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  1. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    That might be why that one works, and the others are losing adepts fast...

  2. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    Wow. Just Wow.

    I am an avid terminal user, and code quite a lot in vim. I`ve mastered most of the current shells, yet, every once in a while I discover a new tool, which provide me with functionnality I`d have used if I knew that it existed sooner. Or the man pages are lacking. Or the man pages specifies somewhere which does not match the installation paths. (thanks locate!)

    I don't know if my ubuntu install does some checking like windows does for detecting uptime. I certainly don`t know `man WHAT` to type to know where to configure it... That's what I was coming with.

  3. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    The hard part is always to find out where you need to change that thing...

  4. Re:Basic flaw in the study as reported on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Wow. I knew people here would not RTFA, but that`s quite bad. They tested the type of methane found, to distinguish the naturally occuring methane from the one obtained from drilling. Guess what ? What they found in the wells nearby drilling station was not naturally occuring methane, but rather, deep underground high in hydrocarbons type of methane.

  5. Re:Basic flaw in the study as reported on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    They specifically tested over the same `underground profile`, and that`s also why they didn`t go to 50km away. Beside, validating the methane profile in the surrounding really makes the point valid. Please take some time to read the article itself, it`s freely available from http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/02/1100682108.full.pdf and should answer most of your questions.

  6. Re:Basic flaw in the study as reported on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    You failed to read the article. They explicitly tested wells up to 5 km from the closest fracking site, and they also tested for the source of the methane. The methane measured at far distances (1-5km from the closest site) was coming from naturally occuring bacteria, and averaged 1 mg / L, while methane measured closer to the sites ( 1km ) ranged from 19mg/L to 64 mg/L, and the type of methane was the same as obtained from extraction from the shale, being hydrocarbon rich. They also pointed that a few further sites had more methane than expected, but they also said they could not get the information about how far the wells went horizontally, which could have helped them a bit more.

    Anyway, take a look at the article. It`s really well done.

  7. Re:What? on Court Clears Novell To Sue Microsoft Over WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    ./cry ....

    Not in Canada anymore. Mountain Dew has been caffeine free since a while, and I so wish they had not changed it!

  8. Re:Addicted much? on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    Now he can be navigating his porn (HTTP based) as much as he wants...

  9. Re:Apple apologist on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 2

    It's already an opt-in service.

  10. Re:In the words of Yamamoto... on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Where do you get your 75% of ? Did you know that 83% of all the statistics are pulled out of YOUR ass ? Anyway, care to think about the bandwidth coming from youtube ? All those facebooking people, playing flash games, uploading pictures ?

  11. Re:Oh really? on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    Yes, totally. But it's kind of redondant to ask about it whenever someone specify the size of the collection in GB.

    Well, to perhaps help the original poster, I enter all the dvd/blu-ray I own on imdb. Their system is well integrated, and allows to search in your collection. My blu-ray & dvd collection is in a nice bookcase, ordered by blu-ray, then dvd, and by name. So it's pretty easy to get the one I want (and imdb keeps track of the dvd/bluray difference.)

  12. Re:Oh really? on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    My camera is putting out 14GB/hour of videos I'm recording. My oldest girl is not yet 2 years, and our second baby not yet 4 months old, yet I've already amassed multi-terabyte of videos of them. A terabyte is not so big, so stop worrying.

  13. Re:Bad summary on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    If you hosed your account by trolling excessively, I expect you to create a new account to active things under.

  14. Re:Wrong power on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 1

    hehe, here we go again ;)

    should the pistol deliver 420J, then that's 4200 times what the laser delivered (should it be 1mW at 100ns). log10(4200) is about 3.6, thus very far from those 10 orders of magnitude :)

    If it's only a kW laser, then it's 6.6, so we could perhaps approximate to 7 orders of magnitude..

  15. Re:Wrong power on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google is your friend:
    100ns * 1MW

    (100 nanosecondes) * 1 mégawatt = 0,1 joules

    So, 1kW is barely 0.0001 joules..

  16. Re:They will just bury it on New EU Net Rules Set To Make Cookies Crumble · · Score: 1

    Text files ? What if I encrypt the content, it's no longer text, it's binary ..

  17. Re:Good wage on New Hampshire Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Robo-Calling Malware · · Score: 1

    Which he was.... from TFA

    " In addition to the 82-month sentence, he must pay a $7.9 million fine, along with $2.2 million in back taxes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service."

  18. Re:Not much to do on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of companies offer static ips for which you can set all the reverse dns & email information, and they are also out of their normal subscriber pool, thus allowing you to send emails from the computer behind it. The cost of that option is usually lower than 5$ per ip per month around here.

  19. Re:The horror! on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    They, since then, disabled the top bar. CPU usage is back to normal and scrolling is faster, but still not like before it seems.

  20. Re:The horror! on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Scrolling is ugly, feels like we are back with an old netscape browser running on a single core 500mhz processor.. They need to fix it fast or goodbye slashdot!

  21. Re:What?!? on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    Costs and salaries are often going hand in hand, meaning that if he paid that amount of money, chances are he's also gaining much more than you are. Around here, a nice house with a garden and all won't be found for less than 200k. Anyway, the important point he was bringing with paying 35k for his wedding was that the music license was 0.2% of the total cost, which means its not even worth complaining about.

  22. Re:1 day turn-around on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    This is not available in the latest PHP release either. So, for most people it will have to wait until the next release, which can be a long time. Often, you can get a specific patch from microsoft before their monthly release cycle, so I guess it's pretty much the same.

  23. Re:Eclipsed .... on Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS · · Score: 1

    They are dead too. At least the images can't make it.

  24. Re:Yikes! on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 1

    Well, it`s not the cover which is at fault, but rather the jumper between the power and ground when putting it on ;)

  25. Re:So, the system works? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Delay from the time he decides he wants something and when he'll receive it; most of the time I believe that the shopper who look up the prices for something he wants will look at other nearby stores to which he can get to for what seems to him a lower amount of money than the money he will be saving.