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  1. Not saying Nintendo is doing well but... on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The suggestion that Nintendo should release on iOS and Android would be suicide. The sales figures for the 3DS have already proven the nuts that keep saying Nintendo should release Pokemon the iPhone are insane short term thinkers. Their hand held dominance has yet to be killed. I'll believe Nintendo should start looking at selling on the iCult(Trolling Apple) when Pokemon starts selling less than 1 Million at launch. Since X/Y hit 4 Million I don't think they have to worry about that. Their console market, on the other hand, has been weak since the N64 days. The Wii's success was mostly a fluke caused by MS and Sony raising prices too much, and a couple of gimmicks that were worth some attention by some: motion controls, and wii fit.

  2. Re:Why would you have this on an open network? on Users Slow to Update Netgear ReadyNAS Boxes Open To Remote Exploit · · Score: 1

    Not that simple. Put it behind a firewall that locks it down and a lot of them can't even be setup anymore. My father in law got one, but never really used it so he gave it to me. The device automatically maps though any UPNP Nat device then marries itself to a domain owned by netgear so you can go to something like mystora.com/devicename If you know the devices name and serial number it can easily be rooted remotely as well. The setup instructions require you to use the web domain interface. If you try to go directly to the web interface it normally redirects you to the domain name. Any rational geek would lobotomized these ReadyNAS, and Stora devices so that they don't root their networks. Nice devices based on their hardware, but their "features" are unacceptable.

  3. Re:interesting question on Black Death Predated 'Small World' Effect, Say Network Theorists · · Score: 2

    One year for the silk to travel the silk road. The black death spread rapidly along it as well.

  4. Re:Tired of this nonsense on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    Your statement, though funny, is wrong. You've made a mistake in thinking that X, now NC-17, is somehow equivalent to XXX. They are not. If you actually go and look at the films that got an NC-17, or X rating, you'd discover that aside from a few Sex Comedies it is dominated by Torture Porn. So Kiss'em and it's probably R if not shown in detail, NC-17 if it is. Chop'em off PG-13 if not shown in detail, but NC-17 if it is.

  5. Do Not Like on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    It takes up less than half of my large monitor. There are too many pictures in the article headings. The ads don't bother be, but the story logos defiantly do.

  6. What do you have to lose at EOL? on Adults Make Riskier, More Inconsistent Decisions As They Get Older, Study Finds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you figure you only have 5 to 10 more years left why not take a little more risk. When you have 50 years left to regret the choice it makes more sense to take less risk.

  7. Re:Bitcoins on Quantum Computers Check Each Other's Work · · Score: 1

    Why would you do that? It'll become more practically to just use it to break the encryption, and steel the coins that already exist.

  8. Re:Half life 3!!! on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    Yes, and 4-11-70 at 13:13 was the perfect time to launch Apollo 13 to snub the nose of all those superstitious numerologists out there.
    For those who don't see it 4+1+1+7+0 = 13

  9. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 4, Informative

    MS Quarterly and Annual Report of course. I like how gamers get tricked by the reports highlight of 6 Billion in profit that has more to do with Windows, Office, and SQL Server, but they're sure that the gaming division has something to do with the sky high profits. Here you can look them all up yourself here. If you sum up all the quarters since the inception of their entertainment division you'll see that it barely accounts for anythings. Not to mention that there is a loss line that all the divisions share, but you'd be hard pressed to figure out what percentage the Entertainment Division is responsible for.

  10. Re:slight correction. on Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies · · Score: 2

    Load times are there, but usually hidden very well. If you ever watch someone play Metroid Prime 3 on a hacked Wii, and are using a hard drive to load the game you'll notice that they can do things that the Load times with many doors prevents. For example, speed boosting though a long chain of doors.

  11. Re:I'm not sure how I feel about this on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    Not sure about you, but when I had to fix my parents computer when I was a kid I knew jack diddly about them. It's a learning experience. One that today's kids are missing out on because their parents know how to fix it themselves. Like my niece asking help playing video games. In my day asking an adult to help you play a video game was absurd, but now asking an adult for help isn't as absurd since they grew up playing them.

  12. Strike against Hawking Radiation? on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 1

    If a black whole can grow by eating space time then how could Hawking radiation ever evaporate it? It simply puts the black whole back into the "it breaks entropy" bucket.

  13. Re:Hubris? on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    *face palm* My reference was to Larry Wall's three virtues of a truly great programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. The Summary claimed Hubris to be a fault, and the linked article in the summary claims Patience to be a virtue of a programmer. The people who wrote them clearly weren't great programmers who would have at least known the quote even if they didn't agree, and the Irony it implied before their rant, or were trolling to see what would come up by openly mocking women, and programmers.

  14. Hubris? on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that one of the defining characteristics of truly great programmers, along with laziness, and being impatient.

  15. Re:Isn't a bit late... on Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops · · Score: 2

    There are tricks they can use if they know it's bad. Forgoing the critics is a sign that a movie is bad, but it also puts a stop to early bad press. However, for the tricks to work they have to know early enough to use them, and the people involved usually believe their own hype so much that only really, really bad movies get that treatment. Also, knowing that you have a potential hit that you thought was just going to be mediocre can help redirect funds to get it into more theaters to increase revenue.

  16. Price Fixing Killed E-Books on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Who in their right mind pays the same amount of money for an e-book that they do for a paperback? The rich, and the stupid. Most others know they are being ripped-off.

  17. Re:"allow us to do away with this disease".... on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 0

    Doing away with the disease is an over-hyped exaggeration. Malaria is not a human exclusive virus. It is a Bacteria that infects many species. Eradicating it will be near impossible. You'd have to vaccinate every host species, and that's not going to happen.

  18. Hmm, doesn't show them for me on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's that I've never imported passwords from another browser, going to chrome://settings/passwords as suggested doesn't show any plain text passwords for me. It only shows a few sites anyways on this machines. I'm fairly sure Chrome on my Linux box at home is using a different method since Chrome prompts for my password file password just for opening up the browser because I have the password file password different from my login password.

  19. Are they on Vacation? on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure all those groups are constantly attacking the NSA, CIA, FBI, and any other government org for the notarial and to "Fight the Power". Unless this is World Hacker Vacation month.

  20. Re:Couldn't it be "both"? on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that. Siafu are pretty communistic, and I've yet to see them fail. Smart people get out of their way. Heck, some Siafu willingly sacrifice their limbs for their "collective". Poor sausage fly. He knew what they had planned for him, but he went to them anyways.

  21. Re:Troll much, slashdot? on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    He runs all java apps with the -Xint
    Interpreter only mode is awesome.

  22. Re:Huh? on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    Their referring to the lag you get in launching a Java App. There are ways around those issues, but not ways that are native to the language or the platform. Up until the hotspots are found and compiled a Java App is pretty slow. I'm not sure if this should be an issue with HFT though. The Algorithm should be persistent in memory for the trading day. The host spots should be found and compiled within a few minutes. Unless they are repeatedly launching it there shouldn't be a problem.

  23. Re:Digital Movie Projection... and "Average People on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    You're assuming Normal distribution. If it is logarithmic distribution, which I'd put more money on, then you're wrong. Only a small number of people can see better than average, 20/20. Many see far worse, and some, like myself for a time, have vision like 20/15. It doesn't last, and "half" the population isn't any where near it.

  24. Isn't handing over the Master Key more effective. on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall reading something the implied that a Master Key was handed over in some cases by providers. It should just be called a Skeleton Key, but if a government has access to that then why consider this option?

  25. Re:Ironic on Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter · · Score: 2

    Only having 4 new game releases in Japan and 7 for NA last quarter was going to hurt.