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  1. That's potentially a problem, but probably not the problem.

  2. Re:It occurs to me this problem could go away on Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not, but there is apparently a significant amount of overground cabling in London, which is why they're making a tunnel to replace it.

  3. Re:I has more better questions on Inside Amazon's Cloud Computing Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    I learnt that just yesterday! It's called nominalization.

  4. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    Are you using VirtualBox 5? They added support for a bunch of instructions.

  5. Re:JOVIAL on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Heh. I remember whipping up a summary of that during my degree, a decade ago. Even then, it was viewed as historical research - I had to go down to the stacks!

  6. Good luck to them on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm sure Facebook will claims the use of the term "Face" infringes their trademark.

  7. Re:$180K mistake on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that counts: a) it wasn't your mistake; and b) the company should never had had that revenue in the first place, so it wasn't a "loss" but a restitution.

  8. Re:Surrendered three letter .COM domain on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    Even more so since HSAs are now the equivalent of health-oriented RRSPs in the USA. Man, that could have been golden. Of course it's just parked now because nobody wants to pay.

  9. Re:huh? on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 1

    They could have been running the code for it on their server, doing a (perhaps asynchronous) request for the CAPTCHA image and that had been set up to use a direct IP address (or domain linking to one). The connection strings for AJAX requests and the like are often forgotten when handling domain-related issues/HTTPS/etc., so I'm not at all surprised.

  10. Re:L3 blog post that has now disappeared on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2

    Here's a Google cache, including the diagram: http://webcache.googleusercont...

  11. Re:It's spelt A-R-C-H-I-T-E-C-T-U-R-E on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    But "Ask Slashdot" is all about pointing out your superiority to others. Why not the OP?

  12. Re:perception on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 2

    Many disagree with you as to whether these things are or should be rights. Some believe that people should be left to starve or freeze to death if they are unwilling or unable to work. (This viewpoint is not uniquely American.)

    Deriding people who hold such views for their lack of compassion is non-productive. To win them over, it may be more effective to show how helping the poor benefits them - if indeed it does. For example, public health care benefits everyone who has direct or indirect contact with the public - even the rich - through the prevention of epidemics.

    In the Simpsons, the local school puts on a play ("The Nice Man Giveth") to show Mr Burns the personal value of education, when poorly-educated students accidentally serve him rat poison, can't read a map to drive him to hospital, and fail to operate correctly on him. While it does not work in that particular instance, perhaps those who seek funding from the public could do a better job of explaining why the public should care.

  13. Re:At a carribean resort somewhere... on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    If he liked it so much, he can always pay for the programmers to support it. He's a free man now, sort of!

  14. Re:Surprisingly lazy on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    This is where you take your mother to court for abuse and file a petition of emancipation. Good luck weaselling out of contract terms then.

  15. Re:I don't understand on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    The point is that it's obvious that he's the stronger player, and the world needs a better system than a single championship once every three years to prove it.

  16. Re:locations on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    Besides, chess has always been played in Eurasia.

  17. Re:locations on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 2

    Because in Oceania it rains all the time and Eastasia prefers Go.

  18. Lack of imagination on JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland · · Score: 1

    The author of the bzip2 decompression code seems to have gotten a little bored writing the comments.

  19. It's hard to get comment systems right . . . on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    . . . especially when the needs vary with each site. I run Flayrah (a furry news/features site) and implemented a comment moderation system based on weighted ratings and user karma across comments and posts that fades and folds comments as their rating decreases. It works pretty well for us, but it took a lot of time to balance, as well as technical expertise which most site-runners don't have. Sometimes people complain about the "rule of the majority", but in practice they tend to do quite well. The alternative was more heavy-handed moderation by selected moderators, who have their own biases.

  20. Notably . . . on Linux 3.12 Merge Window Closes With Release of Linux 3.12-rc1 · · Score: 1

    It's best to mix up your adjectives a bit. If you have someone "note" everything, it gets boring rather quickly. If you get stuck, "said' or "wrote" are good options.

  21. Re: Peter Principle on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 3, Funny

    If wishes were mod-points, we'd all be +5.

  22. Not really a fair test on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The poster made a comment in the second bug saying that they hoped to get a faster response than on the MySQL bug.

  23. Re:Silver on High-end CPU Coolers Reviewed and Compared · · Score: 1

    One of them is black. RTFA!

  24. Re:FE F1 F0.fm on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 1

    You can't take a gift back; but if you don't get a product or service you purchased, that's a different matter.

  25. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    You can also right-click on the tab bar, it's an option there.