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  1. Re:For the Hardcore Apple Fanboys. on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1

    ill wait to see what they charge to sell the lease returns to the used market for. Apple will probably just lease them to a new drone at full price...

  2. Re: XP on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    I stopped updates on my win8 pc soon after the win10 fiasco in the previous weeks. today my install was suddenly not activated. It claimed my serial was used on another pc when I tried to reactivate. I had to call the automated system to reactivate. Im still on the fence as to whether this was related to the updates or if my system was actually infected. Do you have any further insight into the matter for me?

  3. General Purpose/Gaming Rig on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    I use my current setup for everything, watching movies on dvd, streaming netflix/amazon video, web browsing, and of course gaming. My current rig consists of:

    Asus z97 Motherboard
    i5 4690k
    8GB of 2400Mhz SDRAM
    EVGA GTX 970 SSC
    500GB SSD
    LG Bluray burner

    I play everything from retro/indie titles to free to play games to current games like witcher 3 wild hunt.

  4. Re:My encryption key is... on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    You mean srm -rf /

    And between journalled filesystems and NAND based storage, it probably still won't erase your data.

    WTF is srm? I did "man sm" and "man srm" and my system said there's no man page. All Linux (etc.) software is great, because it's GNU and/or open source. All great software comes with at least minimal adequate documentation telling someone what it does, or what it is, and man could not tell me, so the command srm must not exist. :) Right?

    Was this a typo? Or perhaps a Stypo?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srm_(Unix)

  5. Re:Imagine... on NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects · · Score: 1

    But if you're just playing Flash games on Facebook,

    I just upgraded my brothers computer, a six year old economy diy I built him because his hard drive crashed. Built him a new pc because he was thinking of upgrading anyways. He wanted to be able to play his flash games on facebook without his pc slowing to a crawl.

  6. Re:The obvious response... on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 1

    I think you are completely ignoring an important factor in fuel economy, driving style. Here's my example: When travelling from Las Vegas to Los Angeles I go roughly from 0 to 90 miles per hour, depending on road conditions. If I'm going 0 there is traffic, I go 90 no when there is little traffic on the downhills. my wife on the other hand used to try to go 75 the whole way, unless there is heavy traffic. In the same vehicle when she arrives in LA she usually had less than a quarter tank of gas. while I would usually have about half a tank of gas left. Yes, we both start off with a full tank of fuel. I'll leave the fuel efficiency maths to the reader.

  7. google voice on Open Source Transcription Software? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just use google voice to transcribe? Google Voice has a feature to transcribe your voice mails, not sure how long each message can be but maybe you can automate it somehow?

  8. Re:Wasted argument on FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter · · Score: 1

    How many Aunt Millies install Windows?
    How many Users install Windows?

  9. Re:Why on earth going propietary? Oh, it's Apple.. on Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? · · Score: 1

    Get your cables from monoprice.com*, and stop getting them from places that mark them up 1000%+. not quite $1US cables but certainly cheaper than $10US.

    * I dont work for them, just a very happy customer.

  10. Master Cleanse on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    try the master cleanse. its not a diet, rather a detox regimen. helps tremendously with energy levels. just remember the first 4-5 days are the toughest, try to do 10 days every 4-6 months but never more than 30 at a time. oh , quick tip, the salt water wash is nasty but i found that if you boil water then take 2 ounces and mix in the salt til it dissolves. You drink that and follow it with 30 ounces of water, its much easier than drinking 32 ouces of salt water. of course you should let the water cool a bit, lest it burn you. Also, I generally make a gallon at a time, and take some with me in a thermos, since the caps are usually about a cup(8oz) cheers.

  11. Re:700 pounds -- goodbye safety standards! on Open Source Car — 20 Year Lease, Free Fuel For Life · · Score: 1

    I don't even want to think about what a mangled twisted pile of bloody mess a 700 pound car would be after it got plowed over by an Explorer. They'd probably have to bury the poor soul in the car, because there would be no way to separate him/her from the mess!

    By that logic, all two wheel vehicles should be taken off the road, because dammit we're tired of trying to identify the bodies. Just try prying the bike from the cold dead fingers of riders across the country.

  12. Re:ScuttleMonkey doesn't even read TFS on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    >>> the credco is sometimes on the hook themselves for a lot of money.

    The credit card companies are never liable, the company the accepted the charges is, that's what a chargeback is. It is the vendors responsibility to make sure charges are legitimate.

  13. Re:Meyer Mishkin... on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but nobody seems to understand how banking works or what causes a depression. Read The Mystery of Banking and America's Great Depression. Then get back to me. They are very enlightening.

    What is the answer to keep our economy from going bust? As history has shown us, the answer is to do nothing. Let the economy readjust itself. Let the banks fail. The markets will readjust, from the ashes of inefficiency the rest of the industries will take that which is efficient and return to prosperity.

    The only thing this bailout is going to do is delay the readjustment of the markets and cause them to take longer, aka a depression.

    'nuff said.

  14. Re:geh on East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA · · Score: 1

    i live in las vegas, we get 10 Mbps...cox cable also. it aint cheep though.

  15. Re:Many a foolish man has crossed Houghton Mifflin on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in getting some economics books for a buck a piece! I'm not a student so "editions" are irrelevant. I just need to know the specific topics of each book.

  16. Re:More better circuitry on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    They could load up WindowsCE on to it. WindowCE ran on powerpc based pda if i remember correctly.

  17. Re:Operation and Cost? on Acer Bets Big On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yellow and orange clothing worn at night is practical if worn in conjunction with a motorcycle in order to be seen.

  18. Re:How are the savings made? on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing one of these drives while browsing in a Best Buy. If I remember correctly they save power by running at something like 1300RPM, rather than the usual 5400 or 7200. At least thats what it said on retail packages specs. I saw that and thought, "must have horrible performance, " then I immediately put it back on the shelf.

  19. Re:Beyond trusting sources, don't trust the author on How To Lose $7.2B With Just a Few Basic Skills · · Score: 1

    i agree with you wholeheartedly!
    i would just like to add a few points of my own.
    First there is no middle class. There is only owning class, and wage class. period.
    now by wealthy i am refering to those who do not toil for there income, they might
    have a "job" but they certainly do not need one. They increase their wealth not by
    working but through their investment, capital. The wage class is everyone that works
    for the owning class, including highly paid wage earners such as executives of corporations.

    Wage earner have the only thing of value that the owning class does not, and that is
    their labor. The owning class needs labor in order to put their capital to use.
    The owning class' only purpose is to build more wealth. It does not matter how much
    wealth they already have they always want more, and the only way for that to happen
    is for the wage earners to have less. The accomplish this in several ways. First, they
    do shift wealth by paying less for labor that it is worth, the excess becoming their
    profit. Second, shift wealth through inflation, decreasing buying power and requiring
    more labor just to maintain the same.(in the fifties the single income family was common,
    nowadays the multiple income family is more common)

    oops, gotta get back to work... *sound of whips cracking*

  20. Re:DVD vs HD quality on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    So they require more bandwidth because of what again?

    Analog requires more bandwith than digital.

    cable is max'ing out on bandwidth to the point they have to increase their capacity

    As far as i know the specs for cable are limited to 5-1000Mhz, I think its what the FCC
    allows cable operators to run on; whereas, sattelite operates between 1050-2050Mhz.
    It is that very fact that allows you to run BOTH sattelite and cable on the same wire
    using diplexers. Running two wires into your home would not provide more bandwith since
    cable would still be limited to the same frequencies It would allow you to run more tvs,
    however, the same could be accomplished with a proper installation and amplification if
    necessary.

    Remember bandwith is finite, that is why FCC is ousting analog, to make better use of
    the available bandwith.

  21. Re:DVD vs HD quality on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    >>Cox cable was hoping to increase their bandwidth enough a while back to add 50 new channels by the end of 2007,

    By moving analog channels to digital as i mentioned...

    >>so why is it that they needed extra capacity if your assertion were true?

    perhaps they have not moved enough channels to digital to free up enough bandwith for the new channels.

    also were the new channels they promised digital or HD, if they promised 50 HD channels they need to clear up
    more anolog channels to free up the bandwith...

    also cablelabs is working on channel bonding for next gen internet(docsis 3.0) which would use the banding of four 6Mhz channels
    combined to provide increased throughput, mostly as an answer to FiOS. And for a cable operator to make use of DOCSIS 3.0, they would need
    the space of four analog channels to use it.

  22. Re:DVD vs HD quality on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    You have no understanding of how cable tv works, let alone digital cable.
    Cable's "bandwith" consists of the frequencies between 5Mhz and 1000Mhz. A single analog channel consumes 6Mhz of that spectrum, while a digital channel consumes 1/10th of that( HD 1/6th of that); which is why the cable operator i work for has been transitioning many of their analog channels to digital. Everytime they relocate an analog channel to digital, they can put ten digital channels in its place.

    As far as internet bandwith undermining the bandwith of digital cable, that's not possible since they do not overlap. Cable internet has its own 6Mhz slice of that bandwith. If anything there may be a problem with your installation (house wiring), equipment (faulty router or modem), system plant or a combination therof. The frequencies that the internet operate on are in the same high end range as digital cable, so if you have problems with one, you could experience it with the other, but not necessarily.

    In effect, the cable companies do not need to redo their infrastructure (plant), but instead need to move more analog to digital in order to increase their bandwith.

  23. Re:Don't be stupid, you moron. on Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" · · Score: 1

    I think he meant that he wanted to buy the song, not the artist's entire catalog. In essence, there is no legitimate way to purchase just the one track, and in fact, the track can only be purchased as part of a grossly expensive collection.

  24. Re:Sony on Another Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    "The purpose of a rootkit is to let you get back in easily later..."

    That would be a backdoor.

  25. Re:Comcast terminating user accounts on Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    the correct link is Utopia