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  1. Re:I STILL recommend HPLJ4P on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Also warmup time, my Brother 2140 is under 30 seconds power on to first page out, the old LJ4 wasn't even done with the self-check in that much time. I actually have two LJ4's in the basement but I'll probably never use em.

  2. Re:laser all the way on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 2

    You can get a Brother black and white laser with wireless for $70-80 if you're willing to wait a few weeks for someone to have a deal, as cheap as any inkjet worth owning and with $15 toner available on Amazon it's cheaper to refill than any inkjet. For photos I use a local minilab, about the same cost per page, less frustrating (oh, look, my cart ran out, again!), and significantly better quality. Based on the positive experience I had with my cheapy black and white I picked up an ~$350 Brother color laser all in one because my kids use the scanner and print out reports for school that need color. Refill toner for the color is $50 for 4k pages of black and 1200 of each color.

  3. Re:My best advice: ***AVOID INKJETS*** !!! on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Why not get your dad to use Google Docs or SkyDrive Word? If he's comfortable with a web browser then it just makes sense for him to use that interface to edit documents.

  4. Re:B&W on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    You can software reset the toner empty status on most Brother MFP's, still stupid that the scanner/fax doesn't work without toner.

  5. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    Hmm, since the harm is irreparable to the harmed party the action of the court in allowing preemptive seizure on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that the defendant possessed the plaintiffs proprietary property seems justified. The fact that the defendant is capable of distributing the material without the courts ability to ensure that they were responsible just moves up the remedy from injunction to seizure and since it's under court order it's not in any way a violation of the 4th amendment.

  6. Re:Viruses? Oh dear... on Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One · · Score: 1

    You sound like the old foggies who only want their phone to make phone calls, convergence is inevitable since consoles ARE general purpose computers and it costs almost nothing to add the PC style functionality.

  7. Re:Experian one of the worst on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1

    Next time do the credit report through annualcreditreport.com, no need to input a CC number.

  8. Re:Since you mentioned Experian on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1, Informative

    They can't use FICO because it's owned by a third party (Fair Isaac), what they CAN do is use a similar algorithm on the data they hold (FICO includes inputs from all 3 major credit bureaus).

  9. Re:Fortran (plus MPI and some CUDA) on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    The biggest deciding factor is usually what are the standard libraries for your field available in, in many disciplines your base libraries might only be available in Fortran.

  10. Re:(un)Fair and (un)Balanced on Uneven Enforcement Suspected At Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    Sure they can shut em down, Davis Besse which feeds into the NE grid (which NYC draws from) was shut down for over 24 months when they found a football sized hole in the reactor head.

  11. Re:Deep down.. on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real revelation was how much of it was going on domestically, before 9/11 the NSA was basically barred from operating domestically, with the interpretation of a few provisions in the Patriot Act they went from almost no domestic footprint to dragneting most domestic communications.

  12. Re:Why run a server at home on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I should have been more specific, why would you want to run a high bandwidth commercial server at home? Residential lines have by FAR the highest $/Mbps of any kind of line outside of T1/DS3 with SLA's, bulk transport is FAR cheaper to buy at a colo.

  13. Re:server ban? on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Why would you host a server at home? It's much cheaper to go colo as you'll pay significantly less per Mbps (Google fiber is an exception to this, every other home broadband option is several times more per Mbps). No it's so they can charge you "business" rates if you're doing anything but being a consumption bot.

  14. Re:Unsafe Under 30 Days? on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    You're a fan of regulatory capture? You must be a lobbyist. Everyone else looked at what happened with Minerals Management Service and realized how badly your plan fails in the real world.

  15. Re:No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Lol, Sprint has gone from 3G to 4G WiMax to 4G LTE on 1900MHz and will be adding 4G LTE on 800MHz soon, that's in just over 5 years, building mobile data into a car is dumb, period. Plus I don't want to have a dataplan just for my car, what a waste and unnecessary expense.

  16. Re:No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 1

    In a day and age when so little is stored locally do you really want to have a data connection from 10 years ago? Because the minimum you should be designing a cars systems for is 10 years and there is NO way a builtin computer will age well over that time, so use the device everyone already owns and already has a dataplan for.

  17. Re:No, bad idea on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Exactly, have the infotainment crap use Blutooth AVRCP and one of the display protocols and leave the CAN bus stuff to a simple PIC controller and a little screen in the instrument cluster that's not going to get hacked.

  18. Re:Iranian Stuxnet? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    Looks like it is a bit closer to 1300 (1kw would be around 8,800 kwhr per year, average in 2011 was 11,280), it's gone up a bit since I last did calculations.

  19. Re:Why do this? on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? What current mainstream distro will run well on a computer from 10 years ago? The answer is none of them and yet Windows XP will run just fine on most current PC's and will also run on that 10 year old box.

  20. Re:Iranian Stuxnet? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 3, Interesting

    65MW is a hell of a lot more than a small city, it's enough for ~65,000 average homes which is ~180k residents which would put it just outside the top 100 in the US.

  21. Re:FM Radio on Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 · · Score: 1

    200MB*30 days ~= 6GB = 1GB more than almost any plan available in the US (unless you're on a $80+/line plan with Sprint you'll get throttled at either 2.5GB or 5GB most Verizon and AT&T plans are similar)

  22. Re:Well, there we have it on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the entire point of the article? We AREN'T running out of easily accessible crude, in fact world supplies are UP due to increased US output, in fact supply is going up faster than demand which would normally drive prices DOWN but that isn't happening which is why I said there are only two logical conclusions, the dollar is inflating relative to crude (unlikely based on other indicators) or there is market manipulation going on (likely based on various studies showing that up to 30% of the cost of a barrel of crude is activity by speculators).

  23. Re:Well, there we have it on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I'm not worried about fueling my car, I already drive a 1.8L compact sedan, I'm worried about the drag on economic growth expensive fuel continues to cause.

  24. Re:Well, there we have it on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I just paid $3.17 last night, just 5% over your $3 target so I'd say we're getting close. What I don't get is why LSC is still at $109 a barrel, with US production up this much and global demand still slightly below 2007 levels we should be under $80, probably around $75. The only thing I can think of is inflation and speculation, and no other metric shows a 25% inflationary factor for the dollar so it has to be down to speculation and manipulation by the financial players, can we please limit their interaction with the commodities market please so the rest of the broader market can reap some of the benefits of this cheaper fuel.

  25. Re: pluses and minuses on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I haven't used an extension for GM scripts in Chrome since they added native support several years ago but that did in fact fix the problem =)