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  1. Re:Next up. on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pure alcohol isn't what your friends drink. More likely, beer, which would be about 4-6 of those per day. Then, consider the fact that this was the national average rather than the high end of the spectrum, and you can see where the problem was...

  2. Re:Most do not know this but... on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 1

    Sanders has a fundamental misunderstanding of the Federal Reserve then, as it is an independent agency, not subject to the influence of the rest of the government. There's a reason it was created as an independent agency; it was to prevent it from being manipulated by the elected officials to boost the economy (with a resultant bust) during election years.

  3. Re:Yes, Those Lazy Unwise Americans on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    If an American can make $100 in an hour, why should they be deemed lazy when the only do 40 hours of work per week and are compared to someone who works 60 hours a week for $200 a month? That means the American is doing something more efficiently, whether it's maintaining a robot that makes 10x the number of units or having an office in an area with higher overall demand?

  4. Re:I have on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 1

    You need root to remove Carrier IQ, it's not as simple as changing its permissions. It's completely invisible to the user, much like Cerberus.

  5. Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 2

    Carriers insist that manufacturers preload this on devices. How does that leave Google as the bad guy again?

  6. Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 0

    Carrier IQ is simple to remove when flashing a new build of Android to your device. It's on every device forum on XDA.

  7. Re:Well on Free Software Activists Take On Google Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it were in Google's interest to bump spam domains to the top, it wouldn't be the useful search engine with leading market share that it is today, as it would have already bumped said results.

  8. Re:No Windows on Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground · · Score: 1

    It's a reverse pyramid. They can slope it so that lots of diagonal light makes it into the area.

  9. Re:You're forgetting the water table. on Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground · · Score: 1

    Funny, that's just about as good an idea as the option of jumping out of a high rise with a parachute.

  10. Re:Hmmm on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 2

    Once you download any game from Steam, I'm fairly sure that the client can't go in and delete it from your computer later. Even so, set up SyncToy to backup the Steam folders to another directory; you can play almost any game from Steam without Steam itself running.

  11. Re:And So If Your Connection Is Down... on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1

    Pass federal legislation that breaks existing contracts between municipal governments and ISPs? Sounds like a legal quagmire to me....

  12. Re:Why not use their own sites? on New Media Giants Take Out Print Ad Against SOPA · · Score: 1

    Most definitely. But there does need to be a total lock on activity beyond serving that page.

  13. Re:You are doing it wrong on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    It runs as well as it does on a standard, 2 year old Dell. That's exactly the standard an average person is going to hold mobile Flash to.

  14. Re:You are doing it wrong on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    Tell that to my SGS, and any of the newer generation phones, on which flash runs perfectly fine for the most part. It takes a horribly inefficient Flash file to cause a slowdown.

  15. Re:What? on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    Everyone else has exactly the number of guns that Google does, in that disabling IFrames is a single gun, and any website can use it free of charge. Your argument is bunk.

  16. Re:Have I heard this before? on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: 1

    ....can't you believe that they're deliberately undisclosed because they don't want to support them in any fashion, as they stated?

  17. Re:I haven't read the article, but hear me out her on Who Killed Videogames? · · Score: 1

    Even though they milked franchises, like you said, they kept providing games rather than moneymaking manipulation applications. I'd far rather a franchise be milked to death than have an original manipulation game around for each of those sequels.

  18. Re:One good thing about NY on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Not when there's a half hour of traffic at every toll on the road. EZPass is way better than cash/change tolls.

  19. Re:Makes sense actually on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    That's a failed assessment. Advertisers won't accept a higher ad price for the same viewership - they don't have a viewer count by number of subscribers (which would be incorrect), but by Nielson ratings, which are derived directly from viewing habits already, and takes into account what times of day are spent watching which programs - which subscriber count can't even approximate. The change in subscribers wouldn't affect their ratings, and thus ads would be the same rate as before. If ESPN attempted to charge more for the same ad spots, they may not even be able to get enough ads to cover all of their spots anymore.

  20. Re:Makes sense actually on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    ESPN would then raise their price to compensate for the lost income. If they lose 4/5ths of the people that had access, they need to raise their price quite a bit for them to stay solvent. $3 per subscriber now, but with 1/5th the number of subscribers they'd ask $15.

  21. Re:What are the Slashdot editors smoking? on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    I think the assumption, which may or may not be correct, is that the cable company will be doing so while keeping the base price the same. If they do that, then they are switching two plans of the same price which have completely different sets of channels (one with desirable channels, and the other not so much); not quite a bait and switch, but would definitely be screwing some people over. However, if they lower price of the base package to be in line with their costs (closer to the $0 figure), it would surely be a move in the right direction.

  22. Re:why haven't they "been a big hit with enthusias on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1

    Guess it may have to do with that firmware then. I remember there was an issue with it originally, they retracted the original firmware, and released another trim version, but I never got around to doing it because of the full wipe.

  23. Re:I've got a better deal on HP Spent Over $80M To Get Rid of Its CEOs · · Score: 2

    It's no surprise that Google isn't tanking then.

  24. Re:why haven't they "been a big hit with enthusias on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1

    Interesting you mention SuperTalent drives. I have a pair of the 64GB SSDs from 2 years back in RAID0, with no issues. I never upgraded the firmware to support TRIM, if that gives you a time reference. What was the problem with them?

  25. Re:Ban Cisco from the Internet ? on Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Berlusconi is a media mogul. Did you expect better?