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  1. Interested in the results of this on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Interested in the results of this. Yesterday I reported a Facebook post that said "someone has to assassinate [American politician] ..". Today got a replay from the Facebook moderators that this was an okey dokey message. Well then..

  2. Re:Easy on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    2560 x 1440 is a wee bit cheaper though: https://global.ebay.com/search/?Query=2560+1440

  3. Re:A tad longer than that on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    I might be rather mistaken about this, but I've heard South Korea has some contracts where they are sort of grandfathered in from the time that they were still marked as a development country (1997).

  4. Re:Port to Mono on Linaro Tweaks Speed Up Android, By Up To 100 Percent · · Score: 2

    Truth be told, that 7x speedup was only in a part where they rewrote their autogenerated C# code to use some special construct that only exists in C# but not in Dalvik/Java. On a micro benchmark of that particular part they got a 7x speedup.

    Basically they found a special case where the C# compiler knows a trick that Java doesn't do, then pointed out such a case exists in AOSP and tweaked that source code file.

  5. Re:Real nerds know ASCII on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    *grin* On OS X Ctrl+H is still backspace.

  6. Re:SUICIDE not good enough... on Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct · · Score: 2, Informative

    A format is not enough. You have to do a ATA Secure Erase to be really sure. But, a format or full empty space overwrite should make sure somebody will have to disassemble the drive to actually get to the data remnants. Since the visible virtualized drive part will of course remain empty, else the 'contract' of storage would be broken.

  7. Re:Meanwhile, in the Netherlands... on Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 1

    Actually that URL now shows "403 Forbidden"

  8. Re:Lax attitudes toward child pornography on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1

    Western fashion? Look at Japan, South Korea, India.

  9. Vitamin D on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't appear learning hurts the development, as much as the diminished amount of exposure to the sun when you keep people indoors. Low vitamin D gives all kinds of odd immune problems, muscle problems, hormone problems, brain problems, as it is needed for a lot of biological activity.

    We need to ask manufacturers to make their devices outdoor proof.

  10. Re:Reminds me of hardcards on OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card · · Score: 1

    What problem does it actually solve which cannot also be solved by a good OS, a competent admin, an SSD, and a spinning disk?

    The problem of not having a competent SSD, or good OS. Possibly also, lack of remaining HDD slots or SATA/power connectors.

  11. Re:Didn't Seagate already do something similar? on OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card · · Score: 1

    This one is less convenient (not a standard SATA format) but faster.

  12. Re:Yo dawg, on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember somebody writing a text only X11 frontend driver for the console. I can't seem to find it though. It think it would emulate the display of a virtual framebuffer via AAlib by displaying characters that approximate the pixels.

  13. Re:Bogomips on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    It appears that is a fixed answer. Related: why does it run Linux 2.6.20? Which is quite old..

  14. Stability? on Asus EeePad Transformer Gets a Thumbs-Up · · Score: 1

    Other reviews mention random reboots. Is Android Central at a point where they don't see that as a problem?

  15. Re:Combines all the Volume 4 fascicles on Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm · · Score: 1

    "Molecular Biology of the Cell" (colloquially: The Cell), is kind of like TAoP for cell biology. It's not short though. But combining all the TAoP Volume 4 Fascicles together, you are already at a large fraction of the amount of pages in The Cell. So I guess it's what you are looking for.

  16. Ego? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most I hear from academics is that they got annoyed with Wikipedia once somebody removes their well explained text, around a subject they know a lot about, once too often.

  17. Re:But where's Japan's own measurement net? on Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US · · Score: 0

    No, they have more than 19 measurement points. Anyways, those 19 are included on a few of the aggregator maps.

    Now go back to your troll cave.

  18. Re:Used for good here but... on Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US · · Score: 1

    What has smartphones to do with this subject?

  19. Re:I wouldn't eat food right now on Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US · · Score: 1

    It is primarily about Iodine 131, that escapes from the heated fuel assemblies through tiny cracks, and is water soluble.

    - Just wash the food, ~80% will wash off without much effort.
    - The japanese government is tracking their food and will reject what gives off too high a dose.
    - If it can wait, just don't eat fresh food from the vicinity of the reactor. Half life of Iodine-131 is 8 days. So after two weeks ~75% is gone. Still great for conserved food, or even cargo shipped.
    - When you are older (> 25y or so) the impact of I-131 is much lower, since your thyroid doesn't grow (that much).

  20. But where's Japan's own measurement net? on Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US · · Score: 1

    That's all very cute, but where is the data from Japan's own nuclear measurement net? From what I've heard they have measurement nodes all over the place (like many countries), but instead of say Germany and The Netherlands, this data is not freely available?

  21. Re:It's sad. on Anonymous Organizes Global Protests For WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    OkCupid's blog OkTrends has a nice post about age vs. political ideology: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/

  22. Re:There are no free markets on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 1

    Luckily governments 'governments and the politicians' ought to encourage stability. Which makes sense for things important.

  23. Re:Damn You, Science! on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 1

    > any drug / biochem expalanations for mental states for me don't challenge the philosophical questions.

    So you say any explanation based on reality will not cha(lle)nge your worldview? That is fine when either reality does not matter to you (true for a lot of people), or when there is something outside of reality that changes reality without measurably changing it (either absurd, or irrelevant due to its very small influence).

  24. Re:Alternatives on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Tried GMPC? Anyways, there are other MPD clients that you might like.

    http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Music_Player_Client

  25. Re:Help in TFA? on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just checked my iTunes/Mac and it has 122MB resident, not doing anything. Clicked a bit around, it's now 156MB. I have less songs than you have.