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  1. Re:You're not a subscriber on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, internet banner ads were going for about $2.20 per thousand impressions (views). That means your loading a page with ten ads brings the site $0.022. Do that every day for a month and the revenue gained from advertisers for your visits is $0.66. This does not equal your stated $5 per month per site.

    Of course, the ad companies consolidate the bills and pay in one check, so collection costs are less than from individuals....

    Even so, some ad-free subscription sites (like The Well http://www.well.com/) seem to survive.

  2. Connection? on Seafloor Sensors Record Possible Eruption of Underwater Volcano · · Score: 1

    There is a warm "blob" of water almost directly above this volcano http://news.slashdot.org/story...; additionally, this volcano last erupted in 2011, just before the blob and the drought began. Might there be a connection?

  3. Re:At What Frequency? on Researchers Identify 'Tipping Point' Between Quantum and Classical Worlds · · Score: 1

    And the difference in behavior of the transmission devices -- wires vs. wave guides -- is explained how?

  4. Re:Heisenberg compensator ... on Researchers Identify 'Tipping Point' Between Quantum and Classical Worlds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You may be experiencing the difference between being very smart and being brilliant. I have run across this many times. When brilliant people agree and I don't understand the basics, I have to admit defeat, as if I were playing chess against a Grand Master.

  5. At What Frequency? on Researchers Identify 'Tipping Point' Between Quantum and Classical Worlds · · Score: 1

    Technics already did this: All radio/TV/radar transmitters and antennae do is change a stream of modulated electrons to similarly-modulated photons. At low frequencies (AM radio, as an example) the photons behave in a classical manner even being able to penetrate dense matter like buildings and mountains. At higher modulation frequencies, like FM or TV, this behavior is moderated, being blocked by physical obstructions; what's more the electrons which leave the transmitter travel not through the connecting copper cables, but on the surface only, which is why those connections are straps and not thick wire. At ultra high frequencies like radar, wave guides are used, as the stream of electrons behaves nearly exactly like light. And as we can deduce, radar is useful because the photons are reflected with very high efficiency.

    Perhaps this is the explanation of this phenomenon. I dunno, cause the abstract provides no information on what frequencies were used.

  6. Like O.J... on Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah · · Score: 0

    Your last sentence is particularly telling.... It reads like the classic technique of a culprit accusing his accusers of exactly the thing that he himself did so as to deflect criticism.

    Like O.J. and and V. Putin vowing to find the "real killers."

  7. Get Anything But Keep Wrists Curved! on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I have had good service from keyboards I bought at thrift stores, from Wal-Mart and the original IBM disc keyboard back in the day.

    Just pound away at them keeping the wrists curved slightly and stiff, rather than resting them and using my fingers do the walking.

    I have never had carpal pain and I have never had a keyboard failure; I use them until their plugs become obsolete.

  8. A Game Worth Playing on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 1
  9. Chill, all on Craig Brittain (Revenge Porn King) Sues For Use of Image · · Score: 1

    Don't get your panties all bunched up, the courts will see through this ruse.

  10. Re:file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    But it looks harder to use.

    It was: It needed both boxes to run DOS 6.0 -- same version. Even so, results were not guaranteed.

    Laplink can negotiate its protocol over a std LPT Cable or Null Modem.

    I take out the drives and connect them to a modern box either with a PATA cable to the motherboard or via a USB\PATA connector to the modern box.

  11. Do Nothing on Ask Slashdot: What Will It Take To End Mass Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    In the ideograms of Laotzu -- "Do nothing. That way everything will get done."

    The Soviet-style surveillance state was disassembled when the Soviet Union imploded. This was due to various causes, including but not limited to a rising consumerist demand with a resulting balance-of-payment deficit, the cost of military "defense" against capitalism, mismanagement, corruption in high and low places, a failing currency and fiscal policy, and cynicism of the populace with respect to government's inability to plan for the future.

    All of these conditions obtain currently in the USA. So, doing nothing will allow us to coast to the same fate as our former adversary.

    And Laotzu will be shown to be right again.

  12. Re:Just started using it on CrunchBang Linux Halts Development · · Score: 1

    I used their xfce version of #!-10 and it was wicked quick. Not fast, in that rendering in GiMP or loading web pages was quicker -- it wasn't --, but in responsiveness. When I clicked on something, the desktop responded instantly; I had the feeling it had read my mind and prepared for my request for action before I made it.

    It was installed on a rotating hard disk, unlike Mint 10, which was on a SSD, and it beat Mint for speed (on a 1.6 gHz Pentium-M box with 4 G ram. YMMV)

    Ironically, when the community xfce spin was discontinued, the announcement used the same logic -- You can add xfce to Debian and don'y need #! for that....

    Sad to see it go. I would still have been using it had CUPS worked for printing....

  13. Re:Wait... on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the BC (Before Computers) era, if one wanted perfect privacy, they would remember things and not write them down. They would talk to each other in their own homes with security from government eavesdropping about ideas, politics, anything they felt like. The fifth amendment gave them the right to keep such things from government "oversight."

    Now, there is more to remember and machines to help us do so. Should these modern aids help the individual or make the jobs of surveillance agencies easier?

    Put another way, would anyone want their careless/drunk/drugged/lusty words used against them in a courtroom?

  14. Re:There are no such things as human "rights". on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 2

    If they (which includes the author of TFA) had read history, they would already know that Lincoln did all that and more during the Civil War. That we might do so again goes without saying.

  15. Re:kde5 on KDE Frameworks 5.3 and Plasma 2.1 – First Impressions · · Score: 2

    people who grew up on kde 3 said the same about kde4 when it came out

    Yes, I was one of the horde. Early iterations of KDE-4 were not as functional as the KDE3 later versions were. I adopted KDE4 very late (two years ago) and am still not comfortable with it. I am loath to even taste KDE5 until it is feature-rich and stable.

    I have begun to miss blackbox...but that's another story.

  16. Re:Related - the clack of wheels on the tracks, on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    When I was growing up in Southern New England I could tell how cold it was by the pitch of the squeak my walking on fresh snow caused. The colder the temp, the higher the "squeeee".

  17. Re:But ... but ... but on Seismological Society of America Claims Fracking Reactivated Ohio Fault · · Score: 0

    Thanks for a more complete discussion.

    We seem to have reached agreement.

  18. Re:But ... but ... but on Seismological Society of America Claims Fracking Reactivated Ohio Fault · · Score: 2

    OPEC doesn't set the price, just output levels.

    I was under the impression there is a relationship between supply and demand; now you say maintaining supply in the face of falling demand has no effect on price?

    Or are you simply playing with words? "Set the price" being a function of "set the supply," I think even that argument fails.

  19. Re:How about educating your dumbfuck mother? on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    TFA and the abstract clearly DO NOT show how the mom was hacked, it only describes the pain of having been.

    Click bait?

  20. Re:Try low, wide, non-progressive on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    I think you will find yourself spending less time reading without the glasses, as fatigue is a very real, and unconscious factor in our sensory spectra. Please, as a favor to me as well as to your overall stress level, use your glasses!

    Love, Mom.

  21. Solution *for me* on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 2

    I had a similar problem with bifocals. My optometrists and I settled on a pair of glasses for working on my desktop computer which were corrected to three feet, my usual distance from my monitor. I find they are also useful for reading off paper, too.

    See your doctor for a single-vision prescription for the distance from which you use your monitor.

  22. Re:Showfoto on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Truth be told, I don't use Showfoto/Digikam anymore since Showfoto's indexing only seems to work if the default directory is in /home/user; since I use a small SSD for my installation and a larger disk partition for data, it is of little use to me. I have switched to duplicating SD-card directory structure by date and depending on my human memory --- just the way I did for film.

  23. Numbers Don't Lie, But -- on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their sample size is 11-thousand. According to my results, 1-in-6 computers are running Linux!

    This is absurd, unscientific to the extreme, fear-mongering.

    In your example, based only on the statistics you provided, there were 11099x0.0109 or 120 people in the central time zone *in their sample*, which is the sample size of UTC-6 users.

    Their data is useless.

    In comparison, https://panopticlick.eff.org/i... has almost 5-million in their database. This is somewhat more helpful.

  24. Showfoto on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Showfoto, a KDE app, is designed to catalogue image files. That's its only function. If you add Digikam, Showfoto is a front-end to this raw-developing and editing program.

  25. Or -- on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    I'm not looking for authenticity. If I were, I'd be reading non-fiction.

    Epic Poetry, or Medieval Romance novels or some other form of metaphor, which fosters what Aldous Huxley called the Perpetual Philosophy.

    Some very few SF writers have been able to include cultural/philosophic themes in SF -- Huxley, Heinlein, Burgess and few others, as Twain was able to do in ordinary fiction/humor.

    Don't expect genius from today's publishers.