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  1. Re: Here are 2 reasons this is crap on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    If it supports full BT 4.0 and all the relevant protocols, and none of the features in the dash will refuse to run because the phone is unsupported then I guess there won't be much complaining.

    Considering how apple has handled open standards in the past, I suspect this will not be the case though.

    But we'll see soon.

  2. Re:Here are 2 reasons this is crap on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    There is one here.
    I would never ever buy a car with apple in the dash, but I can afford these cars.

    About 6/10 in my office has android phones, 2/10 has windows phones and the rest are on iphones. This is a bank in a country where iphone adoption is considered very high.
    So unless they make it work with other devices, they lost a bunch of other potential customers that I know of too.

  3. Re:Android already has this... on US Carriers Said To Have Rejected Kill Switch Technology Last Year · · Score: 1

    It's not remote brick though which is described here, but we have that already through IMEI blacklisting.

  4. Re: I'm surprised on Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0 · · Score: 2

    I'm using it all the time :)
    Most of the "professional" features are there, you have tons of filters and exporting is really easy although I usually export to qp 0 h264 and then encode it myself using ffmpeg/x264.
    It seems that it is using the same libraries though so I might be able to do it from within now too.

    Anyway.. I'm never paying for another video editor as long as Kdenlive is maintained.

  5. Re:Sigh - what the heck ... on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Got to love competition mandated by law.

    In my area, 15 minutes from the closest city which has about 60.000 inhabitants, I have about 20 providers competing on fiber, cable and copper. You can also toss in a few 4g providers that sell broadband you can carry around.
    I settled for fiber 100/100 with tv and phone for $100 a month. It's not the cheapest, but I'm hooked on the speed :)
    They also provide ipv6 and "bridge mode routers" with a fixed ipv4 address for my own router and a /62 ipv6 prefix.

    We used to have a public telephone company called Telenor, but after it became private it came with the catch that all competitors can buy capacity from them at cost + investment write-offs. It's been working wonders.

  6. Re:believe it when I see it on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 3, Informative

    What else would you use an amd card for?
    I you want to game and/or use linux with any performance and stability you need a nvidia card.

    Intel integrated gpu works fine for linux though if you don't need the performance,

  7. Re:Open Source is better. on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    Got to agree here, my N66U is flying with shibbys tomato.

    I can't really figure out why one would want to put hard drives on the edge device, but still the custom firmware is best.

    And the hardware of these devices are excellent :)

  8. Already on IPv6 on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 2

    My fiber ISP provides 6rd connectivity with a /62 prefix address space, and will bump it to /54 when they implement dual-stack on all systems.
    There are still legacy routers on the system apparently.

    However tomato on my rt-n66u handles the 6rd just fine.

    A lot of systems are on ipv6 already, and I think I have around 50/50 ipv6 and ipv4 traffic now. There is no real difference in use for a regular user. Even all the phones, tables and the chromecast use it without me having to do anything except connecting the router.

    I still have a regular fixed ip for ipv4, but all my devices are behind nat.

  9. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    The US is behind because no one have ever trusted your banks. Even the FED is 7 different units to make sure there is no central authority.

    It's also why the US has the one of the largest cash to card ratios in the world.

  10. Re:More reprsentative stats please on IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I agree.

    At our office we have IE by default and it takes maybe one minute to load on my 3.2 ghz, 16 gb ram analytics machine.
    Rendering pages takes even longer.

    Chrome and FF are instant so I use those except for some internal web apps that require IE.

    This is with version 10 of IE.

  11. Re:Obama on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He actually got it mostly for his work in nuclear disarmament before he was president, however they were clearly smitten and should never have given him the prize.
    We all (Norwegians) know it.

  12. Re:In Norway this is a problem on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 2

    We have standard european 230V grid.
    I've never had issues with anything using an european plug.
    My guess is the cold. It's been bad lately.

    Another thing is the number of teslas here. I see them _everywhere_.
    With my Toyota I had to pay $25000 as a one time tax, yearly taxes, road tolls, gas at $9/gallon.

    The tesla and other electrics are completely tax free. Not even VAT. No yearly taxes. You pass for free in the toll roads, and electricity is about 16 cents/kWh.
    I could also drive past the traffic in the bus lanes and save one hr compared to driving, 30 mins compared to bus/train.

    I'm seriously considering selling the toyota and getting a tesla, or buying a leaf as a 2nd car.

  13. Re:Non-free Nvidia driver already at 4.4 on Open Source AMD Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.3 — and It's Getting Faster · · Score: 1

    In arch linux it's as simple as
      pacman -S nvidia

    How did you manage to brick the PC btw?
    Did it destroy your bios?

  14. Re: Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    IBM deathstar must have been the worst. I don't know of any survivors.

    My quantum fireball 20gb still runs after 16 years or so in my dual ppro 200 with arch :)

  15. Re:Very nice on Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Working URL of the book.
    Sorry about that.

  16. Re:Very nice on Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger · · Score: 5, Informative
    OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook Second Edition is a book purely about OpenGL 4.x that I enjoyed.

    You might have a look at that too :)
    It's still fairly basic though, but it does not contain any of the old opengl cruft.

  17. Re:Might actually buy it now. on EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming · · Score: 1

    I agreed until I shelled out for the expansion which should have been in the game from the start.

    The city area is still small, but you can add some towers that make up for it. And it's actually quite fun.

  18. Re:Solitary Confinement? on Pirate Bay Founder's Custody Extended to February 5th · · Score: 1

    Yes,

    Just look at Anders Behring Breivik here in Norway.
    He's even allowed to study political science in jail!!

  19. Re: Double question on Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they have been trained in the White tower :)

  20. Publicly posting tax information has nothing to do with wealth inequality.
    That is the excuse, not the reason. The only ones that need to know your income is the computer systems that is used to calculate taxes.

    Fighting wealth equality should happen in policies, not publicly shaming those who work hard and actually contributes to the society.

    It is hard to explain to foreigners often, but there is a deep rooted culture of envy that historically have been strong where someone standing out in a positive way is pulled down as hard as possible.
    Everyone should be equal, or else.
    This is also ingrained in the school system and is one of the reasons we rank so low in the PISA tests.

    Fortunately this is starting to go away as people come to their senses and stick to their own business :)
    We just elected the first liberal government in many years and I hope they will make the necessary policy changes like removing the public tax information.

  21. Re:Norway on Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is incredibly stupid. Criminals use it to pick out who to rob, and the news has a feeding frenzy every year where they single out people who actually contributes.

    I hope this system will be gone and buried soon along with the whole envy culture that we have in this country with the new government.

  22. Jailbreakingg on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny. In any other operating evironment you would call these root exploits.
    However in the Apple camp it's simply jailbreaking. One does not dear imply that the iphone is insecure :)

  23. Re:But but but shortage! on IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' · · Score: 1

    I could work as a programmer, however since the pay as an analyst is much better that is where I am.

    The work is still coding, though the it is different and involves a lot more math and statistics than regular app development.
    My tools also differ. I use PostgreSQL and R mostly, but I still find my self using C or ruby when the situation requires it.

    I'm not considering my self a hobbyist programmer though. This is what I do for a living :)

  24. Re:What's the answer? on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    If you need to slam the bakes to stop for a yellow signal you are going waaaay to fast into the intersection anyway.

    Nevertheless. We don't have anything resembling those cameras here and quite long yellow light. People still slam the brakes or floor it when the yellow hits.
    Some stop in the middle of the road blocking everyone too :)

    Bottom line: people can't drive so nothing really helps except building roads that make it impossible for vehicles to cross in that way.

  25. Re:The article is a bit flawed on Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead · · Score: 1

    The headline say that it has been rejected, but the Norwegian article sais the status is not yet decided by the proper governing body. Quite a difference I'd say :)