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  1. Linksys E3000 on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been very happy with TomatoUSB on the E3000. Only $60 refurb, or $70 new from NewEgg ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124419 ). Simultaneous 2.4/5GHZ g/n, USB port for NAS/Printer, 64MB RAM, gigabit switch. Only has 8MB flash though, if you were planning on storing lots of programs on it (you would want to put those on a USB flash drive anyway, so I don't think internal flash really matters)

  2. Re:What is my overriding reason to migrate off XP? on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I had an old Athlon64 motherboard that wouldn't run with multiple sticks of RAM. It ended up that these motherboards only had 1 RAM slot linked up with the CPU speed (I believe Athlon64's memory controller was in the CPU?). Everything would be running fine until powernowd daemon started up and underclocked my processor. As soon as this happened, the computer would lock up. Apparently it was attempting to run the different sticks of memory at different clock speeds. The only two options I had were to not change my processor speed, or only use the 1st RAM slot. You don't happen to be attempting this on a really old motherboard?

  3. Re:Purely out of curiosity on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    exactly! and just think of how pissed you'll be when you get that data bill.. streaming audio for a whole month.. yowza!

    My impression (without bothering to actually look anything up) was that the recognition was done on-device. I noticed in the original announcement that they said it would require the greater processing power of the new iPhone, and I can't imagine why it would need a faster processor if it was doing the recognition on the server-side.

  4. Re:And on Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million · · Score: 1

    #2 - that is false. You DO NOT need a bank account linked to PayPal.

    I just tried unlinking my bank account from PayPal... My account is now unverified and has a spending limit unless I either re-link an account, or sign up for a PayPal credit card (my Confirmed MasterCard is not enough). I haven't spent the time to dig through their menus to see if there is a way around it, but it appears that for most purposes I need to link my account with PayPal, but you are correct, I can make limited use of PayPal without giving them full access to a bank account.

  5. Re:And on Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million · · Score: 1

    1. Several years ago I made a purchase from eBay for $120. The product never arrived, so I opened a dispute through PayPal. The seller never responded to the dispute, so it defaulted to being resolved in my favor. I got back $95, with a message that

    "the balance of the claim is due to you directly from the seller. Please be assured that we will make our best effort to recover the balance from the seller on your behalf."

    I only received this amount because

    Our investigation will be made on a best-effort basis and PayPal cannot guarantee funds recovery. For transactions that do not qualify for PayPal Buyer Protection, eBay will provide Standard Purchase Protection for $200.00 USD coverage with a $25.00 USD processing fee.

    As eBay owns PayPal, I consider this still getting screwed by PayPal. Since the seller simply was not responding to any inquiries, I never saw that $25. If I had been able to use a credit card, I could have disputed the charge and had no problems.

    2. You have to keep a bank account linked with PayPal. There is no way to default paying by credit card, you always have to go through a manual process to select Credit Card (at least they did away with several of the warning messages during this process). This makes it a hassle to pay for things when you don't want a direct withdraw from your bank account (which is 100% of the time). Also, a side effect of being required to keep a link with a bank account: My parents' PayPal account got hacked, and since their checking account was linked with their PayPal account, their checking account got cleared out (which was terrible timing, because they had just transferred over $10,000 to checking to pay for a new roof, so they had a significant amount of money in checking that disappeared, AND their roofing check bounced). PayPal investigated and refunded the money after a week or two, but they were missing actual money (as opposed to a line item on a credit card bill that would have been resolved before actually having to pay it) and had a long period of uncertainty as to whether PayPal would deem them worthy of having their money returned. If PayPal didn't require this bank account link, they have simply called their credit card company and reversed the charge.

    3. Try selling something on eBay (owner of PayPal). They strongly encourage the use of PayPal as a payment method, so you get stuck with listing fees, selling fees, AND PayPal fees. My mom tried to sell something on eBay all by herself (which, I admit, things rarely go well when she tries to do something computer related without help). This means I have to try to explain to her why she has to pay 3 separate fees for a single transaction (and I still can't explain to her why she now has a PayPal credit card... I have no idea how she managed that, and neither does she).

  6. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Even if it was $1500/kilo, that's only $12 for the 8 grams to fuel your car.

  7. Re:This game is random , you can't outsmart someon on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1

    If you click "What is the computer thinking" it will tell you: It looks at the last few moves you made. It looks at the last few moves it made. It then scans its database of previous games and says "The last time a human made the moves you made, and the last time I made the moves that I made, what was the NEXT thing the human picked"

  8. Re:This is good news... on ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication · · Score: 1

    I bought a Rosewill case 3 years ago that gave me 6 stitches :)

  9. Re:MS will probably kill it on Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code · · Score: 1

    Stop hiding behind your case sensitivity ;)

    [~] locate -i .conf|wc -l
    3400

    Not that I'm sure what exactly your parent meant anyway, but that was bothering me

  10. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1
    Language can and does evolve over time. Look up Hacker in the dictionary.

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker

    4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

    Just because something started out as a mistake, doesn't make it incorrect now. Try taking a look at the dictionary definition of "nauseous," as I would guess you would be one of those people who say that "I feel nauseous" is incorrect, while "I feel nauseated" is the only correct way to convey the feeling. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous

    Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2.

    Note how 'the most frequently used' definition becomes the correct one? Language changes, and sometimes people just make honest word/grammar mistakes. Get used to it.

  11. Re:Fuck you, this is about EVERYBODY on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    For people who don't know what you are referring to, the Broken Window Fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

  12. Re:"Hey, I know!" on DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" · · Score: 1

    They are building in in Manhattan, KS, by Kansas State University. I'd imagine they probably liked the choice because it's sparsely populated, but is also one of the academic centers in Kansas to be able to attract educated people to work there.

  13. Re:Main blocker on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1

    Is he running compiz? I could only get tearing to go away on mine if I turned off ALL transparency. See if it works with Compiz disabled. If so, then you need to disable all transparencies in Compiz.

  14. Re:So which celebrity does he prefer? on FMRI Shows Man Loves Wife More Than Angelina Jolie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    90% success rate? That's all! I have a 95% success rate at detecting lies personally (no fancy equipment necessary, I just look at the guy and then I know).

    Right, because after someone lies to you, they notify you of the fact so you can tally it up into a percentage...

    I'll just assume you meant that 95% of the time you that accuse someone of lying, you are correct.

    Sorry if this was some joke that just went right over my head ;)

  15. Re:Paying in Pennies on The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine · · Score: 1

    I rent a house with 7 other roommates in a smallish college town (pop 44k), and our landlord has the option for online recurring payments for each individual roommate. So, we individually can choose to either pay in person or automatically pay online. As long as the sum total of checks+online payments they receive is equal to our rent, they are happy.

  16. Re:It's done right in Ubuntu on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    Windows XP does this for me too, by default (although it annoys me so I turned it off.)

    I put in a CD, flash drive, etc, it scans it and pops up a message saying "You just inserted removable media. What would you like to do with it?"

  17. Re:Crimes by cops? on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 1

    I think that this will be mostly used to video tape cops doing terrible things and uploading it for all to see.

    I really can't imagine their site being 'for all to see.' This will just be a way to privately submit videos for the police to see.

  18. Re:Insurance Fraud Galore on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 1

    Have you ever read YouTube comments? It doesn't matter if the video is a sham or obviously legit, there will still be two dozen people shouting 'fake!'

  19. Re:Holy crap! on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 1

    No need to delete them, just ignore them. This doesn't sound like it's going to be a public video gallery, it's just going to be a way for people to upload videos to police. The police can view the videos, not the general public.

  20. Re:In My Opinion, a Truly Horrid List on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    In case you didn't do the math, 30,000 lines is over 1 line per second for 8 straight hours.

  21. Re:How many versions... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    I won't say the joke went over your head, but I don't know what the term is for when a joke is too juvenile that a person misses it :)

    For anyone that is curious, 15 looks a bit like IS

  22. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I'm just achievement whoring with this post. Now I am the April Fool!

  23. Re:Genius on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Maybe giving you mod points WAS an April fools joke. If you want the achievement of posti

  24. Re:Phew. on Automation May Make Toll Roads More Common · · Score: 1

    Although 'license plate' may be a misnomer (as a driver is licensed, a vehicle is registered), it is still the correct term for the metal identification plate mounted on your car.

  25. Re:*Sniff* they grow up so fast! on Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted · · Score: 1

    Also, the classic plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network.

    I'm not a network engineer, so I am wondering why plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network be a problem? Or even plugging two separate NICs into a network be a problem?

    I can see a problem with layer 2 devices, but as far as the network should be concerned, the wireless link and network link aren't the same device. They have different IP addresses, different MAC addresses... wouldn't it be up to the OS of the system with the two connections to sort out the details?

    Of course, if you aren't talking about computers, but instead meaning something like a wireless bridge/switch connected via both links, I can see that being a problem.