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  1. Re: On What Spectrum? on Google Fiber Wants To Beam Wireless Internet To Your Home (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What you are describing does not match my experience with Google when my ad-blocking plugin uBlock Origin is turned off. Ads on google search are still very small, unobtrusive and I've never seen them highlight words in the result page. If you are running Windows, I would suspect you had some adware installed on your PC that is causing this behavior.

  2. Re:We all know this is unwise. on Google Developers Create API For Direct USB Access Via Web Pages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And by 'site' I mean 'cite'. :)

  3. Re:We all know this is unwise. on Google Developers Create API For Direct USB Access Via Web Pages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can you site a source to validate this claim?

  4. Re:SBCs: total waste of time and money on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    https://mqmaker.com/ sells a SBC called the WiTi for $69 and it has 2 SATA ports.

  5. The draft of this bill states, "PROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for any person to access, without authorization, an electronic control unit or critical system of a motor vehicle, or other system containing driving data for such motor vehicle, either wirelessly or through a wired connection."

    Reference http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF17/20151021/104070/BILLS-114pih-DiscussionDraftonVehicleandRoadwaySafety.pdf

    IANAL and this is not legal advice. My reading of this makes me believe that if I own a vehicle and am not legally precluded from accessing data due to another law such as DMCA then this law would not preclude me from accessing the data. As the owner I would be the one whom authorizes accessing the data. If I buy a computer from Dell running Windows I don't have to get authorization from Dell or Microsoft to access data on or created by that computer.

  6. The Irvine Company is a commercial company not the government. What Orange County taxes are you talking about?

  7. Re:Why no public discussion beforehand? on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 1

    > Does it strike anyone else that this research should only have been undertaken after a great deal of public discourse?
    No.

    As long as the collection of cells is not proven to be self aware I do not believe it matters what they do with those cells.

  8. Re:Can some explain the puzzles? on The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s · · Score: 1

    I believe this is a scenario that could cause two threads performing a incl instruction without lock added to overwrite the same memory address in such a way that the end result would be 2.

    thread 1, iteration 0 of 9999: load 0 from memory

    thread 2, iteration 0 of 9999: load 0 from memory
    thread 2, iteration 0 of 9999: add 1 to 0 = 1
    thread 2, iteration 0 of 9999: save 1 to memory

    ...thread 2 iterates multiple times...
    thread 2, iteration 9998 of 9999: load 9998 from memory
    thread 2, iteration 9998 of 9999: add 1 to 9998 = 9999
    thread 2, iteration 9998 of 9999: save 9999 to memory

    thread 1, iteration 0 of 9999: add 1 to 0 = 1
    thread 1, iteration 0 of 9999: save 1 to memory

    thread 2, iteration 9999 of 9999: load 1 from memory
    thread 2, iteration 9999 of 9999: add 1 to 1 = 2

    ...thread 1 iterates multiples times....
    thread 1, iteration 9999 of 9999: load 9999 from memory
    thread 1, iteration 9999 of 9999: add 1 to 9999 = 10000
    thread 1, iteration 9999 of 9999: save 10000 to memory

    thread 2, iteration 9999 of 9999: save 2 to memory

  9. Re:Archive? on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The average read/write seek time of this drive is 12ms. That seems quite usable to me for multiple use cases.

    reference: http://www.seagate.com/www-con...

  10. Re:Just in time. on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The average read/write speed of this drive is 150MB/sec with a maximum sustained read rate of 190MB/sec. See http://www.seagate.com/files/w...

    Assuming only the average read/write rate it would take 14 hours and 48 minutes to simultaneously read from one drive and write to another.
    8*1000*1000/150/60/60=14.81 hours

  11. Re:Prime = OK ?? on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    Corporations are not people. This is seriously over told statement based on misreporting by a US Supreme court reporter who coined the phrase.

  12. Re: WTF Is A "Feature Phone"? on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 3, Informative

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
    "A feature phone is a mobile phone which is priced at the mid-range in a wireless provider's hardware lineup.[dubious – discuss] The term "feature phone" is a retronym. It is intended for customers who want a moderately priced and multipurpose phone without the expense of a high-end smartphone."

    In my mind there's 3 general categories to mobile phones:
    1. basic phone - Can make and receive phone calls. Example: Jitterbug phone
    2. feature phone - Supports limited browsing of web, changing ringtones, very basic games or applications and makes/receives phone calls. Example: Nokia 6020.
    3. smart phone - Runs an OS like Android or iOS with an application pool of thousands of applications to do similar functions as a PC along with making and receiving phone calls. Example: Samsung Galaxy S5

  13. Re:Much Wrong Here. on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 5, Informative

    It still is raw. If you follow the link in the summary "looking for help" http://www.spacex.com/news/201... it takes you to their page where they show you the before and after videos via youtube and give you access to the raw footage. Here's the link they provide to the raw footage: http://www.spacex.com/sites/sp...

  14. Re:Oh, man, what a mess on Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site · · Score: 2

    All websites running under any publicly released version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server using the distribution's openSSL package were not vulnerable to HeartBleed.

  15. Re:wait on Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers · · Score: 1

    Considering they do not pay for these articles, what financial risk are they taking?

  16. Re:"Better than nothing" on Ask Slashdot: Developer Responsibility When Apps Might Risk Lives? · · Score: 1

    That depends.
    How big of a hole in relation to the surface area of a parachute do you consider giant?

  17. Re:Sounds like BS to me on FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read the letter they sent to US based search engines you will find they are only talking about FTC Act Section 5 which I believe is codified in 15 USC 45(a). http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/45

    If you read that section of the law you will find that it mostly just applies to US businesses.

    Do you have any actual evidence that the FTC is trying to assert authority over a non-US based business that runs a search engine?

  18. Re:Before blaming the evil right for this ruling.. on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    Your premise is incorrect. The quote you used in your first sentence is from Karl Marx, a socialist not a liberal. Socialism and liberalism are quite different in many ways.

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marxism

  19. Re:UPS does nothing for the common fault case. on How Power Failures Corrupt Flash SSD Data · · Score: 1

    Assuming you have sysrq keys enabled, you can hit alt-sysrq-s, wait for the sync to complete, alt-sysrq-u, alt-sysrq-b. This performs a filesystem sync then remounts all filesystems read-only then boots the system. Also if you have a stuck mount point you can always use a lazy umount (umount -l) to remove it from filesystem hierarchy so you don't need to reboot in the first place.

  20. Re:Shock and awe on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    There's a legal difference between an executive order and something that's not an EO like what some media outlets are now calling executive actions. The Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled in Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. 475 (1866) that EOs help the President execute his duties under the powers granted to him in the U.S. Constitution.

    This list of 23 executive actions are just things he intends to do. That's all. He's not even done them yet. Have you actually read them? They're things like nominate a new ATF director. That's within his power. He doesn't even need to pre-declare like this that he's going to do it. He can just do it. The Senate still gets to approve or disapprove of his nomination. It's not granting him any power he doesn't already have.

    So, I say again, what specifically is the EXTRAORDINARY POWER that you or SourceFrog believe that President Obama just granted himself?

  21. Re:Shock and awe on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    There have been 0 executive orders made recently. The last executive order President Obama made was Executive Order #13635 on Dec 27th, 2012 and concerned federal employees' pay. Many news organization incorrectly reported that Obama signed 23 executive orders when in fact he did not. They have now changed their wording to say executive actions. At least one reporter, from Salon.com, admitted to incorrectly reporting this.

    http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/the_23_executive_orders_that_weren%E2%80%99t/
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders/
    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Executive_orders_of_Barack_Obama

  22. Re:Shock and awe on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    What executive orders have been made since the economic crisis that grant extraordinary powers? Please be specific.

  23. Re:This doesn't make sense to me on Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status · · Score: 1

    FAT filesystems are traditionally used on USB flash drives, SD cards and other removable storage to copy files between computers, cameras, printers and other devices which may not be attached to each other on a network. Sneakernet is a term for when you move files via removable storage between computers instead of using a network. For example, if you want to copy several gigabytes of data from one location to another and it would take several hours to complete via the Internet or only take 15 minutes to drive a USB stick to the target location.

  24. Re:lighthearted, appropriate for the petition on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For · · Score: 2

    What law has Piers Morgan allegedly broken that stipulates deportation as a possible sentence?

  25. Re:OK, stick a fork in them, they're done. NOT! on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    The beast at Tanagra.