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  1. There's another BasilBrush on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Basil Brush Show

    Is that with or without the running defense of iOS?

    Boom boom.

  2. Re:Where's the Wickard provision? on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Among the papers that the United States signed, which specific provision requires it to prohibit private possession and use of cannabis products? And what provision for sanctions do these specific papers make?

  3. Re:what the hell? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd still need to buy one of each device in order to reverse engineer it. Where should I find the money for that?

  4. Where's the Wickard provision? on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    But what provision do these treaties have allowing for a ruling that commerce within a country shall be treated as international trade, analogous to Wickard v. Filburn?

  5. I graduated pre-Facebook on Facebook Cuts Off Competitor Prisma's API Access (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on an "I graduated and lost my .edu email address before there even was a Facebook" diet. Does that make me suspicious?

  6. The Fox says the hoodie was as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was. Is that the sort of "misinformation" the article is talking about?

  7. Also killing Stack Overflow on Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Is social media also killing Stack Overflow, which is what Jeff Atwood did before Discourse? Because I'd hate to have to go back to ExpertS-exChange.

  8. Re:Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 2

    It's illegal under international law for the United States to reschedule marijuana and THC as Schedule II or Schedule IV.

    Nothing is illegal unless there is a venue and someone with standing to sue. Where, and who?

  9. Re:Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    And Congress dropped the "it's a tax" pretense sometime after Wickard v. Filburn, a ruling by the Supreme Court that substantially all commerce is "among the several states".

  10. Re:Better Idea on Netflix Finally Gets Download Option (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the fault of the studios, not Netflix. To force a studio into something, Netflix would have to acquire the studio. Disney's market cap alone is thrice that of Netflix.

  11. Upgrading satellite lines is expensive on Netflix Finally Gets Download Option (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe your ISP could upgrade the lines to handle the bandwidth.

    It's kind of expensive for a satellite ISP to launch another satellite. A scheduled prefetch option would at least allow subscribers to make the most of the unmetered early mornings that satellite ISPs offer.

  12. Re:what the hell? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't replace the hardware. Write the drivers and make them work.

    Writing drivers needs two things: specs and time. Specs are easier said than done because several manufacturers have proven unwilling to disclose information required to build a driver to free software volunteers. Time is easier said than done because once I've finished the drivers, the user has already replaced one piece of incompatible hardware with another piece of incompatible hardware.

  13. Re:what the hell? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So how can I afford to replace their hardware that has no working Linux drivers with hardware that has working Linux drivers? I remember reading in replies to my comments in another recent discussion that Linux users deserve to pay extra for convenience. And how do I get all of their contacts to switch to applications compatible with Linux at least to the extent of not meeting the criteria for a Garbage rating in Wine AppDB?

    tl;dr: Far easier said than done. Or perhaps this was your point.

  14. There's also the convenience factor of even knowing that a particular laptop is Linux compatible in the first place.

  15. I hereby backpedal a bit:

    Windows wins in the market because a 13 inch laptop that comes with Windows 10 is far cheaper than a Dell XPS 13.

  16. Re:Why on earth on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If it matters, I have credits in games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy Advance. But that wasn't my point at all. My point is that being closed and proprietary is not a deal breaker in practice.

  17. Re: There's an app for that. on Buying Stuff On Your Phone Still Sucks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A small business might not be able to quickly afford the setup cost for Xamarin:

    • iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile devices on which to test
    • A Mac on which to run Xcode with which to send the app to an iPhone for testing
    • A copy of Windows in which to run Visual Studio with which to send the app to a Windows Mobile device for testing
    • A copy of Parallels in which to run Windows
    • Recruiter's fee to find someone experienced in Xamarin
    • Wages for the Xamarin developer, so as not to divert effort from maintaining the company's web presence
  18. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    A laptop is "mobile" in a sense but runs desktop apps. If you exclude laptops from "mobile", what evidence do you have that a "mobile" device with a clip-on keyboard is a close substitute for virtually all laptop use cases?

    "Server" is useless without an Internet connection. Should people A. buy only a home Internet connection and remain offline while riding the bus, B. buy only a cellular Internet connection and be limited to single digit GB/mo, or C. spend twice as much for both?

  19. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Desktops became laptops, became Smart Phones. The modern "desktop" is touch based running on your phone.

    And if I want to have more than one window open, I have to buy more phones. How is that an optimal situation?

  20. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The web won.

    Good luck doing anything detailed with "The web" while riding the bus or train. A smartphone has a screen too small to hold a useful amount of information, and I doubt most laptop owners own an aircard with a valid cellular data plan.

  21. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Just had a conversation with a colleague about how to configure Switches with a Chromebook, said it wasn't possible. I put the requirements together in 3 minutes. Give me the tools, I can do it. Tell me I can't, and I'll try to prove you wrong.

    Can someone destroy your tools by turning on your Chromebook and pressing Space Enter?

  22. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, there's a few apps that don't work but then there's Wine and virtualization.

    Neither work on an ARM device, and virtualization incurs operating system license costs.

  23. All maximized on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    How many distinct applications' windows can your phone show simultaneously on said external display?

  24. Bootstrapping capital to buy tools on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Doing serious, professional programming using a Raspberry Pi when you are better served by a i5 with 8G RAM is just... childish.

    On what do you do the programming in order to earn the money to buy the i5 with 8G RAM?

  25. Do it on a device on which the owner lacks root on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    > su -

    su: Authentication failure