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Comment: Re:P/N: X812824 Going on ~9 years. MS FTW (Score 1) 134

by fatphil (#45671035) Attached to: How long do your computer mice last?
I answered 5+, as my optical mouse is an old-timer. However, I seem to have overlooked the wireless logitech I bought only a month ago that *never ever worked*. Alas I bought it on a business trip in a foreign country, and can't take it back. It had all kinds of bugs. For example, it used to re-order events. Quite often you could release a button, and it wouldn't send the up event until you next moved the mouse.

Logitech M185 = cheap shitty crap, know that.

Comment: Re:An insecticide-infection connection in bee colo (Score 1) 107

by fatphil (#45669161) Attached to: Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies
There are drug company representatives (Bayer, Monsanto) behind some of the "pesticides are almost certainly fucking things up" reports:

http://www.setac.org/resource/resmgr/publications_and_resources/executivesummarypollinators_.pdf?hhSearchTerms=SETAC+and+Pellston+and+Workshop

Of course, maybe their boss' boss' boss doesn't know about this yet, which is why they're still in a job.

+ - AT&T, Verizon Attempting to Get Government Approval to Cut Off Competitors.->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In Michigan, Senate Bill 636 will remove any remaining requirements of AT&T and Verizon to lease lines to other providers, effectively killing all competing phone and internet providers, including wireless providers, which rely on leasing any connectivity from AT&T or Verizon. Readers should not be fooled by the title of the bill into thinking it only applies to a hard-wired phone line coming into their home or office. What the consumer calls a landline differs greatly from what the law calls a landline."
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+ - Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Suzanne Goldenberg writes at The Guardian that researchers at the University of Toronto's department of chemistry have identified a newly discovered greenhouse gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century, that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth. "We claim that PFTBA has the highest radiative efficiency of any molecule detected in the atmosphere to date," says Angela Hong. Concentrations of PFTBA in the atmosphere are low – 0.18 parts per trillion in the Toronto area – compared to 400 parts per million for carbon dioxide but PFTBA is long-lived. There are no known processes that would destroy or remove PFTBA in the lower atmosphere so it has a very long lifetime, possibly hundreds of years, and is destroyed in the upper atmosphere. ""It is so much less than carbon dioxide, but the important thing is on a per molecule basis, it is very very effective in interacting with heat from the Earth." PFTBA has been in use since the mid-20th century for various applications in electrical equipment, such as transistors and capacitors. "PFTBA is just one example of an industrial chemical that is produced but there are no policies that control its production, use or emission," says Hong. "It is not being regulated by any type of climate policy.""

Comment: Re:Epic Fail. (Score 1) 181

by fatphil (#45664271) Attached to: Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified
> we need to stop coddling the investors and job creators and fund the consumers

The notion that the business owners are the job creators is a myth. I run a business, and I want as *few people as possible* on my payroll - just enough to do the work for my clients, not one more - as every single one eats away my bottom line. In reality everyone does think this way - just check how share prices change after the announcement of layoffs.

The real job creaters are indeed the consumers who drive up demand so much that more employees are absolutely necessary in order to satisfy it.

Don't try talking about this at TED, as they'll censor you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJL33CfDfQ

+ - Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram->

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes "A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.
Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive.
In two papers posted on the arXiv repository, Yoshifumi Hyakutake of Ibaraki University in Japan and his colleagues now provide, if not an actual proof, at least compelling evidence that Maldacena’s conjecture is true."
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Comment: Firefox: The most unstable software in common use. (Score 0) 207

by Futurepower(R) (#45660839) Attached to: Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins
I first reported the Firefox memory-hogging instability bug in Firefox version .9, whatever it was called then. Now, years later, Firefox still grabs more and more memory until it becomes unstable.

The memory-hogging instability occurs when many windows and tabs are open, as is likely for anyone doing extensive research.

Comment: Re:Why wait until now? (Score 1) 212

by leuk_he (#45660763) Attached to: Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India

The same way as nokia thinks that they can deduct any exports of software (dodge the taxes) and pay 0,001 % of that in ireland. And suddenly this does not work. Recently the dodging of taxes by moving the profits arround between serveral countries is more and more frowned upon by politician.

The trouble is that no country can stop it first: they will loose and other tax evasion countries will smile. india is quite brave, even if the result may be that the nokia factory will be closed as result of this.

+ - Oracle Wants $1 Billion From Google->

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes "Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is suing Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) for more than $1 billion in damages. Oracle claims that Google has infringed on its patent and has used code developed by it to develop the Android operating system. Android operating system is used in a majority of smartphones and tablets with estimates of its market share putting the figure at 70+% and above. The earlier claim of $6 billion was not found sustainable. The courts will now decide whether the case should be pursued further.

In other news, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has announced that it will integrate OpenStack capabilities in its own products."
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+ - Guilty Verdict In First Ever Cybercrime RICO Trial->

Submitted by clm1970
clm1970 writes "A young Arizona identity thief is the first person in the U.S. to be found guilty of federal racketeering charges for facilitating his crimes over a website. The precedent could mean that even the most casual user of a site used primarily for illegal activity could be punished as harshly as the most serious offenders."
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