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  1. Re:Probably the home router... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Being horrified by NAT is all well and good, but the fact is, ISPs look at the horrible bandaids that work 80% of the time and say, "Good enough. Now I don't have to rebuild my entire infrastructure for IPv6."

    And yet Comcast is rolling out IPv6. I'm on IPv6 at home today.

  2. 8 Years Old on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 2

    'The oldest drive in the list is the Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive from 2006. A drive that is almost 8 years old!

    I recently had a 1.5TB drive die and it was still new enough to be under warranty. Seagate shipped a 2TB as a replacement.

  3. Re:Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Sign that a company is jumping or is about to jump the shark: Build a huge lavish HQ.

    Although, Google didn't mind when SGI did it.. they got a great deal on the real estate.

    Apple actually has revenue and cash in the bank.

    What do you say about a small company like LinkedIn putting up brand new buildings instead of just moving into existing vacant buildings in the area.

  4. Re:Import duties on Ask Slashdot: Package Redirection Service For Shipping to Australia? · · Score: 1

    Note, a high Australian dollar means that we should be paying less for our imports not more!. Sadly we aren't. The excuse from the retailers has been that they originally imported goods when the AUS dollar was low and anyway the dollar to go back to "normal" at some point soon. Of course, the ignore the fact that we've have had a strong AUS dollar for a number of years now.

    You do realize that there is more to it than just the exchange rate, right?

    Import duty. Private copying levy. Etc.

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 1

    blocks that self assemble == replicators

    Yet.....

  6. Re:Original Versus The Prequels on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Who wants to watch a series of movies where the hero is going to go over to the dark side and....

    Doctor Horrible was a good example.

  7. Re:If you're going to troll, troll in style. on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Slashdot found the perp within 53 minutes.

    Found? Even when the perp did a news interview long before this was even posted on Slashdot?

    http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/9112799-artist-behind-fake-drone-signs-explains-head-turning-project/

  8. Re:Never heard of them. on The H Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    First I've ever heard of them also.

    When I saw the reference in tweets, I thought it was about some hotel in competition with W.

  9. Re:In conclusion on Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees · · Score: 1

    Success in HR is bean counting Not innovation.

  10. Re:And of course Apple has to have their version on Wired Writer Imagines Google Island · · Score: 1

    I hate M$ as much as the rest. but when did they start taking 30% of anything you do?

    Yup. All that credit card processing, servers, electricity, internet connection, etc. you should get for free I guess.

  11. Re:Nice work ... on SpaceX Cargo Capsule Reaches International Space Station · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many at NASA in the 1970s should be flogged for over-promising and under-budgeting a single-stage-to-orbit "truck".

    Keep in mind that Congress and the Air Force were back seat designers on the Space Shuttle. It wasn't all NASA's fault.

  12. Re:Cuts both ways on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech implies that the speech is true.

    Not in North America. Courts in both countries have stated that while lying may make you a scum bag, it is still free speech.

  13. Re:Fiat money depends on promises on Mega Accepts Bitcoin; Email, Chat, Voice, Video, Mobile Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    While it's likely that deflation makes Bitcoin unsuitable as a currency, that doesn't make it a scam, just flawed.

    Did you stock up on Flooz as well?

  14. Re:New generation? on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Why is that child allowed to act?

    He is Steven Spielberg's illegitamate child.

    Or lover.

  15. Re:Why? on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 1

    What I do not understand is WHY people need to 'share' and 'edit' word processor documents or spreadsheets 'on line' anyway. Why?

    For the same reason that many of these same people think they need to write their e-mail as a Word document.

    Or send pictures as a presentation file.

  16. Re:I picked up an unlocked iPhone4s last month... on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    T-mobile is horrible because the minutes expire after a year ...

    Incorrect.

    The prepay account expires a year after you add money to the account.

    If you add $10 to the account before the end of the year period, it continues on.

  17. Re:Too bad. on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 2

    My primary metric is cost, so I'm on Virgin Mobile in spite of the limited coverage.

    Virgin Mobile runs on Sprint's network.

  18. Re:Too bad the batteries weren't the problem. on Elon Musk Offers Boeing SpaceX Batteries For the 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 2

    So how often has spacex flown? Oh yeah once!

    Once?

    Have you been hiding under a rock?

  19. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    Or you could just use a bank card...

    Which already have transaction fees?

  20. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    then use a debit card. or did you not read the part where this is for credit card fees, not debit card fees?

    Debit cards already have inflated fees.

  21. Re:This is not Atari on Atari Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    This is formerly Infogrames, who bought rights to the Atari name after the original went bankrupt.

    A little basic fact-checking would have fixed this entry, "editors".

    You mean like reading Wikipedia?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

  22. Re:Certainly on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 1

    It's actually fairly easy to do algorithmically, in the same way many password crackers already try common number/letter replacements (pa55w0rd), adding single digits and dates to the end of dictionary words, capitalizing the first letter or every other letter etc. Just addend -ed and -ing to every word, drop silent k's, reverse i and e (e.g. recieve) and so forth.

    Very true. That's why I find it so amusing when IT people think a system is more secure because their passwords require 1 capitalized letter and 1 number.

  23. Re:Mac OS my a$$ on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    I'm really amazed that no one has done this sooner. The one thing you can't do is really graphics intensive games, like shooters.

    Someone has. While it is limited to running web browsers, it is still VNC accss to multiple OS'es.

    http://crossbrowsertesting.com/

  24. Re:Is anyone even interested anymore? on Facebook Announces Social Search Tools · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook is a photo sharing service for many families.

  25. Re:Market manipulation? on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 2

    Apart from that, the iPhone 5 is six months old now,.

    Sept 15 to Jan 14 is 6 months?