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  1. 12-18 hours? Where can someone get /that/ LSD?!?

  2. Microdosing uses regimes like 5ug every third day.

    To put that in perspective, 100ug is your basic single dose of LSD. It's enough to get a basic recreational user high enough to see movement, bright colors, "funhouse" effects, achieve some self-realization and lowering of the ego, it's not enough to see people look monsters, but enough for faces to be weird.

    It's 1:20th of an "normal" intoxicating dose, and well below the threshold dose of 10-20ug which is needed to even feel the effects.

    At 5ug, personally, I sometimes feel the tiniest of a tension headache right above my brows, nothing else.

    To compare this to alcohol, it's like someone who gets drunk on 4 beers having 2oz instead. While it certainly may affect him, it doesn't impair him.

  3. RIFE! Hire an editor, Motherboard (and Slashdot) on 'Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    > But Sony's setup seems especially ripe for it.

    Rife. Rife means abundant. Ripe means fully mature.

  4. #MAGA on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Clearly we're going to Make America Great Again by getting rid of net neutrality.

  5. Plugins are not Extensions... on Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome, Reports Claim (ghacks.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Important distinction:

    chrome://plugins/ is where the internal PDF viewer is enabled or disabled.
    chrome://extensions/ is where you put uBlock, or your corporate overlords install WebSense.

    Plugins are moving to chrome://settings/content

    That's it. INTERNAL PLUGINS ARE GETTING MOVED to a new menu location.

  6. âoeHardware 2â on Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1,000 Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    UNICODE MOTHERFUCKER!

    Do you speak it! ...and if not, why can't your "editors" spot it and fix it?

  7. ...but, clean coal.

    #MAGA

  8. Re:"Legitimate" URL Shortening in email is stupid on How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, you have to type them - among their legitimate uses.

  9. The software is available and it does work.

    In some environments, access to your servers might happen only from a jump box where everything is recorded.

    This sucks when someone wants to fire you, and it's great when the people who implement it know humans make mistakes and want to be able to fix fuckups because we have visual records of changes.

  10. It goes both ways... on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Police don't want to be filmed doing dumb shit.
    Citizens stop acting like jackasses when they too are being filmed.
    Situations don't escalate as frequently.

  11. robocopy source destination /mir /r:0 /w:0 /xj

    xj is the default for most modes, but more likely better safe than sorry.

    Don't get your destination and source backwards with /mir :)

  12. A Van Diagram shows the intersection of boxes and cars.

    http://mentalfloss.com/sites/d...

  13. Re:315 miles? Getting there! on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously electric vehicles (today) aren't a fit for everyone. ...but they are a great fit for most people. Range anxiety disappears after a couple weeks behind the wheel.

  14. Re:Cox HAS a three-strikes policy and uses it. on Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess there's a few more steps...

    http://copyright.nova.edu/cox-...

    They don't notify you of most of the, but as a customer, it APPEARS to be a three strike policy.

  15. Cox HAS a three-strikes policy and uses it. on Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Trust me. I have two strikes.

    On strike 1, they captive portal, and you can press an "I'm sorry, I won't do it again" button and restart your router/computers.
    On strike 2, they captive portal, and you have to call customer support and get a lecture, where they tell you about strike three.
    On strike 3, it's a one year ban in service.

  16. Re:Best response to telemarketers on Fake Google Salesmen Are Actually SEO Telemarketers (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean: "Before I hang up, I confirm there's a real person who answers this phone, and it's a live number to sell to other scammers."

  17. Privacy Aside on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    ....most posts are about privacy, but here's a few that make my life enjoyable in Chrome that aren't privacy related.

    General items:

    Fireshot - sort of a snipping tool for webpages.
    OneTab - a good tab saver and restorer.
    Context Menu Search - adds configurable context searchers (IDMB, Wiki, Magic Cards, whatever)
    Visualping - takes snapshots of webpages, checks them for changes.

    Fun items:

    Destiny Item Manager - for, well, Destiny item management.
    F.B. Purity - cleans unwanted items from Facebook, since it's an evil I must tolerate.
    Reddit Enhancement Suite - vastly improves Reddit.

  18. A Leaf will not hit 100 easily, short of freefall.

    It's speed limited to IIRC 93mph, which is simple factor of the electric motor's top limited RPM and the size of the tires. [I actually believe it's actually 90, with the typical speedo adjustment for liability purposes.] Math says 90ish. Nissan says 90's. One guy on a Dyno said 97. Reverse is electronically limited to 25 :)

    Here's the details:

    On level ground, about 94mph indicated.

    The motor is turning about 10,300 RPM divided by a 7.8 reduction gear box is 1320 RPM of the wheels, which are about 23 inches in diameter.

    23 * pi = 72.25 inches multiplied by 1320 = 95,378 inches per minute multiplied by 60 minutes equals 5,722,720 inches per mile divided by 12 equals 476,893 feet per hour divided by 5280 equals 90.3 miles per hour ground speed, which is about 92-93 indicated speed.

    Too much rounding. The gear ratio is actual above 7.8, but I don't remember off the top of my head and the tire may be slightly larger. Motor speed is slightly above 10,300 RPM also.

  19. Like the poster below, we get 70+ as well, and that's a lot of inefficient speedy freeway driving.

    Stop and go driving is actually pretty efficient. High speed is the battery killer.

  20. There's 21 million daily users...even a tiny percentage of them sometimes spending money adds up quickly.

  21. Being a police officer is a fairly safe profession. Most of their 13 deaths per 100,000 are traffic related, and only because they drive a lot.

    Commercial fisherman wins every time at 200 per 100,000 (one in 500!), but much more mundane things like roofer 34/100,000 and sanitation worker 25/100,000 are loads higher than police officer. Truck drivers die on the job about 50% more than police do, but that's because (again) driving is dangerous. Heck, even LANDSCAPERS! have a higher rate of death on the job at 15 per.

    Remember to thank your garbage man for his service.

  22. Re:Google Keep Get My Pick on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    I use Keep because mostly my notes are scrapbook things.

    Anything more than a cut-and-paste and it goes into Collabtive or Basecamp.

  23. Re:No Details on WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    To be more specific: Most = SOHO do.

    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-...
    https://docs.google.com/a/plex...

    My QNAP can transcode just fine, but very few of my viewing devices require it.

  24. Re:So..are blatent Slashvertisements a thing now? on WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    While this may fit the slashvertisement template, Plex (as nearly anyone who has used it will tell you) is pretty slick software and well supported by a TON of devices. This is a fucking cool device.

    Nerds can go build their own media server for cheap, and I'll keep running my Plex server on a QNAP (a device true nerds can complain I should have just built in freeNAS), but for some guy who wants to serve media to his new TV, this device is a winner.

  25. Correct. It also includes your debt.

    Plenty of people (and companies), homeless or otherwise, have a less-than-zero net worth.