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  1. Re:Obama's Record on Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action · · Score: 1

    That's Funny.

    I voted for GW twice because I liked his cavalier meddling. Someone needed to meddle on the behalf of the middle eastern people. Their own leaders were / are killing them and ruining the world for all.

    I voted for Barack because he was the best option and still is. He's very smart, maybe a little too smart.

    I'm still happy with my choices.

  2. Re:Why do we need this? on Display Makers To Use Quantum Dots For Efficiency and Color Depth · · Score: 2

    Apparently from all the other posts, the 16.7M colors we can get now do not overlap 100% with the 10M colors we can see. I believe this is called the Gamut range of colors being produced vs the Gamut we can see.

    Supposedly these light emitters can create a Gamut of light frequencies (colors) that overlaps more, thus can produce more colors (that we can see).

  3. Re:Don't use iOS on Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App · · Score: 1

    Ah but a developer did write for a different device, a much much less friendly device. Probably one with a several thousand dollar price tag. That company patented their work. Now it doesn't matter which other device a developer might code for, it will become the subject of a lawsuit.

    This is not an insightful comment, it's just a troll about Apple.

  4. Re:Easy on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    Are you saying Diablo 3 is not a good benchmark? It's been announced as Retina ready.

    http://i.joystiq.com/2012/06/11/diablo-3-updated-with-retina-display-support-for-next-generatio/

  5. Re:Retina Display is good and all, but... on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    That's been a rumor for nearly ten years now. It's not going to happen any time soon. Why? LCD/LED/OLED displays only look good at native resolution 2n multiples of native resolution. That is a simple fact. So it doesn't make any sense to have resolution independence in the UI when the only resolutions in use are 2x and 1/2x for a limited number of displays (which Apple controls to a large extent).

    BTW, you still get all the pixels so you can zoom in on an image and see more detail or zoom out and still have good detail.

    Think about it a little more and all will be clear.

  6. Re:BYOD... on Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy? · · Score: 1

    When identity is managed externally (eg cloud) to a domain controller, these problems become someone else's SLA nightmare (unless you are the cloud).

    People still have to log in. They just do so to one or many third party systems.

    Active Directory while convenient for help desk is really the biggest problem for network security. Get rid of it altogether then look at what's broken or unusable and solve those use cases. Shared drives with ACLs, shared auth tables. That's it and one of those is the number one problem.

  7. Re:GPS? on No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the latest hyped up excuse for poor driving. Driving is about making decisions, at 50mph. Teach people to make good decisions and the problem is solved.

    Sending a txt while going 5mph in a traffic jam is not going to kill anyone. Likewise while stopped at a red light. Ditto for holding up a map on a phone, depending on speed and congestion.

    There are many scenarios where using a smartphone while driving is no more riskier than driving in general.

    So judge the risk and put the phone, burger, drink, paper map, etc down if there is too much to be safe.

    Some teens/people are horrible at this. These same teens/people will likely have something else that causes their accident if not texting.

  8. Re:Managing + Tech Work = High Stress on Ask Slashdot: Comparing the Value of Skilled Admins vs. Contributing Supervisors · · Score: 1

    This is real.

    The other consideration. Are you given hiring / firing authority? If not then you are in an even harder role. Negotiating a good team to supervise is hard enough if you can hire on whom you need. Without it you are at the mercy of legacy and luck.

  9. Re:Get some offers on Ask Slashdot: Comparing the Value of Skilled Admins vs. Contributing Supervisors · · Score: 1

    Depends how good you are or more importantly how good they think you are.

    I've seen it go both ways. Upper management doesn't like precedents set in some cases. Other times they are all too happy to concede and will convince HR to make it happen.

    Look at your cards. Play your hand knowing the risk.

  10. Re:We need a paradigm shift on Which Fading Smartphone Company Is More Valuable To Microsoft, RIM Or Nokia? · · Score: 1

    Who had a "serious" use for a phone, smart or otherwise?

    It's a productivity booster at best. When you've got real work to do, sit down at a desk and get the work done.

  11. Re:Don't bet on it. on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    There is absolutely no evidence of a why. We delude ourselves into all kinds of fantasies. It's more fun that way. If there was a why we'd be done with it by now.

    No, we make up our own why as we go now. No need for an external reason. What is more rational than that? You can have the why be a delusional belief and I can have the why be the success of my family and species.

    I'll work from a foundation of knowledge gained through hard work and careful consideration by modern age professionals and you can work from a selection of incomplete and barely consistent allegories about shepherds in ancient Mesopotamia.

  12. Re:I agree on An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors? · · Score: 1

    Not in a social setting. The hero who saves all the young females by yelling run/danger/leopard becomes the center of attention and gets all kinds of benefits. Extra grooming, food treats, more sex and offspring.

    Pretty good deal if you ask me.

  13. Re:Won't ever have a decent debate... on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    Um, the UK has a massive number of evolution deniers.

    http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism?cat=science&type=article

    The rest of the world is a mixed bag as well.

    Even the most evolutionist heavy regions still have 20% or more who are not 100% in agreement with evolution.

    http://ncse.com/news/2011/04/polling-creationism-evolution-around-world-006634

  14. Re:Bigger Problem on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    Wow. None of that is accurate.

    We already have everything needed to stop climate change except the will to do so.

    We could have every house in the industrialized world on solar in five years.

    Nobody does it because it's cheaper to run on coal/gas/nuclear and the investment return in the same infrastructure has not been fully realized.

    It's a balancing act of economic gain now vs future debt to compensate for waiting.

    There is massive investment in all kinds of renewable energy and alternative fuel for devices in the last ten years. It will be a solved problem for my kids (pre-k).

  15. Re:why not teach the science consensus? on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    If not consensus then teach the history of it up to the present day (or as close as possible).

    All controversial topics have a history of people and events. This history includes scientific endeavor, social dialogue, political posturing, legal cases and business ventures.

    Include theory and postulates. Include counter-claims. With a preponderance of evidence the consensus view will emerge.

    If the students want to debate, have them debate and have each side represented by random selection. Grades are given for the best argument based on the learned history. There is no downside. Everyone learns about all material and if the best argument is counter to the consensus it's on the student, not the facts.

  16. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    The scientific method is not complicated.

    Students who question the dogma of science should be challenged to prove that the theorems and models do not hold up.

    If there is not enough time to prove evolution in the classroom then it's not a science class, it's a history class focused on scientific theory. If it's a history class then there is nothing to challenge.

    Stop teaching evolution in science class and start teaching it in history class. You can also teach religious history alongside it. Make sure everyone knows it is history about people and their accomplishments. Those are facts with no contention.

    Done and done.

  17. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    You've conveniently skipped past the part of history where religious schools were the ONLY schools and religious universities were the ONLY place science was practiced.

    The devil is in the details as usual.

  18. Re:Facebook is Meh on Why Facebook's Network Effects Are Overrated · · Score: 2

    You probably didn't spend enough money.

    Display ads or text ads definitely have a minimum impression count requirement to be effective, especially for an unknown brand.

    I'm sure FB displayed your ads but the customers may not have been receptive at that time. Just before a holiday would be best, when your demo is feeling lonely.

    That time spot is likely more expensive though.

    Or you could leave it up longer to establish familiarity. Unlike actual romance, it's not the first impression that works, it's the 3rd, 4rth or 5th.

  19. Re:Data ownership on Why Facebook's Network Effects Are Overrated · · Score: 1

    Pintrest is gaining on FB very quickly.

    It's doing so by being LESS than Facebook, not more.

    How do they counter that?

  20. Re:Still a bad guy on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 1

    The people of Iraq are better off now than in the past 50 years. Whatever the agenda may have been the end result is a net gain in freedom for the people of earth.

    Look at Saddam's son who would have followed him as the dictator there and would now be in power if Iraq had not been invaded. People tend to forget about how really evil that family was.

  21. Re:Still a bad guy on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Religion is the biggest excuse for killing not the biggest cause. The cause is always power. Power from owning land, resources, strategic positions or influence. The only other cause of killing is insanity, insanity as a result of disease, poverty, oppression, etc.

    Power or insanity.

    Religion brings them both together in one package, so its often cited as the cause.

  22. Re:Evolution as a Creation on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    It's called a hypothesis. The same kind that guides the search for dark matter, another possible explanation for a mystery we have no direct evidence for.

  23. Re:I gave up on Recaptcha and now use AreYouAHuman on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 2

    Ah but click on the "accessible" option and lookie lookie, an mp3 audio file with gibberish and a background voice. "enter the words you hear".

    So this exploit would at least prevent using that option.

    The game concept is pretty good though, they just need to make an accessible version.

  24. Re:A lot of words on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that prices from four years ago at a smaller establishment were 2£ - 4£ less? When the market was smaller and anyone selling eBooks was just trying to get any profits?

    Looks like you may have a man made of straw there.

  25. Re:the end of the advance? the end of the book tou on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    You want recommendations, join a club with like minded people from diverse backgrounds. Some sort of social network, possibly online. Relying on your local merchant to provide that by chance is a happy coincidence.

    It's not a valid reason to prop up a failing business model.