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  1. Re:Yes, because Google's fiber costs nothing to ru on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

    True, but irrelevant, unless you're an accuntant or economental. If I run a shop that trades spare left shoes for spare right shoes, I don't come out even, I'm down the cost of running the shop.

  2. Re:Yes, because Google's fiber costs nothing to ru on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    So... they diverted capacity from non-YouTube use to YouTube use?

    OK, genius. Did they then:

    1. Pay more to lay and maintain extra fiber to support those other activities?
    2. Abandon those activities and give up the revenue?

    Y'all wouldn't be an economist by any chance?

  3. Yes, because Google's fiber costs nothing to run! on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Epic. Fail.

  4. Re:Old news on GM Working On Interactive Windshields · · Score: 1

    Now, now, GM never went bankrupt, and never declared that they were insolvent (although they clearly were). Maybe knowing that the State will bankroll them whenever it's necessary is the reason why they spend millions researching cool gadgets and never bring them to market.

  5. They'll love World of Workforce on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 5, Funny

    A 50 year grind to max out, random nerfs and level wipes, and the end game reward is a 2-person Winnebago instance in the Florida server.

  6. Re:Like the games themselves on The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yup. There's nothing stopping developers from doing it well - look at the GTA3+ series games. Even after completing San Andreas multiple times, I still laughed milk out my nose when CJ unexpectedly blurted out "I hate gravity!" on what must have been the thousandth time I cycled him off a cliff. Sheer class.

  7. Re:Old news is VERY OLD on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    Steady on - it's the first time in years that kdawson has posted anything that's not a shill for snake oil salesmen. Let's encourage him in his new-found appreciated of actual tech news, even if it's old news.

  8. Re:So you think its really that easy? on MySpace To Sell User Data · · Score: 1

    Well, quite. Any entity that shouldn't be sending me anything but insists on contact details anyway gets postmaster@foo.com, and the snail and phone details from whois foo.com

  9. I think Rob though Google thought... on Google Readying To Pull Out of China · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus Breakdancing Christ, it's bad enough when Legacy Media gives time to Rob "All your code base are belong to SCO" Enderle, but what possible purpose is there to mention him on Slashdot, other than to troll us?

  10. Re:what are they doing proposing this at all? on UK Internet Filtering Bill Watered Down · · Score: 1

    Even hippies have to eat (and campaign). Let's check their donors list, and see how much the FACT-a-likes bunged them.

    Sadly, they're not even honest politicians - by recanting a little, they showed that they won't even stay bought.

  11. Since I actually read the article on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    I note that he seems to have missed a rather obvious possibility: there's malware in RAM, but it allows itself to be swapped out with all the other processes. Why wouldn't it? If it got loaded into RAM once, it'll get loaded again by the same vector. In fact, it has to rely on that happening, since at some point the RAM is going to be physically powered down. There's no point in trying to dig in like a tick.

    So as far as I can see, his magic technique will only catch malware that attempts to protect itself. I'm not clear on why he thinks this will catch all malware, but I'm sure he'll explain further if I pay him some $$$.

  12. I could win that prize easy on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 1

    I mean, by beating the tar out of these nasally nerds, swiping the prize, and taking their iPhone and lunch money while I was at it. Then going back to wedgie them, because damn, that was utterly, tragically pathetic.

  13. Re:Great! Keep (slowly) driving down the cost... on SpaceX Conducts First On-Pad Test-Fire of Falcon 9 · · Score: 1

    Exactly what is racist or even xenophobic about his statement?

    The act of choosing to write it?

    So is it no longer okay to root for your own team?

    Well, if you like. Let's give it a try: I'm really glad that I'm British, because that means I'm not a Yank.

    I get your point. There's nothing remotely xenophobic about saying how I wake up every day praising the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I'm not American.

  14. Re:Bath, famous for Rugby Football, to ID on NOSES on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Bath Rugby team probably have only one intact nose between all 15 players.

    And they stole it from an opposing prop forward.

  15. Re:Great! Keep (slowly) driving down the cost... on SpaceX Conducts First On-Pad Test-Fire of Falcon 9 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, that's Old School scientific driving forces right there: fear, xenophobia and racism. You forgot about them stealing all the hot Martian women if they get here first though.

  16. Re:A point to note on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He also purged homosexuals, intellectuals, scientists, entrepreneurs, communists, anti-communists, foreigners, foreign-sympathises, oh, and other atheists. If you want to obsess over one minor part of the purges, that speaks more to your agenda than Stalin's.

  17. Re:How about an option on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 1

    Very amusing - that Arabs would ever get treated in an Israeli hospital. Maybe in a veterinarian's surgery.

  18. Re:I think expectations are too high... on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I think that anything that does show up here would do so for a purpose, and most likely one that we really wouldn't like.

  19. Re:Patience! on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 2, Funny

    When they start keeping us a pets and making us do tricks for their amusement, then we can talk.

  20. Re:Just when you thought you were at the bottom... on CCTV In School Toilets · · Score: 1

    How about you find the evidence that backs up your assertion, poppet?

  21. I worked in a mobile apps company for 7 years on Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I can't think of any employee, at any time, who used a Windows Mobile handset for one second longer than was contractually required. It looks like they're finally getting the idea with the newest version that mobiles are not just small desktops, but all they've done is caught on to what everyone else figured out 10 years ago.

  22. Re:Just when you thought you were at the bottom... on CCTV In School Toilets · · Score: 1

    And when did "the UK" (whatever you mean by that) criticise the US - and presumably you mean only the US, and not the UK as well - for doing something "1/10 as bad" as spying on children taking a leak?

    Your assertion, your burden of proof.

  23. Re:Most important free software project? on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    True dat, but you know who knows that? Me, thee, and Steve Jobs.

  24. Quit your bitching, hit eBay on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    and buy the $20 Chinese items. Job done.

  25. Re:Tidal bulges on Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed · · Score: 1

    The mass losing star is somewhat teardrop shaped

    Pics or it didn't happen. Or more prosaically, "I believe that" would be appropriate here.