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  1. So, does water cost more? on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are the possible choices for farmers?

    1. grow crappy crops with free seeds and lots of expensive water,
    2. grow good groups with seeds that you need to pay for but use less water?

    #2 will make you more money, so the cost of the seeds is a non-factor. #1 will make you poor, because when it doesn't rain your crops die.

    So, what exactly is the issue?

  2. Tor seismic analysis? on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if they're doing their tracking by just sending traffic the servers in question from multiple places and with control over a few exit nodes. They'd basically be sending seismic waves through Tor and timing the responses. After a while and with enough exit nodes you could start figuring out where the other nodes are. With enough traffic analysis from ISPs or whatever you could find out where the TOR nodes actually are. At that point it becomes easier to figure out physically where they are.

    This is theoretical, but it would be fun to try.

  3. What about the f*cking hiatus? on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    Hey, where'd the hiatus go? You know, the one they said didn't exist, then it did?

  4. Those damn Igigi on New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation · · Score: 1

    That's about when the Igigi created mankind. How about that?

  5. Do you charge your phone every day? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 5, Informative

    Back in the day, you didn't need to charge your phone every day. Now you do. Big deal?

  6. It's about control on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who controls the system, the system administrator or software developers?

    How many packages come with init scripts that actually work?

    How many packages have dependencies that aren't documented?

    How many packages work only on a narrow subset of environments that are tested by the developers?

    The answer, of course, is "all of them."

    Today, the competent administrator can control startup, dependencies, etc on a granular basis. With systemd, that control has gone - somewhere else.

    Who gets called when stuff fucks up because some bozo fucked up their package's systemd configuration? It won't be the package developer, that's for sure.

  7. Retards on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 2

    The Jedi were, in the end, a bunch of idiots who were so blind that they (1) didn't notice they were spending billions of credits a year building a clone army, (2) didn't realize, even after some kid mentioned it to yoda, that all their systems were compromised, and (3) were so bad at tactics that they dropped 100% of their forces into - some dumb arena to fight someone.

    Their last practitioner, Obi-Wan, left his best friend to die after cutting off both of his arms and his legs, and spent the rest of his life as a trapdoor spider waiting to turn his best friend's son into a weapon pointed at his old friend.

    Why would anyone want to be like these yo-yos?

  8. Better reading: ad agency processes on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    If you want a process for fostering creativity, read something like this:

    http://smile.amazon.com/Young-...

    Ad agencies have to come up with ideas all the time, and their processes for doing so have worked for over a century. Each agency is different, but all of them have to be creative on demand.

  9. Black bile and the humors on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    When I read this, I remember "the humors" and imagine someone ranting about the lack validity of a competing theory because they can't account of the lack of black bile in the solution.

  10. Yeah, but you're not using your XPS anymore on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 1

    Dell's equipment service life is 3 years. The difference between your XPS is the Black Macbook is that the guy was still using the macbook for daily tasks. Your XPS is probably on a shelf somewhere.

    My late 2009 i7 iMac is unfortunately still going strong, with 16gb of ram and a 4TB fusion drive. It'll last for another few years. I have a mac mini 2009 that's been cranking away in a colo 24x7 for the last 4-5 years with no issues.

    You can see the difference between Apple products on eBay every day. I've been trying to pick up a old Mac Pro, and Mac Pros from 2009 are going for $1k+. It's unreal and sort of ridiculous.

    Even the prices for iDevices are crazy. Look on glyde.com: the 3GS is still $48, $100+ for a 4s. These phones are ancient. You can't give old cellphones away that aren't iPhones.

  11. Wow, that's a lot of iterations on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, going from 2000 to 327,661 iterations sounds like a big deal. Does that actually add any value, or is that like doing rot-13 a million times?

  12. Spanish nurse on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    She thinks she may have touched her face with a glove. Nobody is really sure. However, if she did that would show that Ebola is way more contagious than the CDC thinks. That implies transdermal transmission.

  13. you need some wireless backhaul on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    What you need to do is get one of these wireless backhaul things and put one at one end of your house, and one on the other.

    http://www.microwave-eetimes.c...

    Then you've got a 4Gbps backhaul from your fiber point to the rest of your house. Stock up on a bunch of those, and you should be able to exercise your fiber like crazy.

    As a bonus, you can cook your dinner by just putting your food in the beam pathway.

  14. postdoc exploitation for science? on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    So, the postdocs are being exploited for science?

  15. Don't pay them and they'll go away on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If they had to pay their own way, the number of PhD students would drop tremendously and all the postdocs would leave to get jobs in the real world. Problem solved!

  16. What about the data? on Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption · · Score: 0

    Encryption is only one part of the announcement. Apple also said that they're not going to sell your data, for the most part. What did google say about that?

  17. Security is too hard on User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If security is too hard for criminals to use, it's too hard for normal people to use.

  18. Exploited in real life? on Apple Allegedly Knew of iCloud Brute-Force Vulnerability Since March · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has anyone actually shown that this was exploited by anyone?

  19. But - what's changing the winds? on Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds · · Score: 0, Troll

    But - but - what's changing the winds so the coast is warming? Global warming! Duh!

    Warming is warming, unless there's no warming. Then it's still warming, but a different kind of warming than the other warming. I mean change.

  20. Billions and billions on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    Android phones now account for 823 phones out of every phone sold. That's progress!

  21. But what about the hiatus? on Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There hasn't been warming for over a decade, but the warming/change advocates have ignored that because it confounded their model - until a bit ago, when they sized upon the ocean as a heatsink due to another study.

    How many billions of dollars have been wasted chasing that chimera?

    If they really cared about reducing their carbon footprint, they'd all kill themselves. As a westerner, they have a massive carbon footprint that they'll never erase. At least that way they'd be able to give back by fertilizing a tree or something. Of course, if they choose cremation that'll release even more carbon and waste, since they'll need an urn of some sort.

  22. it's a you problem on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Installed across my devices, it seems fine.

    iPad 2, 4, air, iPhone 6, 5.

  23. Which android version? on Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google · · Score: 1

    Well, it doesn't do any good right now if it's on an android version that nobody uses. What about Pre L versions?

    And won't this really be a carrier option? And what about that sharing data part?

  24. No standing, no case on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Interesting tack by the court. Did Tesla try that argument in the other states as well?

  25. No, they won't. on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    Have you heard the good news about Big Data? It's, like, the new thing.