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Comment Re:FCC Shouldn't Ban It, But Airlines Should (Score 2) 340

We shall all fly at the lowest common denominator, because that's how the US airline industry works. No airline enforces the rules on carry-on bag size so everyone can get on and off the plane in less than 20 minutes, or offers no-crying-baby flights, or more legroom, or still serves real food in coach. If one allows phone calls, the rest will within a week.

Comment Re:The real question is about Emacs (Score 2) 252

It is absolutely Emacs' fault that that the default keybindings are still set up for MIT Lisp machines (Super and Meta? In 2014? Really??).

It is also emblematic of the problems within Emacs' user community that they can say with apparent seriousness that the problem is every keyboard and OS since nineteen-seventy-fscking-five "breaking compatibility" with Emacs, instead of their own failure to adapt to a changing environment.

Comment Re:Computer Science students (Score 1) 606

I'm an expert observer of my own environment, and have noticed that now that they're built into every phone OS it's been a decade since I was more than a few steps from the nearest calculator.

What value does being able to rattle off the old times table have when you're sitting in front of a computer (with a calculator app), with a smartphone in your pocket (ditto), and probably a desk calculator with some vendor's logo on it (since they're about $0.99 in bulk)?

Comment Re:Remember TEMPEST? (Score 1) 264

Right, but all the sound reveals is whether the CPU is busy or idle (or more likely, how much current it's drawing). Adding random-length pauses exactly at the steps where knowing whether the CPU goes idle leaks part of the key would break this sort of listening attack.

With multi-core processors it might even be possible to mask the sound by starting up another thread to do useless work that sounds like encryption but isn't...

Comment Re:Why is Google not a telecom? (Score 1) 291

Because eventually they will. But when they do, they'll be a monopoly that's in the business of selling gigabit+ symmetric connections at a price mere private individuals can afford.

"Home" service from the current monopolies top out around 100 Mbits down and 10 up, and they show no sign of wanting to push those top speeds up, probably out of fear of cannibalizing the huge margins on their $250+/month "business" lines.

Submission + - Winamp shutting down as of December 20, 2013 (winamp.com)

Cid Highwind writes: If you want to download the latest version of Winamp, better do it soon. According to a new banner on the download page, AOL will be pulling the plug on the iconic llama-whipping music player in a month.

"Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years."

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