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  1. Re:I still feel uneasy about the name on Google Joins Facebook's Open Compute Project (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't call their security model ED209 (with a built in 20 seconds to comply), I don't think we should worry.

  2. Re:Impromptu Poll Question: on Firefox 45 Will Remove Tab Groups Today, Get This Add-on To Replace It (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    5! use it all the time since introduction.
    It actually lowers my memory consumption as it does not load all the tabs I've got opened and give me better subject management, you know, youtube in one, news in another, blogs in a third, and "educational" sites in a another one.
    I was kinda pissed because of the removal but at least we've an add-on, just hope they fix the appalling graphics performance, is slow as shit and is finiky when resizing the group windows.

  3. Re: What data did they want? on Brazil Facebook Head Arrested For Refusing To Share WhatsApp Data (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It maybe distinct but it hasn't offices in brazil, but its parent company, facebook, has and it is the next best thing. I don't agree with locking up the executive, because he has nothing to do with it, but facebook was just ignoring the orders, so the judge, in its weird logic, just ordered to get someone high up in jail to show he means business.

    There is another issue that, since the "marco civil da internet" (internet civil framework) companies like facebook and whatsapp were supposed to keep the data in servers located in brazil, so the excuse that the data is not here is a violation of that. But according to some news outlets, whatsapp doesn't have the messages, barely the contacts, so they couldn't give that information anyway.

    As the said by the GP, this is not a fishing expedition, is a court order in principle based on a investigation with evidence and should help get information about a drug cartel's network. So it is a complicated issue, kind in the same way like San Bernardino case, it is a balance between privacy and justice.

  4. Re:We've heard this before... on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think there are easier ways, heard the other day about some cheap HDMI splitters that removed the HDCP on the output, so you can basicaly just use a HDMI recorder after that to get the stream.

  5. Re:Isn't it obvious? on NASA Is Already Studying What Sort of Person Is Best Suited For Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we are witnessing a new slashdot meme come to life

  6. Re:These people don't stop existing, though on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?

  7. Down an offshore oil well on UK Scientists Designing Cement To Safely Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For a long time (decades) I see solutions like old salt mines such as Yucca mountain or other sites for long storage being suggested, but for some time I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to just turn the waste into small chunks (glass or cement) and shoot it down a failed/deactivated offshore well.
    Those wells are very, very deep, altough they can get pretty thin at the bottom, they are quite wide for the most part and could store a great volume of material. It would shield us and most of living beings by a big having layer of rock and water and has the added bonus that, if someone wanted to steal it to make a dirty bomb or something, it would require a drilling rig, which you cannot find laying around and is expesive as shit to operate.
    Would it be feasible?

  8. Great, now i have to change my luggage lock combination.

  9. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People have been trying to spin connected fridges for two decades now, and it still doesn't fly.
    If people really wanted their fridge connected to the internet, that would already have happened, and long ago. Manufacturers should stop using this as an example.

  10. Re:What we need is the death of "bandwidth caps" on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone that uses 7 to 8 TB a month on average, I just want to brag.

  11. Google Reader Way on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Mozilla is doing what Google did to Reader, just getting something power users use a LOT and canning it without considering the impacts. They already have a diminishing user base, pissing off power users is not the way to solve it.

    People don't use group tabs much, first because most don't open many tabs, second because they simply never advertised the feature that much, just a few weeks ago I showed this to a coworker who had no idea it existed, and he is a young EE quite savvy when it comes to internet stuff, so if someone like that don't know about, there is no way a common user would.

    I only hope that, if they go on with this, a good extension will be provided, otherwise I'll have to go to pale moon or other, as currently I use both chromium and firefox opened at the same time in two different screens, and it is enough to not have this feature in chromium (never found a good extension), and I usually have well over 100 tabs scattered over half a dozen tab groups.

    this is a big mistake, they want to make it easier to maintain, get rid of stuff like pocket or hello which nobody actually wants, and stop this race to the bottom with chrome, where you remove features and advanced access to the browser reasources and features.

  12. ITCrowd on ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ISIS member: "hello, my bomb vest won't explode, what do I do?"
    ISIS Hotline: "have you tried to turn it off and on again?"
    ISIS member: "no, wait----" BOOOOM
    ISIS Hotline: "God dammit, everytime..."

  13. Re:Isn't allowing media..? on NVIDIA Releases JTX1 ARM Board That Competes With Intel's Skylake i7-6700K (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, and if they break the NDA they are uninvited from future events, won't receive demo units for evaluation and I think may have to pay some damages. I find this a bad relationship, as the press acts as puppets, but that's how it works...

  14. Re:That's not what "narrow" means on US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know what happened in this accident, but there was another in North Carolina where a B-52 broke up in the air with two H-bombs a 3 of the 4 fail safes failed, furtunately the last one prevented the explosion, but was a very close call.

    In this one it seems to have occured an explosion, which is why Pu was scatered, but it did caused fission or fusion of the materials.

  15. Re:Better question on Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor · · Score: 1

    Simple, no competition, AMD is almost dead and can't put out anything close to what intel can do, and intel it self will not drive prices down on a monopoly, so we will get same performance at the same price just with a different sticker, until the day mobile processors actually can get close to what a desktop can do.

  16. Re:Limits of storage / human perception on Planar NAND Development Ends After 26 Years · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen my porn collection.

  17. Vaccine the reservoirs on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: 1

    This a human vaccine, which is great, but it will probably won't avoid the next break out.
    Wouldn't it be a good idea to also develop a vaccine for bats, which act as a reservoir for the virus?

  18. Re:Protect the children - but not from this or tha on Cameron Tells Pornography Websites To Block Access By Children Or Face Closure · · Score: 1

    I would comment a similar thing.
    I can't understand quite why some people are so worried teenagers may watch porn, or even see a boob on TV (even though every one sucked on one for 1 year), but will quite happily let prime time TV show extreme violence, either real (news) or fake (series or movies).
    If they are so worried that kids watching sex will repeat the acts, why they are not in a even more vicious "crusade" against all and any form violence on TV and internet?
    Up to 50 years ago I could understand people have this kind of attitude, when pretty much sex was synonymous of pregnancy and the parents of the kid (the girl's parents only usually) would bear the cost of it, but for decades we have quite good anti-conceptional methods that (when used properly, of course) can pretty much eliminate the risk of undesired pregnancy and greatly reduce transmission of STD.
    To me, if they want to legislate the content of porn site, it should be incentivizing use of condoms, pills, and other methods (facials are also good for pregnancy prevention hahaha).

  19. Precisely, 4G was suppose to be up to 1Gbps, cell providers couldn't even get 100Mbps (where I live it goes to maybe 20Mbps in a good day far from downtown) but started advertising as 4G. Anyone want to guess what will happen? they will upgrade to some HSUDPA+++ that will not get to 1Gbps even in a test lab and will still sell it as 5G, will update the data caps to 10Gb, if that much, and will double the price.... and we suckers will buy it because cat videos.

  20. Re:Is it just me on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Launches Its First Rocket · · Score: 1

    It a given rockets are, how we say.... phallus like, but this one just takes the cake.

    May jeff is opening a Amazon erotica store and is using the New Shepard as a covert ad.

  21. Re:Actually, it's worse than that. on Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all banks in Brazil use java in their web sites, for virtual keyboards, bar code verifiation, etc. I guess no more banking in chrome for a while.

  22. Re:Gray-market Nintendo smuggling on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 1

    This is the real reason, they (as others before them) close shop here because the offical cannot compete with smugglers and people buying offshore. They probably won't lose one single sale, as it will be promptly replaced by gray market produce, and at a cheaper price, great deal for the consumer, except there is no warranty, but would be no different than before as consumer right here are a far cry from what is practiced in the US.
    I don't by most of my electronics locally and so does anyone else, for example, iphone sales represent, IIRC, 0.4% of the phone market here, but I would say about a third of people I know owns one, none purchased here.

  23. Re: I can understand on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 2

    mod the parent up (sadly I have no more points)

    It is sad but true, we pay huge amounts of taxes (almost 35% of GDP this year) and have no quality in government services.
    This bureaucracy infects even the private organizations, that suppose to be more nimble than the publlic sector but are just as bad, because no one trusts their employees (rightly so, unfortunetly).
    And politicians don't want to change anything, because they get wealthy in the chaos, big companies also (only those can navigate the paperwork and "grease" the wheels), and the people either don't know or don't care... it's depressing.

  24. The real question is... on Quake On an Oscilloscope · · Score: 1

    Does it run crysis?

    I bet the water would have great waves.... :ducks:

  25. Re:Science on Deflating Claims That ESA Craft Has Spotted Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Actually, from what I recall, dark matter, and dark energy, are just place holders for stuff that generate effects that we can measure but yet do not have an explanation for, we have a few hypotesis, some more likely than others, but no proof for any of those yet.
    Basically we KNOW that our models are incomplete and that are stuff out there causing galaxies to rotate at a different speed than it supposed to be just by visible matter and that are other stuff making shit fly appart faster, but we don't have an actual clue of what they are.