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  1. Re:as always.... on SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million · · Score: 1

    Off topic but:

    You do realize that the point of the moderation system is not to reward people with good posts and punish people who post badly, but to bring the most relevant, interesting, and insightful posts to the forefront. Basically to cut out the crap.

    So by not modding up ACs who make good points, you are not helping the discussion at all. You are hindering it.

  2. Re:On the EDGE of legality, you say? on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 1

    Those are ISDN speeds.

  3. Re:Colour me suprised on Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there ;)

  4. Re:Gov program performs audit to ask for more mone on The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You laugh at that, but with private corporations, sometimes things aren't much better. At one point in time, for about 4 months, I was the only person managing all the systems for around 250 branch banking offices in Japan for Citigroup. 1 person. This included the servers, diskless clients, and printers for them all. Across 3 data centers for load balancing and redundancy, so, counting spares, nearly 1000 servers. Stress level was increased until I quit.

  5. Re:In other news on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 2

    And trying to get more people to "like" slashdot on social networking sites by putting the "Share" button where the "Comments" link used to be is just down right underhanded.

    As predicted before, we'll get beta in the end... one code update at a a time.

  6. Re:Debate this Pikoro on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Referring to this thread where you got put down.

  7. Re:The videos are bad on Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) · · Score: 1

    Could it be because nobody who uses slashdot comes here to watch videos? There's already a million sites out there with that stuff on it. We now have slashdot tv, video stories, and that stupid video bites section sitting in the middle of the page.

    Someone over there needs to figure out that nobody wants videos on here. None of the videos have any amount of comments on them at all.

    Open your eyes.

    Also, the fucking logon system is broken. Can't log in anymore. I hit the front page, login, it takes me to my profile, and then when I click on this story, it says I'm not logged in anymore. Had to log in while making the comment.

  8. Re:epyT-R why'd you "Run, Forrest: RUN" on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 1

    APK, will you just give it a rest already. Nobody's going to install your shitty software. The world has moved on. You've already been debated point by point on why your system is worse and you couldn't refute any of the rebuttals made without it sounding like you're sticking your fingers in your ears and chanting "la la la".

    Give it up already.

  9. Re:faster than light never violates Relativity on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realize that this is a very simplistic explanation, but think of quantum entanglement like this:

    You have 2 cubes. Each cube can be only either blue or green. You have no idea what color each cube is as you packed them into boxes for mailing across the galaxy in a completely dark room. They are then mailed.

    Now, you open your box. Turns out that your cube is green. You instantly know that the other cube is blue, even if it's on the other side of the galaxy, however, you have no way of communicating your discovery to the other party.

    You now have instant knowledge of what color the remote cube is, but no information has been transferred.

    Simple enough?

  10. Re:Sure, let's make everything tiered on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 2

    No, it's not. It's exactly what the parent said it is. If you're driving along, and under 30kph, and someone stops in front of you, or someone walks in front of your car, the car will make every effort to stop itself before the collision will occur. That has nothing to do with cruise control, adaptive or otherwise.

  11. But. I thought that this was solved on Attackers Use Email Spam To Infect Point-of-Sale Terminals · · Score: 1

    I thought that word macros and such were a solved problem. Is anyone still running Office 97? After that, macros were disabled by default.

  12. Re:48GB?! on Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked · · Score: 1

    Alaska has caps like that. And the new "unlimited" plan that GCI just rolled out is 10/1Mb 40Gb max for data, then they throttle you down to 1Mb down/ 1Mb up. Oh, and they want like $60 for it.

  13. Re:Force his hand..."Sue me! Sooner than later..." on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    But. It might end up on his PERMANENT RECORD.

  14. Interactive? on Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a "fast, interactive article"? What do you want to bet there won't be a block or close button on them either.

  15. Re:Wasn't there an Apache helicopter simulator... on The World's Most Dangerous Driving Simulator · · Score: 1

    I work on full motion flight simulators (MD-11 and 747-400) and those things can move!

    Like, several tens of tons of metal going from one extreme to another in less than a second in some cases. Building shaking? Not so much. Air displacement and the sound of the hydraulics moving that much mass that quickly? Scary some times.

    Imagine something the size of a large dump truck moving straight up 4 meters, then straight back down 4 meters and them back up in just a second or so. It just "feels" wrong.

  16. Sorry on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 1, Funny

    eh.

  17. Re:One Criterion Missing on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    I think they should fly a tested copy of the thing up the the ISS, attache a MecJeb control unit and a solar panel to it, point it into deep space, let it go, and keep an eye on it.

    All joking aside, one of these EM drives with an RTG and a transmitter attached and launched into space for testing should be done. Just get it up to like L2 and point it to celestial north to get it out of the ecliptic. Fire up the drive and see what happens. Use the transmitter to track acceleration.

  18. Re:LOL LOL OMG.. HAHAHAHA on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    I knew a guy like that when I was in. He was an E-3 and he bought a really nice brand new Corvette. After the loan payments and insurance, he didn't have money left to put gas in it and actually drive the damn thing.

  19. Re:Choose init during installation? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ok. Yes. It seems to work. Just append this to the end of the boot string after pressing tab and you'll have a sysvinit system:

    preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core"

  20. Re:Choose init during installation? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    Trying it now. Will replay with results.

  21. Re:Choose init during installation? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just did an install in a vm. No. There is no option to choose an init system. systemd is default. If you want to use sysvinit, you have to do it via a pre-install script which basically means, netinstall.

  22. Re:systemd vs initd on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 2

    Wow. You seem more attached to my address than I am. Perhaps I should offer @init.sh email addresses for the die hards :)

  23. systemd vs initd on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    here we go...

    Guess it's time to change my email address...

  24. Re:Wow on Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism · · Score: 1

    You still never provided a citation to your claim of 72 vaccines. Way to miss the point.

  25. Re:The antivaxers will ignore this... on Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism · · Score: 4, Informative

    " the idea being to add it to shots as something to enhance the body's reaction to a foreign body"

    Wrong. the "mercury" in the vaccine is trace amounts of themirosol, which is a preservative used as an antibacterial/anti-fungal agent for multidose vials of vaccines. Its inclusion in single dose vials has been almost eliminated just to placate idiots like you who think it's dangerous or don't know what it actually does.

    If you stick a needle into a multidose vial and it keeps getting punctured, there is a chance of contaminants getting introduced. The themirosol prevents that.

    It has nothing to do with making the body react stronger to the vaccine. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Get educated:

    http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBl...