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  1. Re:Yes! Econ-101 on FreeBSD, Ubuntu Offer Same NVIDIA OpenGL Support As Windows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Linux is a nonstarter in the mid to high leveled graphics card markets.

    Are you talking about consumer or professional grade cards there? People do engineering CAD work and simulation in Linux. Steam is out for Linux now, and more games will presumably be on the way. Linux users are more likely to be power users who actually care about getting decent hardware.

  2. Re:A basic spell check on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 2

    Samzenpus is actually a cat. Don't hold it against him.

  3. Re:Attack of the D-K Zombies on Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software · · Score: 1

    You're claiming to be able to reverse engineer an entire cookbook just by chemically analysing a cookie from one recipe in that book. You'd have to make every single recipe in the book and analyse it before you had a complete representation of all the recipes.

  4. Re:Dupe on Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    That's deep, man.

  5. Re:knowledge is power on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 2

    I've read before that people who seem without empathy, sometimes are actually naturally very highly empathetic - they have just learned to turn it off as a defence mechanism.

    I've wondered that about myself sometimes. Sometimes I let myself get absurdly upset over things that hurt people (or animals) that I don't even know. Sometimes even just from pain that fictional characters are experiencing. But sometimes I ust get burned out and don't care any more.

  6. Re:Americans no better than foreigners on NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rather the sad thing is that reality is actually pretty fun when you're not busy with the reality of being sad about the unfunny realities of reality.

  7. Re:lock out? on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    True, but even even with a visible finger grease smear, my sister couldn't actually figure out the unlock pattern on my tablet. I'm not sure if you can re-use nodes, but if you can then it would help to make things even more confusing

  8. Re:lock out? on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    And why not use the pattern-lock feature instead? Much more natural than typing in a PIN, and still very secure.

  9. Re:Huh? on How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    That's why some companies even build patent portfolios. They wouldn't engage in this for a standoff.. if they're really smart then they already have employees doing this kind of thing to block competitors' patents..

  10. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm not campaigning to make his lifestyle illegal, because it isn't that important to me. Making life miserable for gay people seems to be important to him.

  11. Re:No wonder ... on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ideas aren't actually that important when it comes to movies IMO.. it's the way the story is told, the atmosphere of the thing, that makes a movie good or bad. Good ideas might make you go "whoah, I didn't see that coming" the first time you see the movie - but it's the atmosphere they create that will keep you coming back to them.

  12. Re:No wonder ... on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    I didn't think that much of the first. The second was better, but.. the tie-ins to the original series/movies still just felt like a cheap joke.

  13. Re:Outbreak, not "plague"; dont be sensationalist. on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    But those parents wouldn't be a part of whatever study the guy was proposing, because they ignore evidence while giving in to their fears.

  14. Re:Outbreak, not "plague"; dont be sensationalist. on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't some subjective study where placebos will have an effect. I don't think 2 year olds are going to think "okay, that injection could have just been water, but I'm going to pretend to be Autistic for the rest of my life anyway".

  15. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Yep.. skip the fries and coke and you can get a healthy-ish meal at BK. There's some carbs (white flour so not great, but not as bad as a large dose of coke/fries), plenty of protein and some salad in a double/triple whopper :) I wouldn't eat fast food exclusively, but I have no problem at all having that as a meal every so often.

  16. Re:Linux on ARM on Microsoft's Surface RT Was Doomed From Day One · · Score: 2

    Methinks the real issue would be having to deal with the Windows 8 interface. On my Androids I hardly use any obscure apps. The only ones I download are Kindle and Spotify. But you'd have to pay me quite a lot every month to have me use Windows 8's godawful mish-mash of Metro/desktop, no matter what apps it had.

  17. Re:The thing is on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Most people have no use for a tablet. It is a device that is an inbetween that they don't need. They have a smartphone, so that is a small, low power, device for browsing the web n' such that travels with you everywhere. They then also have a laptop (and sometimes desktop) for when they need more serious stuff and to do thing actually productive (touch screens are not useful for most kinds of creation, even simple creation like writing an e-mail).

    Well a tablet is a device in between those two. It runs a phone OS and is only maybe a little more powerful, but is much larger. Ok... so that does what for you precisely?

    Your post would make sense to anyone who has never used a tablet. I like mine for reading eBooks, watching videos, etc. Yes, it's basically just a bigger version of my phone, but the larger display does make a difference in terms of comfort. My phone will do in a pinch, but if I'm at home on the sofa, I'd rather not sit there holding it up to my face. I stopped taking my laptop home from work a few years ago, because of tablets. I do still have a desktop PC if I want to use a full PC, but I hardly ever switch it on either.

  18. Re:Reward the artist on Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties · · Score: 1

    You can stream and/or cache offline. You can have your mobile offline for up to a month at a time without having to check in again with the license server.

    One thing to watch out for if you're using the desktop version: if you cache any playlists to use offline, Spotify then actually makes your machine a peer-to-peer server to take some load off the main server. You can't disable this in the settings, but you can set firewall rules to block or throttle it:

    CONCLUSION

    The only Requirement for Spotify is ALLOW Outbound Connections to "Remote Port" 4070 to *.ash.spotify.com (currently 193.182.8.3 - 193.182.8.90 or IP 193.182.8.1/Subnet 255.255.255.128).

    http://mrlithium.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/spotify-and-opting-out-of-spotify-peer.html

  19. Re:Testla is good... on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 1

    It's heavier than the Elise and can't match it through corners..

  20. Re:Testla is good... on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 0

    Okay, turns out he was into renewable energy. I thought the fact that he was so into wireless power transfer would mean that he didn't really care about efficiency.

  21. Re:Testla is good... on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you saying that Tesla was some campaigner for green energy? I don't think so. He would however think electric cars are pretty cool.

  22. Re:Glass alternative operating system on New Android Eyewear Wants To Compete With Google Glass · · Score: 4, Funny

    ForEyes

  23. Re:Where is the mention of Gold in the real link ? on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 2

    The end of TFA has this quote:

    "We've been looking for a 'smoking gun' to link a short gamma-ray burst with a neutron star collision. The radioactive glow from GRB 130603B may be that smoking gun," said Wen-fai Fong, a graduate student at the CfA and a co-author of the paper.

    Still, I don't know why gold was mentioned. Probably because it's shiny and associated with money. I'm not sure why Network World thought that singling out gold was necessary to get geeks interested in science..

  24. Re:Will read later on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    No, because a 403 is a response from the webserver. A proxy would probably give a different message, and if it was blocked via firewall rules then it just would give no response whatsoever..

  25. Re:Reward the artist on Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties · · Score: 1

    It's not the only way of course, but it's got the majority of the music that I like past and present (and when it doesn't, it lets you import your own songs). Plus it has a nice mobile interface that synchs everything wirelessly between your tablet/phone/PC (including non-Spotify tracks now). It's far better than any other system I've used so far. So I'm happy to pay for it.