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  1. Exclusive video editor? on Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed · · Score: 1

    ... that is redundant on the PS4 anyway.

    The summary says "the PC version will exclusively include a video editor to allow players to put together their own clips of in-game action" which isn't needed on the PS4 because it has its own video editor for putting together clips for sharing.

  2. Re:Redbox Instant on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    The real question is whether Verizon's other transits are equally saturated. For instance, does an HD Youtube video stutter as much on Verizon as a Netflix video? If not, and if Google isn't paying for a high-bandwidth direct link, then Verizon is lying here.

    Internet connections are resilient unless tampered with -- the Netflix data should get to the customer another way around if the direct link is full (such as through Level3 or another peer).

    Luckily, you can look some of this up right now: http://www.google.com/get/vide...

  3. Re:Redbox Instant on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be product tying? Why should the bandwidth a customer pays Verizon for in any way be tied to Verizon's other services?

    Verizon's services will be served faster simply by nature of being on Verizon's own network; there's no need to artificially hamper a competitor unless your own product is terrible.

  4. Re:Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 2

    When did Netflix become a monopoly? I can stream movies from Netflix, Video Unlimited (Sony), Amazon and there are others too.

    Are you confused because Netflix is so common?

  5. Re:Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    Your comment includes "because Netflix undersized it" when what you meant was "because Netflix and/or Verizon undersized and/or used a low quality port for it"

  6. Re:Too dangerous to keep digitally now? on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 1

    Except that the latter is very true and frequently needs saying.

  7. Re:No Good Deed Goes Unpunished on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 1

    BMO operates in the USA as well, and also in the Caribbean.

  8. Re:Hacked? on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 1

    Smart cards with a per-user pin code of course. They're easy to distribute, easy to revoke remotely and cheap.

  9. Re:Still relevant nowadays? on Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers · · Score: 2

    Both ATI and NVidia cards have quite decent functionality on Linux without those vendors' drivers.

  10. Re:Newness overload on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    An awful lot of those new features already exist on other devices; other handset makers only have to make up for the few that don't.

  11. Re:Don't understand the hype on Watch Dogs Released, DRM Troubles · · Score: 1

    Which phone do you have? My Xperia Z1 does the same 1080p that the PS4 puts out for the games I play ...

  12. There's plenty about teaching contracts that keeps bad teachers from being fired -- because sucking as a teacher isn't 'cause' for termination.

  13. Re:Does shower mean soap? on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    NB your household water contains enough chlorine to kill quite a few things ... you're not bathing in 'just water' any more if you live in a city.

  14. Re: "four straight weeks of no showers, no soap" on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    The better question is, have we reduced our stench so much as a society that we are simply over-sensitive to *any* scent now? If nobody used deodorants and soaps regularly, a few people would surely smell especially bad, but everyone else would simply smell 'normal' after we got used to it again.

  15. Re:Bathe for health on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    What nasty pathogens? The vast majority of us bathe or shower every day because the soap industry convinced us to half a century ago. There's almost no health benefit to bathing daily. Feel free to look that up.

  16. Re:Send it back.... on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    I've been complaining for years about TVs coming with speakers inside. I'd love to buy a decent sized TV without speakers for reduced weight and cost since I'll always be using something better for my audio anyway. I can't imagine why I'd want any of these third party features implemented in a viewing device; they belong in a separate cheap replaceable unit like a Roku or ChromeCast or whatever.

  17. Re:You're talking about the cloud here on OpenStack: the Open Source Cloud That Vendors Love and Users Are Ignoring · · Score: 1

    How's that any different from outsourcing your hardware and software support without using the cloud? Its not.

  18. Re:Always videos :( on Linux Sucks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Every time I rant about this somewhere (except maybe here https://plus.google.com/+Micha... ) people complain that I'm being "elitist" for wanting to read things that are basically text instead of listening to someone else do it.

  19. Re:So, my bet: on Report: YouTube Buying Twitch.tv For $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    More importantly, Twitch and Youtube currently offer mostly different services ... so this adds a new service to Google, it doesn't extend a current one.

  20. Re:Do not want on Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC · · Score: 1

    You know you can dial 911 without unlocking the phone, right?

  21. Re:So... cloud access? on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    Enable the full-disk encryption feature, validate there aren't any backdoors, and power off the phone so the next user has to enter a password no matter how they try to access your data.

    Sounds like Cyanogen is a good answer.

  22. Re:So... cloud access? on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    99% of software isn't as complicated as OpenSSL but thanks for the red herring ...

  23. Re:alt: guys who built iphone know how it works. on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    If that were true, there wouldn't be limitations on what data they can extract. Sounds like you're guessing.

  24. Re:No... on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    The author(s) of systemd are even worse than DJB for admitting that flaws are flaws. If we have to wait for the author to accept a flaw as a real problem, we might as well all just give up.

  25. Re:No... on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Precisely why some of us run critical services under Daemontools ... simple, clean, and reliable. Its logging concept is a vast improvement over syslog for local logging, and if you're not into it, it doesn't force you to use it at all.

    You want to make sure SSH is always running or trying to run? Put it in a /service ... it will start or at least keep trying.