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  1. 3: ??? on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Then you could charge $99.99 for the "Dynamic" audiophile version!!!

  2. WTF? Dice? Nobody will pay for that! on MS Seeks Patent On Virtual Fuzzy Dice · · Score: 2, Funny

    A huge finger on the other hand...

  3. What pisses me off on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are TV adverts where they do exactly the same. It means I either have to muck around with the volume I was happy with or change channel. Obviously I do the latter.

  4. Shouldn't they just call it on U of CA Constructs 220 Million Pixel Display · · Score: 1

    San Diego University?

  5. Re:How can we end this war? on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Is there anything we can do to put an end to this hopeless war? The problem is that half the voting population have an IQ below 100.

  6. Re:Wizard of Oz theory on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    Or of course it might have nothing at all to do with the politics of the time.

  7. Re:Hmmm. on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1

    No, really, it is just ignorance.

  8. Hmmm. on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1, Troll

    in Germany, pretty much all access points are secured. In the UK, pretty much only those owned by IT people.

    In Germany the owner is responsible for the traffic. In the UK, they're not. Perhaps the average British person is just dumber than the average German. Perhaps personal responsibility makes a difference.

  9. Wizard of Oz theory on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    That Baum was writing about monetary reform etc. Oz being ounces, the yellow brick road being gold. Silver slippers etc. Then you have the tin man, scarecrow, munchkins etc representing various facets of society.

  10. Re:Coming soon... on Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns · · Score: 1

    Depends whether that particular grammatical rule makes sense and is consistent.

  11. Re:Monster attack steals user data on Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    I liked it when Slashdot got its tech stories before the mainstream news outlets. Really? When was that then?

  12. Re:In the UK, polls aren't really secret either on Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk · · Score: 1

    At no point do they record which ballot paper(s) they gave to you I've watched them do it.

  13. No 3.0 ? on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on!

    3.0 is a perfect excuse to break everything and allow your imagination to run riot. That's the fun bit!

  14. In the UK, polls aren't really secret either on Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk · · Score: 1

    Each paper has a unique number printed on it. Should they wish to, officials can trace a vote back to the voter. In theory they're destroyed after a year, but who knows.

  15. So mark him down on Nanotechnology Boosts Solar Cell Performance · · Score: 1

    In Firehose.

  16. Re:'dynamically' realocating servers on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 1

    Ah, a man after my own heart.

    Add VMware or Xen to the mix and you can pretty much get rid of the boot time as well as the install time. And if you have uniform hardware with LOM cards you can even automate the powering on/off of the base servers depending on the load of all the existing machines in the grid.

  17. Re:Bad Move on FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1

    People in favour of these auctions seem to forget that companies are not in it for charity, and investors like to see a reasonable return on the money they put in. The cash for these licenses have to come from someone, and that someone is you, the dumbass consumer. WTF? Oh the poor, poor telecoms companies...

    They didn't have to bid that high, the only compulsion was their own. They could all have bid £0.01, but they didn't, they chose instead to add many many zeros.

  18. Re:Network Queue Systems on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 1

    Now, I've been in the IT industry for ~ 5 years now and I've never heard of something like "Network Queue Systems". And definitely not in connection to power savings. They've been around since the early 1980s.

    See:
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe= off&q=Network+Queueing+Systems&btnG=Search&meta=
    or
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler

    Modern free and commercial examples:
    http://gridengine.sunsource.net/
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
    http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/tor que-resource-manager.php
    http://www.platform.com/Products/Platform.LSF.Fami ly/Platform.LSF/
    http://www.gridwisetech.com/content/view/123/90/la ng,en/
    http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/software/lo adleveler.html

    In a Unix server environment, pretty much any of the above can be used to run pretty much any application on the least loaded machine, including GUI/desktop apps or things like SQL queries and with a tiny bit of effort it can be made almost completely transparent. It means you can increase your server utilisation from 5% or less on average to around 90%. In a Windows server environment, you're pretty much fucked.
  19. Sheeple on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of the going in asumption being "well, you have to use x". No. You don't The sooner you work that one out and simply start taking advantage of them the happier you'll be.

  20. Clearly on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft's customers, the music industry, have to make sure that the criminals who play music over the internet are very limited in the amount of intellectual property they are able to steal.

    Seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you don't like it, there are plenty of alternatives out there.

  21. Network Queue Systems on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have been optimising server resource utilisation for decades.

    The real problem is that most I.T. staff are either as dumb as bricks and have no idea how to make use of one or have plenty of profit to burn and just don't care.

  22. Don't worry on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Singularity" predicts that processing power will continue to increase exponentially for ever. So obviously, electricity generation will also do the same. Not a problem.

  23. You're right. on Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage · · Score: 1

    It was the network pixies. They were on strike.

  24. Who defines "the benefit"? on Should We Spam Proxies to China? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This would not be the case if you were spamming to advertise something whose benefits were greater than the costs of the spam. Who defines what the benefit is? As far as I'm concerned that'd be me, not you. I choose what I value, not you.

    Spamming about giving away money would simply increase inflation if followed through. Giving everyone a million dollars simply makes a million dollars worthless.

  25. Re:what i don't understand about slashdot on Thoughts on the Social Graph · · Score: 1

    universal id is universal id folks. it's the same thing You don't think Colin Smith is my real name now do you? No, in real life I am "The Burning Light from Zorg".