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  1. Re:Why the hype? on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia's entry says its toxicity doesn't go away after cooking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:"Looks like we got ourselves a thinker!" on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 2

    No, some people don't like it because Chu would have smoked them with his style of play. People watching wouldn't be able to feel "superior" even though playing along has advantages.

  3. Re:How they were detected on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    Strange as it seems, $2 billion is chump change. Look at JP Morgan Chase. They were fined over $20 Billion, last year. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

    And the CEO got a raise. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...

  4. just opened most used and largest excel workbook (~1.3MB) and excel memory usage was ~4.3M memory use and 9.1M VM size (in task manager)(winxp sp3)(excel 2003). Cannot imagine excel taking up more than 1GB except if there is a memory leak.

    You need to imagine harder or don't do a lot using Excel.

    I have a 100+MB spreadsheet that's connected to a database back end with pivot tables and graphs/charts. Open it up and it takes around 400MB. Imagine developing it. You would have lots of other programs/clients opened as you're integrating everything together. I very much doubt you could have developed it under XP 32-bit or you would have had to do so much finagling you would have gladly punted the machine.

  5. I would have thought so, too. But my current machine in the office isn't running too many development/management tools and it's using 4.5GB. The largest RAM hog? Outlook at 400MB. There are a little over 100 processes. I can't imagine someone who uses Excel on a regular basis using less than 6GB.

  6. Re:Google's first try got the age algorithm wrong on Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Damage Control Mode - ON. Well, fuck 'em all on Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Wire is good on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    No. The whole project is the telcos wanting out of highly regulated POTS so they could charge their customers more by unregulared IP-based telephony.

  9. Re:Halfway through my MBA... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure if MBAs were running Tesla, they would have waited for lawsuits filed for the fires before they did anything, let alone giving customers a free retrofit by mere recommendation rather than mandate from the NHTSA. It's just running the numbers, where goodwill and customer satisfaction is difficult to measure in a spreadsheet.

  10. Monster cable territory? on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    Didn't the doors look a bit flimsy/wobbly when it was first opened?

    The end of the video links to the Devel Sixteen that claims will have 5000 hp, go from 0-60 in 1.8 sec., with a max speed of 348 mph. I don't know about you but these cars seem like they're for autophiles who use Franklins as toilet paper. Who knows how well they will perform.

  11. Re:NonStop on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    You've gone that far, might as well finish the loop: Tandem was started by HP employees whose product was two HP mini computer systems running in tandem.

  12. Re:Welcome to how SSDs fail. on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    When the notebook is new. Then when the battery dies, lots of people just leave it plugged into the AC and they're back to square one.

  13. Re:Not much worry with a source build on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Under normal circumstances, yes, but the change log shows the modification going into the source tree outside the normal process--someone modified the file on that server directly.

  14. Re:DLL nightmare on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    > I have yet to experience this DLL nightmare you speak of

    Haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hell

  15. They host cygwin distributions on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    I recognized them because I use them for my cygwin distribution mirror.

  16. Re:Actually Protest This Shit on US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms · · Score: 1

    According to either the Guardian or Washington Post, the NSA did have meetings at Intel.

  17. Re:Simple solution on 802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds · · Score: 2

    Maybe the guy's cables are patched like this. http://i.imgur.com/jVbuPjTh.jpg

  18. Recovery tools on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    There's one thing I've learned from people who perform data recovery and that's the excellent support for NTFS in recovery tools. Support for HFS, ext*, ZFS is like rolling the dice but improving.

  19. Re:What is LMDE on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    Ah, so it's the same as installing Ubuntu 11.x and then upgrading to 12.04 which does not force PAE kernels under 32-bit.

    Thanks.

  20. Re:PAE required for 32-bit on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    > Linux Mint Debian 32 bit has the non-PAE (486) kernel by default

    But what does this mean?

    > Important info:
    > PAE required for 32-bit ISOs

    I've never used Mint. Is Linux Mint Debian different from Linux Mint 15?

  21. PAE required for 32-bit on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    Could someone explain the implications for this? Having just battled with getting LTSP under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I understand it's because non-execute functionality is tied to PAE. But I have a bunch of machines that don't have PAE and they would be worthless moving forward. So I modified LTSP to create non-PAE kernels.

  22. Re:What the fuck man? on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    No, companies implement data caps because it's a nice way for them to make more money without having to upgrade their networks. The DSLR/hardforum threads have a lot more information about his setup. He bonded two 150/75 FiOS circuits and his GPON hub only had 30 connections. GPON allows a 2.4 Gbps data rate down, 1.2 Gbps up. There's a good chance the rest of the 28 connections are not all 150/75. So it's unlikely this person's activities affected other FiOS subscribers.

    As a tier-1 entity, Verizon also has the privilege of paying nothing to transfer bits outside their network.

    According to this individual, business plan connections use the same routes and infrastructure as residential. The same is true for Comcast Business, and probably U-verse Business.

  23. Re:Sounds reasonable to me. on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    Sonic.net allows servers for their residential plans.

  24. Re:Google Fiber locations on Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    People who don't follow tech wouldn't know about the benefits of having gigabit and won't subscribe. That's why people here feel Google should concentrate on tech-savvy locations. People complain about a $5 difference. So people who are ignorant will ask "Why should I spend $70/month when my current habits are satisfied with my $65/month package?"

  25. Re:What the hell on Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? · · Score: 1

    According to the author it seems Ms. Richards has a history of doing this kind of thing "I emailed SendGrid via friends who worked there to inform them of the pattern: when Adria is offended, she doesn't work within the community to resolve the problem..."

    I can imagine why Sendgrid fired her. If someone were to not work within a system like an adult you basically would want to limit any potential liability by not dealing with those types of people. People who interact with Ms. Richards on a regular basis need to be careful about what they say around her or potentially incur her wrath.