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  1. Re:more secure? on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 1

    When the physical security is breached, the customers at that one store with the rogue employee/thief is affected. When the records are online, you can have all the customers at many/all the stores are affected by a single breach.

  2. Re:Don't worry, NSA will still buy American on Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Then you don't deal with really large data with archival needs.

  3. Re:I don't think, they worry about non-US users on Hulu Blocks VPN Users · · Score: 1

    When someone is coming in through a VPN, you have no idea what their country of origin is, so how can you tell what license to show them?

    You can't.

  4. Re:Well on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    No. Tall chairs exist. We used them all the time at our benches in the research labs. Part of the time you stand, part of the time you sit. Whichever is comfortable and works with your current activity.

  5. Re:Easily solved premise on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize, with a good number of games, you can register your 'owened' CD registration number with steam, and then have your game available on your steam account on any computer you are at, without needing to dig out that CD again, right?

  6. Hours Played is a bad metric. on Steam's Most Popular Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 'Hours Played' is a horrible metric. I've left Civ V running for days when I play in the evening, but don't bother quitting when I go to bed and work in the morning, then come home and play for an hour or two in the evening. 6 hours real play, 72 recorded as 'time played'. Same for other games.

  7. Re:Yeah, probably a VGA screen on Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    >Why is capacitive touch so important

    Because most resistive screens sucked, that's why. I worked with quite a number of them, and yeah, sometimes they worked with a thumbnail, and sometimes they didn't. Not acceptable for use.

    We had these and a number of other tablets. If you wanted to actually get anything done, you used a stylus.

    http://www.fujitsu.com/hk/news...

  8. Hardware has advanced in 13 years. on Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There were a ton of internet devices a decade ago. I had drawers full of literature from a lot of companies making new ones. We wanted to use some badly for at-home patients for a research study. We didn't buy any. Why? They were expensive, and they sucked. There are reasons tablets didn't take off 13 years ago, and it had absolutely nothing to due with market-research.

  9. Re:Envy on Bill Gates Patents Detecting, Responding To "Glassholes" · · Score: 1

    I could afford one. Most folks working in good tech jobs could.

    I have no desire to wear one. I've got a smartphone when I want to do those types of things. I have no need to have a camera always recording things, and when I want to look at a screen, I generally want to be able to type into it, not speak into it. That just disturbs people near by. I'm more of the opinon of folks using mass transit in Japan. I don't want to hear your conversations. Even if it's a conversation with your tech.

    Not many people wear those stupid gimicky watches that link to your smartphone either, although those are even cheaper. Just because something is tech doesn't mean people want it.

  10. Re:The difference... on Bill Gates Patents Detecting, Responding To "Glassholes" · · Score: 1

    >The video starts with the patrons already attacking the Glasshole, so no, she started filming them after she was attacked.

    Unless she easily clipped out the inital part of the filming that would have made her look bad.

  11. Re:Why not go back to the old SP system and stop t on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    It wasn't broke, so they fixed it.

  12. Re:Technically if an NSA backdoor existed on First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors · · Score: 1

    No, you think you've found a possible security hole and you email your friend Mike and ask him to look over it and see what he thinks. The NSA intercepts the email, and immediatly sends you the security letter.

  13. Re:Why are you such an asshole? on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    Yes, OpenBSD's main projects make things like carp, pf, etc. That seems to be the focus, and how most users use OpenBSD systems. I'm not sure how the Firefox thing is a worry to most folks who use and trust OpenBSD for their use. I've had a lot of OpenBSD machines over the years, but I don't think I've installed X Window more than a couple times.

  14. Re:Astronomy: Astrology for Physicists on Oldest Known Star In the Universe Discovered · · Score: 2

    Look to the post above.

    Large stars have high interior pressure. Fusion rates are high. The stars burn out fast.

    Small stars have much lower internal pressure. Fusion rates are low. The stars can last a long, long, long time.

  15. Lorien? on Oldest Known Star In the Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    There is a planet circling it. It's name is Z'ha'dum. Where the First One lives.

  16. Re:So on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 1

    Nothing stops doctors around the world from prescribing the generic version of the old forumulation, of for you to ask your doctor for the generic of the old formulation.

    People with bad doctors, and that don't bother checking if a generic version of the drug is available get ripped off, but the rest of the people in the world can get along just fine.

  17. Re:Amazing how times *don't* change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    want/what

  18. Re:Amazing how times *don't* change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 4, Informative

    And in the last 25 years I've replaced about 200 failed drives. The Maxtors failed at about 5x the rate of the Seagates. That shows you want ancidotal evidence is worth.

    To know actual reliability, you need stats on the level of Google or Amazon, that can tally failures by the 10's of thousands.

  19. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Yep. The people who advocate this interface are consumers only. They don't produce anything on the computer where you are going to need to spend a lot of time typing, etc. I do work. I want a decent interface. That's not touch.

  20. Re:where do I sign? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    WHY DID YOU SHOW ME THIS!?!

    Do you know what you just did to my budget for the new year?

  21. Re:Current PCs are good enough. on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    And a significant fraction of those that aren't 'fast enough', will become 'fast enough' for what they are used for with simply a video card upgrade.

  22. Re:I support Mr. Mikko Hyppone on F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest · · Score: 1

    There's some dirt on top of one of your o's. You should shake the crumbs out of your keyboard.

  23. Re:Something on the resume of than classwork ... on DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security · · Score: 2
  24. Re:Robots on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    Just costly. But having a snafu like this at xmas will likely drive Amazon to spend more money quicker on it then they'd like, just for the reliability.

  25. Re:Kinda, sorta extortion. Maybe... on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is slightly ironic, because there are folks who do exactly the same thing with photos from bookings when you are arrested. He may end up on the page of one of those blackmailers. Are the cops going after them as well?