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  1. Re:Fuck off on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 1

    Actually the long filename to 8.3 conversion concept is patented, not exactly the algorithm used by Windows.
    So FAT LFN => pay

  2. Re:Observation Bias on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 3, Informative
    3 is a very conservative minimum - usually more orbits are needed to improve the signal / noise ratio by averaging.

    For K averaged orbits the S/N ratio improves by sqrt(K) so detecting planets that cause just small variations drowned in a lot of noise becomes quickly impractical...

  3. How strong can the shock be? on Get Zapped While Playing Video Games · · Score: 1
    Gives an entirely new (or rather classic) sense to Fatality!

    Just imagine how the power grid will take a scene of carnage like this. Please, think of the electrons!

  4. Computronium on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1
    Every little piece of matter is valuable if it can be converted to computronium to host those super-superintelligences.

    Galaxy central black hole: jackpot!

  5. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1
    In no country a visa is a guarantee that you will be allowed entry.

    The correct solution is to go elsewhere. Write about it. Complain to embassy or citizens of that state - they can change the rules.

  6. Re:No kidding on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Sybian is still in there even if it's taking the rear.

    Oh, a Sybian (NSFW) can definitely take the rear!

    Symbian is not doing better though

  7. Re:Any old timers remember the Pentium 50 Mhz? on Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today · · Score: 4, Funny
    I remember one of my teachers arriving in class and saying "I have a '486 in my pocket!"

    We all went "Wow!", "Cool!", "Can I see it?"

    So he extracts a 7486 IC from his pocket.

    Some people are mean...

  8. Re:DHMO: Exercise ordinary caution on Unnecessary Medical Procedures and the Dangers of Robot Surgery · · Score: 1

    ... as any liquid can cause drowning.

    Actually you'd have a hard time trying to drown someone in mercury.

  9. Re:hey city dweller, yr drinking water is recycled on Tiny Pill Relays Body Temperature of Firefighters In Real-time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All water and air and pretty much everything on Earth has been recycled through other creatures...

  10. Re:ho hum. still waiting on The Future of 802.11ac · · Score: 2

    for 802.11y hardware

    The real speed will arrive with 802.11xxx - specially designed for broadcasting 3D porn ;-)

  11. Re:I'm a wire guy on The Future of 802.11ac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've had just over 200 Mbit/s with 5 GHz 802.11n, sitting in the next room from the AP, with a wall between us.

    And probably noone else using the 5 GHz band in your area - am I right? Because as soon as the signal / noise ratio decreases the high efficiency modulations stop working and you must live with much lower spectral effifciency - that is' much lower usable bandwidth for the same slice of the spectrum.

    Unfortunately increasing the transmission power doesn't help a lot - after all, the neighbour wants high bandwidth as well leading to an arms race.

  12. Re:Another reason not to buy Surface on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 1
    I buy Microsoft peripherals all the time, they're excellent quality and - surprisingly? - work with standard drivers.

    Software - not that much. Does it run in wine?

  13. Re:If nothing else..... on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    I am more than 17 by about 40 years. Laws are one thing I believe in, to a point. But if I was at my daughter/son/niece/nephews funeral, and the surviving family members were being subjected to this form of "free speech" by this group of pariahs, I very well might forget that at heart I am a peace loving man. And I would accept whatever punishment society deemed proper at my trial for assault of any demonstrator. They could sue me for all they want and would never see a dime of any award for their hospital bills and pain and suffering.

    Just gun them all down and then clain God judged them for their sins...

  14. Re:Kill Pixels in Five Years? Yeah Right! on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    I had a laptop in the 90s that liked to kill pixels all the time.

    I had a laptop until 3 years ago that liked to kill vectors. Straight, vertical, thin lines (1 / 1400 of screen width).

  15. Re:Why hate on pixels? on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    Then paste the BMP into a Word doc.

    For greater confusion, paste it into Inkscape (or another vectorial drawing program).

  16. Re:send a lawyer on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    What about sending ALL of them? Dessicated and compacted so it can be done cheaply.

  17. Re:Surprised? on Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, there are plenty of WoW server emulators that had to reverse engineer the client authentication.
    Both the username and the password are converted to uppercase before being SHA-160 hashed and fed into the SRP6 authentication algorithm.

  18. Re:Cloudflare user on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack? · · Score: 1

    blah blah
    ...
    ...
    Have enough money to pay for all the above.

  19. Re:national insecurity on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    Why is it that the French always get not blamed by Americans? ...

    Perhaps Americans aren't interested in espionage over arts, croissants and making love. For anything else French espionage is irrelevant.

  20. Re:national insecurity on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    You just pointed out the mental paradox of many chinese people. They always claim how indignantly they hate imperialism, however at the same time, that's also the goal they dream of.

    There's no paradox involved and it's not not chinese specific. They just hate other's people imperialism.

    Many of those that raise their voice for democracy and rights would instead demand a monthly tribute in virgins if they were dictators, absolute rulers, etc.

    Excuse me, now I have to return to the design of my army of drones to take over the world. With such a large place to rule I think the tribute in virgins will have to be paid daily...

  21. Re:Spend 'Em!!! on Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector · · Score: 1

    Learn Latin and Anglo Saxon. Find a time machine. Become extremely wealthy. The second part may be a little tricky but look for a strangely dressed eccentric and you might have some joy.

    Filthy rich or rather filthy and rich in that order...
    Do anyone think it's worth it?

  22. Re:My father did probably worse on Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility · · Score: 2

    You'd have to dive to get any signifficant dose of radiation. For the typical research reactors I doubt anyone can hold his breath enough to take a lethal dose (munching at the material excepted :-)

  23. Re:Cloning diplays with different resolutions on KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul · · Score: 1

    The scaling of cloned outputs depends mainly on hardware. Cheap laptop cards usually don't incorporate a rescaler.
    If you output to VGA you can use the rescaler built into the monitor. Sadly, this doesn't work with most flat panels on digital outputs - they lack a rescaler because they assume the video card will match their resolution.

  24. Re:TwinView on KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Too bad my nvidia can't scale the cloned image therefore making the cloned mode useless...
    Many applications are also behaving pretty bad - like displaying a popup on another monitor than the main application window. Surprisingly, Windows applications running in wine deal nicely with multiple monitors.

  25. Re:Role Reversal on Iran Set To Block Access To Google · · Score: 1

    For any law abiding US or European company providing services to Iranians is a total economic loss since they can't legally pay. So if you're motivated only by money - screw them, find another market! You don't (even can't) need to refund any services already paid.
    Some people and companies may continue to provide free (as in free beer) services for moral reasons though.