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  1. Re:+-2000 deaths? on US Scientists Predict Long Battle Against Ebola · · Score: 1

    This will / has become a pandemic.

  2. Jurisdiction on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 1

    What happens in low Earth Orbit and above is none of their business

  3. Re:What's the angle? on HP Buys Cloud Provider, Gets Marten Mickos To Head Its Cloud Division · · Score: 1

    HP will find a way to make it compatible with IE 7 and below on Windows 7 32 bit, run-as Administrator, and absolutely nothing else.

  4. Re:Too late ... on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    At one point Windows Mobile had 43% smartphone market share. They threw it away.

  5. Oh wow on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You people are horrible.

  6. I hear these are headed for the premium end of the tablet market, with the usual unsat display resolution. I.E. not going to move units.

  7. Re:Dangerous virus on Scientists Found the Origin of the Ebola Outbreak · · Score: 2

    Five of the authors of this paper died of Ebola, including one who did not work with any patients or samples directly.

  8. Re:You're assuming.... on Scientists Found the Origin of the Ebola Outbreak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some medical workers are in fact spreading the disease.

  9. Re:This Just In! on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    This is what led the Grant County PUD to begin rolling out fiber to the home in 2000. Now this rural Washington county has gigabit fiber to the home at reasonable rates when much of Seattle is still stuck on DSL or Comcast level technology and rates.

  10. Re:ok, so, what now on Astronomers Find What May Be the Closest Exoplanet So Far · · Score: 1

    It took humans a million years to colonize the western hemisphere. Time is long.

  11. Re:Easy to lobby when funded by the taxpayer on Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any is too much.

  12. Re:perhaps now that he is gone they may have a cha on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 1

    Office is their last line of defence. But the walls will not hold. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

  13. Re:true reaon for leaving! on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 1

    When you are spending your $20B fortune in $2B chunks it goes pretty quick.

  14. Re: C on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 1

    Frankly, they can keep the source. Burn it with fire.

  15. Re:For Win9, MS should go back to Service Packs... on Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back · · Score: 0

    This is an example of why Microsoft's software ought not even be considered by a serious professional. It ticks all the boxes. Denial of service without user interaction. Security vulnerability with remote root potential. Workaround requires disclosed remote root potential. Recovery requires hands on the device.

    It is only going to get worse.

  16. Re:Upcoming fix? on Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back · · Score: 1

    If it machine checks its performance as a space heater will be slightly reduced, as the lack of spam zombie workload will leave it in an idle state.

  17. Re:They fired 30% of their testers on Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back · · Score: 1

    I suppose if you wanted a font of information about disastrous bugs marked "ship anyway" and unreported faults, you could do worse than a suddenly terminated tester.

  18. Re:I've learned the hard way on Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back · · Score: 1

    No, it has always been this way. And their internal documentation is also crap.

  19. Re:The phone monopolies will never go for it! on Groundwork Laid For Superfast Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 2

    You will be thrilled to know that way out in Ephrata, WA they have had gigabit fiber to the home for 14 years, and in gritty Tacoma just south Click! Network sells 100mbps Internet - both through the power utility. But in Seattle, no. Not you. Those power utilities were grandfathered in from before the Qwest/Comcast Protection Act was made a stare law. That is why internet technology in Washington is almost exactly backward: high speed in rural areas, dialup in Seattle and the capital.

    Incidentally, I caught a guy pulling underground fiber in my neighborhood recently and grilled him. Apparently we are finally scheduled for fiber to the home Real Soon Now. The guy said the company "wanted it done yesterday" and that they were definitely bringing fiber to the homes where my home is. Hopefully it will be with a decent company. I didn't recognize the name of the company but apparently they are going to lease it out anyway.

  20. Re:The suck, it burns .... on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 1

    Actually the Android apps available to the average user on Google Play far outstrip anything that has been available on Windows. By a factor of 3x. With a trusted repository too, which is something Windows never had.

  21. Re:The suck, it burns .... on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 1

    You might want to check out minimsft.blogspot.com

  22. Re:The suck, it burns .... on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 2

    The upgrades come in Google Play Services now, so OEMS and carriers can't block them. 85% of Android devices are updated by Google now.

  23. Re:Good Idea on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 1

    You can post on a forum from your mobile device over any available network.

  24. Re:The suck, it burns .... on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Android Linux moved a billion hardware units last year and this year surpassed the Windows all-time installed base. It is selling above 6x Windows. People using Android have never seen an update mangling this severe, but on Windows it seems a quarterly thing. This whole "Windows rules the world" thing is becoming absurd. Windows rules a small and shrinking backwater - the realm where people are willing to tolerate stuff like this.

  25. Re:Libraries are one thing Amazon is not on Why the Public Library Beats Amazon · · Score: 0

    As I was standing there before the shrine of knowledge completely stunned, another potential patron joined me. For half a minute we stared at the portal that would not open before he turned to me to ask: "They close?"

    "I guess so." I replied. We stood there a moment more, as if that would change things. And then we left.