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  1. Re:rationality on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 1

    There are variations on that quote (from several sources) and my posting is not verbatim from anybody.

    It's a general statement.

  2. small (sarcasm) issues to be worked out on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    Who would decide which Universities and Colleges get more money? Would Yale get more money per student due to perceived "quality" over some small community college?

    It would turn into a special interest nightmare with a TON of lobbyists being hired by schools all over the country to get more money for them.

  3. Re:Incomplete summary on Hackers Sweep Up FTP Credentials For the New York Times, UNICEF and 7,000 Others · · Score: 1

    FTP is only plaintext if it's FTP without encryption.

    Technically you can still use FTP with SSL which is called FTPS. (although I like to use SFTP which also technically is a totally different monster)

  4. Lasers on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Lasers (speed of light) are faster than Hypersonic missiles.

    Eventually a Laser defense will be viable.

  5. rationality on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.

  6. Even if this were to occur and you are on a bad exit node, wouldn't you still get a warning from the browser about the certificate being bad?

  7. Security Vendors that use OpenBSD should pitch in on OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014 · · Score: 2

    Of all those security vendors who use OpenBSD in their proprietary security appliance boxes why can't any of them give some money back?

  8. Re:My setup on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    And you can transcode on the fly a 1080p video + stream it using a Pentium 4?

  9. Actually there is... on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    And it's to pay somebody else to build your media server for you.

    You say you can not buy one.

    Hogwash. I'm sure if you had the money you could find a computer savy nerd to build you an XBMC server solution for your home.

    That being said, Roku + Plex pretty much does everything.

  10. Re:Good on UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Yea, Leon Trotsky was such a swell guy. Very humble man.....[sarcasm]

  11. Re:Good grief... on There's Kanye West-Themed Crypto-Currency On the Way · · Score: 1

    The dollar bill is also considered modern art, yet people use it.....

  12. Why do they need MAC addresses when every NIC has on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused here. Why would they need their own set of MAC addresses? Every NIC comes with one from the vendor. If Coke buys a NIC from somebody then the NIC has an Ethernet address.

  13. Note: Twitter is public on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 2

    Why people seem to forget that twitter is PUBLIC is crazy.

  14. Best Quote of the Interview on Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "There's no victory-condition for being human"

    Bruce should license that to thinkgeek for a T-shirt. He could make MILLIONS!

    Or...err....some money at least.

  15. Re:OMFG on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Same here on that "There isn't enough Bitcoin to go around".

    I just don't get that people don'd understand that bitcoin is divisible to something like 7 decimal places (or is it 8?)

  16. Re:H.265 and DSL on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 1

    I don't have DSL, but there are still a lot of people who are REALLY far from the CO and still have 1.5Mb/s downstream (or are just paying the minimum price)

  17. PlayON was NOT the only option for Roku users on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 2

    "Previously, the only way to run YouTube over a Roku box was to use the third-party, subscription based PlayOn service, which requires a connected PC or Mac running the PlayOn app. "

    Incorrect.

    Plex could run Youtube with a roku just fine and no subscription needed.

  18. job prospects on Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? · · Score: 1

    I don't think he'll have a problem getting a new job

  19. H.265 and DSL on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although it's going to take a couple of years, you can expect H.265 to help DSL big time. I've read and watched several industry talks on H.265 and by far the two biggest things that H.265 will help is mobile/low bandwidth content delivery (DSL users were specifically mentioned) and of course video conferencing.

    Figure a DSL user has a downstream capacity of 1 to 1.5Mb/s of downstream capacity. H.265 will make decent 720p over those throughput capacities a reality.

  20. Re:Cut the cord years ago... on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with this.

    I have a Roku, and that in combination with a Plex media server even negates using Hulu plus in many circumstances. In fact, it's BETTER as the PLEX plugins for the major networks (it's a little bit of a chore to find some of them) stream them in HD without any commercials at all.

    In my case (and many I'd guess) is that I live 40 miles from the major affiliates stations, so getting OTA signal is going to require a big honking antenna with a pre-amp.

  21. Re:Not if you were sane. on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    Why do you think 80% would be turned in?

  22. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    You forget, since Marbury vs Madison the constitution IS what the supreme court says it is.

    thus if the supreme court says the 2nd amendment gives the right for everybody to have a gun THEN that is what it means (until they say otherwise).

  23. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    the problem is, that ship sailed in the U.S. LONG ago.

    Even if you made all guns illegal today there would still be hundreds of millions of guns around for decades and decades.

  24. Re:Human soceity not ready for this on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    They are asking to grant "person" status. Not Human status.

  25. Re:Free Market Lies on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You assume a government free of control by outside forces.....