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  1. Media setup on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    Dual hex-core 2.8GHz Opteron based server, running Debian Stable off a Samsung evo 850 SSD with 7 x 3TB 7200rpm drives in RAID 6 with a hot spare.

    Media organised and served by Plex, FTA TV served by an HDHomerun dual tuner.

    Streaming duties are shared by my Yamaha amp (Pandora), Roku 3 and Asus Nexus Player (YouTube and Plex to tv), and various android devices elsewhere in the house. The TV, xBox360, Ps3 and Ps4 offer alternatives for streaming in a pinch, and a separate DVD player (region unlocked) and Bluray player (purchased pre Ps4) round out the playback options.

  2. Re: Your biggest screw up on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    Given that "dude" and "bro" have radically different meanings to "dudebro", this was not a nitpick, you condescending twat. It was blowing apart the ridiculous strawman.

    Once you've looked up the definition of "dudebro", I suggest that you take a basic course in logical reasoning.

  3. Re: Your biggest screw up on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    No, he used "dudebro" as a singular pejorative. I know reading is hard, but do try to keep up.

    Before you submit any further complaints, please go to the actual homepage of the Internet (google.com) and look up the definition of "dudebro".

  4. Pressing the power button after a rebuild, and: on Restart of Large Hadron Collider At CERN · · Score: 4, Funny

    Keyboard not found
    Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter Setup...

  5. Re: Basic DVD feature on YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment · · Score: 2

    It will be very useful to those who do music tutorials. The user can choose which hand/foot to watch.

  6. Re: "Energy Balance" an overly simplistic view on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Almost. It's not the calories that you eat that matter, however. It's the calories that you ABSORB vs the calories that you burn.

  7. Re: Heartbleed on Serious Network Function Vulnerability Found In Glibc · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. The EULA is usually uninforcable, and thus meaningless.

  8. Re: Apple Integer BASIC Chess on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    #!/usr/bin/python import chess # I'm Cave Johnson. We're done here.

  9. Re: Bigger cost than you might think on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    Stay close to the beach? Good idea! There are only crocodiles, jellyfish, cone shells, blue ringed octopus, sharks, spiders, snakes, bees, various dangerous species of fish, dingos, and the risk of severe dehydration and sunburn there. You should be fairly safe from the cane toads there.

  10. Re:Windows 7 on Windows 7 Trumps Vista By Reaching 20% Share · · Score: 4, Funny

    You will use it the way the gods intended, and you will like it.

    Ever had the feeling that computers should be white plastic and brushed aluminium, or that your mouse has a far greater number of buttons than you're comfortable with?

  11. Re:Windows 7 on Windows 7 Trumps Vista By Reaching 20% Share · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've often said that I'd upgrade from XP to Win7 once they get a file browser and start menu that works as cleanly as XP's

    Classic Shell helps to fix those issues.

  12. Re:The sound I want on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    Can I make the noise for my electric car with a large-bore v8 engine?

  13. Re:Back in Time. on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 1

    What about a text editor? I hear that EMACs has one now...

  14. Re:What.... on Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The response from the general Australian public: "who are you, and what have you done with our politicians?"

  15. Re:whatcouldpossiblygowrong on George W. Bush Live From Facebook · · Score: 1

    The most important question to ask in the interest of keeping a fair and balanced presentation:

    Does Facebook have a shoe-throwing app?

  16. Re:Shouldn't they be happy? on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 1

    I'd personally prefer to return the copyrights to the artists.

    Maybe it's time to start an exclusively online music label and distribution service?

  17. Re:Could be a problem on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    But coconuts float already, don't they?

  18. Re:Ok we get it already on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I'd prefer not only to see it happen more often, but striving for higher, and better. Competitions, and most of all, kids involved.

    Experiments are a great way to get people interested in science. We don't need to see it reported all the time, but it would be great to see the concept continued and expanded upon.

  19. Re:OK, I'll bite. on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is most likely a Western Electric Model 34A "Audiphone" Carbon Hearing Aid, which was commercially available from 1925. The lady in question was probably talking into it to adjust the volume, or see if it was still working.

    Hooray for the publicity grab!

  20. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not in customs, no. The only things you might get charged for in customs is Kiddie Porn or explosives. As with weapons (including lasers) and food, customs recognise that what the Australian Government calls "Extreme Porn" is legal in other countries, and as long as you hand it over on the way in, it's all good.

    The whole point of customs is to stop the stuff coming into the country - that's all. As long as you declare it and hand it over, that's as far as it goes.

  21. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    Declaring to customs != bringing in. If you declare it, the customs officer checks it, takes what's illegal, and you continue on your way. If you don't declare it and the customs officer finds it, it's an $11,000 fine. If you don't declare it, get it through, and then get caught with it, it's up to $275,000 and 10 years jail, and possibly the $11,000 for not declaring it on top of that.

  22. Re:Theory... on Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist · · Score: 1

    You don't have to turn it invisible. A simple Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler to set up.

  23. Re:Attempt to delaying uptake of competing product on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because people clearly buy hybrid cars for track use.

  24. Re:My cat isn't deaf on Research Shows How Deaf Cats' Brains Re-Purpose Auditory Centers · · Score: 1

    I don't get the whole "cats can't understand 2D" thing. Our cat would see birds on the TV, jump up on the cabinet and run behind the TV to get them. She had no issues with 2D image recognition.

  25. Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that Bruce McCandless is arguing that Dido is using his image to promote her album (like an endorsement). It would be like Pepsi taking a picture of Tom Cruise on the street and putting his picture in their advertisements.

    I believe that the laws in the USA confer the right of the famous to control the use of their likeness in publicity for things that are not related to them or what they do, meaning that companies have to have a contract with the person before any endorsement or advertising can occur.