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  1. Re: Really? on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    I've recorded sustained 700-800 mbps to a local networked fileserver over an 802.11ac connection. The fileserver's probably the limiting factor in this too.

  2. Re:movies should not go over internet backbone on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    Netflix does offer something similar to ISPs so they don't need to route all that traffic over the backbones, but since Netflix charges a fee to maintain the cache system, ISPs don't want it. Besides, if they did that, they wouldn't be able to complain and extort more money out of the backbone and edge providers.

  3. Re:If it is linked, it is public... on Dropbox and Box Leaked Shared Private Files Through Google · · Score: 2

    It seems like the "vulnerability" that the article is talking about only happens when a recipient of the dropbox file link copies that link address into a google search query. If the user just clicks the link like a normal person, there is no problem.

  4. Re:Best new feature: cost on Elon Musk, Tesla CTO Talk Model X Details, Model S Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Out west, we just burn natural gas now.

  5. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    What was so bad about ME compared to 98? It seemed like it was just a bunch of overblown hype, with no noticible differences. Also, the only real issue I had with Vista was the incredibly slow vendor response in making updated drivers. Also, driver makers could get the works for windows vista logo by only making 32 bit drivers, which left a lot of 64 bit OS users with non-functional hardware. With 7, MS changed the logo requirement to requiring support for 32 and 64 bit OS.

  6. Re:There's probably patents involved on Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC · · Score: 1

    please tell, I'm interested

  7. Re:Interpretation of the 0.05 threshold on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    doesn't a p 0.05 mean that 95% of your data samples (2 sigma) support the hypothesis? wouldn't 1 sigma be more of a "suggestive" level? 95% seems pretty good

  8. Re:Scarcely productive on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    0.05 is 5 percent

  9. Re:A few are still around on Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations · · Score: 1

    Redbox has supplanted the need for video rental stores in my area.

  10. Re:I got a nice restaurant ... on Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations · · Score: 1

    We got another bank in shopping center with 2 banks already in it.

  11. Re:I would love 4K!!! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    It should also support 60 Hz video using full RGB color. Most TVs are designed for 30 Hz YCbCr, which doesn't look great on a PC.

  12. Re:Bottable == boring IMO on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    they are also probably using a scripted set of tasks for the bot to execute, rather than being an AI. things like go to A location, activate npc for quest, go to B location, kill all rats within 10 meters, etc

  13. Re: forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing? on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they just say the lawsuit bankrupt the company and walk away? Don't "corporate persons" shield the employees from legal trouble?

  14. Re:simple on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    actual question here from an embedded programmer with little knowledge of javascript: is that code on line 79 trying to use the result of the "ffe.ee..." lookup as an index into a string array? What is the correct way to do this? C programming has lots of times where stuff like array[struct.var] = 4 is perfectly valid.

  15. Re:In other words... on Will Cloud Services One Day Be Traded Just Like Stocks and Bonds? · · Score: 1

    I believe this was referring to the Texas law that prevents Tesla from selling directly to consumers, and are instead forced to use dealers.

  16. Re:How about on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 2

    Ah, but in these cases, consent was probably given to take the pictures, but later retroactively revoked. This law makes the retroactive revocation of consent legal.

  17. Re:"We believed we knew better what customers need on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    the Mac version is worse...

  18. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    actually the tri-core part is just a quad core part that is only guaranteed to have 3 working cores. makes yield much higher if you can still use the chip with defects in one core

  19. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    though you could say the same thing about playstation vs xbox, with the whole complicated emotion engine programming vs directx

  20. It's the cell phone network congestion that is the issue these days, not airplane crashing. Up in the air your cellphone can see multiple towers simultaneously and cause network issues.

  21. I think the issue is that the military drones can't LEAVE military airspace currently, so to get them out into civilian airspace (for whatever reason) requires following the FAA rules.

  22. Re:everyone caps speed on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    I'm on AT&T Uverse, and they don't seem to care with hundreds of GBs per month.

  23. Re:Let me help you understand those figures on Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth · · Score: 1

    2+2 seems big? I drive home from work each day on a highway that has a 10+10 section for about 3 miles before it splits into two 5+5 highways (and stay at 5+5 until the next split/merge)

  24. Re:More important than using recycled stuff on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    actually, if you consider a rotating reference frame, centrifugal force does exist

  25. Re:Press coverage on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    ah, but don't you have to account for local variances, since all the fresh water from the ice won't be evenly spread across the entire water body instantly? couldn't the ice cause a temporary higher rise in the local vicinity untill the salinity equalizes?