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  1. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    The only EMV card readers that I've seen in the wild have been at McDonald's. AAFES might've had the readers for CAC cards (although I don't think they were issuing those 13 years ago)

  2. In January? on Google Chrome Will Block All NPAPI Plugins By Default In January · · Score: 1

    NPAPI plugins (or at least Unity) already don't work on the Mac version of Chrome

  3. Re:It CAN be done (but not always is a good idea). on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 2

    I had the same issue with the movie. However one of the people I saw the movie with claims that the parachute ropes (and the people hanging onto them) were slowly rotating around the station. If there were some centrifugal stuff going on, then the scene would make sense.

  4. Re:Macbook Retina a major success, not failure on OS X Mountain Lion Review · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the retina MBPs aren't straight upgrades from the non-retina ones. If you get one with a retina display you lose a few things.
    Ports/peripherals:
      Ethernet port
      CD/DVD drive
      Firewire port
      Audio in

    I believe the retina macs also don't let you add more RAM or upgrade/replace your HDD/SSD

  5. Re:Common practice. on Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real · · Score: 2
  6. Re:So many bitter slashdot readers on Putting the Raspberry Pi Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    I don't think they even took preorders. I ordered mine a day or two after it went up on sale and I've had it for a few weeks

  7. Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military on VMware Confirms Source Code Leak · · Score: 1

    If you have the source, it's not very hard to create your own binaries

  8. Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? on Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is just a delayed April Fools' Day thing, right?

  9. Re:How to beat the system? on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 2

    Importing classified material? What games are you playing?!?

  10. Re:Diablo 3 == D&D 5 ? on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 1

    D3's skill system is a lot simpler than D2's.

  11. Re:Meanwhile in Aus ... on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    The full version of Mass Effect 3 costs $80 here in the United States, although other games are less of a rip-off

  12. Re:There are so many things wrong with this ... on Arizona Ponders FCC Decency Standards For the Classroom · · Score: 1

    IIRC the FCC doesn't care about didactic nudity. I think a TV station did a "How to do a breast cancer self-examination" segment (which involved broadcasting breasts) and the FCC was fine with it.

  13. Re:Impressive hardware on XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the "phone" part of the iPhone :p

  14. Re:MUAHAHAHAH on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    There's a few places where they've done train station security, but saying that they're pulling over cars sounds a little FUD-y

  15. Re:Very cool car on See the Tesla S at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 2

    I think the point of that might be some day you could just go to a gas station (or gas station equivalent) and swap out your dead battery for a full one, which would let you drive significant distances without needing to stop and charge overnight.

  16. Re:wow on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 1

    At least some of their servers are in the U.S. That doesn't make what's happening OK, but it makes it *slightly* less outrageous

  17. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    I don't know the details of how TRICARE works, but shouldn't that cover her?

  18. Re:Is it really a loss? on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 2

    Correct if I'm wrong, but the FCC only licenses Americans, not the whole world. The United State's population growth is a lot less than the rest of the world's (Something like 4%-5% over that same time period, instead of the 7.69% you came up with).

  19. Re:No shit on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 1

    Sure, it would be nice for them to release the source code sooner rather than later, but it's a big leap from wanting more frequent/faster releases to saying that the AOSP is dead like the article title is implying.

  20. No shit on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should they release the source for an OS that isn't even out in the wild yet? They've already said that the source will be released once the Galaxy Nexus is in stores (probably so that the Nexus is actually the first phone running 4.0. I'm there will be plenty of custom ROMs for other phones/tablets within days of the ICS source being released)

  21. Re:Won't be playing on Diablo III Beta Begins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Check out the skill calculator in the summary. There's a lot of different possibilities (Unless I screwed my math up, something like 170,000,000 combinations of skills/runes JUST for the barbarian class. The other classes look about the same give or take a few million combos). Obviously some combinations will be better than others, and even the "best" build will be pretty situational for a given class depending on what you're doing and your playstyle. Personally, I like how they're allowing some more flexibility with abilities by getting rid of skill trees and allowing you to change what skills you have relatively painlessly. When I played Diablo II, I spent a bunch of time leveling a druid, only to realize after I'd played for dozens of hours that my I had allocated my skill points stupidly, and there wasn't anything I could do about it other than make a new character or deal with it.

  22. Re:Wilfully drain batteries? on Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones · · Score: 2

    Sprint for example includes some spyware-y stuff called "CarrierIQ" in all of their phones. It uses battery to log and phone home what you're doing on your phone

  23. Re:I am an HFT programmer on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    More importantly...
    100 hours a week divide by 12 hours a day...he works 8 and a third days a week.
    Mr. Anonymous sounds legit— definitely no blatant exaggerations and/or fabricated bullshit here.

  24. Re:The issue wasn't raising prices on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 1

    I believe they've already had two price raises in the last year, so they're doing both

  25. Re:Google's not a charity, either. on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, Spaceballs was actually PG