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  1. Re:I'm switching to Mac after six ThinkPads on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    1080p display, which is too high a DPI to be comfortable on less than a 15" screen

    No. I hate 16:9 just as much as you do, but there's no such thing as "too high" PPI. There is only diminishing benefit and a tradeoff with the grunt required to render the pixels. 1920x1080 isn't excessive until below 9".

  2. Re:Zero sympathy...none...nada...bupkis on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Obvious shill is obvious.

  3. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 2

    The very basics of research, in 2012 CE, involve a search engine.

  4. Re:thnkpad keyboard better. on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 1

    thnkpad

    Apparently not.

  5. Re:What if they had said it was easily crackable? on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    Not really. The fact is, none of the smartphone platforms are open enough or standardized enough to be trusted with data you want to keep secret from the government. It will be a good long time before anything is as secure as a laptop purchased with cash and an alias, encrypted, firewalled off from the public internet, and stored with the power off in a tamper-evident safe.

  6. Re:What is a CD? on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    Well, 44100 -> 96000 meets the nyquist condition, so...

  7. Re:I'll stick with a mechanical drive for now. on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    Tell your mother-in-law to use S3 suspend.

  8. Re:bad review, what about hybrid drives? on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    All the hybrid drives I've seen have so little flash that you could do better by maxing your RAM.

  9. Re:I have seen SSDs used just to load the OS on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    I don't even know what the heck "SMART" data is.

    Then why the fuck are you on Slashdot?

  10. Re:Desktop Environment Fad is finally ending. on GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss · · Score: 1

    That functionality should be handled by FUSE. (For SFTP, use sshfs.) Things like that are the reason people have That One KDE App that takes 8 seconds to start.

  11. Re:It Depends on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to pay for two hard disks anyway, why not use one to backup the other? Attempting to revive a failed disk should be the very last option.

  12. But heterosexuals could marry their sex too. I don't see why they would want to, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

  13. What's the catch? on "Magnetic Cells" Isolated For First Time · · Score: 2

    How was this difficult? I mean, wouldn't it just be:

    1. Puree
    2. Dredge with magnet

  14. Re:So now Google is literally a bunch of faggots? on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    one could argue everyone has the same right to marry someone of the opposite sex, there is no preferential treatment.

    lol

  15. Re:none on Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15% · · Score: 1

    disable all the visual gimmicks, like aero

    Enjoy your lack of vsync.

  16. Re:Dunno, might help but not solve problem on Google Proposes Fighting Piracy By Blocking Ad Money · · Score: 1

    Whoa. There are places, in the United States even where you could get a gigabit pipe to the world for that.

  17. Re:All of my servers were fine on Leap Second Bug Causes Crashes · · Score: 1

    And yet I had a minor CPU usage issue with all of my Mozilla and Java applications. I'm running 3.2.

  18. Re:Irony on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    The registry doesn't get "crufty". That is just a baseless attack that has no meat behind it. Please explain the science of "cruft", how it works, how it impacts performance, and how other OSes aren;t affected by "cruft".

    Other OSes have package managers. Windows does not. "Cruft" is the result of the installation and removal of software in the absence of a package manger.

  19. Re:Support your local underdogs on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1

    I am of the opinon that it is entirely fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory to require cross-licensing of all patents in related fields.

  20. Re:When in Rome ... on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 2

    Laws are not deserving of respect.

  21. Re:q&a seems totally legit on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 2

    Or, rather than having to conceal non-standard equipment and leaving physical evidence and/or an RF trail, a spy could steganographically conceal encrypted secret documents in image macros, and post them to a public website such as 4chan.

  22. Re:Out of curiosity on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? · · Score: 1

    I never was able to understand how people choose to spend their life by being entertained.

    Because entertainment is fun. That is, as they say, the entire point.

  23. Re:But what when it crashes? on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Laptop CPUs, sometimes.

  24. Re:A good start... but Intel graphics still need w on Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License · · Score: 1

    YCbCr 4:2:2 output

    What interconnect do you use for this? What kind of display devices will accept it as input?

  25. Re:A good idea to put off a laptop purchase... on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    256GB (common base laptop SSD now) is OK but anemic.

    Wat. My netbook has a 4 GB SSD. That is anemic. 16 GB would be comfortable. 64 is extravagant. Learn2sshfs.