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  1. Re:convenience over quality on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 1

    On the flip side, a smart business person might note that, there are a myriad of platforms, and rather than saying "we need to be on these 3 platforms, lets code a distinct separate codebase for each one", choose to go with an implementation that doesnt reinvent the wheel and leverages other's work to achieve cross platform compatibility.

    Theres no reason to EXCLUDE linux if your design allows for natural cross-platform compatibility; and if done right, it could mean that new use cases "just work".

  2. Re:convenience over quality on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 2

    I am unsure whether this is a troll post or if those words in that sequence actually have a comprehensible meaning.

  3. Re:Vroomm, Vroomm a thing of the past? on Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most noise from a car comes not from the engine, but from the tires

    Someone hasnt been around electric vehicles much. Theyre everywhere in shanghai, and they are substantially quieter than non-electrics (nearly silent).

  4. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    Youre confusing Chrome-the-browser's options and Google-the-webpage's options. In whatever browser you want to google on, you must either log into google and disable instant (so that that setting is associated with your account), or enable cookies and disable instant (so that that browser's cookies are set to block it).

    Chrome's options only deal with how the browser itself behaves-- does it auto-translate, does it review URLs for malware, does it do suggestive search on the URL bar, does it DNS-prefetch, etc.

  5. Re:The Blame Game on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    Or they could call and ask for the second factor, or they could find a sidechannel flaw in the second-factor token, or they could hack into RSA and compromise the SecurID tokens....

    As I said, the only thing that is truely restricted to "something you have" in all scenarios is a perfect implementation of biometrics. Anything else can be gotten around.

  6. Re:Configuration management on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 1

    Clicking on the "self healing" bullet point, I get

    404 Page Not Found
    By Neil H Watson on January 1, 1999 8:40 AM
    This is not the page you are looking for. Pages have been rearranged and my website relaunched. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. The search tool on this site should help you to locate the the file you are looking for.

    Sincerely,
    Neil H. Watson

    Can I get a +1 irony here?

  7. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    For the search suggestions which basically every browser has? Yes, it kind of needs to tell google what you are typing to get suggestions. Ditto if you want them to translate a page, or check it for malware-- they need to know the URL you are on.

    That, there, is what everyone is making such a big fuss about. Thats the terrible spying that google does in chrome.

  8. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    The "fully open source one" is called Chromium, genius. The "spyware" parts are disabled with 5 checkboxes. The entire browser is open source, how do you think SRWare compiled Iron to begin with?

  9. Re:The Blame Game on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 2

    Phones/SMS/etc will never be a reliable way to verify an account holder because it really can be anyone on the other end.

    Thats true with ANY kind of authentication, except for some kind of mythical, perfect, no-side-channel-attacks biometrics.

  10. Re:Sad on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    Today, IE 9 is better than Firefox in almost every way with the exception of a few HTML 5 tag

    IE9 is what i have, and in many circumstances feels slower in UI interaction-- you click "new tab" or the address bar, and it hangs for a bit. Firefox seems more responsive, and Chrome better yet.

  11. Re:The ascertainment of fair ethics, my bad on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    I was not attempting to insult or ridicule. You asked for grammar comment, and I did so. Your first sentence was extremely difficult to understand, and I dont think that needs ridicule, but I would be remiss not to point that out. I suggested a thesaurus because my time was limited, and that was the extent of the help I could provide, without knowing more specifically what you were trying to express.

    I commented on the use of "ascertainment", which, if it is an english word at all, is very much non-standard, awkward, and hard to follow.

    I spent a good deal of time trying to be helpful in a way that most non-native speakers I have dealt with indicate they prefer (that is, explain when they are wrong and why), and you seem to be upset about it. Usually if a non-native speaker is expressing themselves in a way that will make it difficult for a native speaker to understand, they want to be told; apparently you do not. Im sorry I spent any time whatsoever trying to be helpful, since it appears I wasted my time and upset you in the process.

  12. Re:Public interest? on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 2

    From wikipedia
    Assange has not yet been formally charged with any offence;[30] the prosecutor said that, in accordance with the Swedish legal system, formal charges will be laid only after extradition and a second round of questioning.

    Argue with their legal system, but dont blame them for not following it.

  13. Re:Public interest? on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Then what exactly is the conspiracy thats supposed to leap into action when he gets to sweden?

  14. Re:First he has to win this appeal... on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Ratio is 1.6 to 1. 6 mph=9.6kmph~= 10kmph.

  15. Re:Might just be replying to a troll, but .... on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension FTW. I wasnt arguing specifics, I was arguing against a broad, unsupportable generalization and freedom and trutth somehow justify any and all leaks.

  16. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, i get it. We have security concerns about google-- a large, highly public company whose browser's source is highly public-- so we're going to download some unheard of company's custom compile of said browser. Win for security!

    What was that old rule about running random binaries from random entities on the internet?

  17. Re:Cache? on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    I recall seeing that the top Bulldozer only had 8MB L3 cache, which seemed a bit low - Intel's equivalent top-of-the-line desktop models reach 15MB, and the server models 30MB.

    How long until we can run Windows Server 2000 completely on Cache-disk? Can you imagine the performance?

  18. Re:Why? on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    Space heater?

  19. Re:Why? on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    Theyre talking about a platform, so presumably all the transistors counted are functional in SOME iteration of the Bulldozer line.

  20. Re:They just lost my business! on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    As long as it has built in AES instructions and can give me a low TDP, Im happy.

  21. Re:Sad on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 2

    I dont know about IE, it still seems to drag a lot of the time when compared to firefox. I use Chrome preferentially, then Firefox, then IE when nothing else wants to behave.

  22. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are like 5 clearly labeled checkboxes in the chrome options which turn off all of the "enhanced" features which report to google. If its really that big a deal, you can turn them off and not be stuck with a crappy browser like Konqueror.

    Or just, you know, use Chromium.

  23. Re:The ascertainment of fair ethics, my bad on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    If you want pointers on your grammar, here it goes.

    I hereby suggest and call for support at slashdot, to point out the importance of having to ascertain the importance of a fair ethical consideration to be of importance for Julian Assange's appeal.

    That section is very repetetive and unclear. What is it you wish to be pointed out? The importance of a fair ethical consideration of Assanges appeal? If so, a better wording might be
    "to make known the importance of a fair ethical consideration of Julian Assange's appeal."

    Since the courts themselves surely is not to decide s

    "Is" would not be the proper word here, since "is" is only used for third person singular, and "courts" is third person plural ("courts" would fall under "they", not "he, she, or it"). Ditto in the second part of your sentence, use "are" instead of "is". Grammatically, the rest of your sentence is fine.

    Everything else is fine, though your third sentence is awkward ("warrant" in the way you are using it typically goes with an "ing" ending-- such as "warrant the supreme court learning"). Ascertainment and Ascertation i have never heard used as words; they may be proper english words, but are likely to make your sentences muddled and confusing. I would recommend using a thesaurus for synonyms of "ascertain" for better choices.

  24. Re:Public interest? on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Jurisdiction would be an issue, wouldnt it?

  25. Re:Public interest? on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Except that he is in the U.K. Except that when he was in Sweden, the then prosecutor didn't see ground for prosecution.......Oh ok, if it is "illegal" then no worry [hrw.org]..

    Wait, im not getting this. So hes in sweden, and could be extradited-- but the US whispers to Sweden "no, this is too easy, and not illegal enough-- wait till hes out-of country, then extradite him BACK on dubious grounds, THEN extradite him to the US illegally!" So they postpone the charges-- all with this plan in mind, wait till hes in another US-friendly country (with an extradition treaty), and then, instead of extraditing directly to the US, they want to bring him to Sweden so they can them ship him off to the US?

    Care to clarify? The whole thing seems ludicrous; the simpler explanation of "he is being brought to Sweden to stay in Sweden and face charges" seems a lot more plausible.