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  1. Re:Greedy Corporation on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Add to it: Who needs Windows 10? It's way too early after the release of the decently working Windows 7.

    Too frequent OS updates is just causing trouble for users.

  2. Re:Don't make illegal items, except for us... on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 4, Funny

    Akbar - It's a trap!

  3. Re:OSS needs technical writers more than coders on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 2

    Good documentation takes special skill - you have to write it in a way that's easy to understand as well as being advanced enough to be useful.

  4. A good patent is worth a lot. on Ask Slashdot: Security Certification For an Old Grad? · · Score: 1

    If the patent is really good it can be worth over 10 times the graduation score you had over 10 years ago.

    Add an up to date certification and a good CV and you may not have too much trouble getting a decent job unless you have a very disagreeable personality for a first impression.

    I did graduate on a college level back in '87 and the last 15 years nobody have had any concerns about what I did graduate with. It's only people that graduates with titles like "Doctor" in a certain area that can ride on that for the rest of their working life.

    Just show up at job interview in decent looking clothing without too many weird looking tattoos exposed. Not too strict, not too relaxed, one notch above what people usually wear to the workplace in question. Dressing too far above will cause the interviewer to feel uneasy.

  5. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    They will still be in orbit for a very long time, just not the intended orbit.

    And if they aren't manually shut down they can be active even when they have run out of fuel used to keep the position.

  6. Re:Bigger != Better on After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing · · Score: 1

    Yep, and taxes - that's money.

  7. Re:Bigger != Better on After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing · · Score: 0

    The trouble is that what the authorities did was to bring down the marketplace, not track the sellers - the money.

    The primary objective when shutting down crime is to follow the money and make the crime unprofitable. That's how they did cut down Al Capone.

  8. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Probably because in space there's no corrosion. Anywhere on earth you have chemical aging of material and corrosion to consider. You have some of it in space due to hard UV, but it takes longer.

  9. Re:Satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Geostationary satellites collects in orbit at some places quite some distance out, and can be there for a very long time. Moon pull and solar wind may impact them, but it can take a long time before they leave their positions.

    Satellites at the Lagrange points are probably going to stick around even longer.

  10. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    Not in Geostationary orbit. They will be there "forever", they may still work for a long time, but eventually debris impact and radiation will kill them.

  11. Re:Single shop most likely on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just a TOR exit node.

  12. Re:Which browser? on Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip · · Score: 1

    So you work with a browser based on Nexus?

    The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus.

  13. That wasn't a stupid mistake, it was purely intentional with malice.

    I wouldn't be surprised if that kid is a psychopath. An extensive mental analysis is necessary.

  14. Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatware on Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Chrome is added as bloatware to a lot of products which makes it hardly surprising that it gains an advantage in market percentage.

  15. Re:Real situation? on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    I agree here - the maintenance is probably interrupting the uptime of the system. Any airline that have an uptime of their aircraft for 248 days is likely to suffer other problems as well with their vessels, not only software glitches but also general wear issues.

  16. Re:They're not free on Should Developers Still Pay For Game Engines? · · Score: 1

    If you have a good component and charge a reasonable sum for it then it's a good way to ensure further development and still not limit the usage.

  17. Maybe they will move to court instead? on Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    Maybe the UK consider to take Microsoft to court in case something happens and sue them under product responsibility laws or something.

  18. Only in North America on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Other parts of the world will still have Aspartame as sweetener.

  19. Re:And they replaced it with? on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Arsenic is actually having a sweet taste.

  20. Google+ Failure on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google+ Failed because it did not provide any added value to the users.

    Too much integration of services is actually lowering the value, I don't see any value between which YouTube videos I have commented on and which searches I have performed.

    There is also a danger with too much integration - privacy matters, and if things are too integrated then it's a goldmine for anyone with malicious intent. If services are separated then each service needs to be targeted individually, which raises the stakes.

    Of course - Providers of integrated services are obviously able to do statistical analysis of information that's valuable for marketing purposes, so that the ads that you will see when reading your favorite sites without an adblocker will be targeted for your specific demographics. There's usually no point in offering Viagra to teenagers or trendy boots to people in their 60's.

    Maybe it's also a question of the personality of people, which means that you end up with different personalities:
      - Facebook, a heaven for narcissists, people with a selfie stick and similar.
      - Google, people that actually do things and in some cases show what they have done through YouTube.
      - LinkedIn, an address book and CV online for professionals.
      - Bing, a place for people unaware of technology and other offerings.
      - DuckDuckGo, a place for semi-paranoid people.
      - Tor, users that are either paranoid or performing illegal/semi-legal stuff.

    Due to the bell curve we of course see people mainly using Google as Bing and DuckDuckGo users from time to time. But people frequently using DuckDuckGo are less likely to be on Facebook.

    Also just ask yourself - do you use more than one browser? That's one way of breaking the statistics collectors to ensure that you show a different profile depending on what you do on the net. It's not a perfect safety, but it will shake up the statistics a bit and reduce the risk of cross-site reading of cookies trying to track your behavior. Personally I run Firefox, Opera and IE depending on what I do.

  21. Re:Let's test it! on Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes · · Score: 1

    Facebook is just a pool for the exhibitionists.

  22. Re:DAB/DAB+ is obsolete already on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 2

    AM is rare in Europe. There are a few, but mostly in central Europe.

  23. Re:DAB/DAB+ is obsolete already on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    The internet streaming services beats DAB+ as soon as you are at home.

  24. DAB/DAB+ is obsolete already on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 2

    In addition to this DAB/DAB+ is obsoleted by internet streaming services.

    Of course - it sucks to stream in a car, and the result may be that people won't be able to listen to radio in their cars at all and instead play their MP3s or whatever and miss out on traffic information and other important information.

    I just wait for FM to be turned off and then a major event to happen where information is sent on the DAB+ net where nobody listens and then we have a lot of people driving into a closed off area.

  25. Re:So much for long distance Listening on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 4, Informative

    AM is only used in a few areas in central Europe like Germany and France, but it's a dead end in Europe.