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  1. Re:At least two other OSs will "optimize" Kaby Lak on Why Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen Will Only Be Optimized On Windows 10 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. The title implies only Windows 10 will be optimized, the summary (and TFA) more clearly says that Microsoft will be optimizing only Windows 10 for Kaby Lake.

  2. China bans news portals from original reporting on China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The article title confused me. Therefore, to summarize for anyone else wondering: the website operators may continue to report "news" but only "news" that the government gives to them through official channels. Website operators may not find and report on any other news.

  3. Re:Is it April 1st again already? on Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there an equivalent for the N64? All I can find that looks as user friendly as the NES Hi-Def board is a vaporware HDMI mod for the N64 named Ultra HDMI. There are other mods, but which one would I want to get?

  4. Re:Stadiums: No. Emergencies: Yes on AT&T Thinks Drones Can Fix Terrible Reception At Baseball Games, Music Concerts (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're right. This sounds like marketing and not something from their engineering department.

  5. Stadiums: No. Emergencies: Yes on AT&T Thinks Drones Can Fix Terrible Reception At Baseball Games, Music Concerts (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, how to handle large crowds at large, permanent venues? Drones?! Why not just install more permanent hardware?

    It makes sense for emergencies where you have a temporary need though.

  6. Re:What? on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Facebook is not even a significant percentage of the entire internet

    That appears to be incorrect:
    "[Facebook] drives a quarter of all web traffic."
    -http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/facebook-is-eating-the-internet/391766/

  7. How do you get any tighter? on Google To Step Up Smartphone Wars With Release Of Own Handset (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How does Google get any deeper, tighter, more control than they have already with their Nexus phones? What will they do in house then that they don't do now?

  8. Re:Read the fine print apple owns the rights to yo on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if not, mind citing the relevant parts?

  9. Re:Sales type 4: talk to the customer's fears on Tesla's Inherent Safety Saves Five Joyriding Teenagers In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the German news ( http://www.merkur.de/lokales/w... ), that is incorrect. It actually did roll over:

    Rollover of Tesla sports car / Uberschlag mit Tesla-Sportwagen
    The car came off the road and overturned / Daraufhin kam das Auto von der StraBe ab und uberschlug sich

    It may not look like it did, but that's because

    You can stack the equivalent of four Teslas on on one Tesla Model S without the roof breaking

    ( http://www.wired.com/2013/08/t... )

  10. Re:Dammit Jim, it's a body transplant on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    AND, it said right there in the Newsweek article that Dr. Robert J. White did the first (mostly?) successful head transplant on a monkey in 1970. Lots of precedent for this, surprisingly.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. The video doesn't show it "appearing", the video starts with it there. And it doesn't move or do anything interesting. Disappointing.

  12. Remember: It can be as simple as cutting the power on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that the exploit could be as simple as brute forcing the PIN and cutting the power after each unsuccessful attempt: http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/0...

    At the machine's rate of one PIN every 40 seconds, that's only about 111 hours to brute force a 4 digit PIN.

  13. That was my experience as well. EXCEPT I had successfully rescheduled it several times AND THEN one night, it started upgrading without warning me. IT threw me off without a restart notice, there was no countdown that you mentioned. I was very disappointed to lose what I had been writing in a web app hosted by my Uni caused by the sudden and unexpected restart.

  14. Home Users are the beta testers on Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator · · Score: 1

    I think it's because Microsoft's plan seems to be to use the home users as the beta testers for their "free" Windows 10, and they need lots of them to beta test it for their paying customers, which are businesses and enterprises.

  15. Re:Intel sucks at SSDs on Google-Backed SSD Endurance Research Shows MLC Flash As Reliable As SLC (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I have about 10 of them (120 GB and 180 GB Intel 530 Series SSDs) deployed in my environment in HP laptops and they've been great. They've been much more reliable than the failed half-height laptop HDDs they replaced.

  16. Exactly on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 3, Insightful

    His Tesla post was clearly a personal attack on Elon. Run the numbers and it's obvious. His BMW post used about fifty I statements (as in "I noticed..., "I feel...", etc.). It used about only eight BMW statements (as in "BMW insisted...", "BMW tried...", etc.)

    His Tesla post used about twenty five Elon statements (as in "Dear Elon, you should be ashamed...", "You should have...", etc.). But it used about only twenty two I statements ("I was excited...", "I was angry...", etc.)

    In other words, his Tesla post singled Elon out three times more than BMW in the BMW post. At the same time, he used "I feel" and similar statements only half as much. As you can see, Stewart's post was clearly much more about Elon the person ("You screwed up") than about Stewart the customer ("I drove...", "I feel...").

  17. Having had a miserable experience experimenting with WAMP stacks, I'd like to throw a LAMP stack on a laptop. What one would you (and/or other slashdotters) recommend?

  18. And that's OK with me as long as the ads don't infect my computer or take away any control of my computer.