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  1. Re:Easy to achieve on Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware · · Score: 4, Informative

    LOL, way to not even read the summary, Bing returned 500% more results containing links to infected sites, quite the opposite of what you are saying.

  2. Re:If it really knew where it was... on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then buy a Cadillac, several models have a HUD with turn by turn directions, speed, current audio selection, and optionally IR.

  3. Re:This is how you end up bankrupt on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    Ooops, calculation error, only $851k per day, still that's only two weeks to pay off that yacht.

  4. Re:This is how you end up bankrupt on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    He's worth $6.9B, at a very conservative 4.5% interest that throws off $3.88M per DAY, I think he can get 4 days worth of enjoyment out of his yacht...

  5. Re:Probably Bought with Laundered Tax Free Income on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think Boing sells their aircraft flying in international waters, over internal waters or in international airspace maybe.

  6. Re:While you are at it on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    No, that spectrum was leased from the public, the tv stations were given their spectrum in exchange for agreeing to certain things like universal access and serving the public good.

  7. Re:While you are at it on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    History, SyFy and TLC would all be fine:

    Prime-time Average Viewers (Live+SD) Week Ending April 7, 2013:


    1. Network (000s)
    2. USA 2718
    3. DSNY 2505
    4. A&E 1880
    5. HIST 1793
    6. TBSC 1758
    7. FOXN 1650
    8. TNT 1601
    9. ESPN 1388
    10. ADSM 1286
    11. HGTV 1198
    12. LIFE 1107
    13. FX 1089
    14. FOOD 1022
    15. AMC 1010
    16. SYFY 1005
    17. DISC 980
    18. NAN 963
    19. BRAV 957
    20. TRU 903
    21. SPK 883
    22. TLC 844
    23. CMDY 834
    24. APL 780
    25. MTV 771
    26. BET 754

    It would be the rest of the filler station that wouldn't make it.

  8. Re:While you are at it on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 2

    No, they should lose their license, we have MUCH better things we can do with that bandwidth than prop up a subscription business. The VHF band alone is 162MHz, enough for 8 LTE providers (maybe only 7 with guard bands) and penetrates buildings well.

  9. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    It costs roughly 18-22 percent of GDP to run the federal government (wars and recessions increase this, times of plenty should find it on the low end), if those that control 90+% of the wealth decrease their share of the payments then the money has to come from somewhere and that means everyone elses pocket. It's not sour grapes, it's cold hard reality.

  10. If they're talking about cellular networks I'm calling complete BS. Sprints new "Network Vision" equipment is a fraction of the size and uses a fraction of the power of the equipment it's replacing which was already WAY more efficient than the older analog network (200mW max transmit versus 5W). If they're talking WiFi do they really expect there to be 500% more WiFi installations?

  11. Re:Fakery on Fake Academic Journals Are a Very Real Problem · · Score: 1

    How do you prevent the equivalent of SEO spam where they setup their own web of journals and articles that all cross-reference each other?

  12. Re:vmware tools? on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    They aren't necessary, newer kernels have compatible drivers available. I'm not sure if RHEL has a version with the slipstreamed drivers yet or not but I do believe that CentOS does.

  13. Re:Think bigger on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    Because storing Hydrogen is a real bitch, storing it in a useful volume much more so.

  14. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 2

    Trucks will likely convert to natural gas, Berkshire Hathaway owned BNSF railroad has already started the conversion and most folks know Warren Buffet is not exactly dumb when it comes to economics.

  15. Re:Say "goodbye" to 64-bit builds of Opera... apk on WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code · · Score: 1

    Sweet, posting information about why a technical change is being made is now trolling on Slashdot, it really has gone downhill.

  16. Re:Say "goodbye" to 64-bit builds of Opera... apk on WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did you even bother to see why they are moving iframes to their own process? Yeah, it's all about ads, not about making a more secure product... I think this has infinitely more to do with Chromebook than it does to ad sales, in fact moving iframes to their own process would give any ad-in-iframe LESS visibility into your surfing which you would think would be the exact opposite of what an "evil" Google would want.

  17. Re:Clean It Up Boys on WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the BSD projects borrow fairly liberally from each other despite the fact that the code can rarely be copied and pasted.

  18. Sorry, the law doesn't work that way on Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry but even the government is getting their hand slapped over secret proceedings (see the recent rulings regarding national security letters), there's no way we're going to allow companies to hide their actions in a civil matter.

  19. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because it's the only other technology that supplies any appreciable percentage of global base load.

  20. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 3, Informative

    PV solar definitely creates more pollution per MWHr, wind would be site dependant but it's not like mining ore, smelting, etc all the pieces is pollution free plus it's not baseline and we're decades away from it being able to fill that role. Hydro is probably 80-90% tapped and we're actually tearing down hydro dams to try to help fish. Geothermal causes earthquakes and there aren't that many sites where it's economical.

  21. Re:Security issues? on A German Parking Garage Parks Your Car For You · · Score: 1

    It's easy to augment the data with onboard sensors, my moms Chrysler minivan already has radar for blindspot detection and the backup system detects the space through video analysis and overlays the vehicles footprint on the space so you can see if you'll fit, it's hardly a leap to integrate those two sensors into the self parking system.

  22. Re:Android is Linux, but not GNU/Linux on Sony Reveals More PS4 and Dual Shock 4 Details · · Score: 1

    There are easier ways to install Linux on Android.

  23. Re:+5 Bullshit! on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 2

    Actually hosted Exchange is one of the things that actually DOES work out to be cheaper for many organizations. You can't do a three node DAG + admin for less than what Office365 costs until you get to about 300 mailboxes. Hell we're at 900 mailboxes and it was close for us but the small max mailbox size and the fact that it was OpEx rather than CapEx killed it for us.

  24. Re:Where are the consumer passive cards? on AMD Reveals Radeon Sky Series For Cloud Gaming, Previews Radeon HD 7990 · · Score: 1

    Sure, but I can move a lot of CFM silently with 140mm fans compared to the little 60-80mm fans on the video cards.

  25. Re:Hammered on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 1

    It depends on if it's a glass or aluminium platter.