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  1. Re:Compared to whom? on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1&1 is fine with me. I've still got a free DEV package with unlimited domains (register for $6) and 300 MB of space. More than enough to host prototypes. Comes with sudo access so again works.

  2. Re:If not China or Russia... on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's already someone else. Intel, etc aren't American. They are a multinational. They barely pay American taxes. Most of their employees are in other countries.

    This is all a farce.

  3. Re:Shocked. on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    Dinner isn't always an event. Sometimes it's just people eating at the same table. What's wrong with browsing, etc. at dinner? It can be more enjoyable than forced conversation.

  4. Re:Shocked. on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    Wow - half hour a week.

    That's about how much I use my laptop now. I use my phone in its place as I can use it between being jumped on by kids, playing games, etc. whereas even a laptop requires too much commitment of time and space.

  5. Re:No on Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models · · Score: 1

    Those items are affordable. These batteries cost thousands. Can't just pick up a spare at the local auto supply.

    I suppose you could bring a generator and some gas/diesel.

  6. Why in a car? on In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar · · Score: 1

    Why not sell it for the home?

  7. Re:slashdot = fags on In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar · · Score: 1

    2 Short? I had no idea you were /. regular. And apparently you are into alternative energy vehicles.

  8. Re:Every time... on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    Client side presentation / GUI is the future. The trend is to build out data services and transaction handlers on the server but put the rest on the client. JavaScript templating merges the data with DOM markup. This should actually speed things up. Behaviors can be bound inline with the DOM rather than waiting for the browser to build the DOM tree from on page markup. I'm not talking Ajax, it can all be served up static, cached, synchronous with a REST URL that can be bookmarked.

    The direction is because maintaining separate server code for desktop/mobile/tablet web plus apps and feeds (Apis) is becoming too burdensome.

  9. Re:Wow, what a stupid post on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 0

    And how do you support Joe QA and Joe Developer who NEED the iPad on the network to support $10k in revenue daily?

    What's your policy there?

  10. Freeways on Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output · · Score: 2

    I'd still like to see all freeways lined on either side and in the middle with PV panels. Even better would be to put salt beds under to store the energy.

  11. Giant tent on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 1

    Just lay out a giant tent and capture it. The methane goes up right and there's nothing of value in the way (the tent will get covered in snow and animals can just cross like usual). Instead of having to drill for fuel just let it come to us.

  12. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    Just use spotlight search next time. It will take you right there, no UI nav needed.

  13. Re:Patents should be like trademarks on Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you make Slime inc. sign a serious NDA agreement before disclosing your trade secrets? Why not force them to place collateral into an escrow account as a way to collect if they choose to break the contract? If you are concerned that it will become he said/ she said then place your invention into an escrow system as well.

    Patents are not the only way to protect ideas and inventions.

  14. Re:Why now? on Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers · · Score: 1

    Apple will help companies upgrade apps. They will not provide backwards compatibility because that way lies the death of a system through the weight of its own baggage. It's why MS has been struggling so hard lately.

  15. Re:Well on Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast · · Score: 2

    There was no need or no inspiration or no funding? Any of these could easily keep an idea just an idea even if the tech and know how are available.

    That said you make good points regarding maintenance. However, there have been significant advances in materials to prevent sea life agglomeration. Additionally there are similar systems in use as reference so these are either non-issues or are accounted for in the ROI.

  16. Re:entirely missing the point on Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety · · Score: 1

    350kg would get squashed by any legacy car on the road. A typical mid sized SUV is 4000lbs / ~1800kg. Even a Smart Car is 740kg!

    Nobody is buying a 350kg vehicle with room for 4. It's either too dangerous or too expensive.

  17. Re:So what? on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. As of iOS5 you no longer need a PC or Mac for those devices.

  18. Re:Cringely again... on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    Could it be used as a mid point to mid point protocol such that the big backbones convert to sctp, use it to transmit between each other, attempt to transmit to ISPs - convert if the attempt fails. Same could be done by ISPs as the transition over from TCP to SCTP, attempt to transmit with conversion as a failure mode.

    The premise is to start the transition with a backup to convert.

    A possible efficiency would be to whitelist successful attempt targets, ISPs that accept SCTP for instance. These ISPs could also whitelist IP addresses or MAC addresses (with an expiration date if IP is used to avoid a scenario where an SCTP aware router is replaced with a non-aware router by an ignorant end user).

    This is a typical legacy system transition pattern. When enough legacy equipment is replaced you flip a switch and inform end users that they will have to upgrade if needed and provide lists of known good hardware to switch to.

  19. Re:Need on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    The only barriers at present are IP laws and condoned/enforced monopoly on ideas via the patent system. Get rid of patents and IP becomes a commodity.

  20. Re:I was thinking of something like this ... on RIM To Offer Multiplatform Device Management · · Score: 1

    Just FYI but my iPhone syncs personal email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, apps, music, photos and OS updates over the air. It also syncs (push) my work email, contacts, address book, calendar and notes over the air from Exchange.

    It's done all of the standard syncing for over two years now and the rest since iOS 5 came out.

    Other than setting up standard account info it's all 100% transparent to me. Stuff just shows up on the phone.

  21. Re:small linux partition on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    Why not just have a thin Linux OS run a VM to begin with and load up images on demand? Or run VM on an appliance and let them remote in as needed?

  22. Re:Use a screwdriver. on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    He said an automated solution. He'll need a few Lego mindstorm kits, a maker bot and a conveyor belt. Throw in a RaspberryPi kit for good measure.

    After about 160 hours of design, code and fabrication the system will remove and store drives from any of five standard PC configurations and insert a new fresh drive with a clean install.

    Once Thailand's flood waters have receded he can even do it economically.

  23. Re:I have problems with this on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    Ah but does it go both ways? Would you sit through Creationism 101 as required curriculum for a science degree (paying for it as part of tuition of course) with no objections?

  24. Re:rent... don't buy on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 2

    I follow this for all except kids movies/shows. They actually do watch them over and over and there are tons of shows.

  25. Re:let's see DRM, high cost of HDD's get in the wa on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Vocabulary tip: "Accept" means to receive and is commonly used to mean agrees with, "Except" means to exclude from a set. These are not interchangeable terms.