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  1. Not going to look for sources, but I've seen resellers say that their panels have 80% performance after 25 years. No idea if they go downhill rapidly after this.

  2. Re:T vs T2 vs S on Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) · · Score: 1

    DVB-S/S2 is satellite-based
    DVB-T/T2 is "air" (UHF antenna)
    DVB-C is cable-based (not seen C2 - might exist)

    -S and -T are MPEG2 based (usually)
    -S2 and -T2 are MPEG4 based (usually)

    Encryption can be applied to all of them, and in many countries is almost standard (very few free channels, usually tax-paid ones or pr0n related). The UK seems to have an above-average number of free channels.
    "Freesat" is specifically a UK term for DVB-S/S2 channels without encryption.

  3. Re:Summary lacks basic thinking skills on Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) · · Score: 4, Funny

    over-the-air cable

    That must be the stuff hanging up on utility poles. Completely different than the under-the-ground cable.

    No, that would be in-the-air cable - In Europe, Over-The-Air cabling is done at 700km altitude.

  4. Re:as one of the effected people on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1

    Former employer's largest customer had issues with their other vendors all outsourcing support to India, causing constant issues, and a steady stream of complaints internally.
    Eventually, that employer lost that customer, with the customer complaining that they were too expensive; a new support-contract was signed, which promised to set up a support-center in India to lower the cost.

    Moral of the story: Large companies cannot learn, cannot judge quality and only care about cost.

    Note: I'm sure there are lots of people who are perfectly capable in India and other low-cost countries (I know there are - I've worked with some!), but when you outsource to save 75% on labor, you're not getting the most skilled people.

  5. Re:Option: Linksys WRT1900ac on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    Having used a "Linksys by CISCO", or tried to anyway, I won't touch another Linksys product, unless paid VERY well to do so.
    (incidentally, I now also consider CISCO to be shite, since they considered the aformentioned heap-o-feces to be good enough to put their name on it)

  6. Re:The F35 is a joke: on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    No only Lockheed Martin.

    Other companies, in other countries, have won contracts for bits and pieces, usually requiring the home-country of such companies to promise to purchase aircraft or other material. This way, it has become a government subsidy programme for many companies.

  7. Re:Which company is next in line? on Microsoft Tip Leads To Child Porn Arrest In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    Privacy Intrusion?

    I do not know the Terms of Service (ToS) in question here (I don't use MS OneDrive or live.com email), but if the user has agreed to let MS scan emails using automated tools, and later review flagged results using actual humans, then there is no intrusion!

    Yes, the person (...) who got flagged and arrested probably didn't read the ToS, or perhaps didn't understand the implications of it, but that doesn't make MS' actions questionable, or cause them to become "intrusions" - if you've surrendered that part of your privacy to a company (willfully, even if unknowingly), you cannot come back later and say it was intruded upon.

  8. Re:Interesting on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 1

    Bitcoins must, as far as I can tell, have something that identifies them; at the very least, you need to be sure that only 1 person mined a given coin (solved a given mathematical challenge), to avoid endless, easily mined coins.

    Am starting to think one should investigate the possibility of making a blacklist of coins known to be acquired via illegal methods.

  9. Re:Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    Very much :)

    Actually a few countries in EU have rules against perusing people's emails, where the privacy of communications cannot be signed away easily.

  10. Re:Interesting on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 2

    My bit of pondering is whether that 0.6btc can be tracked/identified at companies handling bitcoins, and especially at companies converting between btc and real money?

    Could you basically get the police (Europol/Interpol?) involved, and when a company reports that a user is trying to use/convert the btc you paid with, have that user charged with ransoming data, or taking stolen goods (i.e. either as the original thief, or as a fence)?

    If the 0.6btc is acquired by the person via a laundry-service, charge him/her with engaging in activities meant to conceal the original crime?

  11. Re: Only geeks... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 1

    WTF - Even Korea gets to have a KFC?

    /me mumbles something about capital of Europe and lack of KFCs

  12. Re:Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is in the ToS, which at least 1 party (the account-owner) has agreed to.

    We can try all we want to compare this to 1984 and what-nut, but if we explicitly allows a company to rummage through our email, we have no basis for complaining when it happens.

    (Note: I can think of at least 1 country where this part of the ToS would be invalid)

  13. Re:4th gen reactor consumes old waste ... on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Didnt that require that the U,S, changes some laws regarding "spent" fuel?

  14. Re:Angry Proliferation Game on China Confirms New Generation of ICBM · · Score: 1

    Good thing they gave their nukes to Russia, in exchange for Russia not attacking them...

    "The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;"

  15. Re:Angry Proliferation Game on China Confirms New Generation of ICBM · · Score: 1

    Moscow has a fairly advanced missile shield too, so it might not even work.

    Just thinking... If you know your target has a missile-shield, launch 1-4 missiles* to test where they get intercepted, then set the next couple of nukes to detonate just before reaching the point of interception. Now your target still has to deal with EM, radiation, and a scared-shitless citizenry and military.
    At this point, launch another to see if their missile-shield is still operational (and manned?)...

    *: These don't really require actual warheads, if you're certain they'll get intercepted.

  16. Re:Until Google comes clean on Google+ Photos To Be Separated From Google+ · · Score: 1

    aaaaaallllllll of it.

    simples

  17. Re:Yes, let's do this. on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1

    Or SyFy movie ... assuming the infected is also a Zombie, with tentacle-arms

  18. Re:Yes, let's do this. on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 3, Funny

    As long as no-one shoots down the plane, while it is over some heavily populated location, like, Atlanta.

  19. Re:From Finland on Nokia Buys a Chunk of Panasonic · · Score: 1

    Wooooo ... 5% of the world didn't know of Nokia until they became the largest cellphone manufacturer.

    (in fairness, since I don't use rubber-boots, or drive around in the snow, I didn't really know of Nokia until the 90'ies either)

  20. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly convinced there are better options than what has been attempted so far - but I'm no politician looking for votes, so what do I know.

  21. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If Israel weren't so hell-bent on creating more supporters for Hamas and similar organizations, your dreams of disarmament might come true.

    Meanwhile, every Palestinian child that dies during these events results in more people signing up to fight the Israeli, the Americans and all other non-Arab, non-Muslim out there.
    (Yes, it SERIOUSLY doesn't matter who is to blame - the last 3 weeks have done more for the recruitment efforts by Hamas et al, than anything Hamas could do on their own, no matter the validity, or lack of same, in the actions taken by Israel.)

  22. Re:Waste of time on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    Only thing unskippable are the ads on Disney DVDs ...

  23. Need copies ASAP! on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    I think I need copies of these banner-ads, and pay Google/whoever to put them on legit sites!

  24. Get a Jolla(...) and a 3rd party keyboard on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    The Jolla has a replaceable back, under which there is an i2c connection.

    3rd-party keyboard attach to where the back-plate was, and connects to the phone via the i2c bus instead of Bluetooth, making for a good, reliable connection, and less battery wasted.

    Simples!

  25. Re: No shit, it's soccer. on Soccer Superstar Plays With Very Low Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    Football is called "The Beautiful Sport" for a reason - there is more to it than running the fastest and scoring the most point, in the smallest-possible area.
    Some of the above posters only care about action and numbers, and dislike concepts like elegance and skill.