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  1. Re:Fear... on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 1

    Try running any modern 3d game (not angry birds) on the most powerful phone in the world, then come back and say that with a straight face.

  2. Re:Kitchen advice. on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Well, we do tend to cook our red meat in cast iron (which does not go in the dishwasher), so that could be part of it.

  3. Re:Kitchen advice. on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    I never said "futuristic ugly crap", I said good quality which is a completly different metric. There are very good ovens, countertops, cabinets and ranges that aren't covered in stainless steel.

  4. Re:No. on Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools · · Score: 1

    The problem with cryptography (at least HTTPS) is that you can still tell which website they visited, when, and for how long. This alone can be used to create a fairly good picture of a person's habits, tendencies and personal preferences. Also keep in mind that with HTTPS you cannot server multiple websites from the same IP (and the IP is not encrypted for obvious reasons), so there is no mistaking which website (or subdomain of that website for that matter) the user is visiting.

  5. Re:Kitchen advice. on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Not only this, but a well designed kitchen with quality appliances will GREATLY increase your resale value. Figure out how long you plan to stay in the house and buy appliances that will outlive that by 5-10 years at least. It may cost you more now, but if you can afford it you will get a nice "retirement" package when you move out in the form of a very nice resale value.

  6. Re:Kitchen advice. on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Contrastly we have one of the cheapest dish washers on the market and other than caked-on stuff we rarely have to run anything through twice. And we NEVER pre-wash dishes.

  7. Re:Ethernet! on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    That actually sounds like a very efficient system. If you have an open (read: NOT finished as a room) attic just run pipes vertically from the attick down between the wall studs and do your horizontal runs through the rafters.

  8. Re:Unrealistic budget on Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? · · Score: 1

    Which is fine if you want each half-wall to be a slightly different tint of blue.

  9. Re:Responsible Disclosure on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? · · Score: 1

    The server may be set up in such a way that securing your account would prevent the server (Apache/etc) from being able to read your content properly.

  10. Re:I'm sorry but.. on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    He said limit not complete lack.

  11. Re:From the spec sheet: on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'd think they throw displayport on there which can handle that resolution at a full 60Hz.

  12. Re:Step 4 on How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    they noted something important: none of the bones showed any signs of healing, indicating that the bites were inflicted on dead animals that were in the process of being eaten.

  13. Re:Clouds Need To Be Free on Does OpenStack Need a Linus Torvalds? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right, because nobody ever had troubles getting windows drivers to work or had to deal with an upgrade from XP to Vista borking an entire system. Pretty much every Linux person I've ever talked to that has to due tech support for family has reported that their "monthly fix-it-for-me calls" dropped to yearly calls the instant they switched said family members to Linux.

  14. Re:subject on PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked · · Score: 1

    Need to read slower. I missed the words "in the last year" :(

  15. Re:Vote for me on How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM · · Score: 1

    My sister used to collect porcelain dolls (I think she still has them). Those things have enought layers of cloth on them, that the pieces (while broken) would probably be kept more or less in place. The vase on the other hand would explode to cover an entire room.

  16. Re:This is cool. But... on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra · · Score: 1

    Also known as "selective repeat" instead of "go back n".

  17. Re:subject on PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked · · Score: 1

    Any old games (pre-bricking) that don't require an active connection to a DRM server would still be fully functional, so sending them a new PS3 and trying to brick their old one probably wouldn't be that useful. Besides, I doubt many of the 6-year-old machines are going to last more than another year or two before they bite the dust anyways, so why send them a free unit when they'll just buy a NEW one in a couple years regardless.

  18. Surgeons? on Microsoft Prepares To Push Kinect Everywhere Windows Is · · Score: 1

    Why the hell would a surgeon use hand gestures? Their hands are the most occupied part of their body! Speech recognition, or a helpful nurse/assistant that can hear you talk would be 1000 times better. The ONLY use I can see for a kinect in the operating table would be for recording physical locations by pointing and posibly measuring stuff on the fly (though I don't think the resolution is high enough yet for either of these tasks).

  19. Re:Messed up on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Find an example that doesn't involve an inmate that was arrested for extradition at the request of a the United States and you may convice someone.

  20. Re:Why choose to be unhappy? on What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames? · · Score: 1

    He probably has a car GPS. It's amazing how many people think those are good enough to use in the bush. Their handheld ones are amazing (also own a 60Cx), but NOBODY makes a car GPS I'd want to use for anything other than road navigation (and some I wouldn't even use for that!).

  21. Re:Incorporates previous designs on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 1

    "on an iPhone" would be a pointless patent as they are the only ones selling iPhones. Now "on a phone" would be much more evil!

  22. Spam and Viruses? on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    So where are all the "Clean your computer NOW or be disconnected." letters to the customers with computers infected by more viruses than a $2 whore on half-price Thursday?

  23. Re:Don't complain about crime then on Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page In Australia · · Score: 1

    I doubt any of these are even undercover cars, they're just unmarked. If you want to get some pictures of an unmarked police car, just sit on the sidewalk and watch them pull out of the station. If you want to get pictures of an undercover police car, good fucking luck. I know an undercover cop personally and there is no fucking way you would make out them OR their car.

  24. Re:About time! on Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how internet or phone transactions could be better secured, though.

    1) Merchant site generates a payment code (possibly in URL format)
    2) Customer enters payment code on bank's website (by using their bookmark, NOT a link on the merchant's site)
    3) Merchant receives payment and ships product
    4) ???
    5) Profit!

  25. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    There is no data, It's backups all the way down!