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  1. Re:Drop football, save $100 million on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and this is where i have to ask what is the core competency of a university? to make money? to entertain fans? to educate students?

    Just be cause you can make money at something doesn't mean you should focus resources on it, unless it's one of your core competency.

    If it really is a "profit center" and something they can make money from, great but they need to contract control of it out on set terms and use the money generated by it to increase the educational offerings and make it easier for them to achieve in their reason for being, educating students.

  2. Re:17938 infringements or just 1? on Judge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case · · Score: 1

    but by that argument wouldn't it be one count for the server and then one for each of the clients, as they knew they not using the autorized server.. so really this defendant is liable for one count and each of the users are each in their own liable for a count.. so if they wnat the 3.6m they will need to solicit it from the actual 17k people who bypassed the DRM

  3. Re:It just works. on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 0

    let me know how it "preform"s in 2-3 years while on the road, as the battery needs to be replaced and you have to dismantle it or send it off to them.. also would love to see a work study done to show the loss of efficiency due to only having a single mouse button.

  4. Re:Valid Use on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    Agreed - but being Sony - i'm not keeping my hopes up.. especially if they don't open up/licence the spec for someone else to manufacture

  5. Re:Not just florida... on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 2

    I still remember having an elementary text book wrong, and the teach teaching too it.. it has a typeo saying the Statue of Liberty was made of bronze.. When i pointed it out after the teacher read it.. she paused and then just moved on ignoring me.. what can you do right? i believe i was ~6-7 years old at the time, but i knew i was right so i crossed it out and corrected it in my book so the next kid would get it right.

  6. Re:Broadband cable? on All-Optical Networks: the Last Piece of the Puzzle · · Score: 1

    also note that in an all optical network the analogy of a series of tubes is closer to correct than one with copper.

  7. Re:Valid Use on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    the problem is from what little we know LTO beats it.. now if it can match LTO and give you good random access (equivalent to Optical media) then they may have something.. but even then given their track record and the target market that would be in interested in the device, and have the money to pay for it, will want to see the standard opened up so that more than just Sony can manufacture it and the media.

  8. Re:Xfinity traffic is not internet Traffic on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If it crosses onto a public IP block then it is internet traffic even if it's just you talking to the guy next to you. Have it as Intranet traffic they would need to use the reserved blocks for all traffic per RFC1918.

  9. Re:Wow, Slashdotters have gotten stupid on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Thanks, that's good to know

  10. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    and a driving factor to get people to get vaccinated would be to charge the ones who do cause people to get sick with crimes for their actions.. get person A for manslaughter or murder and person B-Z will get vaccinated.. would have less back lash than forcing everyone in the public to get vaccinated.. when you force it even the people who would have done it will complain.. when you make it only effect the bad actors.. the rest of the herd will shun them and support punishment.

  11. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    and your point? my post was in agreement with you but i would rather not impose one someones "right" but rather hold them to their actions.

    by not getting vaccinated, if they are the source of someone whom has yet had the chance to be vaccinated getting sick then they are responsible for that and the outcome. If the person dies then that means the person is responsible for their death as it could have been prevented by getting vaccinated.

  12. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    But in this case, if you are vaccinated and they are not, and they get sick you are still fine because you have been vaccinated.

    Only in a case where you too are not vaccinated are they an issue.

    The real issue comes down to people who are not yet old enough to make informed decisions or who are not old enough to be safely vaccinated. Some vaccines are not safe for kids under four years old. The question then comes down to, the right of a person who could be vaccinated but isn't knowingly risking the life of another person (child under four) who can not yet be vaccinated.

    in the case of two people unvaccinated and one getting the other sick, well too bad to both..

    in the case of someone who chooses not to be vaccinated getting someone who is yet able to be sick and possibly having them die, i consider that knowingly putting someone at risk of bodily harm and even death, and i believe we already have laws on the books to deal with that.

  13. Re:Wow, Slashdotters have gotten stupid on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    the problem i have with it is that it is meant to be daisy chained vs a hub and spoke design.. with networks we learned that token ring wasn't the best design, we need to apply the same logic to the internal bus.

  14. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    also make note that most fire departments are volunteer and only the chief and a few other support are actual paid (if even that)..

  15. Re:Customer Service on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    I refuse to shop there after an incident three years ago with a laptop. they had a x-mass special limited quantity (not a black Friday) for a nice 14in dell with a 1600x1440 screen. went bought it took it home.. fired it up and it only had a 1366x768 screen.. i checked the part number and the laptop did not match the number on the box. i packed it up and took it back that night. they wouldn't take it for return accusing me of swapping it, i finely (after causing a bit of a stir) got the manager to open another box off the shelf, It too had the miss patched part number. they STILL would not let me return it for a full refund, only store credit or -15% restocking fee. It was only after way too much time bitching and threatening to file a police report for theft/fraud them and intentionally being vocal about it that they agreeded to refund my money. the kicker on that is they still wouldn't give it to me. Because i had paid via debt they couldn't do a refund to the card and refunds over X value they can't give cash in the store and had to "mail me a check". I had them put it in writing ( the receipt, and the form they filled out) and had the store manager agree to sign it and give me copy.

    Its was an obvious problem that dell or someone in the supply chain messed up the order, but the way they handled it says more than i need to know about what they think of the people they rely on to stay in business. I will never shop there again, i don't care what their prices are, and as far as i'm concerned they can go out of business and everyone working there can go find jobs at stores that will teach them to actually respect the people they rely on to stay in business.

  16. Re:Odd, hardware as "vaporware" on Copper-Graphene Nanocomposite Cools Electronics Faster & Cheaper · · Score: 1

    thanks for the update, i'd not heard about that. i've been tempted to go to the local tech shop and try to build a rather large one and give it a run on a small AC unit and an see how well it works.. if their numbers work out it should prove to be a very good tech, and should be cheap but we all know that woln't happen.

  17. Re:Odd, hardware as "vaporware" on Copper-Graphene Nanocomposite Cools Electronics Faster & Cheaper · · Score: 1

    agreeded - i want this mixed with the extremely impressive heat sink/fan design where the majority of the heat sink was spun as the blades rather than a fan forcing air on to a surface area..

    http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/new-heat-sink-could-slash-us-e.html

    http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2010/100258.pdf

    Which should be an extremely cheap design to licence if not free as it was published by a government agency. it's more than 2 years old, requires no new tech to be built, just a difference in how we machine and build parts. why can't we buy these yet? when could we see these made out of this new fun composite compound? do i need to just give up and go down the the local machine shop and make it my self?

  18. Re:Seems rather limited to Intel. on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 1

    While i will agree with you that it should include more than Intel.. it is a CPU database and doubt DSP's would be included do to the fact that are well, not CPU's..

    But on the other hand the same type of setup for common types of IC's would be useful

  19. Re:OneNote on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 2

    we use use x200t & x220t 's with OneNote at work and to be honest the battery life isn't an issue unless someone forgets to charge theirs during the night.

  20. Re:Also in Finland on Swedish Teleco Firms Looking Into Block VoIP Claiming Losses In Earnings · · Score: 1

    I understand, and thanks i love my sig.. it applies to a lot of people/things, my self included more than i'd like.

  21. Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    First - i was not comparing RIM to Apple or other cell carriers.. i was comparing them to other "cloud" services (thing real ones that work on the same scale as RIM's internal network) that the GGGP made a comment too.

  22. Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    well i give the concept of "cloud" computing a little more credit than just a name.. if you look at something like AWS/EC2 they provide a very good platform for designing and implementing a system that can scale quickly and affordable.. RIM's back end was not what you would consider a distributed system. redundancy and the ability to grow capacity based on demand are completely different subjects and shouldn't be confused. a "cloud" computing solution would allow growth based on demand.. but both a "cloud" and a non scalable system both should have redundancy.

  23. Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    i wouldn't count RIM's system as a "cloud computing solution" from everything i've ever read on the many many many outages they have had, their systems do not scale well at all.

  24. Re:Also in Finland on Swedish Teleco Firms Looking Into Block VoIP Claiming Losses In Earnings · · Score: 1

    in the foreseeable future...?

    That's a key bit here.. see you have a large industry that all want to do it but none want the bad PR they know will come with it.. once One of them does it and survives the PR backlash then the others can make a better judgement call on it and will be follow suit. To them it's nothing but risk assessment, all this comment proves is that the Telenor exec in question isn't willing to put his neck on the line for the current unknown risk, once the risk is know he will to the full extent that it will make him money.

  25. Re:Wheres the Beef?? on IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 1

    That sounds great - but what is seemingly described here does not reflect what you just said. I understand "shit happens" but what is described here (having to re-config it on the fly without knowing where things are) shows a lack of planning, particularly proper scoping of the facility ahead of arrival.