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  1. Re:Hedging bets on AP Computer Science Test Takers Up 8,000; Pass Rate Down 6.8% · · Score: 1

    I support the H1-b program, because I work place can not find qualifed c or c++ or c# and java developers (at the low ass rate we want to pay).

    You trolls always forget that last part.

  2. Re:Weird premise on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    >"well the hard drive is full so we have to buy a new computer because this one is slow

    You should know that is actually possible, I am disappointed here.

    On a spinning drive, once it gets close to full you start running out of contiguous space to write files, which of course means fragmentation occurs. Multiple seeks greatly increase filesystem latency. The end result of that latency is the system feeling slow.

    Of course hard drives don't directly correlate to flash memory, but they have their own host of issues. Cells where out and write amplification occurs. Just read about how SSDs and flash slow down as they fill up.

  3. Re:The end of reading as culturally relevant... on Amazon Isn't Killing Writing, the Market Is · · Score: 1

    > - it's that there's no means of discovering it without reading the hundreds of not-yet-ready-for-publication books that no-one wants to read without being paid for it.

    That's strange, there's so many sites like metacritic, reddit, and even slashdot that allow people to rate the content they view/read. Too bad this can't be applied to books.

  4. Re:Why? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    NK can do that because they have no economy. You could try the same in the U.S. (which similar thing have been done with gold and silver) but it would be equivalent to committing electronic suicide to our economy. This is how you get your armed populace to rise up against you.

  5. Re:Cash Needs To Go Away on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 4, Informative

    In theory electronic cash, such as bitcoins, could still allow anonymous transactions.

  6. Re:And another on the ban pile on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    I've used a few Intels with good luck, but I've had both excellent reliability and performance with the Samsung 830s and 840s.

  7. Re:Jiji press? on Percentage of Elderly In Japan Continues to Grow as Number of Children Drops · · Score: 1
  8. Re:helium on What Happens To All the Universe's Hydrogen? · · Score: 1

    It's even worse than that. Helium will escape the atmosphere in to space.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Snow Leopard on Apple Fixes Major SSL Bug In OS X, iOS · · Score: 1

    Windows Vista still receives security patches, which was released in 2007. Most computers of that age will install W7 fine, though you might want to bump the RAM if you want it to be enjoyable. XP was supported with patches for over a decade. Apple locks you into expensiev hardware and wants you to buy new every few years,

  10. Re:Simple math on PC Gaming Alive and Dominant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Steam has a bit of a bargain bin but I suspect that a Playstation bargain bin at Walmart will do far better than the same bargain bin for PC games.

    The Steam quarterly sales are huge, also the weekly Humble Bundle. I'm over 100 titles now, simply because a very large number of them cost me almost nothing. Also you can play games on decent settings for around $600 and have a computer you can do other things with too. $1200 is a damn fast computer.

  11. Re:Alternatives on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    >You think your ISP is going to give you static IPs for free just because they have an IPv6 pool to dive into?

    Probably actually. It's way easier to manage that way. It also solves tons of problems. Assign a /64 /60 or /something small to a customer and if 'they' fuck it up it doesn't effect all the other users. They probably won't be static in the way you think they are, but tied to the MAC of the CPE.

  12. Re:Origins of climate change? on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 2

    >Can anyone who believes that it really isn't getting hotter explain why, if its not getting hotter all the world's glaciers and ice shields are simultaneously melting faster than at any time in geological history?

    Carbon black. If you maintained the same level of CO2 in the atmosphere and increased the soot you would see a slight amount of atmospheric cooling but a much larger warm up in bright surfaces such as ice and snow. That is from the IPCC themselves. Somewhere close to half of black carbon sources are from fossil fuel sources. That said, the other half are from burning biomass and bio-fuels, which are considered carbon neutral sources, therefore the reduction of fossil sources and an increase of bio sources can still leave us in a situation that melts all the glacers.

  13. Re:Why not massively subsidize the Solar Industry? on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 3, Informative

    Panels, panels are useless. Batteries and power storage is the question. Not very many is the answer.

  14. Re:This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are many things that won't move on. Metallurgical coal for example. You'll drive up the price of other goods associated with the products made with it. That is ignoring that the power companies own many of the coal mines. You not only have to pay for the coal mine, but the loss of power generation directly.

    TL;DR: Article is ignorant of how the coal industry works.

  15. Re:The incentives are against rights on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 2

    That's why many suggest the plea bargain should be abolished.

  16. It's just as likely that many cases that this technology was used in where never brought to court but settled in a plea agreement so discovery never occurred.

  17. No, the police never claimed if what they were doing was illegal or legal. THEY DIDN'T TELL THE COURT ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

    What's even worse, until this case the lawyers didn't find out how the case got to that point.

    This is as bad or worse then the parallel construction we hear about the FBI/NSA doing. You cannot defend against what you do not know exists.

  18. But the police didn't use the 'Phind my Fon' app. They used a fucking microcell that intercepted signals from everybodys cellphone in the area. If this where only about intercepting signals from that one particular phone there would be no issue here.

  19. Re:This is what environmentalists should be pushin on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Add to that, the average semi drives 125,000 miles per year, 10 times the average car driver.

  20. Re:That's Great, But... on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    >Since soda cans can be returned for 5 cents each at the grocery stores

    Only if you pay that 5 cents to the store in the first place. In the majority of the states there is no can/bottle fee.

  21. Re:Why so many trucks? Why not railroads on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    J.I.T.

    Larger modern business are very price selective on how they ship. But shipping costs alone are only one part of that cost algebra. It is generally far cheaper per pound to ship via rail, but for many products it is cheaper over all to use a just in time inventory system to reduce warehousing space. Quick turn around trucking fits in with JIT systems very well.

  22. Re:Isn't there, though? on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 1

    >Because they originally turned iMessage on.

    Completely erase your iphone and set it back up.

    Setting up iMessage is one of the first 'default' screens that you come to in the processes. As in put your user and pass here with a little skip option on the bottom of the screen. They didn't explicitly find the setting and turn it on. It presents itself in a manner that leads the user to believe that it must be turned on.

  23. Re: Chicken little on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    NAT is not a firewall. Lets repeat NAT is not a firewall.

    User controlled functions such as UPNP make is even less of one.

    NAT does prevent first time outside access, but nothing beyond that.

    Look at this scenario.

    You visit http://hack.ed/. It launches a flash exploit that gets admin privileges. As admin it launches a UPNP function to allow port 40,000 to your internal IP. The rest of the world now has access to your computer as if it were directly connected.

    Now if your NAT also has UPNP turned off and/or also contains a firewall that prevents NEW connections to any computer behind it, yes it a NAT enabled firewall.

  24. Re:Modern Day Equivalent on Researchers Try To "Close the Nutrient Cycle" Through Better Waste Recycling · · Score: 1

    I thought that was the Soylent Green bin?

  25. Re:NSA And GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn And Slashdot Pa on Crypto Legend Quisquater Targeted - But NSA May Not Be To Blame · · Score: 1

    And we still don't have SSL with PFS on /.