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  1. Looks like an old vinyl record on Saturn In All Its Glory · · Score: 1

    So, has anyone tried to play it?

  2. Re:choice doesn't *require* bad defaults on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 1

    Why is this touted as a problem as soon as people are talking about developing for Android? Remember that it has been like this for decades on e.g. the PC. And in the 1980's and early 1990's it was even worse because of the number of different computer brands (Atari, Commodore (with two different computers), PC's and more.)

  3. Re:Don't Worry on How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders · · Score: 1

    In politics, left and right are very relative terms. What is left in the USA is right in Europe, for example.

  4. Probably the "investors" want to make a buck on Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman · · Score: 1

    In the Ars Technica article about it they speculate that the "investors" just want to get rid of him so they more easily can sell off parts of Microsoft to make a quick buck.

  5. Re:Untrue the visa was given afterward on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    This is something that really surprises me about the USA today. For a country that not only was settled by, but thrived on immigration and visitors, it now takes quite the opposite stance in that it wants to disallow as many as possible to enter the country.

  6. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    You're mixing your audio solutions. ALSA and OSS are the drivers. aRts and PulseAudio are audio servers and APIs for applications to play sound if the don't want to use the drivers directly. And JACK is to chain multiple applications together in an audio-processing chain.

  7. Re:Important caveat on Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't call anything from a game, movie or TV-series "real-world".

  8. Again? on IBM Promises $1B Investment In Linux Development · · Score: 1

    Didn't they do that some years ago already? And having an ad campaign where they spray-painted sidewalks (and was fined for the "graffiti").

  9. Re:Tenant? on Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool · · Score: 1

    A real programmer would use butterflies!

  10. Misread title as "Bay Troll" on Intel Bay Trail Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom · · Score: 1

    I misread the title as "Intel Bay Troll Brings New Architecture and Performance To Atom", which didn't make much sense.

  11. Re:Sorry.. on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 1

    Or get a baby, and have no time at all for those things.

  12. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    And finally we will end up like the planet Solaria, 1200 people spread over a whole planet, with millions of robots doing all the work.

  13. No good for me on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    First I thought that it's nice, maybe they have some of the books I bought if the go back to the days of Amazon starting. Then I checked and I haven't bought any books since before 2006. I know that because the only entry in my order history the last years is from 2006, and it was some CDs.

    All books I have bought have been using other email accounts, accounts I no longer have access to, or even remember. So no ebooks for me.

  14. What about roads with higher speed limits? on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    In Sweden there are roads with 120 km/h (ca 75 mp/h) speed limit. In Denmark there are roads with 130 km/h (ca 80 mp/h) speed limits. I'm sure there are other countries with other hight speed limits. And what about those parts (yes, only parts) of the German autobahn where there is no speed limit? Will all countries have to lower their limits?

    In short, this is a stupid idea.

  15. Re:Anyone should be able to fly on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 1

    The problem with racial profiling in the middle east, is that everyone is the same "race". The profiling done by Israel is more religious than racial.

  16. Wasn't clouds supposed to prevent this? on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 1

    I thought one of the pro's of using "the cloud" was that these events would not happen, as you are no longer relying on a single datacenter?

    If AWS is putting several "clouds" in a single datacenter, what's the use of AWS?

  17. The quickest solution? on Book Review: The Healthy Programmer · · Score: 1

    Eat less, exercise more.

  18. Re:Language Barrier on Australian State Bans IBM From All Contracts After Payroll Bungle · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of my DVD of Mad Max (the first one). The default language tracks was dubbed American English! Even I, a non-native English speaker, understood the Australian perfectly once I changed to the non-dubbed language track.

    Weird.

  19. Re:Why not? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    he was at risk of unjust persecution from a state power

    How do you know if it's unjust or not? Isn't that for a court to decide? Oh wait, they can't because he's hiding from the courts.

  20. I'd rather have the electrical MB SLS on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    The Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive seems like a better car. Not only does it look a lot better, it's a proper super sports car with 740 hp. Even Top Gear likes it!

    Little expensive though.

  21. Re:Good news for us, I suspect... on Japan's Military 'Needs Marines and Drones' · · Score: 1

    Unless Abe has some unwisely-published rantings about the reestablishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere stashed in his closet somewhere, this seems like the sort of 'controversial' that will lead to grumblings and not a whole lot else.

    Well Abe may not personally have such plans, but you know what they say about politicians and slippery slopes.

  22. Re:hard to even parody on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    As for anti-malarial drugs, I don't take 'em.

    I do. I call it my daily gin&tonic.

  23. The future is now? on Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos · · Score: 1

    So art imitating life, or life imitating art? Just saw the Futurama episode Forty percent leadbelly in which Bender takes a 2-D photo of a guitar, and gets it duplicated by a 3-D printer. Seems we are in the future already!

  24. Re:Makes sense on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 1

    While no parsing is done on binary formats, they still have to be marshaled to avoid things like endianess problems. While most of the PC world is little-endian, all smart phones are big-endian.

  25. Algae blloming not uncommon on Toxic Green Algae Takes Over Beaches Off Yellow Sea In China · · Score: 1

    This image might look cool, but it just shows the scale of the problems the Baltic sea have. Happens every year now, so it's barely written about anymore.