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  1. Re:Could have told you that... on Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most · · Score: 1

    That's impossible. If you have a failing CPU, your app will crash as might the OS too. Software is nothing more than a binary set of instructions. It's up to the hardware to both execute instructions and store/read data properly. Built-in software based CRC checking will only get you so far. Failing hardware will ultimately trump any redundant code you have written.

  2. Re:Could have told you that... on Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most · · Score: 1

    Posted as AC obviously. Because your comment is based on so much ignorance of hardware that I dare say in fact you're trolling!

  3. Re:The Good Professor is Confused on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Because comfort increases productivity. While you can get used to the discomfort to a lesser extent, the human body will never function optimally in environmental extremes.

    Take Houston, TX and Shanghai China for example. Two of the largest cities with the highest heat and humidity index in the summer time. The white collar producing GDP wouldn't be where it's at without the invention of air conditioning.

    About the only major city with perfect outdoor weather year round is Los Angeles. Cars hardly age and the concept of using an AC unit in somewhat strange.

  4. Re:The Good Professor is Confused on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Only if there is war on cars. We know that to be the case in San Fran. Downtown Austin is looking to emulate them through preferential treatment to cyclists.

    It's fucking retarded. Try walking outside high noon in August in this city. Your face will melt off and your sneakers will turn into a puddle of gummy ooze.

  5. Now this I believe on Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. From Droids to Black Berry phones, I've long suspected faulty storage. When a phone become non-reponsive because you received or opened an email or installed a new app, chances are the pending writes are not going through like they should. Same goes for browsing the web. History and cache are constantly being read and written back to the phone. If the problem is with the storage, that too will effect performance and stability with shoddy flash memory.

  6. So the lesson is clear. When you find a security issue, don't say shit. Drop an anonymous tip if you must, just don't associate yourself with the discovery.

    They made their bug infested bed. Let them lay in it.

  7. Re:It's "legislation for rent" that costs jobs on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    The liberal independent artist and the conservative restaurant owner have one thing in common. They both want a free market. But guilds and conglomerates have other ideas. To purchase our government officials.

    Elections matter. Social hot button issues need to be shelved for the moment and instead focused on people who can actually run our country for the people. Not some limited selection of corrupted lobbyists. Another important thing is to be in constant communication with your local representatives. Stay on them like a bad rash. Remember, they work for us and not the other way around.

  8. Re:That's an eye-opener on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dick goes in, baby comes out. Why is that so difficult to teach? Unless your tubes are tied, birth control isn't 100% effective. So if daddy's little girl is going to have her brains fucked out, at the very least make sure she sees the guy she's screwing a potential father of her future baby.

  9. Re:Am I the first to call BS? on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you start getting leads on a divorce attorney in your area, you know you're really fucked now.

  10. Re:Yet again the editors deleted my submission on Deadly H5N1 Flu Studies To Stay Secret... For Now · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Submissions should state the fact and if possible, remain unbiased. Personal POVs should be voiced as a comment. It's perfectly fair game to submit and comment. Just don't do both during the submission process.

  11. Re:Even atom bomb are easy on Deadly H5N1 Flu Studies To Stay Secret... For Now · · Score: 1

    Or Acquiring it in small enough quantities multiple times from mutiple places. Once you have enough, you melt it all down into a larger piece.

    Iran could do this to make a bomb. Combine stuff bought from N. Korea and combine it with what they themselves have already created. Anyways, you get the idea.

  12. Re:What about fault diagnostics ? on Ford and Bug Labs Shipping OpenXC Beta Kits · · Score: 2

    From what I understand, there is the OBD2 standard, and then there proprietary extensions to it that can only be read or interpreted by the dealership for a particular make of car. These extensions are extras and non-critical I believe. But they do provide a tech advantage to help daignose a problem.

  13. Re:Get a job in Marketing on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Maybe. I thought the original submitter was trying to break the mold of coding like a robot. A sales engineer would provides some abstracted distance between groups all while providing a very important role that would put his experience to good use. Career-wise, it would be a lateral move.

  14. Re:Get a job in Marketing on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 2

    Or become a sales engineer. Effectively you become the liaison between a development team and the customer.

  15. Re:pour US $7 million? on DARPA Researches Avatar Surrogates · · Score: 1

    Really? And how are you going to power these things? An IronMan Arc generator? Their range and mobility will be limited for places like Afghanistan. Communications could be jammed with noise too. And lets assume war breaks out between major nations. That will go nuclear in a hurry. EMP and all. At the very least, communication satellites would be taken out by missiles as China has proven can be done.

    There. I saved America 7 million tax dollars right there. You can thank me later.

  16. Re:pour US $7 million? on DARPA Researches Avatar Surrogates · · Score: 1

    And this is why we are so broke. Frittering our money away on bullshit projects such as these. They add up. And to add insult to injury, once this become technologically feasible all previous findings and standards will be have to be scrapped and recreated yet again. Total waste.

  17. Re:You can't eliminate them on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 2

    So is the Nickel. We should just round to the nearest dime instead.

  18. Re:I know whats best for you because I am perfect on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, it was San Francisco (the most liberal city) that had the most oppressive nanny state laws. But don't let facts get in the way of your tiny world view.

  19. Re:Credit Card Services on FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls · · Score: 2

    At least twice a month, I always get called by 920-602-0879 on my cell stating that I've been pre-approved for debt consolidation or some such crap. When I called the number back, it says the mail box of "services" is full. Gee. Imagine that.

    I want to block these cocksuckers!

  20. Re:Ah, central planning. on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    You don't understand. Meth is a suicidal drug. Like a moth to a flame. The addition to pleasure yourself to death is Insatiable. Legalizing a cheap a pure medical grade of meth would only accelerates the suicidal process. One you cross over, forget trying to come back. Your life is effectively over.

    Might as well catch AIDs. That would be far better.

  21. Re:Ah, central planning. on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 2

    From an addiction standpoint, alcohol and weed are way outside the league of meth and heroin. So please don't delude yourself into thinking that if the stuff was cheap and plentiful everything would be ok and there would only be a casual use of it. It won't ever happen. That's because there's nothing casual about using meth or heroin.

    Yes, there is a huge difference between addicting and an addition so strong that you will stop at nothing to starve yourself while high 24/7. Now if you want to grant people that level of freedom as a god-given right, I can understand it. But personally, I don't like the idea of being an enabler of such behavior as we watch people destroy their own lives and that of their children through neglect.

  22. Re:Ah, central planning. on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/

    If you have the time, watch. That's some scary shit right there. I'm an apartment dweller myself. I've had an adjacent neighbor move in beside me once. He was extremely paranoid and my entire apartment complex smelled like paint thinner as though someone was spray painting a car inside a unit. Most likely doing the whole shake and bake thing I bet. It could have killed many people. Several neighbors and myself complained over the course of a week. He was soon gone and so was the problem. One of my friends at another complex had his neighbor's door kicked in during broad daylight. They usually team up with a handheld make shift welded battering ram and bust the door down. Otherwise they go for the window on 1st floor units. Smash and grab for only 20 seconds and they were gone. One of the neighbors asked was the hell was going on as they were leaving (now that's a pair of balls for you) and they told her to fuck off. The police came to file yet another report. Too late. I'm sure it ended up in a bottomless pit someplace only to be reviewed by the new cold-case rookie some 20 years later.

    Of all things, you criticize the one person staunchly in favor of the drug war who himself lost the will to stay clean. If that man can fall to addiction, it's a safe bet to assume anyone can. You don't have the freewill that you *think* you do. Chemicals do modify our behavior and a false perspective of what's truly important in life.

  23. Re:lockdown coming. on An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 · · Score: 1

    The convergence of OSX and iOS is nothing new. Just take a look at the Launch Pad in Lion. If the MacBook Air had a flip-able touch screen, you might have have an iPad now.

    One App store to rule them all. All five devices under one account that is.

  24. Re:It is like getting customer service... on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1

    Modern air travel is like being on a bus with wings. There was even idea floating around the industry of stand-up seating to cram even more people into a plane. The concept would work well for flights between Houston and Dallas where the average flight time is 40 minutes. But really? Now they want something closer to a flying subway car?

  25. Re:*blink* Eh? on Buy an Elite HP PC, Get Your Own Support Staffer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Too bad the Symantec Backup Exec support staff isn't US based too. Every time I've had to call them for any reason at all, it's always someone from India that answered the phone. Every fucking time!

    It's bad enough to have a server crash all while corrupting the RAID volume with it. It's even worse when you need help restoring data with support on the other end of the line you can barely understand. In another dimension and time, this would have been hilarious. Unfortunately, the joke is on me.

    Screw political correctness. The first company that bases an advertisement bashing their competitor for using outsourced tech support in India will be extremely successful as it will resonate with the average American. The ability to understand them is frustrating!