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  1. Re:Do they keep the AC and Heat running? on Inside Newegg's East Coast Distribution Center · · Score: 1

    Warehouses (unless situated in an extreme climate) usually do not have Air conditioning. The only problem is Amazon selected the wrong spot for the warehouse or designed the warehouse without proper means to keep the place cool.

  2. Re:free or Free? on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    I believe he is talking about fRee software.

  3. Re:What I want to know... on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    Ah, 15% bandcamp charges excludes processing fees, which is supposed to range from 4 to 6%

  4. Re:What I want to know... on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    Google takes a 30% cut too. Just out of curiosity, whats services do you use to buy music? I know bandcamp takes a 15% cut, ,most the other services stick with 30%

  5. Re:Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    Well according to sony they did not encrypt the password, but they did hash the passwords. They also refused to comment on whether they salted the hashes or not. Salting makes a biiiiig difference, and I would say Valve and Sony's security are different.

    And its not FUD, sony initially said that credit card information was encrypted and the rest were not. People simply assumed the passwords were not hashed. Sony came back and said, well, they are not encrypted, but they were, indeed, hashed. Unless Sony planned this FUDs themselves, I dont think these stories are FUD.

  6. Re:Ignorant question ? on Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature · · Score: 2

    More to the point who is going enforce the German law?

    As I posted elsewhere, the court can order German ISPs to block facebook.

  7. Re:What's their incentive to pay on Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature · · Score: 1

    I.e., what can germany do to facebook? Boycott it?

    Order German ISPs to block facebook. Its as simple as that.

  8. Re:Not enough cash to bail out Greece and Italy? on Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature · · Score: 0

    Not enough cash from the high taxes? No problem, just start shaking down the Americans.
     
    I am sure someone can come up with something better.

  9. Re:Don't watch TV on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    I don't (I used to have one in my car but it does not work anymore). I do use TuneIn Radio to listen to my favorite stations though, not sure if I would have received the emergency broadcasts.

  10. Re:8 char usernames on Solaris 11 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can have longer than 8 character user names, but the characters after 8 are ignored. It's defined in limits.h as LOGNAME_MAX. It's an ABI restriction, hard-coded in several binary formats, NIS restriction, and UNIX interoperability issue. Another limit is the 32-bit character limit from POSIX, but that's been removed, I understand. Don't blame me--I'm just telling you.

    Well tried, but I know its your fault!

  11. Re:Its one of them 'Nash Equilibrium' thingies. on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    Totally different. Per capita does NOTHING to take account of economy, Ag, etc.

    So does per square km measures. I infact tried to search for GDP per sq km, it so insane no bothered to compose stats using it. Just imagine a tiny wealthy country and compare its energy usage, fossil fuel usage, GDP, all of them in per km measures, and see if they make any sense at all. (Singapore vs USA is suitable one, in case you are really planning on comparing the figures)

  12. Re:Its one of them 'Nash Equilibrium' thingies. on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    Why do you believe per capita is worthless, while per square km is really useful? Its the same shit.

  13. Re:Its one of them 'Nash Equilibrium' thingies. on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    What part of "per capita" did you not understand. From the last wiki link you had posted, the 2008 figures for US is 87216 kWh/capita, and China is 18608 kWh/capita. Over the 1998-2008 decade china's consumption had gone up by 111%, even if you extrapolate it exponentially, the current US per capita consumption would be way higher than china.
     
    I can post similar figures for all the stats you had posted (and I am pretty sure about it, since china has very high population compared to US).

  14. Re:Print? on Polaroid: This Time It's Digital · · Score: 1

    Ah, thats what I get for being a smartass!

  15. Re:Print? on Polaroid: This Time It's Digital · · Score: 1

    I can probably count on two hands how many I have actually printed.

    I wonder how you count. If you were to count using binary, and a rolled finger as 0 and unrolled finger 1 (and you have 5 fingers per hand), you could count up to 2047 pictures (which is a significant part of the total shots). If you went for ternary or more, you could much more than that.

  16. Re:Its one of them 'Nash Equilibrium' thingies. on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    America makes more use of fossil fuel than many other nations. In particular, when it comes to per capita emissions. China is nowhere close when compared to the US.

    FTFY

  17. Re:Selling these to poor India on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    Besides Pakistan had just "purchased" (in quotes, because it was purchased using US grants) F16s and F18s, and India was unhappy with sale and it was a further insult that India had been offered the same fighters (Ever remember people talking about offering weapons to both sides of the war; this was just the case)

  18. Re:Selling these to poor India on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    It was just a token gesture. India had just selected the European fighters over the American F-16s and F-18s, and US wanted to break the ice, by offering India their top class (a bit stripped down) fighter, knowing that India would refuse due to costs.

  19. Re:Saturday? on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    My credit union is open all day on Saturday, half a day on Sunday. I assume most of their business gets done during the weekend.

  20. Re:Peanut farmer, preacher, engineer on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 1

    "I donno, I usually get rid of the evidence well", would have been my response if I had been asked the same question (though I suspect it might have been rhetorical)

  21. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Replying to undo wrong moderation!

  22. Re:Ignoring robots.txt?? on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Yes, they make it public that google is doing it.
     
    Yeah, thats their recourse. It should be enough to stop google from doing it. If they still dont stop, facebook can start throttling request per IP, block all known google address spaces, etc.

  23. Re:So who gets the ticket... on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 3, Informative

    You! The Google car team is clear about that, I am not sure why this keeps coming up again and again. Its you driving the car with aids, what ever they may be.

  24. Re:Interoperability on Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering · · Score: 1

    Dude, Skype issued the DMCA to an US based hosting service/ISP. You cannot issue a DMCA to Skype Luxembourg, but someone in Luxembourg can issue you a DMCA notice to you. As the GGP said, you have all rights to file a counter-DMCA notice claiming exemptions for interoperability. And you will submit the counter-DMCA not to Skype Luxembourg, but to your US based ISP/hosting service, and they may or may not notify skype about it.

  25. Re:And it doesn't work. on Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System · · Score: 1

    And I was pointing out to you that GP and GGP were talking about Facebook messages (which could be sent by SMPT, but still would have to be processed by facebook before you view it). Facebook has complete control over these and could and should filter phishing attempts.