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  1. Re:Ugh. Worst summary ever? on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 2

    DID you not see the BIT about them dropping all THEIR other plans? So there's plenty point TO comparing these new prices to existing one-LINE Verizon prices as Verizon CUSTOMERS will soon be paying these prices or no LONGER be Verizon customers.

    Not all of them.

    or one of the tiered pricing plans currently in effect.

    Was that so difficult? Disclaimer: When my grandfathered unlimited goes away, so do I. Also, what the shit is with your illogical, all-caps emphases?

  2. Re:MORONS!!! on Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Your memory serves incorrectly. I am old head, this account's email is the only one I remembered after a 3 year hiatus.

    I don't recall reddit's founding to be a response to anything done here on /. - I believe they were trying to do what digg and StumbleUpon were going for, just effectively and dynamically, with enough in the front-end that you can see response in real time. They succeeded, obviously.

    Although the firehose was a relatively new form of moderation, /. has always had editors deciding what hits the front page, based on user response, and thus your RSS feed, with the result being the time-to-publish being subtantially higher or more delayed [than other aggregating sites that don't need a mod's stamp-of-approval] as a result. It's an aggregating news site with mods deciding what hits the front page - /. does not (historically, although the powers that be try to do something like the /.TV thing going on now, every now and then) provide much Original Content. This is not a bad thing, IMO - but means you wait an extra ~24-72 hours over a multitude of other sites. It's relatively longer, now that CmdrTaco no longer runs the show, but still effectively the same.

    **Seeing your response to yourself now. I believe that to be true.

  3. Re:MORONS!!! on Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years · · Score: 1

    /. effectively aggregates a lot of sites, via user moderation, in the same way that reddit does. It is just much slower, because editors (who sometimes do better than other times). It's always been that way - I've heard this thousands of times on /. - regarding TheVerge, for Engdaget, for Kokaku and perhaps the entire gawker blogging umbrella, for ThisIsMyNext before Topolsky moved, for every site, ever, that tries to post OC. This is not what /. does.

  4. Re:Damn! on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ratatouille indicates otherwise.

  5. Re:Yup. on Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products · · Score: 1

    No it's not. When you're a company the size of Amazon, you have clout to introduce new methods of advertising. I can see why you would call it an upsell, but you're not really moving a purchase away from one product and up to another... just advertising the products as they are introduced in whatever content you are consuming.

    I don't partake, but I am aware that Amazon serves up shows and movies over the net. The amount of paperwork they had to file and the number of agreements they've signed with Hollywood to make this happen (as with any content provider) is probably staggering. What's one more peice of paper in the agreement stating that, in addition to all the other advertising Hollywood funnels to Amazon, we're going to throw one more bit on top. When actor.1 goes across the screen and you see his sunglasses, think to yourself, "damn that's nice!" and blamo, an ad is on your page because you're not watching the movie in fullscreen (or maybe you are, as in my experience advertising only evolves to become more invasive), is that going to be effective and patent-worthy? I think yes - I would have patented this very idea years ago if I had the connections and resources and gumption (I'm a lazy bastard).

  6. Re:What a fucking loser! on Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair · · Score: 3, Informative
    FTFA:

    His study resulted in over 90 percent accuracy and showed his patent-pending sensor to be 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.

    Moron.

  7. Re:More Engineering Than Science? on Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an awesome result, but isn't this more a feat of engineering than science? Not that I am complaining per se, but I feel that it's important that people recognize the difference.

    It doesn't really explain the methods he used to develop his dip-stick lithmus sensor test thing. I would submit that his solution encompasses both - the scientific method established his hypothesis (it should be easy to test for mesothelin in blood/urine) and engineering to create a repeatable, testable solution to the problem. I think some more science is probably present in the indicators present on the stick, where you need to develop a flag while controlling for everything else present in blood or urine.

    My guess is he won out over the other contestants due, in no small part, to the cohesive solution involving both science and engineering, where the runner-ups focused on one or the other (micro-sifting search engine: engineering - quantum theory regarding data transmission via entanglement: physical sciences).

  8. Re:Proofread summary next time please. on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1
    The article is really only about the one of them. The summary can refer to both of them and only explain the one it is about, while still being sufficient. It really is kind of pedentic, IMO. If you want to know more about the error-correcting code (that the article is not about), you will click the article and discover the one-liner dedicated to explaning why this article is not about it, regardless.

    A long, well-written statement abstractly disagreeing with mine does not make a fact.

    is the presence of another coding scheme different from network coding relevant to the model presented by the article?

    No, it really isn't... it's just an introductive talking point to get you thinking about the intricacies of applying something like "network coding," which involves a lot more than a relationship with "error-correcting coding." There are plenty of other factors that preclude a successful application of "network coding," one of which happens to be error-correcting coding.

    This isn't a question of the article, or the summary - thus my point stands that you did not comprehend what it was that was being stated. CSMA/CD is basically assumed to be present on a dynamically routed network, by any self-respecting geek that is going to be interested in this subject.

  9. Re:Watches are not about telling time on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    My favorite bit about the Oceanus watches (excepting that they're Casio, which you know, in their more engineered designs, is going to outlive you) is that you get the sapphire crystal for generally under the 4 digit mark. This is an awesome value, and the same reason one of the 5-dial Oceanus watches will be my next. I'll probably skip the Ti this time around - my current Citizen clasp is Ti and scratches on wood... nice metal, not easy to maintain a polish though. The Citizen can be my beater.

  10. Re:I'm not going to use Android anymore on Android Hackers Honing Skills In Russia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post ever, almost 3mil UID, MS shills off the charts lately, etc.

    you fed the troll, now others who peruse at reasonable karma levels will see this drivel...

  11. Re:My prof dranks coffee like water on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 2

    At least this study has a sample size bigger than one professor.

  12. Re:Proofread summary next time please. on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1

    Okay I'm just going ahead and apologize for not noticing your "summary refers to" bit in your paragraph.

    But I think my point still stands - the summary is sufficient for the purposes of summarizing the article.

  13. Re:Proofread summary next time please. on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1

    Just remember to proof read your summaries.

    This is, after all, extremelly important.

    Seriously though, it's not "error-correcting coding" ... which implies you did not comprehend the summary, nor the article. This is about testing capacity and is more along the lines of implementing something to expound upon dynamic routing. Which induces a clusterfuck of brainthink along the lines of "so we're buying bandwidth to supplement bandwidth that we should have put there, but maybe here" and so on and so forth. There's not a whole lot more to read into except for hypotheticals (being revisited).

  14. Re:lame on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    As a mid level cubie dweller with temper tantrums, I will forward your solicitation to my manager. There will be strippers at the convention... right?

  15. Re:Let me see if I have this straight.. on Apple To Help Foxconn Improve Factories · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't work in PR. I think a majority of readers will respond with thoughts somewhere along the lines of "figures." Relatively speaking, the conditions aren't bad. Americans spouting their mouths off about how awful "we" treat these Chinese people, as if that were our responsibility... they will continue to have a negative impact (and thus be a focus for PR's spending, regardless of how redundant the investments may seem to be) until the magnifying glass is off Apple's chapped ass.

    Being one of the most popular tech companies with a liberal profit margin, you can bet this won't be the last recourse, unless something drastic happens and nobody cares anymore. In the mean time and outside the magnifying glass, the cost is offset because decisions like this are just what they need to convince another couple hundred school districts to purchase iPads.

  16. Re:The problem is the people, not the education. on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    I know some doctors. They could explain these symptoms with ease. I'd start with the psychiatrist.

  17. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    So it's not really a stretch to think that someone would be depraved enough to ... sacrifice their mother in law.

    This is definitely not a stretch, given /.'s consensus on inlaws.

  18. Re:Google's motivation on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the real marketroid word is...

    Word of mouth.

  19. Re:Google's motivation on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    Well it has been mentioned a fair number of times, but Dropbox and alternatives require you to agree to essentially identical TOS.

    The thumbnail preview of your publicly hosted image is a derivitive. They're not selling your files to customers, the outcry would be massive from these same advocates. Since there is nothing new to cry about, they're rehashing old arguments that have been thoroughly explained and justified, with regards to a hosted cloud service.

  20. Re:wtb: cheapest flight anytime on Google and the Future of Travel · · Score: 2

    I hear this argument a lot on these types of threads. I'm curious as to why you think the value of the still-empty seat is 0. There is still the opportunity cost of letting you have a seat now, as opposed to being pretty confident (with their big-budget analysts, the margin of error is probably quite low) that you will book a different over-priced seat ahead of time like everybody else. I realize the fuel is still being used, but that is not how a bottom-line works.

    Basically, I'm under the impression that the empty seat is still worth a significant amount on the chance (which is, statistically, very high) that you will pay more than double a marginal rate on the next, or the next, or the next available flight. Only when flights start to have routinely empty seats, does the value of those seats go to 0. And then the analysts will pull data to adjust flights accordingly. This is not a lose-lose situation for the airliners, just the consumer.

  21. Re:No on Should the FDA Assess Medical Device Defenses Against Hackers? · · Score: 1

    My area of concern revolves around the VA stating they have "isolated some 50k devices with vlans." This implies two things: 1) They're already networked such that they can be placed on their own vlan (or, at least the controllers, or whatever connects to that RF int) and 2) the VA is under the impression that a vlan is a legitimate security measure worth promoting. I do not want something controlling my insulin pump, which is capable of killing me, hooked up to the network. AT ALL.

    "Sorry, your daughter died because our network had a brownout and the switches stopped switching, so it interpreted the input from your TV remote which you pointed the wrong way as "PURGE INSULIN." Ugh.

  22. Re:Weed need SIMPLE answers to questions... on Massive Methane Release In the Arctic Region · · Score: 1

    Again, that's not really the problem. It's not about whether or not we are the causation. The problem is that if the atmosphere shifts back towards the state it was in pre-ice age, we are going to be unable to breathe as we know it. The breathing masks you see in so much SF, that you can only do without for so long? They're based in some reality.

  23. Re:Weed need SIMPLE answers to questions... on Massive Methane Release In the Arctic Region · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Millions of years ago, the climate (read: atmosphere) would've killed large mammals reliant on an oxygen rich environment (which is what is happening now, slowly but surely). The problem isn't that life would not be able to "get by just fine." It's that if the geology of Earth shifts back towards a carbon-rich environment, it won't be conducive to living comfortably, as a human. This is my understanding, anyway.

    The argument over whether or not it is a natural occurance is a big one (and worth having, IMO), but global warming nay-sayers choose to be ignorant of the fact that the "natural" environment of yester-millenia would literally kill them in a few short, labored gasps.

  24. Re:I'll believe it on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Heard of diamonds? Create your market (marketing capable of inducing the gag reflect of a weathered prostitute - reminds me of the Home Shopping Southpark Ep), control the supply (hide the stockpiles), win.

    That market has been fully saturated for a few decades, yet the demand and pricing remains essentially the same.

    Not that it makes any sense, I just think you're underestimating the stupidity of humanity when it comes to "precious" material.

  25. Re:acronymification [Re:A better question] on Startup Claims C-code To SoC In 8-16 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Don't joke about acromynificationizing. Chaos doesn't even begin to describe the ramifications of such a move in the name of "5, funny."