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  1. Re:The nuclear option on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    And if millions of people use this proxy service, who are they going to bust for piracy?

  2. Re:The nuclear option on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Wow, the US postal service has a lot of shit to answer for.

    Did you not read the part where the courier did not know the ALREADY sealed envelope had drugs?

  3. Re:Cognitive bubble on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    No shit. People that don't have access to insulin will die more often from diabetes. So fucking what? They introduce this interesting phenomenon that even wealthy and seemingly healthy Americans have lower life expectancy than those in other affluent areas, and then they don't explain shit about why they think that is the case. Do you care to explain it?

  4. Re:OUTRAGE!!! on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    This research doesn't reach conclusions. It doesn't prove any causal link. It's just data. People must draw their own conclusions.

    Which leads me to the question, how the hell did they draw these retarded conclusions?

    Given this statement: Americans fare worse than people in other countries even when the analysis is limited to non-Hispanic whites and people with relatively high incomes and health insurance, nonsmokers, or people who are not obese.

    Conclusion 1: social inequality causes it. WTF? They just said that people with relatively high incomes and insurance still fare worse!
    Conclusion 2: limited availability of contraception for teenagers causes it. WTF? This may indirectly contribute to more people in the world, but how does it affect the life expectancy of those teenager's babies or anybody else?
    Conclusion 3: community designs that discourage physical activity such as walking AND individual behaviors such as high calorie consumption cause it. WTF? They just said even after limiting analysis to those who are not obsese Americans still fare worse.
    Conclusion 4: air pollution causes it. I suppose they didn't have time to look at the data again while limiting to low pollution areas?

  5. Re:People should play more pinball on Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them · · Score: 1

    Think about it!

  6. Re:Here it comes... on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and what about that guy that turned his staff into a snake, and parted the red sea, and got tablets written by the hand of deity. What a scam.

  7. Re:Do you heat your house? on Is It Worth Investing In a High-Efficiency Power Supply? · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a resivoir?

  8. Re:It's cuasing labor to have to be higher-qualifi on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 1

    Too true. It used to be that more people had to grow food. Now that one person with huge machinery can do the farming of 70 peasants, the other 69 people have found other useful things to do. Peasants didn't have smartphones, YouTube, or fine art. A lot of people are employed in creating different things that people value.

    If you only have the skills to do what a robot can do, and the robot costs less than you, then you are obsolete. I don't have pity on you. Fortunately, there are very few people who fit that description.

    I imagine that people will spend most of their time in the automated utopia trying to entertain each other. Whoever entertains the most effectively can buy the best entertainment for themselves. LOL

  9. Re:Thanks Prez! on Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? · · Score: 1

    A company's profits are used to pay employees wages? I'm thinking companies usually categorize wages under operating expenses.
    Did you mean revenue?

  10. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    It could be that they have only a few packet size buckets and round up: 64/512/1500.

    But damn, it should be mandated that any rounding be explicit in the contract.

  11. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    Damn, wish I had mod points. Backhaul capacity is the scarce resource.

    My VDSL modem for U-verse is connected at a sync rate of 25Mbps. I only get 6Mbps down, though. It doesn't cost the ISP any more to have my data transmit faster over the copper pair.

  12. Re:Try to get *any* wireless carrier to define it. on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    Since when is an IP header 24 bytes? What IP options would you be using to send a 1 byte UDP message?

    I'm surprised the wireless side hasn't had more discussion on what they consider part of your usage. Sounds like we need legislation to require disclosure.

  13. ROHC on LTE on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    It gets worse than this.
    Your wireless bill is highly dependent on usage, considering the typical 5GB limit. LTE links are going to start using ROHC (RFCs 3095, 5225, etc.) as soon as interoperability and stability is good enough. I know because I'm developing it.

    Do you think the wireless vendors will charge you for those 40 bytes of IP/UDP/RTP headers that were compressed down to 1 byte? Damn right they will.

  14. Re:DOA.. on Apple CEO Likens Surface To Car That Flies, Floats · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to write "complimentary."

  15. Re:GW? on Climate Change Research Gets Petascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    What the hell is angaging?

  16. Re:Tonight's article... on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 2

    Gallium is freaking awesome. When I switched to the open source video drivers and Gallium I was able to run Compiz with one Nvidia card and one AMD card simultaneously. Simultaneous lovin'

  17. Re:Good news everyone! on Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy · · Score: 1

    You said, "Android apps on both platforms are pirated 2,300% more often..." The article says that a single app, Facefighter, was pirated that much more often. So this is saying "what you saw?" That's pretty disingenuous.

  18. Re:Common sense on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    The "rational?" Seriously? Are we talking about mathematics?

  19. Fsck his dense?

  20. Re:Club on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Similar principles apply when locking your bicycle. Always lock it to something at least as difficult to cut as your bicycle lock/chain.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iI3rctM0Dw

  21. Re:Hardly a Raspberry Pi on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Well, in that case, the TFA has it wrong as well. http://apc.io/product/

  22. Re:Hardly a Raspberry Pi on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Summary is wrong. It does not have gigabit ethernet.

  23. Re:Congratulations, Verizon on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    For LTE networks, even your IP/UDP/TCP/RTP/etc headers will be compressed. Check the ROHC standard (RFC 3095 and others). I'm currently supporting/implementing ROHC code for the carrier side, and they are just starting (a few months ago maybe) to deploy it I think.

    Who wants to bet that even if your IP/UDP headers are compressed to one byte the carrier will charge you for the full 28 bytes?

  24. Re:Sounds like they'd be right at home in the GOP on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    Also:

      - Men cannot ascend to the "highest level "unless dragged there attached to a woman.
      - Men cannot bear children.
      - Your last point is just wrong.

  25. Re:Santorum Exits the GOP Race for President on Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    What the hell is the Morman Church?