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  1. Re:Not white on Researchers Demonstrate the World's First White Lasers · · Score: 1

    So it's not white, it's tri-colour.

    considering that's how it's always worked, yes

  2. Re: Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    the streaming feed is HD...HD doesn't require that much bandwidth

  3. Re:shampoo on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 0

    Is that a trick question?

    yes.

  4. Re:nice, but they remove your games if you update on NVIDIA Tegra X1 Performance Exceeds Intel Bay Trail SoCs, AMD AM1 APUs · · Score: 1

    why did they need to remove them? android updates aren't that large. Can you redownload them? So they're gone forever?

  5. Re: Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    modern drones don't use a memory card, they stream via an ad hoc connection or as a wifi host to your cellphone. But every once in a while...the drone is actually a dildo...

    of course, it's Hillview PD Policy to never imply ownership of said drone...

    which is why you basically have to shoot it down if you want something done.

  6. Today I learned... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firing a weapon in a populated area except in defense of life and limb is a colossally stupid idea and patently against the law, just because your privacy is being violated is no excuse.

    Today I learned that Hillview, Kentucky is a populated area.

  7. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    aggressive

    yes, much better to be passive-aggressive. If they wanted to see the 16 year old girl at the swimming pool, perhaps they should have just gone up and talked to her? 16 year olds are generally friendly to new faces when you say hi. That would have been aggressive though, much better to use a drone to do the sneaking so you can see her without having to say hi in person.

  8. Re:Companies Selling Actually Free Software? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a little related, but GE doesn't even bother selling the nuclear power plant plans to the Chinese, because to the Chinese, they don't give a shit about your design or intellectual property, they'll just steal it, because to them, if they can copy it, they shouldn't have to pay for it.

    So instead, GE basically gives them the design for free, and then charges them out the ass for 'support'. Which in this case, is the management and oversight necessary for the meticulous implementation that's not going to blow up in their face. They pay for it, because we have the expertise, and it's something they simply can't copy....for now.

    So anyways, RedHat and Linux are like that. The logo of the Fedora you see on their software? That's actually a travelling-wave nuclear reactor. When you install Fedora, you're harnessing the POWER OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS inside your VERY COMPUTER. This is what makes Linux, truly so incredible. Microsoft really has nothing on them. Windows 10? More like Windows EXPLOSIEN! Because Microsoft is like the Chinese and Japanese, they simply don't know how to make a nuclear reactor that doesn't EXPLODE. Linux is like the AMERICANS. beecause the MERICANS know how to HARNESS the power of nukulear fission using LINUX.

    Just think! 2015! the year of nuclear reactors on your desktop.

    --

    ok, so I got carried away, but that's actually how GE is monetizing it.

  9. shampoo on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: -1

    what shampoo do you use?

  10. nice, but they remove your games if you update on NVIDIA Tegra X1 Performance Exceeds Intel Bay Trail SoCs, AMD AM1 APUs · · Score: 0

    no thanks...

  11. pogoing engines on SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million · · Score: 1

    didn't do enough of them. there were design issues that would have surfaced . wikipedia on a friday night when you're bored

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

    "NASA is thinking about making these companies take out insurance policies"

    Who do you think can make a better actuarial judgment of the risk, NASA or an insurance company? The government is certainly large enough to be self insured, which is in the long run cheaper than paying an insurance company which intends to make a profit to assume the risk.

    And, forcing the private launch service companies to take out insurance adds even more cost, by adding another level of administration to pass the money through.

    but that's the whole point!!! pushing money through the stratosphere, not just into it. money is often refered to as liquidity because you can practically burn it like rocket fuel when

    eh, ideas stopped there

  13. Re:Bit-rotted code on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    Is that even a thing? How do bits rot?

    it's only the ones that don't get used as frequently. the zeros are ok

  14. Re:Now if only Slashdot would get rid of video ads on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    haha. now THAT is clever

  15. Re:If neither party is willing to foot the whole b on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    Say it costs $20 to provide a service. Advertisers are willing to pay only $10, and subscribers are willing to pay $10. The result is Hulu Plus, which has both ads and payment.

    mmmm not the ones I know.

  16. Re:I believe it... on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    There are few things that bug me more than a page load delay waiting for an ad url to respond.

    or when the page formatting isn't set up right and when it renders it pops the browser view around. hm, I suppose the browser window could be modified to detect this stabilize keep the view ...

  17. Re:Messy IEEE article on Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI · · Score: 1

    That's because in american health care system we have to 10 CEO's before the patient is allowed to the see the doctor first.

    In france they lowered it to just 3 ceo's

    as opposed to many eastern european countries where Americans and those with cash under the table see the doctor first. Unless you don't want to wake up...

  18. Re:Don't buy based on any promises on NVIDIA Hopes To Sell More Chips By Bringing AI Programming To the Masses · · Score: 2

    Last summer I bought a Nvidia Tegra Note 7 tablet based on promises that Android 5 (Lollipop) was coming out for it "real soon". They even stated that it was easy to port Lollipop on the Tegra Note 7 since it was basically a stock Android design with little or on deviation from the standard design. That "real soon" slipped to February of 2015 and when February 2015 came and went Nvidia became strangely mute on the subject, ignoring customers' inquiries.

    What you describe is basically every tablet seller out there save for Google themselves. They save the new versions for their upcoming products, and only after those get put out do they update the old stuff.

    what about their GTX 970 design, top of the line generation that just came out, that has 512MB of VRAM that runs 87.5% slower than the main GDDR5, causing massive hitching and stuttering in any games that use more than 3.5 of the 4GB onboard?

    what's that? you say they patched it?

    yeah, and the company that conceived such a thing to begin with will also be the company to remove the patch in a year's time to get people to upgrade.

  19. Re: Basically, you can only spend so much on Can New Chicago Taxes On Netflix, Apple, Spotify Withstand Legal Challenges? · · Score: 1

    Good post thanks

  20. Re: You can't really do bankruptcy anymore on Can New Chicago Taxes On Netflix, Apple, Spotify Withstand Legal Challenges? · · Score: 1

    Bush also removed capacity for default on student loans in 2005.

    They are not your friends.

  21. It's only one degree hotter. The frog will be fine

  22. that's funny on Hardcore Hardware: Here's What 128GB of DDR4 RAM In a PC Looks Like · · Score: 1

    lol

  23. I have signatures blocked

  24. 2.5). ???

  25. diluting the market on Aiming To Beat Tesla's "3", Chevy Tests and Teases a Cheaper 200-Mile Electric Car · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Like most low end Chevy vehicles it'll probably be a complete shame and do the meaning of the word 'electric', that Tesla has worked so hard to craft prestige into, a disservice. 200 miles isn't enough. People will walk away from electric like they walked away from Atari going 'huh, video games are dumb'.