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  1. This looksd like a job for on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 0

    Super Santa!

  2. Nice! on Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad · · Score: 2

    New technology will bring also brand new excused not to study and not to do homework.
    - I've got a virus
    - The memory card got broken
    - I ran out of power
    - I couldn't get online to download the homework
    - The dog ate my tablet

  3. One is still missing on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 1
  4. Cool! on Google Throws /. Under Bus To Snag Patent · · Score: 1

    What a pity it's completely insane!

  5. Cool on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 1

    This is a new product waiting for either a patent or a patent troll.

  6. Easy answer, dude! on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because they're stupid! And stupidly dumb.

  7. Dual core for servers? on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 2

    That'd be a very very low end server!
    You can buy more powerful hardware, a desktop actually, with 4 cores and call it your server.
    Naaa, Intel is killing the Pentium.

  8. Not in Italy on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Italian smart meters use powerline transmission.
    Much smarter and more secure.

  9. Re:Tracking what? on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 1

    First, I'M NOT BROADCASTING ANYTHING.
    Technically my MAC addresses are needed ONLY when I need to connect to something or LET something connect to me.
    They are not designed, implemented and used for anything else.
    And as I'm not asking you anything, you are not allowed to track my MAC addresses. That'd be an abuse.

    Second, if you are tracking my MAC addresses all around is like you were tracking my car plate number all around.
    Unless you are the Police and have a grant for it, you are chasing me or, at least, harassing me. Which is illegal and
    for which I can sue you.

    So, yes and yes.

  10. Re:Tracking what? on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 1

    For trying to access your smartphone, for chasing you and so on.

  11. Tracking what? on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 2

    They cannot track cell phones but rather your wifi and Bluetooth MAC addresses.
    Just switch them off and you are done.
    Or Sue the mall management as an option.

  12. Re:Why so harsh? on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Almost zarro.

  13. Re:Why so harsh? on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    90% of engineering departments worldwide run Windows, not Linux.

    That's for desktop PCs. Do you know how many servers run Linux?

  14. Re:Other bytecodes on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    You hit the point, tepples. It wasn't easy nowadays, but you did it.

  15. Really? on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 5, Informative

    This

    This means it could run any language that compiles to byte code.

    shoud read as
      This means it could run any language that compiles to Java byte code.

  16. Why so harsh? on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, Linux "succeeded" because BSD was frozen out of the market by AT&T at a crucial time. That's just dumb luck. Also, success is relative. I run a political website that ordinary people read. On that site statistics show that about 5% is Linux, 30% is Macintosh (which is BSD inside) and the rest is Windows. These are ordinary people, not computer geeks. I don't think of 5% as that big a success story. [AST]

    I'm still convinced that it's one of those ideas that sounds nice on paper, but ends up being a failure in practice, because in real life the real complexity is in the interactions, not in the individual modules. And microkernels strive to make the modules more independent, making the interactions more indirect and complicated. The separation essentially ends up also cutting a lot of obvious and direct communication channels. [LBT]

    Maybe the webserver itself is running Linux, though. As well as your home broadband router, prof. Tanenbaum!
    I'm sad because of the short sight.
    Linux is successfull (no quotes). This is a fact. Also Windows is (used to be) successful at some time.
    Do you see Windows everywhere? Nope. Do you see Linux everywhere. Nope as well, but it's very, very popular.
    Maybe it's not popular in desktops. But it is, indeed.
    With the computing power available today, wasting a bunch of cycles in safer communication for microkernels is not a sin, Linus.
    So, why being so harsh to each other?
    I'm really convinced that Linus could help making Minix a better kernel. And the other way around as well.
    So, please, Andy and Linus, stop it.
    You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one ...

  17. Power on Dual-Core Android PC Now Comes On a USB Stick · · Score: 0

    "Plug in a USB power cord to an electrical source"
    And then I'd need a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. uSD strage is going to be filled in very quickly and I fear I'd
    end up with needing also a WiFi NAS for extra storage.
    Nay! I think this toy is doomed to (business) failure!

  18. Fingertop! on Dual-Core Android PC Now Comes On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    After floortop, desktop and laptop finally we have a really new formfactor.
    Neat and cool!
    It'a pity it's useless witout a properly powered screen!

  19. Aaah, those Italians! on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    The Physics is being shaken to the foundations by Italian researchers.
    After the faster-than-light neutrinos we still have to debunk the low-energy nuclear reaction claim (Remember, Google is your friend even if you don't read Italian).

  20. Fixed? Issue? on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    So that was just a BUG. Right?

  21. Doable on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 1

    1. Digitize the right face of the shredded stripes. You need a human or a futuristic robot.
    2. Run your AI super application on your super computer to make the ends meet each other. You need a pool of humans or a futuristic robot.
    3. Et-voi-la, your shredded document is back to life. And you are doomed.

  22. Re:Totally insane! on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    > The IP address can't change too much, or the users wouldn't be able to find the NewzBin site anymore.

    This is what DNS is for!

  23. Circumvention on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    Has already been done. Effectively!

  24. Totally insane! on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 2

    How to block "any other IP or internet address operators of the Newzbin2 site might look to use to continue to offer copyrighted content to users" ?
    What if they change name? Or country? Or whatever?
    Do that judge understand the meaning of this sentence?
    And is it possible in the UK to head a bill in the name of someone because of a judge rule?
    I definitely this is totally insane, unless this is another case of british humour!

  25. TP-LINK WR1043ND on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    Cheap and effective.