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  1. Re:The more important point here on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Metro IE 10 will be the first browser available to users(as W8 will log in to the Metro desktop). If you want to use Desktop IE 10 you need to load the traditional Windows desktop. This will apply to the PC most definitely, but it can be worked around.

  2. Re:Ps3 on Ask Slashdot: Clusters On the Cheap? · · Score: 1

    This is a good idea. The Air Force has a PS3 cluster doing similar work.

  3. Re:X86 ... on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    Physical Address Extensions.

  4. HP and nV must feel great on Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO · · Score: 0

    They had to pay Rambus a bunch of money to give them a rimmjob they didn't have to. And I bet Rambus didn't take a shower before making them do that.

  5. Re:Cheaper than a huge flying vacuum on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Who would ever return to New Jersey?

  6. Re:Because then... on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, sir. You mean a thematic variation on Die Hard Trilogy ('96). GTA was '97.

  7. onion on my belt on Demand For Custom Datacenter Servers Rising · · Score: 1

    Back in my day, if you wanted a special server at a datacenter you built your own. Still have a dual 550 xeon sitting around here somewhere in a 2U case that I built many moons ago. It's not an unheard of concept.

  8. Re:Market / App Store on HTC Considering Buying Own OS · · Score: 1

    No one in the linux market is a competent marketer. This is what happens when you have no income stream to support marketing. Apple, on the other hand, has been steadily, if minutely, chopping away at Windows with OSX, which is their first good attempt at an OS since forever, but they also suffer from poor marketing overall(on both the consumer and business end.. MS has a built in audience because they produce and market their business/enterprise applications very well, where Apple has been vacating that market and never pushed what they had in the first place. Apple does market moderately well to students and a/v engineers).

  9. Re:Market / App Store on HTC Considering Buying Own OS · · Score: 2

    First off, turn in your geek card for using the term "killer-app".

    Secondly, OS's come and go. iOS and Android have their day currently, but eventually they will fade like everyone else

  10. Re:Out of their minds? on HTC Considering Buying Own OS · · Score: 1

    Exactly. HTC built themselves on WinMo, and they sold great phones for it(8525 and such). They migrated to Android and have been doing well, but they're also ramping up their WP7 phones as well(2 new Mango phones for them coming out this month, iirc). HTC does what it needs to do to maintain share. Android won't be relevant forever, just like WM wasn't, so these types of moves will happen.

  11. Re:Hmmm on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that Turnitin doesn't care about citations. The plagiarism scores are based on whatever it finds that is from a different source, regardless of proper citations.

  12. Re:[sigh] on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    Buffet also has more money than God and makes residence in a state with modest income taxes.

    California has the highest tax rate at the lowest bracket level in the US(9.55% @ ~42k). 9.55% starting at what is essentially the minimum wage to sustain yourself in CA population centers puts a big dent in the checkbook, and it's not as the brackets are any more forgiving before that, either.

    If I move from CA to Texas to avoid losing a significant chunk of my income to exorbitant sales and income tax rates I'm not dodging taxes(still paying the same federal taxes), I'm moving somewhere where I more agree with the taxation. This is part of the reason why states have that leeway and why citizens are able to move to any state they please.

  13. Re:[sigh] on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    The problem with this form of thinking is that the money on farm subsidies and highway subsidies is used to make sure the deep blue portion of the US east of the Rockies(mainly the northeast) has food. Coastal west coast states can support themselves with their own agriculture year-round. The same cannot be said for the northeast.

  14. Re:[sigh] on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    Use taxes should be illegal, and this is what they're asking for. Semantic lawyer-speak to justify taxing you on a purchase made from an out of state retail entity(and Amazon has no retail operations in CA).

  15. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That $200 is still a fuzzy number given the motherboard prices. You can get a very good AMD chipset(880/890) for $100 and have all the latest features(USB3, SATA3, etc) while being forward compatible for quite a while(manufacturer dependent, but Bulldozer(AM3+) is compatible with AM3 chipsets with BIOS updates). With Intel, you're still paying more for the equivalent and next year you'll need to get another motherboard to upgrade that processor because of constant socket changes.

  16. Re:It's for signatures on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Signed faxed documents are the same as originals when it comes to home loans and many other uses.

  17. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    How is that different than what is happening how? It mentions nothing about those 1300 people being corrupt. Violence swept the country. That means that innocent people with nothing to do with this died because of an action he claims responsibility for. And even if it were pro-Moi security forces, how many of those people are just trying to get a paycheck in a very shitty country?

  18. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    I wasn't indicating that the US was the authority, just that when you're on the losing side, you pay for your crimes, just like any other criminal. As long as, today, the US is the authority(or has authority), it won't be the criminal

  19. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    See Nuremberg. When the US is the authority, it doesn't punish itself. When it's on the losing side, you can sure bet it will be punished.

    As far anyone being hurt, from the horses mouth: "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak," says Assange regarding a leak dealing with Kenya

  20. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1, Informative

    "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak," says Assange. It's a chilling statistic, but then he states: "On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information..."

    1,300 accessories to murder, I'd say.

  21. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    He's an accessory to any crime committed as a result of this information.

  22. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    Assange already claimed responsibility for that one. No citation necessary.

  23. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 0, Troll

    On the other hand, if the information in the cables isn't released, people who have already committed actual crimes will go unpunished.

    Like Assange, right?

  24. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Secrets aren't totalitarian or authoritarian. They're a necessary part of any functional diplomacy.

    And my own aside. I love how stupid these "truthers" are(we'll call them that, since they always want the truth). Information doesn't want to be free. It's not sentient. It has no feelings. Hard truth, right there.

  25. Migration on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    I work as an interface between public and private sector IT. All the young and lower middle age guys work in the private sector. They move around a lot, pay varies wildly, do completely different jobs one to the next that require completely new skills(granted you must learn new skills in IT to even keep a job long term in most cases). Once they are over the hill, I see most of them move towards public sector IT jobs. Stable work, much lower new skill development required, steady pay, good bennies(you know, cuz you're old), and a pension plan so you can say you'll retire with 20 years in that pension at 70. Is it age bias as much as the natural progression of things when you see that kind of migration day in and day out? I don't think so. At some age you just get tired of all the learning, you get bad at remembering all those new things, or you just want to cruise out your final years. Employers like to make that decision for you before you do it to them, is all.