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  1. Just imagine on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    A Raspberry-Pi Beowulf cluster of those R9 295X2's.

  2. Re:I used to have an FTA Setup on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing your experiences. Getting FTA was actually not my primary objective for why I bought the 90cm dish, instead it's just a nice to have/play with. Just bought a SG6100 today so pointing should be a cinch.

  3. Re:Free-To-Air like OTA on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I'd share more with you later on but you posted as an AC :(

  4. Re:Dish/Direct TV should offer free basic channels on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing cable box hacking with DSS hacking. In the old days you needed basic cable and a friendship with a cable guy. With DSS, there's nothing stopping the signal from reaching you, so you didn't have to pay jack except for an occasional unlooping when you weren't paying attention.

  5. Re:Helpful Website on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Great link. Several past google searches rendered forum posts from that site.

  6. Re:Big Ugly Dishes on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 2

    I don't believe that is true. You typically want the dish diameter to be 20x the wavelength. A 90cm dish can receive 3.33Ghz signals and above which is right at the C-band frequency range.

  7. Re:Glad you discovered it, hope you enjoy it. on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Nifty. Thanks for the reference.

  8. Real-Time for real? on Working with Real-Time Analytics as a Service (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised BitYoga chose MongoDB for real-time analytics. Several years ago we attempted to do a real-time analytics solution with MongoDB but besides being a not so great performer when it comes to counting, it's boolean operators were still in its infancy. We ended up ripping out and replacing with another back-end solution in a couple of months and never looked back. Has MongoDB changed much to make real-time more realistic?

  9. Did you see that? on Algorithm Reveals Objects Hidden Behind Other Things In Camera Phone Images · · Score: 1

    I photo bombed you from behind that wall.

  10. Re:Great Responses... on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Newbs...

  11. Re:Who names their country on Youtube and Facebook May Be Banned In Turkey, Again · · Score: 1

    Apparently they should have been named "Ostrich" since they have a preference to bury their heads in the sand.

  12. Re:ITS HAPPENING on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 2

    So.....you're welcoming...solar wind? The sun? I don't know how long you've been here, but the sun and its wind have been around for quite some time. Or did you just not RTFA?

  13. City-wide mayhem on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I'm going to find those guys at that bar and show them every single traffic light, closed circuit television, and any other ancillary cameras deployed by private and governmental agencies all around them. I could have San Francisco in a full scale riot by the end of the week!

  14. WOW gold is not legal tender on WV Senator Calls For Ban On All Unregulated Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    There, just wanted to shore that one up as well.

  15. Bitcoin is not legal tender on WV Senator Calls For Ban On All Unregulated Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    There. Problem solved.

  16. Not the brightest ever witnessed after all on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally I was watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 4 last night and he talked about several credible eye witness accounts recorded by the Gervase of Canterbury where an impact on the moon was so bright that it was seen at dusk and generated a very large and visible plume, much much larger in size and longer in duration than that brief flash the MIDAS program reported about. You'll have to watch Episode 4 to learn what impact crater astronomers were able to match these accounts against, but it was a ray crater positioned on the moon consistent with the eye witness accounts.

  17. Minor difference on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 1

    Although applying the concept is interesting in theory, all trolling aside a foundational difference that makes this comparison nonsense is that *most* human's don't want the virus they contract whereas *most* Facebook users want to participate on Facebook until its usefulness expires. Facebook's usefulness has an indeterminate expiration that is subjective per individual (or group of like-minded individuals) whereas the virus is counter-useful. Now, if they were to apply disease patterns of a virus whose side effect were of varied usefulness to people, then we'd have a more productive comparison.

  18. Re:Reminds me of why some cinemas BAN cell phones. on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the Alamo Movie Drafthouse intro that encourages patrons to not text or talk or else "Curtis Reeves will shoot your ass".

    Sorry, too soon?

  19. The cruelest part on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Was that they were only willing to offer him $50,000, not even $60,000 in CALIFORNIA. Isn't $60,000 a year under the poverty line there?

  20. Re:Indians are hired for low wages on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 2

    ...wanted to transfer a high-performing salesman from Oracle's India office to California

    Reading comprehension fail

  21. Re: Waldo on International Space Station Mission Extended To 2024 · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that <insert market space> is a bitch of an environment to maintain something as complex as the <insert product> over time. Unless you're only looking at another <insert product development lifecycle> or two of life, you'll probably see it reach the point where it's cheaper and easier to build a new <insert product>, <insert product alternative> or <insert alternative to product alternative> than it is to continue maintaining the <insert product>. There's also few practical options for preserving it as a piece of history, no matter how cool that would be.

    That's how I read your post.

  22. Re:Thanks Big O! on International Space Station Mission Extended To 2024 · · Score: 1

    NASA has determined that research on ISS is necessary to mitigate fully 21 of the 32 human-health risks anticipated on long-duration missions.

    It helps when you RTFA.

  23. Re:Was obviously calibrated on white people on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: -1, Troll

    but completely failed to find my black partner's face

    Sorry to burst your bubble but the product can detect a black person's face fine...just not gay black people.

  24. What a relief on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 2

    Now when my new internet girlfriend wants to skype for the first time, she won't find out that the pictures I posted on my dating profile were faked from a google image search for hunk.

  25. Did you test brownouts? on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    Hey lkcl, I don't know if this is a concern of yours, but I ended up having some fairly costly troubleshooting a few years ago with the original OCZ Vertex drives where the root cause was my laptop battery had degraded enough to where the OCZ wasn't getting the necessary voltage/current on boot-up or when the power was unplugged and it ran off of battery. The OCZ Vertex drive hardware wasn't well designed to handle not getting enough power (it was still receiving power) and totally and completely corrupted the flash to the point where it had to be sent back to OCZ. I think I did 7-8 drive returns and a laptop motherboard replacement until I finally figured it out. You might try that on the Intel S3500 and see what your results are.