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  1. Re:Love KDE on KDE Releases Applications and Development Platform 4.12 · · Score: 1

    KIO frustrates me, well, Dolphin's use of it or something.

    When using SFTP:/ or FTP:/ access, things don't work right. Compressed files cannot be expanded in place, I assume because it calls up a command line utility.

    Gnome handles this far better, creating a hidden, but browseable folder in your home directory, that can be accessed just like anything else.

  2. Re: About time on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 1

    Maybe one will even say phone company immunity is bad, and close down Guantanamo.

  3. Re: don't connect everything to the internet! on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1

    I think the pin is a red herring. I essentially never use it if given the option.

    The claim here is compromised machines, the pins would be taken too.

    All the pin does is push the liability onto me. By leaving the liability on the processors/issuers, I essentially have insurance (I pay my small part of the total cost of fraud in fees), if it were to switch to an I'm on the hook type situation, I could easily be on the hook for a large, unexpected, few.

    I would think merchant liability holds a similar risk too, at least for small merchants, but also, the incentive to not have fraud for them should reduce the overall cost of fraud. As long as no merchants pull out of using credit cards at all, it's a win for pretty much everyone.

  4. Re:So he was clever enough ... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    I'm class of '99, and we definitely had to all go outside while po po went through the school due to a bomb threat a couple times a year.

    They also generally would find out who it was, they did this to make it costly to call in a threat, and therefore reduce the number.

    Pretty sure this was pre columbine even (I think that was my senior year).

  5. Re:What an idiot. on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    I believe it has.

    They are protected, but only if your use of the encryption system is in question (e.g. shared computer), but if your use of said encrypted drive is established, they are not.

    If memory serves correct the sloppy analogy is they go from "something you may or may not know, with the knowledge being usable to incriminate you" to "something you have" which is not particularly protected if the courts are used to obtain it.

  6. Re: scale & timing on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    I suppose that means tracking pennies instead if dollars changes things too?

  7. Re: me too... on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 2

    That's funny, the first time I read that the value burst, it fell 50 percent to around 100 or so.

    Every time I see it loose 50 rapidly, it bounces back and further, see the various scandles, see when silk road closed. It's super volitile, but it has been fairly resilient too.

  8. Re: How is this a remotely useful product? on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    I have radiators with a properly sized boiler, if I made that change on a cold day, it'd be a while before things were 65.

    My nest knows how long the radiators take to heat things, and I believe even looks at the weather to do the calculation. It k ows, turn on radiators 90 minutes early, then cut them off when it reaches 63, to have the house be 65 when I get home.

    Programming those things is a real pain on a normal thermostat (I've actually only owned one that let you set when to cut off on a temperature upswing for radiators, and they are always pre programmed assuming forced air for degrees per 15 minute early kick on).

  9. Re:The cablecos have monopolies on cable and inter on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 1

    In my area they used to reshuffle the channels every few hours, so even though the signal wasn't encrypted, you couldn't pick the right channel without a box (Philadelphia early 2000's).

    It was a pain, as I had purchased a lifetime Tivo, and it was no longer particularly useful.

  10. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not really code, so I understand them doing it. Though they clearly choose not to remove HTML 9 responsive boilerplate js.

    I can see why they wouldn't want to host someone's social commentary though, why would we expect them too?

    Additionally, this is absolutely the best possible outcome for the "wronged" project

  11. Re: will be interesting to see what they do with on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics · · Score: 1

    In me paying ten extra thousand dollars for a car? In someone richer paying 50 thousand extra dollars?

  12. Re: will be interesting to see what they do with on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics · · Score: 1

    I assumed that the cars involved :

    1) seeing the tech overlap with image search
    2) they had the money to do it
    3) someone really wanted them

    Maybe they can make money, licensing to manufacturers, though I doubt it, it seems manufacturers already have the tech, based on recent news stories. Google appears to have been the first to seriously start testing it in real world rather than tech demos though, maybe they thought they were further ahead. Certainly autonomous cars will increase overall internet usage, thus increasing advertising dollars.

    I hope somebody gets to autonomous cars soon, and I think google's work made it come a couple years sooner, even if they don't sell the tech directly, they get 2 years * number of commuters * 1 hour /day * revenue / of internet for bringing the tech two years sooner.

  13. Re: will be interesting to see what they do with i on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics · · Score: 1

    I don't see how there's no overlap with these robots and autonomous cars.

    They didn't cancel that program.

  14. Re:so does this mean.... on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    I actually thought you lost fidelity, and not angles, I didn't think it was magic, I just thought that's where the name came from.

  15. Re:so does this mean.... on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    I always thought hologram implied that a piece was a picture of the whole.

    The headline made me picture extrapolating the universe from a piece of cake like HHGTTG.

  16. Re:Solitary Confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Nobody was charged for that. It's people that set-up events, still some bullshit though.

    My statements aren't fact, but based on what I have read.

  17. Re:corruption on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 1

    I was in upper Longisland for work (never go to Riverhead, it sucks).

    I was surprised.

    I am not personally buying one, I was simply surprised to hear "I need to find a Surface for my son, they're sold out at Best Buy" and it was in the top five list of a couple retailers, beating any single iPad product at Best Buy.

    Best Buy sales offered up an interesting twist with Microsoft's 32GB Surface tablet coming in as the holiday's best seller, followed by the 16GB iPad 2. The third place slot went to Amazon's 16GB Kindle Fire.

    --http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ipad-scores-big-for-black-friday-retailers

    Though I guess Mac Observer is a MS marketing department too, so you caught me.

    And yes, Anecdotatly, I haven't seen many MS devices either, but it was a while before I started seeing Android ones too, and even longer before I started seeing high-end Android devices.

  18. Re:Maybe the Patent Office will notice on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 1

    As I skim the patent, and look at the figures, I don't see how this has anything to do with bitcoin, am I missing something?

    The entire thing looks tied into existing systems, pretty much the opposite of bitcoin.

    Yeah, I don't care to read it all or understand it, simply was glancing to see if it at all resembled bitcoin. I didn't get far enough to see where they thought they did something innovative. It read like a whole lot of hypotheticals.

  19. Re:Maybe the Patent Office will notice on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 1

    Assuming the price you suggest is right, you're still cutting off a significant portion of readers to many types of things with the requirement, so it'd have to be optional.

    I certainly would be OK with it, though ideally about half that maybe, I don't know what I'm worth in ads. If sites allowed this, it would simultaneously drive up the cost of placing ads, further helping to support sites.

  20. Re:Goodbye India, Hello China! on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 1

    There were two 'K' sounds in an Indian language used in a study they showed us in Highschool Biology. When taken from the middle of the word they were indistinguishable to my (and implied by the video most American's) ears. They'd play the sound, and one would be followed by a loud and fanciful scene to the right of the child a few seconds later, the other would not.

    It was far earlier than 10-14 that the children were no longer able to learn to anticipate the scene to the right, and I want to say it was before they were even particularly effective at communicating (thus seeing if they looked to their right rather than asking what they heard). I want to say it was 4, maybe 5.

  21. Re:corruption on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 1

    From all I can tell, Windows is doing alright in mobile.

    I don't know sales figures, but the murmer pre thanksgiving was that all the kids were getting surfaces and they were out of stock.

    The "I can do real office" adds or whatever seem to get the attention of a lot of the adults that I know.

    My sample group is certainly not a general population, I think I saw an article that listed top electronics sold by chain, and Surface beat iPad at Best Buy, and was top five somewhere else. They may not be winning, and I have seen very few in the wild, but it looks like this year they are selling at least, and if people like them, I expect they will continue to (not the phones though).

  22. Re: There is a linux magazine? on Linux Voice Passes Its Crowdfunding Target · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I want to be able to read it when I dont have internet access? Which I disproportionately dont when I want to read.

    I suppose HTML storage can limit the importance of issues, and a custom app can too, but having a chunk to download and read is something I won't mind. I dont stream all my podcasts either, and appreciate a regular weekly release date rather than some here and some there.

  23. As an adulterer (not really), I do not want to be sent for judgement in a courthouse that displays the ten commandments.

    I want to believe that I am going to be treated fairly in the law, but perhaps I worship a Hindu deity, perhaps I swear, perhaps I not only covet my neighbors wife, but I bone her too.

    The ten commandments have no place on public property dedicated to writing, or applying the laws of man.

    Swearing on a bible is fine, if it's something that will make someone's oath more sincere (the only time I've had to swear it was done without a bible, it was there as an option).

  24. Re: People are stupid. on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you pretty much described take it an rub with it there.

  25. Re: If Oracle win, Oracle lose on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 1

    Without copyright the gpl is bsd, open source harmony.