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  1. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn you autocorrect. You ruined my sarcasm.

  2. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wifi isn't mobile data. But wifi is a strange concept to no. Americans. You just aren't advanced enough yet.

    Sarcasm aside the reasoning is simple. It is time consuming and expensive to star wire each house correctly. And most people don't do it correctly. The wiring shouldn't go into a closet, but to the basement or other location where utilities are. That way future owners or even yourself don't have to rewrite the home network just because you moved an office to a different room.

    Older homes it is because pulling cabling to where you need it is a difficult process. And the cables are delicate especially compared to Romex.

    Wifi is fast enough, and flexible enough and you need it anyways for your mobile devices.

  3. Re:Paper & Pen for Flexibility on Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    do not bury paper evidence. you burn it for firewood. if you burn it hot enough they can't recover anything.

  4. Re:No, a reminiscence of a guilty conscience on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 1

    Avatar broke ground in 3D filmography, and cgi/acting merging. The facial features of the navi, and the tech to do them was astounding. Now it is used in nearly every movie with actors and Cgi.

    Dead pool used it, hulk, avengers, Star Wars and hundreds of others. It was that much of a break through.
    As a story I thought it was cool, and the realistic future tech inside was well thought out. But it wasn't ground breaking. I watched it maybe three times.

  5. NO but it is as deep as a shallow one, with the max death around 750' and it sits only 50' above ocean level.

    There are a few lakes in the world that are deep like that, what they suffer form is the tools needed to explore the depths are too big for the boats that can fit on those lakes.

    this has only changed in recent years.

  6. Re: Nork Watch on US: North Korean Missile Launch a 'Catastrophic' Failure (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    North Korea doesn't need an objective. They are better armed than alqueda, and their leadership goes through child like hissy fits if they are not given enough attention. Seriously go through news history. If you are paying attention nothing will get said about North Korea for months and then they do something like this.

    Actually now that I think about maybe Kim is related to Kim(kardshian)

    So you give them a little attention, pretend they are adults and let them screw it up. Unlike a child you can't displine a country, especially one that has a parent that forgives everything(China).

    Though even China is starting to get tired of it they have to save face and so the charade goes on for another generation

  7. Re:What could go wrong with this? on Open Source Headset Enables New Mind-Controlled Devices (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    You can do that now with robotic mowers. The hard part is they don't do a good job.

    Personally I can't wait until I think porn and up pops
      the browser search.

  8. Re:Fetishization on 'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    True but that is the fault of the sound engineers who mixed it, the artists who approved it.

    It is possible to make a digital version of that vinyl that sounds better. It required talent and care. Two things the music industry greatly lacks.

  9. Re:Makes sense on Apple Expects Users To Replace Their iPhone, Apple Watch After Three Years · · Score: 1

    Cpu, gpu, ram do you not realize how much smartphone processors have changed in the last 5 years?

    Now I change my iPhone about every 3.5 years. I do that because the battery wears down, the screen starts losing pixels, I probably deopped it a couple of dozens times etc.

  10. Re:More important than the sonic boom on Shockwave Images Help NASA In Development of 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason the Concorde wasn't operational profitable was because it ws limited in routes. if it could fly, london, to newark, to la, to toyko, and then back to london it would have been better.

  11. Re:"Jobless claims" is not the same as unemployed on Jobless Claims In US Decline To Match Lowest Since 1973 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the population is aging fast right? Something like 30% of our population will be retired by 2025. That number should be closer to 10%. Otherwise you have to many people doing nothing but getting something from the government.

    When you calculate out work percentages just remember we have 90 million retired people draining resources out of the system. In the old days most people retired and died within 10 years. Now people retire and live for 20+ years.

  12. Re:Apple genuii on iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I bet current devices 2016 will still connect to the same wifi in 2038.

    Remember wifi 802.11b came out in 1999 which makes it 17 years old.
    2038 is only 22 years away. 801.11n and ac will still be around.

  13. Re:Raises one question.... on Architect of China's Great Firewall Embarrassed After Needing To Use VPN (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep the answers is both. The ruling party gets special treatment and China's great firewall is mostly that easy to bypass. China does keep blocking various vpns which makes it a moving goal.

  14. Re:Battery? on Samsung Receives Patent For Smart Contact Lenses (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not a saline battery running off of tears. or a nano heat engine running off the temperature difference between your eyes and the outside world?

  15. Re:Should be 'and' not 'or' on Countries That Use Tor Most Are Either Highly Repressive or Highly Liberal · · Score: 1

    Right wing is the same as conservative in the USA as the Republican Party has been a collation of values that were mostly similar. However. In the last 7 years in the USA that collation has been fracturing. The extremists (tea party) are pushing one direction while the religious are pulling and the fiscally moderates have to vote democrat as the other two side scare them.

    Trump is just the latest group of tea party. He is the end result of a political group that was voted in to do nothing to stop Obama at all costs and a group of voters who are fed up with politicians doing nothing even though that is what they were elected to do. In another 8 years the Republican Party as it existed will be gone. The GOP is turning into grumpy old people and they can't form a solid collation to argue against everyone else.

  16. except you can't remove the heat from inside the block. The reason cpu's are basically 2D flat pieces is so we can glue on cooling fins, and cool that bad boy down. until we figure out how to do micro liquid cooling, under pressure, and interweave that cooling into the chip's design we won't get real 3D stacks of processors.

    Though What we can do is create 4-6 cpu's stacked vertically around a coolant tube. but I believe that run a foul of pushing parts of the pct to far away from the rest of the components.

  17. Re:Put Lifetime in quotes on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 2

    That is exactly why home automation fails to take off. There have been dozens of standards all closed for communications. They start getting communications standardize they install cloud components. Which they cancel due to low usage.

    No one has a stable roll your own setup.

  18. Re:"just a decrypted version of data" on Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    oh you mean like how they can guess a 10 digit alpha numeric code, out of sequence? Locking in each as they get each digit correct?

    Those were my favorites. I could never figure out how the encryption scheme worked for those kinds of codes.

  19. Re:Screw Standing Armies. Just Nuke The Bastards. on US Army Hopes To Outfit Soldiers With Tiny Drones By 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    except it denies the resources those areas have to us.

    nukes are like permanently poisoning the well. it makes the region useless to us afterwards. look at Chernobyl. 30 years later it's resources are useless to us. another 200 years it will still be useless.

    You may not think it useful, but nuking the majority of easy access oil when the USA is still importing oil on a daily basis is a bad idea.

  20. Re: If ever a company and its people deserved to d on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    That's just it it isn't theft. I haven't taken anything away from you. You failed to provide me with a legal method to view your product and you under capitalized your selling. If you were not an idiot and properly sold your product I wouldn't have to find other means of acquiring it.

    In software pirates versions are stable and more functional than the broken dem laden versions.
    In movies you can't charge $50 a movie ticket and expect sales to be the same as when you charged $ 10 a ticket. Why are you charging me more for an HD version vs SD version of the same movie? You filmed it in HD the SD version cost more as it if to be cut down. But you charge more for the less work used to make the HD version.

    The same goes for DVD's. Vs on demand rentals.

    Piracy is an economic problem. If your product is suffering from piracy you are failing to captialize on potentional markets properly.

  21. Re:Why not on FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I can see this as a legitimate request though. The telephone company hands over this type of thing with line tap warrants all the time.

  22. Re:Definitely nothing to see here. on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You show it to them. Also you forgot it took the USA 20+ years to ease into democracy that is only because the leaders of our revolution didn't want the power of leaders, They wanted peace, and to control their own fate. But yes one can't give the gift of freedom, it has to be wanted by at least the majority of the population. You can't do it in one shot.

    Watching China's communist government switch over to democracy over the next century will be interesting. There is too much bureaucracy in china for it to go quickly, but they will do so as more and more bureaucrats want things done their way, er I mean the party way. Even the current purge, of rich billionaires, is just a step towards more and more freedom in China.

    The real question is after all the violence and as they get tired of hatred, and yes people get tired of fear and hate. What will the middle east turn into?

  23. Re:Definitely nothing to see here. on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would take longer than 10 years. Closer to 50. That's the trick with big social change you need to cycle through generations to make it stick. After all we are just coming to terms with the sexual and color rights revolution of the 60's.

    You have to let the generation who lead the revolution die of old age before you can say it was a success. That is why now is a great time to for the USA to get involved with Cuba. Raul and Fidel will be dead within the decade and their Cuba will die with them. Same goes to Russia. Russia hasn't really given democracy a chance yet. They haven't had the time and had too few leaders to make a change.

  24. Re:Haven't we all had enough of this shit? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The difference is k47 armed afghans and iraqis don't have a leadership. you can't cut off the snake's head to kill it. As there isn't a head to cut. Hitler killing himself ended world war II, what would have happened if the SS instead of surrendering became a gorilla fighting force that never gave up?

    The USA Army walked over the iraqi army like it wasn't there. however once the big army battles were done, then the real trouble began. Only idiots didn't see it coming.(yes they happened to be in washington DC at that time)

  25. Re:Obviously the FBI should keep quiet. on Slashdot Asks: Should FBI Reveal to Apple How to Unlock Terrorist's iPhone? (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Not true the FBI did not ever have a warrant for the data.

    The FBI had permission.

    Example, a police officer knocks on your door. You invite him inside. The officer sees your heroin needle. The officer can arrest you, because you gave him permission to search your home.

    Or

    A police officer knocks on your door. You kerp him outside, you tell the officer to come back with a warrant. The officer suspects from the conversation you have drugs, he gets a court order to search your home.

    I really wish everyone understood the difference. It matters a lot.

    The phone was owned by the county of San berdino. The county gave the FBI permission to access the phone .

    The only court order was the order trying to force apple to help unlock the phone.

    Now the FBI should be showing the contents of the phone to the judge, so the judge can determine the status of the cyber pathogen. ///s