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  1. To be fair... on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    Ethernet may transmit digital information, but it is not a digital signal on the wire.

    The phy is an A/D converter, and sends your digital bits down the wire with oscillators.

  2. Re:*A* disk? Fucking pathetic on FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops · · Score: 1

    A box with raid can still die, if the RAID controller isn't the best.

    But even then, you should be able to blow up a whole rack and stay online. Redundancy isn't just a buzzword.

  3. Re:Downtime [Offtopic] on FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops · · Score: 1

    I find it alarming that a single disk failure could take you down like that...

  4. 9mms don't just explode (unless it's a Glock). It's a hot fast burn and the gas pressure pushes the bullet. Nothing like what happens with an explosion.

  5. Rapier combat is real fighting. You just hold your blows, blunt your tips, and keep score - used to be it would end with someone bleeding out on the ground.

  6. Re:I think its pretty clear who the winner is. on Georgia State Univ. Art Project Causes 2nd Evacuation & Bomb Squad Call · · Score: 1

    That happens every weekday evening anyway...

  7. Re:Not over the phone on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, PGP implementations tend to look at the recipient address for a key.

    Which means either no key would have been used, or the wrong key. In both cases, the actual recipient who got it would have been able to read it.

  8. Re: Not a laywer. on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, you'd provide it when you open the account.

  9. Re:Future of GPU is Open Standards on Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux? · · Score: 1

    and Intel cards as well

    Why would you do this? Wouldn't you be better off using the CPU in this case?

  10. Re:Why would anyone buy something from those catal on Smartphones, Tablets and EBay Send SkyMall To Chapter 11 · · Score: 1

    It's not cheap and 99% of it was spurious rich people garbage that anyone with a mind for practicality would pass on.

  11. Re:didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) on Government Recommends Cars With Smarter Brakes · · Score: 1

    I would say that your modelling experience has given you a good spatial sense, rather.

    I'm kind of in the same boat. I keep track of who's around me and where they are moving. It's rare (but it does happen) that I see a car in a space I didn't expect, and that's usually because something else was masking it (larger car, etc) and I do keep that in mind).

  12. Re:Not a fan on Government Recommends Cars With Smarter Brakes · · Score: 2

    Sounds like your suspension is broken or you're idea of a safe speed on such a long left-hander is not in line with reality.

  13. Re:Pointless on Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between "I can't" and "I won't."

    I fall squarely in the "I won't" camp. I just don't like it, and everything I don't like about my current browser seems to have been inspired by Chrome.

  14. Re:World's most useless feature on Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone · · Score: 1

    Someone should tell Twitch that their business isn't necessary.

  15. Re:Great! How do I disable it on Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone · · Score: 1

    Tactics and strategies you can absorb this way, but physical skills (eg, aiming) are more like your golf example. Knowing that you should avoid the sand pit doesn't mean squat if you can't get the ball to land in front of you more than half the time.

  16. Re:Great! How do I disable it on Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone · · Score: 1

    My circle of friends do it to show stuff to each other - "look at this cool thing I did!" or "hey, I can't figure out why this isn't working."

    We don't often watch each each other play just for the sake of it.

  17. Re:Now if I could just type... on Your Entire PC In a Mouse · · Score: 2

    I kind of don't like the idea of all the expensive stuff being inside the things you have your hands on and move around all day.

  18. Re:Don't worry, they can only see inside the homes on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    They don't "see" into shit. Read the summary. All it does is inform the officer if there's movement inside, which doesn't really tell them much.

  19. instant disqualification on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Visual Basic is not suitable for anything, except perhaps as a form of torture.

  20. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    My thoughts on avoiding playing with that nerve... ever had a vagus reaction when drawing blood?

    I'd rather stay conscious, thank you.

  21. Re:I doubt the Republicans wrote it... on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    Oh no! He said the same thing again! I can feel my opinion changing!

    Nope. Just repeating what you already said doesn't really work.

  22. Re:The Five Eyes? on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 2

    Assholes like you shame reasonable people like me out of expressing patriotism.

  23. Re:I doubt the Republicans wrote it... on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    The fun part about politics is everyone has a reason to lie about it.

    If you didn't have a reason to lie about it, you'd not have any reason to participate in the conversation anyway.

  24. Re:No control experiment on Short-Term Exposure To Diesel Fumes Causes Changes In Gene Expression · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rather I think the important bit here is the revelation that common air pollutants affect gene expression, not the effects of such expression. The mechanism is the important part.

    I assume they had a control group... is that a correct assumption?

  25. Re:works well enough on Fluxbox 1.3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Sure, when you're running VMs and those VMs don't have SSH or serial consoles configured yet. The RDP server for virtualbox for example is not available unless you install Oracle's proprietary extensions.

    So, I'll SSH in, start vnc, start my client, and connect via SSH tunnel. Fire up virtualbox, play around on the console until SSH can do the job.

    (If I had a choice I'd have just put ESX on the host, but it's not an option. Even if it was, it would have to be one of those custom ISOs since it isn't officially supported hardware.)