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  1. Indeed - like email spam, that kind of abuse just doesn't pay if you've got any kind of an overhead associated with volume.

  2. Re:Can't say as I blame them. on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1

    Imaginary lines on the dirt mean nothing to stupid. Stupid is everywhere people are.

  3. Re:Thank god on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I've been fortunate to have never received any of that junk, I do see this as a good move... and $5 is really low. Recall it's not $5 on any purchase, but $5 over the lifetime of your account. That's... well. If that's a problem for you, how exactly do you afford to have whatever it is you're running Steam on? I'll give you the internet - maybe public wifi (or stealing it)... but unless you dug the device out of the trash and are also stealing electricity, I think spending $5 at one time or another isn't much to require.

  4. Re: broadcasting both analog and digital on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes - they have those around here. Honestly, I don't listen to those, as (by chance) the stuff they play isn't anything I enjoy.

    I can imagine though that it's perfectly fine for stationary radios - it's the mobile receivers who would deal the most with fluctuating signal strengths.

  5. Re:So much for long distance Listening on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 2

    The way the digital stations around here work, is they broadcast both - and the receiver in my car seem to be intelligent enough to downgrade if the digital signal is too weak.

    Basically, the radio starts off sounding like poo as it starts off in analog, but then as it 'locks in' (for lack of a better term) it switches over to digital and thus sounds much better. If I drive into a tunnel or such, the digital signal will drop and the radio will (without gap, mind you) drop back to analog, and switch back up when the digital signal is again stable.

    I think what it does is it receives both, and keeps a running error talley on the digital stream. It uses this to determine if the signal is stable enough to use. I would expect even better performance if the streams were buffered for a second or two, but this isn't the case (at least the analog signal isn't - verified with my "real" radio)

  6. Re:At this point? Really? on DOJ Could Nix Comcast-Time Warner Merger · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pst. Hey. Hey buddy. Your bias is showing.

  7. Re:Simple regular expressions. on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to filter the results of a search with an expression - but as you say I think using the expression itself to drive the search is probably not something you'll see happen.

  8. Privacy, and symbols on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    Privacy goes without saying, of course... but if I put a period or a comma in my search, I damn well meant it to be there. Pay attention to it.

  9. Re:Specific impulse versus thrust on Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Some of that mass cost might be made up for by simplified pipes and valves, though. Not sure how much you'll really save here, as you're probably still routing stuff around the bell for cooling.

  10. Re:Specific impulse versus thrust on Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Nowhere, because this is just a different mechanism to run the pumps in a normal liquid-fueled conventional rocket.

  11. Re:Hype pain on Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine · · Score: 2

    This does have some purpose - to allow you to restart the engine without externally running the pumps.

    You still need ullage though, but RCS can be used for that.

  12. Re:Video of the "landing" on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 1

    That's the prior attempt - check the date.

  13. Re:The real question on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 1

    ... and why is that unusual? I use the same one at work. There's 3 just in that room and there's several rooms to chose from.

  14. Re:obfuscation mk2 on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 2

    I find your signature incredibly relevant to your post.

  15. Re:Wow, this *IS* old... on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    "Should" is pretty distinct from "is."

  16. Oh, so you'd prefer it the way it is currently? (where GCHQ and the NSA get their hands on your packets)

  17. Re:I think we just need to get burned. on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 1

    The water doesn't go away. You realize most of it ends up in your toilet, which leads back out (eventually) to sea (or at least the groundwater somewhere nearby)?

  18. That's why Japan and the UK are laying an undersea cable across the pole. Unless you use satellites only (fat chance - latency sucks) anything going from north america to elsewhere is going to go through the US on it's way undersea.

  19. Re:Why do they not realize? on French Intelligence Bill: 5 Web Hosting Providers Threaten To Leave the Country · · Score: 2

    Nazi Germany and their zeal for recording pretty much any and every single one of their crimes.

    They thought they were Right, and so they were just recording history.

  20. Re:not bricking but breaking on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 1

    Bring it to the bootloader, and use fastboot from the SDK. You can flash disk images this way (which you can get here, if you're well and truly stuck)

  21. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, 8.8.4.4 never gets any love.

  22. Re:Better question than "what's next" on TrueCrypt Alternatives Step Up Post-Cryptanalysis · · Score: 1

    Would you concur that 0.6 is larger than 0.5? Then why do you have a hard time understanding what gurps wrote?

  23. Re:How do I get eyes like that on Citizen Scientists Develop Eye Drops That Provide Night Vision · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What I don't understand is why they did this to both of his eyes.

    You'd think it would be far more prudent to dose one eye, and put a patch over the untreated eye to prevent interference.

  24. ATF says hello on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1

    ... how could this have any hope of not being classed as a destructive device?

  25. Re:Needs a honeypot on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That sounds like the kind of work the CIA is supposed to do.