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  1. Re:SSD drives are fast, but they suck for reliabil on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing. Newegg lists at least 30 models currently at 7200rpm in the 2.5 form factor. And a couple (not SAS) at the 10000rpm.

  2. Re:So make the power reliable... on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    My APC has a blinking light and beeps loudly when you overload. I think you would know if that was the issue.

  3. Re:Move to Android on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    I think you are mistaken. I have android apps on my Playbook. They use a modified java runtime like android.

  4. Re:American made on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points. I live in Waterloo. Just down the street from their data center and everything. They just sold 5 of their office building to the university as a part of all this. More to the point. As long as the end to end is encrypted then the US shouldn't get their hands on any of the data. The concern is most Canadian internet routes run down into the States for the backbone. Very few Canadian internet service companies can say the whole route stays in Canada.

  5. Re:Misleading article is misleading on Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million · · Score: 2

    Why is the websites such a big deal then if you can submit a paper application? That is how every application to the government that I have made, passport, drivers license, SIN, has been done so far in my life. Income tax has moved online, but you can still paper file.

  6. Re:Let's build our own SteamMachines on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 1

    If you have a laptop I would try it out on it first before sinking money in. Laptops normally have HDMI and if you have a wired xbox 360 controller you are set.

  7. Re:Extortion then? on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    There is child porn laws too for ensuring all the models are over 18. I think he would have fouled this one as well. A checkbox in the submission process doesn't cut it.

  8. Re:Nuclear: only interim solution, permanent waste on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Your articles don't argue your point. The first one says we would have to double the current number of reactors to meet 2054 target of growth or 208 reactors. Not the 12844 (35*52*7+104) that you suggest. The second article dances on non prolif concerns and makes no calculations. Where did you get your numbers? As a rough exercise, Currently 104 reactors service 19% of the US power demand. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-T-Z/USA--Nuclear-Power/. That means 548 reactors to replace it all and an extra 104(using your first article) to meet growth for 2054. Assuming average generating capacity blah blah blah. That would be a reactor every 5 weeks for the next 50 years. And that would be all nuclear so it would be slightly less since renewable energy would still be used.

  9. Reminds me of the movie PU-239 on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 2

    Where they snort the isotope thinking its coke. You are dead and there is fuck all they can do about it. Tylenol overdose does the same thing too though if its not treated in time. You get mildly ill first. Then you get better and suddenly deteriorate since your liver is cooked. Very freaky shit.

  10. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    You need to watch the movie Brazil. I think it will become true eventually. Bureaucracy begets bureaucracy.

  11. Re:Pros vs Cons on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    I thought all parking brakes are mechanical, but VW at least has electric ones now.

  12. Conduit? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    How was the electrical runs installed. You could fish it through the same pipes. It depends on the aesthetic of the space. The designer and IT lead need to sit down and hammer some sort of list of exclusions and weighted scorecard and then look for the optimum solution.

  13. Re:Propellent Questions on ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' · · Score: 1

    lol. I was just reading through the replies. I should have read them all before saying anything.

  14. Re:He's right, but wrongly. on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    I read an article mentioning that people are seeing bitcoins as a way of sheltering money that isn't gold. The people buying bitcoins think they are getting a steal cause they have no confidence in the value of the USD. You can't feed your family with bitcoins or gold without finding someone willing to trade for it. The same thing could be said about the USD though. Corn futures would be the smarter currency.

  15. Re:Wonder who is getting the assets... on BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company · · Score: 1

    Thanks that makes more sense! Would the creditor have the capability to negotiate the license though? I feel like that is nontrivial.

  16. Re:Propellent Questions on ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' · · Score: 1

    I think its a handle that attaches to the robot arm. Watch the video in the link its informative.

  17. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would not. The compartment is not being used for drugs. That seems to be what everyone is glazing over. Where I live it is perfectly legal to enter someones home unless you intend to commit a crime so you can save someone shouting for help. You can own lock picks unless you intend to use them to commit a crime. Same thing with masks. You are allowed to have a compartment unless you plan to use it for drugs.

  18. Re:Wonder who is getting the assets... on BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company · · Score: 1

    My only issue is how would you license patents from a defunct company. It isn't like you can phone them up and negotiate an agreement. There is no corporate offices or staff. There needs to be a mechanism to handle this. Like dividing the licensing fee over the years of holding and releasing patents that fail to pay for the next time block. This patent pool is where most patent trolling comes from.

  19. Propellent Questions on ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They use springs. The J-SSOD click through in the article has a lot more information on the inner workings of the contraption. Its more like a nerf gun than a cannon. http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/jssod/

  20. Re:Typical BBC bias on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    You can't bias facts. I was talking about the opinions they inject around those facts. Politics has nothing to do with it either.

  21. Non Banking Entity on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is like all the people that get mad when paypal jerks them around. Don't use a non banking entity as a bank. There is huge history reinforced reasons why the industry is regulated.

  22. Re:Assumptions on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power is cheap and reliable, by any sane metric. Solar and wind both stop working regularly depending on weather conditions. They have to be heavily subsidized to even break even. Here in Ontario most of the subsidization is nuclear power to bring down the average energy price. I will agree with you though. We should be focusing on reducing inefficiency more. The power plants we don't build are the most environmentally friendly.

  23. Re:Huge surprise. on Spy Expert Says Australia Operating As "Listening Post" For US Agencies · · Score: 1

    Australia, Britain, Canada, America have a bunch of cooperation agreements to share military resources, intelligence, strategy. Not really surprising. Look up TTCP, ABCA, ASIC, CCEB.

  24. Re:Typical BBC bias on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 0

    The BBC is pretty bad. I wouldn't say FOX bad, but they love to push an agenda. All news agencies are biased. Let me know when you find one that isn't.

  25. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 4, Informative

    Incorrect: According to Snowden, the laptops he brought to Russia were empty. Shockingly the internet exists making physical transport of data unnecessary. He doesn't have control and probably access over the information anymore. That is why Cameron is attacking the news outlets now. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/14/snowden_decoy_laptops_russia_china/