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  1. Re:Dumb non-physicist question on Missing Matter, Parallel Universes? · · Score: 1

    What I always wondered was whether they had accounted for all the energy that exists "in transit". Every star in the universe has been putting out photons (and other stuff) since they first had their fuse lit. We only see the stuff that comes right at us. But the universe is literally bathing in photons traveling every which way, which we cannot see.

  2. Re:Okay, and? on Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    It's also a profit center for poor Chinese parents (and the government agents who get the payoffs). If your first kid(s) are girls, you sell them to silly Americans.

  3. Re:Public space on At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded · · Score: 1

    If you have something to hide, DON'T DO IT IN PUBLIC.

  4. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 2

    Let me get this straight: my view is odd because you don't have the spine to stand up to your boss?

  5. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    In English next time, please. The point is, if employers don't like the service they are getting for the price the are paying, they are entitled to spend their money elsewhere.

  6. Re:Taïkonaut on Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    The little fella doesn't look all that female to me.

  7. Re:Okay, and? on Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that's the point: there is no reason why there shouldn't have been women doing it all along. So it's notable when the status quo changes.

  8. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Would you spend your money at a place that didn't give you good service? Where you plunk down your money for the coffee and instead of making it, the dude is chatting up the barista?

  9. Re:Don't do personal shit at work on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Caused by fucking around at work. A gross generalization I'm sure, but most of the "overworked" people I've encountered are the ones who never seem to be working while at the office.

  10. Re:Bingo on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    So then the limo driver "shoots himself" and leaves a note apologizing for being a meth addict looking for money. Still a lot more plausible than getting him on what amounts to a building code violation.

  11. Re:Buggars! on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    As it should be. The "but Mom, you let HIM have a cookie" defense is silly.

  12. Re:Bingo on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    Exactly right. If a government really wanted Assange gone, he'd be gone. It's way easier to pay a limo driver to shoot the fucker than it is to order a CIA operative to allow Assange to commit a minor sex crime upon her in Sweden. Why not get him on actual rape?

  13. Re:They removed transparency? on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    So the rest of us have to suffer?

  14. Re:GPU? on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Just like Intel promised! Finally, the dancing silver Pentium robots can rest.

  15. Re:GPU? on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Using the GPU for compositing the graphics is a great idea. They just did it a little too soon. Or maybe the driver manufacturers couldn't figure out how to get it right.

  16. Re:hideous, hideous, hideous on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    You can't upgrade Macs anymore, from the teardowns I've seen. Memory and CPU soldered on.

  17. Re:Pirate proof on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Looks like most of us will be on Windows 7 until Windows 10 comes out, just like we were with XP and 95 before.

  18. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except Windows 7, which does the same thing with one less keystroke.

  19. Re:Who would have thought on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    That's not what capitalism is about at all. Those things are human nature and will show up in any economic system. In fact, you WANT an amoral system, because morality is just someone imposing their beliefs on you.

  20. Re:Maybe not Gypsy or Jew... on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    There are the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so they technically could also be called the United States too. Just to muddy everything up.

  21. Re:another... on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 1

    I think that's a part of it. But only for those "Baron Von Raisedfloor", technology preventer, homo-club IT types. Those guys who build IT practices and policies so as to make themselves seem invaluable and put-upon at all times. Your Nick Burns, Sr. types. They fear losing all the warm machines and being able to barge into people's offices.

  22. Re:"changing the underlying Internet infrastructur on Netflix and Google Make Land Grab On Edge of Internet · · Score: 1

    Huh?

  23. Re:About bloody time on NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt · · Score: 1

    I agree. Every time I listened, it was less in-depth than the "Goss' Garage" guy on Motorweek. Give me Paul Bryan any day!

  24. Re:IPv6 multi-homing status on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that ipv6 flattens the tree, so that routers can make more assumptions instead of having to "memorize" exceptions. Like the old classful routing. If I have a physical link, then I by definition have an administrative link, because addresses were allocated to make sure of that. With classless routing, just because I have a connection to 10.30.20, it doesn't necessarily mean I have a connection to 10.20.50. But with classful routing, I do know that.

    I think.

  25. Re:so what is ipv6 good for? on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm being sincere. Why would anyone anywhere need more than a /64? Isn't that 2^64 addresses? Or is there something about ipv6 that is different than ipv4 where it doesn't like to route networks smaller than /64? (IE, you can't easily subnet your /64 like you could subnet an ipv4 /16 allocation into say 254 networks of 254 hosts?