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  1. Re:IP4 is all you need, if .. on UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    The college I went to has a full v4 class B address space to play with, about 65000. There are about 3000 students enrolled at any given time and fewer than a thousand employees.

    I was hosting several servers in my dorm room with Internet addressable IPs (sadly not static)

  2. Re:Major Supplier does not want home based servers on UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    But IPv6 is more or less designed to assign an IP address to every goddamn thing in your house, right down to the nails in the walls, so it really doesn't make any sense to stop people from doing that either.

  3. Pink Floyd. on UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't know Pink Floyd was talking about ISPs.
    "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. The pool is gone, v4 is over. Thought I'd more addresses to assign."

  4. Re:I was initially concerned about damage to the on New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges · · Score: 1

    Or, if they make the same modifications as Serenity, they can pull a Crazy Ivan if there's a convenient atmosphere nearby.

  5. Re:Meh on New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges · · Score: 1

    Or Union Aerospace Corporation.

  6. Re:D&D PDFs? on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 3, Funny

    In case it rains. Just like paper documents under a real cloud, electronic documents fall apart if it rains in the Cloud.

  7. Re:Report contents on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 1

    Sounds like RIAA math to me. Except you left out the part where Microsoft lost out $800 trillion in potential future sales to every man, woman, child, dog, cat, rock and prokaryote that has ever throught of Munich

  8. Re:Java IS NOT JavaScript, you morons! on JavaScript Comes To Minecraft · · Score: 1

    I believe they were referring to the fact that JavaScript is executed on the client and this usage of it is moving it to the server-side... not that the client is written in JavaScript. Go drink some coffee and turn your brain on.

  9. Re:This article is bullshit! on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably not the best example... Linux can be pretty rude at times. Just the other day, it told me to go fsck myself.

  10. Re:Thus inaugurating, among geneticists on Cambridge University Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA In Human Cells · · Score: 3, Funny

    DNA, much like the rest of the universe is already obfuscated as a result of being hacked together in Perl.

    http://xkcd.com/224/

  11. Re:Simple: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    We've tried tabletop games. She can't do those without the TV on (it's how she grew up), and spends more time looking at the TV than playing the game, which frustrates me to no end

  12. Re:Simple: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm in much the same boat looking for a game both my girlfriend and I would enjoy. She's open to the idea of it, we just haven't found a multiplayer game we're both into (although there are a lot of single player games we both enjoy, especially the Sim- and Sims series).

  13. Re:Bhumibol Adulyadej must be a giant on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Glad to hear you've made the move to using only solid state drives or other non-hard drive storage in everything you buy. I still need a few hard drives until large capacity SSDs are affordable, so I'll have to be giving Thailand some of my business.

  14. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you measure efficiency in terms of average revenue per line of code, it's hard to beat MS. I mean, look at Vista, it was a single line of code calling bluescreen.bmp and it made them millions.

  15. Re:Bioshock? on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 1

    My first thought was the one episode of Highlander with the immortal who was stuck as a kid forever.

  16. Re:The Universe Expansion on Students Calculate What Hyperspace Travel Would Actually Look Like · · Score: 2

    Technically, the Universe has no sides and no center.

  17. Re:Not the same thing on Students Calculate What Hyperspace Travel Would Actually Look Like · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link is slashdotted, but if this is the story I read earlier today then they didn't do either. Instead, they figured out what it would look like at just below light speed... about 99.995% of c.

    In a nutshell, it's all about the Doppler effect. Normally visible objects like stars are blueshifted into the X-ray spectrum and the only visible is the cosmic background radition, which just looks like a big blur as it's blueshifted into the visible spectrum.

  18. Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is the article I saw above the above one was about a guy being awoken at 5am only to find a naked man choking/wrestling with his rottweiler. When the homeowner got the naked intruder's attention, he lunged at the homeowner, who shot him twice (non-fatal last I heard). Dogs make great early warning systems, but are either shitty at stopping someone or shitty at being a family pet... very few dogs are truly effective at both against a determined intruder.

  19. Re:No thanks on Facebook Announces Social Search Tools · · Score: 2

    There's a lot of times I want to get in contact with an old classmate or colleague I'm not "friends" with anymore... this is a good way to do it. A lot of people change their email addresses more often than their Facebook accounts. I just keep everyone I'm not close with in a separate group (College, High School, Family, etc) that's locked down pretty tight. It's called networking... great for finding jobs, planning a vacation or something else my immediate friends can't help with but someone from my greater group of acquaintances can.

  20. Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    They were cornered in the attic and the man had forcibly broken into the house and followed them. How, exactly, is she supposed to "keep him at bay"? It's not a dog on a chain, it's someone who is following you until you're backed into a corner. If you're backed in a corner, protecting two children, and someone much stronger comes along... you're going to shoot to do as much damage as possible. Not take the chance that you run out of bullets trying to scare him off (she only had six)... every shot needs to count. She didn't take the law into her own hands... she acted within the bounds of what the law allowed to stop someone.

  21. Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    I don't know whose post you were reading, but it wasn't mine. I said nothing about "if guns weren't available". It just happens that the intruder didn't have a gun regardless of whether or not they were available. I only pointed out that a gun is probably the only weapon she had a good chance of stopping him with because it's one of a very small number of weapons that doesn't rely on the wielder having a great deal of strength to be effective.

  22. Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And yesterday, the news reported a woman who, along with her two children, was hiding in the attic because a guy broke in with a crowbar. When he began to enter the attic, she shot him. It's very likely that if she had any weapon other than a gun, she would not have been able to stop him.

    Of course, a gun being used properly isn't sensationalist for you.
    Source: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/woman-hiding-kids-shoots-intruder/nTm7s/

  23. Re:Try a prepaid MVNO on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 1

    I have an Android phone through Virgin Mobile - unlimited texting, unlimited data (3G), 300 minutes/mo for $35 ($42 after phone insurance, taxes, fees, etc). The coverage isn't great compared to AT&T/Verizon in NY (beats the hell out of T Mobile though). You won't get the latest and greatest phones through Virgin, but they're almost all under $200 (some smartphones as low as $30 if you catch a sale), completely your property, and there's no contracts. My only complaint are the stupid apps they put on there that I can't remove without rooting (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, a few others). It's a great step up for Tracfone users and similar that are looking for a decent smartphone option at a reasonable price.

  24. Re:so? apple is still selling less product on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 2

    $199 down is putting it more realistically. The rest of the money comes out of the higher monthly cost of contracts. Getting a phone cheaper by signing up for a contract is no different than getting a loan... you pay it all back eventually, with interest.

  25. Re:What's the big deal? on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    You can minimize the ribbon in two clicks. Even the managers here figured that out. There's plenty of better reasons to avoid 2007/2010 than the ribbon.