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  1. Re:DuckDuckGo sucks on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    I use duckduckgo's !bang feature https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

  2. Thank you on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you for all your hard work. You will be missed.

  3. Re:Bad Bad Bad on Deb Nicholson Talks About the Open Invention Network (Video) · · Score: 2

    not liking the system is no defence. hopefully laws will change. but until then OIN is important.

  4. glasses and walking sticks on Google Patents Image-Capturing Walking Sticks · · Score: 1

    I have figured out the pattern. /me Goes to register googlefalseteeth.com

  5. Re:Three quarks for Muster Mark! on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 2

    not really. there are 6 types of quark (plus 6 anti quarks). before we had only observed them bound 2-quark and bound 3-quark states, (though there have been several claimed 5-quark observations that have not stood up). Now we have 2 groups claiming to see a 4-quark state

  6. Re:Why so many military folks? on NASA Selects 8 New Astronaut Trainees, Including 4 Women · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I can't do that ebno.

  7. Re:Why so many military folks? on NASA Selects 8 New Astronaut Trainees, Including 4 Women · · Score: 1

    "This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error." -- HAL9000

  8. Re:As patent encumbered as H264... on Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium · · Score: 1

    Its a well kept secret but Firefox does have h.264 support since version 14. You just need to compile it with --enable-gstreamer (and make sure you have the required codecs installed for gstreamer). If you use gentoo you can set a useflag. If you use another distro you will have to ask them to change their build options.

  9. no mSATA form factor?

    (I am currently deciding which mSATA ssd to put in my x230 alongside the 500GB HD.)

  10. Spying on the UN on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 1

    This fits with reports that UK/USA have spied on the UN
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying_on_the_United_Nations

  11. Re:Please do. Do not however release with no licen on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    I think you missunderstood what I was saying (or i was not clear enough) because we mostly agree.

    There are low life folk who will take your code no matter what. if its a whole kernel being used in a router it might be easy to spot. If its something smaller, say a collision detection algorithm that gets put in a game, it might be very hard to spot and hard to prove.

    Unlicensed code only benefits these dodgy folk, and they probably will get away with it. A clear opensource licence wont stop them (though with copyleft you can still fight them), but it means the good folk can also benefit.

  12. Re:Please do. Do not however release with no licen on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    And if a lazy programmer at a commercial company puts your code in their product, how will you find out and how will you prove it? There are plenty of cases (see http://www.gpl-violations.org/about.html#history ) of companies taking code and not giving credit. Those companies can benefit from your 'unlicensed' code. But companies and groups who take licences seriously (redhat, debian, apache, google, apple etc) can't use your code. Is that what you want?

  13. Re:Please do. Do not however release with no licen on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    You mean that no-one who cares about licences can use the code. No openosurce project will accept the code, no distro will package it.

    But there are plenty of freeloaders who might use your code in a closed source project and assume you will never notice (probably true). They probably wont even credit you.

  14. fast trains on Project Envisions Modular Aircraft That Double as Train Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably would be easier to just make faster trains.

  15. liferea on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    liferea does everything I need. prefer a local application, as it means I can read through the feeds on the train.

  16. IMEI on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whats wrong with IMEI blacklisting.

  17. Re:I don't see the point on FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years · · Score: 1

    If you have the pi without ethernet (model A) the total power consumption is below a watt (and i don't believe power consumption was major design goal). So yes, maybe 0.1W is a big cost for some applications, but for me that is dwarfed by the rest of my hifi.

  18. Re:I don't see the point on FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years · · Score: 1

    real time decoding of FLAC uses less that 10% cpu on a $25 raspberrypi (ARMv6). I can't imagine needing to decode high quality audio on a lower end CPU.

  19. Re:Mac Pro DRAM on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_memory also its probably ECC. These are fairly typical on 'workstation' class machines.

  20. where is the bluray? on Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison · · Score: 1

    I would happily buy the bluray of GoT season 3 today if I could. I can't so i'll find 'other means' to watch it. When I can, I will buy the bluray (just like I bought season 1 and 2).

  21. Re:like a thinkpad on Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro · · Score: 1

    true, a few more pixels is always nice. but 1366x768 on 12" is not too low dpi, and with matte IPS option the X230 is the best laptop screen i have ever owned.

  22. like a thinkpad on Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro · · Score: 1

    cool. just like the X series thinkpads.

  23. Re:But do they explode? on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 2

    more smellily for sure

  24. Re:100 days on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I assume it took me about a day to write that comment. its hard to tell without a clock on this web page.

  25. 100 days on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 3, Funny

    100 person days have been spent reading and commenting on the ./ article. (101 now)