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  1. Re:This is a lie! on ESA Taking Applications for Summer of Code in Space · · Score: 1

    No it's not.

  2. if it's so advanced on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just mandate that the police force has to use it. Once it's been fully adopted and vetted, i'm sure us normal citizens would enjoy the chance to buy it.

    Other than that, who cares?

  3. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    How is putting hardened criminals in a jail system where they are deprived of freedoms, assaulted by other inmates and guards, sexually assaulted, murdered, etc not considered torture? Wouldn't it make more sense to put them out of their misery if they are facing the rest of their lives in that condition?

  4. Re:Wow on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    usually death is a fairly certain way of rendering the criminal incapable of doing anything afterwards.
    Baring some odd zombie resurrection.
    How would you feel if the criminal escaped, or got out early on good behavior just to have them kill/rape/etc all over again? Does it feel like justice?

  5. Re:where else is she supposed to work on DC Revolving Door: Ex-FCC Commissioner Is Now Head CTIA Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    She should be barred for life for working at any companies that were affected by the regulatory body she was in charge of for at least 5 years.
    It's a conflict of interest otherwise. You cannot regulate an industry for the best interest of citizens while being in bed with the same people you plan on regulating.

  6. cfw on Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? · · Score: 3, Informative

    toastman?
    Aren't those builds really, really old?
    If you're going to use tomatousb, use shibby.
    Use merlin if you want custom firmware as close to stock looking as possible.

  7. Re:not really on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    The only speed increase you get out of harddrives is when density goes up.
    Otherwise platter speeds have been more or less stuck at 5400/7200 rpms. Increased density has slowed down a lot in the past 5 years.
    Eventually ssds will beat out harddrives in terms of price/capacity. They've already blown them away in terms of reliability and speed.

  8. Re:not really on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    Maybe i should have more strongly implied: Within the same series. Not across memory/technology types.

  9. Re:not really on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    slickdeals.net

    I'd say that still counts.
    256GB SanDisk Ultra Plus 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive $100 after $20 rebate + Free Shipping

    Samsung 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III SSD MZ-7TE1T0BW $455 @ Amazon

    historic low on the evo is 420$

  10. Re:not really on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    .....
    Have you heard of IOPS?
    I have never seen a smaller version ssd have a better IOPS number than a larger one.

  11. Re:RAID? on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    No.

  12. not really on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fairly sure that increases in capacity usually means increases in performance as well. I have not seen any ssd on the market today that illustrates otherwise.
    We're down to less than .50$ a gig on ssds. Prices have been plummeting. You can get a 256 gig drive for ~100$ . 1TB drives have been almost hitting the $400 mark.
    When 2TB ssd come on the market, you'll see the rest drop in price as well. I'm not quite sure where the author is getting their information. Check the price drops over the last two years and you can see they haven't hit bottom yet.

  13. Re:Changing IMEI is illegal on Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London · · Score: 1

    You would have to change the code in the PROM for every system to make it unique.
    Then you're also assuming that no one will be able to figure out how to solder out the prom for another device.
    Then you're also figuring out that no one will produce a patch to return back a different imei even if i was hardcoded.

    And manufacturing the exact same thing over and over is way more cost effective than anything that has a one off process.

  14. Re:Appeal to authority is not good enough on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 2

    Just follow a European schedule.
    It's effective and works. They just wait a little bit longer before a child gets immunized.

  15. Re:Statistics on The Case For a Safer Smartphone · · Score: 1

    i'm going to respond to my own post for the 3 responses and say:
    I guess you've never seen touch controls. The ones where you basically have to look at the display instead of fumble around for station buttons or knobs.

  16. Re:A few ideas on detecting drivers vs passengers. on The Case For a Safer Smartphone · · Score: 2

    ridiculous.
    Your ideas are half baked at best.
    Such a phone would
    a) never sell
    b) never work
    c) two handed dexterity tests?
    Let me fill you in on something. A lot of phones now a days can be voice activated.

  17. Re:Statistics on The Case For a Safer Smartphone · · Score: 2

    I'm fairly surprised that people who are so anti "distractions" via cell phones (even when stopped) claim it's such a huge distraction, that they overlook climate control and stereos as the number one fiddled with while driving "distraction".

  18. Re:The simple solution is make them document it on LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems · · Score: 1

    There is a technical solution for this.
    Have the system report back a heartbeat with status.
    It's done today to report back when an antenna is disconnected. GPS receivers can do this. It's probably due to the change in impedance. In a system that has multiple antennas, checking the change and reporting it back o a certain location is fairly quick and simple.

    Any car out in the field that fails a heartbeat should mandate that it come back in for servicing immediately.

    Manual random checks or filing out paperwork is just plain outdated.

  19. Re:Old idea. What makes it possible now? on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    Or Folgers Crystals.
    It's been tried and tested too.

  20. Re:In other words... on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Corporations are run by people. The people running the show whether that's shareholders or privately owned by a group or people or a single person has the right to free speech and therefore the entities they control contain that same right as an extension of themselves.

  21. Re:Without her permission? on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually demanding someone's password for any reason is the big picture here. It doesn't matter if she did it at home or at school.
    The school should focus on what it's supposed to do, teach students. It shouldn't be policing the facebook pages of it's students.

  22. tldr on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's probably because content providers are worried that someone will figure out a way to rip the netflix stream while they're confident that the physical medium will provide an adequate protection scheme using DRM while the truth is probably the reverse.

  23. Re:Surely you jest ... on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Or you know
    people will get their hands on robot and 3d printing, transform scrap yards into nice looking buildings and create industry themselves and have all their needs met while being opposed to corporate control.
    It'll be a race at that point, who can defend themselves. I'm hoping a community collective can meet their own needs and offer resistance.

  24. Re: Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    His first sentence states that
    "Bow hunting is for unethical assholes."
    That is applying his own morals and ethics determining that a group of hunters are unethical and assholes. He doesn't say this is an opinion, he/she states this as fact.

    Since he set this statement in place. I stated that he was imposing his own beliefs and making a judgement on a whole swath of people because of what they do. Important to note: Not why they do it.

    Recurve and composite bows are a natural evolution of a traditional. I don't really get what you're trying to say.

  25. Re: Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    citation needed