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  1. Re:Dangerous on Scientists Propose Guaranteed Hypervisor Security · · Score: 1

    It's solved then.

    It goes like this, you have a physical server that is dual processor system with 2Gs of ram. You create a VM with a single proc and 1G of ram. When code needs to be tested it creates a cloned VM of itself using the additional proc and ram, runs the code, tests the output then destroys the VM.

  2. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    borrowing is a bad example because you and your friend can't have the car at the same time.

    modify your analogy to carpooling and i think it's a bit more appropriate.

  3. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    If we could replicate everything we "need" why would we bother with money to pay for things?

  4. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    "Operation not currently allowed" followed by the little Ghostbusters circle/slash icon.

    At least that's what my Sony does when I try to skip them.

  5. google generated slashvertisement on The Futurama of Physics · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this a new slashvertisement generated by Google and posted to Slashdot as a way to target nerds/geeks? Sure seemed to have all the key buzzwords in the summery: Physics, Graduate-level, Futurama, theorem, mathematician, upcoming and PhD

  6. Re:Why does this article scare me? on Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat · · Score: 1

    Because stability is extremely boring. And difficult to charge for services on things that never break.

  7. Re:Ubuntu... on Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat · · Score: 1

    It's OK, now that someone leaked this top secret info, Ubuntu will back pedal, scrub the site of any mention of btrfs and then go back to the normal use of EXT$nextver.

  8. Re:Cure? on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 1

    my question still stands.

  9. Re:Cure? on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your argument falls apart when it comes to chemotherapy. That is purely done to cure. The side effects are often much worse then the general discomfort of cancer aside from the finally dieing part. My father finally said no more. He wanted to live his last few months with at least some energy and well being.

  10. Re:Cure? on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're paying $6,000 on a hooker you may want to get more than $6 worth of Viagra and blow.

  11. Re:and? on Armstrong, Cernan Testify Against Obama Space Plan · · Score: 1

    I like this plan. Lets have the federal government do everything outlined in the US Constitution + one other thing at a time until it is "fixed." Want to fix healthcare, fine, that's all you do until it is perfect or abandoned and given back to the free market. Wanna go to mars, fine that's the only place you can spend money until we get there. Poverty, hunger, obesity, etc... just fix one at a time.

  12. Re:and? on Armstrong, Cernan Testify Against Obama Space Plan · · Score: 1

    Or making robots that monitor the skies for incoming debris and others that can slowly drift the orbits of large asteroids out of earths path..

  13. Re:I've been told that on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Advances seem to set it off the most.

  14. Re:What were the parents thinking ? on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    In Arizona, illegals with guns kill jolly ranchers.

  15. Re:How about the KISS principle? on Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate? · · Score: 1

    (Note this means a quantum leap...

    a leap of the shortest distance possible that has any meaning in physics?

  16. Re:PREDICTIONS ARE IN on FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs · · Score: 1

    I think you mean you've never been forced to "watch" TV service. Through the FCC and PBS and other government subsidies you have been forced to pay for it.

  17. Re:PREDICTIONS ARE IN on FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs · · Score: 1

    Because general economic theory states that there is no such thing as a "need" and everything in life is based off of a "want." You don't need entertainment. According to the market you don't need food, water or even air. You just want these things because you want to stay alive and out of pain and discomfort. With this in mind then nothing is always a viable alternative. That is the alternative that i have mostly chosen when it comes to the Music and Film Industry of American (MAFIA) products. I do watch movies through netflix, and I do have XM radio, but I haven't bought a CD in over 10 years and almost never buy a DVD unless it is a truly good movie IMO which has averaged about 1 maybe 2 a year.

  18. Re:Politics on Climate Change and the Integrity of Science · · Score: 1

    If everyone voted for the candidate they thought would lose then it wouldn't work. I don't think it'd take very many elections for people to learn though.

  19. Re:Politics on Climate Change and the Integrity of Science · · Score: 1

    Only one way to fix it, make voting have direct consequences. Perhaps if your guy loses you don't pay taxes, that way you vote for the people who's policies you actually support, not only with your vote but also with your wallet.

  20. Re:See, this is what I've been saying on Slashdot on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    size, both bigger screen and smaller package
    weight, as you pointed out.
    glare, although there did start to get some flatscreen CRTs towards the end there that helped with this a lot.
    wide screen, gives it more of a movie theater look in the store
    placement options, no more need for a large entertainment center
    power, also as you pointed out

  21. Re:Good? on Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program · · Score: 1

    and that was the bit of sarcastic irony in my statement :(

  22. Re:does Wales still have any authority? on Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No.

  23. Re:Good? on Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program · · Score: 1

    so if we can just ignore laws we don't like, why not just pass a law that says everything done anywhere is illegal and then we can just have the police enforce it when ever they see fit.

  24. Re:See, this is what I've been saying on Slashdot on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Flatscreens and CRTs aren't the best example because a flatscreen is a clear and easy to see upgrade from CRTs in almost every respect (don't bother pointing out your personal gripe against flatscreens)

    A better example would be HD broadcast TV, do you really think everyone would have just aggreed to change over if the guberment didn't force it?

  25. Re:Totally not ripped from a webcomic... on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    that's actually a good idea.

    in Soviet Russia, Yakov smimoff Links you!