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  1. Re:Designed by on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    In that case you hid it very well. How else are we supposed to read your comment when you write that the Navy have used networking since it was born in a reply to a post about Networking ships beeing bad?

  2. Re:Designed by on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    So it's better to claim that something is good just becasue you have used it for a length of time?

  3. Re:isn't the content streamed via CDN? on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    Show demand? Netflix does only offer their "Super HD" on ISP:s that use these free servers. So "show demand" is probably no more than showing that they really are ISPs.

  4. Re:wince on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Then I would like you to invent something, spend millions of dollars developing it, and then have some big ass company like Microsoft get a court to issue an import ban on your products just because they happened to issue a patent that might cover the same thing.

  5. Re:Yes but on ACLU Asks FTC To Force Carriers To 'Patch Or Replace' Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Still the custom rom people have managed to fit 4.x into the HTC Desire. Where there's a will there's a way.

  6. Re:So, 'free' is bad? on Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' · · Score: 1

    Using your market dominance to gain stakes in other markers unfairly has nothing to do with financing. By pre-installing IE in Windows, Microsoft gained an unfair advantage against it's competitors by using it's market dominance in the operating system field. None of the alternative OSes of today have any market dominance what so ever so they cannot be held against these laws, remember that it only applies to a company that holds a market dominance.

    The EU regulation for this matter is as follows:

    Abuse of a dominant position

    A company can restrict competition if it is in a position of strength on a given market. A dominant position is not in itself anti-competitive, but if the company exploits this position to eliminate competition, it is considered to have abused it.

    Examples include:

    • * charging unreasonably high prices
    • * depriving smaller competitors of customers by selling at artificially low prices they can't compete with
    • * obstructing competitors in the market (or in another related market) by forcing consumers to buy a product which is artificially related to a more popular, in-demand product
    • * refusing to deal with certain customers or offering special discounts to customers who buy all or most of their supplies from the dominant company
    • * making the sale of one product conditional on the sale of another product.

    So what Microsoft, Oracle and Nokia is aiming for is the second bullet "selling at artificially low price". If this can be applied for an Open Source project is left to be decied by the EU.

  7. Re:So, 'free' is bad? on Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' · · Score: 1

    This is nothing like Microsoft giving away IE for free. What Microsoft did there was to use their market dominance in operating systems (Windows) to get unjust market share in the Web Browser market. These are completely different things. Nowhere in the complaint is Google ever accused of using it's current market dominance with Web Search and Web Advertising to also gain marketshare in the Mobile markets.

  8. Re:Seriously now on Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage · · Score: 2

    The costs to society for holding a trial and then keeping your $50 drug dealer incarcerated for what ever time he will be sentenced with far, far, far exceeds your 5 grands.

  9. Re:Who wants to make their lives interesting? on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    A problem that OTR doesn't solve is that FBI et al are often more interested in knowing _who_ communicates than what they say, so that they can form sociograms.

  10. Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    LTS is intended for business and people who want things to stay the same.

    AKA production

  11. Re:KISS on Matthew Garrett Has a Fix To Prevent Bricked UEFI Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    Probably because they are unaware of the problem. Better to have a "temporary" fix in the kernel so that _that_ day these people tries to install Linux they don't get bricked devices. Not every one follows the tech news you now.

  12. Re:Harmonising the tax standard ... on Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud · · Score: 1

    There should be no European country with VAT that also has a Sales Tax, please enlighten me about this mystery country of yours. Oh and btw, anti-dumping tariffs (aka customs duties) is something that you have in the US as well.

  13. Re:Mint Yep on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    You do not have to build your own Ubuntu to avoid the "phones home" search, it's as simple as uninstalling the lens to fix that. Also it's a bit harsh to call what they do phoning home, what they do is anonymizing the searches so that Amazon can't track the users. if they didn't then people would scream that Ubuntu gives away every search to Amazon.

  14. Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    Stable and Unstable in this context does not really mean Will-Not-Crash and Will-Crash, it's more about knowing that the software will behave in a similar fashion, use the same configuration syntax and the exakt API and ABI (for Stable that is). Then of course a side effect of only applying fixes and not features usually means less crashes, but that is not the main reason behind the Stable/Unstable definitions for distributions such as Debian.

    And while you are correct that Ubuntu tracks Debian unstable each 6 months, that is for their intermediate releases that is not really meant to be used for production, that's what they release the LTS releases for.

  15. Re:KISS on Matthew Garrett Has a Fix To Prevent Bricked UEFI Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    Not for people owning the hardware that want to be able to use it without the risk of bricking it until Samsung comes out with a fixed UEFI (if they ever do).

  16. Re:Maybe Google can focus on Android security now. on Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3 · · Score: 1

    Well actually they could, all they have to do is to allow http(s) access to the adds-network (or a whitelist) and allow the user to deny everything else.

  17. Where's the surprise? on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since the regular password as been changed to require an additional two-factor password they of course had to come up with this ASP idea for services where you cannot provide a two factor authentication and of course these have to be more powerful than the password that you now changed into a two factor. How can this be a surprise at all?

  18. Re:Unable to control your company, or complicit. on Tim Cook Never Wanted To Sue Samsung · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He has no right to do with the company as he pleases, his job as a CEO is to run the company in the direction mandated by the board. And the board in turn is supposed to manage the company according to the will of the share holders.

  19. Re:270 mile range seems good on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    It's a different situation in different countries, in cold countries such as in Sweden there are many parking lots and garages that have electrical outlets so people can use motor and cabin heaters. So of course you can wire-up just a few spots, all you have to do is to increase the parking fee for those spots and no non EV:s will ever park there.

  20. Re:Problem with egos really on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    That's not why they won, the judge concluded that "no viewer of the program could have reasonably compared the Roadster’s performance on the track to real-world performance on the street" when dismissing the first suit and "as any reasonable motorist knows, a manufacturer’s statement about the range of a motor vehicle is always qualified by a statement as to the driving conditions under which that range may be expected" when dismissing the second suit.

    And Top Gear is right, if you would runt the car on their track in the same manner as they do with the other sports cars, then the Tesla does not have a range of 200 miles anymore.

  21. Re:mysqldump - storage engine info discarded?!? on MySQL 5.6 Reaches General Availability · · Score: 1

    I run 5.5.29 (the version in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) and "mysqldump -p db table" dumps the storage engine of all my tables just fine.

  22. Re:No, not tough... on Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade · · Score: 1

    So I wrote that Samsung wouldn't want to be locked out of the Google Play Store too which you replied that "windows phone can get access to those things", and that makes me the retard? You better fresh up either your reading or writing skills ;)

  23. Re:No, not tough... on Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade · · Score: 1

    So you claim that Windows Phone has access to the Google Play Store? Now that's news to me.

  24. Re:No more time travel! on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Terminator? The first one that is.

  25. Re:No more time travel! on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't say that the time travel where the problem with Lost, the main problem with Lost was building up all this backstory with Dharma & Co and then end it all with "oh we crated a faked dream world so that we all could go to heaven together".