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  1. If they can't make GIF work... on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    Animated GIFs haven't worked satisfactory in WebKit for years, they take forever to load and will bring some browsers to a crawl. How could we ever expect animated PNGs to work any better?

  2. Re:Hammer is coming down on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's more about where all the money is going rather than where the stuff is built. We'll see how things play out.

  3. Re:Hammer is coming down on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 1

    It depends on what end of the hammer you're on I guess.

  4. Hammer is coming down on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... on foreign companies. I think we'll see more of this in the future, U.S gov getting at the foreign companies. Samsung should just stop supplying U.S companies and see how they start feeling about things. Don't just lie there waiting to get kicked again.

  5. In 15 years. Maybe. on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    I can't wait until this is available in 15 years or never, whichever is sooner, as is usually the case with all these amazing breakthroughs we read about every day on the Internet.

  6. Safari Standards on YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise · · Score: 1

    Safari has always paused YouTube and other Flash-stuff nicely until you first view the tab. I thought every browser did simple things like this, I had no idea it was an actual problem.

  7. Re:Capturer, not trainer on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    I'm really wondering how you determined that the animal perceives them as 'captors'. It makes just as much sense that they would perceive them as 'food bringers.'

    It's just perfectly obvious to most of us. To say that a creature would not be able to conceptualize its capture, restraint and placement in a strange and confined space into anything other than "I am in water, here is food, all is well." shows a huge lack of empathy on your part. I honestly hope you don't have pets, because you would only effort to become a keeper, never a companion or pack leader.

  8. Capturer, not trainer on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 2

    He killed his perceived capturer. If you capture and lock up an animal, you shouldn't expect anything else.

  9. Apple Protection Act on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    The Apple Protection Act at work. More big U.S companies will get the same treatment as Monsanto and now Apple, and the hammer is going to come down on foreign owned companies.

  10. 100Hz screens on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    What I'm really waiting for is 100Hz screens without ghosting, and perhaps a yellow pixel element as well for higher color definition. The "60Hz" screens we have today are more like 16Hz screens.

    Anyone who has seen 50 or 60Hz progressive TV, often seen in news casts and soap operas for some reason, know just how alive and vivid everything looks compared to the 24-25 or 30 FPS usually seen on TV, Internet and in movies.

  11. Multimedia Experience on Samsung Develops World's Fastest Embedded Memory With eMMC 5.0 Support · · Score: 2

    Will they also provide a richer multimedia experience, more vibrant colors, and increased productivity? I hate these dumbed-down explanations of the benefits of some new computer technology.

  12. Let them on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let this terrorist government burn their bridges. They need the world more than the world needs them. They deserve nothing more than having to crawl on their knees to get back with Europe, Russia and in particular China.

  13. Pay us on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    So... take the advice from us here at Apple, and pay us $79 for a $5 charger.

  14. BS on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    Unfair prices for consumers of laptops... as long as you blatantly raise prices just because you can, like certain Adobe and Apple products costing 50% more outside of the U.S f.ex, then it's all fine apparently!

  15. Take Obama's prize on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Maybe Obama could return his prize and give it to Snowden. He's obviously not deserving of it.

  16. Huh? on Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI · · Score: 1, Funny

    I didn't even know that people cared about "beatboxing". What's next, revealing the secrets of twerking and queefing?

  17. Inefficient on Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize · · Score: 1

    Why would they use a pedaling mechanism instead of a rowing mechanism? With a rowing mechanism he can deliver the same power with much less effort, or much higher power with the same effort. The operator can exert a large amount of force using his upper body, but he's just sitting there relaxing and letting his legs do all the work.

  18. What could go wrong? on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    In the U.S they are sending in the SWAT to break down doors and raid homes based on the opinion of a dog, and in Spain they now want to leave this detail to a chat-bot. What could go wrong?

  19. What? on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 1

    How do you spend a billion dollars trying to wrangle legacy code? 500 programmers at $200K per year for 10 years? How is it even possible?

  20. Re:Boo Hoo on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 1

    If I wanted attention I wouldn't look for it on Slashdot, I'd throw a hissy-fit to get on the news like Jeri Ellsworth. Are you commenting on the topic at all, or are you just bitching on other people's comments? How ironic.

  21. IDA on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 1

    It's the Incompetence Development Administration. No but seriously, this takes things to a whole new level. It's so dumb and uneducated I'm almost inclined to think there was some big contract for hardware and installations around the corner waiting to be served. Big incompetence, Big corruption? Americans do it Big.

  22. Re:Boo Hoo on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 1

    It wasn't so that they pulled the rug from under her feet and changed everything after she started working there just to get at her. There was a framework for employment and operation in place before and during her poor performance as an employee, and she agreed to this framework and other terms when she accepted employment.

    She's a big-headed cry-baby, and you should feel bad for defending her.

  23. Boo Hoo on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 0, Troll

    Baby crying because she couldn't run the show the way she wanted. I lost all respect for her back when she heckled some poor fellow on Twitter, accusing him of trying to steal from people and calling in her boys to join the taunting, despite knowing that this guy had just severely underestimated the scope of his project.

  24. Good guys AMD on AMD Overhauls Open-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm excited about getting the upcoming Kaveri. APUs are the way to go unless you have needs that call for huge CPU or GPU power, and I think AMD is definitely leading the innovation here. It's a nice bonus if I will be able to run Linux with good graphics acceleration as well.

  25. Re:Sodium Fluoride on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1

    Right. A "brainwashed sheep" with perfect dental health who's done enough homework on his own to know that water fluoridation has no ill effects and has a great deal of benefits in addition to fluoridated toothpaste.

    Protip: Sodium fluoride doesn't have any harmful effects at normal levels, but aluminum toxicity is a real thing, so you should probably stop chewing on your tinfoil hat before it causes you any more brain damage.

    So you're arrogant as well, claiming to know better than the governments, health and research institutes that have decided against it around the world? Let's disagree and leave it at this.