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  1. Re:Icons are a waste of time on The Sketchbook of Susan Kare · · Score: 1

    >> I hope they haven't afflicted AZERTY keyboards on you.

    I remember the difficulty I had in sending an email from an AZERTY keyboard because no one told me about alt-right. Since english keyboards come with 2 shifts, 2 controls, and 2 alt keys we were never told some can do other things.

  2. Re:US, get out on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 1

    You must have slept through the parts where VP Joe Biden says they are investigating him to be charged under the Espionage Act. Not to mention the group of senators and one Sarah Palin making statements that he should be locked up in a US prison.

  3. Re:Part of a general pattern on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    Fukushima was built in the late 60s, when nuclear was the wave of the future. But rather than build new reactors and decommission old ones they run those same old reactors until they literally fall apart. Nuclear power construction has improved since then but the only people getting new, updated, clean reactors aren't Japan or the US. If anything Fukushima residents should be blaming TEPCO first and the government second. The former should have shut it down ages ago and the latter should be authorizing new plants to be built.

  4. Re:Last Resort on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    If this is the future of debate I'm really really disappointed.

    Hey when someone asks you to back your argument with citations the answer isn't, "do your own fucking research!"

  5. Re:Not Dead on Arrival on RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable · · Score: 2

    Besides the camera and lock switch boondoggle can you list what theses deficiences are in the original iPad. I do remember it being able to check email, read calendar, contacts, appstore, and a browser. That covers about 95% of what people want in a tablet.

    In RIMs case I can understand the calendar ommision but email? Really?

  6. Re:Forced to go streaming and loving it! on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    I am also living in the EU and I am really looking for a setup like this. Can you tell me how you've done this? What VPN are you using?

  7. Re:Arrogant Ignorance? on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    And this ladies and gentlemen is why metric never took hold in the US. Really stupid examples like this. A yard is a grouping of 3 feet, just like a dozen is a grouping of single items. But no one seriously converts a feet to miles. You might as well be converting seconds into years.

    A mile is, historically, 1000 steps.

  8. Re:Don't know why - but I like it on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    You are right, but the example you use to prove your point is so wrong. Wood is bought in standard sizes so lets say 2ft, 3ft or 4ft. You could go into the shop and ask them to cut specifically 37.36cm. They'll be happy to do it and charge you by the cut as well.

  9. Re:Because we can. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    220kPa. I only know this because my tires mark their optimal pressure. And they are written right next to each other.

    I use metrics and imperial interchangeably because I learned both and it's not that difficult, but YMMV. I prefer the weather in Fahrenheit, long distances in kilometers, short distances in feet. I cook in imperial but shop in metric. Some things I'll never use because they have useless day to day. ie, slugs, stones. The centimeter is too course and the milimeter is too fine. I'll use them if I have to but I prefer 1/2", 1/4", 1/8".

    In fact, the only argument most people that want the metric system is so you can measure better. But outside of school when was the last time any of us really measured something. You go to the store and you buy things by the bottle, the box, or the bag. They could put on the label a gallon, 4.5 liters, or 10 flugals and it wouldn't matter.

  10. Re:Only aluminum? on An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings · · Score: 1

    I did this when I was a kid. Besides the ka-boom it produced a nice ring of dead grass about 8 feet in diameter that only disappeared once I graduated highschool (~4 years). If you care at all about the environment please don't do this.

  11. Re:Princeton has very short leases. on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    A DHCP lease is like a real life contract. It's not like the phones weren't told the lease expires in an hour, it's part of the package. So the lease says this address is good for 3 hours and the phones ignore that, so who's at fault? Certainly not the DHCP server.

  12. Re:Were Apple right? on Flash On Android Fails To Impress · · Score: 1

    Choice is good, which is why you can choose a phone that supports Flash or not. You can also choose to develop a mobile site with or without Flash knowing that 50% of the mobile browsers won't see it at all.

    I honestly believe that if Apple decided to include flash in the iPhone then other, better suited, frameworks would be ignored. Most web developers stick to what they know and Flash has been a vise and a noose for far too long.

  13. Re:You have to learn to crawl, before you can walk on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I did not know that. My son was many things: a wiggler, a rider, a stander, and a walker, but he never crawled. And it wasn't because our floors were dirty. They were 150 year old wooden floors. They've seen every different type of flooring trend in that time (tiles, linoleum, carpet, etc) and are probably soaked in chemicals. Chemicals that I prefer he has as little contact as possible with.

  14. Re:What if he loses on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    Funny you bring up MLK considering it was him who invited the news cameras to show how fucked up the police were in the south. Before that when there was news of dead people at a civil rights protest people would chalk it up to uppity niggers. After the cameras arrived recording footage of people being assaulted at sit-ins, being attacked by dogs, or being so brutally beat they couldn't be identified only then did you get change.

  15. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They would try and get you with resisting arrest. So the entire pretense for arresting you is resisting arrest. Doesn't matter what the resistance is; vocal, thought, physical.

    There are other crazy laws on the books like this, like being drunk...in public.

  16. Re:Complete failure of the Obama administration. on Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't · · Score: 1

    So you are perfectly fine with, and encourage the CIA to go after and do harm to his family? If the videos and cables are worth that much that innocent people should be killed over it than I hope he releases all of it, let the people hold judgement about what the gov't is doing in our name.

  17. Re:get bigger displays on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ, I had a Sony GDM-something that was 21" and was excellent at 1600x1200. I got it for free because the company was throwing them out by the truckload and replacing them with Apple Cinema Displays. I would have taken 2 but they weighed a ton and I don't think my desk would take kindly to 300lbs resting on it. 21", even then, was a niche market all the players in it (Sony, NEC) handled that resolution with aplomb.

  18. Re:Phoenix ONE on The World's Largest Data Centers · · Score: 1

    This might not apply to everywhere, but most employees are offsite. The one I lived next to was basically most of the day. I would occassionally see a Black SUV speed out the docks every few months, but there was no company parking in the vicinity and no cars leaving the building so I assume except for the security guards no one was there.

    The guys I work with that own a few lanes at the local datacenter work downtown. But the datacenter is out by the airport. They don't go out there that often, it takes me a about a week for them to upload a few terabytes for me.

  19. Re:Is Miami a good place for a large data center? on The World's Largest Data Centers · · Score: 1

    The place is a something to really see. Ground floor is parking, entrance etc. Floor to ceiling is about 15 feet. Miami is about 4-5 feet above sea level. The entire thing is encased in a hurricane/bomb proof structure and designed to withstand galeforce winds. So you'd need a 20 foot storm surge (low pressure area that creates a bubble of water) before you got to to the area where servers are stored. I'm not even sure most servers are on the 2nd story. They could keep more equipment there and put server/switches/backups on the higherlevels.

  20. Ruined my view on The World's Largest Data Centers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to live right across the street from the Terramark NAP in downtown Miami. Then the fuckers put up 3 big satellite dishes on the roof and blocked my view of the bay. I'm not bitter but I used to get so much tail with that view. :-)

  21. Re:Handy for DEA... on Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter · · Score: 1

    You buy the LEDs for the specific frequencies you need, notably red and blue. All other colors are filtered out by the chlorophyll in the algae of the polyps.

    BTW our eyesight is more sensitive to green, so those other 2 colors would look dim to us if power was equal between RGB LEDs.

  22. Re:GPUs on Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    It's all about IP. It wouldn't be horribly difficult to put a GPU and CPU on the same die. BUT, Intel doesn't GPU manufacturers getting into the x86 business and GPU makers certainly aren't going to give Intel any of their technology and get cut out the market. Intels attempts at GPUs has been less than spectacular. Good enough for Word and Excel. Not good at modern gaming.

    So for the foreseeable future CPUs and GPUs will be treated as seperate entities.

  23. Re:Revenue Streams on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    The town I used to live in when water metering was put in place the justification was they needed a metric to know how much to charge for treatment. Acquiring the water was fairly cheap, it's the effluent that cost money. So if you used 100m^3 of water than that is what they charged you for. Previously, everyone used septic tanks. And the water was free. But environmental concerns eventually put them out of favor. Plus if you waste a lot of water it turned your property into swamp land. Some people did have basins to catch rainwater but, I think, the impact on revenue was miniscule so the city didn't care.

  24. Re:I Think I Know Why They Left Him Out on EU Privacy Chief Says ACTA Violates European Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could be correct. But what has come out of the meetings so far isn't very promising. Leaders are reluctant to share it with constituents because they know they could never pass it in its current form. If you want to see how secrecy can topple a legislative process look no further than the US healthcare bill. The much more public House version passed with what most people would be satisfied with. The extra secret Senate version was a travesty. Meetings with healthcare companies, no input from the public (who later on expressed their anger the only way they could by firing these idiots) and here we are today. A bill that cannot pass in its current form because no one likes it. The good news is the WH, senate, have finally realized the healthcare industry doesn't keep you in washington, people that vote do. Ignoring their questions long enough means you'll be out a job soon. ACTA is like that. Other, more meaningful, treaties (like child slavery, sex trafficking) have passed in less time with majority support. If ACTA was so great it wouldn't take half a decade to be in the "discussion" phase. But it's garbage, they know it and they know we know it.

  25. Re:BRING IT ON !! on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Yes, because dragging the entire PC down to the internet cafe instead of a 10€ USB key also makes sense.