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  1. Requires WINE but should work fine on Linux.

    http://www.anti-twin.com/

  2. Why do we need NFC for financial transactions? on T-Mobile Jumping Into the Check-Cashing Industry · · Score: 1

    Why can't we just use transactional cryptographic 3D QR-code like web-based systems that use the smartphone's camera and screen?

    If the retailer and the customer both have an Internet connection (independent of each other preferred for security), why is NFC necessary?

  3. And so it begins.... on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 2

    The Advertisers vs Ad-block arms race.

    Because, let's face it... once the ad-block guys figure out how the advertisers are figuring out they are being blocked, they'll block it another way and then another way... until one side builds an a-bomb so big that the world is afraid the Internet will split in two if detonated.

    That was a metaphor; no one nuke the advertisers, please. Or at least give me a few days notice so I can get to a safe distance.

  4. Re:Power-loss protected? No Samsung? on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    I did not mean to dismiss the benchmark. I think this is a very worthwhile feature to start pushing from SSD makers.

    And based off the little research I did after reading the benchmarks, it seems like it will not take much effort for solid state drive manufacturers to add the feature.

    So, perhaps reviewers and customers should start demanding it.

  5. Power-loss protected? No Samsung? on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this mean the write-cache is NAND too? I do not see that in the features for the SSDs they selected.

    Also, why was Samsung excluded? Their 800 series with RAID support has been tested in the past with long term writes with great results.

    http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178/10/hardwareinfo-tests-lifespan-of-samsung-ssd-840-250gb-tlc-ssd-updated-with-final-conclusion-final-update-20-6-2013

    I do not mean to plug a particular brand, but the range of SSD's tested in the articles does not seem very expansive nor do they seem to fit into the criteria they specify.

  6. Re:Tax on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    It's illegal to not disclose income or hide it in many nations.

    When the FBI or whoever figures out how to reverse the path of coins to the original owners who mined them, they'll be a reckoning... Al Capone style.

  7. Re:As a matter of fact, the founders of the US... on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    Republic literally means "public matter" as in, the public at large determine the actions of the state.

    It does not necessarily need to have representatives. For instance, a pure democracy where every issue or action of the state is put to public referendum would be a republic without representatives.

    The United States of America is a constitutional republic, as in the terms of the people's will are spelled out by legislation. Citizens vote representatives into offices that decide on how the legislation is written and enacted.

  8. Re:Where's the link? on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 1

    Nooo!

    Don't do that. I tell all the hot ladies I meet on Slashdot that my id is my bank account balance.

    If you lower my id, I'll get laid n-1 times than I have using that line.

  9. Where's the link? on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summary mentions an article from the LA Times.

    Here's the link:

    http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-volcano-ice-antarctica-20131115,0,6645564.story

  10. OAuth and cross-site SSO on Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles · · Score: 1

    ....letting the websites you frequent spy on you across the Internet since 2006.

  11. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    Then we should have bomb permits!

    That'll stop their misuse.

  12. Re:Your eyes... on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And don't forget about refresh rates. A 60hz refresh rate might be the standard but motion looks a lot better at 120 hz on better monitors.

    Higher refresh requires more powerful GPU, no matter the resolution.

  13. Re:So they are unwilling to establish baseline cha on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Oh? Why not? It's done all the time. People seem to think studies require bias, when in fact you should be trying to avoid it.

  14. Lasers + 3D printing = Nerdgasm on ESA 'Amaze' Project Aims To Take 3D Printing 'Into the Metal Age' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Laser sintering is an awesome field but it has been around awhile.

    Here's a "How it's Made" about the process from almost 3 years ago.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Px6RSL9Ac

  15. Re:Rich People Find Loophole.... on How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

  16. Rich People Find Loophole.... on How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Courts close loophole...... paid off politician gives amnesty to everyone who used loophole..... and rich people always win.

    Government fails the 99% yet again.

  17. Does the 9.2 have ZFS NOP-write optimization? on FreeBSD 9.2, FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I know it was mentioned in the FreeBSD 10 release, but looks like several other ZFS features for 10 made it into 9.2.

    https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10 Can anyone smarter than me make sense of the SNV page to see if it's in 9.2 too?

    http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=243524

    Thank you in advance.

  18. Re:Is that all? on Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected · · Score: 1

    kekekekekeke

  19. Re:Predicting a future headline: on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 1

    Why bother breaking into their offices?

    They are attaching these things to balloons and rockets with parachutes, so there is no telling where they will come down.

    Just watch their website, find where the last GPS recording was sent and go to that spot for a free military-grade GPS receiver.

  20. Re:Delta pilots don't want Surface. on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fanboy site takes one person's opinion and stretches it across entire group of people, fills rest of article with cherry-picked fluff from other sites.

    News at 11.

  21. Other uses for technology on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    I can imagine this technology can be used for other practices, like a massively parallel world system used in games or simulations.

    Cuts down on latency and routing issues with multi-node services by allowing switches to be temporary shared-data proxies.

  22. Re:Apple needs to go after Sony and AMC for the co on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody really needs to go all Heisenberg on their asses....

    What does that mean? Do I kick their asses or don't I? Have I kicked their ass already? I have no idea.

    Oh, screw it. I'm going Oppenheimer on their asses instead.

  23. Re:What we need to know... on Linking Mass Extinctions To the Sun's Journey In the Milky Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    We are actually passing through a minor one right now, called the Orion Spur.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist's_impression_of_the_Milky_Way_(updated_-_annotated).jpg

  24. Re:AMD multi-display problems on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's an issue with an odd number of displays? Can you guys try reducing/increasing the number of displays to four and see if it has similar issues?

    We have numerous workstations using AMD video cards and two displays with no issues.

  25. Re:Same old song and dance on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We should stop beating around the bush and just label them common carriers. That is what they are; apply all common carrier laws to them and stop all this nonsense.