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  1. Housing crisis ignored on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    There is an affordable housing crisis in the US that has been easily ignored since 2009. Only those with real money can afford to buy any home today. I just want a home but flippers buyout with cash what I can only afford on credit. Then flip the home nearly doubling the cost. I know -now- that renting is what I will do until death. Enjoy your home.

  2. Slashdot community bites down hard on free speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    Sites gets banned for legitimate reasons all the time Thousands of other legitimate business sites go through this all the time. This site cries like baby and throws poo at internet community to get attention drawn to its "cause" much less the real problem for the ban. Slashdot community bites down hard on free speech bullshit... entertains crap... lame.

  3. DNS does not the internet make on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    DNS is not needed to connect to the address of any offending node. This could only hurt legitimate uses of DNS. It will not shut them down.

  4. Yes its possible - kernal version 2.6.8 or greater on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    1. Image the drive 2. Move image into VM 3. Stabilize the VM 4. Move VM to other hardware of choice Tools: acronis universal restore for linux kernal version 2.6.8 or greater -this is all i know

  5. no one in PDX cares... on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    no one in PDX cares one way or the other... seriously the only ones that seem too dont even live there.

  6. Replace Outlook on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 1

    Replace Outlook and AOO wins Until then Open Office doesn't have a chance.

  7. All C=64 emu's are not perfect on Reviving a Commodore 64 Computer Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately there is not a C=64 emu that can perfectly emulate the hardware Not sure what value it would be to get one running on a Pi Archon? Ultima4?

  8. Re:I'm still reading the paper on... paper on News Worth Buying On Paper · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Headline should read first millennials rediscover print, now feel even more entitled. The phrase "collect your information from as many sources as possible" heralds new era in information gathering. meh...

  9. Your barking up the wrong tree. on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 1

    Your barking up the wrong tree. The only thing you need is a teaching degree and plenty of certs.

  10. Oracle developers on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? · · Score: 1

    All of our Oracle developers install their own software. They have no problem doing so.

  11. Its standard practice today on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    This first happened to me in 2008. I consider it standard practice today.

  12. Class is In. on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    College is about providing proof that you have the ability to excel in general studies at a higher level, the highest level. Computer Science is a Science Degree and therefore requires the basic corner stone of a Bachelors of Science degree... and that's Math. What your looking for is a "degree" or certifications in a specialty, vocation or whatever your trade of choice is. You didn't say anything about teaching or obtaining a Masters which demonstrates the highest caliber of ability. Ability that is peer reviewed by the best currently living in your culture and maybe the even the world. If you dont want to qualify for these things then you dont want a Computer Science degree.

  13. Mental Masturbation on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    I will take truthiness over the mental masturbation that is this article. The sampling rate should be adjusted for each and every track. But putting the idea out there that its a crappy choice is a lie too. I will dump compression any day for the original WAV. Then this argument truly is utterly pointless.

  14. The USA is a big country. on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    Some folks in other countries just dont get how spread out the USA is. There is no public transportation worth taking to work if its takes 3 hours just to get you there. I dont do anything with my car except go to work now. Quality of life has dropped of the map for some of us. Its not even worth owning a car anymore, but only tied to it out of need to get to work. A vicious cycle.

  15. Its a hate crime on Dharun Ravi Trial: Hate Crime Or Stupidity? · · Score: 1

    Its a hate crime. This guy obviously had something against him being Gay. No matter how his reasoning is wrapped, in the end its still Hate and Ignorance, plain and simple. Gays will always be a minority. Gays will always be a minority. Gays will always be a minority. There can be no equal Rights for Gays unless the Majority of Straits can empathizes with them as equals. Their lives and life styles -will always be- in the control of the strait majority. Try to imagine how that marginalization would warp your life. As long as there are those who marginalize Gays, there will be enough Hate for them to allow the average person to think it OK to destroy their lives. Human Empathy Test Fail = Human Rights Fail

  16. Video Games using Secure Distribution Channels on Ubisoft Considers Always-Connected DRM "A Success" · · Score: 1

    If you considered a Video Game a Distribution Channel, that you pay a one time fee or subscription for, it would be like any other sub-premium pay to view TV programming. I think the interaction involved in a video game is often better than television. That's not to say that all distribution channels should be only electronic. I prefer physical media. Something that still has some true value that can be lent, borrowed and sold or traded at will. Give me that ability with my secure electronic property and then I would have a better opinion about it.

  17. Works for Halo - So find another reason. on Mega Man Designer Explains Japan's Waning Video Game Influence · · Score: 1

    The formula seems to Work for Halo.
    Americans love FPS... especially on their consoles.
    And that's what they get... the same regurgitated crap over and over...
    Its working and has been working here for over 10 years.

    How many FPS's has Japan created in the last 10 years?
    How many of those have been mega hits in the US?

    I hate when "experts" say crap like this.

    "When asked why, he responds, 'A lot of designers, if they find a genre that works for them, they stick with it. A lot of designers just stick to a set formula. That doesn't work any more. You can't just tweak the graphics, work just on image quality. You can't compete on that."

  18. Re:Circular circuit board on Silicon Valley's Island of Misfit Tech · · Score: 1

    They make nice analog clocks after they are done being used.

  19. Re:Gamestop -- pushing used games over new on Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its such a crappy deal I dont know why any one uses them.
    I used them once and never went back.
    CraigsList if far more worth my time and money.

  20. Personal MultiMedia and Communications Host on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    I use mine for personal email, image and file hosting.
    I have many non published web pages and portals that I share with friends.
    Its more like a private and personal internet host for me.
    Not the traditional "domain" thing to do.

  21. How Bizzare on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 1

    With the costs involved in an Alienware system you would think that it would be been reported stolen immediately to Alienware.
    I know I would have... and I have for some Dell laptops that where eventually recovered.
    Is also very strange that Dell doesn't have a transfer of ownership program for one of their Premium products
    but they do for their average systems.

  22. A long time ago it was possible but no longer on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Possible before the big bang fully crystallized the laws of nature.
    And was possible before dark energy took over and expansion started.
    Only possible today at subluminal speeds... at least that's what the brain slugs keep telling me.
    We are going to need generation ships and the ability to live a lot longer.

  23. Re:VM's are easy and fun... I'll take a free licen on Windows 7 To Include "Windows XP Mode" · · Score: 1

    Your are correct.
    However I am not sure that there are not still situations where extremely high I/O is better served by hardware.
    The lines are blurring much more now between virtual and purely hardware driven systems.
    If you have worked with virtual machines as much as I have then you know this.

    VM's are great sandbox's...
    I will take a freely destructible and instantly restore-able virtual XP license anytime.
    Thank you very much.

    Instantly restore-able?
    I have built a fully restore-able Virtual Machine network using a torrent based file sharing system.
    The system was built for a computer school that uses terabytes of Microsoft VM's to teach the classes they offer.
    They had a need to restore\reload\update hundreds of clean VM's every week, even daily.

    This system uses every computer and network resources available at peak effectiveness.
    It was free to implement with the exception of a high capacity filer.
    A gigabyte network was not necessary.

    The system was designed to "restore" all VM's accross hunderds of machines or a -single machine- very quickly by referencing clean copies of the all VM's on a separate hidden and locked hard drive located in all the machines on the network.
    The Primary tracker, uTorrent, also references its only clean copy. (until an updated torrent \ VM image is made)

    The system uses two components
    1. uTorrent as both a client and server
    2. a simple securely hosted web page to host the torrent files across all machines.

    Restoring hundreds, adding or updating VM's is very easy.
    (updating is as simple as creating a new torrent with the same name and sharing the new torrent out to all machines)
    Restoring is as simple as logging in to each machine as the admin and launching uTorrent which does a CRC check and only downloads the changes made in the VM image file. (usually less than 20%)
    Restoring or updating a 12GB VM to a clean state takes less than 15 minutes. (only re-downloading the broken or changed pieces)
    Adding Virtual Machines across multiple machines reduces P2P copy\restore\update time and is 100% error free.

    This took a job, that was prone to error becuase P2P file transfer is not 100% error free, that could take 4 hours down to about 20 minutes.
    And it is 100% perfect because of the torrent systems built-in error correction...
    Outside of Hardware failure every student gets a perfectly working set of VM's to work from every time and anytime... about 500GB worth.

  24. VM's are easy and fun... I'll take a free license on Windows 7 To Include "Windows XP Mode" · · Score: 1

    A free pre-built and licensed WindowsXP_SP3 Virtual machine being included with Windows7 sounds good to me.
    I wont be using their free VM to migrate my old XP OS, yet it will be a fun free toy to play with.
    I will be restoring my current XP OS to a Virtual Machine running on a physical drive using Acronis Universal Restore.
    Its easy enough to move almost any Windows OS from a VM to Hardware and Back again if needed using various software's like Acronis.
    If its not a graphics driven or extremely high I/O machine VM's work work good.

         

  25. DOOM on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    A black hole would open up and swallow the universe, only to barf it all back out in Java and HTML.