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  1. Re:Is this a record? on Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum · · Score: 2

    Out of date information - 1080p and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression is now part of the ATSC standard.

  2. Re:Kiss HTDV goodbye on Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum · · Score: 1

    You're not current on the ATSC standard. H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression was incorporated.

  3. Re:Kiss HTDV goodbye on Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum · · Score: 2

    Sorry, S/B

    1080p transmission is possible under the 2008 revision to ATSC standards, the majority of receivers could not decode the signal so why would a broadcaster wish to spend money on something new that few could watch?

  4. Re:Kiss HTDV goodbye on Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum · · Score: 1

    1080p transmission is possible under the 2008 revision to a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p#ATSC">ATSC standards, the majority of receivers could not decode the signal so why would a broadcaster wish to spend money on something new that few could watch?

  5. Re:Not to get too political... on IBM Charged With Bribing Korean, Chinese Officials · · Score: 1

    We are not pushing our ethics, a number of other countries, representing 80% of the world's trade, see bribery as a problem as well. The US signed a treaty with 33 other countries of the OECD and has "arrangements" with others covering bribery. Our statutes covering this are in International Anti-Bribery Act of 1998 Fines of up to $100,000 and terms of up to 5 years are applicable to individuals found guilty of bribery of officials. If the company you work for does international business your sales department has probably been trained in the personal and corporate consequences of violations.

    They generally finish with the corporation before they go after the individuals, hopefully we will be hearing about them in a few years.

  6. Re:Anything Online? on Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students? · · Score: 2

    Short hours, long summer vacation, lack of supervision, great retirement benefits, union benefits, tenure, and discount at Border's books all come to mind. Not to mention that teachers pay increases have outstripped inflation consistently which cannot be said of very many fields. I don't begrudge teachers what they are paid, but they are represented by the largest union in the country, and they are not under compensated as a group and I am tired of hearing that refrain.

  7. Re:How does this compare? on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Anybody with the least bit of technical knowledge can conclude that TEPCO's has totally screwed up and wasn't properly prepared for emergencies.

    And apparently you have.

  8. Re:Fucking Great on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    There is another ...

    There are actually a lot of good small cell phone companies out there. I can recommend US Cellular, if they service your area. Leap/Cricket is popular with the old and technologically challenged. Both offer better service than the big 4 ^h 3.

  9. Re:Priorities, people!! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    AT&T is doing the buying. They're going to keep the dumpy guy in the bad suit. I'm assuming here that truth in advertising will prevail.

  10. Re:Don't worry Citizens! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    The former will die out first, if it helps in your decision process.

  11. Re:Didn't try to use the story to raise money? on Righthaven Copyright Lawsuit Backfires · · Score: 2

    I believe the most important conclusion to be drawn is that copyright is to be used as a defense against others taking your published material and that without a takedown notice being issued, it serves as an offensive weapon only. That is the one part of the ruling that will stand up. Righthaven owns the copyrights and doesn't use or license them except for lawsuits so it was attempting to profit from the violation rather than simply to protect the material or obtain reasonable payment for the use of the material.

  12. Re:Well of course on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1

    It's not really a problem or Apple would have deleted the thread from their forum. Is that a defense of Apple?

    The correct statement, BTW is, "You get what you pay for, ... or less."

  13. Re:Biological basis for Teh Gay? on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    Meta analysis was used for that study. That means that the data from a number of previous studies was combined to create a statistically significant sample of almost 7000. It is not credible that a study of over 2000 would reach the opposite conclusion (that male sexual orientation is related and female is not) if the correlation were strong and data collection was consistent. Another study calls into doubt whether data obtained directly should be combined with data obtained using photocopying, I am not sure that the data was obtained in a consistent manner across these studies. I think the jury is still out.

  14. Re:How does this compare? on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    So you are claiming that you know that information is being withheld, and that the handling of the situation was botched. If that is so, you obviously are current on the state of what is "really" happening, and from that we must conclude that information isn't being withheld. I submit that what you have is speculation,and there is no strong evidence to support your conclusion at this point. I think that people have such a sense of entitlement to instant gratification, that they are willing to listen to people speculating and making it up as they go along - that they are willing to listen to Chicken Little's astologer.

    Witholding information requires that one has information. Consider that there literally is no one in a position to talk intelligently about what is occurring much of the time, everyone on the scene has seen what they have seen, but nobody has seen everything, they know that the situation is dynamic. If I try to tell you the position of a pendulum, unless it in real time, the information is useless. These are engineers and technicians who are not willing to jump to conclusions prematurely, that is their training and that is the nature of good engineers. So we hear, "things are stable", after things are really stable. We don't hear, "Shit's about to hit the fan", because they are too busy trying to prevent that. You would have the prime minister interrupt them to get up to speed on the situation (while it might spiral out of control) rather than let them do their job?

  15. Re:Okay... or the specious Rule of Law arg(0) on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    I only need demonstrate that that the facts in evidence are not relevant or sufficient to draw a conclusion in order to refute the conclusion drawn by the previous poster. I do not have to provide an alternative conclusion. The previous poster had, I believe, either drawn a conclusion and cited countries which support it, or has a very limited view of the world. I made no claim that my list was inclusive, simply better than his and likely to support a different conclusion, if one could be drawn at all.

  16. Re:Good. on Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a WM6.5 phone and WP7 offers so much less with little prospect of that being corrected in the next two years.

    Multitasking is gone, at least for third party apps. Microsoft promises it later.

    No Flash. Microsoft promises it later.

    Office Integration - no cut and paste? Microsoft promises it later. No aftermarket app that truly does the job, like SoftMaker - coming soon to Android, not WM7

    With Hubs Microsoft seems to created ^h^h^h^h^h^h^hcopied a nice interface by using some of the best front end ideas (UI's) from their WM6 phone manufacturers like HTC and app developers like SPB, Resco, and others and abandoned these same developers by changing the Dev tools and programming language. Few of the developers of the apps I use say they are going to port current or develop new apps for WP7. The good news is that all apps (dozens) should be available on Microsoft's Windows Mobile Market Place or maybe they'll change the name since WM is out and WP is in.

    Apple may have garden walls for its apps, but Microsoft will have cemetery plots.

    Disclaimer: I've owned WM since it was CE, but Android's next for me.

  17. Re:Biological basis for Teh Gay? on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    All the statements you make are true. You imply that there are differences that do not exist, or have not yet been detected To clarify: the cells of gay men are similar to those of straight men are similar to those of lesbians are similar to those of straight women. To clarify further: no differences in brain cells have been found to be associated with sexual orientation.

  18. Re:Biological basis for Teh Gay? on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    I searched; first result: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio#Sexual_orientation It calls bullshit on your claims: "... most studies find no differences in digit ratio between gay and straight men" ... "Some studies correlate male homosexuality and 2D:4D positively, others negatively" Further discussion is not warranted.

    I believe one's sexual preference is genetically/prenatally influenced, but the only evidence of it is sexual orientation.

  19. Re:iBi on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    Blowup dolls can do that?

  20. Garden Walls ... on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    make this a cage fight!

  21. How does this compare? on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2

    Does anyone have timelines on how quickly information on TMI and Chernobyl was disseminated for comparison? If the Japanese are ahead of the curve we should shut-up, if not then we can continue to feel smug discussing how evil corporations are, Japanese feudal power, or whatever Red/Blue opinions we have.

  22. Re:Not Good on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2

    Cookie Monster doing his Godzilla impression ought to do the job.

  23. Re:Why not MIDI? on Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs · · Score: 1

    MIDI is part of the program. The link in the third paragraph to MuseScore notation software says MIDI and PDF outputs are available. This project sounds like a winner to me.

  24. Re:Suppression is the mother of invention on Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet · · Score: 1

    The guy got $8.7M for one night of being sodomized,. That's a lot more than Charlie Sheen pays.

  25. Re:What's the goal of it? on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    This just tells you who we are rooting for, not what we want. It's like NASCAR, sure you say you like fast cars and Tony Stewart, but you really want to see crashes.