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  1. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Truth is a complete defence against defamation." And you know the disputed document is authentic how, exactly?

    It doesn't matter whether the documents are authentic. The issue at stake is whether anyone who read the documents and commented upon them had reason to believe that their own comments were false.

    "For example, the Minnesota Supreme Court has held:
    We hold that a private individual may recover actual damages for a defamatory publication upon proof that the defendant knew or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known that the defamatory statement was false. The conduct of defamation defendants will be judged on whether the conduct was that of a reasonable person under the circumstances."

    Since there's clearly no way to know whether any statement related to these documents is false, the commenters are clearly safe.

  2. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    Yes, the scaling is worse than the fingerprints. It's that bad.

  3. Re:4:3 comes back! on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    4:3 is nice because it's closer to the square viewfield that most people actually have. I don't know whose vision is significantly wider than it is tall, or why that's a popular format for cinemas.

  4. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    The resolution on all existing tablets (including ipad2) requires downscaling for 1080p content. And it looks bad. I have my fingers crossed that the upscaling for this resolution will look better. And that one of Apples competitors will get a 1080P+ android device out soon.

  5. Re:Game Developement on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Ah, I would agree with the claim that they are likely to be less technically illiterate, sorry for the misunderstanding.

  6. Re:Nope. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who says the parents need to be ok with it? You're stronger than they are. Terrorize them into submission.

  7. Re:Find your passion on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Googling 'how to open an internet cafe' yields a lot of relevant looking hits.

  8. Re:Game Developement on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    It has worse managers too. Almost all the managers in game dev are incompetent (at least, I have yet to meet the exception, and I've met a lot).

  9. Re:Put it on your resume cover letter on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    That's not a flaw of the startup environment. The whole point of going to work for one is to take salary risk and trade it against upside opportunity in the stock. The only other reason to work for a startup is if you have a moral stake in what the startup is doing.

  10. Re:Game Developement on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Game development may sound fun, but as people who have actually done it for a living are going to point out, this is not the job for someone who has a mortgage or a family as a consideration. It doesn't pay well, it demands long hours, and the risk of losing your job is through the roof compared to basically anywhere else in the computer industry.

  11. Re:Yet, stacking is a hot topics in semiconductors on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    True. But even multilayer means a significant hit on equipment costs as new equipment is needed, and that equipment stays busy longer building a single device up in layers.

  12. Re:Too many missing pieces on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 2

    You might want to find out if the boy has diabetes. And soon, it could kill him.

  13. Re:And in theory ... on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 1

    That that's a depressingly low bar? I don't think most anti-nuclear people are pro-coal. How many people have died producing solar?

  14. Re:4TB limit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then you're not dealing with the limits of chip fabrication, you're dealing with the limits of interconnect. It's different problems, and they are talking about the former, not the latter.

  15. Re:"...the end of the road for SSDs will be 2024.. on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    The centripetal forces would require an amazing materials engineering advance.

  16. Re:Just add more on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 4, Informative

    It costs money to stack. At a much higher rate than it does to scale. Or at least that has been the case. It will be a significant hit to the industry when they can no longer count on device scaling to help bring up density, and get forced to wire multiple chips in ever expanding arrays.

  17. Re:4TB limit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    They're talking about on a single device. Those drives are arrays of something like 64 devices.

  18. Re:Man we are toast (in 12 years..) on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 2

    No, no one remembers it. It's an invention of fantasy, not memory.
    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed

  19. Re:"...the end of the road for SSDs will be 2024.. on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 2

    Well, not so much that but rather than hard drive rotational latencies will finally catch up to nand. With our disks spinning at a paltry 100,000,000 rpm, latency will finally be a worry of the past.

  20. Re:HDDs for the win! on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, please send your SSDs to me for disposal, thanks.

  21. Re:It's very simple on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1

    Nah, if a man does it, it is indeed a virtuous, manly choice. If a woman does it, it's probably just the PMS talking.

  22. Re:It's all about the money. on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1

    The capitalist system exists in order to position the 1% to do away with everyone else. As soon as the robots can build and repair themselves, they'll be tasked to make killbots.

  23. Re:DIY/Relativity on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 0

    Not sure why you were modded troll. Possibly because you left out the part where you fabricated your own chips at the billion dollar fab in the 800K sq ft of your back yard in order to post to twitter.

  24. Re:Silence is golden on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1

    There's been research that suggests a US assembled cellphone would add only about 10% to the price. Move all the component manufacturing here, and add less than 30%. But those margins would kill in reality, because no one (statistically) cares about working conditions in China enough to spend even 5% extra on their phone.

  25. Re:Interval Training on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 0

    Clearly needs to change his nick to Ethanol-and-Methane-fueled.