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  1. Reminds me of the joke on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of the joke, "My dick is 12 inchs long, but I don't use it as a rule"

  2. Re:Stop using Adobe Reader on Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF · · Score: 1

    And if you want a standalone app there's SumatraPDF - much faster and about 100 times less bloated

  3. App approval is automated on Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App · · Score: 2

    One thing that that article didn't mention was that App approvial is mostly automated. That's why so many garbage apps get in (Apps that just display a single jpeg, or Apps that are just repackaged game demos).

  4. Re:'Mobile' no more. on Apple A8X IPad Air 2 Processor Packs Triple-Core CPU, Hefty Graphics Punch · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there is no SPEC benchmark available for iOS.

  5. Re:I don't really see the point. on Apple A8X IPad Air 2 Processor Packs Triple-Core CPU, Hefty Graphics Punch · · Score: 1

    Well, no one is going to write graphically demanding games until the hardware capable of running them is available.

  6. Re:Okay, I'll bite on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Maybe he wanted to say "the past", but had a stroke at the last moment.

  7. Re:Compelling, but a mix still better... on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Better yet, how about sending dead people?
    Dead people eat even less food than women and let's face it they're going to end up dead anyway, so this just gets it over with quickly.

  8. Re:How on earth? on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 2

    Obviously, they should publish the full contract, just so slashdotters can give it their seal of approvial

  9. Re:That's absurd, aim your hate cannon elsewhere. on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    Of course, the data is not sold to thrid parties. It's used to monitor who is making negitive comments about Apple. Once Apple unleash their invincible robot army and takes over the world, these herectics will be sent to the labor camps.

  10. Re:TL;DR on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 2

    I think a better summery is "blogger creates click-bait post by sowing acute ancetodes about mechanical turk, etc. and a few technical looking graphs together to form a article that appears interesting, but really is just a bunch of waffle."

  11. Re:Power VR sucks on Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving · · Score: 1

    If you actually read the article you would see that the PowerVR GPU performs better than the Intel graphics

  12. Re:When an x86 Android Phone in the US on Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving · · Score: 1

    The reason why is because Intel's modems haven't been certified yet for American operators.

  13. Re:More nuclear waste? on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    No, I'm talking about fusion. The neutrons need to be slowed down for effective tritium breeding and that's done by a modifier (usually graphite)

  14. Re:More nuclear waste? on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, but the devil is in the details.
    A fusion rector needs a neutron multiplier and a neutron moderator, as well as the lithium breeding material. Even if the container material is somehow shielded, the moderator and multiplier materials will absorb neutrons becoming radioactive.

  15. Re:More nuclear waste? on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    Except you forget about the high energy neutrons. They are absorbed by the reactor walls, causing the containment vessel to become radioactive and require frequent replacement.

  16. worker wearing full protective gear on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how the virus can penetrate a hermetically sealed suit?

  17. Re:Possible sequence on Apple Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    then much later:
    8) Apple launches saphire glass based "death ray" weapon into orbit and unleashes invincible robot army

  18. Re: Missed opportunity on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    except X-Wife

  19. Re:10 Million? on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    I heard the microwave charging doesn't work too well

  20. Re:Still 28nm on NVIDIA Launches Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 GPUs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I doubt that.
    TSMC 20nm will be ready for GPUs a lot sooner than their 16nm process. The only reason there are no 20nm GPUs yet is because the initial ramp was fully booked out by Apple.
    Meanwhile, a comparison of Apple's 20nm A8 density versus 14nm Core M, indicates Intel's 14nm may not have such a density advantage as they claim: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum...

  21. More beer! on Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    The explaination is quite simple: more beer!
    If you buy the 16GB instead of the 64GB you have and extra $100 left over to spend on beer!

  22. This is bad for AMD on NVIDIA Launches Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 GPUs · · Score: 1

    The GTX 970 is as fast as AMD's flagship R9 290X, much more power efficient and is $170 cheaper. This means AMD will have to knock down prices by a huge amount and
    they are sort of depending on graphics revenue to break even, because of falling CPU marketshare.

  23. At $281, a bit expensive for a tablet CPU on First Intel 14nm Broadwell Core M Benchmarks Unveiled · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's more expensive than the total cost of many tablets
    http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/...

  24. Interesting article on Semiaccurate about this on NVIDIA Sues Qualcomm and Samsung Seeking To Ban Import of Samsung Phones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Previously, Nvidia said that it would license it's Kepler GPU cores to third parties. Semiaccurate maintains that this licensing program was in fact bogus and was conceived purely to justify future patent trolling activities. Semiaccurate also claims that
    Nvidia tried to "shakedown" Apple with the same patents and Apple subsequently gave the contract for the Mac Pro GPU to AMD as punishment.

  25. ISIS took a strange turn on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 2

    I must say ISIS took a turn that no one was expecting: after much success as a post-metal band and releasing 4 albums, they decided to re-emerge as Islamic terrorist group in Iraq.