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  1. Re:ISP:s at fault on IPv6 Traffic Volumes Are Low, But Nobody Knows How Low · · Score: 1

    RFC 3068 is ten years old, so assuming your router is not more than ten years obsolete setting up IPv6 should be practically automatic.

    By your definition, there are a lot of consumer routers being sold *right now* that are "ten years obsolete" right out of the box.

  2. Re:Read it before on New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret, Says Schneier · · Score: 2

    Sure! "It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the riiight..."

  3. Re:Multiple languages. on Wikipedia Edits Around the World · · Score: 1

    I agree. From now on, Wikipedia should only be in French and Japanese.

  4. Re:3.0 ? on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat to yourself: It's just a kernel, I really should relax.

  5. Now you see... on Dark Energy Confirmed By Australian WiggleZ Sky Scan · · Score: 1

    ...the *power* of the dark side.

  6. Re:15 km on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Still, any height at which an airplane staying aloft by aerodynamic forces and using an air-breathing engine can operate has to be described as part of the atmosphere.

  7. Re:15 km on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    It's not even *that* far up--most modern military jets can fly that high.

  8. Re:Going out on a limb here... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1

    No, 668 is the Neighbor of the Beast. 667 is Across the Street From the Beast.

  9. Re:Going out on a limb here... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1

    "I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened."

    Then the Bible itself is a crock, since everybody who was alive in AD 50 (or whenever) is surely dead now.

  10. Re:Unnecessarily complex? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    70 years ago was 1941. Things like atoms were only suspected. (the atom bomb is less than 70 years old.)

    Um, no. The modern conception of the atom (but not its internal structure) was well-known by the middle of the nineteenth century, having been first propounded by John Dalton in 1808. The internal structure of electrons, neutrons and protons was first sketched out by Rutherford in 1911, refined by Bohr in 1913 and improved to the current quantum model by Pauli and Schroedinger in 1925-1926. The atom bomb dates back to only 1945 but was the result of years of work, and the basic theory grounding it pre-dates it by decades.

  11. Re:Unnecessarily complex? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    What country are you from? In the US, calculus is largely regarded as college-level work. Advanced Placement courses might see basic calculus in high school; you almost never see it even then before 11th grade (16 to 17 years old).

  12. Re:Set piles of clothes out on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, yes, most fundamentalists believe you will be naked in Heaven. However, there will be no lascivious thoughts because that sort of nastiness just doesn't happen in Heaven.

  13. Well, it's obvious on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 5, Funny

    "App store" is short for "Apple store"! Of *course* nobody else can use it! Not even if they're selling actual fruit!

  14. But, you know, I *had* to buy in on Massive LinkedIn IPO Raises Dotcom Bubble Concerns · · Score: 1

    There was this post on LinkedIn about how much money this was going to make for everybody!

  15. Re:Could that be a lie? Or, is Amazon not doing we on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 1

    how the hell do they justify that???

    You're buying only Kindle books, and paying the premium. That's how they justify that. Any other questions?

  16. Re:TI - dead technology... on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, the Next Round · · Score: 1

    Calculator apps can be had for Androids, tablets, *and* netbooks. People are not going to spend money and cart around an extra piece of junk that's only a calculator. And they don't.

  17. Re:The Product Management for VS says it's not tru on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    We do stand by the story.

    Right up to the point where we admit it was all bullshit.

  18. Re:TI - dead technology... on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, the Next Round · · Score: 1

    Surely, it wouldn't cripple TI to make models that aren't intended for the limited purpose of taking tests.

    And those models would be intended for...what, exactly? What purpose does a TI calculator serve these days that could not be better served by an Android phone, a tablet, or a netbook? Calculators today are for people taking tests who are prohibited from having connected or truly capable devices. They have no other purpose.

  19. Re:Only a Plaintiff Proposition on Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit · · Score: 1

    You have the right to ask to be made whole.

    And you have the right to make your own determination of what "made whole" means in your motion for redress.

    Asking for 75 trillion dollars like the MAFIAA does from time to time just makes you look like an ass and discredits you in front of the judge and everyone else.

    Yes, it does. They still have the right to make that motion. Neither the court nor anyone else can get redress from the RIAA/MPAA for making those motion.

    This is unconscionable and should be laughed out of court by the judge and it should come with an attached letter from the judge saying "next time, don't use crayon to write motions."

    Pretty much, yeah. Having the right to make such a motion does mean that the motion will be granted or even that it's a good idea to make such a motion; severe overreach is likely to tick off both the judge and the jury. I personally hope that the court's reaction to this will impress upon most lawyers that making such motions is not a good idea.

  20. Re:The year 1994.... on 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Lords of Light!

  21. Re:Dark matter? on 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy · · Score: 1

    I have seen articles on DM talk about how intersolar and intergalactic dust clouds have been accounted for but I dont know 'how'.

    Because we can *see* them. They have no light of their own, but they occlude the light sources behind them, changing it even though they may not block it completely. Whatever dark matter is, it is completely transparent to light over intergalactic distances (except for gravitational effects, but apparently it's diffuse enough that those aren't detectable). That's not possible with any form of "ordinary" matter.

  22. Re:Dark matter? on 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We know about dark matter not through micro-lensing but because of galactic structure. Galaxies rotate. If all the mass there was in any given galaxy was just what we could see, the centrifugal force would tear apart immediately. The only way we can account for sufficient gravitational attraction to keep stars in their orbits around the galactic center is to assume a lot of mass we can't see--dark matter. Most calculations based on stellar orbits consistently come up with figures for dark matter of over 80% of the matter in the universe. There's more than four times as much dark matter as what we can see. And whatever dark matter is, it apparently is diffuse enough that we don't see it micro-lensing anything, and doesn't otherwise interact with light or other EM radiation, because we find no trace of it in the light that reaches earth from all corners of the universe; therefore it *can't* be ordinary matter as we understand it, because any form of ordinary matter in that quantity would produce detectable occlusion of the light sources behind it. So what is it? Answer that question and win a Nobel.

  23. I, too, wish to protest on Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    Do you realize how many people are out there who are *not* paying me $100 a day? This is outrageous and is costing me a lot of money! Something needs to be done about this, because everyone should be paying me $100 a day!

  24. Re:Oh.. his old hand didn't work. on Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand · · Score: 1

    You'd have trouble finding a doctor to agree to that. The ones that would agree to it wouldn't be ones I'd trust to take a knife to me.

  25. Re:That's some fine police work, boys on PSN Up, And Then Down Again · · Score: 1

    Jumped ship to what? Not the Wii.

    Because nobody buys or plays on the Wii. Just look at their abysmal sales figures!