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  1. Re:What the press release really means on Fire At Hynix FAB May Bump DRAM Prices · · Score: 1

    Right ... Except they are basically saying they'll be back at full production levels ... tomorrow or the day after.

    Just because slashdot has a retarded sensationalizing title doesn't mean its OMFGSCARY!@%!@%. Neither the summary or the article or the news give any indication that production will be hindered at all.

  2. Re:Surprised? on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 0

    You have some intelligence issues if you Assange or Kimble are any less of douches just because you think existing politicians are shitty.

    Stop worshiping piece of shit and you might not be so upset when someone points out your gods are pieces of shit.

  3. Re:Not good enough on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 2

    Uhm, why cutting edge? Theres nothing wrong with 20 year old encrypted email

  4. Re:Gee, he's got my vote on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1

    'Mega' was/is just another scam he's running. I'd hardly call it luck, he just found a new method.

  5. Re:Alphabet on Android 4.4 Named 'KitKat' · · Score: 1

    No, breast milk truly is a magical substance than can protect the child from things that will kill its mother. For various reasons, its VERY rare that any disease is passed from mother to child through breast milk.

    Hundreds of thousands of years of refinement via evolution has made breast milk nectar from the Gods. There is no substance on the planet better for children than breast milk, ESPECIALLY the first day or so worth from the mother.

  6. Re:The real question on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Nickel forms a layer of oxidation at its surface, making it a shitty connector. Gold does not, which is why its used on connectors.

    Silver is superior to both as a conductor, but oxidation is far worse.

  7. Re:Attention Cinephiles on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 0

    Spoken like a truly ignorant person. There most certainly is degradation before the picture is completely lost. Digitial artifacts are pretty well known and understood with the SNR is right on the threshold between good enough and not good enough so that even minor temp changes show up on screen.

    Analog dealt with this problem FAR better and in reality most modern digital electronics are so shitty that they will lose signal before you'd even notice the analog degradation.

  8. Re:what's odd about this? Your key is local on Software Developer Says Mega Master Keys Are Retrievable · · Score: 1

    There's a W3C WebCrypto spec in progress (being developed by Google and Mozilla, IIRC

    So its being implemented by the two vendors who slip in silent updates faster than my sister spreads her herpes? This really isn't any better when they can just silently send you an update to relay your keys off to them. You've been trained to accept their updates without thinking about it, good job, same problem.

  9. Re:How much VRAM? GPU specs? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    No Arduino boards I'm aware of come with an RTC.

  10. Re:WTF??? on AT&T Maintains Call Database For the DEA Going Back To 1987 · · Score: 0

    Great, so you're a thief.

    I don't find it impressive that you're taking services from someone against their will. If you don't like paywalls, thats fine, don't use it, but you aren't special, you don't get free service just because you think your special that you found some extensions someone else wrote.

  11. Re:WTF??? on AT&T Maintains Call Database For the DEA Going Back To 1987 · · Score: 1

    No, the calls aren't 'recorded'. These are essentially billing records. AT&T can't function without gathering and storing this information, it is in fact illegal for them NOT to gather this information and record ti because we, the people, have demanded that they keep this data so we can have accurate billing.

    You're ignorant and being ridiculous.

  12. Learn how to use units properly. on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 1

    A watt is a measurement of rate of flow.

    A watt-hour is a volume of energy, based rate of flow for a give period of time. 3.6 petawatt-seconds is the same amount of energy as 1 terawatt hour.

    When referring to how many homes you can power, leave the hour part off. Its 1 terawatt of flow can power 85k homes. If you power them for 1 hour, than its 1 terawatt-hour, but if you do it for two hours, than it takes 2 terawatt-hours to do it.

    Example, 1 gigawatt-hour can power those same 85k homes as well ... but not for a full hour, only a few seconds. Roughly 3.6 seconds to be exact.

  13. Re:I like the idea on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Except what happens is it is open source ... and everyone uses pre-compiled binaries ... which could easily have a backdoor added to them.

    Just being open source doesn't provide you with any benefit if you don't know what to do with it or choose not to bother.

  14. Re:OS X Upgrade Fear on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Safari basically has click2flash built in now, that in and of itself is worth the upgrade to Mavericks, but the other power saving features and the power display in Activity Monitor make are pretty nice. Lets you know whats slurping down the juice.

  15. Crock of shit on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So let me get this straight ... we have absolutely no proof that there was EVER life on Mars ... but we have enough of something to postulate that life began on Mars and was carried here by a meteorite?

    Slashdot's editors wouldn't know science from fantasy if it smacked them in the face. This is utterly ridiculous crap. An 8 year old kids fantasies have more basis in reality than this sort of ignorance.

    Shark, slashdot has jumped you.

    Life may have originated on mars ... but as far as we know right this instant it could have just as easily evolved on Earth, or titan, or Europa or in the core of the Sun. We have no fucking clue why there is life here and these sort of fantasies are just obnoxious click-bait for morons thanks to the inept editing skills of slashdots 'editors'

  16. Re:OK, it's moderately amusing, but... on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    Too bad this just makes them look like obnoxious spoiled brats.

  17. Re:It's a shame, but... on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't, you're just ignoring some of the costs.

  18. Re:so pony up, Microsoft want agile extreme only on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft believes that 8.1 is so much like 8.0 that it won't need testing. They've stated this multiple times before.

    Considering that they do actually do extensive testing and dogfooding, its probably reasonably safe.

    It also means they are telling you that they didn't make any real changes and are charging you for the service pack they refuse to create for 8.0.

  19. Re:Mmmm Kkaayyy! on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    For $5k, you can easily hire a temporary accountant who can deal with the issue and still leave you $4500 to spend. This is a solved problem ... a hundred years ago.

  20. Re:nt on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 0

    If you can't figure out a way to accept money, it is your problem. Seriously, for $5k they could have hired H&R Block for $1k to deal with the legality and still had 4k left over.

    This is not difficult, regardless of how lazy you are in trying to find a solution.

  21. Re:Hire a developer. on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    $20k doesn't get you much development with one person, half of the money would be spent on overhead alone, then that leaves you what, maybe a single man-month worth of dev time if the dev is cheap? Yes you can get cheaper devs but the instant you factor in quality and fixing their fuckups, you're at a loss.

    It'd be stupid to hire any one person.

  22. Re:Wrong way of doing it on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 0

    Failed open source projects are leaderless. There are no successful 'leaderless' projects, contrary to whatever utopian fantasy some people have about anarchy.

  23. Re:$20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    Redhat, the first open source project to have an IPO, still lives... it doesn't sell linux, it sells support for Linux.

    To be clear, Redhat SURVIVES because of INVESTMENTS made of its IPO income, not because it sells support. Since its IPO, never once has its income from investments been less than 50% of its revenue stream. Without those investments, Redhat would vanish.

    You guys can pretend they exist because they sell Linux support, but thats just a sad little lie.

  24. Re:The real market on New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook · · Score: 1, Interesting

    2 things.
    A) Privilege of owning the business, I get to decide whats acceptable and whats not.

    B) My employees don't read Facebook at work, slashdot is not the same thing is it? Having a bunch of geeks spend 5 minutes a day on slashdot isn't really a bad thing, the gains far outweigh the 5 minutes of cost. You can't waste that much time on slashdot, its not that kind of site.

    Facebook on the other hand offers no benefits to my business and can certainly become a massive time sink for those with no self control.

    I do not ban Facebook however, it makes my life much easier. You get hired, if during your first 90 days I see Facebook opened on your machine, you get released on the spot. Facebook is an easy one to pick on because its easy to spot, but its not the ONLY one that triggers termination.

    End result: My employees (all 5 of them, we're tiny :) do not Facebook at work and I don't have to go bitch at them about it or block it or anything else, I just don't deal with those kind of mooches. It simply doesn't come up.

  25. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 0

    Ironic that you spew shit like this, I'm sure you spew all the crap in wikileaks cables as well ... but you ignore the fact that every country in the region BEGS US to go take care of these sort of problems.

    Your narrow, perverted little view of the world does not actually mean the world is that way.

    The UN is a joke that does absolutely nothing useful.