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  1. Re:So much for "tolerance" on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    You mean like how Pat Robertson told us that Katrina was God punishing people? Bigoted assholes who whine about people not tolerating them makes my irony meter explode.

  2. Re:What does this have to do with slashdot? on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 2

    Or it's just amusing to laugh at a bunch of idiots who poorly planned their convention. You don't need to be a leftist to do that. Do these morons not realize they planned this during a period that is usually the peak of hurricane season?

  3. Re:And if a hurricane wipes out the GOP... on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't have to be a leftist to hate the GOP.

  4. Re:Floating point on Baserock Slab Server Pairs High-Density ARM Chips With Linux · · Score: 2

    Cortex-A15 is, according to ARM, supposed to be much, much beefier for floating point and have better NEON performance. Plus with 40-bit physical addressing it could be quite an impressive competitor.

  5. Re:As usual the key information is missing on Baserock Slab Server Pairs High-Density ARM Chips With Linux · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the Cortex-A15 processors which introduces 40-bit addressing of which there aren't any on the market yet.

  6. Re:Inalienable Rights? on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 2

    Class action lawsuits are not an inalienable right. They exist due to rules created by the states and the Federal government.

  7. Re:Plague on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Sure. I look forward to your telling me how this is invalid evidence, though.

  8. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Since when did pilots of private airliners become government agents?

  9. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Common carrier status for airlines, buses, trains, etc. has never meant that they have to let everyone on board and can't kick people off and refuse them carriage. In fact, many of the states have regulations on common carriers that REQUIRE them to do so in the interests of the safe carriage of the passengers.

  10. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Maybe actually read the whole summary before spouting off nonsense?

    The pilot of the aircraft, however, had had enough of the whole ordeal and asked the Delta supervisor to relay the message that, due to the discomfort the shirt had caused, neither Arijit nor his wife would be allowed to board the aircraft.

    Seriously, it is only a 4 sentence summary. He was kicked off by the pilot of the plane which is completely within Delta's prerogative since you have no right to fly on their planes. First Amendment has pretty much no bearing on the case.

  11. Re:TSA screens rape victem, further traumatizing h on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 0

    So your evidence that Israel's system doesn't actually prevent hijackings is what exactly? You do have something more substantial than a lame attempt at a "correlation is not causation" argument, right?

  12. Re:Doesn't know much about the system on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    Except he hasn't even shown he can do what he claims. He just says that based on what he could do in a flight sim that reality would be the exact same.

  13. Re:Doesn't know much about the system on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    What's funny is that he can't even prove he can really do it. To demonstrate this supposed vulnerability ihe used a flight sim and then said 'just trust us that it'll work in real life'.

    Haines and hacker Nick Foster demonstrated this by spoofing a fake aircraft into simulated San Francisco airspace, using the Flight Gear simulator program. He said spoofing a target into the real ADS-B system would be a simple matter of transmitting the signal on the ADS-Bfrequencies.

  14. Re:Java is the vector again on Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way Onto Virtual Machines · · Score: 1

    No, the installer itself does not run with normal user permissions. These trojans require the user to voluntarily choose to install it thus granting them elevated permissions in the process. You would have a point if this was a drive-by exploit, but its not.

  15. Re:err, A virtual machine is not a machine? on Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way Onto Virtual Machines · · Score: 1

    'Breaking in' implies that it had to bypass some security mechanism, but that isn't the case.

  16. Re:Does not compute on AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash · · Score: 1

    HSPA+ is officially 4G according to ITU. Not to mention T-Mobile was using the 4G term before ITU tried to set their standard. So, please, stop with this stupid whining about the supposed misuse of 4G when you are clearly wrong since the standards group even says so..

  17. Re:So the research is wrong... on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 2

    Hence why I mentioned sampling bias. Studies that rely entirely on voluntary reporting are always skewed.

  18. Re:You know what else is a cognitive burden? on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 2

    Yes, but not everyone wants their windows organized in that way.

  19. Re:To paraphrase... on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, that's what he's saying. Metro is moronic from a usability standpoint on a desktop.

  20. Re:Us old folks are prejudiced on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    So you agree with some monstrosity that needlessly swaps you between contexts that serves to only confuse people? You would have a point if they had gone Metro only but the bolted on desktop app only makes it a terrible Frankenstein-like experience.

  21. Re:You know what else is a cognitive burden? on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 2

    Because not everyone is a point-and-grunt user? Many people have complex workflows (programmers, graphic artists, video editors, etc.) that require... manually managing their workspace.

  22. Re:So the research is wrong... on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    Because studies never have sampling bias, right? Focus groups are always 100% indicative of all people, right? Everyone loves Pepsi over Coke, right? I mean that's what the Pepsi Challenge said.

  23. Re:The reason for the start page on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    Since when do average users have to go to the CLI on Windows versions that use the start menu? Oh right, never.

  24. Re:Dont like it? Dont use them. Its that simple. on AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash · · Score: 1

    Wow, nice strawman you beat there. Maybe let the GP respond before you put words in their mouth? Also, you can break your long term contract by paying the ETF to refund them your subsidy. In what backwater country do you live in where you can't terminate your cell contract?

  25. Re:"Since its acquisition by Sony" on Sony Closes WipEout Developer Studio Liverpool · · Score: 2

    Except developers didn't leave in droves when it was acquired nearly 20 years ago.