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  1. Parental control? on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    It's called a whitelisting firewall.

  2. Re:Now wait a minute on Apple Will Let Users Test iOS Beta Versions For the First Time · · Score: 1

    That's two wrongs and a friendly suggestion to look up what a beta version is/means

  3. Re:How are all these shitty websites actual compan on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    No, no, it takes just one guy and a dedusted 386SX from the attic, running NetBSD. Should cope with tens of millions of requests per day just fine.

  4. Re:Non Keplerian [Re:Kinda notnews] on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 2

    The Earth is layered, with the density changing as you go closer to the center

    But in this case we're not only falling towards the center, but moving away from it as well. If we assume earth's layering to be similar in both halves, why aren't the effects you mentioned during the fall compensated for during the rise?

  5. Re:Kinda notnews on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 1

    Mathematically it's an example of a degenerate orbit with one zero semi-axis, and the orbital period can be simply calculated from Kepler's laws.

    Indeed. Never thought of it that way, interesting.

  6. Re:OMNI on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 2

    Their scenario should have started the person off at the south pole, not the north, for the extra altitude.

    The problem with a vaccum tube, though, is that it is closed at both ends. As much as it sucks coming to an early stop below the surface, slamming into the airlock is going to hurt, at a speed which would otherwise get you up for another 4km ;)

  7. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    So you're just pointlessly nitpicking, fair enough.

  8. Re:WTF? on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Okay, so instead of answering my genuine question you prefer to go on a rant demonstrating how you're confusing rooting with installing a custom ROM. Fucking useless.

  9. Re:Sweet F A on Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, because the people at the end points can't control what they measure their entangled particles to be. There's no information transmitted in the process, all you get to do is:
    1. Measure the entangled property, say, the spin, on Earth.
    2. Be like: Wow, on Pluto that must've given <opposite property>.

  10. Re:WTF? on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Wait since when is rooting an android device difficult? What model are we talking about?

  11. Re:Alternate strategy... on FreeBSD-Current Random Number Generator Broken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    my home server [runs public facing sshd] on port 22. You may say this is completely insane.

    Gasp. How extremely uncommon.

    Just don't use keys for remote ssh logins.

    What? Why?

    But based on my experience [...] it appears they [...] may even be counter productive.

    And that is why exactly? None of your post explains that or seems to have anything to do with key-based login at all.

    As everyone knows, you can very easily disable root login in your sshd.conf file which leaves the person on the other end completely incapable of knowing whether or not they ever got your root password right as the response is the same.

    As happens when key-based logins are used. Your point being?

  12. Re:Newbish question here.. on FreeBSD-Current Random Number Generator Broken · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, and who mods this "Informative"?
    Both -CURRENT and -STABLE are development branches.

    -RELEASE is meant for production and of course gets supplied with security relevant fixes (then referred to as patchlevels).

    But yes, please go on educating people about things you don't know jack about.

  13. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    That's because the driver is keeping it at velocity, not actively balancing it. If you lock the accelerator grip in place and repeat the suggested experiment, the bike will /not/ fall over. It will eventually hit something and shatter into pieces.

    I can't believe that you need to have this explained to you.
    I get that you're not into physics, and much less into riding motorcycles, but anyway here's something to think about:

    1. Think about how a motorcycle moves when it is perfectly upright.
    2. Think about how a motorcycle moves when it is slightly leaning to the side
    3. Recall the concept of inertia
    4. Reason about in which directions forces act an object that is making a turn (hint: it's a direct result of the aforementioned inertia)
    5. Think really hard.
    6. Think about whether this gives a system which tends to be self-stabilizing, or self-destabilizing.

    Or, even simpler:
    1. Think about why people who ride motorcycles have to *lean into* a corner in the goddamn first place.

    Good luck.

  14. Re:Adblock on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1, Troll
    I'm not AC, but kind of agree with them, so..

    When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of telnet, gopher, and ftp?

    Telnet? Occasionally used to play nethack, or as a replacement for netcat missing on Windows machines
    Gopher? Not really.
    FTP? Erm, yes? Although I don't like the fact, it is still very relevant.

    Because almost no one else does.

    Since you decided to hand-pick examples which suit your argument, let me do the same.
    When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of email, XMPP, bittorrent?

    Because almost noone else does.(*)

    (*) Oh, wait.

  15. Re:But, but, you're using logic and science on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    then we sat on the couch staring at the walls talking.

    Well, if you're drunk to a level where the walls talk, that really could've served as a slight hint towards the issue ;)

  16. Re:Bare minimum on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    [...] and I know people who swear by Tree Style Tabs

    Reporting in.

  17. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    Eh? Ride at 100mph, shift into neutral and jump off the bike and see what it does. Hell, you can try this at lower speeds with a bicycle, the difference is just that the motorcycle is way, way more stable.

  18. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    Have you ever ridden on a motorcycle?

    Yes.

    Shifting your balance is how you turn a motorcycle at anything about parking lot speeds

    Unless you counter steer, you can turn by leaning your body and hence moving the center of gravity, yes. That however is not something where you actively keep the balance so as not to fall over, as the person i originally replied to seemed to imply.

  19. Re:Use GIT on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 0

    The fact that you refer to Subversion as SubVersion takes away all your credibility on the matter.

  20. Re:What about Apple? on Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details · · Score: 2

    They probably aren't relevant (as in widespread) enough to be of real interest.

  21. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stop giving advice about motorcycles when you never drove one, mkay?
    Hint: You don't "balance" a motorcycle. It balances you and there's little you can do about it. Go faster than, say, 20mph and you will not be able to de-balance it other than by force-turning the handlebar apruptly (which takes considerable strength at "even faster" speeds).

  22. Re:A decade behind the rest on OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing · · Score: 1

    Who said you were supposed to get excited about it? It's nice to finally have it in OSM, is all. If you do want to get excited, compare the level of detail in OSM to that of "commercially available applications", especially in more populated areas.

  23. Re:Babysit on The Software Revolution · · Score: 1

    That extreme example demonstrates a principle that may hold for other jobs as well. If a machine makes your McDonalds hamburger, then you might feel more comfortable knowing that a human is on-site to make sure that it's not messing up. Maybe a machine could be made to sniff out the stink of a dirty kitchen, but we'd all feel more comfortable knowing that human nostrils are on the job

    Speak for yourself, I'd much rather have my burgers be produced by a machine rather than by some dude doing that with their bare hands with which they scratched their balls and explored their nostrills after going to take a dump roughly 5 seconds before making the burger.

    I mean, don't get me wrong, I eat it anyway, but geez.

  24. Sure on Nanotech Makes Steel 10x Stronger · · Score: 1

    with each layer being several nanometers thick and of different composition. The final coating can be up to a centimeter thick

    That's quite some layers...

  25. But will the guns on Canada's Next-Generation Military Smart Gun Unveiled · · Score: 1

    ..be connected to the Internet of Things?