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  1. Re:What free music? on Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes · · Score: 1

    I have a Sansa Fuze running Rockbox. I 'sync' to it using cp. It's full of taper friendly music.

  2. Re:Great place to grow pot. on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    HID lamps (high pressure sodium or metal halide) yield more lumens per watt than fluorescents. Google tells me quickly that cannabis requires around 50 watts per square foot.

    92kWh/day = 3800 W or 76 square feet of growing space, assuming all the power goes towards lighting. Again Google tells me that Cannabis yields about .5 oz/square foot estimated generously.

    That figures to 38 oz per grow cycle. Let's say it's really primo buds sold at a festival for $50/eighth or $400 an oz. Ridiculous prices, but people do pay them for high quality stuff. Then you're looking at $7600
    per flowering cycle.

    At 8 weeks per flowering cycle, there's 6 flowering cycles per year. That nets you a maximum of $45,600 per year. That will have to cover everything from food to water to nutrients to power.

  3. Re:Great place to grow pot. on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    Nothing, it happens all the time. But eventually, someone will notice the splice.

  4. Re:Bitcoins as currency on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 2

    The same way running a press to 'make' currency produces anything of value. It doesn't. The machine makes the item, but the value comes from us.

  5. Re:Has this actually happened? on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes BC has a serious problem with grow-ops

    In what way are grow-ops a problem? The only possible problem I can conceive is that there aren't enough of them. I know that's not the case in BC.

  6. Jokes on them on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude's probably buying drugs with his bitcoins.

  7. Re:IPv6 on IPv6 Traffic Volumes Are Low, But Nobody Knows How Low · · Score: 1

    There was literally NO reason to have it enabled.

    None?

  8. Re:Not going to work on Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes · · Score: 1

    Any time any company or organization markets itself as "the [insert adjective] [insert proper noun] alternative for the [insert other proper noun]" the group is destined to failure

    Absolutely. For instance, a project that billed itself as "the free UNIX alternative for the PC" could never go anywhere.

  9. 9 reasons Miro is not better than what I use now. on Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1)Works with my current music library. -- So does mplayer.

    2)Converts and syncs to Android -- I don't have an android.

    3)Buy Music and Apps inside Miro -- I like my music and apps free thanks.

    4)Download and play almost any video -- So does mplayer

    5)Convert any video -- Again, mplayer

    6)Share Your Media on your Network -- This is what Samba is for.

    7)Open-source - don't lock yourself in! -- Excellent point, but not superior to what I use now.

    8)Ultra-fast torrent downloading -- Do one thing and do it well. Can Miro be controlled programatically like rTorrent?

    9) But it's not about the features! -- I'm not even sure what that means.

    God, I hate marketing. Bullshit doesn't smell any nicer when it's coming from open source.

  10. Gone gold? on Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?

  11. Re:Sudden oubreak of common sense? on New Bill Pushes For Warrants To Access Cloud Data · · Score: 1

    What evidence do you have that the 4th Amendment is not being applied as intended today?

    The 4th amendment says that I shall be secure in my papers unless a warrant is issued. The existing law allows my papers to be searched without a warrant. This is blatantly unconstitutional. I don't see any way an honest person can argue that it's not. Unfortunately, we don't have any honest people on the Supreme Court, all we have are lawyers.

  12. Re:Sudden oubreak of common sense? on New Bill Pushes For Warrants To Access Cloud Data · · Score: 1

    No, a sudden outbreak of common sense would be courts throwing out all previously attained data because it was collected in violation of the 4th amendment. We don't need a law protecting our data, the 4th amendment does that. Our government is simply too corrupt to follow the Constitution though.

  13. Re:I've no problem with it, to a degree on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    But I'm try to remain optimistic that the Big Brother element won't be present.

    Why? Can you cite one case in history where a surveillance power was not abused?

  14. Re:How about Linux 7.0 on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 2

    Drop the 2.6 and just call it Linux 40.

  15. Re:i always complain about false equivalency on PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets · · Score: 2

    Why is that controversial? Shouldn't it be entirely expected? I'm more surprised that the US army doesn't* have training sims that include a Chinese adversary.

    *Do they? I know they have terrorist simulators, they ought to have commie simulators too. Same for central american drug lords, middle eastern oil barons, and anyone else the US is likely to go up against.

  16. Re:Bullshit. on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    You know what, you're right. I had mini-usb mistaken for micro-usb.

  17. Re:Police Seize Pirate Party Servers? on German Police Seize German Pirate Party Servers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Police procure Pirate Party processors. Probably probing protester pact.

  18. Nazis on German Police Seize German Pirate Party Servers · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a bunch of Nazis!

  19. Re:Separate version for the elderly? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    No. Elderly people want what they are used to. They are not used to computers, simple or complex. There's nothing wrong with giving Grandpa a stand alone alarm clock, he already knows how to use it. The ultimate solution for this problem is attrition. Eventually everyone alive will have grown up with computers.

  20. Re:Trademark law on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 2

    It's an invalid trademark. It's entirely generic and deserves no protection whatsoever.

  21. Re:Bullshit. on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    You have to look inside both the plug AND the jack. If your USB ports are on the back of your PC, on the floor, under your desk then it really is easier to just try it both ways. On top of that, it doesn't provide much tactile feedback, so you might have to try it both ways to figure out which is right and then plug it in the right way. So it takes 3 tries to plug in a USB connector.

  22. Re:Bullshit. on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    Frankly, it's stupidly large and poorly designed for what it needs to do (USB isn't).

    Uh, sure it is. Micro-USB is smaller, just as sturdy (actually I've broken several usb ports, never a micro-usb port) and it's obvious which way the connector goes. I don't know why everyone hasn't switched to micro-usb for everything.

  23. Re:Paying people to find bugs? on Bug Bounties: Outbidding the Black Hats · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. This is a great deal for software companies. Instead of paying people a salary whether there find any bugs or not, you get people to work for free and only pay them when they find bugs.

  24. Re:Worried. on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    If you're that concerned, skip the movie and play the video game.

  25. Paying people to find bugs? on Bug Bounties: Outbidding the Black Hats · · Score: 2

    What a novel idea!