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  1. Re:Look at previous disasters on Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? · · Score: 2

    It depends on where you live.

    For a city person, the chances of a Gozilla attack or zombie apocalypse are, admittedly fairly remote.

    In remote areas prone to natural disasters, radio can be used effectively by emergency services to inform local residents. e.g. bushfires. though my state plans to use SMS.

  2. Slap in Samsung's face on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Galaxy Note uses a handwriting as a premium value-add.

    By Google making handwriting apps commonplace, any cheap Android OEM vendor can bundle phones with styluses.

  3. Re:I want to try it on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    For such a tiny developer base, writing drivers is a wasted effort if hardware has a Linux driver available under a compatible license.

    What they ought focus on is a compatibility sandbox to load an arbitrary Linux kernel module and only then write *native* drivers where it makes architectural sense for performance or security reasons.

  4. Re:Who wears a watch these days on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 1

    Amplifiers that go up to 11?

  5. Re:Alternatively on Microsoft Pushes For Public Education Funding While Avoiding State Taxes · · Score: 2

    How did that end up?

    Chavez is entombed and inflation was running at 69% as of December.

  6. Leaf to Home on The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid · · Score: 2

    Storing excess solar in one's car battery sounds like a plan. The leaf has a 24KW capacity with a 170km range. For a modest 2 person household that uses less than 10KW a day and typically drives a max of 60km in a single day in the suburbs, it makes sense.

    If the economics match up, of course and I'm sure they won't at least until the price of solar panels and electric cars falls drastically with economies-of-scale and/or subsidies. $AU40K for a hatchback (on Nissan's website) sounds excessive; these things aren't mass-sold in my country.

  7. Re:Android on a full burn on Dell Expands Intel RealSense Tablet Lineup With 10.5-Inch Venue 10 7000 2-in-1 · · Score: 1

    Too much heat. It's not a market where a noisy fan is going to win sales.

    (By comparison Apple's new fanless Macbook uses a Core M, rather than a more powerful CPU)

    But if you want to build your own, there's the android-x86 project for porting it to generic hardware...

  8. Android not Windows on Dell Expands Intel RealSense Tablet Lineup With 10.5-Inch Venue 10 7000 2-in-1 · · Score: 1

    Stream 7 is Windows 8, this machine is Android.

    Base models of iPad come with 16GB storage - the difference? This Dell machine comes with an SD slot.

  9. Re:As long as I don't have to press #1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    Wait 'til "Canadian Ted" Cruz becomes your president, overthrows the Castro regime and sends a twentieth of the island's population to the mainland as language teachers.

    2017: USA officially bilingual in English and Spanish - thence a compulsory subject! :)

  10. Re:Idiotic Nonsense on Why CSI: Cyber Matters · · Score: 1

    every crime show nowadays catches the bad guys using some mocked up screenshots of fake social networks where bad people lurk, be it arms dealers, assassins, people traffickers etc.

    Does CSI: Cyber bust out a Tor Browser and catch the bad guys on *actual* '.onion sites? That would add to the authenticity.

  11. Re:If I was Australia on Australian ISPs Must Hand Over Pirates' Info · · Score: 1

    Rupert owns Foxtel.

  12. Re:The cast on Why CSI: Cyber Matters · · Score: 1

    Gosh sorry, i forgot, having a teenage 3some with Tom Cruise's ex and Heath Ledger's girl.

    And nothing of significance since...

  13. The cast on Why CSI: Cyber Matters · · Score: 1

    Arquette isn't too bad but her supporting cast, my word they've scraped the bottom of the barrel.

    MacNicol - weirdo from Ally McBeal
    Van Der Beek - loser from Apartment 23
    Luke Perry - wrinkly old geezer from 90210

    If you had to assemble a line up of washed up 90s fogeys, this'd be it.

  14. Australia? on Google In Talks To Create International Roaming Network · · Score: 1

    Three used to be a mobile carrier brand here, but Hutchinson and Vodafone now jointly run a network under the 'Vodaphone' name.

    Vodafone runs a distant 3rd in terms of subscribers compared to the Telstra and Optus networks but might pick up a few thousand new users if the global roaming outside Australia was compelling.

  15. Re:See nothing that says this is x86 on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 2

    Atoms in tablets were never about performance. Your CPU has an astonishingly bad 105W TDP, which uses (at least) 10 times the power.

    Fanless computing in a small enclosure...

  16. Re: We need more architectures on IBM and OpenPower Could Mean a Fight With Intel For Chinese Server Market · · Score: 1

    Itanic was supposed to succeed both Alpha and i386 but then AMD came along with amd64?

  17. Re:We need more architectures on IBM and OpenPower Could Mean a Fight With Intel For Chinese Server Market · · Score: 2

    MIPS ain't extinct.

    They're about to enter the tablet market with a dual core SoC featuring a blazingly fast PowerVR GPU.

    Performance looked a tad sluggizh but that's possibly Spidermonkey needing fine tuning for MIPS

  18. Re:Why not? on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Both the Government (Liberal/National) and main opposition party (Labor) voted for the legislation.

    That's about 90% of the parliament wanting to throw us under a bus, so I'm not sure how voting for a non-niche party would have helped.

  19. Don't blame me. on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    I voted Greens.

  20. Re:Safe from the bearded evil ones on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Dude, 70 years ago - build a bridge.

  21. Re:Never going to happen on European Commission Proposes "Digital Single Market" and End To Geoblocking · · Score: 1

    Cheap European exports are shit. Caveat emptor!

    http://www.hospitalitymagazine...
    http://www.theglobalmail.org/f...
    http://ausfoodnews.com.au/2010...

    That's not to say quality olive oil isn't produced in Mediterranean countries but if the price is too good to be true, beware.

  22. Re:Why would on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 1

    Bigamy is legal?

  23. Re:As an Australian... on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 1

    How easy is it to emigrate? :)

    A lot of Aussies travel freely on student/working holiday visas but those dry up once you hit 30. Unless you have a European grandmother and can thus get residency, opportunities are limited, was my impression.

  24. Re:I must be reading it wrong on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 1

    show some respect, Hedy was a nerd AND a movie goddess.

    She's probably best recognised by geeks by her likeness (unauthorised) appearing on Corel software packaging.

  25. Re:my experience: on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 1

    *two* of them, you mean one wasn't plenty? :)