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  1. Re:Finally, a reasonable lawsuit on Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel · · Score: 1

    Reasonable?

    Top Gear : Automobiles :: Steven Colbert : News

    All this will do is get more people watching Top Gear

  2. What? on Google Fiber Comes To Kansas City · · Score: 5, Informative

    They chose Kansas City, not Topeka, so no it didn't seem to work since they didn't choose Topeka.

  3. Re:How much data does it use? on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    Could try reading the linked page.

    From the FAQ:

    Our units involved in the FCC project transfer a large amount of data, which varies according to the speed of your connection. The usage on a 10Mbps connection will be around 20GB/month, and will likely be around 60GB on a 50Mbps connection. The amount that's downloaded is speed dependant (so a slower connection will use less traffic than a faster connection).

    If you're on a product with a low cap then we'd advise against signing up, or at least informing us beforehand so that we can apply a different testing profile (we can run smaller speed tests on a per-device if necessary).

  4. Re:I'm involved with this on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    Mine was a Netgear WNR3500L

  5. Re:Duplicate from June 1, 2010 on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    No, no it's not.

  6. Slashvertisement on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    This has been going on for quite a while now, they've already shipped a bunch of routers, mines been hooked up for a few months already.

  7. Would RIAA v Diamond cover this? on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How SCOTUS decided that:

    Rio merely makes copies in order to render portable, or 'space-shift,' those files that already reside on a user’s hard drive.... Such copying is a paradigmatic noncommercial personal use.

    If I buy Time Warner Cable, and have Time Warner Internet, and get shows from Time Warner and this app requires the above, wouldn't displaying the stream on an iPad instead of a television simply be space-shifting the stream.

  8. To play devils advocate on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    And unsurprisingly, naysayers proclaim that IE will survive, while firefox will die.

    IE has been getting faster, I can't say the same thing about Firefox.

  9. Re:Unfortunately on Google Voice Teams Up With Sprint · · Score: 2

    This is a bad thing? Aside from SMS spam, what else uses shortcodes? Anything good?

    Pretty much any service that allows alerts by SMS doesn't support GV.

  10. Unfortunately on Google Voice Teams Up With Sprint · · Score: 3, Informative

    your GV number will likely still be unsupported by nearly anything that uses shortcodes. I wish they would fix that.

  11. Re:WTF . . . on Facebook Acquires Feature Phone App Maker Snaptu · · Score: 0

    Obvious troll is obvious.

  12. Re:WTF . . . on Facebook Acquires Feature Phone App Maker Snaptu · · Score: 1

    The whole point is you shouldn't *have* to google it, a decent editorial staff would have added that tidbit in. But like you said, this is slashdot, and the staff has stagnated.

  13. WTF . . . on Facebook Acquires Feature Phone App Maker Snaptu · · Score: -1

    is a feature phone

  14. Eh on Netflix To Start Creating Original Content · · Score: 2

    How about you add streaming to all the stuff you currently have first.

  15. Behavioral Profiling rediscovered on Unmasking Anonymous Email Senders · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure profiling and behavioral analysis has been around for a long time.

  16. Re:5 fucking color stripes in a square. on Wikipedia Moves To Delete the Free Speech Flag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. i mean, now arrangements of colors are being owned/dominated.

    No, this is Wikipedia process-wankery and why they're losing editors in droves.

  17. 9x 'faster' Graphics on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    The claims are 9x, but I wonder what the actual performance increase will be.

  18. Re:They tried this before ... on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Eh, all I could remember was what was in NWA, might as well throw in Dillards as well then.

  19. Re:They tried this before ... on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 2

    What does Arkansas produce again?

    Tyson
    Walmart
    JB Hunt.

  20. Re:This mean the memory issues will get fixed? on Firefox 4 the Last Big Release From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    No, different people. Comment 1 (OP) and Comment 6-7 (b13) are differnet people. Reading comprehension fail.

  21. Re:This mean the memory issues will get fixed? on Firefox 4 the Last Big Release From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    If you'll read the bug, the last comment was from somebody who reproduced it with b13.

  22. This mean the memory issues will get fixed? on Firefox 4 the Last Big Release From Mozilla · · Score: 3, Informative

    Before you say that since it happens to you it must be my addons, it[1] happens with 1 tab open to about:memory in Safe Mode. The only thing left to do is try a clean profile, but if a dirty profile can make an idle Firefox eat all your ram that's still a bad bug.

    1 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636791

  23. In other words on Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Labels such as Linn Records already sell 'studio master' versions of albums in 24-bit FLAC format, but these are targeted at high-end audio buffs with equipment of a high enough caliber to accentuate the improvement in quality

    In other words, they're making money off the placebo effect.

  24. Re:Another alternative - bluetooth phone as a sens on Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data · · Score: 1

    btprox is overrated, tried it and found I could walk nearly anywhere in the office and the computer wouldn't lock, bluetooth has too large a range for this.

  25. No? on Financial Malware Hijacks Online Banking Sessions · · Score: 1

    This is a completely new piece of malware that pushes the hacking envelope through the evolution of existing attack methodologies.

    Trojan.PWS.Egold has been around for at least 5+ years that does effectively the same thing.