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  1. Re:Twitter needs scalability experts on How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database · · Score: 1

    If you have dealt with an EMP at your primary datacenter, you are a more hardened sysadmin than us all.

  2. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...it's best for music with harmonies and tonal trajectories in different registers (base, tenor, trebble) and not music that has all sorts of aliased frequencies randomly jumping around in volume...

    I thought I was an audiophile. You have put me to shame.

  3. What about videos? on Software Converts 2D Images To 3D · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What happens if we use this for videos (which are just sequences of generally overlapping images)?

    If any progress could be made in this department, we could make video game maps by simply recording a factory with a video camera.

  4. Re:distribution of primes on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    primes are beleived to be distributed as

    #primes x ~ x/ln(x)

    No longer. It is a full-blown theorem and it is a fact that the number of primes under x asymptotically approaches x/ln(x) as x approaches infinity (this is interesting as changing the ln() to a log() in any other base fails).

    as can be seen the number is more linear than logarithmic.

    There is some term describing O(x/ln(x)), I'm sure. But I wouldn't call it any more linear than it is logarithmic.

  5. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?

    Yes, I see it now...

    College Freshman Accused of Entering CLIT

  6. Re:Soft machines for testing on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting how talking about being modded down gets you modded up. That being said, this comment will be modded down.

  7. Re:Slashdot's awkward point of view. on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Apparently you get an achievement for posting in an April Fool's story.

    So, here I am.

  8. Re:Disturbing on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    The way Conway and Kochen have defined "free will" is, loosely, any behavior that isn't determined by the past.

    Then humans don't have free will. There is no human behavior that is independent of the past.

    This is a definition seems unfit. In fact, according to this definition, nothing has free will, as everything is determined by its past.

    That's why humans make terrible random number generators. All of our number choices are strongly correlated.

  9. Re:Sarcastic or not? on How $1,500 Headphones Are Made · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, way off. Mod parent down.

    Speakers are themselves fundamentally flawed. Headphones can send sound to the exact location needed while speakers are "ballparking" where the listener will be.

    Space limitations are null, audio positioning is null, and annoying your neighbors is null.

    Furthermore, good headphones have the capacity to send much less-distorted, higher-quality sound than speakers.

    Good headphones will always produce better sound than good speakers. If you don't believe me, ask your local audiophile/audio professional. I guarantee you, if he takes himself seriously, he'll agree.

  10. I don't mean to be an idiot... on iPod Shuffle Finds Its Voice · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but the way I understand it, monopolies in a specific market within the United States are OK as long as they don't try to leverage another market.

    How is this different from Microsoft's monopoly? Microsoft tried to use Windows (where it had a virtual monopoly at the time) to make everyone use Internet Explorer. They were largely successful but they were also sued.

    The way I see it, Apple is trying to use Shuffle, which has a virtual monopoly in the tiny screen-less talking music player department to leverage, to Apple's favor, the headphone market.

    But it's alright because I'm not getting a shuffle anyways.

  11. Re:Any idea what it is? on Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's pretty profitable, in some way, to infect web hosts and the like. A majority of web hosts run Linux. Therefore Linux is already a target. A pretty big one, if you ask me.

    So please explain to me why they're going to target desktops instead of servers.

    Yes, a dumb user is a dumb user, but you must agree: it's much harder to mess up riding a tricycle than a bicycle. They're both vulnerable to flipping over but it happens that tricycles have safety measures built-in to prevent many things from happening while riding.

  12. So they found one so long ago... on The 300 Million Year Old Brain · · Score: 1

    And can't find one now?

  13. Sadly... on Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7" · · Score: 1

    Infinity divided by thirty is still infinity.

  14. Re:Nothing new on Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive · · Score: 1

    Ten years ago many web servers were hand coded in relatively low level complied languages.

    Yeah, as opposed to nose-coded. Good times.