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  1. Re:Misleading Article on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Here in Australia there are very few ISPs that have such a restriction.

    Australia doesnt count - you have data caps on everything. Including your dream in the sky National fiber network - have a nice local lan with data caps.

  2. Re:No, it is simple economics on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want high speed net access, and don't want to pay a lot, you have to play nice with others and share. You can be offered 100mbit or gig to your home, with backhaul to more or less support it, for not too much money. However you can't be offered dedicated bandwidth in that amount unless you want to pay a bunch more. Just how it works.

    ah, so its the same as limited Unlimited offers then? pay for what we advertise, but dont you dare using it?

  3. I never heard of them. Those who can, do; those who can't, teach?

  4. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But when you agree to join the military and have a security clearance you make promises to ...

    .. to cover up rednecks in a chopper murdering children because MURICA FUCK YEAH!

  5. Re:This is why they hate us on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    So your example against GPL is most IP hostile company on the planet? Seems legit.

  6. Re:This is why they hate us on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    Shit like this. No wonder everything's going BSD.

    so insightful, all those millions and millions of BSD based smartphones.

  7. Re:Premptive STFU to GPL haters on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    What I personally don't get when it comes to these cases is...why? Why would you bother taking the risk of using GPL code when you aren't a FOSS company and risk possible lawsuits like this? If you don't want to be a FOSS company there is BSD and there is plenty of proprietary solutions so there is really no damned point in taking the risk when your company isn't a FOSS based company.

    They are not in electronics manufacturing business, they are in relabeling Chinese crap business. They dont care about licenses shmihences until you poke them with a very sharp stick. Chinese also dont care about licenses and WOULD provide all the source code (they already do to their own Chinese partners) if that was the requirement.

  8. Re:Premptive STFU to GPL haters on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    Good luck suing small Chinese factories :)

  9. Re:If no root, no Android. FirefoxOS anyone? on Steve "CyanogenMod" Kondik Contemplates The Death of Root On Android · · Score: 1

    that phone they demo UI on is a 2 year old hardware - one of ubuntu people on YT replied about it and then promptly deleted my comment about that UI dropping frames :)

  10. Re:If no root, no Android. FirefoxOS anyone? on Steve "CyanogenMod" Kondik Contemplates The Death of Root On Android · · Score: 3, Informative

    what hardware? there is NO HARDWARE - thats why its on igg and not kickstarter (rules prevent vaporware)

  11. Re:I have one ... on 13-Inch Haswell-Powered MacBook Air With PCIe SSD Tested · · Score: 1

    680 grams makes a difference? there are chocolates that weight more
    hit the gym or something

  12. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    They already have access to commercial ones and can decrypt those :)

  13. Re:And no fixes for problems. on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Dont worry, one of the features of 4.3 this news omitted is disabling WIFI button - you can NEVER turn off wifi :)

  14. Re:GUADEC? on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    Its ok, I didnt even know Gnome had any users left.

  15. Everything tastes like Chicken. on Google's Latest Machine Vision Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Its fast, but training set is random garbage from YT thumbnails and they have NO PROCESS to assess accuracy. All they can do is measure precision and its ~16% on average. What this means is their algorithm could very well just say FACE every single time and by shear coincidence every sixth image in dataset contains some face - tada, you just reached 16% precision.

  16. Re:Doesn't appear to be cost-effective on Adapteva Parallella Supercomputing Boards Start Shipping · · Score: 2

    now mount that HD7870 inside RC plane, or a quad drone
    the closest you can get is mali t604 doing 68 GFLOPS or mali t658 at 272 GFLOPS (theoretical numbers, but everyone including amd uses those)

  17. Re:half the Gflops, 64 cores, 80% lower cost, 5 wa on Adapteva Parallella Supercomputing Boards Start Shipping · · Score: 2

    The only problem is you cant run GPU standalone.
    There was one project by someone who reverse engineered old Radeon HD2400
    http://www.edaboard.com/thread236934.html
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/73923873@N05/sets/72157631771354007/
    but that guy deleted his git repo before publishing the news blurp and some photos and they quickly shut up about it.

    I would love to be able to use GPU cards standalone for Vision projects, or just as a openCL accelerators for embedded systems.

  18. Re:First always on wifi, now force fed cloud print on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 1

    Then Google disables WiFi button because 'gotta have this location data no mater what!'

    Are you saying they have done this or projecting they will?

    I have two Android devices running pretty current versions, and I have a button to disable wifi.

    this button will stop working in 4.3, it will still be there, but it wont turn off wifi :) it will be there to make you feel good

  19. First always on wifi, now force fed cloud printing on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 1

    Is Google trying to get out of their way just to acquire every last bit of information for NSA masters?
    I cant deny information to an app - its an app that decides if it will run on my phone depending on what Im willing to give it. Dont want to share my contact list? wont play half the games.
    Then Google disables WiFi button because 'gotta have this location data no mater what!'
    "Let Google's location service and other apps scan for networks, even when Wi-Fi is off"
    And now they want copy of everything I print? They already have copy of every email ffs.

  20. Re:Ads in the middle of your print jobs on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 1

    cant monetize? are you joking? this is pure gold - they scan every print job for keywords and save that data for eternity.

  21. NOT Ordinary Photos, paraller moving video on Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos · · Score: 2
  22. We could be losing some Edisons and Fords!!!1!7 on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 1

    >David Lubinski, the lead author of the study and a psychologist at Vanderbilt. 'We could be losing some modern-day Edisons and Fords.'

    ah yes. Choices choices. Do I want my kid to grow up to be a patent troll? or a slave driver?
    Its so nice to read that David Lubinski, psychologist no less, knows a thing or two about engineering and innovation when he studies them.

  23. Re:Headline epic fails. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    This is theory, reality is you have > half a second of buffer in the cable modem, this manifests in broken congestion control and high latency when buffer is saturated.

  24. Re:Headline epic fails. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    Large buffers in cable modems is a proof no one will implement it - they added them to avoid dropping packets at all cost, no matter the spec that tolerates it.

  25. Re:as always full of shit on Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela · · Score: 1

    Cube U9GTV
    probably 1.6GHz like all the rest
    it cost me $200 and 'just works'