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  1. Re:Could someone ELI5 how Macbooks retain value? on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Incorrect: Apples also have a model number, it's printed in small type on the back/underside along with the power requirements and FCC compliance statement, and looks like A####. For example, I'm typing this on a model A1416, punch that into google and you'll see exactly what I'm using without even having to leave the search result page.

  2. Re:This sounds familiar... be afraid, very afraid. on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    That was a disk compression scheme, while this is virtual memory compression, more like RAMDoubler from Connectix which worked quite well (on Macs, anyway). It's possible Microsoft acquired some of that IP when they bought VirtualPC.

  3. Re:Dr. Doom AGAIN on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 2

    Hey, Congress Man is an evil bastard who can destroy the lives of millions with virtual impunity. Totally out of Fishstickboy’s league.

  4. Re:Dr. Doom AGAIN on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem that I’m pointing out is that only die-hard fans of the comic will know that, and to everyone else in the world a mole is a small, blind furry creature that can easily be bested with a shovel. “Dr Doom” on the other hand sounds like someone who means business and has the qualifications to pull it off, so he’s much better from a marketing perspective.

    (In reality I suspect Fox was too cheap to license any other characters)

  5. Re:Dr. Doom AGAIN on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, Mole Man? Menace level: "Oh no, he's going to eat my petunia bulbs and make holes in my lawn!"

  6. Re:Scotch? on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 2

    Laphroaig is people!!!

  7. Re:No, here's why: on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    By which time the cops will have been alerted by the OnStar-like tamper proofing alarm the insurers will insist on having installed, which could also quite easily photograph passengers and kill the ignition. In this scenario the only technology that doesn't already exist is the hack-my-cab device...

  8. Re:Prisoners are a capative audience... on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 1

    In all fairness it was a very secure yard. OTOH it was already full of thieves, so swings and roundabouts...

  9. Re:Third Dimension on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, given a drone's capacity to record or transmit video it probably qualifies as a surveillance device, and there's plenty of case law which says using surveillance devices to circumvent what would otherwise be private is indeed illegal. I doubt new laws are necessary at all.

  10. Re: For those that don't read foreign on Intel Reveals Unlocked, Socketed Broadwell and Core i7 NUC With Iris Graphics · · Score: 1

    Roughly the same volume as the headlight from an original VW beetle.

    Well, you asked...

  11. Re:Oh just stop already on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1

    But with that comes a whole new level of awkwardness. Trust me on this, a dislocated hip is one hell of a mood killer.

  12. Re:A felon with misdemeanor convictions on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 2

    A string of convictions for assault and battery might hurt your chances in a team situation, or customer service situations

    Sounds more like useful experience to me...

  13. Re:WTF ? on Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could conceive of this in a sex ed class.. ..

    Only if there was a practical exam at the end of the year.

  14. Re:How badly coded are Windows applications? on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 3, Informative

    I’m also an electronic technician, I have reprints of articles going back to the 1930s from Europe, the UK and Australia which use the notation I described, and you can even find it stamped on components from those regions. Either is acceptable as far as I’m concerned, as long as the nomenclature is consistent.

  15. Re:How badly coded are Windows applications? on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 3, Informative

    It’s long been used as shorthand in electronics so circuit diagrams don’t get cluttered up with zeros, i.e. a 2,200 Ohm resistor is often shortened to 2K2 Ohms, 1,500,000 Ohms is 1M5.

  16. Re:No it was Apple, but ... on Quickflix Wants Netflix To Drop Australian VPN Users · · Score: 1

    Less than 10%...Slashcode ate the sign.

  17. Re:No it was Apple, but ... on Quickflix Wants Netflix To Drop Australian VPN Users · · Score: 1

    The article you're probably thinking of is this one. It was effectively Adobe's response to an inquiry into software pricing by the ACCC (Australian equivalent of the FTC) last year (along with claiming that the increased cost was due to language translations...last I checked we speak English here).

    Apple's AU tax is 10%, which doesn't make traveling to the US even remotely economic.

  18. Re:So? on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 2

    Actually, if you RTFA they had to respawn twice.

  19. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 2

    Because a court ordered him to, and he didn't. The fact that encryption keys are the subject of the order or whether they unlock anything incriminating is pretty much irrelevant under the circumstances, disobey any court order and you face going to jail.

  20. Re:Falun Gong / Falun Dafa on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the population of exploding elephants isn’t large enough to warrant a mention.

  21. Re:woot! on George Lucas Selects Chicago For the Star Wars Museum · · Score: 2

    .. ..so we can burn that down and leave the good stuff intact?

  22. Re:Just do SOMETHING on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 2

    But only after the dingos objected.

  23. Re:Wow, what a bitch... on A Scientist Is Growing Asparagus In Meteorites To Prepare Us For Space Farming · · Score: 0

    Comprehension skill fail: you merely paraphrased what I said. Come back when you can demonstrate greater intelligence than a parrot.

  24. Re:Wow, what a bitch... on A Scientist Is Growing Asparagus In Meteorites To Prepare Us For Space Farming · · Score: 5, Funny

    “Meteorite” means a rock that has already fallen from the sky, and we have plenty of those. A rock still floating around in space is called an “asteroid”.

    And just in case you’re unsure what those other words mean, when you go outside “sky” is what's above your head, “rock” is what your head is made of, and “space” is like what's inside your head except it isn’t as close to a perfect vacuum.

  25. Re:Quiet is important on $3000 GeForce GTX TITAN Z Tested, Less Performance Than $1500 R9 295X2 · · Score: 1

    I did buy the GTX 780 over the cheaper but somewhat more powerful R9 250 solely on the basis of it being cooler.

    Damn hipsters!