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  1. I don't get fiber on 90 Percent of Eligible Kansas City Neighborhoods Sign Up For Google Fiber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fiber was a big dream of perfection like 5 years ago. Now I get a 10x1Mb connection for like $30 with Time Warner and it pings at about 19ms. I'm a total geek and even I think going any faster would be pointless. Both my roommate and I can watch netflix in HD at the same time with bandwidth to spare. Even Nvidia driver download finish in like 2 minutes. I do website design quite a bit so a faster upload would be really, really nice but that doesn't apply to a whole lot of other customers out there. Giant Steam game downloads apply to a certain percentage but not even that often for hardware gamers. Is the only reason for fiber (in home personal use) p2p downloading? Because I don't see what else would be driving it other than flashy marketing meets stupid people.

  2. Re:Oblig. They don't shoot the money into space... on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 2

    they hire workers with it.

    There's a typo in that. You meant to say they hire workers (scientists) from other countries with it.

  3. Re:Not just space, but research in general... on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 2

    I don't think there were mammoths or people in India back then. ROFL!
    But anyway, fire was more immediately productive than space travel is. They could instantly use it to cook. Also, that wasn't how fire was invented. It's theorized that it was borrowed from forest fires and lightning strikes and stuff then after that, humans developed ways to light a fire manually.
    There is no reason for a country like India to go to space. Launching satellites is one thing but sending humans up there is pointless. They're so far behind other countries scientifically in space-based research that it's a gigantic waste of money that's being spent purely to boost up their country's ego.

  4. how to check? on Microsoft: As of October, 1024-Bit Certs Are the New Minimum · · Score: 1

    I'm the head IT manager for this 50-person company so I'm stuck as the server administrator despite having about 12 weeks of MCSE training. Someone else set up our current self-signed certificate so I don't know the size or how to check. I do know they plopped the .cer file itself down on C: though, lol. So I opened it in notepad, pasted its main contents to Word, and ran a character count. It's 2092 total characters in size. I'm going to take a guess that that's a 2048 bit cert, right? So:
    1. Am I correct in assuming that?
    2. Is there a less stupid way of checking that in Server 03? :-P
    3. I have no idea where our other server (exchange 03) keeps its cert or what size it would be expected to be by default. Anyone got some info on that?

  5. Re:Poison! on Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall · · Score: 1

    Really? Because I truly and sincerely hate all marketing materials. So if they ask me about my thoughts on their flashy new product box or logo and I tell them that I hate it within 1 second, that is completely accurate.

  6. not going to work on Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall · · Score: 1

    If people want to get to something right now and you delay them, the answers will be rushed, random crap. That's just how the internet works. If people complain all the time about even having to type in "robo-scrambly letters" then I think think they're going to sit back and give insightful, carefully thought out answers when they want to read a news story instead.

  7. Re:It's even worse... on Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google · · Score: 1

    OH NOZ! Now that that's posted on the internet, Google is going to get in so much trouble for it. Wait...

  8. Re:European law takes these things seriously on Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know if you and she know this but Google isn't hosting the content. They're just showing you that other websites are hosting the content. If she wants to go rage around the internet like a psychobitch, she should target the websites hosting the content. If they're gone, the listings magically disappear from Google too! Wow, amazing! Google makes exactly the opposite of a claim that what they're listing in their search results is guaranteed truthful fact so she should shut up and learn how the internet works.

  9. they have been 1-upped on China's Yangtze River Turns Red · · Score: 1

    If you think this is bad, that 1 major river in India was so polluted it actually lit on fire multiple times lol.

  10. Re:On a philosophical level its just bits on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press · · Score: -1

    I just called it "headline baiting" lol. It's what writers do when they want to make lots of money really fast but aren't good. His entire argument is idiotic and if he's not headline baiting for money, then he's a pedophile.

  11. Re:who the hell picked that name?! on Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed · · Score: 1

    AMD was calling their chips a letter and number since like 1993 or something. But anyway, this one that's being made is a lost opportunity. They could have named it the AMDFU for copying them apparently lol.

  12. Re:This is why we cook our meats on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 2

    then when are people from California so unbelievably illogical compared to elsewhere? lol. I mean 8.75% sales tax, every handout program ever, and they're bankrupt? WTF? It must be an epidemic because nobody's brains are working!

  13. who the hell picked that name?! on Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed · · Score: 2

    I guess having 2 other major manufacturers of chips is just way too many to keep track of or they'd have realized there's already chips called A8 and A10 from AMD. In fact, I think they just recently released A10 chips.

  14. Re:Another thing to worry about... on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    While you're there...BUY UP ALL the hard drive parts! Lol. Wow slashdot doesn't like caps even when appropriate.

  15. this is what I would do on Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher · · Score: 1

    If my company got a DMCA takedown notice that was "on behalf of someone" then we'd tell them to "shove it up their ass." I don't know why mediafire would obey such idiotic semi-anonymous requests other than to look better than megaupload from a legal perspective.

  16. Re:Let me get this straight on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    They are rather obsessed with money. The last round of iPhones resulted in 23 billion in liquid cash laying around at Apple, which any investor or economist will tell you is a very thing. They could even it out and still make a killing if they, oh I don't know, made their phone in the US!

  17. Re:That's a shame... on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    yeeeeah, because that will get something done. No buyers means no makers. That's the best way to deal with this. Of course, I was refusing to buy anything made by Apple before it was cool :-P

  18. Re:Someone has to assemble them... on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting that Apple clearly has the room in their profit margin to build them in the US under very good conditions.

  19. Re:I am a high-level autist on Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. I had very bad social problems as a kid but I've sort of adapted to "act" like everyone else. It's like training a robot to act human. Enough effort into it results in a somewhat working system of logical responses. Once a person is capable of realizing that there's a way they're supposed to act, they can train themselves to act that way. That's the border between completely autistic people and ASD type people. Autistic ones do not realize that they're supposed to be acting a certain way. And similar to you, I'm unbelievably good at programming. Like unnaturally good. So that works for me :-D

  20. Re:Sources of BCAA on Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements · · Score: 1

    Well, that certainly supports my theory that vegetarians aren't quite right in the head.

  21. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    Oh screw Voyager 1 and 2 lol. If they want $$$$$$$$$$ and fast development, they'll sell it to all the major news agencies. It would be one of the biggest helpful inventions to humankind if they got rid of the international live interview speech delay! but seriously, that's where the money is. That and teleconferencing for multinational companies.

  22. Re:great job on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Actually, their said so many numbers and ugly, non-round digits in their share price really ruined their company's artistic image so they drove it down.

  23. great job on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 3

    I know when I'm looking for a high end phone, I look for stuck up douchebags saying customers are wrong about wanting an SD slot as that would ruin their artistic vision and who create a fake ad for no reason about a fake feature then "accidentally" release it. I think maybe they're purposely trying to not get bought out by any other company by looking like assholes.

  24. Re:Bitcoins on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    It's been a buying spree for like 1-2 months now. Just look at the volume at http://mtgoxlive.com./ Every time there's a theft, it's played up like some huge news story when in reality, it'd take A LOT of BTC to move the price even $0.50. So if someone dumps off a million worth, it doesn't actually shift the exchange that much. Ok, I should maybe say half a million because the actual data says 1 mil would put it up like $2.50 but I have a feeling buying and selling would go nuts to such a volume due to the change that the price would be unpredictable.

  25. I can see why on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 1

    If I chug a whole can of Pepsi at once, it's been known to cause explosive burps that could easily cause explosive decompression in the cabin if that CO2 were to make it onto the plane lol.