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  1. Re:Good for Kaspersky! on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Way to go guys. Every time a troll gets his ass whooped, it's good for the rest of us.

    Thanks!

    No it's not. No one got their ass whooped here. Kaspersky had the chance to drag this to court and get the patents invalidated. Instead he made the company part with the Friday afternoon petty cash drinking fund and next week they're free to go find other victims.

    Kaspersky had the opportunity to do some good and instead took some money to go away and leave a patent troll be. Fuck both sides of this story.

  2. Re:ROTFL - no NDA? on Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How dare they try and undermine such an upstanding and fine American institution as patent trolling!

    They didn't. They made the patent troll part with $5000. A responsible company would have gone to court and get all the patents invalidated to prevent the troll feeding on other victims.

  3. Re:Must really be a slow news day... on PayPal Debuts a Credit Card That Offers 2% Cash Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool story bro, does your credit union also have a near ubiquitous online presence and is effectively transforming it's core business into something else? Maybe you want to head over to Breitbart if Slashdot covering an IT finance story somehow is too slow for you. I hear Trump fucked up something again.

  4. Re:No shit on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    In order to successfully eat less, you have to reduce your appetite.

    Or just employ the fact that the body is not a simple instant responding machine. Note my comment about stuffing your face until you can't walk? Well if you're still eating when you stop feeling hungry then you have way over eaten. The suppression of hunger takes a good half an hour +, unless it is you hit one of the other biological indicators, such as that you have a full stomach.

    You don't need to reduce appetite, just eat slower. Realise that by the time you have a 500mL coke (Large size at McDonalds in Europe) and sit for 10 min you'll no longer have a desire to eat. You don't need the 950mL coke (Large size at McDonalds in the USA) and then grasp your stomach in satisfaction.

    Don't stop eating fast food, stop eating food fast and you'll find your serving sizes instinctively reduce and you end up no hungrier than if you dove head first and open mouthed into a supersized bucket of gravy.

    Try eating a really high-end Japanese meal once. The kind that comes in 8+ courses, each bite sized but takes 2 hours to eat because it gets served slowly with breaks in it. You'll leave just as satisfied as if you ate half a cow and will have consumed considerably less.

  5. Re:Looks like a nice modern filesystem on APFS Is Not Optional (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    and error correction.

    From what I can tell error correction isn't. What it is is checksumming of metadata only, not the data itself. Combined with the fact that no Macs ship with with the redundancy to make error recovery possible it's quite an irrelevant "feature".

    If they really wanted to protect hardware they could start with ECC RAM.

  6. Re:Ok... and? on APFS Is Not Optional (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    APFS still supports checksumming of metadata. Drives still have ECC, and all of that is irrelevant since most Mac ship with neither ECC RAM, nor with multiple drives to recover data after checksums detect corruption. APFS supporting checksumming would be useless in stopping 99% of the reasons bitrot happens.

  7. Re:Science is hard. Almost as hard as article read on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So.... Those who can afford meat and steak live longer?

    Did they account for income discrepancies?

    Income discrepancies related to food are correlated but not causal. There's a whole world mittigating factors between e.g. lack of education about food, and lack of time to cook food properly because they are ironically working to put food on the table.

    When I stopped eating shit, I not only lost weight but I also ended up with more disposable income. What do you think is cheaper, a potato dug out of the ground, or a potato dug out of the ground, bought by some company, processed, packaged and resold?

    Tip: if people in the process are making money then it's costing you more.

  8. Re:Happiness on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll eat whatever I want. And I'll die happy.

    Most fat people with this excuse say it because they've never actually eaten something nice. Fortunately they don't have this misconception for long.... one way or the other.

  9. Re:Advice for fat people on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    tl;dr - getting hungrier doesn't help you eat less.

    You don't need to be hungry to eat less. The body's response to hunger has an incredible delay. Simply not shovelling food into your face until you hate yourself can go a long way.

    Try eating half a size meal as you normally would. It takes you half the time, but if you eat at half the speed you'll find yourself exactly as not hungry as you were before, and you may actually be able to walk when you stand up from the table.

    That's not to say what you're saying isn't right, it is. But the calorie in calorie out system has plenty of weight in it too, pardon the pun. We aren't just eating shit, we've forgotten how to actually eat, not helped by a world of parents telling kids to finish what's on their plates while steadily supersizing them, while snack and fast food companies stigmatise hunger. Speaking of, let's bring this all together, sugar, snacking, and overeating. I mean holy fuck a large coke in the USA is 32oz. That's just shy of 1L. A large coke in most of Europe is 500mL, smaller than the USA "medium".

  10. Funny thing about stockpiles is that their presence still falls into a supply and demand equation. Stockpiles go up in price when manufacturing is unable to maintain said stockpiles. Just because companies don't share with you their inner business supply change details doesn't mean you can't infer quite a lot from the outside.

  11. Re:Let's do some physics on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a very small percent of people do their job because they love it.

    So? That doesn't change the argument at all. Only a very small percent of people go to work voluntarily which was my original point. The pizza guy isn't "voluntarily" dredging through the rain and snow. He's doing it because if he didn't he'd not get paid and THAT is the only reason he's currently in your driveway.

    Just because you love a job, doesn't mean you do it voluntarily. You just admitted that yourself.

  12. Re:Domino's working on self driving car on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not surprised. I've stopped judging companies by what is said about them in other countries. As said I had an awesome Pizzahut pizza in China. Truly a delight on the tongue. Yet in Australia I instead got a tasteless ingredient sparse disc with a side of spending the entire following day on the toilet.

    I can't stand anything from KFC in the Netherlands. Yet their chips have the most amazing seasoning in Australia. McDonalds is bland and boring in Australia, yet they had all sorts of exotic burgers with interesting ingredients in Austria. Subway serves apple slices to put on your bread in Germany. WTF!

  13. Re:Bacon? on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh no, I'm not falling for that all or nothing approach again. I'm having Penne Carbonara for dinner.

  14. Re:No shit on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    While that may be true, other threads in Slashdot, even recently, have been dominated by the "a calorie is a calorie" experts. You know the ones that have yet to experience puberty, much less a weight problem. I know expressing contempt for the issue makes you feel smart but it makes you look stupid.

    Ironically you've fallen into the same trap. The calorie is a calorie experts are always advocating that one way of losing weight is to eat less. Do you have a justifiable defence against this strategy? Portion control and not stuffing your face 3 times a day until you can't walk anymore is just as effective as any other diet that tricks bodies into burning calories in different ways.

    Those people who "haven't hit puberty yet" are also the health associations of governments who spend their efforts to dumb down diets into simple calorie calculators like those published by the NHS "In association with The British Dietetic Association".

    So maybe a less "mightier than thou" attitude is in order given the published materials on the matter.

  15. Re:Makes sense. on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few people would dream of giving their 8 year old multiple glasses of alcohol a day but millions of people give their 8 year olds multiple glasses of HFCS every day.

    This is a silly argument. No one has an issue with giving kids multiple glasses of alcohol more due to the affects on the brain and that truly bizarre stigmatisation of alcohol depending on which arbitrary age category you fall into.

    It has nothing to do with nutrition at all.

  16. Re:Outrageous on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I find it more outrageous that the car can be disabled remotely.

    I don't. It's quite standard and made very clear to the owner that it's in there. It's a way of selling something to someone with poor credit ratings.

  17. Re:Don't cheat and don't worry on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry let me correct that:

    Someone whom's job.

  18. Re:Let's do some physics on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you still a pizza delivery guy? Did you do it for love or did you do it because you needed money?

  19. Apple support is going down hill on APFS Is Not Optional (apple.com) · · Score: 0

    They used to be pretty good with support pages. Now they just have a Genius behind the counter, and a 2 sentence post on Slashdot describing what is happening.

  20. Re:Domino's working on self driving car on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess they finally threw in the towel on making a good pizza.

    Real question for the Americans: What are Dominos pizzas like in taste and price compared to other normal Pizzas? In Australia they were great. Loads of toppings, huge variety, it was actually really difficult to beat them on taste and almost impossible to beat them in bang for buck.

    Even now you go to a lovely Italian place where they make their own dough and have their own wood fired pizza stove, and the littering of ingredients is so sparse and the flavours so basic that I find it hard to justify it.

    One place that did beat them was Pizza Hut ... in China. But then the pizzas there cost $25 when I could get a full freshly made meal down the road for $1-3. So that definitely failed on cost.

  21. Re: "a much-hated component of Intel CPUs" on Researchers Find a Way To Disable Intel ME Component Courtesy of the NSA (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No, everyone who understands what the ME is calls it what it is, an on CPU consumer version of IPMI, a premium feature that has been part of enterprise grade equipment for almost 2 decades.

  22. Re:Nobody cares on On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree with this. A lot of people around are all exited when they get targeted ads. I get f**king upset, but I seem to be the only one.

    Well I see it as an improvement over getting generic ads for penis enlargement, sexy singles, and punching monkeys from the earlier days of the internet. If I'm going to ignore something at least it can be relevant.

  23. Re:I almost always lease... on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I find that the upgrades each year...really aren't that groundbreaking or earth shaking....

    I'm always amazed at how good the latest generation of phone looks without scratches, dents, or a broken screen.

  24. I can install Gentoo in under a day.

  25. What the hell does heat have to do with stability?

    A LOT back in the day. There was no protection system scaling back processor speed when temperatures were exceeded. The first sign of high temperature is stability issues. Hell even to this day overclocking is still often a function of how much heat you can remove from a chip vs its stability at full load.

    The problem was back in the day not everyone wanted a vacuum cleaner in the study. Yeah my friend's Athlon 800 was perfectly stable. Mine however was always on the edge. Something to do with not wanting a constant drone in the corner of the room. I remember the opposite of overclocking happening quite a bit. People would have competitions to see how quiet they could get their computers without causing stability issues, rather than how fast.