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Comment Re:I hope they really mean child (Score 1) 306

As usually by the time it made it to the Slashdot headline it was completely miss-reported. They are working on a DB to share hashes of known images. This only prevents them having to review the image on each new URL, someone still has to have seen the image and added it to the DB (to be honest they had better be conforming these flags at least sometimes so that's two people etc.etc.)

Comment Reference (Score 1) 480

It is much more valuable (and more common at least in the UK) to include references. Simple letters from your past clients/employees covering what you did for them and how happy they were.

Without some ideal of the the goals, budget, time-scales, support, and in IT critically when the work was completed it is impossible to judge its quality.

Comment Confilicted (Score 1) 262

Google/Facebook/Microsoft boast that they track your browsing, read your communication, and sell that data to advertisers. Why would you expect them refuse to share the data with a legitimate government? I am not even sure if I would even want them to refuse.

Your security and your privacy are your responsibility. Strong encryption and onion routing gave a technical solution long ago; we just need society to decide if it values privacy.

Comment Re:Too stupid to weed out marketing spam /.? (Score 1) 154

It is not per-cell (at that weight it would be a much more notable breakthrough if it was).
So assuming the screen, backlight, memory, and SSD use no power at all. Then you can use 15% of your CPU/GPU for 14 hours - yay marketing!
In fact the USB 3 charging port alone would drain the main and external batteries in 9 hours with the laptop in full sleep.

Comment Re:Too meticulous? (Score 1) 487

All times mentioned in BBC articles (unless clearly stated) are in British local time, therefore this is the most useful clock for them to display.
Few non-British people are going to want to set there clock by the BBC; however many people read a new story that 'XYZ happened this morning', and it would be very useful to see how long ago that was.

Comment Re:LMGTFY (Score 4, Insightful) 487

Given that the vast majority of computers already display their time on the screen; it is reasonable to assume the only the purpose of an additional clock on the BBC website is to validate its accuracy.
n.b. a large proportion of the population grew up setting their watches to the BBC's pips, it is also natural to consider them an authority on the subject.

Comment Re:Yes they can (Score 1) 497

If by workplace you mean 'Office' then they certainly will have a stronghold for many years. For the majority of the worlds population who don't work at a desk, desktops (even laptops require sitting down) seem unlikely to remain the best solution.
Gaming has a long history of toppling people with larger majority shares then Microsoft. The best way to think about the Xbox One that it currently has 0% market share, Microsoft have a lot of money and experience to change that, but so do other companies.

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