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  1. http://www.verizonwireless.com...

    Oh? Though I had poor luck with the screen, this phone has held up very well to being wet, getting dirty, and many other abuses.

  2. Agreed. Google is missing the boat by not including wireless charging. I was also disappointed that they still don't have memory slots on their devices, this is a feature that would be nice on a phone, but is a must on a tablet. Being able to bring movies on the tablet for the kids to watch on long drives or flights is a must, and when camping it is nice for after dark.

  3. Re: Expectations game on SpaceX's Latest Launch Successful, But Ends With a "Hard Landing" (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    We already have Tony Stark :)

  4. Also, Xeons have more cache on die, they are meant for performing more operations simultaneously.

  5. Re:Republican corporate welfare on DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't an attack craft like a fighter or bomber, and it perfectly suitable to search and rescue operations. Would you prefer the firefighters not get any new toys to use in their work?

  6. Re: Have they thought this through? on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, nothing happened to the cooling system in Fukushima, the backup generators and power feed lines were washed away, leaving no way at all to power the cooling systems. This is hardly the same thing.

  7. Re:Soulskill, didn't you get canned as a /. editor on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, he is 10 years old.

    http://fairlyoddparents.wikia....

    But I don't think that is the Timmy we are speaking of.

  8. Re:And nobody on Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record · · Score: 1

    Another apparent joke seems to be a recent computer simulation stating, that the chance that the only earth-like inhabitable planet is this earth, is high.

    The very same simulation indicated Earth itself shouldn't exist. I would suggest that it is the simulation that needs work, not reality.

  9. Re:Block or identify Forbes paid links on Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record · · Score: 1

    If they were truly honest, wouldn't that be ad-light, but malware heavy browsing experience?

  10. Re:so ... on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Since every power production plant has these issues, wouldn't that make nuclear more reliable than anything else?

  11. Re: So what? on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, tell us how you really feel.

  12. Re:Nuclear weapons aren't the deterrent on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps he was speaking from the Chinese and SK perspective, as the rest of the sentence shows.

    The truth is that what South Korea fears as well as China fear most is

    To China and SK, the people are indeed immigrants who are emigrating from North Korea.

  13. Re: North Korea's next target ... on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is gullible to think that Kim Jong Un is insane? He pokes SK, Japan, and the US on a regular basis. He has attacked SK previously, and fires off missiles and explodes nukes as a temper tantrum every year when the US and SK have their annual cooperation drills.

    The guy is clearly crazy, the only reason they won the Korean war was due to China's support, and he has managed to alienate China, their closest ally, by setting off nukes after they told him to quit it.

  14. Re:North Korea's next target ... on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or is this like the movie Armageddon, where nobody has thought of anything that could remotely happen, as opposed to likely as in this case?

    That is what you took out of that movie, a lack of preparation? They had two shuttles all ready to go that could fly out past the moon, they had a rover designed and built for just such a mission, with a drilling rig attached to it. They had some issues getting the transmission working on the drilling rig, but that was due to intentional sabotage of the plans submitted to the patent office.

    I didn't see a lack of preparation in Armageddon, I saw tons of preparation. About the only lack in foresight was the lack of early detection of such a large asteroid, which was pretty far fetched.

  15. Re:I'll get pilloried for saying this but on IBM Sues Groupon Over 1990s Patents Related To Prodigy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Gutenberg didn't qualify for a patent on the idea of a printing press, but on the specific implementation of the Gutenberg Press.

  16. Re:Mod parent up! on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You make a good point, I tried to think of Star Trek examples as well, and totally forgot about him.

  17. It is around 12 seconds by a satellite hop, and probably almost as long in the situation you describe as there would be routers in between.

  18. Re:Mod parent up! on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    NEVER is a long time, I would say for sure that you are wrong in saying that. I can see robotic surgeons like in Star Wars eventually happening with the increases in computing power and eventual pseudo-intelligent robots.

  19. Re:Pandora's box on FBI May Be Opening A Security Hole To Federal Agencies (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to see you dismiss other's opinions. No, I am not a republican.

  20. Re:You know... on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    As a Maryland resident...the MTA trains have signs stating that it is a finable offence to have a "boombox" without headphones playing on the train, I imagine it is the same rule for the busses, so they have a way to punish that behavior unfortunately...unless they can't figure out where it is coming from.

  21. With SSDs, it is possible it is not the decimal units, around half the drives are base 2 sizes from what i have found. I however am not sure how you would arrive at 15.38TB. If I assume is is 16 TIB I get 17.59 TB or 16 TB comes out as 14.55 TiB, so I am not sure where 15.38 TB comes from at all. Perhaps there is some kind of loss to the slack used for reassigning bad bits though.

  22. Re:Pandora's box on FBI May Be Opening A Security Hole To Federal Agencies (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard to enact any of that change when one side fails to propose any of their changes beyond "We need immigration reform!"

    You blame the republicans for failing to come up with bills for the president to veto, while the president completely fails to propose anything to them to pass or not.

    You are also talking about the president that refused to negotiate when negotiation was the only way to get what he wanted.

  23. Re:"And." The word is "and." on Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! The laws of physics say space colonization is perfectly doable, so we all must be "nutters" for claiming it!

    It is the law of economics which has made space colonization difficult, as NASA is eternally choked for money, space colonization will only happen when a corporation takes the risks, and that is not terribly far off either.

  24. Re:Donald Trump on Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the person which was being spoken of:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    She is the person low on facts and voting for Obama because he gave her a free cell phone. The poster was just bringing up the low information nature of the general public, it is a constant issue during elections, many people just vote by name recognition without knowing anything about the person.

  25. Re: The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally, in order to enter a ticket, you need an account, I was being funny in implying that I wouldn't do anything for you. The other one would be not fixing the network issue until a ticket is entered, you can't enter a ticket without network.