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Comment Re:Soda can... (Score 0) 163

by another_gopher on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:27PM (#47585951) Attached to: Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can

<quote><p>Where I drive, you simply can't leave any more distance when traffic is heavy: if you leave reasonable space between you and the car in front of you, someone will pull in. </p></quote><br><br>Why is this a problem? Just because others drive unsafely, does not oblige you to do likewise.

Comment flawed (Score 3, Insightful) 135

by another_gopher on Friday March 07, 2014 @08:06PM (#46432119) Attached to: Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter?

Except that to do this you first assume uniform distribution of impacts wrt time...

Comment Yes (Score 1) 572

by another_gopher on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @06:41PM (#46413595) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees?

2000+ employee firm in Boston and London

mandatory install of iphone profile to enable the MITM to work "transparently"

Comment theregister does it better (Score 3, Informative) 111

by another_gopher on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:55PM (#46328603) Attached to: The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World

Tony Smith's articles on the history of micro-computers does this far better:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/01/acorn_archimedes_is_25_years_old/

Submission + - Consumers indifferent to Apple's proprietary iEverything ecosystem (ft.com)

Submitted by another_gopher on Monday December 17, 2012 @07:13PM

another_gopher writes: The Financial Times' alphaville blog summarizes recent sell-side analysts insights into Apple future prospects. In particular, do consumers care about the operating system of their devices?

Citi declared a few weeks ago it had three equity analysts focused solely on Apple, which generated a bit of intrigue and also some ridicule.

Citi’s Yeung et al make one last and very interesting point. They are not so sure about the Apple iEverything ‘ecosystem’ (ie, proprietary approach to its software and hardware):

We believe ultimately, key to Apple’s market share position is the company’s ability to drive consumers to its ecosystem. Our survey doesn’t support that consumers broadly find this to be important, although it is more important for Apple customers.In general consumers are indifferent with regard to having a common operating system across devices with 54% indicating that it is “Not Important.”

Submission + - Shipping gas to Japan requires nuclear-powered ice-breaker (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by another_gopher on Monday November 26, 2012 @10:10AM

another_gopher writes: First winter shipment of LPG to Japan is en-route via the North-east Arctic passage. Japan requires more gas now that it has decided to close its nuclear power stations.

Comment How much? (Score -1, Offtopic) 110

by another_gopher on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:27PM (#40262775) Attached to: Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012

Can anyone zoom in enough to spot the price sticker? I reckon the charge to upgrade for existing users isn't going to go down too well...

Comment Risk Analysis required... (Score 1) 271

by another_gopher on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @07:02AM (#36151372) Attached to: GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School

I think the risk analysis should be trivial: Likely more children will die from asthma attacks and accidents due to teachers being unable to call for assistance on their mobiles than will be saved from "radiation".

5 Years of Linux Kernel Releases Benchmarked 52

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 04, 2010 @02:49AM from the line-them-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published benchmarks of the past five years worth of Linux kernel releases, from the Linux 2.6.12 through Linux 2.6.37 (dev) releases. The results from these benchmarks of 26 versions show that, for the most part, new features haven't affected performance."

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