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  1. Re:NEVER roll your own authentication. on Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I simply don't trust myself to make a 100% secure server, as most should not be and are not qualified to do so. Why go through all the trouble and risk when a free alternate solution already exists?

  2. Re:Uhh... on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    That's why I said "if there is a way". Obviously if it isn't feasible then they can't do anything about it.

  3. Re:We're stuck on IE 6 or 8 here in business land on Google Ends Internet Explorer 9 Support In Google Apps · · Score: 1

    The only thing you have to be concerned with is that if you use personal e-mail at work they can in the event of a lawsuit have access to your personal e-mail as part of a subpoena.

  4. Re:Uhh... on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    You still have to assume we're in a non-ideal world, which is very much true. Suppose there is a way to mitigate this issue on Google's end, is there something wrong with taking action to reduce the amount of attacks, even if the website is at fault?

  5. Re:Personal Time Saved on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    Even if I lived half the distance (15 minutes from work), that's still a year's worth of full time working. The point only becomes irrelevant if you live within 5 minutes of your job.

  6. Re:Faster than the nVidia GTX TITAN for $400 less on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Titan was never meant to be competitive based on price/performance. It's not a fair comparison.

  7. Personal Time Saved on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm extremely frugal and I'd still buy one the instant an affordable one is released simply because an autonomous car represents a potential savings of 4,000 hours of my life over the life of the car. That's represents 2 years of a full time job. That's time that could be spent doing whatever I usually do at home, including sleeping, entertainment, and personal work/finances. It's incredible to think about.

  8. Charging for information on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 2

    The problem is that this results in charging for information, effectively limiting the amount of information available to people.

  9. Re:This says more about the categories... on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    The etymology of a word does not magically cancel out what it's contemporary meaning is. In fact, the title "Engineer" in many countries including England is a protected title that requires an degree from an accredited university.

  10. Re:As someone who runs an IT company on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    I relate your base level IT workers (there is a huge difference between a server administrator and a level 1 IT worker) to a mechanic. It's a job that most anyone can learn and is taught mostly through experience, hence the lack of need of degrees.

  11. Re:Bullshit we won't notice on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    I hope you realize that prices were far higher back in the "golden years" of flying where you paid for what you got, including all that extra space.

  12. Re:Seems Reasonable on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Then buy a t1 line which guarantees up/down bandwidth with 99.9% uptime. There is a reason you are paying $300/month for that guarantee.

  13. Re:Three square miles of pristine desert? Bad huma on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 2

    That's really small, in fact it's less than the average size of a home. Considering you have a lot of otherwise unusable desert out west, this sounds like a great use of land.

  14. Re:WTF on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Technically nothing stores electricity except for super-cooled superconductors. Batteries "store electricity" in the form of chemical energy and even capacitors only "store electricity" as two charged plates. But I think we all know what they meant, that it was storing the potential for electricity.

  15. Re:Money saved is money invested elsewhere on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    If we are able to reach the point where humans can almost entirely replace humans, then we are approaching a potential utopia moment where we are no longer restricted by labor, which would cause an explosion in standard of living and eliminate the need for a lot of people to work (people would have the option to either live off a basic wage and never work or make a lot of money in jobs that require a lot of intelligence).

  16. Re:want more pixels, ffs! on Acer Officially Announces C720 Chromebook · · Score: 2

    It's 720p, which is just fine for an 11" monitor that is only doing basic web browsing, e-mail, and video playing. You have to remember, this is a bottom of the line $250 laptop/netbook, very minimal by design. Considering it's half the price of even new low end laptops, you have to delusional to expect it to be feature rich.

  17. Money saved is money invested elsewhere on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    The beauty of technology and efficiency is that the money saved is simply spent and invested elsewhere. The market will always take advantage of labor as an available resource. A better question is whether we will see more lower wage jobs because of it since the market may not value labor as much as before.

  18. As a business they should at least look into it on Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising · · Score: 1

    If they aren't even looking into it and doing research on a potentially powerful form of revenue then they are idiots. I know no one wants it but as a business they need to examine profitability and user reception as a factor to be tested.

  19. Re:innovation != "innovation!!!1!" on The Era of Young Innovators: Looking Beyond Universities To Source Talents · · Score: 1

    Out of pure curiosity; in the ideal world if backward compatibility was not a concern, what would be considered the best modern architecture to use for personal computers?

  20. Stick a fork in it on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 1

    If the thing is smashed in or if you painted over it then it longer becomes a concern.

  21. Re:Great firewall of... wtf? on China Blocks YouTube, Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People typically don't make a fuss over what they are used to. The issue is that of civil liberties and the right to information. It may not be a big issue there, but for many of us we feel that every person has that right.

  22. Re:Read vs Write on USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS · · Score: 1

    All I know is that FAT32 is incredibly simple for writing to. It just sequentially writes to memory in every free spot available, adding the address of the next cluster of the data to a table at the beginning of the partition. NTFS must just be much more complex in handling all the writing. When you add several extra operations every time you write to a 4KB or larger cluster, the delay would seem to build up rather quickly.

  23. Re:not so fast on USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that there is no universal standard to concatenate the two files into a single file in FAT32.

  24. Re:And Nikola Tesla.... on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    Telsa had an issue with sending electricity long distances with DC, not with using it locally after converting it from AC.

  25. Re:Evolution on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    They would if you were playing wooly mammoths. (I'm just being as argumentative as you!)