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  1. Re:Wrong Criminal on 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who's job

    Bwahahaha!

  2. Re:Interference from random devices on The US May Finally See Widespread 'Super Wi-Fi' Deployment (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    802.11a is 5 GHz. Microwave. Sorry.

  3. Re:[cough]poor education on display[cough] on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When did regulate ever mean "to make regular".

    What do you think a "voltage regulator" does? Words have multiple meanings.

  4. Battery on Samsung Launches Galaxy S8 Smartphone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The battery is removable, or they can go straight to hell with the crap. I wouldn't take it as a gift.

  5. I'll second the observation. I have found ZFS (on both FreeBSD and linux) to be phenomenally reliable through several years. I have no worry at all when power failure hits my 75 TB worth of RAID-Z2 and RAID-Z3 storage pools using a total of 25 drives. I don't even bother with a UPS. Disclaimer - my pools are only occasionally written to; mostly read.

  6. Re:Brilliant! on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    And if a majority of all messages exchanged online in the world were encrypted? Would they arrest a majority of all the citizens of the world?

  7. Re:Good laws should be technology neutral on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Postal chess was forbidden in the US during WWII, putatively becaue it might be a secret code...

    So stupidity was not unknown after all in the greatest generation.

    Jean has a long mustache. There is a fire at the insurance agency. Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor. From Camille to Amicha: Six friends will find out that she bites tonight. Athalie stands in extasis. We repeat twice: Athalie stands in extasis.

    The first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. duh-duh-duh-duuuuuuuuh.

  8. "low information people" (not to call them "stupid")

    "Low-information" is a silly PC circumlocation. There are perfectly appropriate terms such as "ignorant" and "naive" to use to describe people who don't know stuff.

  9. Actually it should say "fantasizes", not "will build". It's lunacy. Where the hell is my atomic flying car?

  10. The REAL AMC on AMC Plans Ad-Free Streaming Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember when AMC was actually American Movie Classics. Before there was TCM.

  11. Re:Yeah, call your lawmakers on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. And ObamaCare was passed without a single Republican vote. It works both ways. One branch of the Establishment party is a little less wrong on some things, and the same for the other branch on other things.

  12. Reality check on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Pssst. The Senate does NOT rule the US. All legislation has to pass the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President before becoming effective. This thing hasn't passed the House yet, and it hasn't reached the President's desk yet. I'm not telling you either the House or the President will likely derail it, but they might.

  13. Re:Yeah, call your lawmakers on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Old think. Stupid think. Sheep think. The ESTABLISHMENT owns everything. Democrat establishment, Republican establishment, it's all the same fucking thing.

  14. Re:goodbye jiffy lube hello $60-$100 dealer oil ch on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ever heard of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act? Per federal statute, if you provide a full warranty at all, you are not allowed to require servicing only at dealer facilities. If the warrantor disclaims coverage due to alleged improper parts or servicing, even self servicing, he must prove that the outside servicing actually caused damage.

  15. Re: Good on Mr. Branson on Stephen Hawking Will Travel To Space (skynews.com.au) · · Score: 2

    The Challenger's crew died in the explosion while in the earth's atmosphere.

    Almost certainly not. The crew cabin remained in one piece, essentially structurally intact and quite possibly pressure-intact, until it struck the water with a 200 g impact. The crew were killed either by depressurization (perhaps) or by the impact with the water (at the latest). During disintegration of the flimsy main vehicle in the air, the crew were subjected to no more than 20 g, unlikely to have mechanically killed, or even severely injured them.

    By the way, the big white cloud you saw on breakup was mostly fuel and oxygen vapor, not explosion.

  16. Re:I am Jack's total lack of surprise. on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's no law against selling shitty products

    An electric meter is not a "product" anybody buys. An electric meter is an asset belonging to the electric utility company which they use to determine how much actual product (electricity) you buy. For most things you buy, the quantity is obvious at the point/time of sale. The closest thing I can think of to an electric meter is the flow measurement device in a motor fuel pump. You better believe those are regulated. The state calibrates and checks them periodically. They have stickers attesting to their accuracy as certified by the state authority. The weight scales at your grocer are regulated and certified as to accuracy.

    The electric utilities are getting a pass on these meters because it would be very difficult and expensive to test each one individually at its point of installation. And it stinks. Random testing should be done, and huge penalties should be assessed where it mismeasurement found.

    P.S. - there ARE laws against overbilling where wrongdoing or gross negligence can be shown.

  17. Re:Random Password on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows by now they should be using 321 or 111 instead of 123. /s

  18. Re:Rainbow tables on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of using salt in the hash? Everybody else has. Standard practice for many years now. Your rainbow tables aren't good for shit when salt is used. It's been a long, long time since the ludicrously insecure, crypotographically crap LAN Manager joke.

  19. Re:OFFLINE Storage, with FS Access on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    I just discovered something that surprised me greatly, and should please you as it does me. The lowly Celeron G3900 dual-core Skylake supports ECC - 64GB of ECC. It doesn't have hyperthreading, and only 2MB cache, but it DOES have full VT-x with EPT, and VT-d.

    All for only $44.75.

  20. Re:Do ARM chips have the pci-e for storage / 10-gi on Windows Server on ARM Is Finally Happening, And It Should Worry Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    PCIe2, wow. Obsolete junk.

  21. Re:OFFLINE Storage, with FS Access on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    $200 is not "very expensive" for a CPU. Sheesh.

  22. Re:Looking forward to electric cars! on Toronto Start-Up Will Send a Mechanic To Your Driveway To Repair Your Car On Demand (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting 300,000 miles out of your brakes and battery. There's also a damn good chance you'll be on your second (or later) alternator or starter by then, too. As you yourself actually pointed out.

  23. And the windshield replacement guy who comes to wherever you are.

  24. He's a sellout with no pride or self respect. A good citizen for the nazis.

  25. Re:OFFLINE Storage, with FS Access on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    ZFS WITH ECC memory (and therefore, a very expensive Xeon...)

    Bullshit detector triggered. The socket 1151 Xeon e3-1220v5 is $206.49. It's a 4 core 3 GHz and supports up to 64 GB of DDR 3 or 4 ECC or non-ECC RAM.