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  1. bad idea on China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is probably among the worst ideas I've ever heard. They're basically saying "Standardize at the cost of having different architectures that are superior in their own ways", which is just absurd.

  2. Re:H.264 is a terrible solution on Mozilla Considers H264 After WebM Fails To Gain Traction · · Score: 1

    They do, however, have a clause that indicates the maximum increase each term (5 years) is 10%, which is likely to be right around the inflation rate...

  3. Re:Hello, Ilya McFly !!! on Google Shutting Out Rivals, Claims Russian Search Engine Yandex · · Score: 1

    As you search other websites, it automatically adds them to that search engine listing. Mine has CNN, Pirate Bay, Amazon, Best Buy, and a slew of others available.

  4. inefficient on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? · · Score: 1

    She could be smart, and just copy/paste the draft she JUST wrote for all the other mass mailings she gets. That way, she has an answer to them, AND has time to answer individual email...

  5. Re:Hindsight is 20/20 on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 1

    I realize, but I picked 95 because that was the start of their real explosive growth.

  6. Re:Also known as on FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation · · Score: 2

    Safari is junk on Windows, Opera is outside of the reach of the average person, and Firefox has become a bloated, buggy piece of shit since their idea to rapid-fire their releases. Chrome, OTOH, is faster than all 3 for any remotely dynamic webpage (and the same speed as Opera on static pages), is more secure than all 3 (Google's data mining is not a security concern, and can be turned off anyway), and doesn't crash like Firefox.

  7. Re:Also known as on FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation · · Score: 1

    Chrome has been collecting an ever-growing market share, any user data along with that market share, and is generally the best browser available to the average person in terms of speed, reliability and security. How is that a failure?

  8. Re:Hindsight is 20/20 on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Microsoft hadn't even released 95 by this point, and this guy is talking about them hedging risks by not going after a mockup iPhone that early?

  9. Re:High School Course in Software on Software Engineers Remain Top US Job · · Score: 1

    If companies didn't hire "junior devs with 2 years experience", where would they expect to get any devs with 10 years experience a decade from now?

  10. Re:I know what you're talking about on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    The contractors are morons. They can do other jobs that expand the economy further, which increases the potential for them to do new work, if the thing they built last year doesn't need to be repaired every 6 months.

  11. Re:I take it on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    After listening to a video of the Leaf's sound, it's not the same as the one I hear. The approach sound is far louder and more obnoxious than the sound I heard. Presumably, the sound I heard was turned off, as it was a dealer driving the car temporarily, and it is manually enabled.

  12. Re:I take it on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    It's the same sound I hear from my Honda CR-Z's electric motor, which indicates it's either from some of the electronics or the electric motor itself, and not a speaker, as the CR-Z is a hybrid. I can hear it on the CR-Z much more clearly at higher rates of acceleration than just cruising at 10mph, but it's always there.

  13. Re:Was he really naive enough to expect otherwise? on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 1

    What's the name/number of this law?

  14. Re:Was he really naive enough to expect otherwise? on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 2

    Jesus was the first to die once Christianity became a persecuted cult.

  15. Re:I take it on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    Listen closer, electric cars make a higher pitched, and definitely quieter, whirring sound as they move. That's just the motors, too - the tires make noise as well.

  16. Re:Diesel: The Way Forward on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    What's a Polo again?

  17. Re:Headlines? on Medicaid Hacked: Over 181,000 Records and 25,000 SSNs Stolen · · Score: 1

    For the record, Medicaid is jointly funded by federal and state governments and COMPLETELY run by the states. The federal government has no role in administering the program, and only sets guidelines for eligibility and coverage. There is no overarching federal Medicaid administration system to be hacked.

    I didn't RTFA, and was under the impression that the Utah Dept of Health was breached but it only affected Medicaid recipients - which makes it the largest meaningful unit of Medicaid that can be hacked.

  18. Re:Headlines? on Medicaid Hacked: Over 181,000 Records and 25,000 SSNs Stolen · · Score: 1

    As Medicaid is a program wholly managed by the states, it's not unreasonable to say that Medicaid was hacked. It's a subset of the whole Medicaid program, sure, but it's also the largest meaningful subunit of Medicaid that can be hacked.

  19. Re:So what? on The Story Behind Australia's CSIRO Wi-Fi Claims · · Score: 1

    The patent litigation happened in the US by an Australian entity.

  20. Re:OneNote on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    I had a HP tablet that took that long to boot it. It had some variety of Turion. It also made the thing heat up like hell.

  21. Re:they almost got me... on Exclusive Look at FBI's New Sentinel System · · Score: 2

    I was expecting the first article to also be released on April 1st.

  22. Re:OneNote on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem I had with it on an older laptop was that it was sluggish. You need to be running significant hardware to get the thing to start in less than 30 seconds.

  23. Re:So what? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    Not really. He could have put his hands on Treyvon, or otherwise conducted himself in a manner that places him as the aggressor.

  24. Re:Pirate Bay? on After Megaupload, MPAA Targets Other File Sharing Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a smaller, (presumably) independent band, the RIAA wouldn't mind killing you off. The RIAA isn't there for small artists; they're there for the few giant names they can push, and any competition is bad competition in their view.

  25. Re:Gak, the Britishisms in that article were too m on UK's Largest Specialist Video Games Retailer Enters Administration · · Score: 1

    The one that tricked me up was "Administration". I've never heard of such a procedure here in the US. There's Chapter 11 which is moderately similar, but it's the business that reorganizes itself under watch of a court, not as a government-appointed administrator stepping in to run it.