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  1. Competitor-funded "studies" on Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security · · Score: 1

    Competitor-funded "studies" automatically lack credibility. Nobody expects a study by google to come to any other conclusion than "firefox sucks, use Chrome."

  2. Re:I just don't see it on AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier · · Score: 1

    Yeah that is a sticky point with many people. I do have an Android phone, but I also don't live in a large city. There are maybe 20k people in our micropolitan area, and we do have HSPA+, so there is enough to go around.

    I don't know if it would work, but you could buy an unlocked phone on ebay and just put your sim card in it. I don't know if they would pick up on that and start charging you. I know Android phones allow you to turn the mobile network off altogether, so I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to have one and just use it on WiFi. It's stupid of them to force you to buy data when you don't want it.

  3. Re:Error in summary. on 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan · · Score: 1

    The summary writer was being excessively lazy at the expense of accuracy. That is not acceptable.

  4. Error in summary. on 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan · · Score: 1

    "This wave was capable of traveling long distances without losing power."

    No, it wasn't.

  5. I just don't see it on AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier · · Score: 1

    I signed up for Cingular way back in the day, and when AT&T bought them, my service got better, not worse. In all the years since that takeover, I've never had to call customer service for anything. Not once.

  6. Re:Whaaat? on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 0

    Yes, $27/hr is $54k/year on a standard 2000-hour year. This is rich to the democrats, and these wealthy individuals deserve to be punished for their success.

  7. My router is an ESXi box on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    I built an AMD E-350-based box to be my router. It runs ESXi 5.0 and has virtual machines for pfSense, an Ubuntu Server for a fileserver, and a couple of others.

    If you're going to have a PC running all the time for the fileserver mission, it makes some sense to run ESXi on it and have it serve other 24/7 missions as well.

  8. Re:Had the same problem - WNR3500L on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    Another vote for WNR3500L. The hardware is a little bit dated, but it works great with DD-WRT or TomatoVPN.

  9. So, in other words on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 0

    The new iPhone still won't have as large a screen or be as usable as my Android phone, which is a true 4G LTE phone as opposed to Apple's latest and greatest, cutting edge 3G phone that was obsolete 6 months before it was released.

    This isn't the phone you're looking for... you can go about your business... move along.

  10. Re:Not the state's business on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    The US Government has every right. An individual's educational level has a substantial effect on interstate commerce, and therefore falls under the purview of the United States government to regulate. /sarcasm

  11. Re:Fukushima proved nuclear cannot be made safe on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    Stupid comment of the day... seriously... You're an idiot.

  12. SVGA vs. DVI/HDMI on Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice · · Score: 1

    It's entirely possible their image is perfectly legitimate. If their "standard" card uses an analog SVGA connector and a, say, 100ft cable, and the "high end" card is connected with a digital transport of some kind, then I can see how the images might look a bit different...

    It's still misleading as hell, though..

  13. Re:No worries on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Ahh... one of our competitors... dang!

  14. Re:No worries on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Whose meters are you using, if you don't mind my asking? (I work for a smart meter manufacturer)

  15. Three-way price war? Really? on 3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle · · Score: 1

    A 3-way price war between iPad, Fire, and Nook, is like watching two lions and a chihuahua fighting over a zebra.

    Fire is $200.
    Nook is about the same.

    iPad is 2.5x either one... why bother even mentioning iPad? Oh that's right.. .this is slashdot and we have to pay homage to Steve Jobs' semen.

  16. 400,000 cycles is NOT "everlasting." on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can we please try to use language accurately?

  17. We dropped them and aren't going back on Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 · · Score: 1

    We dropped them not when they doubled our fees, but when they piled onto that the fact that we'd have to use two different user interfaces to interact with our services.

    Rather than put up with that added level of unnecessary complexity that had no benefit to us as users (and only to bean counters who wanted to keep the buckets separate solely to have two shells under which to hide money), we just turned them off.

    It doesn't matter that they've reversed on the latter. We're not going to go through the trouble of signing back up only to have the sword of damocles hanging over our heads - what would be the next huge inconvenience we'd be threatened with?

  18. Does rooting and CM7 get rid of it? on CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is the only question I have right now. It's only a minor process to root my phone and install CyanogenMod on it.

    Someone I was speaking with today was theorizing that there is actually a hypervisor layer running on smart phones, so even if you do root it, you're still not really getting raw access to the hardware - you're just rooting one VM, and this spyware runs in the hypervisor. I don't know how true this is, but I figure someone here knows.

  19. Re:The SEC matters, not the FCC... on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The merger would most certainly require FCC approval, and would not be able to be completed without it.

    You're right that the FCC's input to the SEC is unimportant, because the FCC does not need to explain itself. It can simply say "no" and that would be that.

  20. Re:It works for lessons on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    Does Groupon underwrite all of this insurance you're talking about, and is there a deductible for the seller if the deal becomes unprofitable?

    I'm concerned as an investor whether Groupon has 100% liability on this insurance or if they have an external underwriter and pay a more traditional premium.

    Oh wait, you meant "ensure," didn't you?

  21. PROOFREAD please on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 1

    It's TSMC, not TMSC.

    Thank you.

  22. Re:Don't they mean "least dense?" on Engineers Create World's Lightest Material · · Score: 1

    This is not a universally true statement. A specimen of the least dense solid will certainly be heavier than a specimen of the more dense solid if its volume is more than x times larger than that of the greater, where x is the ratio of the density of the greater to the density of the lesser.

  23. Re:Why not let them rot instead? on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 1

    They don't need a coercive detention. They can just charge the person with something related to terrorism and hold them indefinitely.

  24. Modern Media Story Development Process on The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Event happens
    2) Field reporter sends details to news office
    3) News office embellishes the story to add sensationalism, interest, and other compelling things
    4) Marketing office adds advertiser tie-ins and paid referral language
    5) Story is published
    6) ...
    7) Fact Checking

  25. Don't they mean "least dense?" on Engineers Create World's Lightest Material · · Score: 1

    Forgive me if this is redundant, but isn't lightness or heaviness dependent upon the mass of something and the strength of the gravitational field it happens to be shitting in?

    g/cc is not a unit of weight, right?