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  1. Re:I've been to Seattle on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason I should have listened to my mother when she told me, "Dont buy a house in Texas unless it has wheels".

  2. Re:don't forget IPv6 capability on Ask Slashdot: 802.11n Bake-Off Test Plans? · · Score: 1

    Which is why we shouldn't be looking for life on Mars. We should be looking for open wireless access points.

  3. Re:You need to say Bake-off on Ask Slashdot: 802.11n Bake-Off Test Plans? · · Score: 1

    Give Richard_13 a break. He didn't use solution or cloud in his request. ie. I'm open to cloud solutions in the bake-off.

  4. Re:the 32000ms question on CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    We went to a speed measurement site, and the connection performed flawlessly.

    He told you to slosh a bunch of nop packets back and forth over a route with an unknown number of hops or was that your decision? Testing traffic rates properly requires you to use known data over a known path so, if needed, you can check each hop on that path. If they tell you to use an online speed test tell the to GFY.

    is it really possible that OpenBSD has a 30-second holding tank for outbound ping packets only when other packet streams are running concurrently

    No; but, ICMP can be effected by blocking broadcast traffic. If you have a lot of multicast broadcast traffic or they are stopping on UDP packets meant for broadcasting routes it will effect routing tables. If they are using a shitty leaky bucket algo to rate shape then it could easily look like the ICMP packets were "held in the bucket".

  5. Gigabit isn't necessary? on CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    While Internet service providers have said they need to manage online traffic to deal with network congestion during peak hours, the CRTC has instituted a policy stipulating that the noticeable degradation of time-sensitive Internet traffic requires prior commission approval under Canada's Telecommunications Act.

    Maybe they should deal with network congestion by building a faster infrastructure. Perhaps that gigabit network that "nobody could possibly use" IS necessary.

  6. What a troll on Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "The Obama administration argued"? Yeah right. Obama stopped by the judges office and told him to overturn the decision. Just like a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/211243/Obama-DOJ-Sides-With-RIAA-Again-In-Tenenbaum">Obama's Department of Justice is somehow a separate entity of the government. The Justice Department is the Justice Department. They don't get replaced when a new president gets elected. Laws are created in Congress not the Whitehouse. If you want to point the finger at who is responsible point it at the republicans that passed the law to fuckholio ordinary people in the name of the RIAA.

  7. Follow the bonus on IT Could Have Caught $2 Billion Rogue Trader · · Score: 1

    Wake me when the IT department finds out which affiliate of the bank profited from the "rogue trader". This is becoming standard procedure. The "losses" get woosh'd to another branch, one guy takes the blame, a department gets threatened to be axed, and somebody on the executive rollodex gets a big_ass_bonus.

  8. Re:Interesting to see a macro-scale solution on Pumping Fluid With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    It would be a big floppy.

  9. Size doesn't matter on Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course · · Score: 1

    That is what I believe and nothing is going to make me change my mind.

  10. Re:Tragic unavoidable progress on NASA's Big Telescope Avoids Death-by-Budget-Cut · · Score: 1

    Over budget government funded projects work in favor of the republican candidates. I'm glad their desire for potential bad press for Obama worked in our favor.

  11. Office 360 on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    I thought they were trying to force people onto their "cloud" versions anyway.

  12. Re:"Patent reform" on Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today · · Score: 1

    I'm partial to Patent un-fucking. Can we go with that?

  13. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    Encrypted traffic over port 80 is easy to detect. A policy to block it and fire anyone using it wouldn't take very long to become a policy in an environment that wants to monitor all your web traffic.

  14. Re:Ouch on NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools · · Score: 1

    My sign says, "Will work for Porsche".

  15. Re:Probably costs a lot on NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools · · Score: 1

    If every adult male in China bought one item one time for $1, it would subsidize ~20% of the Webb telescope.

  16. Re:Is it up to the pres? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    I included a link because not very many people know what a Mohair ranch is. By bigotry are you assuming I'm meaning to make Obama look bad? To spell out my point, W and Clinton gave tax breaks to friends. Obama gave tax breaks to save jobs. If you think that is bigotry, you need to look up the definition.

  17. Re:I like these training wheels on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    Very nice. Thank you!

  18. No dumbass. The bugs! on Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows a glowing puss should be avoided, aids be damned. Wouldn't it be more useful to make bugs glow instead of the creatures that eat them? Glowing mosquitos. That is all I'm asking for.

  19. [snark] on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Because there is only one computer per household. That computer only has one network accessing application. That application only makes one request. And! Only one response returns to that one computer while that one person waits patiently until it is finished before ever making another request.[/snark]

  20. Re:I like these training wheels on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    as someone who writes SQL queries all day long

    Cool. Maybe you can help me with something. I have a table (time_stamp | direction | bytes). I use the data to draw two lines. An out line and an in line. Each point of the line is a sum of bytes over 10 seconds for a range of time. Is there a way to return a series of sums without using code to decrement variables and run a query for each sum? ie. return a sum per 10 seconds over 60 seconds. Or basically, replace the code below.

    int start_time=-60, end_time=-50;
        for (i=0;i6;i++) {
        query = "select direction, sum(bytes) as b from packets where time_stamp between datetime('now', start_time, 'localtime') and datetime('now', end_time, 'localtime') group by direction;"
        runQuery(query);
        start_time=start_time+10;
        end_time=end_time+10;
    }

  21. Re:Dumbing it down on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    Unless your working with sqlite3 where the date field is a string. Being forced to use date or datetime to examine the text field so the engine compares entries with the correct string format isn't much different from this approach.

  22. Is it up to the pres? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 2

    Wow. I didn't see the connection at first. Dawning my tinfoil hat:

    Pres Clinton
    Chicken ranchers.

    Pres W
    Mohair ranchers (Mohair is vital to the economy of the Texas Hill Country) Mohair Production
    NASCAR Track owners
    Oil Companies
    Hedge fund managers

    Pres Obama
    Automakers

  23. Re:From who? on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? · · Score: 1

    O.K. First of all, give me a copy of that Dr. Who episode your obviously taking about. Second, if you sell it you are breaking the law. So you must give it to me for free.

    btw. can you point out which episode it is?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes#List_of_lost_episodes

  24. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    Vote. Educate people. Volunteer for Obama's campaign. Did I say vote?

  25. Re:Nothing but good stuff IMHO on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    Gains in the last 5 years from solar energy are in the billions. The taxes on the plants are not in the billions, euros or otherwise. They still are making a shit load of money off natural gas. E.On employs more than 50,000 people? I'm sure your thinking globally. I'm talking locally. The number of solar jobs in the last 5 years have been larger than the number they actually released to be the number of people (globally) that will be layed off, 11,000. And that is new jobs inside Germany.