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  1. Re:5 percent is too high. on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    any single person's experience isn't relevant

  2. Re:MythBusters on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 1

    eh? people have levitated themselves with helium filled weather balloons, one man attached them to a lawn chair, look it up

  3. Re:waste of helium. on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 1

    that would be foolish, more economical with that kind of equipment to reclaim it from liquified atmosphere. which is why there will never be a "helium shortage" on planet earth for hundreds of millions of years.

  4. Re:waste of helium. on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 1

    you might be interested to know that the "helium shortage" nonsense you've been reading is a bunch of bullshit. vast amounts still remain mixed with natural gas underground, and even if wastefully vented just stays in the atmosphere where it can be recovered by other means. there is no shortage of helium and its impossible to dispose of.

  5. Re:Simple solution on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    they are no good for remote administration of OS with command line either, a deal breaker for me

  6. Re:Simple solution on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    I'd wager for more than half of slashdotter that would mean no employment either. Let's vote with your job instead

  7. Re:Why is EC more secure than RSA? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    You are the one with the fallacy. there are crypto systems where increasing key size does nothing to increase security, and even those where ease of breaking *increases* with key size, more bits in the key gives more information about the plaintext. you can't make a blanket statement about key size, only about key size in a particular tecnique of encryption, which again may have security increase, decrease, or stay the same depending on the particular technique

  8. Re:It's a conspiracy! on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    or an in-law

  9. Re:Garage Door Terrorist! on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    they aren't IR anyway

  10. Re:mailing lists on How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    plenty of (popular huge) projects use forum systems that cross post from email and/or newsgroups

  11. Re:Understand the commitment you're making on How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    but plenty of near-abandonware has been picked up by others and made into something popular and useful. lob the shit out and see what sticks....

  12. Re:No on How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    you're confused, all the major project started out as shit that was widely distributed then improved: Linux, gnu compiler collection, apache http server, sendmail...

    meanwhile, in the closed source world, same model followed. windows 1.0 sucked too

  13. Re:two dictionaries say "no such word" on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will give you a "single pane of glass" for "future stars" to view all the "innovations" and "mentorship" in a "major paradigm shift" to "foster success"

  14. Re:What about Russia's GOST Elliptic curve standar on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    wonderful, curves with constant parameters chosen by the KGB would be so much superior.

  15. Re:Not paranoid *enough* ? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    the acre of supercomputers has nothing to do with holding the view of that tradition, no siree

  16. Re:Why is EC more secure than RSA? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    false, key size alone does not determine degree of security. I could make a "key" for the alphabet that is XOR'd...how secure is that? not at all.

    computational difficulty of solving determines security.

  17. Re:The future on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    an AR wont't "Kill the Humans" but might run for public office or go into management

  18. Re:The future on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    i'm pretty sure real writers who could think of a story were phased out. rehasing old ideas is the norm, and can be trivially done on a computer, Artificial Retelligence

  19. Re:Still humans' fault? on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    but damage due to arson is neglible compared to value of destroyed property and extent of damage done by natural fires. hmmm...

  20. Re:It's a conspiracy! on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Absolutely false, laws are not "facts", they are uesful generalizations and most scientific laws have many exceptions.

    You want examples? Ohm's Law, Hooke's Law, Charles Law, Boyle's law are all linear approximations that many materials obey but real world materials have higher order terms and some materials have *opposite* behaviour.

    Second law of thermodynamics, one of the most useful laws, applies to closed systems, but there are no truly closed systems.

    Coulomb's law, applies to electrostatic system but there are no pure electrostatic systems in the universe, it is approximation and so there is "the electrostatic approximation"

  21. for pointing out technical hobbies can grow to livelihoods? you think this is bad?

  22. Re:two dictionaries say "no such word" on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    it's origin is Microsoft wank speak.

    It is a French word, maybe that Microsoft weenie also said things were tres this or that. eurotrash wannabe.

  23. Re:Just one question on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    GPL2 was also a problem, that was the current license when the various BSD started to explore alternate compilers. The BSD want the license for all wares in the core install to be BSD

  24. Re:Rewriting multiple tracks everytime I add data? on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    armchair? no, I do data center devops in the real world

  25. so what? what percent of the population writes software? less than that so websites for software writers (languages, tools) should be banned?