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  1. There is a computer in your microwave oven.

    Do these "most commonly owned computers" that you mention offer general-purpose functionality when connected to an external monitor and paired to a Bluetooth keyboard, including the ability to take one tool's output and use it as another tool's input without needing each tool to be specifically aware of the other tools?

  2. Middle ground between user and ring 0: drivers on Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want application compatibility, not full system compatibility. Emulate 32 and 64 bit user mode instructions only.

    Do you foresee ability to plug a peripheral into one of these Snapdragon devices through a USB OTG or USB C adapter and run its device driver correctly?

  3. In particular since any emulator that focuses even slightly on performance uses dynamic compilation

    Except a lot of mass-market ARM platforms nowadays have W^X security policies that ban dynamic compilation.

  4. Developers wanted to recompile their x86 Windows desktop applications for the desktop on Windows RT. Microsoft refused, instead decreeing that the only desktop applications on Windows RT shall be File Explorer, IE, and Office.

  5. Re:Not a chance in hell on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because not everybody already carries a smartphone with a tethering-enabled data plan.

  6. Re: Just what Corporate Security needs... on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Then take your "NO SALE" and enjoy paying three times as much for a customized laptop without the "feature".

  7. Re:Hol. ly. Sheeeeeit. on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I can currently buy a data card from one of the cell carriers

    An external device sticks out the side of your laptop, making it something extra to lose or break. It also occupies one of the few USB ports.

    or I can tether my computer to my phone.

    For another thing, that requires already owning a smartphone and subscribing to a data plan. For another, only very recently have U.S. carriers begun to treat mobile hotspot use as a standard feature of cellular data plans. Previously, it was considered a breach and thus grounds for disconnection, causing the early termination fee to become due and payable immediately and the carrier to refuse to do further business with that subscriber.

  8. Free market not always desirable on Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nor is a free market necessarily desirable. A free market applied strictly leads to a tragedy of the commons, where the market produces all copies and negligible original works. But the government interference known as copyright isn't categorically better either, as its current lack of balance leads to perverse incentives producing an equally undesirable outcome: tragedy of the anti-commons.

  9. Overspecialization can lead to extinction on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the claim is that as the species becomes overspecialized toward reliance on medical technology, it faces a higher rate of extinction should a global catastrophe take medical technology away.

  10. Two all-beef patties, special sauce... on Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If I have to pay a different price (or have no access at all) just because I am traveling to a different country, that is pretty much the opposite of a free market.

    Is that true of all goods? On an exchange rate basis, a Big Mac sandwich costs different amounts in different countries. That's why The Economist uses the ingredients and labor in a Big Mac as a product basket to illustrate which countries' currencies are undervalued.

  11. Re:DMCA? on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which country is that that lacks an implementation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996? And how many refugees from the U.S. copyright regime can your country and its like-minded neighbor(s) absorb?

  12. Re:DMCA? on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Security testing, if performed for purposes other than to enable infringement, is not only explicitly exempt from the DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201(j)) but also likely explicitly permitted under the bug bounty program's terms.

  13. Re:Don't help them until they support homebrew on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This July, Nintendo offered devkits to individuals for the first time. See https://developer.nintendo.com...

  14. Re: Comments from others on both sides of moving i on Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How much does it cost to move, especially given land value differences between rural and urban areas?

  15. It's not about Secretary Clinton becoming President. At this point, the best outcome would be for her to endorse a moderate Republican that even those representatives and senators opposed to Mr. Trump can support.

  16. Windows can have the desktop and its fading relevance. Linux already has the phones, the supercomputers, the embedded devices, the tablets, the Internet

    What do people use to develop applications for the latter, or even to write articles for the latter?

  17. Windows isn't free; it's cheaper than free on Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Bash is free software (as in speech) on all platforms. But GNU/Linux itself is not free as in beer for those who need to replace an incompatible laptop with a compatible one. Furthermore, laptops warranted by their manufacturer for use with GNU/Linux, such as System76 or Dell XPS, tend to have a higher sticker price than entry-level laptops warranted for use with Windows 10.

  18. Re:planned for AFTER hillary's election on Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The only election that counts has not occurred. That's December 19, 2016, and it's not the foregone conclusion that some of Mr. Trump's supporters claim. For one thing, as Secretary Clinton's popular vote margin continues to rise, there remains the distinct possibility that close states will flip to her slate of electors. For another, eight electors have already announced intent not to vote for their party's nominee.

  19. Re:Airtime is still scarce on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're talking about per-user airtime. I'm talking about "only X songs will be played on the air in this city this week"

    Per-user airtime times the number of subscribers in a city equals per-city airtime.

    My point is that schools ban "disruptive" electronic devices from school property, meaning the only music source left is the FM radio on the bus.

  20. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Without the RIAA labels, more artists would be using the CD Baby route to Pandora Internet Radio.

  21. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the correction. Now what are your thoughts on the following claim?

    Labels affiliated with RIAA are already finding your "favorite" bands for you. If I go through your music collection, 99% of it will be music from RIAA affiliated labels (or whatever IFPI affiliated marketing/promotion entity is in your part of the planet).

  22. Re:Whine whine whine... on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't like the system, don't consume from it.

    How can I avoid the system when the local grocery store licenses the system's music to play over its speaker system?

    And how can I avoid the system when writing my own music? Is there an accepted way for a songwriter to avoid accidentally infringing the system's copyrights?

  23. Re:Apples and oranges on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    amongst the other videos they might watch that do not contain third party copyrighted music content

    Or do they? Even if a video is ostensibly 100 percent original, how does the composer of the video's background music know that he or she isn't subconsciously infringing one of the millions of copyrighted musical compositions in existence?

  24. Go away, you're not 21 on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I learned about bands through word of mouth and going to concerts, clubs, and bars.

    Then how are high school students and college underclassmen under age 21, for whom entering a bar or a club that serves alcohol is a crime, expected to learn about bands without help from labels affiliated with the RIAA?

  25. Airtime is still scarce on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    do kids still listen to the radio?

    Yes, if only in the bus or car while riding to or from state-mandated attendance at a public or accredited private school.

    Now there's no scarcity of airtime

    If there were "no scarcity of airtime", people wouldn't be complaining about monthly usage caps, and Google wouldn't have to introduce delta compression for Android application package updates.