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  1. Re:Fermi's Paradox.. wait on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Right, and a planet full of Hulks would kill itself off, supporting the gamma ray hypothesis.

    Hulk is invincible

  2. If nothing else on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AVG is a Freemium minefield. May as well be WeatherBug. Serves a purpose, but ultimately adware

  3. Re:Attitudes on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Eventually I fired up a Windows machine and did it in about five minutes with some commercial trial-ware that nagged me with ads when I installed it.

    The reason being that Windows is more than an OS and a collection of predictable platforms. A video on Windows is a video, accessed through the appropriate API. You don't dynamically link to half a dozen libraries, hope they are there, and crash (or demand installation) when it isn't. You install the codec and now everything can deal with it.

    This is ultimately the problem with linux. There is no defined platforms anywhere. Software that wants to use anything can't ever guarantee that it will be there. They aren't part of the OS, but rather, part of the users defined installation.

  4. Re:Perhaps at last an affordable mini PC? on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    My youngests computer died, and I ended up replacing it with a Biostar A68N-5000. It was $70 shipped. It is fanless and draws very little power. I imagine this is just a further iteration of the technology.

  5. Re:GTK on Ask Slashdot: Linux Database GUI Application Development? · · Score: 2

    GTK actually has lots of good widgets for 'data' not sure what that means exactly

    It means he wants databound controls. As in, widgets that update themselves when the dataset changes and changes the dataset when the widget is manipulated

  6. Re:Not so Deluxe anymore? on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 0

    hrblock.com

  7. Depends on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    It is only so good as I can cancel at anytime. Else, it is the same Dish that I would get at the same price I would pay for actually having it via satellite (with a 2 year contract).

  8. Re:Magic Pill - Self Discipline on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Can't bulk and cut at the same time.... now maybe you can

  9. When/Where on Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend · · Score: 1

    The best I can find as to when is at night, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. As to where, look at the constellation Gemini.

  10. Re:Not unexpected. on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 4, Informative

    The nvidia failures were due to the chip solder points coming loose. It has zilch to do with the chip and everything to do with the manufacturing of the system

  11. Re:My son's name is Devuan on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 5, Funny

    He could open for The Oneders

  12. An even better idea on Samsung Shows 'Eye Mouse' For People With Disabilities · · Score: 1

    Combine the eye focus with the mouse to constrain the movements of the cursor for the best of both worlds!

  13. Re:Phooey. They Can Still Kill Us All on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    But apparently is retarded when using brackets, so there is hope yet

  14. Re:Too little, too late on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 2

    Yeah, without one of the most important parts... WinForms

  15. Re:No composite output means no output at all on Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign · · Score: 1

    HDMI alone is not very useful since most displays don't actually support this, you get a much better range of supported devices by having a composite out. This would fare better by dropping the HDMI and keeping the composite instead.

    What? You need to switch drugs, man

  16. Re:It is a lot more than just Canada on How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even memorial day is mostly about cooking meat on a grill

    Are not holidays, by there very definition, cause for celebration? What better way to celebrate than cooking dead animal on a fire?

  17. Re:Benchmark Bit on Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably the "Official driver" bit

  18. Re:Low power CPU meet bloated pOS on Firefox OS Coming To Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but to "enable easy development for robotics", the only thing a Pi can do is bit bang over the GPIO port without add-on hardware

  19. Re:The good news on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    Not going to happen, the same way that it didn't happen when DirectTV (or dish, whoever) bricked all of those pirate hardware years ago

  20. Re:It would be interesting on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    It's asking ourselves why Windows needs a Gig of RAM in order to even boot properly, when the user "experience" of such is a desktop background bitmap and a clicky button in the corner. Windows 3.1 could do that in 2Mb of RAM.

    If you are truly asking yourself that, you just don't understand the differences between hardware of the differing eras and the magnitude more of which modern Windows does compared to Windows 3.1

  21. Re:Government Dictionary on Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sick of folks saying "entrapment" when a criminal is nabbed by any sort of deception. That isn't what entrapment is. It is when you convince an entity to commit a crime they wouldn't normally commit, such as, telling a Nun if she didn't buy drugs from that guy over there on the street corner, her church probably will burn down due to an "unfortunate accident"

  22. Re:More bloat, less marketshare on Firefox 33 Arrives With OpenH264 Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Chrome gains market share the same way IE had. It is default on the fafillion android devices out there, even if that device can't handle it.

    Breaking everything out into a plugin because the system only allows SO much and native code is rarely an option due to the plethora of exotic hardware firefox runs on. Do you want to decode advanced compressed video or decrypt cpu intensive encryption in a lowest-common-demoninator interpreted language on an ARM device with 256 MB of ram that runs like a 486? I don't.

  23. Re:You crippled your wifi? on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 3, Informative

    This doesn't have to do with bandwidth. It has to do with the size of the connection table... a table used to keep track of which internal/external addresses have established connections. With these cheap residential routers, they have very little memory, so when you have a hundreds of connections, it fills the table and things go to shit.

  24. Re:Not sure how well it will work on Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle · · Score: 1

    If I could just get DLNA support, I'd have 50 of them

  25. Re:huh? on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    Laws don't stop being enforceable because you are within the confines of your property.