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  1. Re:Chromecast? on The Verge: Google Is Working on a TV Box Of Its Own · · Score: 3, Informative

    You absolutely do NOT need to keep Netflix running on your phone and you absolutely CAN use your phone for something else while the Chromecast is streaming. I've been using a Chromecast since they came out and love it. In fact, my son is using it to watch cartoons on Netflix right now and I started the cartoon via my phone. I just rebooted my phone to see what would happen and sure enough, Netflix kept working just fine on the Chromecast. Once you start the stream, the Chromecast itself is what is communicating with Netflix/Youtube/whatever. One thing you are correct about is the local media streaming. That is a weakness, but you're incorrect on just about everything else in your post.

  2. Re:So, maybe like Venus? on Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours · · Score: 1

    I think it's the crushingly heavy atmosphere and the green house gasses, etc. But I'm not 100% sure about that.

  3. Re:hmm... on Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately, the Chinese government already has free reign to do what they want, which is exactly why Google is leaving. I don't see it as a catch-22. China isn't going to let Google offer the services in the way that they (Google) want them to be provided. China has already made it clear that Google needs to comply with China's laws, so Google isn't going to be able to offer unfiltered search results and such. So what's the point of them staying if they are forever forced by the government to play by China's rules, and by staying they make themselves look worse in the eyes of the Western world?

  4. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    I think this is what he is talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%9321

  5. Re:The church on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hasn't it always?

  6. Re:Just wow on DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, because we all know that no self-professed "Christian" has ever deceived anyone. It therefore has to be one of those awful brown people you see so much about in the news.

  7. Re:VirtualBox lost... on VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not right. I've gotten ESXi 4 to run on every whitebox system I have tried it on. And you use the Virtual Infrastructure client to connect to it (which comes with it) but you do not need to use VirtualCenter, or vCenter as it is now called.

  8. Re:Let's stop calling it "Chrome OS". on Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook, More · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chrome BS.

  9. Re:No one should have expected on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    I have a really hard time believing that people who intentionally go out into public with the stated intention of praying for the gay community (most likely to pray that they aren't gay anymore) aren't trying to drum up attention. Therefore I have a very hard time feeling sorry for them when they get exactly the type of attention they wanted.

  10. Re:Just watch out for the ones at the top. on Robots Take To the Stairs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am protected. God I feel dirty for having said that.

  11. April First on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Oh my science, when will it end?!?!?! Oh, yeah. Tomorrow. Nevermind.

  12. Re:Awesome on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I just want "The April Fool" achievement.

  13. Re:Gee... on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 1

    Who cares if other companies already opened brick and mortar stores? Does that automatically mean that Microsoft can't ever open their own store?

  14. Re:Cold Turkey? on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    The guy asking the question calls himself "ubergamer1337". Draw your own conclusions.

  15. Re:Xen 3.3 supports this already on Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors · · Score: 1

    Xen supports this feature since Xen 3.3, it is called CPUID: http://www.nabble.com/Xen-3.3-News:-3.3.0-release-available!-td19106008.html No real breakthrough here...

    Looks to me like Xen supports migration between different CPU models, not entirely different CPU manufacturers. So yes, there is a breakthrough here.

  16. Re:NAT? on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you mean "netizens"?

  17. Re:2 ideas on States Throw Out Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    The problem with that idea is that when you order a ham sandwich, you'll actually end up getting a meat pie.

  18. Re:Reformat HD = Free Laptop? on Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops · · Score: 1

    A script that performs a relatively harmless traceroute is not analogous to putting a bomb in a laptop. There is a HUGE difference between the two, and if you can't see that difference you are deluding yourself.

  19. Re:Reformat HD = Free Laptop? on Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How would it be illegal black hat activity on my part? It would be the fault of the douchebag who connected my laptop (that they stole) to this imaginary corporation's network. I'm not the criminal, the person who stole it is. Please, explain your logic to me.

  20. Re:Finally on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Penguins are southern hemisphere.

  21. Re:OLPC on First Reviews of the MSI Wind Ultra-Portable Laptop · · Score: 1

    I don't think we can really call the OLPC a $100 laptop, since it cost double that. But I agree, that doesn't make the Wind a direct competitor to the OLPC.

  22. Re:In other words... on RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I don't like 99 per cent of the food at McDonalds. Does that mean that I get to waltz in and steal an Egg McMuffin because that's what I like and not everything on their menu is an Egg McMuffin, so to punish them I steal and they get NO money, not even for the stuff I do like?

    I don't like the Recording Industries' lawsuits or DRM or behavior in general but it's people like you, who openly admit that they are "stealing", that make everyone on this side of the fence look bad.

  23. Re:Nvidia ... Is ... Hell on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    My T60 has ATI video, and the drivers are HORRIBLE. I particularly like the "you can't click on anything but everything is still running you just can't do anything to it" bugs that I've seen on multpile ATI-based systems. Only fix seems to be the old ctrl-alt-backspace. I'll do my best in the future to ensure that none of my laptops, or the company I work for's laptops, have ATI adapters in them. Screw ATI and their shitty, shitty drivers.

  24. Re:don't know mr. reiser on Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial · · Score: 1

    But they aren't exactly giving any reasonable doubt when they say that she went to Russia without backing it up at all. If you have an alternate theory, shouldn't you back it up, at least a little bit?

  25. Re:WHAT!?!?! on SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the summary? This has nothing to do with vulnerabilities.