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  1. Re:Silicosis? on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Bamboo or that white opaque plastic stuff seems best.

    That said, if you are serious you should be using a steel on your blades before/after every use anyways.

  2. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it wasn't possible, but there's a big departure from how you write them on paper than how they fit onto a line-entry system.

    Imagine that you wanted to root something that looks like the quadratic equation. Imagine how that looks on paper, and imagine how that looks on the display. That is what I mean by "like you do on paper"

  3. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    how do you write functions in a line entry system just like you do on paper? You've never used the rational symbol? How do you handle roots?

  4. Re:Sounds Like Lustmord on Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas · · Score: 1

    I've only heard the [OTHER] album. How does this compare to his other albums?

  5. Re:Really? on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    Just putting this out there...

    I went through public school with no major problems. Sure, I wasn't the most popular kid around (scoff...) but I had a good amount of friends and our own little social circle (and only some of us were nerds/geeks). I'm 24 and I can barely talk to girls, still.

    My point is that has less to do with schooling than you would think. Public/private schools do teach a kid valuable lessons about social interaction, but the majority of that is garbage bullshit that stops being applicable as soon as you graduate.

  6. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Well... there is a reason.

    The AES and/or TKIP cipher accelerators (usually a dedicated chip I think) add cost to the hardware. Generally consumer-grade wireless routers just don't have the horsepower to do all it is they need to do, AND run AES/TKIP ciphers, and still reach any kind of acceptable performance.

    So, VZ is just being cheap. Or, their supplier is being cheap, and passing the savings on to them.

  7. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Oh... the attack I demonstrated in one of my classes (as a student, heh) analyzed captured packets and was entirely passive. The active method is new to me. Do you have any links regarding it?

  8. Re:Impeach Obama on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    How about we impeach your face!?

  9. Re:You can't beat a wire for what it does on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain aluminum wires would work fine for what most people use. If you aren't running maximal-length wires, you can probably stand a bit more resistance on the wire... and if you are, well - I'd imagine that a copper shortage would be a big enough event they could draft an ethernet sub-standard to raise the voltage a bit to compensate.

  10. Re:Why can't we push all this short range... on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    since it doubles the maximum speed

    You sure about that... ?

    The 2.4GHz/5Mhz (i think you meant 5GHz) is the frequency of the carrier wave. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the modulator (which carries the actual data)

  11. Re:The problem on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    In my case, I'd either have a coax or UTP wire running across the whole apartment... or a wireless bridge. I chose the wireless bridge.

  12. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    It's also important how much sample data you have.

    If someone logs in for 10 minutes a day to check email, you have a lot less to work on then, say, the guy who wants to stream DVD video.

  13. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind you may have to play around.

    My stuff all supports WPA, but the only one that everyone plays nice with is WPAv2 /w AES. WPAv1 - nope. TKIP cypher? nope. Gotta be v2 with AES.

    So, it's more of a PITA than it really needs to be, which is half the problem.

  14. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Even less if you've got enough data (and if he's streaming DVD video over it... you do)

  15. Re:Apartment Wifi on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Just wait till said Pringle-can Yaggi user uses your link to work child porn, and when the FBI comes around it's either you or the four neighbors.

    That's trouble, right there. In a dense urban environment, the "it wasn't me! must have been a cracker!" argument can fly. In your area... probably not.

    That you would even know about this stuff would also bump you to the top of their list, over your immediate neighbors.

  16. Re:your router is yelling and you dont even know i on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    In addition, you're cramming more wattage through the wireless IC's. If you don't take steps to mitigate this (heatsinks, even a fan perhaps) you _WILL_ burn out the router, sooner or later.

    On WRT hardware, the wireless IC's are under the 'shield' and is not actually the Broadcom chip.

  17. Re:Another Viewpoint on OpenGL Programming Guide 7th Edition · · Score: 1

    OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
    OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2
    OpenGL version string: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 190.53
    OpenGL extensions:

    1 GPU, but OpenGL 3.2. So, fuck you :P

  18. Re:kind of makes you wonder on Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly-Patched IE Bug · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the good post. I've not looked at any of it yet, but I will. I appreciate you responding thusly and not just "freaking out" as any other slashdotter would do.

    Regarding the freeshell page - that's not really intended for anyone's use than mine. At one time or another, a link would have been added by me to serve as a bookmark I could get from anywhere.

    The slashdot comment that fired you up, was intended to be funny. I had no idea someone who actually had a clue would stumble across it. I am no coder, but I was a beta analyst for a year or so - so I do understand what you are saying.

  19. Re:How to get management to listen on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    I think you lack an understanding of how artwork is done in games.

    You work in "high definition" and par it down to what you need. IE, sculpt a hundreds-of-thousands-poly mesh, and 'bake' the normals and AO into textures to apply to a simplified mesh.

    Textures and such tend to also be much higher resolution/detail in the original form as well.

  20. Re:I accept your apology on Russian Whistleblower Cop Arrested · · Score: 1

    Hey, he's from Florida. He can't help it.

    DISCLAIMER: I live in Tampa Bay myself...
    DISCLAIMER: This was funny. Har har. Laugh and move on.

  21. Re:kind of makes you wonder on Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly-Patched IE Bug · · Score: 1

    So then, what is the justification for such bugs "laying" around for so long? Perhaps you are doing something. What then? You are a black box to 99% of the people out there, some indication of activity on the issue would probably be appreciated.

    All we can see is: bug gets noticed, and - maybe - it gets fixed in a few weeks, a month, maybe longer.

    Can you really fault us for having this opinion, if you look from our perspective?

  22. Re:kind of makes you wonder on Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly-Patched IE Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I like to think that the code for IE is so horribly mangled that it takes a solid month to get the thing to build (including compile errors, stupid typo bugs, compile time, compiling for all the different windows configs, etc)

    It makes me feel nicer that it could just be a shitty project, rather than just shitty people.

  23. Re:Just use a dummy first. on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    On that note... I do hope he has some kind of data recording system.

    While the speed and pressures will not be the same, the data collectible may well be invaluable if someone decides to invent an ejection system that functions at mach1 or beyond.

  24. Re:Anyone else think.. on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that, having designed/modified the suit itself, they have thought about and probably altered the emergency chute(s) appropriately.

  25. Re:Sick and Tired of Hacking on China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Most of that one-sixth of the worlds population cannot read the only language I can read/write in. I think it's less of a deal than you might think.