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  1. so... on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    At 202 mph, they are 1 mph better than tha official top speed of the Ferrari F-40, released in 1987.

  2. Re:Why? on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    That. It's also way better for plugging into an IDE, generates way better compiler error messages, etc.

  3. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    Shrug. If OS X is a failure, sign me up for more failed tech please.

  4. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    lol, good luck with that walmart. besides, the big growth market for the 5c is china.

  5. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    Have owned a 4s for 2 years now. has never had a cover. Has been dropped multiple times onto tiles, bricks, concrete. It has a few minor scuffs and scratches but is otherwise fine. Sure, you could get unlucky and have it shatter, but i have never run covers on my iPhones since 2008 and they've all been usable for 2+ years despite my clumsiness.

  6. Re:Farming without a farm on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    There's nothing stopping you growing food in your own back yard. For corporations, being able to use heavy machinery to automate seeding, harvesting, spraying, etc precludes attempting to farm in a densely populated area.

  7. Re:no thanks on Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets · · Score: 1

    Also, notebooks have sensors to park the heads when movement occurs, like in my MBP, you can hear it park the heads. I've yet to kill a notebook hard drive from movement in 18 years of using them.

  8. Re:no thanks on Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets · · Score: 1

    Compare 4tb spinning disk vs. 4tb of flash and tell me the price isn't reasonable on the spinner.

  9. Re:no thanks on Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets · · Score: 1

    Pretty much that. Also, i'm not sure what you lot are doing with regards to shock on your tablets, but mine do not see significant difference in shock to my laptop(s) which have yet to have a drive die due to movement in the past 18 years.

  10. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're an expert and should start your own business to show them how its done. Good luck.

  11. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    I"m not ADVOCATING IT. I'm saying there is a difference between deliberate malice, and incompetence.

  12. Re:liberals in Australia on Australia Elects Libertarian-Leaning Senator (By Accident) · · Score: 2

    The irony is that our "Liberal" party is rather conservative, and align themselves more with the US republicans (other than supporting the monarchy).

  13. no accident on Australia Elects Libertarian-Leaning Senator (By Accident) · · Score: 1

    Given the huge level of dis-satisfaction with both of the major parties, I think blaming this on chance or simply due to his name being first on the ballot is making a MASSIVE leap.

  14. Re:So he wants KDE? on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But how does that enable open-source wheel reinvention every 6 months?

  15. Re:So he wants KDE? on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 2

    Plus anything to compare to automator. Seriously, those who call themselves nerds. Google/youtube/play with a friend's mac and try out automator.

  16. Re:So he wants KDE? on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    Did you entirely miss the systemwide scripting support (amongst other things)?

  17. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 0

    Still. There is a difference between an actual backdoor that was placed there by an adversary who knows about its existence and a potential backdoor that would need to be discovered via remote probing.

  18. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 0

    Sure. How many times do you watch the same content (and it isn't cached) vs. how much content do you download planning to watch later and not get around to?

  19. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 0

    Yes. But while you're streaming, you aren't downloading a heap of different stuff you may or may not get around to watching any time soon. Which is why I think a lot of people blow out their quota so bad. I'd be surprised if most have time in their lives (unless they don't have one) to actually consume more than a hundred gigs or so of media per month..

  20. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 0

    Sorry my mistake... slashdot here. I forgot people spend their entire lives on the internet.

  21. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    no.

  22. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't.

  23. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    I'm a regular steam user (both borderlands 1/2 with DLC), regular high def youtube user, regular bit-torrent user. I regularly download new operating system ISOs. I regularly come in under 100GB/month, and have not yet gone over quota in 2 years (though I have hit 90% with a couple of days to go). And I spend a lot of time at home.

  24. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    And this is exactly why bandwidth is expensive, and not comparable to some backbone rate that another poster listed above.

  25. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. It is a backbone rate, which doesn't include the infrastructure in the local exchange, the cost to rent/lease/maintain the local cabling infrastructure, paying off the switchgear in the local node, the helpdesk, administrative overhead, etc, etc.