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  1. Re:Why SPAM? on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Because it's not +1 Informative, it's +5 Personal Agenda

  2. Re:I'm starting to wonder... on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    Wait - an entire organization that's centered around imposing your beliefs on other people? Sounds like a circular argument waiting to happen.

  3. Re:Simple Solution - Exam Mode on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    That requires you to own a phone where you don't have root. How would you prove that?

  4. Re:Any frame-accurate editors out there? on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Demux the file and use the component video tracks in your editor. Maybe re-mux the video into a video-only mp4 but that's it.

    I have no idea why you'd have MKV source material if you're doing original work.

  5. Re:Uhh... it's cheap on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about Premiere Elements (not the real thing at all) or are you talking about $400 lawns?

  6. Re:Resolve on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Nice! I don't know where I've been for all this time, but this looks great. I'm still using pre-X FCP and this might be a nice upgrade.

  7. Re:What about Lightworks? on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Free, yes. Powerful, yes. Easy to use, NO!! Closing windows by feeding them to a shark? Priceless.

  8. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    I track it at the router (Tomato installed on Asus RT-N16). That only keeps track of actual delivered traffic. It certainly doesn't cover encapsulation and transit and retransmits (except retransmits from my side).

    To find out your cap, Google it. It's going to be fairly standard if you're with a national ISP.

  9. Re:What are you downloading? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    I thought I'd log into my modem and find month after month of > 150GB. I don't use as much as I used to. I'm really shocked that I haven't peaked above 100GB in the last year. My Netflix usage is way down lately, and I'm not downloading a lot of ISO files, but 150GB still isn't hard to do. It's only double my average usage, and my wife and I are a household of only 2.

    Date, DL, UL, Total
    2014-07 75.69GB 13.27GB 88.96GB
    2014-06 67.32GB 16.88GB 84.20GB

  10. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    Encapsulation takes bandwidth

    What do you define as bandwidth? With DSL, each user has a dedicated pair of wires back to the DSLAM. Any encapsulation is borne by a dedicated link. Spare capacity can't be used for ANYTHING. The DSLAM is backed by fiber to the CO. There is no bottleneck there, so really no reason to worry about overhead. It's only when it goes out on the open Internet from the CO where bandwidth usage matters.

    Cable Internet is the one where last-mile overhead has a true impact. And I don't think they count it toward caps like AT&T seems to be doing.

  11. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 2

    On my electric bill, there's a usage charge AND a delivery charge. But both charges only account for what's used behind the meter - not during transit.

  12. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a data cap (supposedly 250GB but not really enforced) and I talk in complete sentences. I have sympathy for the people who can't track their usage in any accurate and accountable way.

  13. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    Nope. U stuck in an SMS?

  14. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 2

    When you buy a quarter pounder, there's a footnote on every sign and menu board that reads *Precooked weight. Where is AT&T's definition?

  15. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    In that case, you're choosing the packages and paying to have it delivered. In this case, you're paying for an x amount to be delivered. Overhead might be part of the cost, but the definition of the metering for all intents is described as what's delivered.

  16. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    And using hard drive accounting where 1 Gigabyte is 1,000,0000,000 bytes...

  17. Re:Why'd he leave the iPod Touch in his truck thou on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    Do you think the voltage or amperage would warrant it? If it doesn't run on 5v servo motors, you'd have to include an extra transformer. Not to mention the slow charging time with USB on such a high amperage device.

  18. Re:Counterproductive on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 1

    That would be Windows MESE: Just Plain Messy.

  19. Re:Why'd he leave the iPod Touch in his truck thou on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    The iPod touch has a limited battery life... Though you'd hope it shares power source with the arm.

  20. Re:You've gotta hand it to him though. on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but the iPod touch runs on ARM.

  21. Re:Counterproductive on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 1

    If they give us a Windows8SE, they're just going to follow it up with a Windows 9ME

  22. Re:Correlation is not causation on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 1

    If you're 300 baud mind can't see that my joke wasn't predicated on your joke, then you'd better start learning Morse code.

  23. Re:Correlation is not causation on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 1

    wallet sure seems lighter

    How about you use that 25Mbps to pay your bill online and not pay in cash. Then again, you said you didn't get any smarter.

  24. Re:A lot of easy things are illegal on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Its probably easy to build

    The cost of building a device doesn't necessarily include R&D costs. It's possible someone else has already done the work for you.

  25. Re:I wonder if this means... on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Flashing reds is probably a failsafe mode. You could give yourself a green, but it won't fix them for anyone else.