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  1. Re:In the navy on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 1

    Finally, this generation will have something to buy at Military Surplus stores.

  2. Re:Sanity check on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1

    But who cares when you're trying to compare network sizes?

    They're pointing out that they have the power to shut off or control a large number of devices. Imagine if the GSM LTE protocol was worked such that anything on the network had to be capable of showing an ad from one of the telco's choosings?

    It might even work in their favor to be able to target someone repeatedly. It's not about how many eyeballs you get to it's how targeted can you make your ad to the eyeball it does get.

  3. Re:Awesome if true. on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    In the US. They're just as prevalent in Europe.

    Same with diesel engines.

  4. Re:They should have start a naming contest ... on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    I doubt anything the OpenBSD group develops is going to be under the GNU licenses.

  5. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    I had to have a 'talk' with counselors after I said I thought they had a decent plan. Then offered improvements on their design and how much easier it would be at my school (because of how they lock the doors) just to prevent this same thing from happening.

  6. Re:Social network API on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    You mean how everyone just uses Gmail for their mail now?

  7. Re:Who needs advertising when you can sell the com on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 2

    Clearly you don't think like facebook exces. You just charge $32. Tada, 1 year break even.

  8. Re:Holy cow, a decent idea! on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    The US is the only country that does that.

  9. Re:There used to be a buzz on Enlightenment E19 Pre-Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Login as >console and you should be dropped into a darwin environment.

  10. Re:Lego Mindstorms on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    Did they make big yellow things?

  11. Re:Standard practice... on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Blend 70,000 peanuts. Administer to 1,000 people.

  12. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why they teach LaTeX.

    If you want to spend 20% of your effort on formatting my school suggests using Word.

    If you want to spend 5% on your formatting and 95% on your content you use LaTeX.

  13. Re:Outstanding on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've run the ZFS kernel module for a while. No crashes or other issues.

  14. Re:The race is on on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    ... So download the app. Drive on the new road. Map updated.

  15. Re:Themostat on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at what normal multi-zone temp monitoring costs?

  16. Re:how does this work on on Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland · · Score: 2

    Then perhaps it should work like a group of united States. Where states are left up to their own vices for setting up laws and services. And if one state does something that another likes they can adopt it. Like Finland adopting Estonia's system. And the federal government is left to do little more than the EU does. Central currency, regulate trade between states, etc.

  17. Shoutcast? on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    And here I am still listening to all my shoutcast stations like I always have been. Some of the DJs don't speak English or do so with an accent. But as long as we're connected to Europe I can still stream music from them.

  18. Poka-Yoke on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Someone finally sat down and studied Yoka-yoke design principles.

  19. foobar2000 on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 1

    I switched to foobar2000 a long time ago as my light weight music player.

  20. Re:So this Arduino thing... on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: 1

    You use them where you'd use a microcontroller and use the Pi where you'd use a microprocessor.

    Because I don't want my gyrocopter worrying about what the ethernet driver is doing when it is balancing.

    The same reason cars use microcontrollers as their ECU and a RTOS.

  21. Re:How would it handle a large load? on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lower left corner.

    Subsidy

    Enter your household size and income to estimate your subsidy.

  22. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 2

    Seoul.

    What about Israel, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania and Latvia. All of which are in the top 10 too.

  23. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Low population density is what fucks us, even more than the above-mentioned which, while bad, can be fixed by law. You cannot shrink a landmass down to a more maintainable size.

    This is a horse shit excuse and I'm tired of hearing it. Why doesn't the Northeast megalopolis have cheap internet? It has a population density of 360 people/sq km

    How about all of the 'mega regions' of the US? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_States

    Why don't the east and west coasts have high speed rail, good cheap internet, etc.

    South Korea is on a peninsula with a country stuck in the 70s to the north. Yet they have great internet. Their population density isn't that much greater than the North East megalopolis and much closer than say Sweden, Norway, Finland. All of which also have great internet. Denmark density is a 1/3 of the north east and I was still getting 1 Gbps in my hotel.

  24. Re:Canonical might suck... on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Should go with launchd.

  25. * If your state didn't set up their own. on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 4, Informative

    Remember that this is only for people that live in states that tried to stall off the inevitable. I live in Kentucky and despite being a pretty red state we have a Democratic governor and he saw the writing on the wall. Rather than try and delay and delay it we have our own. Numerous other states did the same thing. I haven't heard anything about ours being down.