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  1. The number of tracks aren't (generally) a power of two, the number of sectors per track varies depending on placement (fewer sectors near the center, more closer to the circumference) etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the ECC data and servo information also varies according to sector placement.

  2. Re: A good first step on Trump Plans To Dismantle Obama-Era 'Startup Visa' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just point out that you are actually arguing against a scenario made up by yourself - a strawman.

    Most startups in the real world doesn't have high wages at the start (in some cases there are no wages involved at all), doing a lot of work for some years for essentially nothing isn't anything unusual. That's the real world.

  3. Ah it's you again*. While I find your fascination with male-on-male fisting a bit weird I have to reply as that such a text could very well be a novel, a pornographic** novel but still a novel.

    (* I'm assuming you are the same dude(?) that have posted similar things earlier)
    (** assuming it is written for pornographic purposes)

  4. Are you serious?

  5. You're a joke. High on your own immature ego you can't even understand simple things when documented, can't even write properly and have a lot of attitude with nothing to back it up.

    Are you under 15?

  6. Re:Management wasting another good engineer? on Chris Lattner, Poached From Apple To Become Tesla's Top Software Executive, Quits After 6 Months (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that's a novel use of the phrase "ABI stability". I guess you think Windows programs are statically linked with all required libraries? No? Well, Windows do have a stable ABI for both user programs and kernel drivers.

    IOW I think the Anonymous gentleman that replied earlier wasn't completely wrong.

  7. Re:two problems here.... on Is Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins? (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You really is a special kind of clueless fuck. Yeah one doesn't need to reply to a "form" (which was a form -> nothing "" about it) from a company one use the service from - but then the company doesn't need to provide any service to you either.

  8. Re:"EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped " on EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be surprised to learn that the EU doesn't consist of only Finland and for most people charges are already dropped. The exemption in Finland depends on usage patterns and subscription prices being different than in other parts of the EU and the exemption is currently 1 year. However the maximum cost for consumers are what the Finnish operators pay the foreign operators - I'll let you do the arithmetic how that changes roaming charges in Finland.

  9. Re:"EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped " on EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You are wrong. Roaming charges are dropped already, it doesn't take decades. I don't see why extra taxes or destruction of alcohol would be illegal, being an EU member doesn't mean one can't have stronger laws in some areas. E.g. the VAT is IIRC regulated to be at least 15% but most countries have a tax of 19-25% (often depending on the type of goods - which is also according to local laws).
    Sweden have a state monopoly on alcohol and personal import of alcohol is limited to avoid people importing and selling alcohol - and this is legal according to EU rules. Finland _also_ have a state monopoly on alcohol and ... Well, re-read the previous sentence.

  10. Re:is that lawful in Japan? on Konami Reportedly Blacklisting Ex-Employees Across Japanese Video Game Industry (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have experience from living in Japan and working in multiple companies there? You have never heard people (in Japan) talking about things like this?

  11. Unless C/C++ changed since I last cared one can have a ones complement or signed magnitude machine neither of which can represent -2147483648 in 32 bits.

    Nitpicking points++

  12. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know if I'd want to hire someone that swears at eunuchs... They are people too (or so they say).

  13. Re:Theory/Practice on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    Most e cigarettes use a heating coil to heat the fluid to smoke. There's an "arms race" to see who can pump as much power as possible into a relatively small coil from a relatively small battery in order to produce as much smoke as possible. P=UI=U^2/R where people try to optimize R to be as low as possible -> more power per volume -> more heat per volume -> higher temperatures used in producing the vapor.

    Some research (may even be related to this - haven't checked the linked article) indicate that this heat converts some of the glycerin into acrylamide which is a potential carcinogen.

    However cigarettes and other tobacco products (even those that doesn't burn like snuff, snus etc.) do contain acrylamide. They also contain other components that are known to be dangerous like tar products.

    BTW natural only means less control of the end product. Artificial products can generally be produced to a greater degree of purity and often use "natural" raw materials in doing so. The problem with the product is that is isn't well defined what it contains (proportions of different ingredients can differ between batches) , that the ingredients aren't really tested for this kind of use (heating them for inhalation) and that the purity of the ingredients aren't well controlled.

  14. Re:but on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I understand that you probably is mentally retarded (given that you can't even get an account on this site) but why is that funny? It's the symbol values that is upsetting - not the symbol in itself.

  15. Re:but on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin isn't fascist. While you have somewhat better understanding than most people (in that fascism in itself doesn't imply racism) you still make the mistake of applying the term (on very loose grounds) against something you don't like.

    Apple isn't fascist any more than a frog is and trying to paint them as fascist just make you look foolish. If you don't like their policies (I don't) then complain about them.

  16. Re:There is one KEY word missing in the Press Rele on Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Libel laws are generally much stronger in Europe compared to the US. So yet another Anonymous idiot writing crap. So surprising...

  17. Re:I don't care WHY he did it on Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless the molester was killed because of an immediate danger to the kid or in an uncontrollable bout of anger it is - for good reason - not legally different than killing someone randomly. Just because one have a good reason to hate someone doesn't make it right, legally or morally, to kill that someone.

  18. Now I understand that you may be drunk, high and perhaps having a basic problem with thinking and understanding the world around you. But I'd suggest you don't try to react and say/write/scream bullshit before actually making some effort to understand whatever you is upset about. Oh, and you may want to sober up before commenting.

    There are crimes classified as federal level crimes. Those crimes aren't handled at a state level, they aren't processed at a state level and if found guilty a person suspected for a federal level crime will be punished according to the federal rules in federal prisons. This isn't a case of overruling - it is a case of jurisdiction.

    Logically death penalty should only be an option on the federal level if all member states have the death penalty - otherwise one could argue that state rights are violated and the will of the people is ignored.

  19. Re:but on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Those with fascist ideals are the fascists. It's that simple.

    If you are trying to imply that Apple is fascist by removing something that people may find disturbing (even if I personally think people shouldn't be) then you are wrong and should be ashamed.

  20. Re:but on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But is he alt-right?

  21. Re:.the .product? on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    You should look at other demoscene products: www.pouet.net

    This (and other modern 64k and 4k demos/intros) isn't an example of lossless compression or lossy compression of video input, it is an example of procedural generation of textures, audio and objects combined with efficient compression. Everything is designed by humans to fit the design to a certain size and then packed as tightly as possible. It's absolutely not easy to do!

    Using similar techniques for video compression is possible. Theoretically that is. In practice it requires extreme amounts of computing power and in many cases wouldn't give good results. Unlike the manually generated content exemplified above a texture extracted from a video may require more data stored in a procedural format, the same applies to objects and audio.

  22. Pigeon hole principle. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it applies for lossy compression too.

  23. Re:That's a NEGATIVE? on 'I'm Not Sure I Understand' -- How Apple's Siri Lost Her Mojo (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true. If you talk with someone you regularly talk with it is easier to understand pronunciations, speech patterns and how that person expresses things.

  24. I have a belief in science. The scientific method that is. In that belief is also the core of adapting in the face of new data. That makes my belief completely different than the belief in gods or other religious ideas. Other core assumptions are that the world is real, that one can collect data about the world and that one can use that data combined with logic to describe the real world.

    A scientific fact is _in_itself_ something that could adapt to fit new data but is unlikely to do so given the data that points to that fact being indeed the correct interpretation of available data. Of course calling that a fact is in fact an error but an understandable one given how languages work. In fact having the idea of "fact" as a non-changeable axiom of the real world is also wrong, in most cases where facts are discussed they are opinions and often based on bad, biased and incomplete data.

    You seem to have a bad understanding of science in general and the scientific method in particular.
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    Your implication that a mathematician is a scientist is funny but indicates that you actually aren't much of either. In mathematics there are actual facts, they exist because mathematics in essence creates artificial worlds with a set of rules that are defined as absolute truths and then builds upon that. Mathematics is a tool, science is a model.

  25. I would say I'm situated pretty close to me.

    That is correct and doesn't imply that the "I" and the "me" doesn't refer to the same thing.