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  1. Re:More maths on Is It Worth Investing In a High-Efficiency Power Supply? · · Score: 1

    Well when something gets declared and repeated so often people treat it as fact.

    2x RAM was considered the standard for a while because ram was sufficiently small. It's only with 64 bit OSes and larger memory addressing spaces (more than 4 GB of RAM) that this has been challeged. I mean if you have 16GB of RAM you really dont need 32GB of swap space.

  2. Re:Sex Offenders on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should start by refining the 'sex offender registry'...

    They should have a 'Pedophile Registry' and a 'Rapist Registry' but registering people who get busted for taking a leak in public really shouldnt be on such a registry. It just dilutes the effectiveness of such a registry.

  3. Re:Yeah well on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    I dont know I'm sure theres been a few incidents of explosive diarrhea I'm sure but nothing they'd have had to land the plane over.

  4. Re:Stop watching Fox on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Dont forget Canada which has more guns per capita than US and has a gun crime rate that is some of the lowest in the world.

  5. Re:LLC on Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members · · Score: 1

    Well I would imagine PPUK has a LLC or non-profit company as their organization. It seems that the MAFIAA wants to pierce the corporate veil and expose those in charge of teh company and their personal assets to attack.

    Personally I think if that is the case then the MAFIAA companies heads should have their own personal assets viable for a counter attack.

  6. Re:Hmm on Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members · · Score: 1

    Yeah threatening legal action is also called blackmail in some circles too... I guess it just depends on how much money you have whether it's 'legal action' or 'blackmail'.

  7. Re:Because on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well IT is fairly easy when everything is working.

    However, when shit hits the fan the skillsets that an IT professional have plus the penchant that most IT Pros have regarding troubleshooting and diagnosis is invaluable. If your website is dead in the water you're not making any money. If your network is breached you arent making money, you may be losing valuable company secrets to your compeditors.

    What is probably on the decline or 'flat' is the guy who takes your computer, wipes the spyware and viruses off it and gives it back to you. People with real IT skillsets are only going to go up.

  8. Re:The Daily did not understand the web on News Corp's The Daily iPad App Shutting Down On December 15 · · Score: 1

    Sorry but if I'm paying for an app I'm not doing it to be forcefed Ads. If I wanted that I'd pick up the newspaper.

    Caveat: The only ads that should be in a digital one would be the classifieds.

  9. Re:When is a work "orphaned"? on Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata · · Score: 1

    Like any legal matter... it only matters how much money you have to defend against a claim.

    So basically if you use something that's been orphaned apparently and is owned by a big company you're screwed... but if they find something of yours that has been orphaned they can strike it rich.

  10. Re:How does this work? on Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    And we all seen how well it stops people from rooting or jailbreaning iOS devices because an Apple product has never been rooted or jailbroken before.

  11. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Birthday Paradox relies on the same thing...

    You're comparing YOUR birthday to the birthday of a number of other individuals. Thus the one sample (DNA on/in victim's body to a large number of potential samples.

    That said it may be a lower chance so a larger number is more likely to result in a collission but still the possibility exists. DNA really is only reliable when you're working with one suspect and everythign else lines up.

  12. Oblig South Park Reference on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    Token Black. Nuff said.

  13. Re:pay or view ads or search for ad-free site on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    You know what charging people without an agreement on both sides is called... FRAUD.

    Personally if some collection agency started phoning me about a debt related to adblocking I'd tell them to take me to court. I'm sure any judge would laugh them out of court.

  14. Re:As long as they pay my mobile data bill... on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    Problem with that is...

    If some third party were inserting commercials into DVDs and people were using libdvdcss to skip them it'd probably be legit. The thing is the ad's come from a third party which is not a party to the primary transaction (you and the content provider). The content provider cant legally require you to waste your resources (bandwidth/transfer capacity) on loading their ads. This is especially true on mobile devices where going over your data plan can lead to charges of like $0.10/mb in some cases.

    If bandwidth was unlimited by the ISPs then perhaps there would be an excuse for ads... Until then Adblock plus will keep my online experience ad-free with the exception of a very few sites like Slashdot.

  15. Re:OMFG Reagan was right? on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 2

    By firing them off at extinction level event asteroids where they do jack squat.

  16. Re:Does it really take so much computing power? on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    You know if Hamas was smart they'd just fire rockets with basically no payload and have Isreal waste $100,000 per $10-100 rocket that basically does nothing.

    That said I figure it would err on the side of caution and shoot rockets down first and ask questions later if it came to a missile spam of like 100+ rockets being shot at the same time.

  17. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well you have to remember birthday paradox...

    In a room of about 20 people you have a 50/50 chance of having the same birthday as someone else in the room. What they're doing here is taking one sample and comparing it to hundreds or thousands of men.

    I've been lead to believe that birthday paradox also applies to DNA too... So if you take a sample size of thousands or so presumably unrelated people you might find people who match in such a way that it would be acceptable evidence in a court of law.

    Someone smarter than me can do the math but 1:1,000,000 chance vs 3,000 Samples ... How many are likely to come up close enough to prosecute?

  18. War is Peace... on A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It · · Score: 1

    Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength...

    Just take everything a bill is named for and reverse it and you get it's true goals.

    SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) wouldnt have stopped Piracy but proliferated it.

    Any time a a politician brings a think of the children arguement what they really are thinking about it corporate interests, etc...

  19. Re:counter-intutive for congress oldsters. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    No congresscritters know exactly what they're doing. They're part of the people getting rich on big business whether it's democrat or republican.

  20. Re:H1-B has nothing to do with your jobs on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    There are exceptions to every rule. Congratulations you're the exception.

    A vast majority of H1-B's are to get in moderately skilled labor for jobs Americans could be doing but big companies who can afford to game the H1-B system get the labor for rock bottom prices compared to the normal labor market.

  21. Re:not really that simple. on Canadian Regulator Orders Telecoms To Tell Us What It Costs To Run Their Service · · Score: 1

    You mean the hardware they dont install and dont upgrade or maintain their existing infrastructure with?

    Companies arent doing a whole lot of upgrading but they're still posting record profits so what does that tell you?

  22. Re:How is a percentage of a device cost fair? on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    Not RAM... Flash Memory.

    Also one could argue that a larger amount of flash memory means that their patent is adding more value to the 64GB iPhone vs a 32GB iPhone

  23. Re:Einen moment, bitte. on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    When I can pay my tax bill in barter then they can consider bartering a tax dodge.

  24. Re:Ah... Yeah... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    The start of the tool stack begins with knowledge. Then muscle power.

    If you can make a fire without matches or a lighter then you got the first universal tool. From that you take some metal with a low melting point like Copper and work on making hand tools like axes and hammers etc...

  25. Re:Reinventing the Amish [Re:Ah... Yeah...] on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    Yeah... They're doing everything ass backwards.

    You have to assume you have little more than rocks, dirt and muscle power then work from that point forwards. Now if you could build a Bulldozer type machine that can be powered by human muscle power I'd be more impressed than building basically what is already out there.