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  1. Re:Bye Apple on Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because if you want Google's data you play by Google's rules, and Google has things they want that Apple didn't want to give them.

  2. "Dates"? on Valve Blog Announces Dates For Steam Linux External Beta · · Score: 1

    "Next week"? "Some time in October"?

    This is some new and exciting definition of the word "dates" which I have not yet encountered.

  3. Re:very simple lesson from this on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 2

    How about people who make big money off the work of others without giving them a penny?

    How about people who make big money off insider trading?

  4. Re:Why the unneccessary government bashing? on Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 · · Score: 1

    This process is not at all "inefficient". It is slow, and deliberately so. Nobody involved would want it any faster. If anything, people would probably feel better if it was even slower.

    The entire point is to give researchers enough time to attack the candidate algorithms and find as many lurking insecurities as possible. The last thing anyone wants is to find vulnerabilities after the algorithm has been standardized and deployed.

  5. Re:Why the unneccessary government bashing? on Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, that bit of snark really showed the author has no clue at all what goes into a process like this. Those years are there to give researchers time to really try and break all the candidates. You don't want to rush that part only to find out someone managed to break the winner the next year.

  6. Re:Useful replacement on Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 · · Score: 1

    This is only a problem for one single use of hashes, namely storing passwords in a database, and there are perfectly satisfactory solutions to it.

    It is not a problem for most other uses of hashes.

  7. Re:expanding on your words: on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 0

    I don't see anyone claiming that blasphemy causes anyone any specific harm, so it must be tolerated.

    It is easy to form an argument that it does under the assumptions of religion.

    First, you can consider your god a person, and blasphemy causes him direct harm.

    Second, you can say that blasphemy causes your community to not receive blessings from your god, which could cause any number of disasters.

  8. Re:No heatsink? on Raspberry Pi Hits 1GHz With Official 'Turbo Mode' · · Score: 1

    what a stupid design.

    It's a cellphone processor. It needs to be small. That's how you get them small.

  9. Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look how GOVERNMENT REGULATION is ruining things for the consumer again!

  10. Re:No tinfoil hats? on App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI · · Score: 1

    The lack of evidence alone is proof of a conspiracy!

  11. Re:We care about ad networks? on Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting · · Score: 1

    You think ad networks will be the one who honor DNT?

    Uh, yes, that is the entire point of DNT. It has no other use than as a flag for ad network to honor.

  12. Re:Boycott! on Internet Brands Sues People For Forking Under CC BY-SA · · Score: 1

    There was something to destroy in vbulletin?

  13. Re:OMAP 4470 can't do shit on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 1

    You have to actually dig into the meat of the data sheet to find them. See the diagram on page 275, for instance. Also, I think I misremembered, they might be ARM9.

  14. Re:OMAP 4470 can't do shit on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 1

    Can you provide a reference for your claim that the 4470 has 2 ARM11s?

    The data sheet: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/swpu270m/swpu270m.pdf

    DSP may technically be a core, but it's certainly not general purpose.

    There is a Linux port to it, so I don't think you can get much more general-purpose than that. It's specialized for certain kinds of tasks, but it can be used as a general-purpose processor.

    The M3s are definitely not simply "peripheral controllers." In this application, I suspect Amazon is taking advantage of their power/cycle economy, and using them to build fill frame buffers slowly behind the scenes for the next page, while the user is reading the current one.

    I think you are confusing the Fire and the Paperwhite.

  15. Re:OMAP 4470 can't do shit on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 1

    Last I counted, the OMAP 4 has at least seven cores. Two Cortex-A9, one DSP, two Cortex-M3, and two ARM11.

    The only ones that really do any useful work there are the A9s, though. The DSP is fairly slow and the rest are just peripheral controllers.

  16. Re:Google Should Stop Abusing Patent System on Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 2

    Please, how is this patent any different from real world bargaining?

    Pretty much every single part about it is different, except for the bit where the price changes?

  17. Re:I like the suggested reads on Cambodia To Extradite Gottfrid Svartholm · · Score: 0

    He is wanted for questioning and arrest. You can not arrest him over video chat.

  18. Re:Paging Mr. Roark on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 1

    None of that has anything to do with what was being discussed here.

  19. Re:Paging Mr. Roark on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 1

    But that's just it. Gnome should have set their own tone.

    Which is exactly what Miguel said in his original post.

  20. Re:Did I miss something? on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 2

    No, he's blaming the GNOME team, which includes himself, for copying an attitude that is not appropriate for them.

  21. Re:Paging Mr. Roark on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then why is Miguel crying about Linux "setting the tone" then?

    Because "setting the tone" is something that happens on a social level, and has nothing at all to do with the technical capability of running on one operating system or another?

  22. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 2

    I don't know where you are finding these numbers, but they are about as wrong as it is possible to get.

    There is no known SHA-1 collision yet in the entire world. You're not going to find 500 of them in your dump of old files.

  23. Re:Well-formed HTML on Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" · · Score: 1

    but will introduce errors in any eventual DOM-parsing.

    What does that mean? The browser parses it into a DOM before it renders it. If it caused errors in DOM parsing, the browser could not display it.

  24. Re:Well-formed HTML on Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" · · Score: 1

    As tag soup parsing is now strictly defined, any errors caused will be consistent across browsers.

  25. Re:Well-formed HTML on Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" · · Score: 1

    The only difference between well-formed HTML and well-formed XHTML are that the later is served with a strict XHTML MIME type.

    Well-formed XHTML is well-formed HTML, but the opposite is not at all true.

    Now, there are a few reasons you would not want this, but as a developer, you always want to get the HTML errors as soon as possible, therefore as a developer you always wish to write XHTML and then serve it as HTML.

    But many things are errors in XHTML but not in HTML. If you do this, you are correcting errors that only exists because you decided to use XHTML rather than HTML.