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  1. Re:Cashing Out on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    This is the one CEO we've probably ever had that earned what he has/had. He climbed his way up from working in the dirt like the rest of us.

  2. Re:Best Buy lies to consumers on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    You realize that digital is still analog? The only difference is that you are reading "is the voltage above the threshold" instead of reading the actual voltage. If the noise floor is sufficiently high to make it less reliable or more difficult to determine if it is above that threshold, then you are going to have problems.

    The effects he mentions (coil it, it works - uncoil, it doesn't) scream "common-mode interference" to me. A $0.50 ferrite choke would have solved that, and the "higher end" cable is probably the same damn thing with the choke built in.

  3. Re:Best Buy lies to consumers on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you had common-mode noise. A $0.50 ferrite choke would have fixed that for you.

  4. Re:Best place for electronics???? on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    It's also much more common for rural houses to not display house numbers... or even have them in the first place.

    You've got something on your mailing address. Stick that on a sign and put it by your driveway. ... was that so hard?

  5. Re:Customer Service on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    Bonus points if he was driving off with an unpaid-for car :P

  6. Re:the court should not care about costs... on Heartland Security Breach Class Action: Victims $1925, Lawyers $600,000 · · Score: 1

    Not really. Most of those if not all will reach out to you if the card fails for some reason, and I've found that explaining what happened will get them to forgive you for any kind of perceived breach of conduct or contract.

  7. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    Wow, total failure. This is what I get when half the places I go want HTML, the other half BBCode. One of them needs to die (i say BBCode)

  8. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    The parking brake in an automatic car is intended to take the stress off the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_pawl]parking pawl[/url]. Period. Other uses for it are consequential.

  9. Re:Wonderful, but... on How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, but even then this won't show you.

    This is that crappy cut-out-silhouettes pseudo-3d. Think paper dolls at various depths, but each individual doll is flat.

  10. Re:I still have an Win 2000 Pro on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you can run clamscan on anything that's mountable, so if you are really hurting, boot up the VM in a liveCD or something and give the filesystem a scan that way.

  11. Re:What Really Needs Support on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 0

    I always like to think of this and this. Especially that last one. ... and we all knew Windows Vista is to Windows 7 as Windows ME is to Windows 2000. Or 98 is to 98SE. Or ME is to... anything else.

    Fuck it, Vista was the new ME, and 7 wiped it all over the floor.

  12. Re:Explained in Article! on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 2

    I think this tells it better: it's not that we are immune to it, we are just effected by it by a very large margin:

    Specifically, it causes a blockage in a type of neuronal pathway (nicotinergic) that is more abundant in insects than in warm-blooded animals (making the chemical selectively more toxic to insects than warm-blooded animals)

    I'm not sure why that is present in that article, and not in the article on the chemical itself?

  13. Re:Explained in Article! on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    It seems it mostly effects invertebrates specifically.

  14. Re:Explained in Article! on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    "The government uses misinterpreted data all the time to justify stupid shit." Citation or it "never happened".

    FTFY

  15. Re:Still needs more research on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    Fructose is processed by the liver much like alcohol, but the brain isn't affected by fructose so you don't feel the same effects.

    Oh really?

  16. Re:free until april 2014!! on BioWare Announces Free DLC To Add More To the Mass Effect 3 Endings · · Score: 1

    This lets you get saves for ME1, while this does the same for ME2. I know you can get these onto a 360 with some work, but I don't know about the PS3.

    But that's what you get for running with a console - your flexibility to work around publisher idiocy such as you mention is significantly reduced.

  17. free until april 2014!! on BioWare Announces Free DLC To Add More To the Mass Effect 3 Endings · · Score: 1

    Read the fine print. What the hell are they going to do, start charging extra for it after 2 years?

  18. Re:The squirrels are even cleverer than that on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 1

    Snakes generally do not put much, if at all, venom into a defensive strike against something it thinks is too big to eat (which is what the heated tail tricks them into thinking). Humans are stupid and clumsy so they usually get bit several times in an encounter.

    At least these are my understandings.

  19. Re:Poor Advertisement on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately a pre-roll is an instant window closer for me. I doubt I'm alone. They might want to think long and hard about that.

  20. Re:When is video good? Only when text is not bette on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 1

    Transcripts. Transcripts transcripts transcripts.

    A good chunk of us are not going to watch a video, but including a transcript with the video (even behind a link) will help get a lot more eyes on it without a WHOLE lot of extra bother.

  21. Re:Haven't watched them. on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 2

    Then why not make sure they go into tv.slashdot.org and stay there? It's essentially the same thing, and now that the infrastructure is there, use it.

    Also, I apologize for my rather terse and harsh email.

  22. Re:Mark Advertisements as Such on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 1

    I'd genuinely say there's a place for both. I think the more general stuff should go into tv, or such - but the "science and engineering" level is what should end up in specific categories?

    This is certainly going to need playing around to find the happy balance... but the PR "fluff" like that Plantronics disaster certainly doesn't fit.

  23. Re:The squirrels are even cleverer than that on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 1

    No you don't. It's involuntary.

  24. Re:Macs don't get hacked on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Hmm, actually no. I'm aware of plenty of worms and rootkits that target my platform of choice. Perhaps you are confusing the stupid minority for the whole?

  25. Re:Why video submissions? on SJVN Tells How Reporting on Linux Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (Video) · · Score: 1

    There's supposed to be a whole new section just for this shit, but for some reason they can't use it consistently.