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Comment Re:great, more advertising by press release (Score 3, Insightful) 169

I don't see moly transistors replacing the entirety of silicon transistor applications in the same way that graphene will never replace silicon.

I can, however, see moly transistors stepping in for the power regulation side of a chip and system where efficiency is demanded, and graphene-based 'burst processing' cores that are shut down completely when not in use on the performance side.

Everything is about application, adaptation, and integration of technologies, not seeking out a replacement for every end of the spectrum at once. Silicon is the Jack in the middle, while the specialists should be looked upon as integrable to the whole of transistor arrangement.

Comment Re:Override available? (Score 1) 549

Or maybe you've had a single dose of Nyquil, or even something as simple as rinsed your mouth with Listerine, and the residue on your fingers (stabilized by the other ingredients of these products) is enough to trip the device. Describing them as 'Unfailingly Accurate' sounds like a recipe for false positives in bad situations. In an amusing reversal of the standard trope, this is like DRM cutting your access to something you legally purchased and legally make use of because you have a Torrent client installed. I'm sure there will be 'Circumvention' clauses associated with the devices as well.

Comment Re:A couple of points missed by the article... (Score 1) 225

And concert tickets...jesus, if you even have to ask. I can remember paying $25 for good concert tickets (for mainstream bands) just 20 years ago. Today it's crazy what you pay even for tickets to no-name bands' concerts.

I saw Apocalyptica for just $25 a few weeks ago by buying the ticket at the door. What you're likely encountering is Ticketmaster's runabout scam, which after fees turns that '$25 at the door' into $48 or more. They even intentionally put their site into maintenance mode just as new tickets are released and link to a site that has no mention of Ticketmaster, yet is owned by them, which sells the tickets at up to 10x their box-office price.

The tickets themselves haven't gotten more expensive, really to the contrary, but the fees and greed of the company who monopolizes them has indeed gotten out of hand.

Privacy

Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232

PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."

Comment Re:But... (Score 1, Interesting) 459

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I pirate games I don't want to pay for because generally too expensive to purchase. If I could pay $10 for each of a dozen games that I've pirated in the past year instead of $120 for two, I probably would.

In my case, they are losing a sale to fixing the price too high for too long, especially in this age of Price != Quality. On the flipside, I'll buy titles on Steam for $9 on-sale and secondary to that reason never have to worry about losing access to it because of some shady DRM scheme.

I think a lot of pirating of games is for the same reason as pirating of movies still in theatres: They simply cost too f*cking much to access legitimately on a regular basis.

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