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  1. You know what else can predict box office flops on Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops · · Score: 1

    Getting some qualified critics other than a fucking yes man to go and watch the fucking movies. Movies are not a series of random numbers that may or may not sit well with the general population.

    How fucking stupid that it resorts to this to know what makes a good movie or not. Get the fuck out of your industry if you need wikipedia to tell you how to do your job.

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  3. EFF on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Donate to the EFF right now. Do not wait. Donate this very minute.

  4. Re:Cute. Too bad it won't scale up... on Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel · · Score: 2

    It's time for you to grow old and die. Why don't you spend the rest of your years writing to all the science fairs held around the world warning them that all the projects students submit have been done before?

    Just because so far we have not does not mean that others will not learn something along the way to lead to new discovery. Don't you DARE presume that your limits are future generations' as well.

  5. Re:It'll do a lot for pre-installed Linux too... on XP's End Will Do More For PC Sales Than Win 8, Says HP Exec · · Score: 1

    try mangler

  6. Re:someone's spying on you on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    Of course Oracle would point the finger at Flash.

  7. Re:Srsly? on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: 1

    *Checks calendar to make sure it's not April 1st*

    If they waited until April 1st, they'd lose the element of surprise.

  8. Re:Overraction on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Really? The Dutch government does a decent job at being serious on maintaining security of their citizens' identification data and your first thought is to criticize them for overreacting? You've obviously never worked with sensitive data. Any decent admin's reaction should have been the same if it included the possible leak of sensitive data. This is an entire country's data. You have no idea what you're talking about and should just shut your pie hole.

  9. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    You're right.

    Mine was the IBM PS/1 2133 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/1). It came with 4MB, but was expandable to 16MB, which I eventually did.

  10. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    My own post has a glaring error. Xeons didn't even come out until 1998. 1997 was a typo and was meant to be 1999, but it might even have been more towards 2000.

    At the time, we were running slackware 3.5 or 3.6.

  11. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're wrong, or you were technologically savvy enough to remember exact details on how you did it.

    Before 1990, I was using a 386 with 4MB of ram. In 1991, my parents purchased a 486sx 25mhz with 16MB of ram for $1500. The hard drive was 170mb. If you had a gig of ram, why even need a hard drive? You must have just created ramdisks and had a blazing fast computer.

    By 1997, I had colocated my first server on a pentium dual xeon 450mhz with 512mb of ram. This system cost upwards of $2k to build at the time.

    I'm almost sure 386 had NO support for dimms. So you used simms? Were they 30 or 72 pin?

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMM, 72pin simms did not replace 30pin simms until the mid 90's and were NOT present in 386's. 30pin simm sizes ranged from 256kb to 16mb while 72pin simm sizes ranged from 1mb to 128mb.

    Before spamming us with your nostalgia, at least try to get your facts within a magnitude of the truth.

  12. We came to find you on 520-Million-Year-Old Arthropod May Have Had the First Modern Brain · · Score: 1

    Over half a billion years. As far as we know, it's only been 13.75 billion years since (the|this most recent) big bang. That's 3.636% (repeating of course) of the age of the universe we've spent evolving our minds. And now we cast our gaze back over half a billion years in wonder.

  13. George Lucas on Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 1

    Some individuals can be convinced to pay 4x what others will be charged for the same item. Pretty sure one can use George Lucas as prior art.

  14. More uses than just IT on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    Screw smartphones and tablets. I want this for my backyard door. Time to hide a video camera and invite some friends over for drinks!

  15. Re:This is a good thing on Pledge Asks Chinese Hackers To Reject Cybertheft · · Score: 2

    Inasmuch as it shows that there are ethical people in China. We need reminding that good people can be found in China - not all of them are evil, which is the impression you get from news.

    If you need reminding that there are good [insert class/culture/race/country here] people, what you need is not rely on the "impression you get from news" and do your own fucking research. Stop being good "sheeple".

  16. Re:Average hours of sunlight per day in Chi-town? on Chicago's Willis Tower To Become Vertical Solar Farm · · Score: 1

    According to this solar power website, Chicago only gets an average of 3.14 hours of sunlight per day

    Of course they only get pi hours of sunlight per day. The other pi is on the other side of the earth!

  17. Re:Frigid on GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge · · Score: 1

    Why does it say SEX on the upper left hand corner? *Busts out the credit card*

  18. Re:Botnet sans broadband? Seen it already... on 50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines · · Score: 1

    The same is true for almost everyone. For a list of IPs too long for denyhosts to cover practically, try checking out ssh-faker.

  19. Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I detest examples such as this. They imply that you only need privacy if you're doing something wrong. Why not use one where a person is friends with both a fundamentalist christian and a well-known atheist, or a homosexual and a homophobe?

    Your example is just as bad. Because why would anyone befriend a homophobe in this day and age? Or even worse, the fundamentalist christian.

  20. 20tb for $1500 on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    Around fall 2009, I went to NewEgg, searched motherboards by SATA ports and found a gigabyte mobo with 10 SATA ports that uses AMD chips. Intel's a bit too pricey. Around the same time, I got a reliable PC Power and Cooling PSU for $100. During Black Friday 2009, I picked up 10 2TB hitachi drives for $110 each. The gigabyte motherboard has 2 ethernet ports so it works great as a gateway/file server. 20 unformatted TB (14.3 tebibytes after raid6 for 2 drive failure redundancy) for about $1500.

    No dealing with expensive NAS cases, expensive ass sata/raid controllers (lol 4 port sata controllers that cost $120 for a decent brand vs gigabyte motherboard with 10 sata ports for $150).

  21. rightly named clause on Antitrust Case Against RIAA Reinstated · · Score: 3, Funny

    Screw these MF's and their MFN's!

  22. Flaky Release Versions for Flaky Operating Systems on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 1

    3.1 95(+3) (same os) XP Vista 7 Microsoft Windows 8 will be actually named Microsoft Windows "SALES GENERATING CATCHPHRASE"

  23. Sounds like a job on The Space Garbage Scow, ala Cringely · · Score: 1

    for Half Section!

  24. Re:Millions of complacent idiots devastated on 92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash · · Score: 1

    Unix users have privelege separation.

    which protects the uninteresting, easy to reinstall OS and apps, and leaves your important data swinging naked in the wind.

    Unless you run your browser in a jail, of course.

    What is this? 1980? Kids write virii today to wipe our hard drives right? Botnets work toward the day when eventually they control >99% of the world's computer and then one day, they all rm -rf / right? The responsibility is on you to protect your files. Yeah, it's really easy to protect all your data, just sudo and move it to a directory you don't have write permission on. Or if you're worried about it being *sensitive* data, don't give yourself read permission either. Then just sudo whenever you want to view pictures of your wife.

  25. 1000 level on Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I took a 1000 level Earth and Atmospheric Sciences class a few years ago and one of the first things we touched upon was this idea. And why it wouldn't work. Before we even ask the question of why Bill Gates is doing this, let's ask the question of why he's patenting it?