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  1. Re:If you dare... on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: 1

    Except that Europe has a long and active trend of elected female leaders.

  2. Re:It must be running out of fuel on Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Polonium?

  3. Re:Trippy on Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    For you, the day Bison landed his Space Plane on your tiny village was the greatest day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday.

  4. Bad analogy time. on Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal · · Score: 1

    Say you've got a land full of city states. Verizon-town, Comcast-town, AT&T-town, etc etc.

    There is one or more superhighway running into each -town. These super-highways generally meet at an 'interconnect point' or 'peering point.' All of the towns build their own highways to the peering points, and because they all have generally the same amount of traffic trying to go back and forth, they don't really charge each other for them.

    There are multiple peering points for various reasons.

    Now, if I'm understanding correctly, Netflix-town (think small factory town, like) built a superhighway to a peering point that didn't happen to have a superhighway to Verizon-town. So they argued over who should build that superhighway.

    In the mean time, traffic from Netflix-town to Verizon-town had to pass through other towns first, with predictable results.

    Netflix has now gotten around to building a superhighway to a peering point that Verizon-town is connected to, and HOLY SHIT, suddenly they can move a ton of traffic into Verizon-town.

    But Netflix doesn't take data from Verizon-town, like, say, another large ISP might, so why would Verizon-town pay to build said superhighway?

    This isn't net neutrality; that would be the creation and sale of toll-roads *within* the various towns. Once Netflix-town's trucks hit Verizon-town's border, they get on the Verizon-town streets to their ultimate destination, same as everybody else. This just improves Netflix's ability to get delivery trucks to Verizon-town's borders.

  5. Re:If you dare... on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: 1

    Are we talking Western politics, or American politics? They're vastly different things.

  6. Re:Isn't "Cutting the Wind" cheating? on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    Quick! Somebody do a study on the effects of feeding a runner a large meal of beans and what not: do the farts accelerate the runner to any measurable amount?

  7. Re:Lame way to run on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    Replace 'run speed' with 'clock speed,' 'cold day' with 'watercooling system' or 'oil immersion cooling system' and what not, and all you're describing is how to severly overclock a certain type of machine without having it go unstable, or crashing.

  8. I need some comparisons on Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Would these the more, less, or about as impactful as heartbleed and shellshock? What was the time frame between the introduction of the bugs being fixed, the discovery of the bugs being fixed, and the fixes?

  9. Re:Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal on Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) · · Score: 1

    They should be using Tau.

    It really would be for the greater good.

  10. Re:Pull your own on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Run a fiber from the jack to your distribution point. Straight down the wall, along/under baseboards, whatever, you can make it invisible if need be. This isn't rocket science.

  11. Re:Combine the 2 on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to give a qualified 'no' to this one. I'm a network engineer, this IS my business

    I'm a network engineer, who does microwave backhauls (licensed and unlicensed), myself. And it's an unqualified no. And although you say it's a qualified no, you then go on to explain all the reasons it doesn't work. :-)

    There is zero way to get useful, reliable gigabit speeds over a wireless LAN setup, or over BoP. The spectrum and SnR just aren't there.

    Even licensed links have issues getting gig+ speeds. The usual method is xpic setups, clean Fresnel zones, licensed frequency, huge dishes, and you still have to contend with rain fade and the like.

    Hell, freespace optic wouldn't work for the guy, unless he was willing to drill holes in walls, hope nobody tall walked past, etc etc.

    No, the only way to get gigabit speed in the house is through wires.

  12. Re:Combine the 2 on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He asked, "Is there a better way to achieve a truly gigabit internal connection without substantial structural or wiring modifications?"

    And the answer is an unqualified 'no.'

  13. In America, you go to court to win a moral victory, and lose all your money in the process.

  14. Re:FTFY on Hackers Compromised Yahoo Servers Using Shellshock Bug · · Score: 1

    Also, if they isolated a handful of their impacted servers, they left at least the same amount of impacted servers untouched.....

  15. Re:Some would be well suited. on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 1

    and an unconventional manor is the only way

    So, you'd call in Batman? I mean, Wayne Manor may be stately, but it's also pretty unconventional.

  16. Re:I would not have a problem with this if... on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 3

    Why would you want to use a testing version, if you're not willing to participate in the testing?

    Conversely, why would any company want you to have access to a test version if you're not willing to participate in the testing?

  17. Re:Am I missing something here? on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Sorry, not a court order, an order from a private law firm. "take them down, or we'll sue.' They're still there.

  18. Re:Am I missing something here? on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    People stole pictures from iCloud. They then uploaded them to Google-run sites. Those pictures are still available on said Google-run sites, despite Google having been told to take them down. Hence, bad Google for being in ongoing non-compliance with a court order.

  19. Re:You are DAMN RIGHT she should be charged on Could Maroney Be Prosecuted For Her Own Hacked Pictures? · · Score: 1

    Also, you absolutely CANNOT put in any sort of age-based exemption.

    "Ok, 14 year old Kimmy, you come operate the camera, while 14 year old Johnny and 14 year old Tammy fool around."

    I don't know what a good answer would be.

  20. Re:Antecdotes != Evidence on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    (I resisted upgrading because of one win98 game...).

    Dammit, man, which game?!

  21. Re:OS Decay is largekly a myth. on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    Again, it's all relative. Do you really think it takes your modern (less than 10 years old?) multicore computer THAT much time to parse though even several million records? In a binary database format? Enough time that you'd even notice?

  22. Re:We must nuke Texas from orbit, on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Counterpoint: Black people are still being publically executed for walking while black, or shopping while black. The latter including a white guy, on the phone with 911, blatantly making shit up.

  23. Re:Fighters on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Then it's a MIRV (though renamed to MIAV or something) with a reusable booster.

  24. Re:Is it actually a bug at all? on Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Issue with FSF statement... on Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug · · Score: 1

    I take issue more with the fact that it completely misses the point. "Everyone using Bash has the freedom to download, inspect, and modify the code....and yet this bug has been around for years."