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  1. Re:"a fraudulent religious organization" on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 1

    Oxfam was founded 70 years ago, at a time when the vast majority of the poluation would have identified as having some religion. Some of its founders where Quakers, the rest were presumably CoE, but the organisation itself has never had any religious affiliation. Simirly we wouldn't call the Samaritans a 'Male' charity becouse it was founded by a man, to me it dosn't seem to be a religious charity just becouse it happend to be founded by a vicar (who has since denounced it anyway).

  2. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 2

    Whist the arn't any actual guidelines for "Made in the USA", the proposed guidelines where 75% of costs. This means if 3rd-world labor is a 10th the price, then only 23% of the work actually needs to be done in the USA. Even that 23% can be done in American Samoa under very diffrent labour laws.

  3. Wow way to farm PageRank! on UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs · · Score: 1

    How obvious dose a hoax have to be?

  4. Re:Darknets on UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs · · Score: 1

    What if the plugin redirected your trafic though a remote anonymizing proxy?

  5. Re:Greenhouse gas emissions on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 1

    The are many many reasons why a gas tax to cut CO2 would be a sensible even if anthropogenic CO2 had no effects. The most obvious are the socio-political concerns around foreign sources of fossil fuel and the economic benefits of modernizing.
    Many people who a 'very worried' about CO2 believe we may be too late (already, or will be before anyone bothers to do anything). If this is the case then space travel may be our only hope, even if it contributes to the problem.

  6. Re:Bizarro World on Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Wow, they do indeed say exactly that. I am not really sure what to say, that quote is still so wildly misleading as to be classed as wrong in any sane reading.
    They are either so narrowly defining 'application' so as to exclude the native libraries the page is meant to be talking about (You can't write pure native apps, they have to have a Dalvik based UI). Or they are so broadly defining 'virtual machine' so as to include Linux user/process isolation, not just the Dalvik virtual machine. Either way seems idiotic.
    But whatever Google say the fact remains that if the NDK targeted Dalvik it wouldn't be architecture depended.

  7. Re:Bizarro World on Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    That page don't say that when I look at it?

    It dose confusingly say "Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine." without explicitly saying "NDK libraries do not". However all the talk about compiling for ARM and x86 makes it fairly clear you are not targeting a VM.
    Yes the native files are still packaged into the .apk, and I would not say then fundamentally changed the 'model'; but they do run outside the Dalvik VM.

  8. Re:Same apps on smaller screen does not work. on Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Write it in C or CPP! Both the iOS SDK's XCode and Android's NDK will happy compile these (as they are both based on GCC).
    You are only required to use Obj-C and Java for the UI.

  9. Re:Bizarro World on Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Dalvik isn't a JVM anyway (See Google-Oracle lawsuit), but 'Native' usually means written with the 'Native Developer Kit' i.e. native to Linux not native to Android.
    Both NDK code and any scripts are, as you say, run in unique user accounts but the security of these user accounts is enforced by Linux not anything Android specific.

  10. Re:Same apps on smaller screen does not work. on Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Why dose business logic need to interact with the kernel?
    You can already reuse all your business logic across all popular platforms?

  11. Re:has this been verified or is it bullcrap? on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is 100% verified bullcrap. The fact the voice-over SAYS his eyes glow like a cat's doesn't really cover up the fact the video shows they don't.
    How dose this stuff get on /.?

  12. Re:let's hope that... on AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips · · Score: 1

    Antitrust legislation (and rightly so).

  13. Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago on French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition · · Score: 2

    The point isn't that Google were giving it away free, which as you say is really the same as any other price. It is that the were selling it a huge loss to corner the market.

  14. Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 1

    I have no idea of the validity of either figure. But they are for different things. WSJ lists 'Earnings' which is normally before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. The poster emphasised NET profit, suggesting he had allowed for all of these.

  15. Re:So, treating 4000 people on Cystic Fibrosis Gene Correction Drug Approved by the FDA · · Score: 3

    Or given only 4% of 1 in 2000 need it, we could treat everyone if we all chipped in 2c a day.

  16. Re:Discontinued service on Dutch Supreme Court Sees Game Objects As Goods · · Score: 1

    They have your prior agreement in the terms and conditions.
       

  17. Is the an OS market at all? on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    Would Microsoft or Apple survive in any recognisable shape with just OS sales?
    OS's have always been lost-leaders, early on for hardware, later for other software and now for marketplaces and other services.

  18. Re:What If? on Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years · · Score: 1

    compared to the cost of the court case and two years in prison?

  19. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 on Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games · · Score: 1

    The main issue with cars is after you own 2-3 you run out of drive. The only hope they have of selling you more is if they take the old ones off your hands.
    With video-games you would be in the high hundreds before anyone had a storage issue.

  20. Re:Secure Boot is only for UEFI Executables on Will Secure Boot Cripple Linux Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    You can only select the Grub boot loader from the trusted environment. Once you have selected it then the security is only as good as Grub wants even if you then boot Windows. The point is you have the option of choosing the secure Windows loader and being sure that is what you are getting.

  21. Re:Is JavaScript really that nice?? on Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart · · Score: 1

    I would say it is more the fact is is called JAVAscript which makes people think it is a Java-like language, which actually it isn't.

  22. Re:Answer, in brief: on Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Not really, you are almost guaranteed three noble prizes and a very profitable lecture tour.
    Given the alternative is working to retain control from every organisation, government or otherwise, that is probably a much nicer life.

  23. Re:Define, please? on Ask Slashdot: Changing Career From OLTP To OLAP Dev · · Score: 3, Informative

    A=Analytical: the problems of creating useful reports from vast amounts of mainly read-only data.
    T=Transactional: the problems of highly concurrent read-write transactions.
    Wikipedia simply states that the terms are derived from each other, the techniques they embody are very different.
    If you only have a small amount of data and a small number of transactions then you don't care about the difference, but once you have a large number of one or other (or worse both) then it is a very significant distinction.

  24. PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2 on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    Whilst the captive-portal system where you login via a HTML form seems to be popular (perceived ease of use?), you can also do per-user password authentication at the WiFi level.
    All you need is a AP that supports EAP (or Enterprise) WPA (all good ones will), and to setup a RADIUS server (http://freeradius.org/) to handle the actual authentication.
    Personally this is much cleaner (AP isn't listed as unsecured, you don't have to wait for the redirection to the portal which is inevitable slow and doesn't work at all if you are using email not a web browser).

  25. Client GUI!= No GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What they actually recommended is running the GUI on the client.