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  1. Re:Sounds like... on Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    MTU is enforced at the hardware layer, which he does not have total control over.

    Better to change the window sizing, and use HPNSSH which will allow you set the window sizing. The developer of SSH made the decision that

    Of course you have to own both sides to do that as well, and make changes to the stack... royal pain in the arse.

    Easier to install WAN accelerators like Silver Peak, CISCO WAAS, or Riverbed Steelhead devices to get better performance and compression.

  2. Re:The cloud is nearly never a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    Well, I am going by what he said was the problem.

    I agree, if loading 100m from the internet breaks the internal network, something is very wrong.

  3. Re:The cloud is nearly never a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    Except it is not the internet:

    "Our facility is incapable of handling such large transfers without effecting internal network performance."

    Which should be even easier to fix. He is trying to fix the wrong problem.

  4. That's no moon... on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 2

    And that is not a Helicopter Carrier.

    It is going to be a "full sized" drone carrier.

  5. Solve two problems at once! on The Turbo Entabulator: A 3D-printed Mechanical Computer · · Score: 1

    We will make the IRS and the NSA use these exclusively.

    Here, have all our data. Let us know if you finish a search before the heat death of the universe.

  6. Re:Why don't businesses get it? on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    Sure there is, Paypal would not be able to take "ownership" of the find because a contract (reward) is excluded as a way to obtain the ownership in California, where 18 is the age of majority and being able to enter a contract.

  7. Re:scholarship? on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, but generally speaking you cannot enter a contract with a minor, which is probably the legal issue. Age of majority is variable, but in California that is 18 ys old.

    They should find a way around it, but they can't just give it to him.

  8. Re: Not News to Fox on Why DOJ Didn't Need a "Super Search Warrant" To Snoop On Fox News' E-mail · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have no idea what you are talking about.

    It is NOT illegal to receive classified information and publish it if it is just dumped in your lap, like the Pentagon Papers.

    It is if you asked for it and conspired obtain the information, which is what they are trying to proveby naming him an coconspiritor.

    Add to that the fact tht Holder testified he knew nothing about it and did not condone it.... And yet it turns out he signed the warrant.

  9. Re:This is against current food movements. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    Photosynthesis requires....

    CHEMICALS!

  10. Re:Rebranding on IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update · · Score: 1

    You are lagging a little behind our market speak.

    It would be CloudFlex or PureFrame.

  11. Re:What? on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Help repopulate Mars?

  12. Re:What? on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 2

    I was hoping for Amy Mainzer!

  13. We leave Saturn for the deeper regions of the on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    cosmos and come upon Uranus...

    *giggity giggity goo*

  14. Re:Sounds good. on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    Here at the Church of the FSM, we do posthumorous baptisms!

  15. Re:Second Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly, gun owners are a bunch of hicks and don't use email or read ./ ! /sarcasm

  16. Re:Fourth Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you got that backwards, or forgot the /sarcasm tag:

    Searches by government are by definition unreasonable, thus they need a warrent.

  17. Re:Oh noes! on Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Oh Blonds laugh at Blond jokes... they just don't get them.

  18. Oh noes! on Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought · · Score: 5, Funny

    Global warming has reached the core!

  19. Re:Yes it does on Researchers Report Super-Powered Battery Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What concerns me is how this density is going to react to being shorted out.

    Flames? Explosion? China Syndrome?

  20. Re:In other news... on Researchers Report Super-Powered Battery Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Like "personal massage wands" for example

  21. Re:He is a good guy to meet and had time for his f on Iain Banks: Extremely Ill With Cancer · · Score: 2

    We should send him a get well gift.

    I suggest a hat...

  22. Re:Hammered on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 2

    Thermite...

    The Mythbusters way!

  23. It has been replaced by "be excellent to each other".

  24. Re:What?! on Should Congress Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    You would see obscenity laws and digital copyright laws revoked in record time.... And then congress would do nothing ever again.

    Perfect!

    Maybe not perfect, but better than them eroding rights and raising taxes....

  25. Re:Be a Professional on Ask Slashdot: How To (or How NOT To) Train Your Job Replacement? · · Score: 3

    Train him up.
    If he can't you know they will be back to get additional support.

    If he can really run with your code, hire him away, put him to work on projects that make you money. =)