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  1. Obligatory Tripod on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 3, Funny
  2. Re:300 bits per second is about 30 baud... on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 1

    Umm.. no. You seem to be confusing symbol rate / baud rate and serial character frames

  3. Re:Innovative? New? on Telepresence Robot Rundown · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget Q's SNOOPER from a few decades ago.

  4. Standard Facebook 4 Steps Forward 1 Step back on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 1

    approach to eliminating personal privacy. It creates another big bru-ha-ha in the media (useful for brand awareness) which then dies down after a few weeks, and then it's business as usual. How far has facebook twisted its own 'privacy' policy by now compared to how it started? It's just amazing how easy they are getting away with slowly boiling the lobster.

  5. Ri-li on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Video of the capture on ISS Robotic Arm Captures Dragon Capsule · · Score: 2

    And it's just now officially installed (2nd stage) as of 9:03am EST

  7. Video of the capture on ISS Robotic Arm Captures Dragon Capsule · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. The last sex between Neanderthals and humans on DNA Analysis Probes the End of Human-Neanderthal Sex · · Score: 4, Funny

    the last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans may have occurred 37,000 to 86,000 years ago

    Maria Shriver begs to differ.

  9. Where were they getting the phone numbers? on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would like to hear more about how these guys got their phone number lists.. they seemed to have unlisted numbers together with correct names. In Ireland particularly, I only ever seemed to hear about this from people who were customers of a certain large ISP.

  10. Re:Fulfilling The Kennedy Dream on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    Brilliant

  11. iFixit need to fix it on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1
    Whoops.

    I couldn't find any available servers to fill your request.

    Wait a few seconds and try again, or call us if the problem persists.

    sales@iFixit.com | 1-866-61-FIXIT

  12. Re:Translation? on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 2
  13. Re:Translation? on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 2
    LightSquared Fiasco Puts Harsh Spotlight on FCC's Genachowski

    "A friend of President Obama's from Harvard Law School, Genachowski has brought a culture of wheeling and dealing to the FCC, on whose decisions billions of telecom dollars ride."

  14. That's just part of the concern.. on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about people not wanting massive use of round-up chemicals, small farmers being sued out of existence, and one corporation monopolising the entire seed supply?

  15. Re:The Real Thing You Want is Low Power on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    +1
    Rack mount is primarily about organization and accessibility when you have large amounts of devices and cabling. In a commercial situation, you have to be able to reconfig a device within hundreds of servers and cables quickly and without disturbing anything else.
    But there are some major downsides at home:

    1. Cost: Rack mount servers are just more expensive. Rack hardware is REALLY expensive. Just the rails alone to mount a rack server can be several hundred dollars.
    2. Power: Rack equip is mostly redundant and high powered, and that means a lot of electricity. Do you really want a 42U WOPR in the basement that's costing $100+ a month on your electric bill.
    3. Noise: Rack mount servers alone may contain over 10 cooling fans. In the data center, noise is not a concern, but as you lie on your pillow trying to go to sleep, do you want to be listening to a steady hum coming through your house framing?
    4. Transport: Keeping things small and ultra low power means you can throw it all in a box and move when you need to. A 42U rack alone is several hundred lbs weight.

  16. For whom do you vote on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 0

    Would Ron Paul as president actually veto congress pushing through stuff like SOPA?

  17. Can't have it both ways on RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp · · Score: 1

    The deal is we enforce their copyright protection in return for the rights being given to the public domain after a reasonable time. However, they seek to keep extending the term of the copyright. If the people have to wait longer and longer for public domain, you'd expect them to care less and less about protecting the copyright.

  18. It's Bai Ling because.. on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    the lawsuit says IMDB changed her DoB in 2008.
    Comparing Bai Ling's bio in Oct 2007 with Dec 2008, you can see that all that changes is her DoB suddenly goes back four years.
    Gotta love the archive :)

  19. Re:Facebook is actualliy gaining from this.. on European Users Overwhelm Facebook With Data Requests · · Score: 2
    Not to mention govt issued ID:

    Please upload a government-issued ID with signature to this report and ensure that your full name, date of birth, and photo are clear. You should also black out any personal information that is not needed to verify your identity (e.g., social security number). We will permanently delete your ID from our servers once we have used it for verification purposes.

    Does the law really require that you have to provide this information in order to see your records.?

  20. 'Service' as in 'daemon' on Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software · · Score: 2

    not 'service' as in 'zuckerberg/NSA world domination'

  21. Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 2

    The lights were flickering here in South Dublin last night around 10pm and there had been an outage of some sort 3-4 hours earlier. I was wondering what was going on, because brownouts/blackouts are extremely rare here. The only real memories I have of power outages in Dublin were rolling blackouts due to industrial action back in the 1970s.

  22. Gou's idea of a party on Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots · · Score: 1

    The robots will be used to do simple and routine work such as spraying, welding and assembling which are now mainly conducted by workers, said Gou at a workers' dance party Friday night.

    The guy really knows how to play the crowd.

  23. Re:Any real information? on Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wiki with the tech details here

  24. Welcome back on Lawsuit Claims Sony Canned Security Staff Just Before Data Breach · · Score: 1

    to the internet

  25. S.A.F.E. DATA ? on Legislation In the Works To Require Companies To Report Privacy Breaches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about a law to require proper titles for acts instead of these stupid acronyms.