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  1. Just Windows? on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think Linux users and Mac users will profit from it as well. Haswell chips have been in the new MacBook Air and a number of other devices, not just "Windows" tablets.

    Microsoft marketing FTW.

  2. Norsefire party on the rise! on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 2

    Just give it time... remember, remember the 5th of November

  3. Re:Times have changed. on Russia Issues Travel Warning To Its Citizens About United States and Extradition · · Score: 1

    The US doesn't have an extradition treaty with Russia. In cases they do have an extradition treaty, they may on review of evidence do so eventually. Only the US requests extradition without evidence (such as of Snowden and Assange)

  4. Re:Incoming on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most likely it's not the airline that handles your luggage but a local (unionized) airport service. They're typically manned by ex-cons and others that for some reason can't get anything else at minimum wage. Then there are their friends over at DHS that screen the luggage with very sticky fingers. Try leaving jewelry in your luggage, you've got pretty much 50% chance that it will disappear. My friend used to work at DHL, those people would simply come pick up TV's from the DHL loading area and drive away, they gave the guards their cut, usually a bottle of something and it would simply remain unpunished.

  5. Re:the answer is no on Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? (Video) · · Score: 1

    I live in a city where suburban sprawl happened a long time ago (maybe like 2 decades). The city and local companies are still giving incentives for families live in the suburbs (they would give a free grant for ~10% of the purchase price).

    The result: all the suburbs have now become ghetto's and are getting worse, the police simply doesn't even patrol entire swaths of the suburbs because they are too large and out of fear for gang fights. The center of the city has gotten a lot more cleaned up and/or empty, mainly filled with high-class students and older people are slowly relocating out of their paid-off family homes to renovated apartments in what used to be 'the projects'

  6. Re:How much RAM? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    Same problem as this model. The Gigabit is limited to 480Mbps (USB 2.0 bus speed). Actually this Cubic isn't all that different from an RPi, they run the same family chips, the same type of RAM, the same type of I/O.

  7. Re:open source office suite will never succeed on SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora · · Score: 4, Informative

    Both the mail and the calendaring part has been figured out a long time ago. It's called CalDAV and IMAP. Get with the times, Exchange/Outlook is only king where the subjects want it to be. There are drop-in replacements for Exchange Server, it's just a question of figuring out how to do it and get your stuff out of the proprietary cycle. Microsoft has itself abandoned Office and Exchange in favor of it's cloud (pay-per-view) offering, there is nowhere to go but open.

  8. Re:Quick! Inform the presses on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    The client is (and should be). All it does is read the local hard drive and sync it with an online hard drive. Nothing too difficult about it.

  9. Quick! Inform the presses on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    So both Windows developers can bitch about stuff. Seriously, who still develops against native Windows these days? Enterprise apps are all going web, small one-off apps are built in Python, slightly larger apps should be using GTK or QT toolkits, if you're making a game you should be developing against OpenGL and your engine should run in C and good C compiles on any platform. Nobody runs actual Windows 8 for anything serious, the Windows 8 tablets are locked down and have maybe 10 apps for them.

  10. Re:Prominent figure reversing her incorrect opinio on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh please. This is a religion. They do everything to cover their asses. On one hand they may be running the vaccination clinics but on the other hand nobody is attending them, that seems like they continue preaching their idiotic viewpoints from the pulpit while legally and publicly covering their asses. All cults do it, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, ... They preach one thing within the rank and file and then publicly state the opposite.

  11. Wrong way of doing it on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Open Source projects are often leader-less, don't have a corporation attached or anyone really working for them and (also) often not-for-profits.

    Especially in the US you can't just accept $5k from someone without major tax hurdles. There has to be a service delivered (which is apparently what your company wants) and you can't just give money from your company without getting something of equal value in return (that would be too easy a way to syphon out money) and at the end of the year you have to indicate this on your taxes as well (which costs easy another $300 at the tax-preparer especially if it is out-of-state -- I used to do independent contract work in three states, at the end of the year I spent $1000 at HR-Block to figure out all the paperwork for local/state/federal taxes and the permutations of deductions between the 7 governments)

    Now, you could've gone to one of your favorite open source projects and said: I want feature x - here is $5k for whatever freelance developer wants to take it on, that would've worked. I am always available to work on certain projects...

  12. And... on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You discovered a keyboard shortcut in your browser that may or may not work on any other browser in existence and has been in use by yours truly since the invention of tabs? Woohoo, you rock, now go help your mom connect to that YouTube video you posted...

    Slashdot? News for nerds? Stuff that matters?

  13. How about... on Cookieless Web Tracking Using HTTP's ETag · · Score: 1

    Simply not allowing 3rd party URL's on any website. Sure it might break some ancient things but you shouldn't really be including iframe's, cookies, JavaScript or anything else from a 3rd party domain anyway.

  14. Re:It isn't the soda. It's the survey. on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    Bad parenting happens among females and whites too. It's a stereotype which may or may not be valid (the stereotype exists for a reason) however in a large and specific enough sampling, the stereotype does indeed hold up - rednecks and inner-city blacks are more prone to aggressiveness and giving their offspring bad foods - but that would be offensive to report...

    So about 2% of kids (4% of the 43%) have shitty parents and will probably enter a life of crime if they don't die earlier. Any decent parent will make it out of the trailer park/inner city with their kids. I've been in both places and even though it may be a little harder, I have been able to afford housing in better places. If you give up your smoking/crack/weed/alcohol you can easily pay the extra $200 in rent.

  15. Re:300 MPH flesh sacks of water on The Smog To Fog Challenge: Settling the High-Speed Rail vs. Hyperloop Debate · · Score: 1

    Telecommuting is nice but unless I see my waiter telecommuting, we have a long way to go in research, services, support, ... and when a waiter telecommutes, why not just automate the whole thing? And who will fix it when that breaks down?

    There are plenty of reasons to have a hands-on person on the job. Less and less, that's true, I have single-handedly managed an entire datacenter before but still I needed to be there because even though buying a (non-autonomous) robot to pull wires was cost-effective, one to pull hard drives and machines isn't yet.

    Besides the opportunity for cost-effective commuting between the two coasts thereby boosting your choice of higher-paying jobs, there is an entire swath of land in between there that is largely empty, very cost effective as far as living expenses and if I could get a NYC income while living in a a low-crime, cheap house and fields with horses for the kids in the mid-west... who wouldn't pay an hour commute for that.

  16. Re: get a mac. on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    Mt Lion runs only on 64-bit procs (Core 2) but a Core 1 is well over 7 years ago.

  17. Re: get a mac. on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    It's Core, not Core2 that's obsoleted and it should still run Lion...

  18. Re:I'm not that surprised. on Microsoft Will Squeeze Datacenters On Price of Windows Server · · Score: 1

    300VM's on 16CPU's? What are those VM's doing all day? Why don't you consolidate the services on less servers?

    Besides, don't you have to pay a Windows license for each VM + the Windows license for the hypervisor? (300 * $4000 = $120k)

  19. Re:Comes to show to trust NO ONE on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 1

    And why would that be the case? There are binaries that have been compiled well before 2005 that continue to run on both PPC and x86 platforms, x86-64bit can still run x86-32bit binaries (I have a couple of those running myself).

    After 2002 the x86 line was introduced and developers were recommended to compile for both architectures. Some big companies (Adobe and Microsoft primarily) continued compiling for PPC-only well after 2002 and only begrudgingly compiled for x86 later on, when Apple announced it's latest and greatest won't run PPC applications anymore in 2009 that is not anyone's fault but the software developer. PowerPC-binaries on 10.6 are still supported by Apple.

  20. Re:Magnetic Resonance? on World's First Road-Powered Electric Vehicle Network Opens · · Score: 1

    MRI = 0.5-3 Tesla - strong enough to pick up and pull large metal objects.
    These types of wiring even if they were running 150A and the metal was in your feet: 0.0006T
    The earth has a magnetic field of ~0.5T

  21. Re:Slowly sip the power! on World's First Road-Powered Electric Vehicle Network Opens · · Score: 1

    Or you could use a better product than asphalt. The Romans built roads 2000 years ago and they're still around. Asphalt is used because it's cheap but it has some major issues with it. It wouldn't surprise me that in the 100 years of laying and re-laying asphalt, we could've done it all in concrete or some other product a long time ago and never have to look again. Typical "next-quarter profit" management.

  22. Re:Who really made the charger? on Apple Announces a Trade-in Program For Third-Party Chargers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Several options here:
    Static discharge - did he/she have stockings on (or other plastic clothing) and walking on a carpet?
    Grounding issue - less likely but do you have proper grounding in your house? If your house doesn't have proper wiring, you could get a nasty (and possibly lethal) shock eg. if your hot is wired to where the ground should be.

  23. Re:geek cred and fun in 3 easy* steps! on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 2

    I'm sure there is some DA somewhere that could make it stick and I'm pretty sure that there will be a judge to convict you to 10 years for it. Welcome to the US-of-A

  24. Re:Comes to show to trust NO ONE on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 1

    3 years is within many Mac users' warranty, the latest-and-greatest will run on a 3 year old Mac. You'd have to go all the way to 2006 to find a Mac that isn't supported by 10.8, that's 7 years ago and even so, 10.6 is still supported with patches. To find a truly unsupported Mac you have to go all the way back to 2002 which is ~11 years and 2 architectures (PowerPC and 32-bit Intel) separated.

    Windows XP 64-bit hasn't been supported in forever either, they didn't even release SP3 for it. Windows NT for Alpha isn't supported either even though it was sold until 2004.

  25. Re:Xerox's Official Response on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I've seen a website with a working Perl script generating content. I wonder what the guts of the Perl script does.