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  1. Re:While you're at it... on Intel To Rebrand Atom Chips Along Lines of Core Processors · · Score: 1

    Just think of "Celeron" as "i1" and "Pentium" as "i2.000739068902037589" and then they fit just fine.

    FTFY

    No, since we are using integers here. The Pentium had a floating point bug.

  2. can't wait on Intel To Rebrand Atom Chips Along Lines of Core Processors · · Score: 1

    for dual-core X3 and quad core X5!

  3. Re:The Keystone Pipeline already exists on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    The US is a net exporter of everything energy-related except oil.

    Everything enegry-related? Like what? The US is a net importer of natural gas, uranium, and probably electricity too, as Canada is a net exporter to the US
    The only thing US is a net exporter must be coal.

  4. Re:Canadians on H-1B Visas Proving Lucrative For Engineers, Dev Leads · · Score: 2

    Most Canadians professionals working in the US do not have H1-B. The TN1 is much more flexible.

  5. No one will be able to tell if the translation is valid or not.

  6. Why isn't port 22 blocked by default? on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 1

    By the router's firewall? Why is SSH enabled to begin with?

  7. Re:Helping Castro on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 1

    I have friends who bring them [Cuban cigars -mi] in from Europe all the time.

    Thus doing what little they can to help finance Castro's regime. Good job!

    Yeah, we shouldn't finance dictatorships such as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait... Oh wait, I should have stopped that list after Cuba.

  8. Re:Useless on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but Telus still charges $35: http://www.telus.com/en/qc/get...
    Bell also charges (no specified amount): http://support.bell.ca/Billing...
    Rogers charges $50: http://redboard.rogers.com/201...

    It seems that C-343 hasn't been accepted yet. http://www.parl.gc.ca/LegisInf...

  9. Re:Useless on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    They charge about $50 to unlock a phone, which is ridiculous. We have always been able to unlock phones on ebay for $2-10 so having a new option for $50 doesn't change the game at all.

  10. Re:Useless on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Well it's better than nothing (so better than Canada), but of course I agree that phone locking should be outlawed. The society would end up saving as companies wouldn't need to process unlocking requests and no developer would ever have the shame of coding the locking feature of a phone again.

  11. No. on Are Review Scores Pointless? · · Score: 0

    No.

  12. Re:problem on Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service · · Score: 1

    Go ahead and tell us that this Apple TV is your only Apple product.

  13. Re:Needs fairly strong justification on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    What if, for instance, those who are more responsible in general tend to have better jobs, higher incomes, and higher social status, AND raise their kids better, AND tend to be more proactive in their children's education?

    I am pretty sure it's the case.

    You would expect such a child to have better scores, and its entirely reasonable to attribute some of that success to homeschooling (as it is a greater involvement of the parent).

    If you want to measure the benefits of homeschooling itself, you have to compare equality wealthy and educated families.

    But studies applying these arbitrary controls will remove a lot (but not all) of that benefit.

    There is nothing arbitrary in these controls. These are the basics in order to be able to even read a study on the subject. Studies not taking these factors into account aren't worth anything.

  14. Re:Needs fairly strong justification on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    Trying to control these factors is very important. It's possible that educated and/or rich families favor home schooling and that along could explain the better results.

  15. Re:Windows on Pi? on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, using remote desktop? That's still using a GUI, and you still need to first login using monitor, keyboard and mouse to enable it. With linux embedded devices such as the Rasberry Pi, it's common to use a serial console and/or SSH for these stuff. Is Windows 10, along with its touch screen UI, really appropriate for these devices?

  16. Re:Windows on Pi? on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    #include "arduino.h"

    So I understand there is no standard API for GPIO access in Windows, and that it is custom to every chip?

  17. Re:Windows on Pi? on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    This section describes how to write a driver for a general-purpose I/O (GPIO) controller

    That's not really what I was looking for.
    On Linux, I can use the following command to read a GPIO:
    cat /sys/class/gpio/gpioXYZ/value
    How can I do that on Windows from user space? This is a genuine question not a trick.

  18. Windows on Pi? on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So will Windows 10 have APIs for stuff such as GPIOs, SPI and I2C, along with pin muxing?
    Will everything be possible without having to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse?

  19. Re:It's a regressive tax. on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    It makes 10000x more sense to keep a prepaid cell phone than home internet access when you're unemployed.

    I disagree. It's 2015, but would have said the same thing 10 years ago. You need Internet and an email address to find a job. Also without Internet, you will end up using that prepaid cell phone a lot, as it will be your only communication with the outside world.

    but if you're contacted by a recruiter you need to pick up the phone whether you're at the shelter getting dinner, or at the library, or in the bathroom

    When you have home Internet you will end up spending most of your job-less time there. Also if you are that poor so that you can't afford Internet (doesn't even need to be fast), then I don't see why you should be dinning at restaurants anyways as it's much more expensive. Last time I checked, a bathroom was still part of most people's houses and a cordless phone is cheap enough.
    Anyway my view is that if the employer call to give you an interview and doesn't leave a message or send an email if you don't answer right away, you weren't going to get that job.

  20. Re:It's a regressive tax. on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    You can get a VoIP landline with a voicemail for close to free. Cellular access is not a necessity for finding a job.

  21. Re:$45 Billion is just another tax, different form on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    That's why the government usually has rules so that a single company can't buy the whole spectrum.

  22. Re:$45 Billion is just another tax, different form on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    So would you rather have no auction at all and the spectrum be given for free to the first company to ask for it?

  23. Re:A semi-related issue on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 2

    fortunately every non-iPhone works just fine with standard cables and no software

  24. Re:18B on 75B on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Is the iPhone 5S lasting twice as long as a Nexus 5? If not, I don't get what your point is. The quality of the components is the same. The RAM chip in a Nexus 5 is of the same quality as a RAM chip in an iPhone.

  25. Re:Government Intervention on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    It's not about subsidies. It's about putting the right policies in place.