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  1. whats the spec benchmark ? on AMD Unveils Elite A-Series APUs With Enhanced Performance, Improved Efficiency · · Score: 3, Interesting

    seriously show me numbers

    also 9.6W for decoding MPEG is pretty horrendous but this is because I'm guessing they have to power the whole of the GPU rather than a simple specialised unit

    where is the benchmark ?

    regards

    John Jones

  2. honestly adverts and HTML... comments... on Facebook Introduces a Mobile-Oriented Redesign · · Score: 1

    seriously start tracking things rather than trying to guess

    start tracking conversions i.e. when a offer or advert is placed how many people click through and how many order...
    this is why google does so well

    stop pushing lots and lots of display adverts they simply turn people off

    I'm fine with facebook I know they will track me but give more power to the advertisers and reduce the adverts in the "news feed"

    as long as they honer Do not track for all browsers except Internet Explorer I'm fine with them

    also please sort out your mobile site so its exactly the same as the app version...

    my 2c

    John Jones

  3. Controller still bluetooth ? on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 2

    I Hope so ! some standard of some kind HID profile... Sony controllers are some of the best and if they want people to say nice things about them simply make them the standard that everyone hacks things with how much press did the Wee get because they used standards...

    I hope its standard bluetooth I really do

  4. Re:Inaccurate Summary on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 1

    that may be true but can you explain to me how this windows store would not infringe

    pricture of a windows store

    regards

    John Jones

  5. windows stores... on Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores · · Score: 1, Interesting

    look exactly the same...

    so thats going to be fun for them !

    picture of a windows store next to apple store

    regards

    John Jones

  6. ok its really this simple... on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 2

    EVERY I mean every year in Australia some tourists die because they did not pack any water and their 4x4 + GPS fails...

    what happens is that the 4x4 is driven by the man/women that has no clue of driving in the outback... no nothing compares to the the great outback...

    combined with

    a blind faith in GPS...

    leathal combination

    what does not help here is TOM TOM

    honestly speaking as someone living in australia the map makers from the netherlands who do a fantastic job in most other places... are frankly useless in australia

    apple uses tomtom for routes combined with the fact apple cant get the POI in Australia COMPLETELY WRONG I mean there was the case of the apple store in sydney being in the wrong place (many streets away) and cairns being in the wrong place (this is a MAJOR town) I mean many 100 miles/kilometres wrong

    honestly they need to get this sorted... just pay for the data apple wake up crowd sourcing is a fact check not the only source

    regards

    John Jones

  7. impervia make WAF... on Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection · · Score: 2

    although they did a good job verifying the DB I have to wonder why the hacker mentioned this...

  8. Re:is it shipping to customers ? on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    ok reading the list nick had this to say :

    "
    Accusing us of violating GPL is a serious legal claim.

    In fact, we are not violating GPL. In short, this is because we wrote
    the code you are referring to (the SCSI target core in our commercial
    RTS OS product), we have exclusive copyright ownership of it, and this
    code contains no GPL code from the community. GPL obligations only
    apply downstream to licensees, and not to the author of the code. Those
    who use the code under GPL are subject to its conditions; we are not.

    As you know, we contributed the Linux SCSI target core, including the
    relevant interfaces, to the Linux kernel. To be clear, we wrote that
    code entirely ourselves, so we have the right to use it as we please.
    The version we use in RTS OS is a different, proprietary version, which
    we also wrote ourselves. However, the fact that we contributed a
    version of the code to the Linux kernel does not require us to provide
    our proprietary version to anyone.

    If you want to understand better how dual licensing works, perhaps we
    can talk off list. But we don’t really have a responsibility to respond
    to untrue accusations, nor to explain GPL, nor discuss our proprietary
    code.

    We’re very disappointed that Red Hat would not be more professional in
    its communications about licensing compliance matters, particularly to a
    company like ours that has been a major contributor to Linux and
    therefore also to Red Hat’s own products. So, while I invite you to
    talk about this with us directly, I also advise you – respectfully – not
    to make public accusations that are not true. That is harmful to our
    reputation – and candidly, it doesn’t reflect well on you or your
    company.
    "
    so basically if they developed the code and use a closed source OS that is not linux then redhat don't have a leg to stand on...

    if they use a module inserted into linux then it will "taint" the OS then it gets shifty...

    have fun

    john

  9. is it shipping to customers ? on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    thats what makes the difference...

    if its just something he is developing at the moment AFAIK then he does not have to release it until he gives it to others...

       

  10. HP printer firmware upgrade via print ? on Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords · · Score: 3, Interesting

    are you serious ?

    so your telling me that I can screw your entire print service and DOS it by sending it a print job ?

    is this only over USB or Networked as well ?

    (this is not a bad solution to upgrade the firmware but I bet they dont sign their firmware only use a magic hexcode to initiate the upgrade )

    regards

    John

  11. Re:Ubiquity on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? · · Score: 1

    kai that is naughty...

  12. oh my some sense... from the french on Prime Minister to French Government: Favor FOSS Wherever Possible · · Score: 4, Funny

    helping the french economy by cutting costs and if they employ some french nationals to actually do the work that might help the french employment...

    whatever next

    regards

    John Jones

  13. Asia and Australia on 1800MHz on Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? · · Score: 4, Informative

    most of Asia (not all) is scheduled to operate on 1800MHz

    Apple got fined for not working on this frequency and claiming 4G in australia so they are more than aware !

    1800 is great for Everything Everywhere as they get first mover advantage and use the same as other countries

    regards

    John Jones

  14. Re:Nice tool on UK Universities Caught With Weak SSL Security · · Score: 2

    actually it does not matter I'll just poison your DNS since they don't have DNSSEC... BEAST is the least of their worries...

    have fun now kids

  15. pathetic... on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 1

    to quote "As far as I know both professional [chartered etc.]accountants and acuaries are exempted occupations under the Rehabilitation Of Oggemnders Act so employers can if they wish require disclosure of *all* convictions, whether spent or not, just the same as happens when working in health care or in contact with children or vulnerable adults. But it is then up to the employer to decide upon overall suitability for the role." so as I thought its up to the employer

    so he did not loose his job because of the conviction...

    worst case he lost his job because he threatened to bomb somewhere in a public forum...

    frankly I have little sympathy for multiple reasons

    regards

    John 'real name' Jones

  16. Re:WTF--- compute on linux... on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    well it depends on what you want things for

    basically I don't really see much difference in the graphics openGL/DX11 side of things but this was very interesting to me :

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/5805/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review-ultra-expensive-ultra-rare-ultra-fast/15

    regards

    John Jones

  17. Re:The trouble is... on Australian ISP Wins Case Against Movie Studios · · Score: 4, Insightful

    let your MP know on this single issue you will vote against them...
    http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/find-your-local-mp.htm

    wonder how many people actually will... worth twittering/emailing/commenting on the MP in question

    regards

    John Jones

  18. good now let them know... on Australian ISP Wins Case Against Movie Studios · · Score: 2

    great now 2 things...

    let them know by switching to an ISP who won't filtering the internet is wrong

    http://www.iinet.net.au/

    secondly let your MP know filtering is not a good plan... a list of websites and twitter can be found :

    http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/find-your-local-mp.htm

    regards

    John Jones

  19. what else is there ? on Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ · · Score: 1

    one wonders what else is there if they are only releasing these now ?

    regards

    John Jones

  20. you know that pull down to refresh patent... on Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' · · Score: 1

    twitter I think owns that...

    seriously... all those app's that you pull down to refresh well... you cant sue twitter otherwise they will counter with that...

    honestly its all crazy IMHO

    regards

    John Jones

  21. in australia... media sentry on Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World · · Score: 2

    media sentry has started sending out notices in australia...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSentry

    basically these people are worse than useless and send out notices without actually proving one way or another, on top of that the rights holders most often dont condone it as they actually share out their "media" to try and trap people...

    australia is so far behind in terms of TV and film distribution and the local networks ie. channel 7 and ten are frankly pathetic in terms of content buying only formats and pretending they are australian... how many shows have they actually created (funded from the start) ?
    they then just try and buy content cheap after everyone else has broadcast it and hope the consumer wont seek alternative methods to consume content

    ask anyone in TV/Film "have you ever downloaded a film/tv" and the answer is yes... why not simply make it all available at roughly the same time ?

    treating people badly wont get you very far...

    give sonsumers what they want is a novel concept....

    john jones

  22. Re:pictures from space = bad on Emperor Penguins Counted From Space · · Score: 1

    animals are different from finding static targets... but you knew that...

  23. pictures from space = bad on Emperor Penguins Counted From Space · · Score: 1

    well if you saw the pictures I seriously doubt that this is accurate

    the "image recognition" is basically counting blocks (with attributes) its not very good (I've seen it)

    the satellite imagery from space was awful resolution... they need to learn from search and rescue basically they need to gather their search pattern from the satellite and then fly a plane/helicopter/drone (U2 plane would be best) over and take the imagery and do a count based on that...

    I think everyone was assuming the imagery was like google earth but in fact most of that is taken from planes etc...

    looks like Press release rather than a serious count

    however does anyone know of any good pre built image recognition tools to actually count animals ?

    regards

    John Jones

     

  24. so they can pitch just not drive cars... on Why the Middle East Is a Good Place For Women Tech Entrepreneurs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Women driving has been a controversial issue in Saudi Arabia since 1990 when 47 women got into 14 cars and drove on to a main street in Riyadh. They were stopped, suspended from work for two years and condemned for years in religious sermons and social circles....

    honestly

     

  25. depends on the teacher... surprise on OLPC Australia Pushes Boundaries of Education · · Score: 2

    so...

    ever been given a book as part of a curriculum and hated it because of the way the subject area was taught ?

    so much depends on the leaders at 'grass roots' otherwise known as "teachers" if they use tools in interesting and informative ways then it helps...

    have fun

    John Jones