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  1. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+4+randomly+turns+off

    My fairly new N4 does it a few times a day. I see many other identical complaints online.
    For everyone it occured synchronous with the 4.3 release.

  2. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 2

    >Is that a well known problem?
    https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+4+randomly+turns+off

    >My N4 doesn't seem to have it.
    I wish mine didn't.

  3. I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wonder if it will continue to randomly turn off the Nexus 4, like 4.3 does.

  4. Re:Who gets a signal during a flight? on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    They were very low to ground. That's how they got a signal.

  5. Re:Check the Phlogiston Compensators on Most Sensitive Detector Yet Fails To Find Any Signs of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    >nor have standing for my words to carry weight

    I see what you did there.

  6. So don't make the H1-B such a pain on Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas · · Score: 1

    First there was the green card
    Then it got slow, bloated and hard to get.
    So they invented the H1-B which was quick and easy.
    Then it got slow, bloated and hard to get.
    So they invented the guest worker pass
    continue....

    Just fix the green card and the others are unnecessary. If someone is a net benefit to the country, there's no reason to limit their stay.

    The US government provided the visas and the visa rules to Infosys. It looks to me that they took the hint. The US does not look like it 'wants' people on H1s or Green cards because it makes it a stupidly slow, expensive and complex process to get them. The message they send by making the B1 relatively easier to get is - "Get a B1, we want to you get a B1, not those other visas".

  7. Re:Unfortunately... on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 2

    They could write a program instead. A web browser is just about the worst container for an application.

  8. Re:Unfortunately... on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    Nothing is wrong with the HTML5 audio tag.
    What I hate it the PERLesque - There's more than one way to do it. You know there will be 15 billion ugly, unreadable javascript hacks the the API interface where the HTML interface would have been just fine, as with all other areas of overlap between HTML and javascript.

  9. Re:Stupid Move on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Spending some money to have people sit down and think for a change seems like money well spent.

  10. Unfortunately... on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it's a Javascript API.

    You can't actually write a web page in HTML with some kind of HTML-A audio inline, like you can put SVG or MATHML inline.

  11. Re: Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    My local government granted Verizon an exception to the common carrier rules that allowed them a monopoly on ISP provision on fiber rather than requiring the free choice of ISP as with DSL in the same location.

    Yes. Government is often bad when it comes to regulating telcos.

  12. Re: Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 0

    >Why not make physical connectivity a municipal service?

    What part of 'corrupt government officials' don't you understand?

  13. Re:I actually don't see much wrong with this. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bullshit.

    The routers and fiber cost no more nor less if they are being used or not used.

    Usage based billing is just another attempt to kill Netflix.

  14. Re:Well.. on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 1
  15. Well.. on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While it may be unsurprising that a government contractor can't get security right, expecting anyone to adhere to government security specifications is unreasonable. Take a look at them, they are a vast mess of poorly written hand waving. There are some with specifics (E.G. some of the crypto algorithm stuff), but the balance of it is 'framework' crap.

    You can make an honest job of adhering to federal computer security specs, but it's always possible to dig up another spec somewhere that contradicts it.

  16. Re:Oregon Voter Initiatives on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 1

    Likely is a subset of certain, so we're both right.

  17. Oregon Voter Initiatives on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 1

    Oregon Voter Initiatives are often controversial, but if they try and push this legislation through, It seems likely there will be a voter initiative to ban such tracking based taxation and it will pass easily. People don't like this sort of thing.

  18. Re:That article was fucking awful. on Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev · · Score: 1

    Yes. A board with a ground plane is handy for higher frequency signalling. If you have sufficient cash, you can use one the of hobbyist PCB suppliers to build the PCB for you on a 4 or 6 layer process.

    An alternative for the home hobbyist is to use impedance controlled wires, like twisted pairs or mini coax, terminated correctly. This is more fiddly, but still doable.

  19. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    If you had an infinitely long one of these, it would be kind of like a Turing machine.

  20. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    It's the weekend.

  21. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 0

    Sorry, I made the mistake of reading what it said, not what it meant.

  22. Re:You've met many more than you know on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    I don't fraternize with Texas PDs. They're a long way away.

  23. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 2

    Or did they mean 3 letters of four symbols?

    4*4*4 = 64.

    But that's not what the article said. Bad article.

  24. 4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    >Although there are 64 ways of combining four letters

    4*4*4*4 = 256

    eh?

  25. Re:Programs! on Visual Studio 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    It's tempting.