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  1. Ah! That's never going to happen to me because you see, I... eh...

    D'oh!

  2. Re:Time to plant trees on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    PI IS EXACTLY THREE!

  3. We need more information on Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ancient tablet reveals Babylonians discovered trigonometry.

    What kind of tablet was it? iPad or Android?

  4. Re:No, it's not on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Data isn't as important as pundits would like to believe.

    Well he did save Picard's life.

  5. * Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS)

    Why not L4D2? It's as much fun as the first one and there's still plenty of players online.

  6. Re:"National security"? on New Zealand High Court Rules Operation Against Kim Dotcom Was Illegal (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    By a strange coincidence, it's also a movie.

  7. Re:Display screen on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Probably in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" range.

  8. Somebody better tell Apple on As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re: bundle on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bunghole: the hole in a cask, keg, or barrel through which liquid is poured in or drained out.

  10. Now that takes courage!

  11. Display screen on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I think I once read something about searching for "display screens", i.e. for showrooms, airports, etc. Can't remember the specific name but I'm pretty sure won't put any "smart" crap in those.

    Be prepared to pay the price, though.

  12. Re:bundle on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer one that comes with a barely-flying pegasus. Yellow with pink mane preferred. Shy if possible.

  13. Re:Must be a slow news day... on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If they plan to update the Mac Mini or MacBook Air, it will really be news.

  14. Re:Box on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    An Apple TV is similar in features to a Roku.

  15. Re:Planning??? on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. If the current 4th-generation Apple TV is any indication, their new box will cost at least three times as much as yours. This means (in market-speak) that it's three times better than your Android box because of the Apple logo.

    Me? Fuck Android. It seems so insecure that I want no part of it. My next box will be a Roku.

  16. Re:Kind of late to the party Apple on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Over-hyped? Maybe.
    Overpriced? Positively.
    Mediocre? That's debatable. Their products work and their support currently has no equal in the industry.

    Is Apple in a decline since Steve Jobs' death? Absolutely. With a rich bean counter at the top we get even more expensive products with ridiculous features that most people can't afford (expensive low-end MacBook without usable ports, OLED touch bar on MacBook Pro, $5K iMac Pro) and a discontinuation or lack of updates for low-end products that just work (iPod shuffle, Mac mini, MacBook Air).

  17. Re:AH -- A Petabyte is NOT 1000 Megabytes on A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see the mistake. But that's 1000 Terabytes, not 1024 which was my point.

  18. If you wanted it because you would root it to install Google Play and have a cheap tablet, well, Amazon's not exactly wanting that use case.

    I wanted one because all I want is a video playback device. So yeah, I'm not exactly the ideal customer for their use case.

  19. Re:Kind of late to the party Apple on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't worry about it, they'll probably call it Ultra-Retina or something.

  20. Typical Apple on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to view 4K video, users will need to attach the updated Apple TV to a screen capable of showing the higher-resolution footage.

    Well isn't that typical of Apple. If they're so good how come they can't display 4K HDR video on my old 36" Sony Trinitron? First they remove floppy drives, now this?!

  21. Re: Why are our intel secrets being leaked like th on The CIA Built a Fake Software Update System To Spy On Intel Partners (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're damn right these leaks need to stop! I have just the person to do it too, he's known world-wide for his exploits, too! You probably heard of him, his name is Mario!

  22. Re:Why are our intel secrets being leaked like thi on The CIA Built a Fake Software Update System To Spy On Intel Partners (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait, when you say "intel secrets" do you mean "intel secrets" or "Intel secrets"? I'm confused.

  23. Re:THe intellectually interesting question to me on A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Turns out, even if there's only a tiny percentage of the population who are exhibitionists, with the total population of the planet equipped to record and upload their sexual acts, the result is a lot of porn.

  24. How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months.

    How much is that in litres of sperm?

  25. Re:AH -- A Petabyte is NOT 1000 Megabytes on A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the one using the wrong units.

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