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  1. Re:Surge protector strips also draw power on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    A LED drawing 1-2W would blind you.

  2. Re:Paper is ambiguous about what gets dropped on Controlling Bufferbloat With Queue Delay · · Score: 1

    We expect CoDel to be running on any bulk data queue; voip traffic, properly classified, would be in a independent queue, and not normally subject to policing by a CoDel.

    I thought we're discussing algorithms that are net-neutrality compatible.

    in concert with hardware features such as smart nics that send line rate bursts of packets from single TCP streams

    I don't understand what you mean by single TCP stream and how the NIC does this multiplexing. I mean the router sees the different TCP port numbers. Anyway, fair queueing should be done not per TCP stream but per source host.

  3. Re:CSS pre-processors. on W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem · · Score: 1

    You should add that crap to CSS.

    FTFY

  4. Re:Paper is ambiguous about what gets dropped on Controlling Bufferbloat With Queue Delay · · Score: 1

    If the routers at choke points (where bandwidth out is much less than bandwidth in, like the entry to a DSL line) do fair queuing by flow, the problem gets dealt with there, as the excessive sending fights with itself, trailing packets on the biggest flows are sent last, and everything works out OK.

    Yeah, that's a good idea, and also offers a solution for QoS sensitive services like VoIP.

    On the other hand when deciding for the size of the queue it also should be considered whether there are alternative routes. When no alternatives exists, a larger queue might be warranted.

  5. Re:I always thought on SciRuby: Science and Matrix Libraries For Ruby · · Score: 1

    1, Because it'll break code when copypasting from a website.
    2, Because you can't use matching braces feature of your IDE if you don't have braces, and it's harder to see when blocks start or end when you have a method that's longer than your screen height.
    3, Because your IDE could autoindent your code if you used braces.

  6. Re:Evolution on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 2

    I know nobody reads TFA, but at least you could read the summary:

    When tested out in mice, researchers found this 'error' caused the rodents' brain cells to move into place faster and enabled more connections between brain cells."

    Just because the submitter gave it a stupid title doesn't mean the research was in vain.

  7. Re:Bundling on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Khm ... Internet Explorer ... Anti-trust ...

  8. Re:No to Java : not trustworthy: on JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oracle went total asshole, but I don't believe they can pull off that API copyrighting stuff. (In Europe it's already thorwn out.) Also, the whole debacle is unlikely to affect J2EE and J2SE developers.

  9. Re:Android on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    In fact the context-assist (that's how Intellisense is called outside VS) is much better in Eclipse than Netbeans (and it has been so for years), and needs less memory, is more responsive. On the other hand it lacks a good GUI builder, and gettin JEE working with it is a little more complicated.

  10. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Well, that's a different problem than forum members being arrogant and throwing you an RTFM.

  11. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    I think the people on Ubuntu forums are pretty nice and helpful.

  12. Re:Is there a source to the article? on Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting · · Score: 1

    "Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected data over public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/08/google-privacy-slammed-ov_n_604084.html

    http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/27/news/companies/google_privacy_fortune.fortune/index.htm

  13. Re:release the source? on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    , the more distant the fork gets and the less the main branch followers want to help you.

    So what? You won't get the latest video drivers for your dialysis machine?

  14. Re:It has to be? on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin: Change you can believe in

  15. Re:A Candidate for Genetic Theropy? on Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars · · Score: 1

    Longer telomeres would increase the risk of getting cancer at an earlier age.

  16. Re:Java dropped by the same amount on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    You can't copyright or patent a programming languges or an API, your making up shit. You can call your implementation of the Java language Java if you comply with the specification.

  17. Re:Java dropped by the same amount on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    That's not how patent law works. Also, openjdk and other implementations that implement the full Java specification are exempted from the patents. (JIT and VM patents) Sun declared that when they opensourced Java, and Oracle can't change it back.

  18. Re:It is good that java loses ground to C/C++ on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    What about the strict_fp keyword?

  19. Re:C growing? on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who uses Android or Windows phones, right?

  20. Re:Java dropped by the same amount on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    That's total FUD, openjdk is included in most distros.

  21. Re:More importantly on How Good Are Robo-Graders? · · Score: 2

    Even in Europe they only require this from highschool teachers.

  22. How is that different from simply old age? on Is Middle Age Evolution's Crowning Achievement? · · Score: 1

    Learning is an expensive process, the longer we're able to use those skills the better we're off as a group. I just think that middle age is not qualitatively different from old age, and it's just an arbitrary distinction.

  23. Re:What a surprise! on The Digital Differences In Americans · · Score: 1

    Maybe in the US it's so, but not where I live.

  24. Re:Mutually exclusive goals on Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing · · Score: 1

    In other words, at the very least, the dynamic languages will have to do a table lookup and then call the function, as opposed to just calling the function.

    .Net and the JVM also do that.

  25. Re:Numerical Python on Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing · · Score: 1

    I think you totally missed the point. You can use sequences and lists in Matlab too, try to imagine it with different numbers.