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  1. Re:Holiday impact? on Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS · · Score: 1

    Well, a Java ME phone is used differently from a smart phone in most instances, so it's not the same consumer base, grandma doesn't need gingerbread, and I like smart phones too much, that I had to remember what Java ME was. Your right though, I'd get cheap phones as presents for those I know won't need a smart phone, and something that's not a phone if I can't tell / lean towards android / ios. Still, even then there's people I feel I can just tell would like ios over android more in my gift giving mode. No cell phones were given during my thought train.

  2. Re:LEO satellites and burst traffic on German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites · · Score: 1

    why not, what about buffering and caching?

    How do you think you do it on a cell phone?

    I'm assuming they'd have the equivalent of tower to tower coverage where the next satellite would pick up where the previous one left off, otherwise this is a really inferior idea compared to proxies or usenet.

  3. Re:Prediction: Bad people will use it on German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites · · Score: 1

    Nice troll, you certainly got fed :)

  4. Re:Naming fail? on Online Clearinghouse Offers To Defend Privacy · · Score: 1

    Lol, if your in China and your concerned about privacy, you need to move, then again I doubt you are, so why worry?

  5. Re:Find a new market! on Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I hate to correct you, but you bought a desktop replacement, an i7 is the probably the worst processor on the market for power consumption, the extreme edition pretty much requires a distinct connector off a rail (not available in laptops). I have an alienware w an i7, but that's also for heavy mobile IT processing in mind and I carry the cord in the backpack as a result, if I wanted a laptop, I'd buy an ASUS / Toshiba w like an i5/i3 (intel's turbo boost or w/e again let's it crunch faster than AMD on a laptop, the AMD is probably more power efficient, but gotta draw the line for performance somewhere). I'm positive regardless of battery life, your not disappointed though, i7 is powerful period.

  6. Re:Find a new market! on Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push · · Score: 2

    My time $ for dev work > $ of most expensive hardware, that's an IT philosophy and anybody that says otherwise is blatantly ignorant (want != get here). My experience is not off of hard numbers made by benchmark tools, but by building and watching people use both intel and amd machines around the same price points around the same time (within 6 months). The intel processor rips amd at number crunching, they seem about even on multi-tasking. Intel has hyperthreading, doubling the logical cores allowing multithread apps to really rip the amd equivalent. Compile Linux on amd and on intel, according to Tom's hardware> discussion thread they say the benchmark difference is 15%, when in r/l observing the above, it's more like 50% in my experience.

    When you go dirt cheap $130 processor, then AMD starts becoming the better value, but I don't build trash typically either. I mostly build mid-high grade, I don't build gaming grade either except for self xD.

  7. Skynet on Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics · · Score: 1

    Finally has the technology to build the terminator from Terminator III (the "evil" one) .

  8. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    An iframe is interpreted by the safari browser which has trust obviously (it's an .exe), so it's a safari vulnerability, article is mislabeled, or author never took sec 101.

    Also 5 users is very generous, I have yet to see one, and I've seen my share. Most web developers make their salt without ever having to test on this browser for example.

  9. Re:Find a new market! on Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push · · Score: 2

    Dunno, I remember Centrino being a very good mobile processor line back in the day. I'm more surprised they didn't enter the market until now, maybe it's because they've been dominating the desktop market pretty hard? I have a hard time recommending AMD with a straight face nowadays for desktops... haven't read too much about what came in the past few months, I know AMD released something decent, but all they're doing is joining in on the party, not starting one there.

  10. Re:errr on US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    The hackers wanted to damage the US physically by using precious toner and paper as well as wearing down the printer parts.

  11. Re:FP on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it wouldn't start in the middle east? Ex. Afghanistan

  12. Re:EULAs on Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision · · Score: 3, Informative

    A blu-ray player and a ps3 for the longest time were very comparable in price, where you'd have to be stupid to buy the former when the latter was available with 10x more functionality.

  13. Re:So, when did subscriptions become traditional? on Star Wars: the Old Republic Launches · · Score: 1

    I guess i got bored of eq2 cause of the repetitiveness, WOW was much more of the same when I tried it. To me a well executed elder scrolls mmorpg sounds epic.

  14. Re:Useless information - currently on October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code · · Score: 1, Funny

    You would code at Oktoberfest? :)

  15. Re:Useless information - currently on October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code · · Score: 1

    No offense to BeTheSoda, but they had 7 years.

    A. Great game
    B. Ported from console moderately buggy, buggier for some than others it seems.

    I wouldn't blame the holidays, corporate politics = #1 reason for bugs.

  16. Re:Useless information - currently on October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code · · Score: 1

    alcohol?

  17. Re:So, when did subscriptions become traditional? on Star Wars: the Old Republic Launches · · Score: 1

    Also Blizzard would be completely out of business, sc1-2, d1-3, wc1-3 have always been free online. I don't get WOW, mmorpgs are great, eq2 rocked, but I seriously think for what your getting as a game, it lacks substance and is extremely extremely repetitive.

  18. Re:How does this benefit Google long-term? on Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search · · Score: 1

    You know you can still go to http://www.google.com/ right?

  19. Re:well duh on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, just like in RV cars, gas is also an option I think, the weight tradeoff shouldn't be much worse than a battery, too lazy to look into the details though, seems to work great for the airforce though.

  20. Re:Oh just great on India To Cut Out Animal Dissection · · Score: 1

    Eating animals is more associated with survival. Dissecting animals is more associated with serial killers. Still those in the healthcare field get to see some shit in their days, dissecting a frog probably isn't what burns in most of their memories.

  21. Re:Google versus Apple on Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised how well and by how much apple beat google to the market on this. I always thought google was the bigger more technologically advanced of the two, perhaps there is more revenue in it for Apple?

  22. Re:They ignore the commercial pirate? on X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence · · Score: 0

    Lol, the Korean was clearly a lot smarter about it than the defendant in this case. I think only in America do people exist who would take a movie they bought illegally, that hasn't been released yet, and upload it via their IP to a major download site that everybody has access to.

  23. Re:Why? on MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases · · Score: 1

    None of this matters because...

    A. guy (OP) at the very top of this chain doesn't have a clue wtf he's talking about

    I guess the scenario they're talking about is a machine they can't trust NOT to be compromised, thus loading plaintext in memory (how currently on the fly works), that's a client to database interaction. Decrypting the data nowadays works just fine, no idea here either, old hardware perhaps? They're talking about accessing the data w/o ever decrypting it, thus there is nothing to steal at any point "the onion model". What I don't get is, this data needs to be presented at some point, and maybe the slashdot description is misleading here, how would this do anything to an admin's ability to access the database? It can thwart something like a malware program or a virus, but the admin or application is decrypting the data into viewable plaintext at some point. So I guess the point of doing it this way is performance and memory protection? What else? I feel I'm missing something big here as I think I saw a $20 mil price tag. The concept in itself is cool.

  24. Re:REFORM WILL ONLY OCCUR on Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Rofl, this guy would pound you.

  25. Re:By "reform" you mean legal for Gov' not for us. on Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Define... "good"