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  1. so you thought energy was matter? that, while true, is false.

  2. Re:Hits earth? Not. on Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices (discovery.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it is. Why would only solids and liquids qualify as Earth? And if the atmosphere is not part of Earth, then part of what is it?

  3. I was forced to pay for it; they didn't deliver. on German Police Allowed To Use Its Own "Federal Trojan" (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a German I feel discriminated against, for the new Federal Trojan will not run on my BSD machines. As if it wasn't bad enough that commercial software tends to be Windows-only, now also government-written stuff that I paid for with my tax euros.

    Does somebody by any chance know a hack to still get it working?

  4. Re:Payments only? on MasterCard Rolls Out 'Selfie' Verification For Mobile Payments (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    There's probably one or two in the RAID array.

  5. Re:Correction on Feds Say There Isn't A Single Safe 'Hoverboard' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    news, even.

  6. Correction on Feds Say There Isn't A Single Safe 'Hoverboard' (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There isn't a single [] hoverboard. Big neas.

  7. Re:Meet the new editors. Same as the old editors. on Unprecedented Spike In TOR .Onion Nodes (profwoodward.org) · · Score: 1

    A /. summary with no typos would probably violate some fundamental property of the universe, so that cannot happen, or if it did, the consequences would be dire. Deal with it.

  8. Re:"I wonder is this could possible be related to" on Unprecedented Spike In TOR .Onion Nodes (profwoodward.org) · · Score: 1

    Only if the community is also allowed to wiki-edit AC comments.

  9. Re:Don't understand the fuss with Pi or Arduino on Where Are the Raspberry Pi Zeros? (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    sure can
    It's not even playing, at least for people like me (when i was younger). It's about building stuff that works, discovering fundamental mechanical principles in the process, then tearing it down and building something else. I never actually "played" with the stuff, I just built stuff, enjoyed how it works (or sometimes didn't), and then disassembled it only to start anew, for the better part of my childhood.

  10. Re:It was the first standard for video? on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The connector is gone, but the need for something equivalent persists. Network, adapters etc are nice, but they are very complicated to use; complicated enough to require a device driver [stack], which implies a booted operating system.

    Until the OS is booted, all those ports are dark, IOW, one cannot use them for debugging the boot process, or the (booting) loader and kernel. The IBM PC, as much as I despise it, makes using the serial port trivial, since the BIOS effectively has a device driver for it (although manually driving it isn't much of a big deal either).

    It takes:
    mov ah 1
    mov al <char>
    mov dx 0
    int 14h

    to vomit <char> out the serial port from 16-bit real mode (i.e. the mode the loader starts in)

    So one way or another, a serial port (equivalent) will persist. It might get a little harder to access, though (e.g. some Android phones have their serial console going out the audio jack...), but it can't be done away with altogether.

  11. Re:Stuff on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Except that a Klein bottle has no inside. Nice try, though.

  12. Re:Maybe they already did this but... on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Okay now i'm getting tired of this. See above.

  13. Re:As if paint drying is bad... on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would they have to continue watching after encountering content that justifies the worst rating?

  14. Re:Easiest money ever made on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You could try reading the comment you're replying to.

    That said, using a motion detection camera is much more trouble than trimming the audio track of silence and detecting spikes in the video bitrate. Maybe they have a computer somewhere in the basement..

  15. Re:Tamper-proofing on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No it would not. All it would take is one marginally competent person to analyze the audio and the video feed by something less stupid than "watching the whole thing in real time".

  16. Re:Censors must have been delighted on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If only someone invented a way to visualize an audio track.

  17. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Mac OS is just a user interface on top of a vanilla BSD? I think I've got a bridge to sell to you.
    Your analogy describes what pfSense is to FreeBSD, if anything.

  18. Re:Sony's problem is obvious: on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    By that metric, the last thing you'd choose is Linux, since it was not designed. It grew.
    Besides, FreeBSD is well-designed, maybe not quite as well as NetBSD, but still; you're obviously clueless about the matter.

  19. Re:Never trust torrent sites on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Or torrent them, and verify the hashes.

  20. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't mind me disregarding your "It is so because I say so" comment.
    And about that premise thing.. That's conclusions or implications, not analogies. The requirement for an analogy is that it is analogous (duh), and frankly, it is. You know what? Because I say so. I recommend doing a little research.

  21. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    No, building something on top of something else usually means that the something else is, as a whole, the foundation of the something.
    E.g. pfSense is built on top of FreeBSD. Ubuntu is built on top of Debian. Mac OS is built using some parts of various ancient BSD userlands, presumably because of the convenient licensing.

    Car analogy: If I build a car that uses your transmission and your steering wheel, I haven't built my car on top of yours.

  22. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    So it is hardly "built on top of BSD", which is what my (rhetorical) question was supposed to convey.

  23. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    MacOS is built on top of BSD

    What?

  24. Just how often on Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    ...do you have to plug it into the charger. Seriously, where does all the electricity the ship needs come from?

  25. Re:Not a lot of commercial use cases. on NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I am Slashdot.

    Sorry to hear it.