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  1. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That does sound concerning... Of course, you have to wonder where all the cries of fake news would lead. The problem with weaponizing news is that it can be turned against you.

  2. Re:Consider the gas stations on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had an EV for 5 years and it has been that long since I went to a gas station.

  3. Consider the gas stations on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Gas stations are very low margin businesses. In fact, they pretty much only make money on store items; not gas. EV owners don't go to gas stations, so as more EV owners avoid the gas station, more gas stations go out of business. As more gas stations go out of business, it becomes increasingly inconvenient to have a gas-powered car improving the value of an EV. This is just one vicious cycle on top of the already compelling economics of EVs.

    This is going to happen so much faster than we think.

  4. Re:This is the year of the extreme climate claims on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Would be great if you cited the sources and showed the numbers. Then people would be able to repeat your cogent argument more easily by copying and pasting.

  5. Re:Does this mean anything at all on Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs · · Score: 1

    That is Java 1.6, which is EOL.

  6. queue the next level of ad blocking on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Soon the ad blockers are going to be simulating that the user saw the ad without actually showing it.

  7. Already shutdown on EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Judge Davis retired... No one is hearing patent cases anymore in the Eastern District of Texas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:"Third-lowest barometer reading ever recorded" on Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico · · Score: 2

    BTW, it turns out that many of the readings from the typhoons in the 60s were estimated incorrectly. See Black, P.G., (1992): "Evolution of maximum wind estimates in typhoons" ICSU/WMO International Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Disasters, October 12-16, 1992, Beijing.

  9. Re:Don't think so on AdBlock Plus Defends Ad Blocking, Applauds Marco Arment · · Score: 1

    What to block should be crowd sourced. Then the software author doesn't have to decide.

  10. Why change it? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 2

    I don't get it. Why change it at all? Sure it could be better, but change for change sake doesn't make a lot of sense.

  11. queue the patent troll comments... on Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you replace the word Samsung with Apple then it would be easy to predict the resulting comments. They would be called patent trolls and should be boycotted. Anyone using a phone from the company would be part of the problem and a fanboy.

    Now let's see what happens when it is Samsung doing what Apple does. Or it excuse me, doing what any multinational company with a vast patent portfolio would do...

  12. Re:When you do things that are bad on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1
  13. I call bullshit on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here you have an article where no statement was included from Apple including the purported response this company got. Then the CEO goes on to call Apple assholes. Who knows what really happened.

    I for one wouldn't license my IP to someone who calls me an asshole.

  14. Re:Suck it! on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    Maybe you haven't used the S3 enough because everyone I know that has also has a dead battery. The iPhone 5 might be better or worse any number of things, but the thing that matters most to me is that I can actually use it all day.

  15. Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1

    Foxconn will buy Sharp and all will be well for Apple.

  16. Re:Who started it? on US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    Those are all valid questions. Many of which are asked by American citizens. The problem with such questions is that they are moot. The world has provided no other way to deal with dictators, rouge nations, and terrorist. We are stuck with the whims of the president of the only country with the capabilities to handle all this.

    We'd gladly stop sending troops into harms way and cut our defense spending if the rest of the world would take over.

  17. Re:Kickstarter replaces IPO on Does Crowdfunding Work? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Correction: You are not investing via Kickstarter... you get no equity for your money. Real crowd funding will start January 1, 2013 when non-accredited investors can start buying equity in startups.

  18. wrong question on Does Crowdfunding Work? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think the question should be can you raise money for your business (or idea) with crowd funding. I think the question should be, is crowd funding intelligent enough to pick winners and losers? Most popularity contests are won by the superficial as opposed to substance.

  19. Re:But are we really trying? on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 1

    Yea for yield increases! However, you failed to mention that ~80% of all arable land is currently in use. Grain productivity peaked years ago. And, depending on whether you like conservative or liberal estimates, we are going to need anywhere from a 40%-60% increase in productivity to mean the demands of the population in just a few decades.

    Did I mention the amount of arable land is also on the decline?

  20. Re:Huh? on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, the public record showed that Apple didn't owe Samsung anything for those patents because of exhaustion. If someone asked me to pay a licensing fee for a chip I bought from another company I would decline as well.

  21. Re:Huh? on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: 5, Informative

    It must be fun just to make things up. Of course, the rest of us who like real information spend the time reading from credible sources. Unfortunately, there is no information available on the situation with Samsung and LTE. However, when looking at court records from Nokia v. Apple on 3G FRAND issues, the record is quite clear. Nokia didn't want more money than Apple was willing to pay. They wanted a cross-license on Apple patents that Apple was unwilling to provide. According to Nokia, Apple was the only phone vendor unwilling to cross-license.

    It was all eventually settled with Apple paying Nokia and not licensing their patents. Same thing is likely to happen to Samsung. Apple will not allow anyone to use their patents in a competing product for better or worse. But, Apple doesn't mind paying for standards essential patents.

  22. Thunderbolt on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if they made it a Thunderbolt port.

  23. Re:Who's fault? on Australian WiMax Pioneer Calls It a Disaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is probably a combination of many different factors. A reporter should really dig in and learn more. Regardless, WiMAX can and does work. We have a network in Atlanta that sees less than 20ms latency, very little jitter and less than 1% packet loss. We carry real PRIs to demanding enterprises that work flawlessly. Unfortunately, our network is the result of blood, sweat and tears as opposed to some magic technology offered by ours vendors. This stuff is hard, but very doable.

    http://www.oneringnetworks.com/

  24. We provide this today on Unplugging Your Backups · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We provide this today in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. Its not WiMAX, but it is microwave and/or millimeter wave capable of 1Gbps.

    www.oneringnetworks.com

  25. Re:AirInfinite has a larger deployment already on Space Needle To Become WiMax Antenna · · Score: 1

    Apparently those prices you referenced include voice service as well. I was told the $995 package includes 24 local phone lines. The service appears most similar to Towerstream's, but with better pricing.