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  1. Re:Nikola Tesla on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    The English pronunciation of Nicholas is actually neither of those two sounds, and you would be surprised how much Nikola is pronounced incorrectly with the same sound as Nicholas.

  2. Re:I don't understand on Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way · · Score: -1, Troll

    You clearly don't know very much about how windows works. Incompetence by design.

  3. Re:Boo f*cking hoo on Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles · · Score: 1

    No one ever accused MBAs of having a brain.

  4. Re:Nikola Tesla on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    N = 'ee' type sound.

  5. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Anyone who uses terminology like 'pro-evolution' thus feeding into the delusions of creationists should NOT be modded insightful.

  6. Re:On High Schools doing more... on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 1

    That's a good strawman argument. I said nothing about teacher salaries. I said per student spending was up, which says absolutely nothing about teacher salaries. You should learn some reading comprehension.

    Besides that, salaries are not incentives to performance when they are based on seniority and you cannot be sacked for performance.

  7. Re:On High Schools doing more... on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 1

    Apparently your good school never handed you a copy of Strunk. Uck.

    Also funding is entirely irrelevant. Throwing money at a school system does not work. Don't believe me? Look at California. Per student spending is up some 40% in five years, number of students is down. Not a god damn thing to show for it.

  8. Re:As an Indiana resident... on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    You wanna know how I got these scars?

  9. Re:I could be mistaken here on FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, welcome to decades ago? This shit isn't exactly new.

  10. Re:I did it last week on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 1

    If you lived in the US, you would be sitting in a jail cell right now facing felony charges FYI. Never help anyone with their computer in the US. It's not worth it.

  11. Re:Gawd... on Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation · · Score: 1

    They're only stereotypes if they're wrong.

  12. Re:Why doesn't somebody countersue them on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    See also: Harassment by court.

  13. Re:Why doesn't somebody countersue them on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    What are you doing with cameras in my bedroom?

  14. Re:Phone companies are oxygen hogs on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    It is generally expected that as fixed costs become a smaller portion of total cost that average cost will fall. That is to say that:
    C=F+V*N
    Where C is total cost, F is the fixed cost (rent, machinery, things that don't scale with increased production), V is the variable per unit cost (raw materials, labor per unit) and N is the number of units produced. Average cost is then
    A=V+F/N
    As N becomes larger, A becomes smaller. This is the economy of scale.

    Of course, in reality V is not orthogonal to N, and as N becomes very large V will also begin to increase. This is known as a diseconomy of scale. Examples of this include cases where increased production drives up the price of raw materials (i.e. the firm has market power as a buyer), non-linear increasing maintenance costs, or ballooning beauracratic costs.

  15. Re:That is impractical. I mean, impossible. on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    No such law is necessary. It is already on the books. All it would take is to convince a judge that failure to vaccinate constitutes endangerment. That is the way common law systems (like the US and UK) work.

  16. Re:not able to be used == not useful on A Quantum Linear Equation Solver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He's my number 1 for being a genius AND a manwhore.

  17. Re:Spy and Malware. on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    Correction: I did say they couldn't, I meant to say IF they couldn't.

  18. Re:Spy and Malware. on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    I didn't say for a fact that they couldn't, I said IF they couldn't.

    My point was simply that the ability to spot the problem is not itself a solution.

  19. Re:Spy and Malware. on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    As Berners-Lee pointed out when he wrote that version of gcc, your only real solution is write your own disassembler that will not be recognized by the tainted compiler so you can test it to try and catch it in the act of inserting the exploit into the binary. Time to brush up on your assembly language.

    If the compiler is compromised there is no other solution because any tool you might try can be compromised by the compiler in compiling it. It's a vastly more sophisticated version of a trojan that disables your anti-virus. All you can do is write everything in binary yourself.

    Now you've got me all paranoid.

  20. Re:No he doesn't on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that they have the option. The consequences might just be unacceptable. Then again, who wants Virtual Studio anyway?

  21. Re:Just curious... on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There should not be any list of scientists opposing global warming. A scientist would never be opposed to any interpretation. They might consider the interpretation incorrect, but that is a VERY different thing from being opposed to it.

    As an example: I think intelligent design is incorrect, I am opposed to teaching intelligent design as science. I am NOT opposed to intelligent design itself. That would be stupid.

    I'm sure you'll accuse me of being pedantic, and nit-picking, but if you do you are missing my point. Linguistic laziness and poor communication skills are the source of all flame wars and I am god damn sick of them. People need to learn how to speak.

  22. Re:Could be fun on Google Was 3 Hours Away From DOJ Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1

    Telephone and cable service.

    Local monopolies still exist everywhere in the continental US. Had AT&T not been broken up, I'm willing to bet it would still be a national monopoly on phone service.

  23. Re:Woz is The Phantom with the Glowing Eyes on Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair, sometimes they added a twist where there was an obviously disgruntled minor character AND an amicable minor character. The gang would then always incorrectly pursue the disgruntled character (who likes a grumpy gus anyway?) only to be shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU! when the disgruntled character proved instrumental in helping them catch the real culprit, the amicable one. Also, the disgruntled one was usually an under cover cop.

  24. Re:You can't spot the obvious danger? on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    Two words for you: Asymmetric backdoor.

  25. Re:No danger whatsoever on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 0

    I don't believe you. Chinese people don't get slashdot.

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    Certainly if it wasn't blocked before, it is now.