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  1. One item. on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    I have a power deck that I got in a garage sale that might be from the 80s but everything else is from the last five years.

  2. Re:And why did they cancel Firefly?!?!?!? on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1

    Once everyone realizes what's going on, I can see major amounts of lawsuits flying around and the lawmakers getting involved.

  3. Re:Garrrrrrghhh nerd rage on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1

    I have never played Guild Wars but why would they need to create a second game? Isn't the one of the good things about MMOs is that they are constantly evolving?

  4. Re:Good business, but... on Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers For Access To Student Data · · Score: 1

    That's some really expensive toilet paper. It's not even two-ply!

  5. Re:The actual reason on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    I didn't say you did. jeffmeden was more or less saying DVDs were pointless and outdated. I don't see how that is possible when a significant portion of the population still uses them.

  6. Re:The actual reason on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    I primarily watch Netflix and Hulu but I watch DVD/Blurays often enough to warrant having a player around. Almost all my media consumption is through a computer, phone, Kindle, and (rarely) a tablet. The same is true for everyone else in the house. There is a old TV in the house but no one uses it.

  7. Re:The actual reason on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 2

    How about watching or ripping a DVD or Bluray?

  8. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are talking about those that know the difference, yes.

  9. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "But which version of Android is most preferred by users?"

    The newest.

  10. Re:Exaggerated on The Rise of Feudal Computer Security · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is to use a open standard/specification in exports. It would be up to the competing services to import the export. For Facebook, an xml that links text, video, and pictures together would probably do fine.

  11. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Then they are idiots. If you are going to do something sensitive and/or illegal, why would you do it over a very insecure median when you can use alternatives that are fairly secure.

  12. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Those people are probably not dealing drugs.

  13. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Or simply a SMS client that encrypts the characters before sending the SMS.

  14. Re:why just a HDMI and USB over TCP/IP box on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 1

    Most people don't want to go through the trouble. Besides, I was thinking of something a little bit more refined. It would be even more awesome if you could use a beefy machine as a server of sorts by allowing multiple instances running at once so at multiple people can game at once with one computer.

  15. Re:LAN Streaming on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 1

    I think I like that name better.

  16. LAN Streaming on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should consider creating making a LAN version of game streaming, you have a small thin client hooked up to your TV but all all the work is done by your beast desktop in the next room. The biggest hindrance to their current setup is that most people don't have their computer hooked up to their TV because they use it for other things than just gaming. They could call it Steaming (Steam + Streaming). :)

  17. Re:ISPs as well? on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tor does not attempt to shield illegal activities. It attempts to keep private data private. To do so completely, the network operators themselves must not be able to track back the data to the original request or view the contents. Yes, this can be abused by criminals but that doesn't make the network operator responsible. I don't see the police busting down the door of sport stores, confiscating the contents, and arresting the manager whenever they sell a ski mask to a random, cash paying customer that so happens to later use it in a bank robbery. They should be going after the criminals not the network operators.

  18. Grandmas Everwhere Will Be Pissed on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    Blue will make 'UI changes' to Windows 8.

    My grandma got pissed when she has to go from Outlook Express to Outlook 2010. She already was having great difficulty doing simple things on her computer. I can't even image her reaction if someone told her that she would have to learn a new interface every 12 months.

  19. Re:800 devices supported on Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail · · Score: 1

    But they can't possibly manage to bring it to Linux.

    Probably has something to with the Silverlight deal with Microsoft.

  20. Re:Put badge in microwave for 10 seconds. on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    That might work until 10 badges later ...

  21. Re:Cars on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    The technology is not yet mature (and cheap) enough to handle the majority of the country on a large scale. Also, solar's generation capabilities varies by location and you still need power during the night. Energy storage at that scale would be a problem of its own. The United States would not accept not have power 24/7. At the very least, the nuclear power plants would provide night power and peak power.

  22. Re:Cars on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    Well, on that front, nuclear is our best bet in the short term but green advocates make a fuss and make it extremely difficult to make them.

  23. Re:investigating pigeon shootings on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    you can't bowhunt deer

    What are you taking about? Where I live, bow hunting season for deer is at least three times longer than shotgun season. A well placed arrow can easily and quickly kill a deer.

  24. Re:investigating pigeon shootings on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    I would hardly call releasing a caged animal and immediately shooting it "releasing it into the wild". It is more like "releasing it to the reapers".

  25. Re:FCC may not allow it on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    If PETA is using these tactics to catch these hunter's in the act, I would assume that whatever the hunters are doing is already illegal. They probably aren't worried. Besides, they only need to scrabble the immediate area. The FCC probably wouldn't notice.