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  1. Re:So.. on Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    Generally a company just want to make money, that includes selling your data to people to harass you, harass you themselves or sell it cheap to psychos looking for good locations for a killing spree.

    In any case, the difference is only that with a corporation there is a middleman making a profit from the creepiness, other than that everything else is the same..

  2. Re:Vista and 7 have one major productivity feature on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    I can't even search local files. Searching for words I know the files in current directory contains, and the search will come up completely empty. All that pops up is a hint that I can enable indexing to make the search faster, but since the search is more than fast enough, just completely fucking broken, I don't think indexing will help. Making it actually search would help.

  3. Re:Vista and 7 have one major productivity feature on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    I thought it was just me, I have tried several time, but have so far never been able to find anything with Windows 7 either. What is wrong with it?

  4. Re:How much 2G equipment is out there? on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 1

    A lot. At least in Europe. GSM is considered a default. Mobile credit-card devices for bars and restaurants uses GSM, the devices hasn't changed in 10 years and they have no reason to. Also industrial montoring and any other devices designed to only send SMS's, and.. wait for it.. fire and burglary alarms. The later used to be fixed wire only, but the ones that are mobile uses GSM for better coverage and reliabilty.

  5. Re:RIP GSM on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so are they going to stop proving coverage in rural areas? Or maybe they already have skipped that. 3G has very short range and 4G pretty much has no range. Only 2G works for giving coverage to large thinly populated areas.

  6. Re:Not universally. on Patent and Copyright Wars Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    Same in Germany. Though I think here it was the supreme court that introduced the law, eventhough it violates the german consitution, violates human rights and that germany has codified law which means courts can not introduce new rules.

    Where does the idea come from anyway, why does people assume you will be help responsible for acts that you are innocent of? It seems like such a brain-fart. If someone steals your gun and kills someone, you will not be found guilty of murder, at most for not protecting your gun properly. But with IP-infringements people assume you will be responsible for the act, not accesory to the act or not securing your WiFi, but the act itself? What TV -program did I miss that brainwashed people to believe that?

  7. Re:Lesser of two evils on Patent and Copyright Wars Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    You seem assume they actually downloaded the stuff, why would you assume the trolls are right? Anyway it doesn't take that much to defend because there already is a case, and the other side has already lost and been ORDERED not to harass more people. Starting a case is an automatic win and will help disbar these guys.

  8. Re:Direct3D can do better on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to mention there is something nobody seems to mention and that is Windows 7 and 8 uses hardware acceleration for a lot of the desktop and last I checked Linux doesn't do that. Naturally if your GPU is doing other things its gonna take some away from gaming.

    Most linux desktops does that too, my desktop has been hardware accelarated around 6 years, not that it matters: I usually game fullscreen, and even when I do not, I rarely interact with BOTH the game and the desktop at the same time. And if it DID matter, it would be an improvements since the hardware accelerations would mean less resources are wasted by desktop, it it wasn't accelerated it would hurt other applications using the same hardware much more.

  9. Re:Direct3D can do better on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 1

    There should be other ways to solve them, to ensure that input is processed and the results displayed in 1-2/60ths of a second.

    There is, reduce the number of prerendered images from the default 3 to 2 or 1.

  10. Re:Is it true that Chinese girl pass all drug test on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because Chinese athletes beating US ones must be due to China having access to advanced future technology, because there is no way they could beat americans otherwise? No, wait, what?

  11. Re:The question is... on Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Predicts Intelligence Levels · · Score: 1

    By adulthood they are most corrolated with their social group and their education, how corrolated adopted children are does not mean the rest is due to biological influences.

  12. Re:The question is... on Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Predicts Intelligence Levels · · Score: 1

    I thought the twin studies have shown both: In pre-teenage years they are most correlated with their biological parents, in their teenage years with their adopted parents and their social groups. If they receive a short education their biological parents keep a strong corrolation, but as they receive a longer education this corrolation diminishes.

  13. Re:Nvidia rotten to the core on Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think they might have a culture of not listening. The chief maintainer of nvidia's official forums, posted after Linus outburst a series of post about how Linus complaints had cause "him and his family severe grief", and that Linus should shut up, and would not be welcome on the forum, and that anybody talking about his comments would be banned.

    Jesus christ, that guy needs serious help, but it might be an institutional problem. Maybe they are taught that any complaints about Nvidia are actually mortal stains on their honour as employees of Nvidia??

  14. Re:A view to a kill. on Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole · · Score: 1

    That used to be true, but I don't think I have owned a computer that didn't boot in VGA in almost 6 years. My latest laptop boots directly into some kind of SVGA and runs the bios in that. I had a screen that couldn't show lowres SVGA for some reason, and it became a bit of problem since the screen was blank until X loaded. I had to change grub to switch to text-mode, atleast that worked, but old text modes are not used by default anymore, not even by Debian.

  15. Re:KDE Wallet - Fail on KDE Announces 4.9 Releases · · Score: 1

    Thunar looks like a dumbed down version of an open file dialog, and probably has less features.

  16. Re:Activities? on KDE Announces 4.9 Releases · · Score: 1

    Neither can I yet. It doesn't fit very well with how I use a desktop, but it seems to make a lot more sense when used together with the Netbook, Mobile or Tablet Plasma interfaces, where you can make specialized home- or notification-screens. Once I get KDE on one of those devices, I will try again, the idea sounds promising there.

  17. Re:Seems like too few on KDE Announces 4.9 Releases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    KDE 5.0 is being worked on, but it is not called KDE 5.0, it is called KDE frameworks. One of the main points of KDE frameworks is get rid of the distinctions betwen Qt and KDE applications, so many KDE features are being ported into Qt now that it is under open governance, and the rest will be made to work well at Qt components that anyone can add to their application.

  18. Re:Biased Wired.com article on The Surprises In the Latest Apple V. Samsung Court Documents · · Score: 1

    Except there was no Sony to design to copy. That mock up is one 100% designed by apple.

    There was, the link is just above you. Take a look at the provided link of a Sony-Ericson prototype, and then look at the Apple mock-up. It is the exact same device changed only to being a touch device. So a sony design, modified by Apple according to ideas from Sony.

  19. Re:It's ugly on The Rise of the Junkweb and Why It's So Awesome · · Score: 1

    Actually... Alt was for the text-based browsers. It just happens to also be a good idea for the blind, especially now that people rarely use text-based browsers anymore.

  20. Re:And the U.S. law is YOUR law now too on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    Good point, most of the debt is actually held by pensions and banks inside the US, which would make defaulting politically unacceptable (because old people does most of the voting).

  21. Re:Not a planet on Hubble Discovers 5th Moon of Pluto · · Score: 1

    No, it won't slow down. Moons in orbits further out moves more slowly not by some magical force, but because they wouldn't have that orbit if they didn't have the exact necessary speed for it. A moon or satellite moving to an outer orbit will not slow down to a matching slower speed, it will be flung away. Similarly any moon or satellite moving to an inner orbit will not magically accelerate to a new stationary orbit, it will instead crash into the planet.

    Our moon is not a stable orbit, we are just lucky enough that it will fly away and not crash into us.

  22. Re:Stupid question on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    Besides QtJsonDb will beat them all! In a completely different game..

  23. Re:And the U.S. law is YOUR law now too on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    Sounds good in theory, right?

    The problem is that as long as you want to keep living about your means - you can not afford to default..

    And! If it is not already the case, soon if you want to live at all - you can not afford to default..

    Because with no production of your own, defaulting and being trade boycotted would leave you without anything at all.

    So, while leaving without paying could have been the greatest scam of the century some decades ago, you have already blown the possibility but stopping working yourself, and thereby making you 100% dependent on imports and goodwill from the people whose money you are loaning.

    They got you by the balls!

  24. Re:Vigilante circus. on NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims · · Score: 1

    That said, I don't see what heinous actions Nvidia has taken. Then again, I also have not read the article.

    Maybe just read the summery again. It is not an attack on NVidia, the entire quote you refer to explains that they intend to use the database they got to attack bad corporations. Not that NVidia is bad, just a stepping stone.

  25. Re:HTTP needs to be replaced altogether on Varnish Author Suggests SPDY Should Be Viewed As a Prototype · · Score: 1

    What overhead, where? You are confusing several issues. One of the reason SPDY sucks is because it still uses TCP like HTTP does. Using HTTP over SCTP would be a great improvement.

    The problem with not using TCP though is that you no longer get the well-supported encryption from TLS for free anymore.