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  1. Re:Improving the performance by more than 100% on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    That's comparing the performance of different hardware. What's being measured here is the performance of software on the same hardware.

  2. Re:Improving the performance by more than 100% on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    But that's 500% of the new value, not the old one. In order to express performance gains in a way that makes sense, you need to express it in terms of the old value.

  3. Re:Improving the performance by more than 100% on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused but it seems to me that whether or not you can improve performance depends on how you measure performance. Cutting a program's run time from 5 seconds to 2.5 seconds measured one way is a speed increase of 50%, One of the replies measured something in terms of GFLOPS, but that's a measurement of hardware performance, not software performance on the same machine. I'm not sure what metric would be used to cause software to have a greater than 100% on the same machine.

  4. Now if only Slashdot would get rid of video ads. on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdot even had an ad that hijacked the browser and kept pulling the page back to the location of the ad on the page.

  5. Re:Lies, I say on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    You seem to be confused. In order to be completely mortified to be caught in a lie you first have to lie,

  6. Re:Wrong question on Dartmouth Contests Showcase Computer-Generated Creativity · · Score: 1

    Better question: How much does the desire to be liked and please others factor into the production of art?

  7. Re:Other examples on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1

    Wrong definition of "like". I read that as CCG that are similar to Magic:The Gathering, but not M:tG itself, while you seem to have interpreted it to mean CCG, one of which is M:tG.

  8. Conspiracy? Please... on Interviews: Linus Torvalds Answers Your Question · · Score: 1

    A stand alone complex is not a conspiracy.
    http://www.urbandictionary.com...

  9. Re: What an opportunity! on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1
    Somehow you've managed to miss the austere in austerity. The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures). Not only that, you've manage to ignore the role of income.
    http://fee.org/freeman/detail/...

    Scandinavians pay for these benefits with high taxes. The governments make no effort to hide this, as evidenced by this paragraph from a Danish government tax guide for new citizens.

  10. Re: How about? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    How about the library. There's a library near here that collects them.

  11. Re: Why two videos? For the love of dog, why?! on Cory Doctorow Talks About Fighting the DMCA (2 Videos) · · Score: 1

    The link didn't take me to the video and when I found the link to it the transcript was nowhere to be seen. I'm on mobile, if that has anything to do with it.

  12. Re: How about IoT devices use a LAN? on Stanford Starts the 'Secure Internet of Things Project' · · Score: 1

    This was supposed to be on the Cory Doctorow article. Slashdot keeps coming up with new reasons to hate it.

  13. Re: How about IoT devices use a LAN? on Stanford Starts the 'Secure Internet of Things Project' · · Score: 1

    The link didn't take me directly to the video and the transcript didn't turn up. I'm on mobile if that's why it didn't work right. Any help?

  14. Re: What an opportunity! on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    This article disagrees with you that the Scandinavian countries practice austerity. http://www.counterpunch.org/20...

  15. Re:Warranty on MIT System Fixes Software Bugs Without Access To Source Code · · Score: 1

    It has been my experience that software comes with a EULA that says there is no warranty.

  16. Re: Usable, for certain values of usable on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    What's the first thing you use the computer for. I try running Internet Explorer first thing and it's slower than when things have been running for awhile.

  17. Re:Depends on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    Have you considered leaving the non essential program in place and removing the access rights to it?

  18. Now, if Slashdot would fix its mobile ads. on Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More · · Score: 1

    They're too close to the Submit button on posts. Slashdot also doesn't do a good job of indicating the post is actually being sent.

  19. Re: How is this news for nerds? on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    You may not have used the word convenience. But when you say that because new laws need to be passed it should not happen, you leave other people trying to determine why and the simplest is that it would be inconvenient to make new laws.

  20. Re: No support for dynamic address assignment?!? on IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    You don't appear to know how NAT works. Private addresses are not routable to the internet. All devices have to talk to the machine handing out the private addresses which then replaces the private address with it's own public address for sending across the internet. Internet routers do not forward packets with a from or to address that is in one of the ranges set aside for private addresses. There is a session ID so that the device handing out private addresses knows which private address to send return packets to and ports can be set to one machine with a private address using port forwarding for connections initiated by outside machines.

  21. Re: Speed on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    How can you tell? Internet speed tests only check the speed from that server to you, not network to network speeds.

  22. erroneously on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    How much wronger is it than the current name. Calling a truck a car is a little wrong. Calling a truck a fruitcake is a lot wrong.

  23. Re:Dues it matter? on Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July · · Score: 1

    The PS2 had an add-on HD and network adapter but the only thing I can think of that you could use it for was Final Fantasy 11 which required it. I think some of the newer form factor PS2's had a built-in wired network adapter, but they didn't have a bay for the hard drive. Don't know of any games that used it.

  24. HFCS on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    How hard would it be to drop the corn syrup part and just call it fructose?

  25. Re:Just resend the telemetry before you crash on Plasma Resonance Could Overcome Radio Silence For Returning Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Because before leaving plasma blackout the transmitter got thoroughly thrashed?