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  1. Re:Goatsehertz record. on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, goatse hosted at goatse.su.

  2. Re:Good on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    It probably is. Daylight is quite blue. It's just not noticeable at high intensities.

  3. Re:Don't forget file servers! on Ask Slashdot: Passively Cooled Hardware For Game Emulation? · · Score: 1

    Atom is not a mobile processor. Atom is a humorous commentary on the market inertia of x86, even in places where ARM is much better suited.

  4. Re:when can I expect 4gb SODIMMs? on Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM · · Score: 1
    Here is your 2x4GiB SODIMM. $45. There was a sale at $35, but that's sold out.

    I refuse to adopt a whole different suffix just because of marketing drones trying to reinvent the term.

    My heart bleeds.

  5. Re:Draw the consequences on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    The most likely real world attack against data in transit is passive listening. MitM attacks are far more expensive.

  6. Re:typing class in school on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    >how not to bash the crap out of the keyboard...

    That's not a problem if you have a good keyboard.

  7. Re:World Class Hypocrisy on Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly · · Score: 1

    I think 'don't sue me' is a reasonable and non-discriminatory term in a license agreement.

  8. Re:Finally on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    But she's got one wrong digit and another missing!

  9. Re:Low prices or pollution in China. on Apple's Chinese Suppliers Accused of Causing Significant Environmental Damage · · Score: 1

    I don't know why people think Macs have good user experience. They have no eject button, chicklet keyboards, and you have to pay extra for a non-glare screen. OSX has the godawful dock with cryptic icons and no distinction between programs that are running and those that aren't, and the global menus which manage to a 2560x1440 display useless for multitasking. And the worst part of it is everybody else is following Apple off the cliff like they were the Prophet Muhammad. It's a fucking disgrace.

  10. Re:Privacy and anonymity online... on The Crypto Project Revives Cypherpunk Ethic · · Score: 1

    The game is not up. Properly encrypted data is statistically indistinguishable from random data. Just encrypt your data and hide it in the last 8 bits of noise in 24 bit 192 kHz audiophile grade FLAC torrents. And then you're only expanding your data by somewhat less than a factor of 3 (FLAC compresses the first 16 bits). That's actually not particularly worse than the existing anonymous nets (Tor, Freenet, i2p).

  11. Re:Good Idea on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    The 'enter' key has no onscreen hint to let you know it exists either. Surprisingly enough, these days pretty much everybody has gotten used to the idea that the right mouse button brings up a context menu.

  12. Re:Constant failures? on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    ...there are a lot of other liquids that are better at transferring heat than water.

    Not many. Molten lithium is one.

  13. Re:If it weren't for those meddling disk manufactu on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    Actually, 120PiB is 135 PB.

  14. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, OEM PCs should have a valid SLIC baked into the bios. You should be able to download a torrent of the install disk, verify the hash against MSDN, and install a clean system. You'd probably have to use the same version of Winders that came preinstalled.

  15. Re:PS3 now costs as much as a midrange BF3video ca on PS3 Enjoys Retail-Wide Sales Spike After Price Cut · · Score: 1

    How did you measure those 360W, and what were you running on the PC at the time? 360W sounds really high for continuous draw unless you're folding on the CPU and GPU.

  16. Re:Learn your AVC's on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 0

    Ctrl+ins and shift+ins really only work well for left-handed mousers. Using both hands to copy and past is just retarded.

  17. Re:Maybe next year... on A Decade of Haiku OS · · Score: 1

    Because PCs are discrete. 'Amount' is used for continuous quantities.

  18. Re:Idiotic, that's what OS's do on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the current tools are designed with use by root in mind. Consider samba.

    As root:

    aptitude install samba
    vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
    And adjust the example config file for your particular purpose.

    As unprivileged user:

    Read samba's documentation to find its dependencies.
    Read documentation of samba's dependencies to find their dependencies.
    Recurse further if necessary.
    apt-get source all that stuff.
    ./configure --prefix="$HOME"
    make
    make install
    Write config file.
    Pray.

    The fact is, adjusting every single application you use to not flip its lid when installed by someone other than root is more difficult and far less well documented than using a virtual machine.

  19. Re:1) scan network requests at boot on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Considering we can change anything on the disk, adding a trusted root cert shouldn't be that big a problem.

  20. Re:"push OS code to systems at boot time" on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for a modpoint!

  21. Re:So the question is on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Because the marginal cost of transmitting a text message is, within measurement error, zero.

  22. TRS Connectors Suck on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    It is easily recognized that a 3.5mm TRS jack eats a substantial fraction of the internal volume budget in a modern phone or portable media player. It is thus understandable that Apple would want to replace it with something smaller. However, basing it on the current standard is perhaps the worst possible way to go about it. The standard 3.5mm headphone connector shorts the contacts on the plug to the wrong contacts on the jack all willy nilly. Given the opportunity to push a new design, they should go for a modern connector that mates the grounds first, and allows the signal contacts to mate only to their proper counterparts.

    And don't try to tell me it's for backwards compatibility. The patented design allows semi-TRS plugs to mate with standard jacks, but does not permit the connection of standard headphones to the Apple design--what people will actually want to do, given the poor quality of the usual bundled earbuds.

  23. Re:Find new holes for future exploits on Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits · · Score: 1

    The App Store censors pornography. Most users are also consumers of pornography. Most users are thus affected by the censorship.

    Q.E.D., bitch.

  24. Re:i work at a convention hall on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    According to this (pdf warning) what you're calling 'containment' is a 'wireless DoS attack', otherwise known as jamming, and highly illegal. How is Aruba avoiding the wrath of the FCC?

  25. Re:if everyone is using off peak hours on Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself · · Score: 1

    Joe Boss should put some aluminum foil on his windows. That's what I do.