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  1. Re:DNT is useless by design on Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    I expect the EU to sooner or later begin enforcing it under the data protection legislation.

  2. Great marketing on Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release · · Score: 2

    About 40x as many people know the name of the film now than if they hadn't dramatically pulled it.

  3. Inconsiderate hypocritical cunts on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    If they are blocking wifi inside their hotel, they are almost certainly blocking wifi outside their hotel as well. An eye for an eye...

  4. entrapment on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I never feel anyone's actually committed a crime when an FBI agent is to some extent an instigator

  5. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    GTX 750 Ti + Haswell 4770K can be run fanlessly or with maybe one low speed case fan.

    So as long as the 750Ti is powerful enough for OP's resolution then OP is set.

  6. Re:Except... on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1
  7. Except... on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...it wasn't the first computer.

  8. Anti-competitive? on Intel Announces Major Reorg To Combine Mobile and PC Divisions · · Score: 1

    Surely using their market power in one segment to sell at a loss in a different segment is anti-competitive.

  9. Maybe I lack imagination but... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    ...so the police find out about the shooting about a minute earlier. If police turn up 5-20 minutes after the first shot has been fired, is there any real benefit to this device?

  10. Words. I can't even. on Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you're going to go to all of this trouble to use a completely secure connection which conceals your identity and information about your browsing. Then you're going to go to a website where the first thing you do identify yourself to that website then the second thing you do is give yourself a cookie that identifies you to any website anywhere on the internet that has a facebook like button?

  11. Mozilla's losing coolness on An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its lost the browser initiative to google. I can't imagine it will still be around in its current form in a decade.

  12. flawed measure on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    No matter how little bandwidth customers use, some of them will always be in the top 5%!

  13. Re: Laugh all the way to the bank on Microsoft Files Legal Action Against Samsung Over Android Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    But the reason that say android is successful is probably not because of any specific patented technology it uses, rather it has a good enough user interface and google made it freely available for a while. The specific innovation behind android that led to its success is its open nature. None of microsoft's patents contribute to this.

  14. Re:Laugh all the way to the bank on Microsoft Files Legal Action Against Samsung Over Android Patent Dispute · · Score: 5, Insightful

    TBH if microsoft have continuously failed to gain traction in the mobile phone market, I don't really see why its reasonable for them to tax the companies who've made a product people want to use.

  15. Good Riddance on Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? · · Score: 1

    SB16 was great but in the end, Creative exaggerated the benefits of their cards - to the extent of deception sometimes. And the drivers for some of the later models were somewhat dodgy so in the end its better that they're irrelevant now - they drove themselves into the ground.

  16. Old AI! on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 1

    This just sounds like an expert system which they've had since the 70s or 80s, combined with a bit of planning/scheduling which is something they've had since then as well!

  17. unbelievable on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    You can't just mess with people's stuff like this, or potentially destroy a business. Fucking unbelievable that microsoft got a judge to permit this.

  18. They can probably afford the fine. on Eric Schmidt and Entourage Pay a Call On Cuba · · Score: 1

    That's very interesting that they visited Cuba because the penalty for a US citizen travelling to Cuba is an administrative penalty of $50,000 with no judicial oversight. That means you get fined and there is no possibility of appeal. Internet access costs about £5 / hour in Cuba and something about £50-70 / month so its only really available in internet cafes.

  19. health advice is 30-60 mins exercise per day on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 2

    I have lost 2 stone / 28 lb / 13kgs over the last 18 months after I scrapped my car and started cycling to work (7 miles each way). I have no interest in going to the gym - no time for that - and I'm not particularly bothered about sport. If I had kept my car I would inevitably drive whenever I was going to be late for work, which would be all the time. So what worked for me was to leave myself no option other than to do exercise every day.

  20. implications for computability on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    If consciousness is uncomputable, yet we quite clearly could generate consciousness if we were able to create/duplicate a brain, does this imply then that the brain is doing a higher level of computation? Perhaps the difference between polynomial and exponential, or perhaps something new entirely. If the brain is uncomputable then does this imply that P = NP using an appropriate computer (brain)?

  21. Faulty Software on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 1

    They have sold faulty software to people so they should fix any fault found until there are no more to be found.

  22. Re:Why is Raymond's claim theoretically sound? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 2

    You should consider avoiding pretty much any OS kernel then for the same reasons!

  23. Overvalued on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 2

    The service they provide is worth about £1 or £2 a year.

  24. Rent-seeking? on Apple Reportedly In Talks With Comcast For Separate Apple Streaming Path · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The floodgate of pay to play has been unleashed.

  25. Re:Try harder on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Presumably if you're arguing on slashdot its because you've got quite a long beard yourself.