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  1. Re: Apple Build Quality on Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to exit if it's flawless?
    Also, plenty of things are unstoppable withough killing them, notably, many deamons.

  2. More developed countries are cheaper. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    More developed countries are cheaper, why is this news?
    I live in Argentina. I pay 60USD for 3MB. Some (worse serviced) ISPs offer 5MB for that price.

    South Korea is first world, and a VERY developed country, it's only natural that it's chepear than countries that are not.

  3. Re:90% on CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that's their undoing.
    Show the user 10 captchas:
    If none match -> It's an old bot
    If some match -> It's human
    It over 90% match -> It's this new algorithm.

    There, solved!

  4. Re:I see plenty of people reading on France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon · · Score: 1

    "slightly lighter" to a SINGLE book. Plenty of people have to carry many books to, for example, the university. I walk about 2.5km and back every day to uni. Carrying a bunch of books with me is out of the question - it's just not good for my back.

  5. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    Also, it will get more people to use Apple software, hence, reducing changes of those users moving to another OS.

  6. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    No, you should not trust him. It's for this exact reason that the procedure was published so you can review it yourself, and see if your results match his.

  7. Re:All hail Apple's new storage technology! on Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is no COPY in this scenario; Mail.App sends a command to save a new message to the server, with the same content as the other one.

  8. Re: Apple Build Quality on Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam · · Score: 1

    It's perfect. No unfreed memory. Since it's not a function call, there's no stack that can fill up. I can't think of ANY way to improve this!

  9. Re:Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Because Linux doesn't have the same resources behind it as Windows does.
    Also, windows' sound support is about a decade behind linux (can't select an output for each program? WTF?).

    Anyway, I never said it was simple, I merely stated that "wide hardware support" is a fallacy; it support on architecture, while Linux and BSD support about a dozen each.

  10. Re:What an absurd headline on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Driver optimizations

    Linux supports a great deal more hardware, and has bettery battery life.

    Bloatware

    You're free to perform a clean install, and most power users will. That doesn't change things much

    UI

    Hardware acceleration means less power usage.

    Unusually low-power hardware

    Every MBA hardware component is available in other vendors' notebooks. Also, Windows has worse battery life on a Macbook, while linux has only-slightly-worse, so again, the hardware is not to blame.

  11. Re:Stupid troll submission on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because I get 11-12hs of battery life on a 2013 MacBook Air with ArchLinux.
    Don't blame the hardware, there's a third OS clearly proving that it pretty much possible for others to support this hardware.

  12. Re:Found yer problem on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    My pc which is lacking a PSU also has awesome power management. About 0Wh. It probably runs as many apps as WP7.

    Sarcasm aside, that's pretty much the point; if there are no apps to run, of course battery will last longer!

  13. Re:Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Linux is meant to run on lighter hardware, which means it tends to use less CPU. Less CPU usage = less power usage.
    The real question is, how did they manage to bloat windows so much?

  14. Re:Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 2

    The Windows OS is built to work with a very wide variety of hardware configurations.

    It runs on TWO architectures, and requires CONSIDERABLY more minimun hardware than Linux/BSD. How is that an excuse?

  15. Re:Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    The linux kernel is way older than Windows' NT kernel, but is till offers considerably longer battery life on the same hardware.
    Age is irrelevant, it's just bloated!

  16. Re:Like libraries? on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Old being the new new has already gotten old. Old is the new old, new is the new new.

  17. This article is fake.
    All children of all ages browser the internet supervised and monitored by the NSA!

  18. Re:server ban? on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Some ISPs. Others charge for email hosting and SMTP services.

  19. Re:server ban? on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Fine? How do you send emails with a blocked port 25? Some server don't support TLS, so you can't use 587, you need to stick to plain-text/port 25.

  20. Re:Backwards compatibility is not a right on For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets · · Score: 1

    To call this backwards compatibility, there bluetooth would need to have been replaced by something else as a headset standard. It hasn't. It's the latest thing there is, and Sony does not support it.
    WIRED headsets is backwards compatibility. Who even uses wired headsets in the living room!?

  21. Re:"hack" on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    Neither is incompetence no behalf of the registrar.

  22. Re:This actually isn't half bad on Valve Shows How Steam Controller Works In Real Life · · Score: 1

    For some games. On strategy games, we usually use 20+ keybord shortcuts AND the mouse. There's no way to map that many buttons to that gamepad, and that IS an issue.

  23. Re:Everything old is new again. on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    These internships aren't payed, big difference.

  24. Re:Everything old is new again. on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    A day or two, I agree. This isn't a day or two, and they're not rotating every job in the factory for a short while. They're sitting down for a few months in a single spot of the assembly line.

  25. Time machines are expensive! on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    It sure looks like this website was made back in 2004. I'm guessing that the time travel was expensive.
    I also wonder why the used images for text, which has been SO critized for... the last decade?

    At a first glance, I think someone slipped about 5 zeroes too many on that price tag.