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  1. Re:UK and TV rader? LOL on Britain Could Switch Off Airport Radar and Release 5G Spectrum · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure what your point is supposed to be. Are you under the impression that there is insufficient TV broadcast intensity for passive radar to work?

  2. Re:microUSB mass storage on Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'? · · Score: 1

    Expect something more like Magsafe. The "pebble" watch uses a magnetically-gripped contact charger because it lets them seal the case of the phone, making it water proof.

  3. Re:So he is not using the UN, just the UN on Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul Not Using the State or UN to Control RonPaul.Com · · Score: 1

    I don't think people object to the use of an appointed thirdparty to arbitrate a dispute and ensure fair and equitable trade and protection of rights. People object to the fact that Ron Paul's stance is against the existence of bodies intended to ensure fair trade.

  4. Re:So how come only Google was sued? on Do Not Track Ineffective and Dangerous, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    Google was sued because Google are the ones who breached privacy in that instance, obviously. Do you really believe that it should only be possible to prosecute a crime if you can round up every single person who has committed a particular offense?

  5. Re:trivial, 99% effective fix on Do Not Track Ineffective and Dangerous, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    Blocking thirdparty cookies is also worth a crack, although as Google demonstrated, that can be worked around.

  6. Re:Horrible Analogy on Obama Proposes 'Meaningful Progress' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    He was that guy from V for Vendetta who tried to blow up the Death Star.

  7. Re:Circular Reference on Obama Proposes 'Meaningful Progress' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that there's a surplus of minimum-wage employees and the businesses could fire a third of them to offset a 50% pay rise for the rest. In my experience minimum-wage jobs are usually of the sort where there you've got to do the work of two people in half the time, and if someone phones in sick the entire operation comes crashing down.

  8. Re:"rendering ending"? on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 1

    I'm quite impressed that it took this long for someone to bother commenting about it.

  9. Re:What do they consider a user? on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 1

    It was really, really handy back on the old 320x240 Nokias because in addition to bringing pages down to a size where the browser wouldn't choke, they reflowed the text into screen-width columns.

  10. Re:Does this apply to Windows on RHEL 6 No Longer Supported By Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    Ubiquity is not a good business goal in and of itself. If they wanted ubiquity over everything else they would pay people to use it, which is effectively what they'd have to do if RHEL users are a net loss.

  11. Re:Monoculture, here we come (again) on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 2

    The open source community builds a tool that's so good everone adopts it? Unacceptable!

  12. Re:Does this apply to Windows on RHEL 6 No Longer Supported By Google Chrome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, I dare say it's simple mathematics. If the number of users of an OS, multiplied by the Chrome browser share of that OS, multiplied by the revenue per Chrome user on that OS, is less than the cost of continued support, then it's a simple decision to discontinue support.

  13. Re:How Does Germany Beat Chinese Pricing? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    Alas, yes.

  14. Re:How Does Germany Beat Chinese Pricing? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    True, but Germany's still 40% of the entire PV market. I can't see them switching over to a net importer for quite some time.

  15. Re:No problem here on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    Given that it's two specific service providers that are having issues, I wonder if there's a bug in the way their service configurations are handled in iOS 6.1.

  16. Re:Story Subject Fail on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 1

    You seem to be under the impression that it was people visiting sites from links on Facebook that had an issue. If you visited any of the sites, directly, while logged into Facebook you were affected.

  17. Re:It Has Its Ups and Downs on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 2

    If Facebook sold that information you'd have a point, but as it's not disclosed in any of their privacy literature that'd be a monstrous and legally actionable breach of their information protection obligations.

  18. Re:How Does Germany Beat Chinese Pricing? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually Germany is one of the largest players in PV, both research and manufacturing.

  19. Re:Why? on Why Google Needs To Launch the Chromebook Pixel · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what it accomplishes though, aside from making it more expensive. The overwhelming majority of laptops sold now - Chromebook's target audience - are not high-resolution, and I doubt that high resolution alone would attract people who currently dislike it.

  20. Re:Why? on Why Google Needs To Launch the Chromebook Pixel · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have. I invite you to try to use those on a desktop computer.

  21. Why? on Why Google Needs To Launch the Chromebook Pixel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article doesn't make a particularly good case for why ChromeOS would suddenly become attractive on a high-resolution touchscreen. Especially given that it's built around Google's not-touch-optimised web apps.

  22. Re:That makes sense on Researchers Opt To Limit Uses of Open-access Publications · · Score: 2

    Actually yes, it is. There's a small but brazen minority of researchers who quite literally knock off other people's papers, often including some trivial modifications. You only hear of a few cases, of course, and I don't think that an open access licence is going to really make it any more or less of an issue.

    http://chemjobber.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/my-contribution-to-pierre-yan-debacle.html

  23. Re:Contract restrictions? on Researchers Opt To Limit Uses of Open-access Publications · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's my impression too, although I wonder how many people subject to such clauses really know where the lines are.

  24. Re:No matter... on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    So you're arguing that you're almost certainly a sheep?

  25. Re:No matter... on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    So you're arguing that you are almost certainly a sheep?