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  1. Re:Oh, goody, I can "consume" silent movies now... on Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC · · Score: 1

    You understand what "WebRTC" is, right?

  2. Re:Javascript is a language - can write stuff in i on JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland · · Score: 1

    The point here is that emscripten can get within 1/2 native speed when the resulting code is put on a modern JavaScript engine. You're not regressing 25 years; you're regressing about 18 months.

  3. Re:Javascript is a language - can write stuff in i on JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland · · Score: 2

    You must have had an *awesome* 8 MHz 8086 if it could do this: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

  4. Re:The Oatmeal Got it Right on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's easy: "It looks like you're downloading illegal content. 'The Game of Thrones' cannot currently be purchased online. Click here for a special offer to add HBO-on-demand to your Comcast subscription for only $18.99 per month! (Note: Two year commitment required. Non-TV subscribers must also add the $39.99-per-month 'Digital Starter' package to take advantage of this deal)."

    Yeah, I can't imagine that Comcast has a profit motive here or anything.

  5. Re:FireFox Cant on Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? · · Score: 1

    The company got purchased...

    Huh? Purchased? Owners? Gold fever?

    Mozilla is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. No one stands to get rich from this.

    We'll welcome you back to the reality-based conversation whenever you feel like re-joining us.

  6. Re:Not the best market to launch in on Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess it's just Spain and nowhere else.

    If only there were some large, developing continent where most countries use Spanish as their native language. Some place where non-smart-phones are still in wide use because people don't want to pay $800 for an iPhone or $400 for an Android phone. Some place where a low-cost, highly capable phone might be welcomed. If only...

  7. Re:Putting the pressure on Microsoft - nice! on Firefox and Chrome Can Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Opera does implement getUserMedia, but not peerConnection. They can do the part of RTC that accesses cameras and microphones, but not the part that sends it over the network.

  8. Re:Over private property? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Sweet. So if I could get my hands on a SAM powerful enough to hit an earth survey satellite, that's just fine, since it was photographing my back yard without my permission?

  9. Re:Or even older on It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director · · Score: 1

    Of course, that one example is the type of thing would actually REQUIRE older guys because of the old code involved. How often, really, does that come up anymore, when viewed as a percentage of all software work?

    Hey, I plan to come out of retirement to fix the Y2038 problem.

  10. Re:Only by the idiots.... on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you get the point. Why should a consumer be required to use a more expensive bulb for a utility room whether that is CFC or halogen? In the long run, the expense is small, but I am not replacing perfectly fine bulbs in parts of my house that I don't need them very often.

    No one is saying you need to replace working light bulbs. When they burn out, you'll have to get a halogen replacement. Honestly, we're arguing over the price difference between a $0.50 traditional incandescent and a $0.65 halogen bulb that lasts nearly twice as long. I have a hard time buying a price-based objection to such a change.

  11. Re:Only by the idiots.... on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    "So, which part makes me an idiot?"

    The part where you can't read the post you're replying to. He's talking about halogen light bulbs, which have nothing to do with fluorescent lights.

    That fact that you can't seem to understand that -- even when it's pointed out to you -- really shows off his point better than he could have ever hoped. You've become so angry over misinformation that you can't even mentally absorb the correction when it's waved in front of your face.

  12. Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    The thing about trademarks is that they are scoped to industries. Who has the trademark on "SAS"? Is it an airline/hotel company? A shoe maker? A software firm? A line of medical supplies? Is it a designation of Sig Sauer handguns? The name of global mining company?

    The answer is "all of the above."

    Trademarks are not globally unique like copyright and patents. I can call my car audio installation company "Protech," and you can call your home alarm monitoring company "Protech," and we can both maintain trademarks on those names. There's no problem because we're in different industries. Now, if you decided to start doing car audio installation under that name, we'd run into problems.

    So it seems to me that Apple's use of a railway's trademark isn't really a violation of trademark law unless there is some overlap in the services provided by the two companies.

  13. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    San Antonio? You're going to take a cab 160 miles to the border? I doubt you're talking any cab driver into doing that. Perhaps you meant El Paso? (But crossing from El Paso to Juarez has its own set of problems: I'd take capture by the feds over decapitation by the Zetas.)

  14. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Where are the analog audio out pins on USB? Or do I need to have a USB host controller in my cheap speaker dock just to interface with a device in your world? how about the audio in pins?

    Where are the USB pins that allow a USB device (not a host, but a device) to provide power to an accessory?

    Where is the Pr/Pb/Y component output on a USB plug? Composite video? HDMI? VGA? S-Video? Because the dock adapter has pins for all of those things.

  15. Re:The answer was the same 6 years ago: on Ask Slashdot: Holding ISPs Accountable For Contracted DSL Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    The lawyer thing might be more realistic than you think, depending on how widespread the problem is. If it's just you, you'll lose money hiring a lawyer. Then again, if it's just you, customer service should be able to help you out.

    But if you can figure out that other people with your ISP are having the same issues, you might be able to form a class and get lawyers to work the case on contingency. Such cases have been settled in the past, with substantial refunds made to the affected customers. For example, I'll be getting a few hundred dollars back from AT&T for years of failing to deliver the speed I was paying for. See https://dslspeedsettlement.com/ for details.

  16. Re:83rd meeting? on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'Internet' hasn't been around for 83 years. So, how many meetings per year are needed?

    In the early days, it was less regimented, and sometimes as frequently as 4 times a year. For the past few decades, it's been a pretty steady spring/summer/fall meeting schedule.

  17. Re:Lower power on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 1

    Never mind the spec; 1, 6, and 11 do overlap (albeit only slightly) in real life. Go buy a 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer, bring up three APs on those three channels, and see for yourself what the power curve is.

  18. Re:toney on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's kind of an overpriced crap pit with chronic theft problems in which the staff appear to be complicit (if not the actual perpetrators). But that wasn't really the main thrust of the article. :)

  19. Re:Lower power on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 5, Informative

    And that's ultimately what Chris did: we're now operating on four channels. Well, six, actually -- some of the APs could operate in the 5 GHz spectrum, so rather than leaving them off, they were re-purposed for the equipment that could use them (which offloads all the Macs and iPads from the 2.4 GHz spectrum, bringing the noise floor down). So now, running down one side of the building, we have 1, 5, 9 and 13; and then on the other side, 13, 9, 5, and 1. The APs on the tips of the building (it's shaped like an American football in horizontal cross-section) are on the 5GHz channels 40 and 44. The pattern is reversed for every other floor, to provide as much vertical spacing as possible.

    This should help you visualize the layout: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/slides/slides-83-iesg-11-ietf-operations-and-administration-plenary.pdf

    Keep in mind also that the APs, when we showed up, were turned up all the way up. Look at the diagrams, and keep in mind that these are small rooms (the building is maybe 150 feet wide along its longer axis), and you begin to see how the deployment failure was pretty complete before we got here.

    Of course, we didn't show up with 300 directional antennas to fix the APs themselves. All we could do is change their configuration. The change has been dramatic.

  20. Re:mirage on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you're a bit confused about typographical conventions around representation of Celsius. This is a quick and illuminating read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius#Name_and_symbol_typesetting

  21. Re:Given he had retirement plans how unfortunate on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    The IETF has perennial funding problems. Suing for the purpose of getting money from the IETF is pretty much like rolling bums for loose change. It's just mean spirited, and you won't make any money doing it.

  22. Re:Covers on Music Copyright War Looming · · Score: 1

    Some have. For some reason, they rarely turn out to be very good, and some are downright impossible to listen to. For example, if you are at all familiar with Jefferson Starship/Starship, I dare you to listen to this album: http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-Of-The-80s/dp/B000VB9WSO/

  23. Re:use a different address on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    Well, now it is.

  24. Re:Enterprise Systems on Call Interception Demonstrated On New Cisco Phones · · Score: 1

    That's not tier 2 support! That's straight off the "reboot your paragraph" script they give to the first-line flunkies. From http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/writing-resources/common-writing-mistakes --

    As a strong comma, [the semicolon] can be used to provide strong separation of two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction (normally, a comma provides this separation) or to separate a series of phrases or clauses with internal commas.

    (emphasis mine).

    The clause preceding the semicolon has a number of internal commas. The use of a semicolon serves to make it clear that the following words are not part of the list of things by which the clusterfuck is backed.

    "Proper" English grammar is a lot more nuanced (and regionally varied) than most people are willing to believe, and it's certainly more complex than the dozen or so rules you learned in elementary school.

  25. Re:help me plan my afternoon on Two Huge Holes In the Sun Spotted · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just like we all died back in 2003.

    Nothing to see here. Move along.