  6. Re: Why? on With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS (bgr.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your numbers are very creative: - iOS only captured 47.5 of 341.5 million in Q2 2015 (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp) - Froyo and Gingerbread account for only 4% of total Android version together (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) - Average devel cost of iOS *or* Android app is closer to $100K, and that's for companies with the cash to throw at it. (http://www.comentum.com/mobile-app-development-cost.html)

  7. Re:I'm not a runner, but... on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    1. If you get to the point where music will prevent you from being aware of traffic, chances are that you're tired enough that it won't matter whether you have music or not. 2. I see lots of walking pedestrians with their earphones in. Should we just ban mobile music?

  8. And THAT'S... on Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives · · Score: 1

    ...why you build your own NAS.

  9. Re:More help needed on GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release · · Score: 1

    d p (or P if you want pasted before cursor) This is the power of vi: navigation without thinking about the cursor's x/y position.

  10. Moot point on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    a) Nothing ever disappears on the internet, why is this still a question? b) Censorship is never good. Ever.

  11. Re:Bad comparaison on The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, it's a bit of a 90s way to measure Hollywood revenue to look at "box office" sales.

  12. Re:1980s? on The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s · · Score: -1

    Well it *is* a bad article. "A few years back, I used a Pentium 4 system where a memory access took more than 400 cycles." What does that even mean? Pipeline-able executions? How much data? There is no context. "There are lots of little caches in the CPU on the chip for all sorts of things, not just main memory." Are you serious? It reads like it was written by a junior high student. Overall, the author demonstrates not only a crude understanding of CPU architecture, but worse, tries to expand on it.

  13. Re:1980s? on The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s · · Score: 2

    Current 64-bit path/register cpu architechture will satisfy most computing requirements for some time to come. The only real reason to increase data path width is to address more data. Until we have need to address 16 exabytes, 64 bit will remain in favour everywhere because $$$.

  14. Re:What awful timing. A decade too late! on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    What. Are you. Talking about. This is not news. Maybe some reading on the history of the MS licensing "tax" before we no-scope post random info? This has been an issue in N. America since the 90s, the EU in the early 2K, etc. Mint is not an option for corporate because of non-free incorporated softwares. Debian is not "Catching up fast". Their focus is not on the desktop experience. Yeah, Windows will be a strong corporate OS for a long time. And yes, if you want to roll out linux to desktop corporate, it will be a battle. But it can be done.

  15. Re:Enjoy the conference and enjoy the show on Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? · · Score: 1

    "Lower pay comes with less stress, and better working conditions." LOL! Get back in the trenches, scrub!

  16. Get Used to It on Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? · · Score: 1

    It comes down to whether the certification/conference is being taken/attended at their behest or for your own interest. If the former, you should expect the company to pay. In the latter, it's up to the company, but you have far less bargaining power. With most IT pros, what we do and want to do only overlap with what our employers want us to do and learn.

  17. Reinventing the wheel on Disney Research Creates Megastereo - Panoramas With Depth · · Score: 1

    The author has a weak grasp on how stitching software is affected by parallax. Also, it would still be technically easier to to with two cameras or a stereo camera.

  18. Don't on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 1

    There is a reason furniture doesn't have power cables running all through it.... FIRE. Just don't, please.

  19. Ubuntu is a club on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Hence why it's ok for Ubuntu to have "gold members" who get t shirts and junk for being "active contributors."

  20. Re:A great idea on MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada · · Score: 1

    Exactly. There should not be a difference legally between sharing my songs with my friends on the internet or burning them a CD and mailing it to them. It is not for a private corporation to decide what I do with the music I buy from them. Corporations do not (officially) make laws.

    I sure wish Americans would cease their bull-headed notions that their way of thinking applies to the entire world, especially when their sense of entitlement has painted them all into a copyright corner.

    Does anyone really believe that millions of Americans aren't enjoying Canadian bittorrent sites? Seriously?

  21. Re:He's wrong on Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy · · Score: 1

    You are mistaking our Canadian government's technical incompetence for a staunch upholding of privacy and of individual freedoms and rights.

    Examples-in-lieu-of-proof:

    1. They are unable to force the provincial governments to synchronize their H1N1 vaccine policies, which accounted for an enormous lack of faith in the Canadian public in what could have been an excellent show of organized social response.
    2. They are unable to control the flow of information out of parliamentary offices or to spin this information, resulting in embarrassing Yes Men stunts.
    3. They are unable to keep untrained and disorganized Green Peace activists off their roof.

    Do you *really* think the Canadian government stands firm on the high moral ground of solidarity in the matter of privacy?

  22. Re:It Hurts on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    "When corn was first cultivated, it looked like what we call "baby corn" today."

    Well, that was a foolish thing to write. Why would Aztec, Maya, Inca, etc. create stone tools to grind something like baby corn?

    Honestly, I wish some of you reply-artists would use the five-second "stop and think" rule before posting ridiculous garbage like this.

  23. Re:Personally, I like... Actually... on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    Who in this world has not yet seen "Office Space"????