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  1. Re:watch you kids on FTC Files Suit Against Amazon For In-App Purchases · · Score: 1

    A more apt comparison would be, Little Billy go play in the ball pit at the fast food restaurant. The restaurant has put a button in the ball pit that charges the parents credit card without the parents approval when jumped on. And in that case you think it's a problem that the parents would want their money back...

  2. Re:Parental responsibility on FTC Files Suit Against Amazon For In-App Purchases · · Score: 2

    No one is going to argue that parents shouldn't be watching what their children do. However if the system is set up that you can spend $100 in 2 clicks in Playskool-like game without entering the account password, something is wrong. The whole point of the suit is that apps could buy from the app store from inside the application without entering the password or having any sort of Parental Control. Amazon knew that this was a problem and profited off of it. And you are calling the parents greedy...

  3. Re:All about trust on India's National Informatics Centre Forged Google SSL Certificates · · Score: 2

    Deliberately giving out bad certs and being hacked are a little different. But as your comment shows their reputation has suffered because of the breach even 3 years later.

  4. Re:Global Foundries doesn't want the chipfabs on IBM To Invest $3 Billion For Semiconductor Research · · Score: 1

    POWER7 (2010) is at 45nm which is what Nehalem (2008) was. POWER8 is just coming out now and is 22nm which matches the current size of Intel's. They are a little behind in lithography but definitely not a decade. A decade behind would be 90nm.

  5. Re:Typical on India's National Informatics Centre Forged Google SSL Certificates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole world is filled with people with dubious ethics. Some regions just have slightly more effective means of controlling them.

  6. Re:All about trust on India's National Informatics Centre Forged Google SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    Let's be honest the outrage in India over this is going to be small. The current furor is over people getting raped and hanged while defecating in the open. The US doesn't really have a leg to stand on with the Snowden revelations and espionage in Germany. Nor do too many people want them to be the Internet World Police. It's a complex world with every country playing the spying game. No one is really shocked when someone else gets caught.

    The only thing that will come out of this is lack of trust for some Indian certs, and hopefully some awareness that these attacks are happening.

  7. Re:Nice but on IBM To Invest $3 Billion For Semiconductor Research · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Snarky comments on Slashdot.

  8. All about trust on India's National Informatics Centre Forged Google SSL Certificates · · Score: 2

    The whole point of issuing certs is to be a trusted third party. No one is going accept a cert from them again. They should know better.

  9. Dumbed down summary on IBM To Invest $3 Billion For Semiconductor Research · · Score: 2

    This summary is targeted towards more of a layman's audience. I would imagine most Slashdot readers know that a transistor is an electrical component and that current technologies like Intel's Broadwell chips are at 14 nm. Really the title gives all the necessary information sans the tech jargon business fluff. I guess the question is if some of IBM's money is going to help ARM again.

  10. Re:WTFis "as much energy as well-thrown baseballs" on Physicists Spot Potential Source of 'Oh-My-God' Particles · · Score: 2

    This what I come to Slashdot for.

    I use to be a baseball player, then I took a skateboard to the elbow.

  11. Re:Slashdot fails at reporting. on Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time · · Score: 1

    I guess this just raises the question why we don't split the globe into nice even 24 zones and do what you did, set you working hours around a reasonable schedule based on the conditions you need. Somehow the unspoken rule is that you have to be to work from 7 to 9 and that what we have to set our time zones by...

    I think it would just be easier to have just one time and have your work schedule vary by your location. You could even change your work and sleep schedules how you want to during periods of less and more light based on what is rational.

  12. Re:How about a home brew dynamic DNS system? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 2

    I registered my domains through namecheap and have my DNS hosted there and they support Dynamic DNS. If your register doesn't support it on their default DNS servers, you'll need to transfer your DNS to someone who does support it.

  13. Re:Um, yeah on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    Not so oddly enough, they do make them.

    http://www.amazon.com/PortaPow...

  14. Re:Remind my why they are being sued on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Regional Lockouts, licensing agreements, and localized advertising. All has to do with the money.

  15. Enough for a niche on Amazon's Android Appstore Coming To BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    I know plenty of people who enjoy the Blackberry ecosystem, especially if they keep releasing a hard keyboard. If they release enterprise tie-in that is compatible with Exchange and with iOS and Android I think they can regain a decent share of the MDM and phone market. I doubt they will ever be as dominate but with proper management they could regain a large portion of their share.

  16. Re:GMOs are inherently risky on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    GMO bananas are probably the smallest risk of proliferation as they are not spread by seeds, but by deliberate cloning. And another commercial variety would be a good thing to take a little risk out of the Cavendish monoculture going the way of the Gros Michael.

  17. Re:AMD Open Source on Testing 65 Different GPUs On Linux With Open Source Drivers · · Score: 2

    One driver model change in 13 years... oh the shenanigans. Bash Windows for all the deserving reasons, but graphics drivers come on...

  18. Re:Fascinating, terrifying stuff is news on The Disappearing Universe · · Score: 1

    Responded on the wrong comment and wasn't logged in.

    Let's ignore all relativity and use kinematic equations
    vf= vi + a*t
    vf^2 = vi^2 + 2*a*d
    So assuming our inital velocity at earth is 0
    vf = a*t
    vf^2=2*a*d
    (a*t)^2 = 2*a*d
    a^2*t^2 = 2*a*d
    t^2 = 2*d/a
    Discarding negative time
    t = sqrt(2*d/a)
    So let's call the halfway point our final destination and double it in the end.
    2*t = 2*(sqrt(2*(1.216*10^22 m)/(9.81 m/s^2)))
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
    Now lets see how fast we'd have to be going
    vf = vi + a*t
    vf = 0 + (9.81 m/s^2)(2232 years)
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
    So 1151 times the speed of light.
    Good luck past the the speed of light, and all the of relativistic effects like Lorentz contraction...

  19. Re:wrong direction. on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 1

    If someone's willing to give the money to make it better, I won't complain. Good options are better than no options. I wish the best of luck to both teams.

  20. Re: NO. on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    Find me any new vaccines that have a double blind placebo study.
    Here is three from a simple google search. http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/...
    http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/...
    http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

    Yes, some new vaccines have their performance compared to existing vaccines for the same drug. The existing vaccines have been compared to placebos already... No need to test for placebo performance as it already been confirmed that the established drug is better than placebo, what you really care about is if the new drug is even better or why bother with the new one.

    Also find me some scientific studies that show and follow children who get multiple different combinations of vaccines over the course of 10-15 years.

    http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/...
    Check of the 15 sources on that paper. And a simple google search will give you way more than that...

  21. Re:Misinformation? on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    But what they did in the end was make you have a chance at shingles later in life. : (

  22. Re:Infectious diseases ... on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    Being vaccinated doesn't mean you still can't get the disease. Add to that people who can't get immunized. Think about an un-vaccinated nurse giving a premature baby whooping cough.

  23. Re:NO. on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 2

    The problem is that parents are making decisions for just their own children. Their children can make other vaccinated kids or immuno-comprimised sick, where if they hadn't those kids wouldn't of. So the parents are making a decision which effects the well being of more than their children. Now how do you hold them accountable or liable for taking a risk with other peoples children, that's an interesting ethical question.

    As far as your article goes, that information was based on a 8,000 responses on an anonymous web survey done by a homeopathic quack with no test controls and biased wording. It's about as far from science as you can go.

    http://scienceblogs.com/insole...

  24. "When did Slashdot turn into Pinterest?" on Virtual DVDs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    "When did Slashdot turn into Pinterest?"

    Or someone's blog...

  25. Re:so on The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public · · Score: 1

    People like to pay for convenience.