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  1. Re:First Post! on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 0

    Hs&rsgdrdbnmconrs`bbnchmfsnlhmd-

  2. Network gear? Netgear/Linksys/Cisco haven't decreased their prices! Go into Best Buy and you can't walk out with a network switch under 50 bucks...What a rip off.

  3. Add Skills on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Learn how to communicate more efficiently. There's potentially opportunities at you company to train to become a process re-engineer. You can basically take what you already know about the company and help other individuals figure out better procedures to do their jobs. Along the way finding areas where your software lacks and fixing those as well.

    This takes a step back, because you have to realize that your current processes are not necessarily "normal" and that there may be a lot of insanity in them. You won't see it, because that's how things have been done around there for years, so it's "normal" now. Figure out how to reset yourself and then start building business cases to change things. That'll transition you out of being a coder into something else.

  4. Re:Airplanes? on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 3, Informative

    Aerogel, aerodynamic, aeronautics, aerobic

  5. Re:If you have nothing to hide on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    Dude, it looks like you just bought a diamond ring! Congratulations on getting married!!!
    ...

    Oh, you haven't proposed yet? Well, good luck!

  6. Re:No Thanks on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 0

    You should cut off your penis, it can be used as an attack vector as well.

  7. ERP Systems (From Universities) on Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? · · Score: 1

    www.kuali.org

    Universities are coming together to create financial, research administration, student, human resources and many other enterprise level applications. These are targeted more towards non-profit organizations, but they'll be all over the world sooner or later.

  8. Re:"Bro" on Google To Honor "Don't-Track-Me-Bro" Requests · · Score: 1
  9. Re:rsync? on Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? · · Score: 1

    If I was going to do it, I'd try it out with my Asus WL-330GE. (~$30)
    Here's a start for some custom firmware if needed: http://oleg.wl500g.info/
    Nothing get's more simple than the previously stated ssh + rsync + cron!

  10. Re:Duh on Jailbroken Devices Compromised By Charging Stations · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think he meant that the d+/- lines were what fries the host, he was indicating that the phone wouldn't think it's connected to a computer and it would draw higher amps because it thinks it's hooked up to just a charger. So if the host didn't limit amps and it's wires weren't rated for 1.7A, then it would result in them overheating and hopefully damaging something.
    The whole purpose was to make a connector that actually works, not something to destroy the host. The ancillary prize was damaging hosts if they were advertised as just a charger and they really weren't.

  11. Re:Still has a boundary layer. on The Fanless Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    From what I can gather, the laminar to turbulent airflow is for removal of the boundary layer on the wing. (Producing turbulent air flow over the wing instead of laminar) I can't find anything that would suggest that it would be for removing a boundary layer (if it exists) on the propeller itself, and I sure as hell wouldn't just take your word for it.

    Also keep in mind that there's only so much people can spend their time on learning, and while you might think it's common knowledge, others don't. I could start other discussions and lose you completely if I started with the field I specialize in, so commenting about denseness of /. is pretty immature.

  12. When drugs were made illegal... on Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    You got drug dealers.
    Maybe I can make some sweet money selling "hook-ups" (aka access) to servers with infringing content!

    I can be a digital access dealer, a dad!

  13. Re:Still has a boundary layer. on The Fanless Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Do airplanes exert centripetal forces on the surfaces exposed to the moving air?
    That would be a sweet airplane ride!

    I think the better analogy would be to prove that the propellers on the planes still have boundary layers.

  14. Re:That is a lot of money for little value on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/04/barnes-nobles-answer-to-microsofts.html

    Nothing, as do their patents. Whether you like it or not, they have peices of paper staking claim to generic functionality. The point is that if you were the holder of that paper, people would be all for you winning, but since it's a large company, people cry foul.

  15. Re:That is a lot of money for little value on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/international/americas/17pavel.html

    The small inventor finally won, but the point is there are examples which contradict that this is a straw man argument.
    So kindly, stfu and get off your horse. On your way out you can turn in your caps lock key.

  16. Re:not a whole lot of money on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    No it's not. 100k over 2 years, and now you're not a student so you can't be claimed as a dependent under your parents anymore for health insurance. This is equivalent to starting a job post-graduation on a 50k a year salary (before taxes and now health/life/dental/vision/retirement). So what's the real dollar amount? you just got yourself a job at about 25k a year, otherwise known as poverty (when you also have to pay startup expenses). This is truly retarded, unless you can start to turn a profit within 2 years.

  17. Re:What I don't get... on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    Quarks have mass though, attraction due to mass is still gravity, so I'm not sure how someone can say forces such as gravity would cease to exist... We have the conservation of energy and conservation of mass and mass - energy equivalence to thank for all of this.

  18. Re:Fuck... on Comodo Says Two More RAs Compromised · · Score: 1

    I work at an institution that widely uses Comodo certificates, and I still believe that the right solution is to un-trust them. Let the lawyers handle the recuperation costs with Comodo.

  19. What I don't get... on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 2

    If everything was collected into a 1 dimensional line/point, wouldn't there be so much gravity that not even energy could escape? How can something cool down if it can't release energy? Or how can energy escape from an absolute container? I'm more of a fan of great crunch and bang than these singularities. I'd like to think that there truly is an absolute minimum space that matter can exist, and that space is bigger than a point.

  20. Corey Haim on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 0

    I think he's dead.

  21. Re:Perhaps a structural solution would be better on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    I get a big fat check for vacation time unspent when I retire (caps at 200ish hours), sick time just goes poof (caps at 6 months or so). I'm sure if they were combined, both would just poof together.

  22. Re:Typical Microsoft price lobbying on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    ...Sadly Windows is so ingrained in users that are resistant to change that it's hard to change platforms for a lot of people.

    It even goes further than that, look at the people unwilling to upgrade from XP. We're just creatures of habit, unless there's something new new you can't do on your current system, why change? I think that's a good way to win over people though, and that's by supporting their software that won't work anymore once their old platform no longer works. As in, when support for XP dies, and people are forced to change.

  23. 5 years from now we find out... on Newly Discovered Bacteria Could Aid Oil Cleanup · · Score: 1

    That there isn't a huge evolutionary change to go from oil eating to flesh eating...

  24. An Idea... on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    It seems that time is of the essence when doing a rebuild, why not consume disks faster, but decrease the time it takes to do a rebuild. So in a raid setup with a hot spare, come up with an algorithm to basically write to the spare a distributed set of the data that is being written to the raid. The algorithm part, I guess, can be better explained as a daily/weekly backup. So If I'm writing an incremented number every day to the same spot on a disk, maybe the hot spare only has the data written to it on fridays the next time it is updated. My guess is that data is usually changed infrequently, and more or less you only add data. So the hot spare should have pretty close to 1/2 the correct data on it upon a disk failure. Then you only have to rebuild the other 1/2 or so. So my guess would be the hot spare would have a fraction of the writes (closer to 1/1 than 1/2) of a normal disk, and none of the reads until it's ready to go into service. 1/2 the rebuild time or so. Maybe it's worth it?

  25. Darwin's law meets post birth abortion? on Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I thought the point of Darwin's law was to remove your genes from the pool before you reproduced? I guess the next best thing would be to have a post birth abortion... And if they allow those kinds of abortions, I wonder what happens in Soviet Russia?