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  1. Re:I've got the DVDs waiting to burn .ISOs on Multiple Sources Confirm Windows 10 has Reached RTM · · Score: 1

    MSDNAA licenses are only valid while you are a student, and only for using as part of your education. You didn't "get" a copy for $0, they only lent you a license.

  2. Re:I've got the DVDs waiting to burn .ISOs on Multiple Sources Confirm Windows 10 has Reached RTM · · Score: 1

    I meant "confirm" as in "strengthen the suspicion". It's one of its definitions, even if not the most common one. Feel free to look it up.

  3. Re:I've got the DVDs waiting to burn .ISOs on Multiple Sources Confirm Windows 10 has Reached RTM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is a known fact (or well, highly guessable at least), that Microsoft's goal has shifted from selling Operating Systems, to having a mostly free platform ("free" in this case implies the user has paid the "Microsoft Tax" at least once in the life of the device), as a means to make the Windows Store as accessible as possible.

    All of the new features in Visual Studio 2015 regarding porting apps from Android/iOS, all the rumors that there may be Windows 10 phones "soon", etc. simply confirm this. Microsoft's goal is to make it as easy as possible to purchase things from the Store, so that they can get their cut of the sales.

  4. Re:I DON'T want windows 10 on Microsoft Attempts To Clarify the Windows 10 For Everyone Rumor · · Score: 1

    I decided to install the Insider Preview on my laptop, as a means to evaluate Windows 10 before the final version touches my desktop, and so far I'm liking it. It does have a couple of annoyances, but overall it's good, and the in-place upgrade was flawless for me.

    That said, to the point: I have a handful of updates in my WU that I decided not to install just yet. All of them popped up around the same time, and all of them are related to the upgrade process between Windows 7 and Windows 10. Once I decide to upgrade to Windows 10, I will unblock KB3035583 and friends, and let Microsoft upgrade to the new OS in-place.

  5. Re: Not a Placebo on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, I think I read that they observed people getting a benefit from taking a placebo pill, even if they know it's placebo. Not nearly as much as people believing it works, but that'd give it more than null effectiveness.

  6. Re:Who buys them? on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That only makes it worse. Homeopathy is based on pseudoscience that is just plain stupid, if people use that name for other things, and there are examples of things that DO WORK (even if they aren't based on the same principles that make homeopathy impossible to work), they will use them as examples that homeopathy DOES work, which will only help misinform people.

  7. Wait what? on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 1

    They charge ME for the books, but only pay the authors if I read them? WTF kind of logic is that? If I pay, they should receive. I may have to buy my ebooks elsewhere.

  8. The key... on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    The key is to really understand how closures work (and by extension, why javascript "classes" look the way they do). If you manage that, the rest of the language just comes easy and shouldn't be an issue. ;P

  9. Re: Silly Monkeys on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 1

    I'd say that the fire element represents energy. Heat is the most obvious form of energy so it makes sense to use it as a representation of all energy interactions.

    The other 3 elements represent the primary states of matter. Plasma wasn't discovered until much later, so it wasn't included in the list of elements at the time. Although, it could be said that the aether is dark matter, which would bring the total to 6?

  10. Re:Silly Monkeys on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 2

    Most? What is the sun but a very very large ball of fire? In the end, everything but hydrogen has been born in a star's blaze, and hydrogen itself was born in the primordial heat of the big bang. Everything in the universe has been ultimately put where it is thanks to heat and very high pressures.

  11. Nice way to show how bad sites are... on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    ...but I already have Ghostery for that, so it doesn't offset the news about ads in the default home page.

  12. And this achieves what, exactly? on Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm all up for revealing bad secrets and showing the world the bad side of governments, but these are private emails with personal information. As far as leaking goes, this has everything of the bad, and nothing of the good.

  13. Re:They don't know what "hard" is. on SpaceX's New Combustion Technologies · · Score: 1

    The poster probably means implement in the sense of taking something and getting it to work reliably on a production system or corporate network.

  14. No, on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because Apple makes a lot of money selling proprietary overpriced cables. They are overpriced enough that they can get away with including identification systems that attempt to prevent third-party cables from working.

  15. Re:how was it detected then found? on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original news article (in Catalan) says she was stopped while trying to cross into France, where they took the car, and "routinely searched" it for an hour and a half before it was returned. Afterwards a month later she was approached by the same police body in Valencia, right after she parked outside the conference. That's when she decided it was too much to be just coincidence, and searched the car.

  16. Re:How did they notice that? on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 5, Informative

    The news article (in Catalan) says she searched her car after two incidents where the local police approached her for identification in unusual places, as if they knew where she was going. The second time it just seemed way too suspicious so she decided to search the car.

  17. If they don't allow it... on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 2

    ... I'll be forced to question their intelligence. Communism or no, exporting services means the country gets an intake of money, without this transaction resulting in the country having less resources as a result. Making additional copies of software is virtually free.

  18. Re:Timed Exclusive? on BitTorrent Announces Exclusive TV Shows · · Score: 1

    And long before the window ends...

  19. Re:Option? on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    Consider it a 3.5GB graphics card, with 500mb of "last resort" memory.

  20. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    As my employer, you should get sued for invasion of privacy, and I should be compensated for the time it may take to find a new job in a non-corrupt company.

  21. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No need to shoot. If you don't vote me, my guys will decide to have their business in front of your shop, and if their business scares all your customers away... well that's your problem.

  22. Re:Duh. on Librarians: The Google Before Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't need to be. It's still a history lesson. Not many young people would know that in the past you'd actually call a library to ask them questions. Heck, I'm 30 and I would have never considered calling them!

  23. Re:why would I write to that? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    At which point I think I trust Microsoft not to sue me more than Oracle.

  24. Re:HDD endurance? on Consumer-Grade SSDs Survive Two Petabytes of Writes · · Score: 1

    HDDs usually die from mechanical failure rather than the magnetic surface wearing out. I'm not aware of the surface wearing out being something to worry about, since all the headers do is spin around the magnetic poles on the material. But the headers can scratch the surface causing bad sectors, the stepper motors can die, etc. In some cases it's possible to recover critical information by placing the platters on a non-damaged disk, although opening a modern HDD has to be done inside very clean rooms so that no dust gets inside the disk.

  25. Re:Rick-Roll on Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter · · Score: 1

    The link's path is /freePS3.php -- anyone clicking that DESERVES to be fancy pivot charted.