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  1. Re: At what point do we reevaluate the position on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The average child costs $250k of tax payer money to raise to 18 years old. Maybe you're in the 0.1%.

  2. Re:Why were they storing these? on VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you're sending tagged frames out the interface. Don't let tagged frames out the interface.

  3. Re:Nurses or teachers? on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 2

    Depends on what domain you're working in. In most domains and colloquial usage, "average" is synonymous with "mean".

  4. Re:mind boggling... on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    15% is the legal maximum. I would like to see some actual numbers, and it sounds like the percentage and length will be determined by the risk involved.

  5. Re:Nurses or teachers? on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The author doesn't understand that averages are nearly useless for income distributions. You need to use medians.

  6. Re:Punishing people who get degrees we need the mo on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    You may pay more on average, but you'll be debt free, and you'll have access to much more expensive majors that what you'd otherwise be capable.

  7. Re: Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Newer games don't require the best card (never did actually)

    I guess you're younger and didn't live through the first generation of hardware accelerators. The Voodoo1 was fast relative to software rendering, but was still below 60fps. "Never" is a strong word. You may want to expand your vocabulary to include words like "rarely".

  8. Re:Why not both on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 2

    It also has to pay other countries to take its excess power.

  9. Re:Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    I've been building computers since I was a young child and have had several times where I had a short for one reason or another. The PSU always shutoff immediately. When a 5v connection shorts over to a 3.3v connection, you just get a 1.7v flow in the wrong direction and nothing really happens, other than your computer doesn't boot. If you somehow managed to short 3.3v or 5v to the CPU's sub 1.5v inputs, bad things could happen.

  10. Re:Bigger problems on Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're running a dragnet rather than spear-fishing, you just need to put the link out there somewhere

    Then everyone in the world will hit that with their public IP. How can you tell the difference between the public IP of your targets and the 1,000,000,000 other IPs?

  11. Bill was great at separating personal idealism from maximizing business profits. When it was time for business, he made use of all of his options. He's like one of those people that says, change the laws if you don't want me doing what I do. He will exploit laws to their fullest. His business practices were just a symptom, fix the issue.

  12. Re:Works for me on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix is capped at 720p in a browser, but 1080p/4k in an app.

  13. Re:Important to note on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 0

    Self destructive actions of an individual negatively affect society. In a simplistic nutshell, your freedom ends when it negatively affects others.

  14. Re:Sounds like a great idea on High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) · · Score: 1

    PFSense targets servers. The fact that you can use it at home is a coincidence. The most common type of server is x64, and most high end server hardware only uses a select few brands of NICs. They're a small group and focus their efforts with the biggest return.

  15. It's not monolithic, but it has leaky abstraction and high coupling among the services, not to mention highly coupled to Linux specific APIs. If you make your program for SystemD, it is no longer portable.

  16. LaunchD on FreeBSD among other things. http://www.nextbsd.org/ By the makers of PC-BSD and several others. Like HardenedBSD, it's a exploratory and development fork.

  17. Re:Dark Matter = Closet Aether Theory on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Minor correction: "without a universal reference frame"

  18. Re:The dark matter between their ears on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you measure gravity by the gravitational lensing, galactic rotations perfectly matches Einstein. We just can't limit ourselves to matter that interacts with light. It's not hidden in the sense that we can't detect it, only that we can't see it. But that logic applies to a lot of science.

  19. Re:radioshack? on Raspberry Pi Unveils New $5 Mini-computer · · Score: 0

    Radio Shack closed around here. None anywhere within about 100 miles.

  20. Re:"cheap copper" on Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only a thin foil, but it doesn't bond with it, only deposits on top of, allowing re-use of the foil.

  21. Re:Travelling deformations of space on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    If that was the case, then wouldn't DM show up as smeary instead of clumpy?

  22. Re:Dark Matter = Closet Aether Theory on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironcailly, it's been shown(for the most part, but not truly proven) that without Dark Matter, we need Aether, because MOND does not work without a reference frame.

  23. Re:The dark matter between their ears on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Too factual? They have its effects measured to 9 sigmas. We may as well be arguing whether the gravity exists. We "know" it's there, we just don't know how.

    I used "stop ignoring me" to grab attention and add some humor. It's not so much that it was being ignored, but that it was being questioned. 100 years of observations and geniuses, and not a single iota against it and a mountain of everything for it.

  24. Re: The dark matter between their ears on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    We can't see atoms are there either. Your point?

  25. Re:The dark matter between their ears on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the smartest minds on the subject, as determined by the community of highly regarded physicists, of MOND did almost 10 years of math and came up for an answer for MOND. But it required an unknown non-baryonic matter. He reinvented Dark Matter. It also required that we ditch Relativity. As it stands, it seems that even MOND requires Dark Matter. It also seems that Relativity is now dependent on Dark Matter. Any theory that tries to get rid of Dark Matter also needs to reinvent Relativity. Good luck with that.