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  1. So? on No Wi-Fi Around Huge Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    Your better off running a wire network in the first place. I may be wrong ( which I'm not ) but couldn't you just put the school in a magnetic cage so to speak there for blocking it from giving off / taking unwanted fields.

  2. Goolge on MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't google just come back saying Hotmail, because you love hackers stealing your account!

  3. Re:Penmanship on Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, when I read my brain puts in all the required puncuation for me before I even notice it. So in fact grammar to me, even growing up never played a big / any role. Now granted not everyone can work like I do but on some level you have to admit that your brain can put the facts together and in the end you don't really need to see things like commas, periods, question marks and etc...

  4. Penmanship on Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship · · Score: 1

    Penmanship? who can really defend good penmanship, some of the most educated people have the worst legible writing imaginable. How neat you write has nothing to do with the quality of the information. As for bad grammar and spelling I'm so pro for this pen it's insane. Growing up having a learning disability which makes it hard to spell and really hard to use grammar correctly, I can totally see the need for this. ( Of course on a side note any one who needs the grammar to read doesn't really know how to read in the first place, I can read books with out even needing to see or read a single grammar note )

  5. Insecure on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Everything is insecure, every month we need to change the password, use a better password, use a better username etc.... Here is a new concept, lets only use biometrics that are also paired with a one time pass, the encrypted entry is generated at access time and is valid for 20 seconds and if you miss it your locked out for 24 hours no matter what. That would be secure, anything less by next month will be insecure.

  6. Re:Well on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    Sorry, your perfectly correct. I was auto assuming she was referring to "normal" porn aka not slaves forced to have sex porn, I shouldn't of made that assumption!

  7. Well on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    I 100% agree with blocking ALL child porn, it's a horribly offensive and wrong media type. However even though I don't take part in Animal or Violence porn they don't fundamentally violate the rights of a non defend-able group. I don't think it's right to block access to something which isn't fundamentally wrong.

  8. Re:I don't get it on BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? · · Score: 1

    Okay well first of all lets look at how you navigate both iOS and Android, you swipe! Now on the big impressive, new, completely redesigned, full blown ground up rework of the mobile platform!!!! Your swipe. BB10 Implements a software keyboard with predictive word guessing ( really poorly done, like all phones ), Android and iOS implement a software keyboard with bad predictive word guessing, so far VERY different! On BB10 you swipe left and right to pull apps open, on Android you swipe left / right to pull apps open.

    On BB10 you swipe down for more settings on Android your swipe down for settings!!! OMG BB10 really pushed the limits so far. On BB10 you can rearrange you "desktop", on Android you can rearrange your "desktop". On BB10 you can use your settings menu to change everything, on iOS and Android you can go into the settings menu and change everything!!! Most if not all Android phones ressemble the iPhone, BB10 ressembles the iPhone.

    On BB10 you can full utilize NFC, on Android you can fuilly utilize NFC to greater extent. Now I can keep going but so far BB10 is well done implemenation of Android + iOS. What Rim should of done is to include a HARD keyboard, they work much better. Include hard buttons that have multiplexed funcationlity to do away with swiping and made everything eye driven ( it exists!! ). Face it all BB10 did was copy the market and well that would work for anyone doing great in the market already, I don't think it does enough for a company who needs to relanch and start over.

  9. Re:I don't get it on BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? · · Score: 1

    Because I've used it and after using it I can 100% say that it's as if iOS and Android had a baby. Everything has record sales on release, wait a year and lets see how the sale are going to do. Everyone is just excited right now because of the new release.

  10. Re:Python? on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    The scientific community is already coalescing around SciPy.

    Maybe some it is but I'm going to bet the vaste majority aren't even touching python. I would never use python for scientific computing, it's not designed for it, simply put. Sure you can do light scrientific computing in SciPy maybe even some more advanced functions but if Python has to go balls to the wall, it simply wont measure up!

    So if your looking for a system that can handle all your big data and your large storage why not look towards a system which can handle most of it out of the box, that's not Python. You can alter any language to include those features or you can just start with the right one.

    If SciPy is so powerful then it should have no problem implementing my real time model based VDHL generation system for complex genre detection utilizing real time audio samples. I just finished designing this system in Matlab and have started porting it to Octave, a task such as mine needs powerful scientific systems and when I was designing my project I never once even considered using SciPy because I know Python isn't designed to handle powerful scientific computing.

    So I think DARPA needs to step back and really think of a better way to approach this, personally I'm still going to use an open based mathimatical modeling and programming system along the lines of Matlab ( not open ) or Octave, it's designed to handle these kind of tasks from the get go.

  11. I don't get it on BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? · · Score: 0

    I just don't see what makes it pop, how it redefines the current "view" of the phone OS. If you ask me all it is, is a mix of iOS + Android. They haven't done enough with it to forge a new path and that is what's killing it. They put effort into the wrong areas and have ended up with a fair clone of the phone market. So is it to late well no but is it not the right product, yes.

  12. Re:Python? on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Fine, then grab one of the other million and 1/2 great open source mathematical packages and run with it. Basically a ton of money is being sunk into something that can be solved by moving platforms. Open or not, there is software which fulfills the need and for $100 million you can get a lot of anything.

  13. Re:110 reasons to pick Python over Matlab on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Well it's group voted on so it's not like I can argue the list. How ever that being said, Matlab or any mathematical computing language is still better suited for big data, the lack of skill of a programmer should never be blamed on the language, it's an easy way out.

  14. Re:Python? on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Fine then use Octave or one of the other mathematical open source packages. The issue is that they want to adapt a system instead of using an existing one.

  15. Python? on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 2

    Have they heard of Matlab?

  16. Optical Drives on Hard Drive Revenue About To Take a Double-Digit Dip · · Score: 1

    Say what you want about them but I still love a good DVD-RW drive. It will never matter what kind of computer I'm running, an optical drive will always be in my bill of sale.

  17. Re:Not much on What Will The Expanding World of ChromeOS Mean For Windows? · · Score: 1
    You just mentioned

    Except as a platform to run Certain Applications

    Thats my point, most people at some level need Windows even if it's for that one application that they forgot about.

  18. Almost on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    I had an issue like this with Virgin Mobile when I bought my smart phone. They told me that I had to have data and there was no way around it. So I called them back, told them I down graded my phone to a non smart phone and they dropped my data off. They kept calling me and asking if I wanted them to turn it back on and because I kept saying no they weren't allowed to.

  19. Not much on What Will The Expanding World of ChromeOS Mean For Windows? · · Score: 1

    People and systems need Windows, I don't think we'll reach a point where we can finally sever the birth cord to it, no matter what at some point there will need to be a windows computer running. Microsoft might see sales drop off a bit but they wont, at least for a long while, need to really worry.

  20. Re:Office is dead on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, I'm not sure when you last tried Libre Office but it's on par if not better then Office load times. Maybe back in the day it had an issue loading massive CSV files, which grantted I don't really know why you would want to use CSV file of that size but as of right now it would have no problem loading that file.

    As for engineering a solution, well I wouldn't call using a database an engineered solution, I'd call it common sense for something that large. Databases are designed for lots of data served up quickly, CSV files are meant for a small amount of data quickly stored. Not saying you can't adapt a CSV file to work for big portions of data but then it's not the office suites problem if it can't open it.

  21. Re:Office is dead on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 1
    Simple and fast but even if you missed this line I'll just repeat it.

    minus Excel you really don't need office in a given day

    The load time for a 2452 Cell x 7 Row libre office chart is about .5 seconds as ODS format and about .5 seconds for a XLSX format. So unless your working with some really poorly build spread sheets your not going to see much if any difference, here is a link to the actual file:

    https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7RIGjmEU0IlMk81bjJ0aW9TaGM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7RIGjmEU0IlRV9aSFJiYUUwNGM/edit?usp=sharing.

    However if your using a sheet that big you might want to think about a better database setup to use for access and viewing.

  22. Office is dead on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 1

    Great office for iOS, who cares! There are many equally good open source packages that actually bring a more powerful office experience to the user. Personally I'm a big fan of Libre Office and I find it bring more to the table as a great office suite, minus Excel you really don't need office in a given day. So even if Office never see's iOS I don't see a lot of people caring.

  23. Timeline on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 1

    24 hours for a message explaining the issue, or the fact there is an issue

    48 hour updates on how the issue resolution is going

    After 1 week a full month refund with no questions

    Down time longer then two weeks, ask the community for help.

  24. Blame the software? on Washington Post: We Were Also Hacked By the Chinese · · Score: 1

    What is the point on the IT department if your going to blame off the shelf software. The software is a rough first stop but in no way a completely solution for prevention. Before you blame the software also blame the IT department.

  25. No on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 2

    I completely disagree with this post, I'm from the camp that you don't plan all the requirments before you start. I've done a lot of embedded and desktop programming and at least for me it's a far more productive setup to let the requirments fall out of the code as you work. I know many other programmers who would work better in this enviroment, we can see the requirments in the code and we have no problem seeing the end result as we work.

    However I also know "old" programmers who work better where they want the bulk or all the requirments set before they start anything. Either camp is right, it just depends how you work, much like a great artist, you need to work in the way you best express yourself.

    To sit someone down and plan requirements all out when they don't work that way is a huge waste of time, they aren't really getting much out of it and you've wasted time they could be programming. However on the same page to not plan the requirments out for someone that needs them will just hurt them. Hence I really don't think we need to move back to the view that requirments must be planned out, we need to move to a system where we reconize that some people work better in camp A and some in camp B. The industry needs to evolve with the times and it's in a state now where the young hot shots work differently but the old guys wants to resist change.