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  1. Re:Going Public on Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public · · Score: 1

    And yet I can read my Amazon-sourced ebook on a Kindle, Android device, iOS device, Windows Phone, WindowsRT device and many others. How many devices could I read my ebook sourced from Apple, Nook, Kobo or Sony on?

    Amazon deserves to win the market.

  2. Re:Text adventure game on Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky · · Score: 1

    Frontiers core systems were not procedurally generated (there was even a map included in the box), but once you got off the map it was all procedural after that - you could literally go forever (or at least on the "exploring" save game I had I never reached the edge of the universe despite hyper jumping for a full day in one direction).

  3. Re:Hold on to your seats on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    Half of the type of things on there could be equally applied to every single industry in the US in a similar manner...

  4. Re:So what? on First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android · · Score: 1

    Isn't that an opinion stated as fact?

  5. Re:Revolutionary American weapons... on The Revolutionary American Weapons of War That Never Happened · · Score: 2

    That sounds remarkably like the Avrocar, which was a stupendous failure because it was impossible to control - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  6. Re:The Slashdot comment system on Mozilla Working On a New Website Comment System · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is that any different from Slashdot at any point over the past 15 years?

  7. Re:An alternate explanatio on Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors · · Score: 1

    Their security record is rubbish - I've had two occasions on which my Twitter account was compromised, both times an unknown (to me) device was added to my Twitter account without my knowledge and spam tweets were made. My Twitter password is unique to twitter, and I have only ever used it to log in from my mobile devices, so the likelihood of the breach being due to something my end is exceedingly small. Have a quick search around, this is a known issue - there is an unacknowledged problem with Twitters auth system for adding devices.

  8. Re:Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why is no one in these meetings asking the fecking obvious question - why were her emails only stored on the one hard disk? What happened to the server side store? The archives? The on site backups? The off site backups?

  9. Re: We should have a choice on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    Here, they wouldn't even designate the space outside our house as disabled (as my wife is), so they aren't going to designate it as electric only :)

  10. Re: We should have a choice on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 2

    What about those of us who cannot charge the vehicle at our own premises? On street parking, pavement between the road and the car, no guarantee of a parking space outside the house etc etc.

  11. Re:Yep. on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    Its been a big problem in Catholic schools for decades, well before free schools were created.

  12. Re:Art.12. The Universal Declaration of Human Righ on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 1

    Key word that you failed to highlight - "arbitrary". Changes the meaning of that sentence a *lot*.

  13. Re:Drones over the matches on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 1

    Its actually two or more, so I am correct in using it in that manner.

  14. Re:Microsoft Services on Microsoft To Launch Machine Learning Service · · Score: 1

    Microsoft also partner with McLaren F1 to produce the engine ECU :)

  15. Re:Drones over the matches on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 2

    Most high importance stadiums have cameras on wires, as you said you thought it was initially - but are you aware that they aren't just on wires that allow them to move forward and backward? These days they are connected to four wires (north, south, east and west), and can travel in all directions, can be lowered to the height of the pitch, raised to a given maximum height, and do all sorts of things (the wires have pulleys at each end, which lengthen or shorten the wire as required - work all 4 in tandem and you have 360 degree movement) - its no longer just one linear direction of travel.

    Thats probably what you saw, rather than a drone.

  16. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    Turn that feature off it you dont need it, its there to specifically make web browsing hard on a server...

  17. Re:Great on EU's Online Shoppers Get an Extended "Cooling Off Period" · · Score: 1

    In the UK insurance industry, this is very well regulated - the accepted norm is that you cannot make an assumption, so a checkbox which is neither checked nor unchecked when presented to the user is non-acceptable, with insurance companies moving to either a Yes/No radio set with neither options selected by default, or a drop down with no default value selected.

  18. Re:Chart rigging on EU's Online Shoppers Get an Extended "Cooling Off Period" · · Score: 2

    I have no doubt that the sale won't count until its non-returnable.

  19. Re:Chip & Pin on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 1

    When a vendor accepts a transaction via anything other than chip and pin, they take on significantly more responsibility for that transaction, and thus many vendors simply choose to decline those transactions.

  20. Re:Definitely a low flying rocket... on Cockpit Revealed For Bloodhound Supersonic Car · · Score: 4, Informative

    Racing cars try to dump down force when they don't need it - ie in straights and high speed corners. Down force is good for traction in low to medium speed corners, but it becomes a huge hindrance elsewhere. McLaren pioneered stalling the rear wing of their 2010 F1 car along the straights, giving them a couple of dozen extra MPH over their rivals, which makes all the difference when you are trying to pass them. This was later adopted by the FIA and became the Drag Reduction System.

    When the goal is "go fast in a straight line", a parallel goal is "eliminate drag", of which down force is a huge component.

  21. Re:I hope they get whatever they can for them on US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road · · Score: 2

    The government has never been against that, so it doesn't need 'legitimising' in that manner.

  22. Re:I hope they get whatever they can for them on US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road · · Score: 1

    Governments deal with foreign currency all the time, but as the other poster says, the IRS have already stated they consider BitCoin to be property rather than currency - and the government auctions property even more frequently than they auction foreign currency.

  23. Re:ooh ive played this game before. on Cable Companies Duped Community Groups Into Fighting Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cigarette company dupes consumers into thinking smoking is a right, not a crippling addiction

    Why can't it be both?

  24. Re:Click bait ? on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because its much much much larger than the other two companies mentioned, and the fact that Apple is directly named is of more interest to us tech geeks here on Slashdot than either Starbucks or Fiat...

  25. Re:How does it work? on Mayday Anti-PAC On Its Second Round of Funding · · Score: 2

    Do they have any legal recourse against candidates who are elected with their funding, only to split from them after the election?