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  1. Re:Parabolic... on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    December 10th. That date will be December 10th.

  2. Small businesses competing in data driven world on Interviews: Ask American Author and Entrepreneur Seth Godin a Question · · Score: 1

    Seth, aside from embracing social media and creating a web presence for online ordering, what should traditionally offline small business such as a bakery be doing to stay competitive in the modern world of big data driven decisions?

  3. Actually if the standard garden hose in the US of 5/8" diameter represented 1.5Mb, assuming an equal rate of flow, I believe the 6.8Gb in 802.11ac Wave 2 would be represented by a pipe 60" in diameter.

  4. My iphone is warped. Your products are becoming crap. Please stop. Full stop.

    I don't want a thinner laptop but I would like a more tactile keyboard. (sent from my 2015 mac pro)

  5. What are the odds? on Are We Alone In the Universe? Not Likely, According To Math (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How do the one in 10 billion trillion odds compare to the odds of us living inside a simulation?

  6. If Netflix provided the movie theatre experience, I would cancel my service.

  7. Kudos to them. on New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements · · Score: 1

    Now if only Slashdot video advertisements had such honesty.

  8. Re:Apple may outlive Acer - But will they make PCs on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Just as it dropped the DVD drive before most were comfortable with the idea, Apple will absolutely dump the PC market as soon as it is forward-thinking to do so.

  9. Re:Multipath Networking on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Multipath. Unfortunately the premise of the question is nearly akin to asking for the world. The current TCP implementation just isn't capable of performing the task being asking of it.

  10. Re:Better Than Commercial Software? on CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of several consulting clients who were hit by CryptoLocker to various degrees. Most restored their data from a previous backup. Two paid the ransom. Several waited too late to get us involved and were left without a backup and unable to pay the past due ransom.

  11. A bit of an enigma on Reverse Engineering the Technical and Artistic Genius of Painter Jan Vermeer · · Score: 1

    Vermeer was a bit of an enigma, even to his contemporaries. Most of the information we have on him is largely speculative but it's very clear Johannes Vermeer did make an impact on the art community of his time.

  12. Retailer on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who did he buy it from, Sony?

  13. Re:Other surprise on Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper · · Score: 2

    Walmart is big data personified. Here are some old stats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_71

  14. Next generation of the iWatch capability? on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't decide if this is brilliant or stupid. Perhaps Apple could one day create a laptop shell fitted for a phone but not until Apple first pulls off the iWatch. I see this concept being an extension of wirelessly transferring functionality to another device as the Phone Watch combo should provide. Am I being short-sighted here?

  15. First BSD and then? on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Well, now we can say BSD, Linux and Windows are all dying :)

  16. Re:What idiot is allowing this on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    My biggest concern is the opportunity cost where teaching this is taking time away from everything else.

  17. Re:ROCK STAR DEVELOPER NON-EXISTANT on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    Found a Bud Light commercial that looks pretty close
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR-PNsr5uMU

  18. Silly advertisement on All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs · · Score: 1

    This isn't news. SlashAdvertorials will continue until we stand up and embarrass the products enough the advertisers tell the editors to stop this stealth nonsense.

  19. Microsoft OneNote on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since you're needing to record info from Word, Excel and Visio, OneNote would be perfect to consolidate the information in place. You can also include images, video and webpages.

  20. Re:CrashPlan on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Thank you!

  21. Re:CrashPlan on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    For the last month, I've been using CrashPlan to back up a 5.5TB filesystem over AFP to a remote AFS file share over the Internet. I did the initial backup across the LAN and then moved the drive array to its final destination. I'm now a few weeks in after the move and for the last 4 days, it has not backed up and is instead synchronizing block information. 4 days in and it's up to 59.9%. It spent 1.5 days about a week ago doing something like recursive block purging. I wish the client could do these housekeeping chores while also performing the backup.

  22. Re:tl;dr on Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World · · Score: 1

    But it starts out like another advertisement.

  23. Available now on OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design · · Score: 3, Informative

    The best thing about product launches being announced on /. is by the time it's posted, the product is already available.

    Newegg has the 128GB for $160, 256GB for $290 and 512GB for $570.

  24. Re:easy answer. on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    The equivalent of the Rosetta stone will be detailing our nuclear waste archive.

  25. Re:Erm... on Evidence of Lost Da Vinci Fresco Behind Florentine Wall · · Score: 1

    From my understanding, the issue is the painting is a fresco so the pigments have been added to the wall's plaster while it was still wet. If they came from the other side, it would require removing the entire wall intact. Still, I wonder if serious thought has been given to the idea.