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  1. Re: This is all very silly. on Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated (drupalconfessions.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're kidding, right? Trump was on mic openly bragging about things that he actually did that are worse than anything Bill Clinton was formally accused of.

    Huh? Bill Clinton was accused of rape. How is grabbing em by the pussy worse than rape? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Animated/imaginary CP on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 1

    Hehe, reminds me of this Louis C.K. bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:Top voted post of that thread, interesting poin on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 1

    Because reddit is basically the slashdot of the next generation of web users.

  4. Re: Astronomy, and general poor night-time results on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 4, Informative

    Halos are caused by the correction area being smaller that the dilated pupil size, has nothing to do with the type of LASIK.
    More info: http://www.usaeyes.org/lasik/f...

    The most common post LASIK problem is actually dry eyes, 50% of patients.

    It is certainly not a perfected surgery IMHO.

  5. Re:So...obvious solution then? on Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    I immediately thought of this exploit as well. Seems to me you would need a lot of NOP packets comparatively, the login info is just a few keystrokes. Plus login info is not time sensitive on the receiving end, delays in a voice stream might not be acceptable.

  6. Re:To on Researchers Discover Irresistible Dance Moves · · Score: 1

    I hypothesize that women are instinctually driven to cryptic behavior in order to promote high social intelligence in their mates: They're confusing for the good of the species.

    Brilliant. Someone get this man a research grant! ;)

  7. What 3d tech? on Nintendo Announces Raft of New Games, 3DS Details · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So every article I've read so far has stated that Nintendo is mum about the technicals of the 3d system, there is no indication of what 3d system it is using.
    But this is Slashdot, surely someone must know?
    I would guess it uses a lenticular lens, but would love to see some more details...

  8. Re:A better article about Schneier exploits on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Considering you can still fly without id, and they have the automated ticket kiosks at the airport now, you wouldn't even have to go to the trouble of forging the boarding pass. Show up to the airport with stolen CC, print out ticket, tell security you forgot your id (subjecting you to the more thorough search) and you're off to terrorizing!

  9. And for $6,000 you can have one on 50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science · · Score: 1

    http://www.sibfox.com/

    Someone got $6,000 to loan me? I want one...

  10. Re:V-8's rock on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    Wow, you sure do seem sure of yourself, but a quick check reveals that Diesel fuel has a higher potential energy than Gasoline: In MJ/kg Diesel is 48, Gas 47.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency#Energy_content_of_fuel

    You are right that it is a small difference.

  11. Re:Silly on FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Informative

    The difference between GeForce and Quadro cards is almost always completely driver based, it is the exact same hw, different sw.
    This basically a roll your own Tesla, and considering the Teslas connect to the host system via an 8x or 16x PCI-e add in card, I'm gonna say you are wrong when it comes to the bandwidth issue as well...

  12. Re:AMD was robbed on US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices · · Score: 1

    What an uninformed post. AMD did not neglect their fabs. Hell they spent 2.5 billion building a new one in 2003 (Fab 36); and guess what, they still own nearly half of Global Foundries (spinoff) that is building a new fab in NY. They were consistently 6 months or so behind Intel when stepping down to a smaller process, which was faster than anyone else in the industry.
    Hmm and I wonder why they would have to sell off their fabs after investing heavily in them, perhaps it is because they were not getting the returns they expected due to market manipulation?

      "AMD couldn't keep up with Intel's aggressive pricing because they simply could not produce competitive chips as inexpensively as Intel could." That statement is just hilarious. For the time period we are talking about here, AMD chips were cheaper and faster than Intel's. No questions about it.

  13. Re:Read the FTC release on US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices · · Score: 1

    Good point on the Atom pricing. I couldn't believe it when I heard about that, it is like Intel is going out of their way to get sued for anti competitive behavior.

  14. I knew this was coming on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I knew this was coming when I first heard about the White House scrapping their previous GroupWise based email archiving system, as they were switching to Exchange, and deciding to roll their own archiving system.
    Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, email archiving is big business now and you can buy enterprise ready solution from the likes of EMC.
    Instead they decided to have a private contractor roll a custom system, spent a couple hundred million and 2 years, and then scrapped it for not working right (scrapped by the White House CIO).
    In the end they implemented an EMC solution, right before Bush left office.
    They can pull the wool over non technical peoples eyes, but I have no doubt they purposely FUBAR'ed this, there was no reason not to go with an industry standard solution from the get go unless they were up to no good.
    Supporting facts: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080417/chron.htm

  15. Re:Radeons don't have video acceleration on NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong! But I'll cut ya some slack cause it was only released a few weeks ago:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi&num=1

    ATI cards do support video acceleration under linux, although not as nice of an implementation as Nvidia's yet...

  16. Re:Why reduce the DPI instead of using larger font on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    That is cause you are not using the right setting. Text size does exactly that, makes all text bigger. You want to change the DPI setting, which will make text, icons, menus, etc. bigger but will not effect Media Center...

  17. Re:4932% Growth - Imagine That on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    No you are wrong. The iPhone data plan is $30 a month.

  18. Same as Intel MyWiFi on Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited · · Score: 1

    Intel has a very similar tech called MyWifi in their newer cards, it uses Windows ICS so it differs in implementation, but does offer a full AP mode while being connected to an external wifi network.
    http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10139172-100.html

  19. Been around since 2005 on Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited · · Score: 5, Informative

    So this feature was created by Microsoft Research back in 2005, and has been available for download ever since: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/994abd5f-53d1-4dba-a9d8-8ba1dcccead7/

    I fail to see how this is news, they included it by default in Win 7 and someone accessed it, yay. This has been doable for 4 years...

  20. Re:So what's new? on Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced · · Score: 1

    Try the future still.
    There are no retail 3x3 Access Points on the market. The best you can get right now do 2x3.
    There are plenty of 3x3 wifi devices, just no AP to go along with them...

  21. Re:ECC on a home system? on Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed · · Score: 1

    Actually every AMD board will. It is a function of the on chip memory controller, so is entirely dependent on the processor.

  22. Re:I hate analogies, but... on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 1

    Umm, yeah it does happen all the time. How is this post insightful?
    Sometimes they kill you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shooting
    And as far as dogs, it does happen all the time, here is an article about some: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339
    Or find your own: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=police+kill+dog
    I seriously do not understand how you got modded insightful for being ignorant.

  23. Re:Autodesk will lose on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You do realize that the case that established the first sale doctrine was exactly what you describe, a book publisher attempting to control resale price of their book through a license page. It's even linked from the wiki article you posted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Co._v._Straus

    It blows my mind the legal gyrations they must go through to rationalize why this is not acceptable for books but a-ok for software.

  24. Re:Broadband killed LAN parties on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    FYI with steam games if 1 person is already patched you can simply copy the game folder over the lan or via disk to the unpatched machines, and steam is smart enough to realize the updated content is there...

  25. Easy fix on Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link · · Score: 1

    I suppose this could all be fixed by having more than one app reviewer look at each app before approval/denial. That could raise costs a little but at the same time apple faces a bigger risk should any single employee approve something truly objectionable. I can't imagine 2 random apple app reviewers would both find these silly reasons to reject apps, so it seems to me the easiest solution to have multiple internal reviewers, I can't believe they don't do this already...