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  1. Re:two dictionaries say "no such word" on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    Trolls and anti-trolls have a symbiotic relationship. Two faces of the same coin.

  2. Re:Nothing but an extremely long (in our terms) cy on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 1

    I'm not trolling. If time dilation of a blackhole was infinite, then how does the blackhole itself interact with the rest of space-time in general?

  3. Re:Isn't this on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 1

    It's more like: The same math and theories that give rise to blackholes also state that they don't be of any danger, so to believe in blackholes but to believe in the danger is contradictory.

    Not only that, but you talking about a neutrally charge object that was created by two objects moving near the speed of light and that probably hit at an angle, meaning this blackhole will more than likely pass right through the Earth and zoom out into space. And even if it doesn't, and it falls to the center of the Earth, it would on average take it thousands of years before it comes into contact with another particle. Remember, atoms are mostly empty space.

    Then you realize that the Earth and every other celestial object in space is being bombarded by particles with energies many magnitudes greater, and you think, well if this has been going on for billions of years to billions of objects, why hasn't this happened yet?

    I feel pretty safe.

  4. Bad Joke, I know on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia, Java bugs find you!

  5. Re:More interesting page for FreeBSD 10... on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 2

    Not yet, that requires pointer re-writes, which has been talked about for a long time by the ZFS devs.

    Essentially, ZFS does not currently allow data to be moved once written. Supports Delete and Insert, but no Update. A big reason for this is if you move the data, you need to update all points that address that data, and to do so in an atomic way that doesn't leave the system in an unstable state.

  6. Re:Poor compromise for only small capacity increas on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    Many can now sustain 400MB/s+ for several GB, even when near capacity and in a used state, and with no compression.

  7. Re:Power failure on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    That's undefined behavior. Don't let it happen.

  8. Re:The summary doesn't mention on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    Just use a COW FS and set your cluster size to that of whatever these "shingle groups" are. :-)

    Or ZFS

  9. Re:Poor compromise for only small capacity increas on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    You mean like the bargain-bin SSDs that have almost 500MB/s of write performance.

  10. Re:Watch it be the virus that killed the dinosaurs on Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake · · Score: 2

    There's already bacteria in regular every-day soil that can not only survive in our strongest anti-biotics, but metabolize them. But don't worry, nearly all bacteria is benign.

  11. Re:What are your programmers doing? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? · · Score: 1

    If they can't come to a consensus, you could have them write their own solution.

    If they couldn't do the first part, then they're probably not smart enough to do the alternative.

  12. Re:Why don't they just learn Ebonics? on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 0

    IQ test are biased. They've changed IQ tests to fix the bias that is against blacks and it turned out that whites scored lower then. What is an IQ test supposed to measure anyway? It's like a 1 dimensional measurement of a many dimensional object.

  13. Re:1 TeraW per 85,000 homes ? on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 2

    But once you include transmission losses!.... I don't know, just throwing that possibility into the mix.

  14. Re:Causing the eventual distruction of the Earth on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 1

    The moon is moving away. I doubt we could extract enough energy to compensate.

  15. Re: Sounds good to me on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 1, Informative

    My kid once shot himself
    My kid once stabbed himself
    My kid once poured acid in his eyes
    ....

    Yep. Not bogus at all.

  16. Re:$20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    They may not need money in the normal way, but buying some Raspberry PIs to devel on or upgrading one of their servers could have been useful.

  17. Re:MUAHAHAHAHA on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 1

    The pensioner may not maximize their returns the same way they would if they had invested on their own, but they are guaranteed a payout at the end

    Not really. Many pensions have just "disappeared" in the past. Whoops, miss-managed the money, it's all gone.

    Due to lack of education, I've heard of a lot of retirees who lost huge chunks of their nest egg around 2008 because they were too aggressive on stocks.

    Not "because they were to aggressive with stocks", but because the panic sold their stocks at a low price. Didn't anyone teach them "buy low, sell high"? When the stocks are low, buy buy buy, when the stocks are high, switch to bonds or just don't touch them. The market as a whole swings like a sine-wave with an average that outpaces inflation by a decent amount.

  18. Re:MUAHAHAHAHA on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your 401k, but no charges to move money around. The only cost I have for my 401k is the net expense, which is 0.6%-0.75% for most investments. That's under $10 per $1000 per year, which isn't bad when I'm gaining an average of 13% year over year. All with investments that have been around for 20+ years. Before things go to crap, my bank pulls out of bad investments. They're very proactive.

  19. Re:It's Apple's fault on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 1

    "The world's weath is gone your 401k is history"

    Sounds like a great time to buy stocks in my 401k. "The market crashed!!!"... Buy Buy Buy! 10 years later, market is back where it was and now I'm sitting on a pile of cash. This is why you invest into bonds as you get older. Stocks swing all over the place, but go up 2x-3x the rate of inflation. Averages matter over time, but if you're about to retire, you don't want to get stuck on one of those down swings. Don't want to be 65 and waiting 10 years before your 401k is back to normal.

  20. Re:Still can't handle proper units? on Magellan II's Adaptive Optics Top Hubble's Resolution · · Score: 1

    There are units for analogies?

  21. Re:Easy solution on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    My leg hurts from exercising too much, that is not acceptable, chop it off!

    I love your logic. If something is not perfect, then it must not be used!

  22. And coal taxes us by health care for coal miners and other breathing issues caused by pollution.

  23. Re:no shit on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Maybe because they only have 5 episodes online? Why would I want to start watching a show 5 seasons in? I need to start at episode 1 and their site does not provide that. TPB does, that is why it is still pirated a lot.

  24. Re:no shit on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    I guess the recommendations part was a bit subjective, but for me and my wife, it has helped us find lots of movies that we have never heard about, but like a lot.

    As for canceling, Netflix is my cheapest source of entertainment based on how much I pay and how much I use it.

  25. Re:no shit on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 2

    Erm, Netflix, Youtube and Amazon make deals for content all the time.

    He said "with this kind of structure". He was not arguing that Netflix et al don't want to make deals of any kind, just those kinds of deals.