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  1. Re:bleed for me on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Testers can install the kernel without it being baked into a distro.

    Its funny how many people don't remember what it was like before modern distros that do all the work for you. Freaking noobs.

  2. Re:Yeah, only if one speaks in extremely low tones on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 1

    Miniaturization can also come into place where you can shove the camera into a cell phone etc.

    The laws of physics say otherwise. You can't get the resolution/quality out of a cell phone sized camera to do it at any difference, there just isn't enough in the lenses to do it.

    Then couple in the need for 6k frames per second being about the bottom line requirement for getting voice frequencies using this technique, its pretty useless in any situation that an alternative wouldn't work better.

  3. Re:Resolution and sensor noise on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the video is recorded in too low of resolution and too low of framerate to be useful. Any place just recording video and not audio is doing it with cheap ass bargain basement gear, hence where there is no audio gear already recording the sound they are missing

  4. Resolution and sensor noise on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sensor and optics must have been ridiculously high quality and resolution for this to work. Sensor noise alone would almost certainly rule this out for any COTS consumer package. They certainly aren't doing it with CNN footage or old CCTV surveillance tapes.

    In which case, it's of no practical value since a laser mic would be far cheaper and more discrete.

    Cool from an academic perspective that they can use DSP now, but it's just more fun with a laser mic, same principals and theories, new less workable application.

  5. Re:Why not escrow the funds to decommission? on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... The funds to decommission the site are collected during its lifetime as a tax and held in escrow. The operator has to by bonds to ensure cleanup in the event of an accident or shortful due to early shutdown. The point here is that even though they shutdown after only half it's expected lifetime, they've collected enough funds already to handle it even without the bonds to back it up.

    Inflation makes it impossible from a practical perspective to pay up front. 4.4 billion 30 years ago would never have happened, and would turn into ridiculously large amounts of money today, and as such, ridiculous over kill.

  6. Re:Bad seals on the bearings and master bearing on Fixing a 7,000-Ton Drill · · Score: 0

    125 million on a project like this is hardly a fortune.

  7. Re:I don't get the hype on Recipe For Building a Cheap Raspberry Pi Honeypot Network · · Score: 1

    Its worse than that. The raspberry pi has bad ethernet and is woefully underpowered.

    Sure you can make it a honey pot, but it'll drop half the packets heading for it and even a slight flood its going to be overloaded.

  8. Their Job on Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because its their job to hate people who take advantage of others in matters of trade?

  9. Re:I used to teach Linux. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: -1

    Thats fine. Knowing vi 'because its there' is why I know vi.

    Using it by choice? Retarded.

  10. Re:Why? on Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 · · Score: 1

    Because playing NES games on a touch screen would be so awesome ... NOT.

    The original point stands, nothing you'd actually want remains.

    I understand the 'because its my phone and I should have the fucking ability to do with it what I want' aspect, and its a valid one, but once you get past that theres no real reason to jailbreak.

  11. Re:You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: -1, Troll

    yea, no need to get out of the stone age or anything.

    What is it with people being proud of using the lowest common denominator? I can use it too, but why the hell would I given the option?

    If I log into some archaic system that only has vi, sure, I'm fine, but given the option it just isn't impressive. Theres a reason I don't use those old archaic systems anymore. Its not the wheel, its not 'the best way to do it' its just the way thats been around since the beginning.

  12. Re:Really??? on Multipath TCP Introduces Security Blind Spot · · Score: 1

    ... Right, because they can't just recombine the data from their multiple taps back in their data center.

    Because ... they don't do this already to correlate data from different single path streams or anything ...

    Those agencies will have no problem for dealing with this particular issue.

  13. Re:Great! on Multipath TCP Introduces Security Blind Spot · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    'The bad guys' have multiple options. Comcast will do DPI at the edge where you have only one path, so multipathing won't effect them and throttling your torrents will still be trivial. The NSA/CIA will just recombine the streams in their data center from the multiple taps they have. Its not really difficult if you have enough CPU and they have the budget to ensure they have enough CPU ... and if they don't have the budget, they have enough dirty on congress to get their budget upped until they do.

  14. Re:Its Fine. - not on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 2

    Your trainer was an idiot, not a network admin. Oracle database and the various Oracle apps I've used have no silly issues with firewalls. They may have some apps with issues, but not the main product which uses a single consistent TCP port for connections.

  15. Re:So! The game is rigged! on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1

    Yes ... you scammed them, except you didn't.

    Since the company you're buying things from has raised its rates by 3 to 5% in order to cover the charges the credit card company charges them on transactions.

    At no point does the credit card company not make extra money from your transaction, you're just not smart enough to realize you're paying for that case back yourself in the cost of the items you're buying.

    Product A costs $1.00 to make a proper profit, company raises the rate to $1.05. You use a credit card to buy it and think you're awesome for getting $0.02 back from the purchase.

  16. Re:You needn't charge anything on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1

    No need to look up how FICO works, no one actually uses FICO when considering you. There are many many systems to calculate a credit score and if you go apply for a loan/credit card/anything that gives you a score from 5 different places the same day you'll get 5 different credit scores and the difference has nothing to do with recent credit inquiries.

  17. Re:When going into business with Friends on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    They aren't your friends if it does.

    Relatives are a little different depending on who they are and what your relationship with them is.

    I've had no problem mixing the two but then again, if someone can't behave themselves in the business relationship I don't really consider them a friend so I can't really consider it any sort of loss of a friend either.

  18. Re:Not to sound rude, but .... on A Credit Card-Sized, Arduino-Based Game Device (Video) · · Score: 1

    Those are called training wheels.

    And reinventing something thats been done to death is neither a challenge or fun for most of us.

    Why are you posting on your own story? Story can't stand on its merits so you have to swoop in and try to defend it?

    Hint: You're just re-enforcing his point, this is a stupid story to post to slashdot. WTF is wrong with you guys?

    You seem to be impressed because he's trying to sell something for $50 which most of us made in one form or another 5 years ago in the earlier days of Arduino while were were dicking around on the weekend, bored. Worse still is that its about $45 over priced.

  19. Re:The only good thing on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, it is, takes some fucking responsibility for your own actions.

  20. Red Bull on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did you seriously just call Red Bull a gateway drug?

    Tim Lord, you're a moron. Stop posting stories, this isn't your personal blog. And no, writing them and then having Roblimo or another slashdot editor post the stories doesn't make it any better. Just stop, we don't want your thoughts.

  21. Re:and what would i do with it? on Home Depot Begins Retail Store Pilot Program To Sell MakerBot 3-D Printers · · Score: 1

    Except you'd spend more on electricity than you'd have spent to just buy it.

    Thats not including source material.

    Thats not including the fact that the part you printed is going to be so weak, relative to the mass produced part that it doesn't stand a chance of being useful.

    You only think its a good idea because you have absolutely no real world experience with 3d printing.

    3D printing at home is a joke for anything other than AT BEST making lost-PLA (i.e. lost wax but with PLA) style molds that you can fill with a metal, and even thats HIGHLY specialized.

    Note: I have both a 3d printer and a CNC machine, and 9 times out of 10, I CNC it rather than print it and do a pour. Nothing printed at home has enough strength to be useful. If you think even a 3d printed phone case would be useful, you really don't have any idea. One won't even last you through the work day before its coming apart.

  22. http is tcp port 80, so what you said is:

    'so tcp port 80 won't be throttled by tcp port 80 (or whatever) uses will be-'

  23. Re:Linux, a miracle on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Linus doesn't generally 'yell' at competent, talented developers.

    Thats where you're confused.

    Linus yells after someone repeatedly argues with him that they aren't wrong or that its his fault and he has proven otherwise, then they come back and do it again.

    Linus is generally very easy to convince he's wrong ... when he's wrong and he'll acknowledge it quickly. He expects the same from everyone else. When you repeatedly ignore his proof that you are incorrect he reacts this way.

    Great things in this world aren't built by people who are more concerned with being politically correct than doing the right thing, sorry to burst your bubble.

  24. Re:Newsflash on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    From your posts I'm sensing you're rather jealous of Apple.

  25. Re:Rely on Reputation? on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    Did your mom shit in your cereal this morning or something? You're just being retarded, troll.

    O.M.G. Apple ate the dingos that ate my baby