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  1. Re:Meet Suck. The Facebook of sucking. on Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites · · Score: 1

    http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...
    For those who suck.
    SuckTrust was founded by people who love sucking just like you! Enter your favorite ways to suck and we'll help you fit it all in. Since we're using fair technologies, you can count on us next time you suck.

  2. Re:It hurts! on Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites · · Score: 1

    Whipping. Everyone talks about it but only the truly sincere are able to whip day in and day out. Here at WhipBenefit we understand your commitment and want to give you what you need to take your whipping to the next level.
    http://tiffzhang.com/startup/i...

  3. Re:me dumb on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 1

    What worries me is the concept of deconstructed foods. Applied to pudding it would go something like this presentation:

    1 Plain, unflavoured cooked flour+egg pudding
    2 A side of pudding flavoured sauce, like apple sauce
    3 The missing bulk sweet ingredients that should have gone in the pudding e.g. vanilla essence, dried fruit and spices all mixed up as another side.

    To eat it, you get a bit 1, a bit of 3 and a bit of 2.

    As a metaphor, it describes the human condition, but you always wonder if the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

  4. Re:Can we use this? on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 1

    Quantum entanglement cannot be used to send information.

    But it doesn't need to. A reflection IS information.
    Are you saying that an entangled quantum particle pair cannot be observed?

  5. Re:me dumb on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 1

    It's more like a digital copy sort of thing. A particle gets sucked into a black hole. But there is radiation (emanation) on the edges of it that send the particle back into the universe, except it is quantum linked to the particle that's still inside. That link is a wormhole.
    Therefore the black hole seems to sample the particle (maybe adds some drm to it) and spews out a particle linked to the particle that got sucked in.

    So now we've got all these linked particles floating around space, quantum linked with particles inside a black hole. Weird.

  6. But use 2 slots, suffer from frame jitter due to the SLI and less bang per buck.
    The cooling system is a tiny bit of a hassle, especially if you also have cpu water cooling requiring a specialized case. I'd like to see Fiji, the next GPU coming out soon. Nvidia does have the drop on AMD though. No question about that.

  7. This is old news. Reviews have pointed out that the 12GB ram just can't be used fully as no game can use any more than about 6GB even using multiple 4k monitors. Their conclusion reminds one of high end audiophile scams. Here's a very expensive card that doesn't do too much more than the base Titan model.
    So... The AMD R9 295X2 as a single card still beats the Titan. This has a more usable 8GB ram. With a recent price drop, this is a serious card and hitting the sweet spot atm.

    Back to the workstation: So maybe if you are mining bitcoins or have specific software to take advantage of the ram, then maybe it would be worth it. But you can buy 4 AMD 295X2 cards for the price of that Titan.

  8. Re:Good for them on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    http://www.groupon.com/pages/r...
    Looks like other companies give out rewards. I did not know that.
    So if you are a security expert, find something, report it and don't get paid then an implied contract is broken.

  9. Re:Good for them on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 0

    Forget it. I found out how the system operates.

  10. Re:Good for them on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Someone please explain to the rest of us if there is either a verbal or written contract between security experts and website/merchanting/data corporations or business? Or is this some kind of tradition or unwritten corporate responsibility?

  11. Re:Still being translated? on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 1

    All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?

    Wanking off to the plays of Aristophanes probably. I for one collect jokes. Here's one:

    If Euripides his trousers, then Eumenides his trousers

    Ha, Ha Ha, HAHAHAHAHAHA

  12. Re:War on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it was the Shadows. The Vorlons didn't get there in time.

  13. Re:It's Just a Euphemism... on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 1

    Then there was 'Bandwidth' used by a Ford/GM/Chrysler CEO a few years back. Something like "There is not enough bandwidth in this model..." and so on.
    It's just that the managemensturbators have run out of kewl phrasing.

    Now the trick is to try and find out the next groovy word, pull it totally out of its normal context and apply it to something completely different.

    In the meantime, construction of the Ark B ship is on target. Identification of middle management personnel is almost complete via the Mars One sting and collection points in major centers are being established.

    Soon... Soon...

  14. Re:It's not a supervoid on Mysterious "Cold Spot": Fingerprint of Largest Structure In the Universe? · · Score: 1

    The Star Goat ate it.

  15. Re:Marconi stole from Tesla.... on Old Marconi Patent Inspires Tiny New Gigahertz Antenna · · Score: 1

    And others... like Mahlon Loomis http://www.smecc.org/mhlon_loo...
    Marconi was an inventor and managed to get his device into the hands of others, but he wasn't the first.

  16. Re:100 year old news? on Old Marconi Patent Inspires Tiny New Gigahertz Antenna · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was the broiled seagulls and pigeons around old WWII radar installations.....

  17. FFS! What is the accepted definition of execution? Does it involve pain or discomfort?
    What's wrong with anesthesia?

  18. Re:So in 300 years... on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    Well my Grandad knew Hans Delbrook personally. Hans was a genius and it was decided to preserve his brain in a jar at the brain depository. A decade later, it was destroyed by a clumsy thief. A pity, as rumor had it that there was a re-animation experiment going on at the time. It would've been nice to have him back according to Gramps.

  19. Hysteresis on An Engineering Analysis of the Falcon 9 First Stage Landing Failure · · Score: 2

    "entered a form of hysteresis, a condition in which the control response lags behind changes in the effect causing it."
    I had a girlfriend with that condition.

  20. This.... on Why "Designed For Security" Is a Dubious Designation · · Score: 1

    SRW Iron https://www.srware.net/en/soft... is touted to be a secure browser [Warning: Demands Java after install]. I don't think it is.
    In fact, playing around with FF shows that the problem isn't the browser, but the reliance on 3rd party cookies as 1 example of the way websites are constructed.
    If you load FF's Lightbeam and check all the 3rd party sites, block access to them, they often stop the parent website from operating properly or at all. Typically, Google and most banking sites won't work without 3rd party links or cookies.
    Then there are routers that claim security but are still running buggy old firmware. AV software like Bitdefender also have issues. AV software still refuses to scan for pup, browser addons and other malware that the UAC allows! I mean if you download an app, UAC asks for permission which you give for that instance, but it automatically gives permissions for all the other installs that come with the package. Why?
    I reckon half of the security issues can be fixed if some clever plug-ins, better AV database and a trusted installer with UAC can be done. EG Spoofing 3rd party links and cookies within the browser.
    I went here http://alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and downloaded the app a few days ago. It installed on Vista and a Win 7 machine (with MS Defender) I was building. The payload installed as well (Trovi) - I wasn't paying attention btw but the 2nd time I installed it on a Vista machine I had an option of opting out. As a test, I Installed it on another Win 7 box with an updated Kaspersky. It installed (without the payload or opt out!) and when I checked the reports, there was no log or trace that there was any payload at all. Weird, but my respect for Kaspersky has increased and/or the UAC was working properly.
    We all talk about security but there are fundamental, easily fixable things we can do right now. I don't think that this has to do with the OS as most of these issues are external.

  21. A Planetoidary System? on New Horizons Captures First Color Image of Pluto and Charon · · Score: 1

    Alex Stern quote: "This is a real moment in time for you to watch us turn a point of light into a planet."

    So some now believe that Pluto is a planet? With 5 moons?? OMG! What's happening?

  22. Oz Pop and Rock on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They tried that in the late 60's in Australia. So the Aust. radio stations refused to play any US pop/rock and concentrated on available UK bands That very thing allowed the local industry to air home grown tracks on radio (and TV) and I for one think it was the beginning of the early commercial Oz music. Eventually the USA licensors gave up but the re-uptake of US bands by radio stations was slow.
    The other thing is that quite a few radio stations are owned by religious organizations, even though they are full commercial for the added revenue.

  23. Re: Easy grammar on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    Read this http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/sur...
    A nice bit of research on the origins of the naming of 'America'. Even the Hungarians get a say on this as well as the Welsh. :)

  24. Re:Watt is this article about? on The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    I got agitated because I miss-read 'Smart Grid' for 'Smart Meter'. Try and avoid smart meters because they will work against you.
    In the 80s, I lived in a house with a heat bank. This massive collection of brick was warmed up and provided heat during the day. Electricity prices were cheap at the time. If I had that now, I could feed some of my solar electricity to it and save on costs. The problem is that home solar generation either goes to the grid OR gets stored in batteries. Right now it's cheaper to sell my energy and I have thrice achieved +ve $credit in 4 years.
    If I could split the power output, I would of done so already and powered the house at night via batteries and used the existing inverter. In that case I would have upped the panels from 3kw to 6+kw to do the job with almost no ongoing costs. I don't mind capital cost; it's the ongoing cost that breaks most households.
    Now that's all good for the summer months, but cloud and shortened days means that I must rely on grid power unless I supplement that with a 3~5kw diesel generator to feed the batteries (which die after 10 years). So there is no achievable off the grid solution at the moment unless you want to go hippie.

  25. Re:Are you "Google smart?" on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    There's one level below that which I call Facebook Smart. The level below that is FWD: Read This!!!!!
    I think that's the bottom of the barrel. Not sure where /. goes. Maybe between Google Smart and Facebook Smart?