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  1. Re:Forgotten on Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually) · · Score: 1

    Just split the difference and put a super cap in the supply and trickle charge it.

  2. Re:Professor Moron! on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Because long term prosperity for all never works. There are finite resources and thus people have them or don't. To think otherwise is just trying to rehash communism in a prettier light, People do not want to be equal they want to be better than each other. This is basic ingrained mating behavior to a large extent.

  3. Stop buying gear without lifetime warentee on Ask Slashdot: Do You Trust When a Vendor Tells You To Buy New Parts? · · Score: 2

    Nearly all HP kit has it even a lot of Cisco kit does (though they make you jump through hoops to use it). Buy good kit I've replaced cisco 6500's bits over the years that were bought in the 90's and just got tech refreshes not bad taking a 10/100 with a few gig ports to 10ge over 14 years.

  4. Re:Federal law? on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    The only reason is they are given a monopoly it near one to avoid cluttering telephone polls with competitors. If we had an all comers pure fiber network from our municipalities it would be a different story.

  5. Re:It's beginning to feel dated on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 2

    They tried that and got qqed to death the troll heroics that were actually fun were not push over rofl stomp. LFG/LFR killed any ability for complexity and server community. Pre LFG I could get a group as a dps in under 5 minutes a 25 man pickup fairly quickly as well. The system no longer punishes derps and it shows.

  6. Re:Too easy on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 2

    Playing a current server #1 25 man heroic raider they have nurfed things to all hell. Spec wise as healer it used to be complex with stop casting etc now it's all just wait for procs and keep casting. Stop casting and similar mechanics were killed on the alter of pvp as burst healing was causing issues but it's what made healing interesting.

  7. Re:It's beginning to feel dated on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    World pvp was always dead. There push to force people into pvp has pushed out a lot of players. In the PVE world MOP has been far far to grind focused with them keeping pushing raiders to pull casuals through content. There push for 10 man raiding has killed a lot of guilds. Mostly they keep up the boldfaced lies about lack of artist or designer resources to produce more content. Many here understand development and know more people on one project does not scale but multiple teams on independent projects does yet they cite that if you want x you would not get y do to lack of resources.

  8. Re:Drive conservatively! on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    No he is not he is an obstruction to the efficient flow of traffic. Around where I live you have 100 yards or so to get up to speed from a stop sign to highway speeds to merge before you lane ends (Merit Parkway in CT). Mr put put trying to merge while going 20mph slower than traffic is a danger forcing people to slam on brakes or switch lanes to avoid him.

  9. Re:had this explained to me by a driver ed instruc on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    The existing disrupting the flow of traffic laws that are nearly never enforced. Geezer doing 55 in the passing lane or kid weaving in and out gets tickets.

  10. Oh no an energetic reaction at a science fair on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 2

    What next baking soda and vinegar gets a 6 months in juvie. Hydrogen filled balloons at least a year. Sodium your going down for life man. Please fire whatever school staff made this decision they are obviously incapable of rational thought, they claim it's a zero tolerance bs when the zero tolerance has a specific exception for scientific experiments.

    I do really hope the judge dismisses the case with cause and send a nasty gram to the state bar.

  11. Re:Brilliant on New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices · · Score: 1

    Well it supports USB to Ethernet and USB wifi adapters, adding them to the cost though.

  12. Re:Brilliant on New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices · · Score: 2

    A R Pi has a single 10/100 Ethernet that's connected to USB 2.0. That does not seem like much of a router to me it might be useful for encryption bit it's can not handle current upper tier broadband speeds.

  13. Re:Software Defined Networking on Inventor of OpenFlow SDN Admits Most SDN Today Is Hype · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that sort of stuff has been done for years in VM hosting without all the virtual network bits. Early last decade hosting providers were using routing protocols to shift inbound traffic about and rewrite tricks for the outbound to make sure bits got to the right physical went though the right firewall or load ballancer or what have you. Well before this kid wrote his thesis.

    As to bigswitch there best hardware I could find was a handful of 40ge ports and a few 100ge on a "core" switch that can handle 128k routes. That's something you use to agg the TOR switches and connected up to the core with a default gw.

  14. Re:My 2c on DRM from a filmmaker's point of view on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    You seemed to have skipped over that middle ground of watermarking. You get the information you need to sue most of the time. End users have no technical restrictions. With the laws already pretty lopsided recouping your lost sales should be reasonably easy.

    As to LOC I did not say masters just a DRM free copy of the movie in the highest quality released, the librarians and archivists there can figure it out from there and the price per is pretty nominal.

  15. Re:My 2c on DRM from a filmmaker's point of view on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    DRM is not required to get paid. Durable watermarks exist tagging a copy of a movie with who bought it gives you enough to sue and possible criminal charges. The laws are already rather tilted towards the copyright holders. So saying the DRM is required to have a chance at being profitable seems rather false. Watermarks do not require any help past your own servers embedding them. At the end of the day DRM is not nor can it ever be the method to enforce copyright that's people generally doing the legal thing.

    Inception cost 160m to make and hit 825m at the box office (wikipedia numbers assuming valid for arguments sake) that is 3 years ago now, have the investors, actors, writers, and everybody else with residuals or similar all been fairly compensated at this point? Should be change mass market entertainment copyright to a specific multiplier to balance the incentive to create with the reward (Yea I know the studios would much as they have forever insure nothing ever made money on paper)?

    Some things to fix anything release with DRM should be required to be filed with the Library of Congress without any DRM or you loose copyright. Your need to make money can never trump society's need to endless expand the public domain. Inception would not exist if it were not for the body of work that came before it. As a filmmaker you must have moments that you want to do something like something else or better than or not like anything you have ever seen before, all of those are building on that body of work.

  16. Re:Headline FAIL. on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1

    So having one mental issue can help alleviate another? It's ok to be delusional as long as your happy?

  17. Re:Why? Easy! on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 1

    That seems hinky as amex does not allow merchants to stipulate that for amex transactions. Now salesforce may be big enough to have a one off agreement with amex.

  18. Re:Multi site sync on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    Since there are no deletes or changes to existing files it just remakes a torrent with all the new stuff. The far end sees the existing bits checks to make sure it matches the source and skips it.

    Rsync would require the same data to be sent 6 times from the primary or a convoluted process to syncing from P to A then P to B, while A to C and finally P to D A to E B to F or similar. In any case it's still 3 times as long as a torrent. At 40 ish million files rsync takes 10 minutes or so just verify that 2 sites match over a local gigabit connection (the hardware is meh e3 with 4x sata 3tb in raid 5).

  19. Re:Bias on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    I am assuming that much like images they are not required, can be turned off at the browser level, and alt text will be available.

  20. Multi site sync on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    I have a fairly large and growing (3.7TB) dataset that needs to be replicated nightly to a bunch of different sites. By the nature of the dataset nothing is ever removed or changed just new files added. It needs to be copied out to a half dozen locations that have as much outbound bandwidth as the primary. So a cron job sets up the torrent every night and all the remote sites pull data from the primary and reshuffle it between themselves.

  21. Re:Bias on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Big media cares about a lot more than copy protection. They care about reselling you the same content in multiple formats. They care about restricting where, when, and how long you can access content. They want to limit sharing of content. They want more rights than what copyright gives them for longer than the already insanely long copyright term They want to force there content to check in so they have an idea who and where somebody is accessing it. They want control over what operating system and what hardware you access the content on.

    DRM is not just copy protection it's a slew of rights the content owners that they never had before. Copy protection can be as simple as watermarking each copy sold, that gives them about what they had in the dead tree age. It's flawed sure but keeps the status quo.

    You have to realize that you can keep adding more and more security along the path but it just hampers lawful users. Today's best consumer DRM is still vulnerable to "simple" attacks like emulating a LCD display since that's after the HDCP decoder. Watermarking only gives you a good idea of who to sue not all the rest of the bits.

    As to HTML5 it should include a robust media streaming framework. That frameworks must be open. All the DRM systems I know of can not exist without some sort of secret that's obfuscated from the end system but still accessible, that's the antithesis of open.
     

  22. Re:Missing in action. on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    Well it's gigabit for starters. I have a 105mbs inbound plan that bursts to 210 for a short while. I run nightly backups from some remote servers and can hit 104 for hours. During the day it's just the odd spike to 200 ish. Sure I'm an outlying user but current gen cable plants can easily exceed 100mbs to a given end user, Google and others are pushing full gigabit.

    My rarely used cable card tuner needs more than 100mbs (potentially not with the way they compress the hell out of it) to talk to my DVR. Granted that a8 is not going to decompress 1080i/p without some help but it could shift the bits about to do so.

    All in all there is no real cost of gigabit in new hardware. At best 100mbs is barely adequate today this is a new CPU there is little to no nominal cost to gigabit (potentially a savings as 100bt mii and similar interfaces getting more expensive than there gig counterparts due to volume). Servers are starting to ship with 10ge standard, gigabit is the new desktop speed, and 100bt is relegated to legacy devices getting aged out of production.

  23. Re:Missing in action. on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    The CPU the used has two 10/100/1000 ports built in. Consider that the BCM4716 running at 480mhz shifts over 100mbs acting as the firewall at my house. 100bt does not cut it these days.

  24. Re:pictures of inside on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 2

    Analog composite video??? Somebody get whoever installed this thing into the last decade please.

  25. Um unless there hardware has changed drastically they sold me the worst ebook reader I ever had. Couple that with DRM, a loading at that byzantine and no droid reader app. How about selling something that people actually want is the way to beat amazon? For physical goods prime is hard to beat.