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  1. Re:Oh goody on SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year · · Score: 1

    Not with SAS interfaces they aren't.

  2. Re: Finally the disk drive can die on SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year · · Score: 1

    SAS?

    eMLC?

  3. Re:Stocks? on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    The largest amount you are willing to pay for it.

    The smallest amount you are willing to sell it for.

    Those are its values for you.

    But since you decide, and someone else can have different values, in what sense are they intrinsic to the thing being bought and sold?

  4. Re:Stocks? on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Fx you could rightly claim that happiness has intrinsic value (see the ethics-definition in link below)

    Maybe, buy you can't sell or buy it, so it has no intrinsic value in this context.

  5. Re:What the hell? on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 2

    Yes.

    Next question?

  6. Re:Stocks? on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing has "intrinsic value". Stuff is worth stuff to people depending on what they are prepared to pay for it.

  7. Re:No thanks on Nuclear proliferation... on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 1

    What sorts of effects do you think highly soluble radon gas would have on apex predators, like humans, when they drink it?

    A lot better than if it was drunk by something further down the food chain.

  8. Re:WTF is up with the broken new look? on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    What beta? I see no beta here.

  9. Re:alkjdf;aldjfl;ajfda;ljfs on Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Sent from his Rasberry Pi.

  10. Re:...and this is our cue... on Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied On a Whole City · · Score: 1

    Wearing clothing that covers the face is already illegal in France. The government claimed it was all about 'security' but everyone thought it was about Muslims.

    Maybe,for once, they weren't lying?

  11. Re:Carbon dioxide is *NOT* toxic. [Zepped!] on Venus' Crust Heals Too Fast For Plate Tectonics · · Score: 1

    Bob is that you?

    Why are you so angry?

  12. Re:The geology department is trying to... on Venus' Crust Heals Too Fast For Plate Tectonics · · Score: 1

    Venus gets about twice the insolation that the Earth gets, not an amazingly large amount more.

  13. Re:Carbon dioxide is *NOT* toxic. on Venus' Crust Heals Too Fast For Plate Tectonics · · Score: 1

    Are you a plant?

  14. Re:There aren't infinite bugs on Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out · · Score: 1

    Are you an economist?

    That's explain it.

  15. Re:Cartels will be fine.... on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 1

    Philip Morris and the others sell a product that kills large numbers of the people who use it. They know this, but attempt to prevent other people finding out.

    They research how to make their product more addictive, and sell the more addictive versions as being "low tar" while knowing they are just as dangerous as the old versions. They simultaneously deny that their product is addictive.

    They have a history of deliberately aiming their product at children,

    When governemnts attempt to convince people not to use the product by taxing it they engage in illegal smuggling to make tax-free product available to addicts.

    How do you measure evil? In terms of the number of dead the tobacco companies make the drug cartels look like girl guides.

  16. Re:Cartels will be fine.... on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 2

    Drugs would no longer be grown by organised criminal gangs.

    They would be grown by respectable businessmen who have no problem with killing 50% of the people who buy their products while deliberately making them more addictive.

  17. Re:We don''t do tax returns in the UK,you insensit on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    "Most people have no idea how much they pay in taxes." proof?

    Even though I don't write a check, my tax software it kind enough to provide me exactly how much I paid in taxes, so that I can easily calculate my EffeciveTaxRate (19%)

    Don't need software for that in France, the "avis d'imposition" has your effective tax rate printed on it.

  18. Re:Um Yeah. Right. on Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London · · Score: 1

    My comment meant: If the crime rate in the area where you live is so high that being robbed for something as trivial as a cell phone

    Why do you persist in thinking he was robbed where he lived?

    Parenthetically, I think this might have been the original reason people who could afford it moved out of the city into the suburbs.

    How many people who live in the suburbs work in the suburbs?

  19. Re:Is Ebola a "rapid burnout" disease? on Racing To Contain Ebola · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that Tai was the only reservoir, it's just the obvious one for an outbreak in the Guinea - Sierra Leone - Liberia area.

  20. Re:Great start on Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London · · Score: 1

    I'm english and I recognise that we stole America from the native Americans. Let's give it back.

  21. Re:Um Yeah. Right. on Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London · · Score: 1

    Wow, you might consider moving.

    In some parts of the world cellphones are known as "mobile" phones or "portable" phones. Maybe he wasn't at home when they were stolen?

  22. Re:u wot m8 on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Actually "apt-get update" normally breaks things for me. Window updates require a lot of annoying restarts, but at least the GUI comes back. Most of the time when I update one of my linux boxes it completely breaks and then I spend hours trying to figure out what happened. Half the time I give up and do a complete reinstall. I have never had a seemless distro update even though I try it every time [...] actively uses Raspbian, Puppy Linux, Linux Mint DE, and Ubuntu.

    Well, there's your problem. Just use Debian.

  23. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    200% of the increase? Err... math is not your strong point is it? How do you get more than 100% of the increase? Wait, I don't want to know what passes for reasoning in your head.

    It's simple. Our CO2 emissions are about twice the size of the observed CO2 increase.

    Average global temp is on the rise, but has been doing so since the end of the last ice age.

    Got a source for that, big boy?

    Geez, go use google.

    here let me do it for you:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    look for the chart showing temps going up since last ice age peak of 20K years ago.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/All_palaeotemps.png

    Yup, temperatures rose from about -20Ky to about -10Ky, and they have been slowly falling since. Temperatures have not been rising since the end of the last ice age.

    show a correlation between any solar parameter and global average temperatures.

    TSI:

    http://lasp.colorado.edu/lisir...

    easy correlation there. Match to warming trends, much stronger than CO2.

    Looks like you have some serious problems reading graphs. Maybe you should see an opthalmologist.

    Do you realy see a correlation here:

    http://woodfortrees.org/plot/pmod/from:1975/offset:-1366/scale:0.5/mean:12/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1975/mean:12

    How about here:

    http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1955/mean:12/scale:150/offset:320/plot/esrl-co2

  24. Re:To be expected on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 0

    Fuck off you racist troll.

  25. Re:Medical doctor on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    No idea, I was just going off the name.

    Sorry, one beer to many.