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  1. Re:No wonder. on Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Noscript.

  2. Re:Realistic on The Groups Behind Making Distributed Solar Power Harder To Adopt · · Score: 1

    You store the excess energy somewhere. We have technology today to do this: flywheels, water pumping stations, batteries. All of this requires investment nobody wants to pay for.

  3. Re:Watches on Pebble Time Smartwatch Receives Overwhelming Support On Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    Because you can launch a synchronized attack from the trenches without everyone fumbling to stuff their watch back into a pocket. Then fashion took over.

  4. Re:The real problem on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    They have the psychology of a toddler. They believe they should have everything they want and throw a tantrum when anybody else gets something nice.

  5. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    If only we could get an outspoken third-party candidate willing to dedicate the time to preach this message in our public debates. Someone who could tell America to open its collective eyes and think about how much they're being manipulated and lied too.

  6. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is telco deregulation. The local incumbents have intentionally retarded infrastructure improvements to make it infeasible for alternate providers to establish themselves. Nobody's going to buy DSL from an alternate vendor who can't provide better service and is powerless to change anything. On the cable side of things the lack of dedicated lines means multiple providers can't share the same distribution network even if they didn't have contractual monopolies granted to them.

  7. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    They backed down because the Democrats will make hay with it in 2016. If you haven't noticed yet they're backing down from all their antagonistic strategies because it isn't going to play well in the next election cycle. They only really have the Benghazi dog whistle to play against Hillary and don't want to expose themselves on a domestic issue that matters more to voters.

  8. Re:Surely they meant on Can Tracking Employees Improve Business? · · Score: 2

    You need to read "1984" citizen.

  9. Re:Actually, ADM Rogers doesn't "want" that at all on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    They can already do that today. They don't like dealing with the inconvenience of playing by constitutional rules and their rubber stamp "court" may be taken away.

  10. Re:do you want exodus? on Attention, Rockstar Developers: Get a Talent Agent · · Score: 1

    Also add a mail filter for the 100 most common Indian names to eliminate the spam.

    Aaditya Abhi Abhinav Abhishek Abid Aditya Ajay Ajeet Ajith Akash Akhalesh Akshat Akshay Alok Amit Amit Anirudh Anish Ankit Ankur Anoop Anshul Anubhab Anupam Arjun Arka Arun Aryan Ashish Ashutosh Ashwin Avinash Bikram Chandra Deepak Deepro Dhruv Dinesh Girish Govind Harish Himanshu Imran Jainil Jatin Kapil Karan Kaustubh Krishna Kumar Mahesh Manish Manisha Manoj Mayank Mehul Menul Midhun Mohit Neeraj Nikhil Nishant Nitesh Nitin Omkar Paaus Palash Pandit Pankaj Parth Piyush Prakash Pramesh Pranav Prashant Prateek Prathamesh Rahul Raj Rajeev Rajesh Raju Rakesh Ram Ramanan Raunak Ravi Rishabh Rohan Rohit Sachin Sahil Saju Santosh Sathish Satyavrat Saurabh Shaan Sharma Shivam Shubham Shyam Siddharth Soham Sridhar Srinivas Sumant Suneel Suresh Syed Taranprit Tauseen Tejas Tushar Varsha Varun Vasu Vedant Vibhor Vishal Vishnu Yash Yashwant

  11. Re:Read the EULA... the lawsuit has no merit. on Lenovo Hit With Lawsuit Over Superfish Adware · · Score: 2

    There's also the gross negligence displayed by both Lenovo and Superfish in deploying this software. The fact that Lenovo specifically requested to not intercept HTTPS (documented in a JS comment) demonstrates that they were not as clueless about what Superfish has been doing as they want to let on.

  12. Re:Mossad connection on Ars: SSL-Busting Code That Threatened Lenovo Users Found In a Dozen More Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're a paper ally because they provide a convenient way to funnel our "aid" money into domestic arms production. A state that is always at war always needs bullets and we're only too happy to buy them on the American taxpayer's behalf, "gratis". This helps float the MIC when we're in between wars. Holocaust guilt prevents any criticism from gaining public traction.

  13. Re:Can confirm on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Rare is the American woman who will settle for a man who doesn't bring them status. Height is the easiest to go for with the usual requirement that he still be taller when she's in 4" heels. Some will settle for social status like Dennis Kucinich's wife but rest assured he wouldn't have her if he was a garbage man.

  14. Re:Most important parameter for men: height on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    The worst part is that all the women assume you're lying and have inflated by 1" / 3cm. It just shows how shallow they are when choosing a mate.

  15. Wikipedia page on "Exploding Kittens" Blows Up Kickstarter Records · · Score: 4, Informative

    So a still fictional game get's to have its own Wikipedia page but the Nim programming language, in development and publicly available for years, only got to have a page a few days ago and is still under threat of deletion from rabid mods. WP truly has a fucked up sense of priority.

  16. Re:Woz rolling in his grave on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 1

    Email? Networks weren't used in schools back then and there would be no justification for dialup if a POTS jack was even nearby.

  17. Re:Woz rolling in his grave on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 1

    There wasn't. Apple ]['s were deployed sparingly in most schools. Only the richest school districts with the dumbest of administration would put one in every classroom as a glorified toy.

  18. Re:Seagate on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    Why would they lose? The cards have 4GiB of RAM. They never guaranteed that performance would be sustained after the 3.5GiB mark.

  19. Re:Sony doesn't care for electronics for a reason. on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    There's more to Sony than just Playstation but I wouldn't expect fanboy gamers to know much about the company. Their professional and prosumer video camera lineup has some value as well as other high margin niche business segments they serve. Many people are unaware that they are one of only two manufacturers turning out high-end video CCDs.

  20. Re:Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 2

    Seems to have worked out well. We're not cutting people's heads off and burning them alive anymore.

  21. Re:What? BMW through the brush wash? on Also Hackable: Drive-Through Car Washes · · Score: 2

    I would venture that the OP is regurgitating some dealer scare story from the days when BMW made cars with telescoping antennas that would get ripped off by the automated washers.

  22. Re:Hey, no worries. It's no big deal on Federal Court: Theft of Medical Records Not an 'Imminent Danger' To Victim · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't get a free pass to throw out common sense when you enter the judiciary.

  23. Great for thieves on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 1

    This is a boon for thieves. They just have to follow the trucks and canvas the immediate neighborhood rather than try to follow them from a distribution center.

  24. Absolutely garbage claims on Patent Troll Wins $15.7M From Samsung By Claiming To Own Bluetooth · · Score: 5, Informative

    I looked up the patent. Here is the meat of claim 1:

    a transceiver, in the role of the master according to the master/slave relationship, for sending at least transmissions modulated using at least two types of modulation methods, wherein the at least two types of modulation methods comprise a first modulation method and a second modulation method, wherein the second modulation method is of a different type than the first modulation method, wherein each transmission comprises a group of transmission sequences, wherein each group of transmission sequences is structured with at least a first portion and a payload portion wherein first information in the first portion indicates at least which of the first modulation method and the second modulation method is used for modulating second information in the payload portion, wherein at least one group of transmission sequences is addressed for an intended destination of the payload portion, and wherein for the at least one group of transmission sequences:
    the first information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a first sequence, in the first portion and modulated according to the first modulation method, wherein the first sequence indicates an impending change from the first modulation method to the second modulation method, and
    the second information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a second sequence that is modulated according to the second modulation method, wherein the second sequence is transmitted after the first sequence.

    This is absolute garbage. The most powerful claim is so generalized that it can be interpreted to cover anything the owner wishes. It's like patenting a mouse trap that consists of "a device with a mechanism such that mice are trapped".

  25. Obvious prior art on Patent Troll Wins $15.7M From Samsung By Claiming To Own Bluetooth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't Bluetooth 1.0 be the most obvious prior art ever?