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  1. Re:Worrying on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 1

    having an Itanium2 server with exposed heat sink, you won't need a stove any more

  2. Re:Sea Level Rising on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: 1

    Doesn't change the truth of what I said, you are cherry picking a range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:Metric on World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia · · Score: 1

    You mean the metric names of the .223 Remington in our rifles and .308 Winchester machine gun rounds. The 81mm mortar originally was Stoke's 3 in. mortar (barrel diameter 3.2") The 107mm originally was 4.2 inch M2 mortar, the improved M30 version went to the metric units. 120mm was 4.7" 155mm was 6.1", 203mm is the renamed 8 inch howitzer.

  4. Re:And now why this can not be done in the USofA on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    You want to live on one tenth the income? I don't. Heck I've been to places where the per capita electric consumption was zero. I like living in the first world thanks very much.

  5. Re:You want to get their attention? on Feds Fine Verizon $3.4 Million Over 911 Service Outage Issues · · Score: 1

    You're confused, the executive with the seven figure salary is one of the implementers, besides and above the directory, "project manager", project engineers, etc.

  6. Re:And now why this can not be done in the USofA on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    It couldn't possibly be because Costa Rica's energy consumption is about 1/8th that of the USA, and per capita GDP one tenth the USA. Engineering and physics reality has nothing to do with it, nosireebob

  7. Sea Level Rising on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: 1

    They should start that sea level rise clock about 20,000 years ago, it's been rising since the last ice age. Most of the time at faster rate than it is now.

  8. Re:I'm gonna FREAK! on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 1

    In your face, libressl doesn't have the pile of vulnerabilities just announced with openssl, because in most cases the crap removed, and one because proper design done:

    DOES NOT APPLY TO LIBRESSL 2.1.6

              * CVE-2015-0291 - OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS
                        Affected code is not present.
              * CVE-2015-0290 - Multiblock corrupted pointer
                        Affected code is not present.
              * CVE-2015-0208 - Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters
                        Affected code is not present.
              * CVE-2015-0293 - DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers
                        Affected code is not present.
              * CVE-2015-0285 - Handshake with unseeded PRNG
                        Cannot happen by the design of the LibreSSL PRNG.

  9. Re:I don't buy it. on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 2

    The article is just click bait nonsense like 66% of what is linked from slashdot, it confounds at least three OS time-related concepts.

  10. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    really, he supported wiretapping without warrant, assassination of citizens without due process, NSA data collection before becoming president? do tell.

  11. Re:Utility vs. freedom on Stanford Study Credits Lack of Non-Competes For Silicon Valley's Success · · Score: 1

    Actually, I find being compelled to work stressful, aggravating and heavily interferes with time for people and things very important to me. When I was young children had to recover from the painful diseases chicken pox and measles as there was no vaccine, the alternative was death. Such is employment. Anyway, being compelled with terrible conditions that all employers conspire to adopt, with no alternative available in a large region, is a bad thing. One can glibly say "oh just move then", but that is very expensive and disruptive for say those with families, even assuming a job in a remote place can be landed.

  12. Re: boxen and Borg? on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    well I'm not typing into google to find out, sometimes it even pulls up images automaticaly......ewwwwww

  13. Re:You want to get their attention? on Feds Fine Verizon $3.4 Million Over 911 Service Outage Issues · · Score: 1

    A fine 500 times as big would actually punish them and cause firings. However your #3 only shows your petty jealousy, if an executive has projects making the company hundreds of millions, why not pay them a few million? Makes sense to me.

  14. Re: boxen and Borg? on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 2

    Your use of "neckbeard" dates you, that was a hip term two years ago. I'm guessing you have a neckbeard fetish, there might be genre of porn just for you.

  15. Re:Kickstarter! on Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans, Not Promising Any Sequels · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't you hear the good news, doctor's examination confirms Terry Pratchett no longer has Alzheimers!

  16. Re:Utility vs. freedom on Stanford Study Credits Lack of Non-Competes For Silicon Valley's Success · · Score: 1

    Your argument is flawed, people are compelled to work lest they starve or lose their place of residence or become unable to provide for children, and thus may have no choice but to accept employment terms they'd rather not.

  17. Re:Charging at every Gas Station. on Ask GM's Exec. Chief Engineer For Electric Vehicles Pam Fletcher a Question · · Score: 1

    Seems to me you're making assumptions about how far people will go to a mall. The mall fifteen miles from where I used to live has charging stations. Now I'm closer but that seems logical to me to have them there

  18. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    I think whatever party is in power should declare all other political parties terrorists and have their web sites blocks.

  19. Re:Hilarious Study in that Summary on $56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income · · Score: 1

    The issue has nothing to do with a "ruling class". Plenty of poor neighborhoods of "non-ruling" class (construed to be defined either by income or ethnicity) don't have those crime issues. Lack of proper upbringing including teaching respect for life and property and self-worth, makes the difference.

  20. Re:what's the point on Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal · · Score: 1

    your "asymetrical warfare" meme that is often brought up has a problem, it doesn't work on a state that is totally brutal. It only works on the wimpy with a conscience. It didn't work on Rome as they expanded, one act of terrorism and they'd slaughter a city. The conquered might run out of cities and people, is the only possible result of terrorism against ancient Rome.

  21. Solution for Cal Economy on Deploying Solar In California's Urban Areas Could Meet Demand Five Times Over · · Score: 1

    State sells the excess to neighbors for profit, helping the State's budget?

  22. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 1

    Essentially yes. Many "leviathons" things are being loaded by Slashdot's pages, including even Google's. Slashdot's tentacles are thus even more numerous than Google's.

  23. Re:what's the point on Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal · · Score: 1

    Explain yourself. One fission bomb takes out a city or much of a large one and pisses another country off immensely. Retaliation would be of epic proportions. A thousand weapons could destroy another country completely. Israel might have hundreds of nukes, by the way. They need more than one or a dozen in their situation.

  24. Re:Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... on A Mars One Finalist Speaks Out On the "Dangerously Flawed" Project · · Score: 1

    That's still easier, with rockets, than working in Earths. And we can model hypersonic flight with incredible precision these days. These are NOT the issues that stand in the way of manned Mars mission. Radiation, composition of Mar's soil, long term 0.38 g field, resupply, recycling, psychological issues of isolation far from earth...those are the hard problems.

  25. Re:Why don't i believe them on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 0

    Get your tinfoil hat off, sounds like something useful for emergency situations. Occupant has to activate. Maybe all cars should have cameras that activate by user or by sensors in emergency situations, to send feed to website that alerts emergency services. Triggers could be water, fire, impact, sufficiently off normal axis, etc.