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  1. Re:Wrong Koch on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that northern Europe is a disaster? You should visit Greece and Sweden, you'll see a great difference.

  2. Re: just want I wanted! on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    My wife is a teacher and she uses an "interactive board" and it really helps. She can prepare stuff in advance (do that with a chalkboard) move stuff around the board (do that with a chalkboard) show Wikipedia, youtube, anything in just an alt-tab (do that with a chalkboard). When she brings a student to the board do do something, she can them replay it (...)

    Well, you get the point. An interactive board is much more than a chalkboard on steroids.

  3. Re:What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Ok, but both work with an exchange server, right?

  4. Re:What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    The iPhone already have nice native apps that have the additional advantage of being build-in.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    the default client for iPhone (mail, contacts, calendar) has supported the exchange protocol for many years now. This is all build-in. Ironically, SMTP is just for hotmail (which didn't support anything else as of last year)

  6. Re:MSFT ON BSD! on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Android is running Linux, just like your latest Ubuntu release. You know Linux is the kernel, right?

  7. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Changing for Apple has the benefit of letting you use MS Office. Believe it or not, this is the main point I've seen raised over switching from Windows to Linux. For a reason.

  8. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    True. And it's not that people prefer MSO over OpenOffice, it's just that they need to be able to interact with people using Office. And opening a Word document on OpenOffice usually ends up like a big mess. Same for Powerpoint or Excel. Interchangeability is just a mess right now.

  9. Re:Looks like it's over on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    It is over. They launched an assault on both sites at once, killed all the terrorists and saved all the hostages. Two cops lightly injured, one more seriously. Given the circumstances, I'd say it's a pretty good job.

  10. Re:No... on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    I used to agree with you about thinness until I got an iPad Air into my hands... It really makes a difference on how you feel the device. Same thing for the iPhone 6 and 6Plus. I thought "Gimme more battery instead of a thinner phone", but how good does the thinner (and lighter) phone feels in your hands? Well, it does make a great difference.

    Note: I don't own any.

  11. Re:sounds logical. on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 2

    That's assuming the global warming is mostly due to the CO2 levels which is all but a certainty right now. I've read that the correlation isn't really up to speed these last years.

  12. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, so let's say I'm sceptic and not a denier. After a quick Google search, I stumbled on these two links:

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

    Both are clearly claiming there is no global warming since 1997. Reading it quickly doesn't provide any clue as to whether they are bullshit or not - or at least it would require me to dig into the problem, but I don't have that amount of free time right now.

    Do you have any indication about what's wrong with these assertions?

  13. Re: What IP address ranges are in the US? on NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' · · Score: 1

    When they gather every data across all VPNs, they will still be able to analyse a tiny fraction of it all. What they want is the capability to decrypt anything, but then they'll only listen to what is on the topic of the day, because too much data is too much. So a targeted attack might be as good in many scenarios.

  14. Re:Physical currency has inherent value on Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    There is about a ton of gold in every cubic mile of sea water

    Not quite. According to wikipedia there is about 10-30g/km3. One cubic mile being 4.2km3, I can extrapolate and see that there is only 42-126g of gold every cubic mile of sea water. That's about a tenth of a kilogram, or 10000 times less than what you claimed.

  15. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 1

    I know, but you don't need flash (or Java for that matter) to detect fonts in a browser. And the browser doesn't "send" a list of fonts, you have to have dynamic code to list the fonts on the client side.

  16. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, find it nice that I can use all the very nice fonts available on ALL iOS devices without a 100kB payload to my users. Specially for mobile devices where 100kB payload can take quite a while, depending on the network conditions.

    Other platforms will default to other fonts, chosen by me as well.

  17. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 2

    NoScript will be disabled on the websites you want to do something with. Those will be able to track you.

  18. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Whatever your default font is, it doesn't have the same widths of most other fonts, so they can be extracted.

  19. Re:The problem with human beings on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    There is evidence.

    Then give me a link to one !

  20. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This page will detect the fonts on your system without Java or Flash.

  21. Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 4, Informative

    What are you talking about? Browsers don't send installed fonts list to anybody!

    The detection occurs when in CSS you specify font-family: XYZ. This is going to be displayed in the default font, unless the font XYZ is installed. By analyzing the width of the element you specified the font for (or drawing it into a canvas element) you can distinguish the cases where the font is installed from the case where the default font is used instead.

    Hard to circumvent...

  22. Re:The problem with human beings on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Not a native English writer.

  23. Re:"Could", on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    And I predict that warmer climate will generate more evaporation from the ocean and thus more clouds. The ocean levels will go down by that measure. More rains. So, in order to save desert regions, I encourage people to emit as much CO2 as they can.

    You see? I can too make out-of-my-ass predictions on the climate, and end up with a random advice. The problem with your nice theory is that it's been repeatedly challenged by many models and observations. Expect me to divide by x (x>1) my way of life for a hypothetical outcome that may or may not come? Hardly.

  24. Re:The problem with human beings on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 0

    There is no evidence (still standing at least) that link CO2 emissions (produced by burning fossil fuel) to the global warming. There is no evidence that CO2 emissions will have or did have any meaningful impact on the planet climate. If anything, the planet is getting greener because all those trees love all that CO2.

    Furthermore, there is no evidence that the global warming is going to be harmful in any way for humans. But most of all, there is no shred of evidence that humanity can do anything to stop or act on the global warming.

    So before shouting out loud that we are "turning this planet into a hellhole", let's stop for a minute and think about it. Because in every scenarii studied so far, most lead to an economic disaster, but none to a better climate.

  25. Re:Ok, let's hear all the stories how Seagate suck on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It's not deskstar but deathstar I was told...

    As an anecdote, my first HDD to ever fry was a 8GB deskstar. I lost everything. Now I have backups and raid. Many failures later (at least 3) I've yet to lose a single bit I deemed important.