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  1. who cares? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    For day to day operations does it really matter? I do not find a person's dress code at all reflects their abilities and I am damn sure not distracted by what someone wears. Then again I am looking at code all day, not people.

  2. This will never catch on if... on Asus Delivers Speed Boost With USB Attached SCSI Protocol · · Score: 2

    Asus doesn't inexpensively license the technology to other board oems. Not sure how much of this is software and how much is hardware, but if there is a special USB-SCSI command set that is separate from plain SCSI then they will need to be open and supporting on that front for all OS's as well.

  3. Re:Kill Patents on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 1

    You're just now coming to this conclusion?

  4. hardly seems worth it on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    considering the absurd amount of compression applied to the video during upload. Seems like transcoding between at least two different lossy codecs after applying already pretty conservative compression parameters.

  5. Re:Buffer overflow on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    Correction that should be write, not right.

  6. Re:Buffer overflow on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    Premature optimization does not refer to hacked sloppy solutions as much as it does illegible and neglible counter intuitive code practices that account for little to no gain. You should only be trying to squeeze out fewer microseconds when the program calls for it. It is a widely known rule of thumb to first right things clearly and perhaps even naively, profile and then optimize when the performance is not within acceptable range.

  7. If that language doesn't on MPAA Chief Dodd Hints At Talks To Revive SOPA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spit out plain and simple bribed legislation I don't know what does.

  8. I'll wait a bit on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    Tape has always been a increasingly attractive solution to my backup needs, and certainly better than bdrs. However until I am in a scenario where I need to perform a full restoration from tape I will wait this one out. Backup zpools and simple rsyncs I have done but dealing with all the potential mechanical and electromagnetic mishaps of tapes I have no experience with. I have read some of the main criticisms of that backup media are the failures during the reads and writes.

  9. Re:Where is this finger pointing? on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure this is the debian bug where the relevant packages for whatever reason decided to use a static number for the rng seed. There is an xkcd which pokes fun at this.

  10. OS X backdoor doesn't seem as likely on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    as most of OS X's core functionality is open source. It's possible for them to hide something in the quartz engine or something, but backdoors in the open source code would have to make it make it past many more eyeballs. The OpenBSD incident of a supposed "backdoor" (can't remember if it was actually verified or not) wasn't a backdoor but simply a purposeful vulnerability to a side channel attack.

  11. Yet another project with on Programming Cells, With CellOS · · Score: 1

    a name of an already popular open source application: http://audacious-media-player.org/
    This is almost as bad as the libtorrent and libTorrent fiasco.

  12. Re:Long time Ubuntu User here on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    As a mac user, I disagree with this. Apple added in a quick search feature into osx not so long ago, and I use it all the time. There's a big difference between typing a precise command into a terminal, and simply typing a few letters from an app name and hitting return as soon as you see the icon pop up. Apple has always been ahead of the game on search. You can search from basically any file browser, including when you're opening a file. Unity has its problems, but I suspect that as time goes on you'll learn to love this feature.

    You mean like tab completion?

  13. I'll put it this way... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    There is a reason that most people disable compositing for their window manager.

  14. Re:OCZ on OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD · · Score: 1

    A stripe would be glorious from a performance perspective. It would only take a few to saturate the bus to the CPU.

  15. Re:Interpolated missing data is still just a ficti on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    The data in csi is not obfuscated it's missing. This algorithm reverses motion blur it does not bump up any resolution, these are two completely different things.

  16. Re:finally??? on Intel's RISC-y Business · · Score: 1

    Heh slow raid controllers at that

  17. overrated on Inferno OS Running On Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Having lived with the openmoko as my only phone for nearly three years I can safely say the novelty of a community developed ui with barely functioning code for basic tasks wears off quickly. SHR was terrible to live with along with every other distribution

  18. Re:Fileserver on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Agreed this article just comes off as ignorant. IO is hardly a bottleneck these days

  19. A flaw in their script on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    This seems to rely on the fact that the user would have a working mail transfer agent setup on their system. This is a rarity, however. I happen to have mailx configured with sendmail to use an SMTP smart host, however most people probably do not.

  20. Re:No kidding on Hands-On Account of Amazon's Upcoming Color Kindle · · Score: 1

    The 3rd version of the kindle natively interprets the PDF format and displays it exactly as it is supposed to be for both raster and vector content. The problem is the PDF as a whole is rendered typically to be 8.5x11 while the kindle is a 6ish inch display. So in order to read any individual part you have to zoom in on that subsection. It's kind of annoying but in my opinion the trade-off for an extremely readable display is worth the occasional annoyance. I currently have bought Brendan Gregg's Dtrace book for the kindle and it's extremely readable. When an author is willing to put the time and effort forth to produce a kindle capable document, it works (and it works for all types of books, including textbooks).

  21. Re:ZFS improvements on FreeBSD 8.2 Released · · Score: 1

    My version of v28 on 8-stable has issues with zfs diff on snapshots, does yours?

  22. heh on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    However, the Microsoft representative was having none of the Fort Gay talk

    I lol'd.

  23. Came here looking for some relevance between GNU on HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hurd and Oracle only to find out once again it's talking about this guy. Man, he should really change his name.

  24. Re:Your Favorite Youthful Indiscretion? on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    I once bought an Alanis Morrisette album.

    (posted anonymously for obvious reasons)

    Isn't that ironic ...

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony

  25. Re:How ironic on Open Source GSM Cracking Software Released · · Score: 1

    This is most certainly not the intent of net neutrality. The goal is to not bias content and serve all content equally without any filtering of any kind. It prevents ISPs from having tiered platforms with subscription ala carte web services, and it prevents ISPs from throttling bittorrent.