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  1. Re:First strike! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    They don't need the buffer anymore, and they're likely to lose it in the next few decades anyway (NK is likely to become a part of SK or China).

    Sure, they don't want the disaster, but they could handle it. The need for a land buffer like that is far lower than it used to be, and better to grab that land than to cede it to SK.

  2. Re:First strike! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure China would step in and make sure NK behaves going forward, and reprimand and remove the current power structure.

    Retaliation would then mean war with China, as they claim NK as a new semi autonomous region within their borders.

    China would love the excuse to outright take NK.

  3. Re:Humans on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    I'm unimpressed by siri on an iPhone, but siri when I had to call apple was amazing.

    I spoke one sentence, and was immediately transferred to a person knowledgeable in the area I needed.

    this is far better than the person, questions, hold, person that I'm used to.

    specifically, I stated "upgrade to is 10.6" (it wasn't available in the stores anymore). Within 3 minutes I had already paid and was done.

  4. Re:Captchas on British Researchers 'Gamify' Cancer Cure Search · · Score: 1

    I think the problem using it as captcha (note speculation, ftfa) would be that the answer is almost always the same (not interesting). My bot would simply need to always say nothing of interest here to pass.

  5. Re:Lossless Files on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    But the ones that do know probably are over-represented as music consumers.

    I personally think this small bump is due to a baby boomers population echo, I'm not entirely sure, but I think '06 was the largest highschool graduating class, which would mean the tween population is starting to grow again (or more slowly decline). 25 year cycle, means the year 18 year olds are at there most, six year olds are at there recent least, 6 years later, record sales are up...

  6. Re:Keep your guard up on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 2

    Isn't the music.industry thriving, and It's just the recorded music industry struggling (like the article says)?

    I'd think large parts of the music industry most definitely do not want to go to the old ways (venues for example benefit greatly when disposable money from music fans doesn't go to CDs).

    wrt to your Sig, I remember neither, but the photos I've seen of the 60s don't paint a pretty picture, and are why I put civil rights and non-judgement as very high political priorities.

  7. Re:Where's the surprise? on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I wasn't thinking, Google's apps (such as android gmail) could authenticate as a specific device cryptographically, but there's no way to hack it into unaware apps such as an arbitrary IMAP client.

  8. Re:Where's the surprise? on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the single factor password to be tied to a device and a service though?

    I don't think it follows that it can obviously be used to disable 2 factor authorization (or even to get access to other services).

  9. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Half of those apply to current fighters with people too.

  10. Re:Slow news day? on A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI · · Score: 1

    I keep trying, but can't find how to private browse, hopefully It's far more.intuitive now.

  11. Re:Slow news day? on A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI · · Score: 2

    The problem with trident being the only browser engine wasn't just the single, but also that the sole developer was anti web browsers as a platform.

    google wants the web to be the way to go, they'd prefer to not pay royalties to other people, but they're entire business is about a strong web, the opposite of Microsoft's vision, so I don't think it'd be the end.

  12. Re:Chaos on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 2

    The credit.is available though (not saying we.should borrow more, just saying you should speak truth).

    of course the response to not being able to borrow very well could be printing (well casting) more money (see trillion dollar coin).

  13. Re:It's The American Drean on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Not just our asinine defense policy, but also our asinine medical policies subsidize the r and d for medicine.

  14. Re:Obvious question on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    I would think the 8gb of high speed unifies memory could be a huge win for certain apps.

    especially if the gpu is much faster than the Intel or AMD apu/whatever intel calls one. Fast flipping of data between the two (c and g pu) makes certain things very fast (one bench mark had the e-350 crushing a gpu that had hundreds of times the power on paper. This sounds like it could be similarly linked, but with an actual gpu.

  15. Re:I can say, after having upgraded to mountain li on WebKit As Broken As Older IE Versions? · · Score: 1

    Well, part of the issue with ie6 (and previous) was that a healthy web was contra to Microsoft's interests. If google or Mozilla are in the same situation, they want an easy to use, universally compatible web experience.

    I think competition is good, but if everyone got behind a single vendor that wanted the web to succeed, it would be far better than when ms won the browser war (or, technically, when Netscape list it with the 4.x line that just plain sucked).

  16. Re:You clearly didn't review the charts given. on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 2

    This comment makes me wish there was a simple "like" button, I have mod points, but don't k.ow how to.mod this :(.

  17. Re:Gimp on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    As an employee of one of those places that doesn't care all the way (we're not actually that bad, all of our equipment honors color profiles, and we keep it relatively well calibrated). You are absolutely correct.

    We will lay something out, and a customer will insist that their low res image is good enough though, it's not always the production/designers fault, people just do not care. They care less today than they used to too, because EVERYTHING (statistically though not literally) they see is terrible. You only need to see the rise of "Business Color" production equipment as proof.

    I will say, that if I were provided with, and insisted upon using (perhaps for money or time constraints) a low res image, I would at least upscale it in Photoshop, so it was blury, but without pixels.

    Also, a lot of the equipment does better with RGB files.

  18. Re:Cloudy future! on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    If SYNC has anything to do with it it will be.

    I had a rental with SYNC and it was the most horribly designed thing ever.

    two quick examples:
    1) there were two very different menu items with the same name (audio settings), and both were multi level deep. Every time I started the car I had to find the correct one because of
    2) none of the settings stuck, every time I connected my phone via bluetooth it would do headset only and pop-up to adjust input from "audio settings" to play the music.

  19. Re:Batch on COBOL Will Outlive Us All · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen an ungroomed dog?

  20. Re:Exception to Betteridge's law!! on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 1

    I think things would be better if we used the analogy. Renting a place to keep my letters? I personally think it should be treated like a self-storage, or a safety deposit box. Worried about invasion? work on protections.

    Right now it is being treated like an unattended bag in an airport, and no actual analogy would get there.

  21. Re:About darn time on Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices · · Score: 1

    Week, year, what's the difference?

  22. Re:You're not supposed to use it on £6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows · · Score: 1

    Isn't that just an iPhone and the I am rich app?

  23. Re:About darn time on Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices · · Score: 1

    I'm not a power user, but there are hdr and photo stitching functions that make my life easier.

    there's some 3-d type effects that coworkers (who are much more power users than I) use.

    text and vector handling is much improved

    I don't know about the various Layer types, but I don't think all of the effects style layers ere there back then (nor the entirety of even what I do with non destructive editing).

    The selector in cs6 is VASTLY improved.

    The various healing brush type tools are better than in 98.

    I am not an expert by any measure, and the difference between 1998 And now is extreme. Yes, perhaps 95% of what I do now existed then (probably more), but the remaining few percent saves a lot of time, and I suspect someone that uses Photoshop a couple hours a day would save over 100 hours a week, just with the new select from cs6.

    My worthless statistic: 95% of the people that say things about Photoshop users, don't actually use Photoshop.

  24. Re:Banking passwords are overrated on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Do some banks blue our cancelled checks?

    mine hides the number in the html interface, but i can pull up checks.

  25. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But if the browser is allowed to be open, then you've defeated the DRM.

    the way I see this playing out is no movies or newspapers on Firefox or chromium. Google stands to save how much money with this? I imagine a large percentage of the people will go to chrome.

    if the DRM is supposed to be any more effective than the no right click style JavaScript, its going to destroy the open source browser eco system. If It's simply meant to prevent the most casual of copying (this is actually what I think is a valid use of DRM, as realistically content is gonna get out anyway), then your plugin idea works, but good idea selling that.