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  1. Re: for windows read below on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft Security Essentials is Windows Defender is System Center Endpoint Protection.
    Definition updates come out every few hours.
    They all catch the vast majority of shit.

    EMET (also free and from MS) will prevent many of the 0-day vulnerabilities that MSE/WD/SCEP could miss until the next definition update rolls out.

  2. Re:No need on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 2

    EMET (also from MS) is free and effective at preventing many 0-day vulnerabilities.

  3. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The deaths were impactful and gave weight to the story. It wasn't your typical Saturday morning good guys win bad guys lose tripe. There were consequences. The battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron was paced perfectly. You're a fucking moron if you think having the main protagonist and main antagonist, who also happen to be the two most popular characters, fucking die is anti-climactic.

    I bet you're the type of dipshit who prefers the fast cut, shakey cam, 20 minute shitfest where protagonist A fights antagonist B for a bit, then we switch to supporting character C doing some bullshit with the computers in a race against time, then we switch to female protagonist X fighting female antagonist Y for a bit, then we switch back to the main fight between A and C, all of which are resolved nearly simultaneously with the good guys winning and the bad guys losing, typically with the good guys refusing to kill the bad guys once defeated, but the bad guys going for a last ditch dirty move when the good guys turn their backs, only for the good guys to respond with a lethal finishing move.

  4. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first Transformers movie sucked badly. Really badly.

    The Transformers: The Movie is fucking awesome. It has a great story, an amazing soundtrack, and the most amazing voice cast of any movie ever:

    Peter Cullen
    Frank Welker
    Judd Nelson
    Kasey Kasem
    Eric Idle
    Scatman Crothers
    Lionel Stander
    Leonard Nimoy
    Robert Stack
    Orson Welles

    And you get to top that list off with a song by Weird Al Yankovic.

  5. Re:Mutations on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 1

    If they escape, they won't have time. If they don't escape, there won't be any pressure on them to do so.

    When they escape, they'll have plenty of time as they'll be escaping along with chunkettes of their growth medium, containing the synthetic amino acids they need. As the bacteria grows the concentration of synthetic amino acids will decrease relative to population, creating the pressure to adapt to not need it. Further, no pressure is necessary for an effective change to come about - all specialization is random, and it sticks around if it is not detrimental.

  6. Re:Until... on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Evolution would not (realistically) happen because bacterial leaks would have too little time to undo all the changes and re-adapt to natural-only aminoacid environments, the adaptive pressure against synthetic aminoacids would go from zero in the lab to 100 in the wild immediately.
    The possibility would had to be taken account if there was a natural way to keep the bacteria in gradually decreasing concentrations of synthetic aminoacids, you would then give a chance for the reversion to take place slowly and over many generations.

    You're assuming the lab is perfectly clean and the modified bacteria and synthetic amino acids are perfectly contained.
    None of those things are true. They are all false.
    And such changes don't take place "slowly" in bacteria because bacteria churn through "many generations" rapidly.

  7. Re:Physics doesn't work like that. on TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Then you have to invent a new material to make the transmitter out of.
    Then you have to increase the power in case someone uses that material to block your signal.
    Then you have to invent a new material to make the transmitter out of.

  8. Re:The time for "from scratch" is gone for ALL of on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    how about 'it would take me more time to figure out that your halfassed shit won't do what i need
    than to do it myself properly'

    it sounds arrogant, but its true more often than apparently you can conceive

    This. Look up any software / IT service sales page and answer these 3 questions.

    What is it called?
    What does it do?
    How much does it cost?

    If you can't answer those questions, you don't want to buy the product.

  9. Re:Yuck on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    The point was that you are still not making everything from scratch.

    If you wish to make a website from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  10. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Define "device".

    "Device" has always meant the motherboard.

    Nope.
    Plenty of things from CPUs/GPUs to add-in cards will trigger the authentication check to fail.
    The license never specifies what a "device" is. The closest you'll get to specific licensing language is with their server software and the distinction of CPUs by core and by socket.

  11. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...

    Relevant portion:

    This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge.

    Define "device".
    Upgrade the CPU in your old desktop and your free, lifetime license will go out the ...
    In the past they had the option to call a toll-free number and simply state that it's the same device and they'd give you the reauthorization key. I've used it and it's painless. But there's no reason to believe that that option will be offered in perpetuity.

  12. Bullshit on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 5, Informative

    The law is blatantly unconstitutional.

  13. Re:All you need to know on Jim Blasko Explains BitCoin Spinoff 'Unbreakable Coin' (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 2

    This.
    Alt coins are almost always premined - the people trying to get you to use them and trade them have a massive pile in their name.

  14. Re:Useful changes on Jim Blasko Explains BitCoin Spinoff 'Unbreakable Coin' (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 3

    Inflation is neither necessary nor desirable.

  15. Re:Great ad on Jim Blasko Explains BitCoin Spinoff 'Unbreakable Coin' (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 2

    I don't even have to ask about the premine to know that this is a scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

  16. Re:Gadget guys vs photographers on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    So it actually gets seen.

  17. Re:Gadget guys vs photographers on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    Megapixels are already there, there is no need for more.

    So very wrong.
    A 40 MP sensor (which yields less than 40 million pixels of output) won't even get 1200 DPI on a 8"x5" print.

  18. Re:Sayonara glassholes!! on Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Yup.
    No cop is gonna side with a glasshole.

  19. Re:Ironically, bottled mineral water is exploding. on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: -1

    You talk about people who are "mis-informed" or "lying".
    You link to HuffPo.

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  20. Re:3 Times Smaller on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    There's no assuming - it's directly stated with the word "times".

    You use multiplication for the magnitude of the difference because the given measurement ("times") is relative to some other thing.
    "A is 3 cubic inches bigger than B" means you use 3 cubic inches.
    "A is 3 times B bigger than B" means you use 3 times the size of B.
    "A is 3 times bigger than B" also means you use 3 times the size of B.

    You do nothing if the comparison is equality:
    A is Y times as big as B.
    A is as big as (Y) Bs.

    A is Y times as small as B.
    A is as small as (Y) Bs.

    Big and small are relative terms, but within any given context big > small, and bigger represents an increase while smaller represents a decrease.

    You use addition or subtraction for the direction (sign) of the difference otherwise.
    A is Y times bigger than B.
    A is as big as B plus Y Bs.
    A is as big as (1+Y) Bs.

    A is Y times smaller than B.
    A is as small as B minus Y Bs.
    A is as small as (1-Y) Bs.

  21. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    You're joking, right?

  22. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure, but it will soon have an email client/server and the ability to publish PDFs.

  23. 3 Times Smaller on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    It takes up negative 2 times as much space as the Intel NUC?!

  24. Re:Limited list of languages on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1
  25. Re:That would be backwards on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    I think your expected to teach your kid to speak your language.

    You're parent's oviously didnt?