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  1. Re:"...quirks with Windows" on Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board · · Score: 3, Interesting
  2. Re:I bought one of these for Litecoin mining on Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany · · Score: 1

    Also, the stickers have the old logo on them, which was replaced years ago.

  3. Re:ARIN is not in address exhaustion mode on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1
  4. The sun's going out on Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun · · Score: 0

    Thanks, Obama.

  5. Re:And let's not forget... on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 1

    Bruce Schneier had a good essay on the nuances of what "WMD" means now. From a quote in the article,

    All artillery, and virtually every muzzle-loading military long arm for that matter, legally qualifies as a WMD. It does make the bombardment of Ft. Sumter all the more sinister. To say nothing of the revelation that The Star Spangled Banner is in fact an account of a WMD attack on American shores.

    https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/counterterroris_1.html

  6. IPv6? on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    $ host -t AAAA meta-beta.slashdot.org
    meta-beta.slashdot.org has no AAAA record

    Pathetic.

  7. Re:Al? on AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model · · Score: 1
  8. Re:TinytinyRSS! on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 2

    I second this. I set it up on my home cable modem connection and it works great. It would be even more responsive if I put it on my dirt-cheap VPS account server, I just haven't bothered since the cable modem works fine. They keep changing the Android app and adding annoying animations, but it still works *much* better than Feedly and doesn't require giving some third-party access to all of my browsing history.

  9. *Salt*?? Everyone knows you destroy ghosts with root beer.

  10. Re:I don't get it on At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks · · Score: 0

    Please do not link to Dilbert. Scott Adams needs a permanent boycott: http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2011/06/16/scott-adams-still-a-douchebag/

  11. Re:Privacy Concerns on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    You can generate your own globally-unique private networks. See, for example, http://www.simpledns.com/private-ipv6.aspx

  12. Re:Daisey's Response on Foxconn "Glad That Mike Daisey's Lies Were Exposed" · · Score: 1

    Listen to the TAL followup story. He admitted, eventually, that he lied. Except that he seems to be physically incapable of saying the word "lie," instead trying to weave a web of bullshit about there being different levels of truth, and that his version was (to paraphrase) "stage true" vs. "true in the traditional sense." Ira Flatow even told him that that was not a normal viewpoint when it comes to whether something is true or not, and he just hemmed and hawed. If that's not the definition of a pathological liar, I don't know what is.

  13. Re:Refreshing on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "At that point, we should've killed the story," says Ira Glass, Executive Producer and Host of This
    American Life. "But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we
    saw no reason to doubt him. We didn't think that he was lying to us and to audiences about the details of his
    story. That was a mistake."

    That sounds like, "We got it wrong," to me.

  14. Re:Do they support much older Linux? on NVIDIA Is Joining the Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    Minimum requirements: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/295.20/README/minimumrequirements.html

    [sorry for the poor formatting]
    Software Element Supported versions Check With...
    Linux kernel 2.4.7 and newer cat /proc/version
    XFree86* 4.0.1 and newer XFree86 -version
    X.Org* 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 Xorg -version
    Kernel modutils 2.1.121 and newer insmod --version
    glibc 2.0 ls /lib/libc.so.* > 6
    * It is only required that you have one of XFree86 or X.Org, not both. Sometimes very recent versions are not supported immediately following release, but we aim to support all new versions as soon as possible.

    binutils 2.9.5 size --version
    GNU make 3.77 make --version
    gcc 2.91.66 gcc --version

  15. Let me elaborate on that on Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion? · · Score: 0

    Don't do it.

    Really, just don't do it, please!

  16. There are DisplayPort-to-* converters on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 4, Informative

    DisplayPort can be converted to HDMI or single-link DVI with a cheap, passive adapter.
    You can also convert it to VGA or dual-link DVI using active adapters (they show up to the computer as DisplayPort devices).

  17. Isn't it a "Windows Phone 7 phone"? on Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone · · Score: 1

    The name of the OS is "Windows Phone 7", so this is a "Windows Phone 7 phone", not a "Windows 7 phone". This is is the sort of dumb naming that leads to things like, "Plug your monitor into the DisplayPort port," or "point your web browser at http://slashdot.org/".

  18. Re:What am I missing here... on Like a Redstone Cowboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part of it is that it's hard to actually make anything using in-game redstone wiring, in the same way that it would be tricky but nerdily rewarding to make a 16-bit ALU using discrete transistors and wires on a breadboard. It also requires digging around in interesting and often surprising environments to actually *get* the redstone to make this stuff, so it's makes a good time sink for addictive personalities. It's pretty different from writing a mod for a game in some scripting language.

  19. Re:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 Post! on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 2

    That forces the DNS resolution itself to only go over IPv6. I think what you want is host -t AAAA slashdot.org.

  20. Re:Where is the Google test? on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Safari, for example, had a bug until recently that caused page loads to fail if the site has an IPv6 address but the client doesn't have connectivity. In addition, there are a bunch of autoconfigured tunnel technologies that can cause problems. See, for example, APNIC's chief scientist's report on Teredo: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

  21. Re:ISP:s at fault on IPv6 Traffic Volumes Are Low, But Nobody Knows How Low · · Score: 1

    > same websites at a slower speed (due to the tunnel)

    I have a Hurricane Electric tunnel set up, and this is actually not always the case:

    --- www.facebook.com ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9011ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 36.170/38.304/39.851/1.103 ms

    --- www.v6.facebook.com ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.583/18.888/25.474/2.335 ms

    That IPv6 route includes a hacky wifi hop that the IPv4 one doesn't, and it's *still* better.

  22. Re:I just bought something better on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    It's a production unit, but people at the conference don't actually get them for another month.

  23. Re:VDPAU is already an open standard on AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API · · Score: 1

    VA-API is an open standard, what's wrong with it?

    Its display functionality is totally inadequate.

  24. Re:IPv6 rollout on corporate networks on Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’ · · Score: 1

    Do any operating systems use DHCPv6 by default? I know Linux just uses stateless autoconfig by default, which works great for renumbering, but how do you get DNS entries that way?

    I guess you just manually configure your servers to use DHCPv6 and let everything else use autoconfig?

  25. More accurate title? on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 2

    Google To Cede Web Video Market To Adobe