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  1. Re:I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes. Good pair of head phones I can close my eyes and be where my music is.

    Or you know, go to the library and not sit next to the freaks doing bong hits.

    What do I recommend?

    1) Good drugs. Yes ADHD drugs are over prescribed to 5 year olds acting like 5 year olds but if you have a legitimate need for them they help. It's like asking "Hey Slashdot. I have cancer I don't like drugs because of xyz. What do you recommend for cancer?". Work with your doctor to find what works. I'm on Welbutrin which is an SSRI not a *Meth*

    2) Go to the library. Do you work somewhere where it is quiet.

    3) Why can't you cover your walls in foam? Go to the big box store and get 2-3" blue or pink plastic insulation and just put it up. Use double sided tape. No one says you have to tail things to the wall.

  2. Re:Still can't save the game on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the open source server. Sniff some packets. Reverse engineer. Now you can run your own server.

    Either edit the code to point to a new server or just edit your hosts.

  3. Re:Oh good, another version of Linux on Educational Linux Distro Provides Tech-Bundle For Kids and Educators · · Score: 1

    Ok. Fine. But what about any of the 21 Educational distros on distro watch?

    I understand letting people have their choice. But could you imagine the shit linux could do if it wasn't so damn fragmented.

    Imagine ALL off the developers around the world working on an X server replacement. Or drivers for hardware or even a damn distro that "Just Worked." Debian wasn't friendly enough. Ubuntu. Ubuntu went off the Deepend with user inteface. Now you have Mint. And Gnome went to Gnome 3. So now Mint users have both MATE (Fork of Gnome2) and Cinnamon (Fork(?) of Gnome3).

    Linux has so much constant bickering of petty shit (in my opinion as a user and outsider to the 'community') it's stupid. Sorry. The BSD license isn't "free" as in speech enough. GPLv2. Wait. Still bad. GPLv3. How about a "I don't give a fuck what you do with this code but if it kills you it's not my fault" license? Wouldn't that be the most free? You could literally do anything you wanted with it.

  4. Re:Its a great project but... on Kali Linux, Successor of the BackTrack Penetration Testing Distro, Launched · · Score: 1

    This. I had a problem with packet injection on my RTL wifi card on my 'normal' Debian distro. The solutions online were to revert to an older version of the driver, recompile drivers. But then that killed my ethernet card because it wasn't compatible with something.

    BackTrack has everything configured and setup so stuff like this just works(tm)

  5. Re:Ooh, exciting! on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 2

    > Hardware break even 5 days
    > Net profit first time frame 24635.31 USD

    Oh yeah, because I know a bunch of
    You know what this reminds me of? All those ponzi schemes back in the 2005 time frame. You 'invested' money in various forms and then browsed only 10 websites a day and this money transformed magically on their servers into more! And you could roll it over or reinvest!

    And then magically one day... they were all gone.

  6. Re:Ooh, exciting! on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 4, Informative

    The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

    How much time did this take? How much electricity was spent 'mining' ~$150 worth of BTC?

  7. Re:Not a gas-hybrid on Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid · · Score: 1

    I'm all of a whole 0.5" shorter than you. I don't ever remember having to 'climb down' into my vehicle. I sit down just like I sit into anything.

    Plus the 2" is to the geometry, it lifts a bit more.
    http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=264494

  8. Re:Not a gas-hybrid on Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Not a gas-hybrid on Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid · · Score: 1

    You know that Canada only gets 1 engine for the TDI, the same one that America gets.

    The 'new golf' TDI gets 74.3 mp imperial gallon and 85 mp imperial gallon ( 3.3L/ 100 km) highway.

    Combined the Prius gets 72.4 mp imperial gallon.

    It gets even better when you compare the Prius to the Polo (which has a more comparable interior space), it gets 80.7 mp imperial gallon combined.

    Considering how much of most people’s driving is city rather than highway, that’s not even close.

    Gross generalization there?

  10. Re:Not a gas-hybrid on Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid · · Score: 1

    VWs are hell to work on. You definitely _don't_ want one of those in it's maintenance prone years.

    What year are those. I definitely want to avoid them on my 1998 and 2003 that I've had no problems with. (282k mi and 152k mi, respectively).

  11. Re:There always is the alternative... on In Defense of Six Strikes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The program they're using has a ton of false positives. It was removing stuff from NASA's youtube channel that NASA uploaded because news programs decided to use the footage.

  12. Re:know how I know it's a pipe dream? on 3-D Printed Car Nears Production · · Score: 2

    That's 2,905 miles (4675 km). They're estimating 290 MPG. 0.81 L / (100 km)

    VW had a prototype out for the 1L car that was much more streamlined and still only got 1L/100 km.

  13. Re:Good idea on Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Ideology is what it's all about on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    Toasters. How can you forget toasters?

  15. Re:Awesome on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    And in Germany they're wondering if the guy moved over when the Porsche or Audi came up behind him at 140 mph.

  16. Re:I use 2 of the Korean monitors on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    I like the MicroCenter one because they have a few more connectors than the eBay. HDMI, DisplayPort, DualLink DVI and VGA.

    MUST use the included DVI cables

    Because they're dual link DVI cables.

  17. Re:call me selfish on Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? · · Score: 1

    Depends on what software you're using. I speak horrible german but a lot of documentation for Vector Canape is better in the original German.

  18. Re:Matlab on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Sage doesn't do anything Simulink does.

  19. Re:Matlab on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Still nothing for Simulink.

  20. Re:Hey AMD Nice Job on AMD Publishes Open-Source Radeon HD 8000 Series Driver · · Score: 1

    I'm not a software engineer. I don't @#(* care about it being "Open Source". I just want it to work. NVIDIA does. My experience with AMD/ATI is that it does not.

  21. Re:Ouya was more relevant, before. on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 1

    That's even worse for cross platform work.

  22. Re:Ouya was more relevant, before. on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that stupid non-crossplatform language Java. Why would Google ever use that?

  23. Re:done right it *is* a realtime OS on Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking · · Score: 1

    It's close enough for probably almost anything but I still want a RTOS on any airplane I get onto.

  24. Re:Hey AMD Nice Job on AMD Publishes Open-Source Radeon HD 8000 Series Driver · · Score: 1

    That is if your card is still supported. I have a not that old motherboard with built in ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] and Debian gave me a wonderful "This card has had support dropped, do you still want to install?"

    Meanwhile my nVidia GT210 twice as old is still cranking along just fine with the latest nVidia and VDPAU updates.

    Guess who is getting my next bit of money to?

  25. Re:This is a robotics problem on Cooking Up the Connected Kitchen · · Score: 1

    I want a pick'n'place pantry. I just dump products through a chute, it scans the barcode and stores it somewhere. I can scroll through my pantry on my tablet and select something and it pops out on the counter.