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  1. Re:Never ? on The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot · · Score: 0

    1: Murder is commited by the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. In no way could it be applied to any of my examples.

    2: A woman doesn't need to have an abortion anytime in her life, and she doesn't even need any pills for that. I have 3 examples close to my family where they just decided they would never even occur the chance to become pregant. That works

  2. Never ? on The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not even murder to kill a cow to eat it. It's not murder to euthanize your old and sick cat. It is not murder for a woman not to have childrens. Why could it be murder to NOT PRODUCE a robot, which is a even barely an assembly of plastic and metal pieces ?

  3. Re:Screw this layout change on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you give them too much credits; they've been trying for years and haven't yet succeeded :)

  4. Re:Google should revert that decission on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where were you for the last year and a half??

  5. Re:Fun hack of dubious value on Opening Fixed-Code Garage Doors With a Toy In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    If the alarm system is activated (no one at home) and the garage door open and the rfid of one of the cars aren't detected in a specific amount of time (detection confirmation by opening the lights for the next 5 minutes) the silent alarm is triggered. Why isn't that standard ?

  6. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    I purchased and installed those copper wires you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Not a very good job... on Making the World's Largest Panoramic Photo · · Score: 1

    Either the lens or doubler or even the camera is doing a crappy job. Perhaps the robotic arm, but I would not bet on that one. Look at the text on the building being built. It had been years since I had seen crappy results like this from a camera and long lens (and I use a run of the mill 500mm f6.5). Oh well, they could have at least tested their equipment before going for it!

  8. Re:Stupid is as stupid publishes.... on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    They chose to use a 2006 version of java so that it would not be optimized away perhaps ? It looks like a troll article to me.

  9. If the taxes payed are 3.8B and they had a net income of 18B, that means they gained at least 21.8B, which means that their taxes is at most 17.6%. If only I could incorporate myself..

  10. Re:Midrange? on NVIDIA Launches New Midrange Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    2 of my friends bought 40" 4K samsung tvs (hu7000) on black friday for around $600. I find that the size is just perfect, coming from multiple 30" 2560x1600. The colors were a bit off, but it had not been calibrated. The intensity was adjustable to a working range, and playing Battlefield 4 on it was fast enough to finish 1st on a 64 people pistols only hardcore server :) Last I heard they haven't been able to get 4:4:4 working but it's supposed to get fixed by a firmware upgrade.

  11. My best was 45 minutes on 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers · · Score: 1

    I made it close to two hours once, while working at the same time. I speak french and they don`t speak it very well thus it was perhaps easier than you to keep them hooked up. He was quite angry when he understood he had been played all along. I hoped that saved a few people from getting caught by that scheme!

  12. Re:Problem: DSL Reports speed test. Recommend? on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    In my case I own servers at different locations. I can test my speed by downloading random and compressed data from them.

  13. Re:Here come the certificate flaw deniers....... on New Destover Malware Signed By Stolen Sony Certificate · · Score: 1

    You just removed more than 375 bits of entropy of your pass phrase!

  14. Re:Comcast: Least popular company in the U.S. on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    That speedtest is broken. It uses too much CPU even on a i5-4570K to be able to measure a 30mbps line correctly. One of the cores is at 100% while the test run and it has trouble refreshing the images and the download speed goes down. Anyway.

  15. Re:Why? on AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads · · Score: 1

    Years ago, I had a version of a webgame ad supported (you could pay to get rid of them and get non-game-modifying perks .. oh why was I against game modifying perks again .. ) and people cheating at the game weren't only damaging the game, they were also reducing the amount we were getting per thousand ads displayed and the value of the clicks.

    One of the solution was not to display ads to players who would exhibit this behavior (false positive are much more costly when you ban a real user than simply not showing them ads) so yeah, this solution can work ( and people can do it manually by visiting ads that would pay based on the percentage of successful follow up and just leaving it waste it's time in another tab)

  16. Re:America, land of the free... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the optimal solution just to kill each and every of the prisoner that comes into your prison ... ?

  17. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    My USB 2 sticks do something in the range 12-15MB/s

    30 * 15MB/s would be 450MB, which is close to an SSD speed. And we don`t know if the bottleneck is the memory, the controller or the bus/drivers. I was mostly showing that it will be possible to reach that price and that the current value of the memory itself is already close while the parent was saying that SSD will never reach price parity with HDD.

    I could also have pointed out that in the last 3 years HDD prices have mostly stagnated while SSD prices went down very fast for even better performances. I guess we will see!

  18. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    > There's no way that SSD is gonna come even remotely close in price.

    In which timeline ? I've seen USB 2.0 128GB flash drive offered for 10$ for black friday. That`s 3.8TB of flash memory and tons of redundant parts for 300$. I gather it will not be `too long` before it's not worth it anymore to buy spinning drives.

  19. Re:Lots of misconceptions here. on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I would disagree with that. Look at antibiotics. It`s not present in everyday's bacterial environment. A single event (high dosage of antibiotics) wipes out most of the population, yet some survive, and rare case some evolves to resiste them. And now we are getting stucks with bacterial agents that survive a lot of our antibiotics. why could not it work that way for those too ?

  20. Re:Wouldn't it suffer eminent heat death? on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 5, Informative
  21. Re:According to an equally valid poll on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    How did you get 99% with a sample of one ?? ;)

  22. Re:Getting trolled on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    I've been on the receiving side of death threats (and rape threat & imprisonment threats & more) a few times by those guys who purports to be an important (varying) company that has detected virus / illicit material / whatever being sent from your computer when I tell them I know what they are trying to do and there's no way I'm gonna pay them and to just stop calling... I once tried reporting them to the police (at each level) and the answer was simply that there`s nothing they can do and they won`t even take more information on it. Why would it be different in her case ?

  23. Re:Add internet service at home? on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    About 20 miles from the closest metro area. The closest village (5k population), to which I belong, is 6 miles further.

    In 2008 I organized a few people living nearby and I to request a commercial cable service to the principal provider in the area. I knew that when they received such request in the same area they had to act on it. The minimum service level agreement was for 3 years at 8mbps for 80$, thus the few of us who had to take the commercial service split the bills with the others who then were able to get their own service on it. Once the contract ended, we all moved to the better offerings which are using this line to serve us. The best out of it is that so far I've had 5 referrals, and if I get to 10 I will get a lifetime free subscription to my current service level. I`ll see if I can make it! :)

  24. Re:Add internet service at home? on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 2

    Truly unlimited 30mbps/10mbps with fixed IP and nothing preventing me (either in the eula or network settings) from running my (home/game/file/whatever) servers for 59.95 CAD (~53.57$). Sadly I live in a remote location else there would be better options.

    I guess he posted about his plan since it was told that the grandmother would use around 10 - 12 GB per month (1GB / 3 days or so) for which 300GB appear unlimited. I have seen many 50GB plans advertised for 19.99$ monthly if you have your own modem.

  25. Re:TFA does not apply in US on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    Don`t forget that your gallon has like 0.8L less than their gallon, thus it`s normal that you won`t go as far on a gallon of fuel..