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  1. Renaming the Racetrack? on Intel To Buy Smartphone Chipmaker Infineon For $2B · · Score: -1

    Atoms are low power only compared to Intel's other x86 chips. Compared to typical controllers for portable devices, they use too much power.

  2. Re: on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 0, Informative

    Don't run those apps as administrator. Administrator privileges are needed for raw disk access.

  3. Govt. competing with private enterprise on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: -1

    And prior to 3 years ago when the economy collapsed? If anything, its beneficial that you still have basic mail service, even in situations that would drive a normal business out of business.

  4. Re: on UVB-76 Explained · · Score: -1

    That would be genius. Find an old numbers station, pay the owners a bunch of cast to a couple of ARG codes.

  5. the hypothesis is called "panspermia" on Bacteria From Beer Lasts 553 Days In Space · · Score: -1

    Just goes to show how difficult it will be to confirm whether or not any life found on Mars was there to begin with, or was introduced accidentally.

  6. Re: on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: -1

    The balloons are to make up for the clowns.

  7. Re: on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: -1

    You're assuming the point of rape is to fulfill sexual desire

  8. Re: on Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM · · Score: -1

    Silverlight should be very fast since it runs JITed CIL; and C# doesn't incur much overhead (after CLR optimizations). Perhaps certain Silverlight framework additions (UI libraries) or even WPF could be slow. I can only speculate; I don't have experience with SL.

  9. Re: on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: -1

    The translator needs some work though.I did a BS-English-BS translation and got this:I have special comment abilities on this post so that scepticly impaired persons do not have to read remarks by Rubinesque intellectuals who prefer not to appreciate biting the wax tadpole.

  10. Re: on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: -1

    I understand that bike seats are uncomfortable, but I had no idea it was on purpose.

  11. Supplies? No. Doughnuts? Yes on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: -1

    Ah, kids these days and their silly moral absolutes...

  12. Re: on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: -1

    You just hit the nail on the head: the RIAA (and other old-school distribution methods) is caput. The head is dead, the body just doesn't know it yet.Justin Bieber had a YouTube channel that he set up himself, and is now a huge pop phenom. I can't stand his music, but obviously I'm not his market; but I do respect the hell out of his initiative and the big "**** you" it represents to established interests.

  13. Re: on The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags · · Score: -1

    Quick! Get the phonebook! Get me the address for John Smith!

  14. Re: on MagicJack Moving To Smartphones · · Score: -1

    It's about time the phone companies recognized that phone calls are just data passing through their networks.I know they don't want to be seen as purely "bit carriers" which don't add much value, but that's what they are.

  15. Need an adult on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: -1

    I had the same problem happen, with some extremely sensitive data coming in. In addition to somewhat mundane things like airline confirmations, hotel confirmations, etc, there were several letters about legal problems. The person they were trying to reach is apparently the head of an investment group and under investigation by the SEC. I also once received an email containing a bank account number with routing number. Usually it was sent to his (proper) business address and CC'd to my address, which I assume they thought was a personal address for him. When correspondence from lawyers starting coming in I decided it was well past time to start emailing these people and telling them to oh my god please stop. That's a can of worms I just wanted no part of whatsoever. I did do a quick Google search for the guy; same last name, different first name (same first initial, the combination of which is my email address). Really a problem that shouldn't have happened, especially not that many times from that many different sources.

  16. Re: on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: -1

    Purchasing a T1 allows the person to make an agreement with an ISP of their choosing.

  17. Which "intellectual property"? on VideoLAN Announces libaacs · · Score: -1

    I see two main things: RoyaltiesFreedom. Open source software generally makes it easy to connection functionality of different programs together. So once you have it decrypted, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with it. Commercial software potentially makes all sorts of promises to the people they get the license from to not allow that.

  18. Re: on VideoLAN Announces libaacs · · Score: -1

    "legally play a Blueray" (same question for DVD)What exactly does that mean?A Blueray/DVD player that one may purchase at Best Buy also decrypts the disc. Is that circumvention also?What exactly is the difference between a commercial player and an open source player (which also must decrypt the disc)?The main difference that I see is that one is using the official specification, and one is using an unofficial specification.But using an unofficial specification is not illegal.Perhaps, If some are claiming that an open source player plays "BlueRay" or "DVD" discs, then that may be a Trademark violation, as it has not been certified.Is that what you are implying? a Trademark violation?

  19. Re:That's how the market is supposed to work. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: -1

    8-12 dollars a gallon?How the devil do you come up with that number?A barrel of Light Sweet Crude (55 gallons) will get you about 40-47 gallons of gasoline if thats what you are refining it for. A barrel of Light Sweet Crude closed today at 81.41 for a September delivery.The price of gasoline today for a US average is 2.78, so the gasoline alone from that barrel is worth 116 dollars.Other countries heavily subsidize fuel, Saudi Arabia is selling gas at $.45 a gallon right now.

  20. Link to Source on Kmart Briefly Offers $149 Android Tablet · · Score: -1

    But with the Nexus 1 discontinued, and Eric Schmidt having announced there will be no Nexus 2, where does that leave people going forward into the future?

  21. Re: on Kmart Briefly Offers $149 Android Tablet · · Score: -1

    So the fact that a ****ty retailer offered a $20 discount (the price of a sushi roll or bottle of wine)

  22. Re: on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: -1

    " Note: The 7” Motorized LCD module requires a chassis that supports 7” bay drive." From the product website. The screen is 7'' diagonal; but it would appear that they couldn't get the bezel, housing, support circuitry, gears, and whatnot into the 5.25 inch width...

  23. CD/DVD storage on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: -1

    you do realize that 7" is measured diagonally right?

  24. Re: on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: -1

    Odometer tampering would be far more valuable for the purpose of selling a used car. Yet, it seems it rarely occurs.

  25. Re: on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: -1

    then letting the guy behind 9/11 have a nice vacation in Tora Bora.