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  1. Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Nobody, and I mean NOBODY steals "IP" via the HDMI stream, even though it's been completely broken for over a year. In fact I install devices for my clients to disable HDCP completely, all Theater installs come with an HDFury installed on the Bluray player and the cable box to disable that craptastic abortion called HDCP.

  2. Epic Fail. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    So all Rural people have to go back to driving to their post office to get mail? Yeah, this will never ever fly. It's nothing but mental masturbation. all AARP members will bitch to high hell about it and some congresscritter will cave in and kill it.

  3. Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Or theyare smart and know that nobody cares to rip the HDMI stream but instead just download the movie in full HD from the pirate bay. or if you dont want to be tracked, rip the Bluray.

  4. Re:Does anything differentiate this gen of tablets on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 2

    Yes, the Nexus 7 actually get's updates instantly, Samsung might roll them out in a year or two.

  5. Re:Chromecast on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 2, Informative

    The protocol is fully open, linux OSS drivers will be available before the things are in wide spread use.

  6. And no fixes for problems. on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 2

    Like Wifi refusing to connect some times until you turn it off and on again on the Nexus 4 and the older Nexus HSPA+ OR the camera getting stuck on in the background and turning the phone into a pocket heater while it drains the phone battery in less than 30 minutes.

  7. Re: THAT explains it! on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 2

    We cant keep them on the engineers of programmers here. They are too clever and find a way to remove them.

    The Marketing and Sales department, Yeah, they cant get them off even if we told them how.

  8. Re:Are you one of them? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    Typically those homes are poorly built or not built correctly by the contractor. PROPER lighting is can lights in the sofett that way you can use low wattage lamps to achieve the same lighting without pollution or spill but have a higher level of security. Because someone creeping around a sofett lit home is very east to sport from the road.

    It all comes down to two things. Dumb homeowners that don't know what to buy or would rather spend it on useless crap like trendy color Granite counter tops, and a contractor that is very low quality that will not bring in anyone with any real experience in outdoor lighting on the project.

  9. This is easy on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 2

    Use lenses and reflectors to make sure the light does not go anywhere but where you want it to. Very easy to do, but not the cheapest thing to do. Most people care about cheap not correct.

    Once you stop being cheap and design your outdoor lighting correctly, all these problems go away.

  10. Re:This is where Police States are formed. on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    " Speeding laws should all be repealed."

    So you think you should be allowed to drive as fast as possible in a residential area? This is why nobody takes sillyness like that serious.

  11. Re: THAT explains it! on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 4, Funny

    E-collar? Put that on your kid and see how they react (or Children's aid).

    There are a LOT of children that need that. I fully support the deployment of these things in schools for kids that are troublemakers.

  12. 100% inaccurate. It's art and is not reality. on What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No reflections, no lobes from the gain antennas, no blockage from green trees. It's 100% art with 5% reality.

  13. Re:Don't think you can have it both ways. on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    My grandfather had a machine gun he brought home from germany. 100% legal for him to own... we would shoot it on the 4th.

  14. Re:This is where Police States are formed. on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mostly because a large number of cops act like complete assholes.
    Officers should be forced to be courteous and professional at all times. They speed off duty? Instantly fired. The problem is that most cops act like they are above the law and treat EVERYONE as a threat.

    Reduce the number of assholes in uniform, and you will reduce or reverse the decline of the public image of the police.

  15. Re:Summaries that advocate on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    If the cop did not announce himself, he deserved to die. If a cop comes crashing through my door or window unannounced, they will get 2 maybe 3 deer slugs to the chest.

  16. There is a solution. on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, These same scumbag cops dont have the balls to do that to a Motorcycle rally or a Gun rally.

    Cops only use these tactics on soft targets, they act exactly like street gangs.

  17. Re:PRIVITAZATION on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 0

    The better solution is that they raise the towns taxes to cover the costs completely. Then the town residents dont have ANY internet bill. This spreads it out and guarantees that everyone has internet access.

  18. Re:Microsoft already did this on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 2

    No 3's the sharp edges get stuck on things.

  19. I know how they can sell them.... on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 2

    Dear Microsoft,

    I can sell all of those Surface Tablets for you at a slight profit.

    Step 1 - Unlock the bootloader on them
    Step 2 - release a free app to load a new OS on them
    Step 3 - release information so Linux and Android people can port to the device quickly.
    Step 4 - Profit. Not a lot of profit but you will get rid of them and help the hardware actually get used.

  20. Reality.... on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 2

    They were running on a badly designed system to begin with. Honestly. why did they not have an offsite failover? If 8 hours of downtime is expensive then the CIO needs to be fired for his incompetence for not having a failover system in place.

  21. Re:The question is on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 1

    They used old Cat-3 cable they found in the basement.

  22. Re:Microsoft already did this on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 2

    latency of the processing gear is far higher than the time to travel through the Transatlantic cable.

  23. Re:Microsoft already did this on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can get 20,000Tbps over a 500 mile long cable right now if all I send are 1's or only 0's.

  24. Sensationalized. on German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground · · Score: 1

    IT thrusted with a specific turn radius. the transport was just lucky to be in the trajectory.

    Really? we need to sensationalize here as bad as FoxNews does?

  25. Re:I know why it failed....or is failing... on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 1

    I am an american, and yes, most of my fellow Americans are very poorly educated. Head shaking levels of it.