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  1. Re:Don't forget the extra 6 Mbps on Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers · · Score: 1

    Thats combined sending and receiving, silly.

  2. ZFS, supported equally on your OSes on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Via FUSE you'll get consistent features and useability across all 3 OSes. Of course moving zfs drives between those OSes isn't something I've tried, but in theory it should work fine.

    Not what your asking for, but Id put a FBSD samba server up with ZFS drives. You can still mount them on other OSes later if need be via FUSE.

  3. Re:As always, make yourself known on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1

    Yea, till next week when a team of monkeys with a search and replace capable text editor and some rather easy to find (in most cases) langauge aware tools that fixes all your crappy obsfucation with just a little input from a human.

    I know you're being funny, but the number of times I see people complaining about this sort of thing just bugs me.

    If that is the 'big problem' I have to deal with for my development assignment than it sounds like I and my team have some break time ahead of us.

  4. Re:As always, make yourself known on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another thing is that coders aren't usually that good at expressing themself, so it may not be obvious who is being more productive than others.

    Bullshit. Good programmers are great at expressing themselves, thats what programmers DO. That excuse is made by crappy 'programmers' who are really just introverts who aren't actually good at programming but rather are even worse at dealing with other living creatures.

    A programmers job is to take an idea and express it in a way a computer can understand. All we DO is express ourselves, if you aren't good at expressing yourself, you aren't a good programmer.

  5. Re:P2P for all updates on Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit · · Score: 2, Informative

    No you can't.

    You can trust that the hashes matched. Thats it.

    Have you not been around for the many many times over the past few years where people have shown viable ways to get around the various common (i.e. the ones we use for anything that matters to this discussion) hashing algorithms?

    Hashes are a level of authentication, but they are defeat able, just gotta find the right spot and the right payload.

    With P2P you are willingly accepting data from many people you know nothing about. When HTTP, even without SSL I have a pretty good chance of knowing I'm connecting to the site I trust.

    With P2P I am most certainly connecting to hundreds of people that I don't trust one bit and it only takes one of them to find a payload that can match the hash and cause damage.

  6. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    Will you really have me believe that target.com has been linked to for over 14 million specific products which they no longer sell?

    It does seem high, but considering their size and the number of pages on the internet that are no longer maintained it doesn't really surprise me a lot. Hell, it was probably twice that high before geocities went away.

  7. They aren't ISPs, they are OSPs on Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP · · Score: 1

    As such, they still connect to someone upstream, you blacklist their address space, ALL OF IT, and their ISP if they refuse to cooperate.

    Rarely will the national ISPs take this sort of abuse, its rather easy for them to spot. You get plenty of crappy little local data centers that will let them get by with it, and 999 times out of a 1000 you'll never hear anything about it.

    I make about 2 attempts to stop a spammer that does this crap, 3 time I just blacklist the entire ISP.

  8. Re:Doing these things without any proof... on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Right about the time any of those things happens, no one will care about them anymore.

    When you label too many people as sex offenders, it will be come acceptable and no one will care.

    California does have cancer warnings on EVERYTHING, no one cares.

    Every politician does have a figurative scarlet letter, its a D or a R (those other parties don't really matter so I'm not bothering with them) . Everyone knows they are whorebags, thats why we call them politicians and not public servants anymore.

  9. Re:Will this be covered by the public option? on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    The wire will guide far less signal than is emitted by the headset.

    Theres a reason wireless transmission over any given distance requires more power than when you plugin a wire.

  10. Re:Do not forget potato chips on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    You should have left the gay marriage thing off, since you know, they are far more progressive in that respect than oh say ... 40 or so other states in the nation.

  11. Re:Where's the Science? on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    20 year study ... for devices that have only really be popular and provided a large enough dataset to study for 10-15 years ...

    Yea ... wheres the science ...

  12. Re:Just like California on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Your cells don't take in an O2 molecule in exchange for a CO2 molecule during the process. Your cells will continue to excrete CO2 for a while with no O2 intake, right up until cell death.

    You could start inhaling nitrogen ( as one of the posts up this chain suggests ) and you'll still exhale CO2 as the cells expel it.

    However, while CO2 is the primary driver of reflex breathing, it is not the only driver. CO2 build is up poisonous, as it builds up, the liquids in your body turn to acidic and then everything breaks down. A very painful experience if you're awake for it. So thats why CO2 is the primary driver.

    Your body however will try to get more oxygen in if its far too low as well, its just far easier to control that particular process and ignore it, since in almost every situation the human body has evolved to deal with, when theres an O2 shortage, there is an accompanying CO2 build up.

  13. Re:Just like California on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    What you were doing is called lung packing. It doesn't change the ratio of anything and has very little immediate effect on your CO2/O2 levels.

    It does, on the other hand, result in storing more air in the lungs as well as doing a better job of getting a completely fresh batch of air in the lungs versus typical breathing where a good portion of the air stays in your lungs on each breath.

    This batch of fresh air, and the increased capacity are why you can hold your breath longer. On the other hand, the convulsions in your diaphragm will let you know you need to breath before you pass out. The convulsions are a direct result of CO2 build up not lack of oxygen. It should also be noted that doing this is a good way to tear your diaphragm or damage your lungs. When the convulsions start, stop fucking around unless you really want to flirt with death.

  14. Re:Just like California on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    If you want to go to the actual technical reason people die during 'suffocation' it isn't that they are deprived of oxygen, its that they can not expel the excess CO2 and effectively die of CO2 poisoning.

    If you can get rid of the CO2 you can live considerably longer with out O2, not enough to matter to most people, but its there.

  15. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    The big bang is still hitting us with EMR. The sun. Power lines. Satellite television hits us at every square inch of this planet. Radio waves, analog and digital are everywhere. And so you know, the powerlines don't stop outside your house, they go in your house and all around your rooms, and when you've got something on, the power going to that thing is making an EMR field.

    And your cell phone is more powerful than all of those from the point of view of your body. In almost every case, its in use and you are physically touching it.

    Also, all radio signals are analog. They may carry digital data on top of the signal, but all radio signals are analog.

    You're worried about Cigarettes which have been studied for years, but you blow off cell phone concerns, which haven't even been around long enough to hold a valid study on, seems rather premature to me.

  16. Re:Meanwhile, Outside the USA... on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No they aren't, their firewalled from accessing our news sites cause they talk bad about the Chinese government.

  17. Re:What did you expect? on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 1

    I fail to see any reason the shipping time decreasing from weeks to days should have any effect on copyright. Please explain your logic.

  18. So, its a blackberry on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    Its not like browsing on the default browser on the BlackBerry is something that actually happens. Its like pretending that older WinMo users used Internet Explorer (can't speak of winmo6, haven't used it, maybe its different?).

    This is a great deal for Verizon and won't effect that many people really. Anyone who cares is using some other browser, not that crap that comes on the BlackBerry.

  19. Re:Verizon and Microsoft on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Awe look, another idiot who thinks saying 'exploder' and M$ is witty and cool.

    It stopped being cool when you angsty teenagers used it for freaking everything 10 years ago, now it just makes you look retarded.

    Adding to the making you look retarded part is the fact that this is pretty common practice and is done by many organizations, including software on your computers right now.

  20. Re:Shameful... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    1) when you quote a message of mine, do not bold words that I have not bolded in my message. I have to question why you would want to alter the true intent of what I have posted here.

    Hey, go fuck yourself douche bag! This is a fairly common practice on slashdot, and is generally used to point out how fanboys got it wrong.

    The bold is to point out the fact that your quote was not a direct, but modified quote, which is another thing that does along with 'There fixed that for you'.

    Guess what, he used it properly and corrected your mildly retarded statement, now if you could just fix your reading comprehension skills and get over yourself, maybe you'll do better next time.

    Whats better is your reply is still makes it clear, like the original that you're just an anti-MS fanboy and ignoring that Verizon is more responsible for the problem here than MS. Its okay, we know you have problems.

  21. Re:Boycott, anyone? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    You do realize that people other than the tech industry use smart phones right?

    Also, you do realize that most of them really could give a fuck about 'Microsoft is evil', right?

    Sorry, MS doesn't cater to techies, its not really all that profitable. It helps when you're fighting your way in the door trying to sell servers or software if the techs like you, but if they don't it doesn't really rule you out.

    Techies generally lose arguments with management because they only thing you see is your narrow concern based on technology, completely ignoring ALL of the other effects on the business.

    Slashdot can comment it up talking about how this is evil and Verizon and MS are going to be hated and lose customers because of it, and a year from now, Verizon will look back and the conversation between the execs will be something like:

    <ExecA> Did we lose customers over it?
    <ExecB> Yes, but they were geeks and we spent more money on data and dealing with their complaints via tech support that we're better off with out them.
    <ExecA> How many customers did we loose?
    <ExecB> Six, the rest of them just whined, moaned, and posted on slashdot about what they were going to do, then did nothing.
    <ExecA> Bong!
    <ExecB> Sure

  22. Re:If you need to do this... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    So you expect a company not to encourage its customers to talk good about their own product?

    Its not like they are saying 'I work for Google and I prefer Bing cause its awesome'

    They are saying, 'I work for MS, and I like Bing for these reasons'

    Which isn't evil its just company spirit. Slashdot needs to learn the difference between pride in your work/team and evil.

  23. Re:Wait for 2010 on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure that I buy that. It seems hard to believe that it costs more to spend the few seconds entering an IMEI number than the cost of a card.

  24. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yea, they'll do something even faster if NO ONE complains though, right?

    This sort of statement is fucking retarded.

    They aren't going to do anything until someone complains, the more people that do the more likely they are to do something about it.

    Take your 15 year old teenager angst and use it for something productive rather than whining about how no one cares about you.

  25. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doesn't matter. Contracts can't override the law, regardless of how hard they try to make you think they can. They can say they have the right to change service at any time and that you can't terminate, but that is simply not true.

    If the service materially changes, you can terminate the agreement, regardless of how many times they tell you that you can't.