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  1. Loudness rating? on High-end CPU Coolers Reviewed and Compared · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about cooling capability per dB for those of us who want to cool quietly and relatively cheaply? I don't care what cools the most. I'm not overclocking. What I care about is cooling enough without having to hear it.

  2. Re:The View From Jerry's Desk. on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Writing all zeroes to the drive is better than just installing Windows 8. It would not effectively wipe the disk clean - it's more likely to do a quick format, and overwrite the first several GB of the drive. Booting to a drive-zeroing utility will wipe the entire drive. I'm honestly not sure how you got modded upward.

  3. Re:Decoding is simple on LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later · · Score: 1

    Even if you implement a relatively complete encoder, what I said still applies.

  4. Re:Decoding is simple on LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've got that entirely backwards. Encoding requires you only to handle your own implementation - with as little or as many of the features as you decide to implement. Decoding means you have to handle the quirks of the entire spec and possibly the bugs of other encoders.

  5. Re:Soon new hardware will be necessary... on LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later · · Score: 1

    The point is that Plex does it on-demand and doesn't store the resulting transcode.

  6. Re:The new design is much improved on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    How can you consider yourself intelligent and technical when the slightest change in a website turns you into a big crying pussy?

    Ego. How can you stay intelligent if the facts keep changing? All your knowledge of Windows 3.11 is mostly useless.

  7. Re:Vocal Minority on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    In Yahoo's case, I think they'd have to do a lot more to gain the kind of people who would like their recent changes. It's too little, too late. The majority of people still on Yahoo Groups are those resistant to change.

  8. Re:I find Google has done much the same to Groups on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    When that change first started it was great. I'm not a newsgroup user myself, but loved how much easier it was to target my Google searches at it. It brought a wealth of information to the surface.

    I didn't experience it firsthand, I only witnessed Groups gradually disappearing from my search results.

  9. Re:Change is hard on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    That does seem to explain the timing of the account deletions. I wonder if this timing was specifically intended to be done in time for Groups' relaunch.

  10. Re:MyYahoo on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    That was only useful in the days before perpetual browser sessions (tabbed browsing brought that about). These days, browser add-ons, OS X Dashboard widgets, and phone home screen widgets have taken that quick-glance role.

  11. Re:Gmail... on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    You can still bookmark it.

  12. Re:Lesson not learned on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    Most of their users can't even figure out email that's not web-based.

  13. Re:Lesson not learned on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 1

    I had fun with image leeching recently. With a decent knowledge of .htaccess, you can then remotely modify the stealer's web site. Show whatever content you want even on a per-site basis.

  14. Re:Definitely A Copyright Violation on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    By the original artists? Sure. But on a compilation album, to consider it artistic would be to consider it a derivative work - which requires approval from the artist and different licensing than just releasing the songs on CD. And I'm pretty sure MoS only paid for the latter. And if so, then how can they claim copyright on the ordering?

  15. Re:Oh for pete's sake on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    However, if they did not procure a license to make a "derivative work" and only to release the tracks on a CD, then how can you consider the arrangement of tracks to be a separate work that can be copyrighted? They would have to get permission from the copyright holder and probably pay additional royalties.

  16. Re:Don't they have something better to do? on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 2

    I can make a judgement. If this is a derivative work that stands as a work of art separately from the tracks contained, then they needed permission from the original copyright holder to make this compilation. If they are paying royalties solely for putting the tracks themselves on a CD and not to make a derivative work, then I think we have an answer to whether this is protected. It's not.

  17. Re:the phone issue is the most annoying on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    If more information is being conveyed in your phone call than your texts/emails, then it takes the time it takes because that much time is required.

    In my case, the content conveyed is about as much as a text/email so I am mentally idle while waiting for the other person to get to the point in the phone conversation. There's no reason at all I can't do something else in the meantime. They're going to say what they're going to say, and they're going to think I'm rude if I ask them to stop telling me all those useless details.

  18. Re:the phone issue is the most annoying on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    Weird - when I'm on the phone at work, I have two hands free to do whatever I want during the conversation. Maybe you're just inefficient.

  19. Re:the phone issue is the most annoying on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    Now there's something I don't understand. A phone call is considered "distracting" these days, but a video conference is fine? I can actually get other things done during a phone call if the other party doesn't require my full attention.

  20. Re:Not concerned on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    And the knowledge gap has continued to decrease since then.

    setting up word processors to print mailing lists in an hour--something that used to take a secretary a month to type.

    Secretaries are expected to know how to do this themselves now.

  21. Re:FTFY on Down the Road, But In the Works: 3-D Video Calls From Skype · · Score: 1

    I can only manage about 8Hz. Maybe with electrodes at the right places, we could sync that up to the screen and speed it up.

  22. Re:FTFY on Down the Road, But In the Works: 3-D Video Calls From Skype · · Score: 2

    It would also require an autostereoscopic screen unless you want to video chat with glasses.

  23. Re:What is the use case for this? on The Camera That's Also a Mac Mini, Or Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Not completely impractical either, assuming the USB ports and mini displayport connector are accessible. It could have a copy of Final Cut Pro onboard.

  24. Re:Clear something up? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    Except there's no premium rate to call the cell phones. So that extra charge is just applied to the recipient of the call instead of to the dialer. It all roughly evens out.

  25. That's why my phone's always on vibrate. That and I'll definitely forget at the movie theater.