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  1. That's not the issue at hand... by denzacar · · Score: 1 · on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers

    Sure taking pics and sending them on the internet isn't that good of an idea. However it shouldn't need to represent the overall character of the person.

    Actually, the issue at hand is quite the opposite of that.

    The brouhaha is around Lawrence's image of a nice, clean, maybe a little bit clumsy, but generally wholesome talented young girl who just recently won an Oscar and was nominated for another one.
    And who is made into an idol to hundreds of thousand of girls and women through the recent movie adaptations of Hunger Games books.
    That was, and IS, society's understanding of her overall character.

    In comparison, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears... were all labeled and treated by the society as bimbos and sex kittens.
    I.e. Sluts and whores.
    Some of them laughing it off or even profiting from the incidents further cemented their image of a whore.

    Which, from time to time, is considered a positive thing.
    Pamela Anderson went on Oprah and they talked about their favorite sex positions and how big (or small - Oprah) their husbands' dicks were.
    Literally. It was fine. Girls will be girls. Girl power and all that. Te-he.
    Sex and the City made an image of a woman as a materialistic nymphomaniac who profits (one way or another) from her sexcapades a positive thing for years.
    The 50 shades craze?
    A poor, sexually repressed girl hooks up with a perverted billionaire and they engage into S&M for several books (and apparently movies) - AND THAT'S A LOVE STORY.

    BUT...
    Society, being part fans part judgmental mob, remembers them all as WHORES.
    And you don't marry your whore or bring her back to meet the parents. Except in fairy tales like Pretty Woman.
    Nor do you make a fuss of it when someone brings out the photos or videos of that whore's ass - again.
    "We've seen it. Move on. She made good money out if it. She probably staged it all. After all, she's an actress. Theaters weren't traditionally right next to whorehouses for no reason. She wouldn't take that photo/video if she didn't intend to share it - like a whore would."

    Nor do you bring her home to babysit for your kids and be a role model for your daughter.

    Oh... But what if your daughter chooses the newly revealed whore as a role model anyway?
    And we know she's a whore cause she walks like a whore, quacks like a whore, dresses like a whore, takes naked selfies like all whores do and shakes her ass and boobs for everyone to see on TV...
    Too late to sign her out from that archery class, and that guy with big arm muscles there says that she's "raw talent" and that maybe she could get into next Olympics if she trains hard.
    And other stuff.

    Well, then you rise up in righteous indignation against those people who treat her, and by extension your daughter, girlfriend, sister, cousin, high school crush, friend... as a common whore.
    I.e. Those who share her whore-photos around as if she's just another whore.

    Remember when way back in the day a former beloved first lady was called a sinner and a whore who should be excommunicated from the Church cause through no fault of her own she was photographed naked, in a private surrounding, through a telephoto lens?
    Press invented a cute nickname for her too.
    But despite one being a widow of an assassinated president, and the other an overrated 24-year-old actress, J-Law is a saint while Jackie O was a hoe.

    MY DAUGHTER DOES NOT ASSOCIATE WITH WHORES!!! GOT THAT!

    Unless say you want to expose to your boss and the general society things like your Google Searches, or your DNS logs, magazines, or surveillance camera of you taking a second glance at the one other person.

    Except nobody exposed that here, right?
    Nobody cares what J-Law reads and what she searches for.
    But everybody cares if she shows her ass or allows her ass to be shown - like a whore.

    Cause, a

  2. Re:Straw Man by thunderclap · · Score: 1 · on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers

    How many pics of unknown people were retrieved? People knew that the ICloud could be hacked. These same people wanted to see Jlaw and others naked. So they hacked Icloud. Did you notice there are no Tswift photos? She has an android phone. See any of Diana Agron? She has been hacked so many times that she doesn't trust Icloud or any other social media. Hense no pics. So the pics were in plain view just not what we would normally call it. So what 'plain view' was it? this: http://i.imgur.com/RO8iHG0.jpg If she hadn't done that. She would have an argument.

  3. Re:Mimicking a theory, not a phenomenon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Hawking Radiation Mimicked In the Lab

    Yes, actually. There's a lovely introduction to acoustic holes, acoustic geometries and acoustic Hawking radiation by Visser (http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712010) where he summarises this fairly well:

    "In particular, perhaps the most important lesson to be learned is this: Hawking radiation from event horizons is a purely kinematic effect that occurs in any Lorentzian geometry with an event horizon and is independent of any dynamical equations imposed on the Lorentzian geometry. On the other hand, the classical laws of black hole mechanics [40] are intrinsically results of the dynamical equations (Einstein equations) that have no analog in the acoustic model. Thus Hawking radiation persists even in the absence of the laws of black hole mechanics and, in particular, the existence or otherwise of Hawking radiation is now seen to be divorced from the issue of the existence or otherwise of the laws of black hole thermodynamics. Hawking radiation is a purely kinematical effect that will be there regardless of whether or not it makes any sense to assign an entropy to the event horizon — and attempts at deriving black hole entropy from the Hawking radiation phenomenon are thereby seen to require specific dynamical assumptions about the (at least approximate) applicability of the Einstein equations."

    (Entertainingly given the story we're commenting on, Visser also comments "it is clear that experimental verification of this acoustic Hawking effect will be rather difficult. (Though, as Unruh has pointed out [1], this is certainly technologically easier than building [general relativistic] micro-black holes in the laboratory.)")

    An interesting related problem one can set is to work in Rindler spacetime. This is just normal Minkowski spacetime (ie flat, Euclidean spacetime plus a time coordinate), but observed from observers uniformly accelerated away from a point. Rindler spacetime then slices Euclidean spacetime in four; no Rindler observer can pass from one of the quadrants to another, in a manner that resembles -- not necessarily that closely, but resembles -- Schwarzschild spacetime. (See these diagrams: Rindler spacetime, https://people.math.osu.edu/ge... and Schwarzschild spacetime, http://i.stack.imgur.com/bYrq7... ). Now Rindler spacetime is really just Euclidean spacetime written from the point of view of accelerating observers. Due to the close link in GR between acceleration and gravity -- the weak equivalence principle states that locally one cannot distinguish between the two -- it's probably not a surprise to learn that if one calculates the vacuum in Rindler coordinates, there is Hawking radiation! (This is "Unruh radiation" -- Bill Unruh has done a lot of work in the last few decades on this kind of topic, including some of the earliest papers on acoustic, or dumb, holes.)

  4. Re:He tried patenting it... by philip.paradis · · Score: 2 · on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days

    Your repeated use of the same misdirection tactic is demonstrative of a lack of creativity, but I have faith that you must have only the best intentions at heart. Would you care to read the cited paper and provide your insights on the relative trustworthiness of the authors? For your convenience, and in the interest of minimizing your risk of misinterpreting the cover page of the paper, I have repeated the names of the authors here:

    Giuseppe Levi
    Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

    Evelyn Foschi
    Bologna, Italy

    Bo Hoistad,
    Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegner
    Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Hanno Essen
    Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    In deference to Slashdot's inability to properly handle Unicode, I have taken the added measure of producing an image of the names. Once again, this is for your convenience.

    Please let us know when your evaluation of the these researchers' credentials has been completed. Your expert assistance is deeply appreciated.

  5. Haters gunna hate but this is too funny by TFlan91 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Crowdsourced Remake "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut" Now Complete

    All you guys hating for some arbitrary ideal are just buzz killers, nothing more or less.

    The subtle things in the background are what kills me ahahaa

    check out at 11:48. someone was smoking some MJ :'D http://imgur.com/gVASzOk

    1 / 5 scenes having some easter egg in it

  6. Re:Just a cry for funding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Z Machine Makes Progress Toward Nuclear Fusion

    I don't have any reason to believe this specific direction for fusion power is any good, but, yes, fusion power needs more funding if it's ever going to work.

  7. Re:If Minecraft is anything to go by by j_philipp · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks

    Oh you're right, this is not yet the scale of Minecraft, it's also very different, as you will see when exploring. Every distinct block is hand-drawn by the person, ranging from 19x19 pixels to 38x38 per drawing, with multiple animation cells and sometimes scripts attached to blocks, and numbers indeed don't measure the great things people have built... have a look at this screenshot gallery or explore the world and its many areas a bit to get an impression. Here's the City of Twilight or Green Mountain for instance, which you can add to too.

  8. Re:Analog displays are better in some situations. by mirix · · Score: 2 · on Liking Analog Meters Doesn't Make You a Luddite (Video)

    Hey, don't make assumptions like that. I've got tube voltmeters that are older than you!

    One of which the meter failed on. Something in the movement let a sliver go, which stuck to the movement's magnet, which the coil was then jamming on / binding with. Ended up sorting it out, but it was like brain surgery. This was on a Hickok 209A, circa 1940, with a gigantic 9" meter on it.

    I'll stick with my 80's vintage fluke bench meters for most things. They don't look quite as cool as the Hickok, though.

    I do use the $5 china special DMMs, but only for abuse in the garage, car, etc.

    I can luddite with the best of them, but I know my limits!

  9. Re:If you want to cover Gamergate, do it honestly by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Why the Trolls Will Always Win

    You should read this article by a transgender feminist if you believe that. And seriously? Citing cracked?

    This is the sort of thing you're defending here:
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
    http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
      https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz...

  10. Re:If you want to cover Gamergate, do it honestly by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Why the Trolls Will Always Win

    You should read this article by a transgender feminist if you believe that. And seriously? Citing cracked?

    This is the sort of thing you're defending here:
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
    http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
      https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz...

  11. Re:If you want to cover Gamergate, do it honestly by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Why the Trolls Will Always Win

    You should read this article by a transgender feminist if you believe that. And seriously? Citing cracked?

    This is the sort of thing you're defending here:
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
    http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
      https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz...

  12. Re:This show made my brain sad by lippydude · · Score: 1 · on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien

    @uvsc_wolverine: "I watched 10 minutes of it the other night (on accident I swear!) and had to spend another 10 minutes explaining to my wife why I was laughing so hard"

    It's worse than I would have thought possible, see links to screenshots from episode one .. btw, can a magnet erase a harddrive enclosed in a hot-swappable caddy? .. ref ref

  13. Re:This show made my brain sad by lippydude · · Score: 1 · on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien

    @uvsc_wolverine: "I watched 10 minutes of it the other night (on accident I swear!) and had to spend another 10 minutes explaining to my wife why I was laughing so hard"

    It's worse than I would have thought possible, see links to screenshots from episode one .. btw, can a magnet erase a harddrive enclosed in a hot-swappable caddy? .. ref ref

  14. Here's how I did it by pr0t0 · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber?

    I have a traditional 2-story colonial home. There are four bedrooms, all on the second floor. I got a small spool of cat-6 "Siamese" cable; it's got coax and cat-6 separately jacketed, but heat-glued together. I recommend that even if Google Fiber doesn't use coax (does it?). You never know what the future may hold, and you're only going to want to do this once.

    I went into the attic and liberally measured off cable for each bedroom. I think I did something like 15' for the drop down the wall to the outlet (9' ceilings), plus the length to the sewage stack, plus another 12' per floor (12 for the first floor and 12 for the basement), then tacked on another 10' to run from the sewage stack to the networking wall. So each run ended up something like 60-65 feet. I had to use a hole-saw to drill a 3" hole next to the sewage stack on the second floor. It was behind a section of wall that had an air vent in it. I had to take the vent off and push the duct work out of the way. That was a little scary, and I wasn't able to get it back together perfectly, but it was worth it in the end. Once I was able to drop a weighted string to from attic to the basement, I taped up all the BR cables at one end, tied that to the string, and lowered them down along the sewage stack. I then did the runs down to the bedroom wallplates and terminated those. Then did the same for the basement. I used an 8-post coax line conditioner to terminate all the coax lines in the basement. All the cat-6 went into a wireless router and a switch: http://imgur.com/MeqFKrT

    I did separate runs for the family room on the first floor and three runs in the basement. In the end, I'm very happy with how it all turned out, and I would definitely do it again should I ever move.

  15. Re:The Model F is even better by Cinder6 · · Score: 2 · on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made

    Came here to say this. The Model M is great because it's an inexpensive mechanical keyboard, but the Model F trumps it. And what trumps that are IBM's beamspring offerings. I'm typing this on a Displaywriter Keyboard I modified to output via USB. It's not the easiest solution for a nice keyboard, but on the plus side, it's fully programmable, has doubleshot keys, and is the closest I've been able to find to the feel of a Selectric. (On the downside, it's nonstandard, gigantic, and expensive.)

  16. Hackers can turn your home computer into a BOMB by GroeFaZ · · Score: 3, Funny · on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year

    http://i.stack.imgur.com/sgctZ...

  17. Hackers can turn your computer into a BOMB by RuffMasterD · · Score: 1 · on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year

    ... & blow your family to smithereens!

    http://i.imgur.com/0BSZXxl.jpg

  18. Re:Umm, no by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials

    Firstly you need standing to bring a suit under the law, otherwise all you can do is report things and hope it makes it through the paperwork maze. Second... we HAVE. You'll notice @GGFeminist below had already reported her doxxing to the police by the time she posted about it.

    Feminist writer explains domestic abuse: https://twitter.com/Eldritchlo...
    --
    Zoe and the GNAA paying for fake threats to her account: https://twitter.com/MaxShillin...
    --
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://medium.com/@sixthman/w...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://33.media.tumblr.com/f45...
    -
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
      http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
    https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/Nero/statu...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png

  19. Re:Umm, no by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials

    Firstly you need standing to bring a suit under the law, otherwise all you can do is report things and hope it makes it through the paperwork maze. Second... we HAVE. You'll notice @GGFeminist below had already reported her doxxing to the police by the time she posted about it.

    Feminist writer explains domestic abuse: https://twitter.com/Eldritchlo...
    --
    Zoe and the GNAA paying for fake threats to her account: https://twitter.com/MaxShillin...
    --
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://medium.com/@sixthman/w...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://33.media.tumblr.com/f45...
    -
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
      http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
    https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/Nero/statu...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png

  20. Re:Umm, no by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1 · on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials

    Firstly you need standing to bring a suit under the law, otherwise all you can do is report things and hope it makes it through the paperwork maze. Second... we HAVE. You'll notice @GGFeminist below had already reported her doxxing to the police by the time she posted about it.

    Feminist writer explains domestic abuse: https://twitter.com/Eldritchlo...
    --
    Zoe and the GNAA paying for fake threats to her account: https://twitter.com/MaxShillin...
    --
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx...
    https://medium.com/@sixthman/w...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://33.media.tumblr.com/f45...
    -
    https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
    https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
      http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
    https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
    https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
    http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...
    https://twitter.com/JakALope04...
    https://twitter.com/tastenotou...
    https://twitter.com/JaredBrick...
    https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/...
    https://twitter.com/Nero/statu...
    https://twitter.com/tratowzolo...
    https://forum.encyclopediadram...
    http://i.imgur.com/u8835lH.png

  21. Re: got off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus

    Lt William Calley got off with the "Nuremberg defense" that he was only following orders, while his superiors got off with the defense that "Hey, I was just giving orders, I didn't actually shoot anyone myself."

    Don't forget: ShanghaiBill (739463) got off by telling this story for the dozenth time (cartoon re-enactment).

    p.s. In before "Where does Anonymous Coward get off accusing someone else of getting off by posting.

    Disclaimer: Anonymous Coward does not condone any of the atrocities committed during WWII. I'm just trying to lighten things up a bit.

  22. Re:Koo Koo Kachoo by BoogieChile · · Score: 1 · on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska

    Because that's not much of a challenge either?

  23. Re:gtfo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials

    massive international conspiracy

    http://i.imgur.com/2iZ51Aa.jpg

  24. Re:OMFG, stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Announces Windows 10

    Yea, because gasoline cars never catch on fire.

    Prius still runs on gasoline, in case you forgot.

  25. Re:3G is terrible for all these things by Zuriel · · Score: 1 · on World's Smallest 3G Module Will Connect Everything To the Internet

    I'm not sure there's a business case for it, you can already wirelessly charge iPhones in the microwave.

  26. Re:This is huge by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

    "It also makes the crops less nutritionally useful"

    Uh, yea, source?

    Cuz I do this for a living and I call bullshit.

  27. Re:What where they copying? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1 · on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO

    > How often does a new genre of gaming get created?

    Pretty often in the 80's since the established genres were still being created! Today, not so much. Everything is cross genre these days.

    id invented the First Person Shooter with Wolfenstein 3D (though purists might argue it was earlier
    Doom settled the deal though: Doom Clone vs FPS

    Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text adventure, but Infocom (with Zork) refined it.

    > I often hear Blizzard criticized for not being original enough

    That is definitely one criticism -- they just copy other people's gameplay and polish the art. They _used_ to have fun execution. Diablo 3 was a complete clusterfuck of bland and boring itemization

    The other is the disrespect for player's time, and the constantly dumbing down and half-baked game play mechanics in all their latest games.

  28. Re:His articles on PubPeer by Rockoon · · Score: 1 · on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle

    It seems the main concern is figure reuse. Some are in different papers with the same caption: would it be that bad as long as it is clear it's old data that's being reintrepreted ?

    Looked a bit worse than that to me. Looked like he/they took figures and then manipulated them via image editor to appear to be unique, such as re-ordering elements

    Even if there is a perfectly valid reason for doing that, its still a shady obscure as fuck reason.

  29. Re:Know who to sue by pesho · · Score: 1 · on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle

    The scientist and his lawyer suspect foul play by anonymous person(s) who allegedly defamed him by posting ad hominem attacks in their pubpeer comments and then distributed those comment pages to both universities associated with him.

    Any criticism of his work should be valid and fact based and that should be enforced by the site's moderators.

    I am reading through the comments related to his papers on pubpeer. I haven't found any personal attacks. May be there are some in the comments I have not read yet. However, what I find is a number of papers with blatantly manipulated images, use of the same image to represent different experiments in different papers and even a combination of the two. His defamation lawsuit has no legs and the university has every right to rescind its offer. In fact they would have been complicit if they did not do so. I predict that Dr. Sarkar's next discovery will be the Streisand effect.

  30. Re:In lost the will to live ... by JMJimmy · · Score: 1 · on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything

    https://imgur.com/Mt35hob

  31. Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B by thewolfkin · · Score: 1 · on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave

    bah it's a 4Chan prank that doesn't actually appear to have gone wild https://i.imgur.com/nVUsmjP.jpg

  32. Just some network stuff. by geekylinuxkid · · Score: 1 · on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter?

    Well, I have three racks of gear. I'll just cover the basic stuff and skip the details.

    1x GSR 12016 (Yes, I have this in my home. It's for CCIE SP study. Please see linked picture below.)
    8x 2811
    2x 2821
    4x 1841
    1x 6509 w/ SUP720-3B
    1x 3825
    8x 7206VXR
    2x 7204VXR
    6x 3560G
    4x 3550
    1x ME3400
    1x SRX210H
    1x Netscreen 50
    1x ASA5505

    2x DL380 G5
    1x Narco 4220

    Picture of my currently running SP Lab with only two racks shown. http://i.imgur.com/j6vlwtj.jpg

    Obviously, I'm a network guy. :)


    -Jay

  33. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox by jordanjay29 · · Score: 1 · on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux

    You mean let the whole UI stagnate so that the small minority can be satisfied? I don't think you understand how products are made. Yes, of course the onus is on you to make a customizable product look the way you want it to.

    Besides, you can make the FF UI look like anything you want. Here's what a friend has his looking like, which is nothing like how I'd want to use a browser, but it shows off the extensibility of Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/587msTp.jpg

  34. Re:What good is aid going to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response

    Somehow, Lagos managed to grow to a population 20 million without having a sewer. Ebola-chan is going to have lots of fun evolving as she runs through there.

    3000 troops would be a good start. Shoot anyone who tries to break quarantine; burn the dead. Something tells me that's not what they're going to do.

    Oh well. What is possible is what happens. Death goes on.

  35. Enough with the proprietary hardware by Mike+Blakemore · · Score: 1 · on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home

    I started a project, a game engine built for controlling electronics, that can do the same thing using open source hardware, and for free:

    Screenshots from the current Alpha: http://imgur.com/a/p6Obn
    Website: https://hyperplaneinteractive....
    Blog: https://hyperplaneinteractive....

    If you log in and go to the Account page, you can download and install Touch Control System (TCS). It has some sample mods to explore, including a screen of light bulbs. The Module Editor is fully functional so you can create new mods and content.

    There are a several home automation companies out there (Logitech now one of them) who specialize in selling you custom hardware that is super expensive, only works with their software, and requires a certified technician any time you have problems. I can tell you from experience that they all have frustrating levels of limitations (some don't even allow for script variables), are narrowly focused on their own hardware, and get outdated very quickly. The total cost of ownership for these things are insane. I think we've made something much better.

  36. Re:Not always by sillybilly · · Score: -1 · on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future

    By the way, females alone without males, without the fast mutation and genetic adaptation brought on by sexual reproduction and various gene combinations are doomed as a species, to extinction disease plagues, similar to a banana which lack a sex life, and it's terribly vulnerable to extinction. Google sex life of banana, or http://www.damninteresting.com...

    Btw, I cannot post on here much under my user name anymore, because I got assaulted from excellent or good karma to bad and terrible within 2 days. See http://i.imgur.com/9DX8mI8.jpg. But I do post as Anonymous Coward, and sign it at the end with this user ID.

  37. Re:Parallax. by jon3k · · Score: 2 · on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos

    Plus, take the images and invert the colors. You can clearly see editing work. Basic Photoshop detection 101. Even more fun when you have a shitty TFT screen that makes every glaring error even more obvious.

    Not only is there nothing there when you invert the colors (see here, inverted and zoomed for your viewing pleasure), it's very likely it was a computer generated image and not even a photograph to begin with.

  38. Perspective by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album

    It's nice Apple responded, but the outrage over this whole thing (especially for people who have already bought into the iTunes garden) seems way overblown.

    Some perspective might help.

  39. Re:It's getting hotter still! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels

    Citation please!

    Here, let me Google that for you

    Also, from 2008 Davos:

    Just how crazy is Al Gore? That was the question that popped, once again, into my brain as I read a January 24 Agence France Press news story out of the Davos meeting of business and political elite. Gore asserted that, “the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years”

    I was instantly reminded of the story that ran in The New York Times in August 2000 claiming that the Pole was free of ice for the first time in 50 million years. It wasn’t, of course, because people who have actually been to the Arctic quickly noted that, in the summer, some ice actually does melt there. The Times retracted it three weeks later.

    This kind of apocalyptic nonsense has been ratcheting upward ever since the new century began and my theory is that lunatics like Al Gore know that they are running out of time when it comes to imposing draconian restrictions on the use of every form of energy known to mankind. This is the purpose of the global warming hoax.

    Tha fuck is wrong with slashdot today!? Jesus Christ, Donny!

  40. Re:+-2000 deaths? by gringer · · Score: 1 · on US Scientists Predict Long Battle Against Ebola

    Doubling time is closer to 50 days than 30 days:

    http://i.imgur.com/trBhsa2.png

    But the point still stands, you don't want to mess around when there's exponential growth at play. With 50 days doubling time, you get to the population of the world in about 2 years.

  41. Re:Homeland Security FTW! by Nyder · · Score: 0 · on Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US

    If businesses and individuals can have drones, then the terrorists have already won. Sadly, the terrorists won right after 9/11 when the Federal government ballooned into a never before seen size, with the passage of the unPATRIOTic Act. Any time the government gets more power, the people lose.

    I hope you guys are enjoying the government you've elected. It doesn't matter if you voted for Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain or Romney, the result would all be the same. We kept hearing over and over again "Things like this won't happen when Obama is president!". But guess what? They do happen, and they're happening more often.

    That's the end of my libertarian rant. Now start with your straw man attacks.

    I beat the system, I didn't vote.

  42. Homeland Security FTW! by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 0, Troll · on Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US

    If businesses and individuals can have drones, then the terrorists have already won. Sadly, the terrorists won right after 9/11 when the Federal government ballooned into a never before seen size, with the passage of the unPATRIOTic Act. Any time the government gets more power, the people lose.

    I hope you guys are enjoying the government you've elected. It doesn't matter if you voted for Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain or Romney, the result would all be the same. We kept hearing over and over again "Things like this won't happen when Obama is president!". But guess what? They do happen, and they're happening more often.

    That's the end of my libertarian rant. Now start with your straw man attacks.

  43. Re: Can we please cann these companies what they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on California Declares Carpooling Via Ride-Share Services Illegal

    Three men share a taxi. The fare is $30 even, so they pay $10 each and head into a skyscraper. As he's about to drive off, the taxi driver notices that there should have been a $5 rideshare discount. The taxi driver's 8-year-old son is sitting next to him in the front seat, and he offers to refund the money to the men, but he doesn't know how to split $5 three ways, so he pockets $2 as he chases after the men yelling "Hey wait, misters. You overpaid." The boy catches up to the men at the line for the elevator and gives each of the three men a $1 refund, so they've paid $9 each. $9 * 3 = $27, plus the boy's $2 is $29. But wait. The fare was $30. Where did the extra dollar go?

    Answer: Magic.

    Seriously though, I blame <the other political party>.

  44. Re:football can cause brain damage by bigman2003 · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads

    I don't think you understand my 'ingesting photos' item. I connect my camera to my Surface via USB. Shots are immediately on my Surface. In fact, I don't even save them to the SD card, they are saved directly on the tablet. I have have 'Live View' on, to see exactly what the camera sees. This is NOT something that can be done over a network right now. Additionally, most of what I do isn't within range of a network...even cell.

    I really am a 'mobile worker'. I go out an do stuff...away from networks and people. I carry as little crap with me as possible. Camera, Surface and USB cable are pretty standard.

    Possibly when vineyards are networked I'll be able to work differently.

    Example of what I do: http://imgur.com/a/xQ040 (I am not a pro photographer- just an IT guy who knows how to use a camera well enough to document things.)

  45. Re:Where'd I state hosts protect vs. all threats by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots

    Yea, meanwhile, Comcast's Xfinity injection attack TOTALLY bypasses your HOSTS file. How're you going to stop that, dumbass?

    Here's what your HOSTS file does to websites: http://i.imgur.com/BMR5Qnc.png

    Again, my point is 100% proven. You are 100% full of shit.

    I run and design websites for a job. Guess what? Your HOSTS file idea, long before you started spouting it, was one of the first things for me to bypass, by request of my employer.

    And the fun part is, I can keep ads from showing to you long enough for you to whitelist the site, and then slam your ass with ads anyways. See a new IP address? No ads displays for several visits, then BAM show ads on your 5th visit from that IP.

    Absolutely trivial to implement in PHP and AJAX. Takes eight lines of code. I could probably do it in two if the web supported brainfuck.

  46. Re:And still leaking memory like a fucking sieve by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support

    Still fucking rising, just sitting waiting on the pizza I phoned in about 25 minutes ago. Same tabs, not touched shit and instead went on Camfrog to relax.

    http://i.imgur.com/OxQtmyj.png

  47. Re:Sub Reddits that still aren't banned... by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Responding to Celeb Photo Leaks, Reddit Scotches "Fappening" Subreddit

    You wanna talk disingenuous?

    http://slashdot.org/submission...

    http://i.imgur.com/D2YsOFO.png

    Lemme show you real Reddit disingenuity.

  48. Re:And still leaking memory like a fucking sieve by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support

    http://i.imgur.com/DyizJh0.png

    Still leaking like a fucking sieve even after upgrading (and again, the only thing installed is AdBlock Edge.)

    Two images, two slashdot threads, and an HTML-based e-mail.

    Over 650 fucking megs.

    Firefox is fucking broken.

  49. Re: by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture

    While you have your head tucked in the sand, this whole debacle brought out more fun goodness. Too bad you're too stupid to go looking for this shit yourself.

    http://i.imgur.com/D2YsOFO.png

  50. It goes a lot deeper here, folks by Khyber · · Score: 0 · on Responding to Celeb Photo Leaks, Reddit Scotches "Fappening" Subreddit

    http://i.imgur.com/D2YsOFO.png

    https://soundcloud.com/user613...

    It goes a LOT deeper than you think.

    http://slashdot.org/submission...