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Comment Re:Information Sources? (Score 1) 180

I'd like to see a column containing the source of data indicating that the entity supports SOPA. SOPA support is quickly becoming the 'PR Mark of Death' so there needs to be some semblance of certainty that each entity should really be on that list.

Then create a column and hunt down the information yourself for the benefit of others! See crowdsourced! <snark />

But yeah, on a non-snarky note I agree with you and this information should be included.

Comment Re:LVMH (Score 1) 180

no $1000 handbag for my wife now.

All of the major fashion houses are for SOPA due to knock-offs diluting their brands. See Dolce & Gabbana and others on this list.

Of course you can't dilute the Louis Vuitton brand any more than they have with their tacky monogram logo plastered all over everything, but that's an argument for another time.

Comment Re:maybe more secure (Score 1) 332

Not only is this dependent on the quality of the sysadmins, it is dependent as well on the policies and actions of those governing any particular cloud. The sysadmins do not create these policies, they merely implement them. Bottom line is that when you put data in a 'cloud', you are trusting the corporation or entity in control of that cloud with your data. Their policies could change at any time. Or the government could do so for them. Or another entity could take ownership and again change the policies involved.

Bottom line is that once your data is on someone else's server, all bets are off. Someone else is in 'possession' of this data, and may choose to do things with this data that you might not agree with.

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Journal Journal: A long way from home 1

It's nearly the end of the year. I noticed I average about a post a year now on this once so fantastic news site that I barely check up on these days. I haven't seen the oodles of good posts that whooshed by, nor have I seen the inventive new types of trolls that lurked here since when I was in University. That's a perplexing 10 years ago by now.

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Journal Journal: in which i am a noob all over again 17

I haven't posted a journal here in almost three years, because I couldn't find the button to start a new entry. ...yeah, it turns out that it's at the bottom of the page.

So... hi, Slashdot. I used to be really active here, but now I mostly lurk and read. I've missed you.

Comment Re:Intel Softcores (Score 1) 151

Apple's reasons for switching had more to do with x86 as a better-invested hardware platform. They wanted all the same hardware capabilities as the burgeoning PC/gamer market, and I guarantee you it wasn't going to be cheap or easy to get the likes of NVidia or ATI to prepare Apple variants of their PC hardware. (You wouldn't just take the latest NVidia card and drop it into an Apple; the video card has a BIOS in x86 machine code, because the PC expects it. Apple hardware was necessarily different, if only because it used a different processor architecture)

I believe some of it was related to the rate of improvement in the x86 processor market as compared to the PowerPC, too. These days, the X-Box 360 and PS3 both have PPC processors, but that doesn't drive a constant evolution in those processors' capabilities; consoles work the way they do because developers expect consistency within a platform.

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