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  1. Re:or they could just NOT do it on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 2

    They can't do that, the DMCA very clearly says that the provider must remove the infringing material, then the poster can challenge the takedown, failing to remove the content as requested removes their safe harbor and opens them up to copyright infringement claims with statutory damages of $100,000 per violation, never going to happen.

  2. Re:Oh really... on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're already the second largest Iaas provider after Amazon (EC2 vs Azure) and the second largest business Saas provider after Salesforce (SF vs Office365/Dynamics cloud). As they cloudify more of their offerings they'll be able to capture plenty of revenue from mobile, and since they'll actually be eating their own dogfood their tools for large customers should get better and more and more small customers will just host with them.

  3. Re:Just red tape? on Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry · · Score: 1

    The AP1000 is a worldwide design, and Westinghouse is going to use parts of the supply chain from China for plants around the world (like just about everything else more complicated than a bread box). My point was that they've managed to supply all of the parts for the Chinese facilities very close to on time so the delays are not with Westinghouse, they're with the US based construction contractors.

  4. Re:Just red tape? on Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that the infrastructure and supply paths for constructing nuclear plants has to be re-constituted as no plants have been built for quite some time.

    Not really, the first two AP1000 are basically finished in China, only about 9 months behind the original schedule whereas these US plants are looking to be about 4 years behind the original schedule. I have to assume it's the typical contractor issue where there's plenty of money to be made being part of the problem.

  5. Re:The drugs are terrible on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 2

    On Melatonin, this study says there is no decrease in testoserone production.

  6. Re:Are they "small government" republicans ? he he on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    When you're getting capital at below the rate of inflation you'd be stupid not to take the money so long as you have something useful to do with it.

  7. Re:Embrace or Expire? on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    So?

  8. Re:Thank GOD on Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets · · Score: 2

    I use HDMI from my tablet to TVs in hotel rooms when traveling.

  9. Re:Not news on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    Late 1970's tech vs 1960's SAM.

  10. Re:Not news on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    Sure, though somewhere on the net I've read a better technical explanation of how the modification was performed and how he Dani kept his equipment running despite intense NATO HARM coverage (basically he observed flight corridors, used short pulses of radar when he knew craft were along those corridors, and kept the main radar on the launcher off until the last second only using remote antennas that were positioned far enough from the launcher that a missile strike would not take out the crew or SAM)

  11. Not news on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 5, Informative

    The F117 that was lost in the Balkans NATO mission in 1999 was shot down by an S-125 modified to use longer wavelenths than the RAM paint on the aircraft would absorb. The issue has been known since then and it's very likely that the F22 and F35 low observability design characteristics have taken this into account as much as physics and material science will allow.

  12. Re:Why? on New SSL Server Rules Go Into Effect Nov. 1 · · Score: 1

    So you use a VM, marginal cost is near zero for a 4GB VM in todays world.

  13. Re:Avoiding Amazon Web Services? on Amazon's Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and Its Losses Swell · · Score: 2

    AWS started as a way to gain revenue from the spare capacity they had for cyber monday, but it's now ~200x the size of Amazon's actual needs and is its own revenue and profit center. If a new CEO wanted to at this point he could spin it off into a separate company with contracts to host services for Amazon. I'm honestly not sure what it would gain you other than access to a pile of capital to use elsewhere, but for the time being Amazon doesn't seem to be hurting for access to capital.

  14. Re:surpising on Amazon's Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and Its Losses Swell · · Score: 1

    They're not selling goods below cost for the most part, it's just that their expenses eclipse their earnings from sales. This is largely due to capital investments in projects and shipping centers.

  15. Re:surpising on Amazon's Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and Its Losses Swell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lol, they're less than 1.7% of the retail market, a quarter the size of Walmart and only twice the size of the flailing Sears. Heck, as a percentage of the market they're significantly smaller than the old Sears catalog business used to be.

  16. Re:Good on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 1

    You don't have to login to use a Chromebook, you can browse as a guest. As to your comment about compilers, MS offers Visual Studio Online Basic for free.

  17. Re:Good on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except Google doesn't track apps for education users.

  18. Good on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's probably a good thing since students shouldn't be static consumers of information and tablets are really subpar for most kinds of content creation. Add in the fact that a Chromebook costs half as much as even an ipad mini and overall the schools are probably making the rational choice.

  19. Re:Coming to a plane journey on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that the incident where they pressure washed the cages of the deceased animals thus flinging infected fluids all over the area?

  20. Re:I wonder how long it would've taken NASA? on SpaceX Releases Video of Falcon Rocket's Splashdown · · Score: 1

    Reducing cost through optimization of manufacturing can be more important than lots of original research, for instance the recent boom in photo-voltaic solar has much more to do with the plummeting $/W for panels made with decades old technology then it does with the constant stream of announcements that some group has eeked out .5% better efficiency out of cells made of unobtanium. I'm not saying that basic science research or materials science research should be halted, just that people who poo poo people making a better/cheaper widget just because it's not new and sparkly are missing the forest for the trees.

  21. Re:Why ODF? on UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents · · Score: 1

    ASCII is more than 30 years old, it's 51 years old, and I'd bet $10,000 that it will be readable by nearly every computer in another 51 years. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are also highly unlikely to be unreadable anytime during my lifetime since they've been in use for 21 years and are open standards with many real world implementations.

  22. Re:From their official page on SpaceX Releases Video of Falcon Rocket's Splashdown · · Score: 2

    You're probably thinking of floating platform as something that moves around like a boat, more likely it's going to be a converted deep sea oil platform like Broglio Space Centre or Sea Launch.

  23. Re:I wonder how long it would've taken NASA? on SpaceX Releases Video of Falcon Rocket's Splashdown · · Score: 1

    which we keep buying/making to prop up the ICBM industry with civilian dollars.

    More like to feed dollars to Utah as demanded by their powerful senior senator. (ATK's Thiokol unit is based on Utah and Hatch has been seated since 1977 and his predecessor served from 59-77)

  24. Re:a question.... on Oso Disaster Had Its Roots In Earlier Landslides · · Score: 1

    River birch survives just fine in my climate here in Northeastern Ohio, we average 1.5m of snowfall and regularly see -23C temperatures with dips about once a decade down to around -35C. We're at the extreme northern end of their range though so it would probably be a crap shoot as to whether it would grow.

  25. Re:a question.... on Oso Disaster Had Its Roots In Earlier Landslides · · Score: 1

    You could try river birch if you're subarctic.