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  1. Re:No brainer on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 1

    No...Capitalism rewards using capital to produce goods and services that people want to buy. Cash is only one kind of capital. The people producing wealth are not the investors. They only benefit by letting someone else do something productive with their capital. Capitalism is much more about work that is it about capital.

  2. Re:Mostly because companies are bastards. on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 1

    Actually, a corp does not usually help much in that regard if your the only employee. The odds of you being able to maintain the corporate veil are really low.

  3. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    The argument is not that you can't grow vegetables. The argument is that a very large part of the available land is poorly suited for it. For example, raising cattle on grass in west Texas requires few inputs. Growing large scale crops there requires far more resources.

  4. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Actually, it does....
    It's apparent that most people using this argument to promote vegitarinaism know nothing about farming. Vegetable crops require a lot of what farmers call "inputs". These are things like water, highly fertile land, fertilizer, labor intensive cultivation, and labor intensive harvesting. These things make growing vegetable crops expensive. The biggest problem is land. The amount of land that is suitable for growing such crops without very high inputs is relatively small.

    So, whats the answer, how can we feed the worlds population in a way that is affordable and doesn't wreck the land? The answer is we use the land for what huge areas are suitable for by growing grass on it. Grass that is inedible to humans but is perfect for tasty herbivorous animals. We cannot sustainably and affordably feed the world without animal protein .

  5. Re:Look at it from a dev's perspective. on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 2

    You can selectively reject any permission. In your example, the app would pop up a notification saying that it needed internet access to function. The user could then click "Allow" and the app would continue.

    I'll give you another example, an app that can optionally store something in DropBox. Why should require that the permission to do so be granted at install time if it's an option the user might never use?

  6. Re:Look at it from a dev's perspective. on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    It would be a pain if you had to do all that yourself. Fortunately, for IOS there is a really nice framework that does most of the work for you. It's very easy to make your app react properly when permissions are denied.

  7. Re:Just plain wrong. on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not all permissions are essential to the operation of the app. Thats the point of being able to selectively choose. Many IOS apps just disable certain functions or niceties when you deny a permission. They can also pop up a nice dialog when you try to do something requiring that permission and ask if you want to turn it back on. An all-or-nothing approach is just stupid and leads to users just blindly accepting what the app asks for.

  8. Re:help on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    What??? There are several options for open source email servers and most of them scale really well. Exchange typically takes a lot more resources for the same number of users...not less.

  9. Re:Why roll your own distro? on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    If all your doing is defining a specific set of existing packages then you really aren't creating your own distro. All the major players let you define a configuration to install.

  10. Re:Genuinely Interested on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    Try Viscosity. http://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity While it does cost more than TunnelBlick ($9), it's still cheap and it's much more polished and reliable.

  11. Re: Get an iPad on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 2

    Ever hear of the Camera Connection Kit? It works great and the camera plugs right in.

  12. Re:4K makes sense for monitors on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 1

    I did consider all those issues and I'm well aware of the show room tricks that have been used to sell TVs. However, there was a noticeable difference even 20 feet back. The 70" 1080p monitor had an incredible picture. It was everything you would expect of a top-end Sony. It looked incredible until you put it side-by-side with the 4K. It had nothing to do with color,hue,saturation, or brightness. The difference was the incredible clarity.

    Some of the pictures were overhead shots of crowd scenes. On the 1080 you could see that someone was holding a book. On the 4K you could read the title.

  13. Re:4K makes sense for monitors on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 1

    They must be blind. The first time I saw 4K it was an 80" Sony. They had the same loop playing on the 70" 1080 set beside it. The difference was astounding and you didn't need to be close to it to see the difference. I suspect the problem here is people spouting bullshit based on theory instead of actual observation.

  14. Re:4K makes sense for monitors on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 2

    Have you ever actually seen an 80" 4K TV? You can absolutely tell a difference at even beyond 10 feet. I was actually pretty surprised by how much better it looked.

  15. Re:LED TVs on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 1

    Burn-in has not been a problem with plasmas for a long time. Power consumption, yes....burn-in, no.

  16. Re:Yet Another Stupid Tool on OpenSUSE 13.1 Released and Reviewed · · Score: 2

    YAST is also one of the reasons I love Suse. It handles MOST of the configuration tasks that MOST people need. Does it do everything..no, but it does mean you don't need to start hacking config files 90% of the time.

  17. Re:Third party software on OpenSUSE 13.1 Released and Reviewed · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is more to support than being stable. With SLES/SLED and RHES there is a level of engineering support you just can't get with the others. They actually pay people to help you get your app running right and they answer the phone when something breaks.

  18. Re:Fear and Paranoia... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 2

    Not sure where your getting your demographics but most Tea party members, and republicans in general, cannot be considered poor.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement#Membership_and_demographics

    "Several polls have been conducted on the demographics of the movement. Though the various polls sometimes turn up slightly different results, they tend to show that Tea Party supporters tend more likely than Americans overall to be white, male, married, older than 45, regularly attending religious services, conservative, and to be more wealthy and have more education."

  19. Re:WTF is Glassfish? on Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. To be pedantic, Tomcat can communicate to clients via HTTP but that is not it's intended purpose. In most real world implementations, a web server is used between the client and Tomcat. The communication between the web server and tomcat is not limited to HTTP.

    By your logic ALL app servers are web servers. My comment was in response to "Tomact is only a web server" which is not true.

  20. Re:WTF is Glassfish? on Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? · · Score: 2

    Tomcat is NOT a web server. It is a lightweight application server that provides a servlet container. That servlet container is a subset of the J2EE spec. It is the subset that roughtly 90% of java apps actually need. Most of the applications running on JBoss, Websphere, etc. don't actually use the extra features available on this platforms.

  21. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    Once you get out of the NE corridor NOBODY is doing 55-60 on the interstate. Average speeds will likely be 80 or better all the way to CA.

  22. Re: They are still damn overpriced on Apple 27-inch iMac With Intel's Haswell Inside Tested · · Score: 1

    In target display mode OS X is not running. The key combination enables the display and port firmware...turning it into a monitor.

  23. Re:Apollo Computer - Domain Operating System on Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux · · Score: 2

    There was another OS 20+ years ago that was designed from the ground up as a network OS...Netware!

  24. Re:Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    "Capitalism made people so miserable it led to communist revolutions"...No it didn't. Neither China or Russia/eastern europe had a capitalist economy prior to the revolution. They were both feudal agrarian societies.

  25. Re:Fingerprint database, anyone? on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    Want to add hardware security functions to your ARM design? Here's just one example of how to do it.

    http://www.arm.com/community/partners/display_product/rw/ProductId/7255/