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  1. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    The super-fast Windows boot time now lets me do away with sleep

    But why would you want to? S3 suspend saves 98% of the power that full off does, it starts faster than booting (even from an SSD), and you get to keep the state of what you were doing before.

  2. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    AMD64 guarantees the presence of the SSE instruction set, there are twice as many registers, and the syscalls are faster.

  3. Re:Problems? Really? on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1

    But with the blob driver you get non-native resolution on the console, slow switching between TTYs, and very rickety fast user switching.

  4. Re:Your problem SOLVED.... Eee PC on Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? · · Score: 1

    Can't even compile.

  5. Re:You'll regret it on Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you could get a Zenbook Prime with a much better screen.

  6. Re:You'll regret it on Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? · · Score: 1

    s/STILL/THEN/

  7. Re:More than 1080p on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    That would be retarded.

  8. Re:No dvd drive is too soon for me on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Optical drives occupy a huge amount of internal volume and are mechanically delicate. I backed up my 80 GB music collection on DVD once. Never. Again.

  9. Re:has no user-replaceable parts at all on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd much rather have a lighter, more durable notebook and buy my RAM now, than save maybe $100 by buying it next year.

    Factory-installed ram is three times as expensive as what you can get on Newegg now, and this holds for pretty much every laptop vendor. Face it, the new MBP is a $2100 machine with only 8 GiB of memory, and if you want more you have to pay an extra $200.

  10. Re:Websites on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    This is one of the reasons you should never use mixed case or special characters in passwords. Just make them longer.

  11. Re:Different networks on IPMI: Hack a Server That Is Turned Off · · Score: 2

    For all practical purposes, unless your machine is battery powered, S3 is off. My problem with wake on LAN is that it only works with special magic packets that only work at layer 2, unless you have one of the NICs that support wake on unicast. I mean, what is the point if you can't make an SSH server that wakes up whenever you try to log in to it.

  12. Re:Why don't they...? on Netflix and Google Make Land Grab On Edge of Internet · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent practically is a cache. I bet you could just adjust it to prefer peers with nearby IP addresses.

  13. Re:Because nobody cares? on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    Can you see the pixels on your 1080p screen?

    Yes?

  14. Re:Happy Friday from The Golden Girls! on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 0

    It's confidante!!!1!1!

  15. Re:Endless Apple Patent Discussions on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    The term "Intellectual Property" is a weasel word introduced by parties with the intent to merge the quite different exclusivity guarantees of copyright, patent, and trademark into a single entity within the public consciousness. These parties also wish to establish as 'common sense' the notion that copyright, patent, and trademark registrations are equivalent to private property (of libertarian reverence). Please do not use it.

  16. Re:if the Russian mafia bear-hugs big data on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    I've set apg to generate what I would estimate as about 60 bits per password, then I filter and discard the ugliest ones, shaving a few bits to finger compatibility.

    My people.

  17. Re:Websites on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    Just generate some random gibberish and keep it in the password database with the rest of them.

  18. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    In KDE everything is a gradient, and there are text shadows. Text shadows! If it was any worse I'd suspect that the KDE UI designers worked at a motherboard company.

  19. Re:Not a problem on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    My definition of childhood includes a period of innocence, or a freedom from some knowledge that's usually difficult for people to make sense of. For instance, we don't confront children with knowledge of death (if we can avoid doing so), because death is difficult even for adults. Why burden a child with something that many adults can't bear? Children exposed to enough "adult" concepts (death, sex, violence, etc.) aren't children for long.

    What you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  20. Re:Not a problem on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Oh no. Whatever shall we do.

  21. Re:Sporting goods and going out and doing things.. on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, the manufacturer of your road bike is probably a lot less evil than Sony.

  22. Re:And... on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I would even hold my breath while running up the stairs

    Why? I figure I might as well start huffing and puffing now so I'm not as tired at the top.

  23. Re:Modest? 100Mbit? on German Cable ISP First To Deliver 4700Mbps Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    12/6? Luxury! I have 10/0.7. The upstream is so anemic that it can barely acknowledge the data coming in. One machine seeding at 50 KB/s cuts everybody else's download speed in half.

  24. Re:Most likely inserted by Microsemi/Actel not fab on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    If you're too fucking stupid to use the right word, you're in no position to put it in bold and bitch when people notice.

  25. Re:strategy of tension on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    right to self ownership of one's own body, and the descendent right to property.

    Now wait just a doggone minute. That's a pretty hairy position you implied there. Some anarchists recogize a right to property, and those that do differ in degree. Most recognize material personal property, but a smaller faction reconizes ownership of land and capital goods.