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  1. Re:CPU, HDD, WiFi - RAM doesn't matter on Samsung Develops Power-Sipping DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    You forgot some things: in particular, the GPU and DVD
    The full story: Revisiting "How Much Power Does My Laptop Really Use"?
    Graph

  2. Re:"Power Sipping" on Samsung Develops Power-Sipping DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1
    Yes. (Well "dislike" instead of "hate"--hate is such a harsh term.) And I dislike it just as much as these:

    "Samsung has been actively supporting the IT industry with our green memory initiative by coming up with eco-friendly, innovative memory products providing higher performance and power efficiency every year," Dong Soo Jun, Samsung's president of the memory division, said in a statement.

    Add "ecosystem" as well.

  3. Pseudo Open Drain (POD) technology on Samsung Develops Power-Sipping DDR4 Memory · · Score: 3, Funny


    PatPending (talking to friend on phone during a bash help session): It's called Pseudo Open Drain (POD) technology
    Friend: Okay, I'll try that...
    Friend(typing): sudo open drain
    Friend: Argh! I hate this command line bullshit!

  4. Re:Violation of Payment Card Industry regulations? on Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law · · Score: 1

    A Chargeback is an entirely different subject. (We routinely handle them every so often.)

  5. Re:Polarity? on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    DC has a polarity; AC doesn't. AC has line ("hot"); neutral; and ground (assuming single phase wiring). Reversing the former two creates a potentially (no pun intended) deadly hazard.

  6. Apache Subversion on Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet · · Score: 1

    Let's just hope Apache Subversion isn't used.

  7. Re:Ohh I was right! on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    P.S. Thank you for your sig--I'm gonna use that quote when I'm dealing with some of my clients.

  8. Re:i so don't care on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon holds the record for most weeks on Billboard's list (772 weeks). Now get off my lawn.

  9. Re:red? on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 1

    Stories get red backgrounds behind the title,

    As opposed to "backgrounds in front of the title." :P

    Signed,

    Department for Anti-Redundancy Department

  10. Re:Subversion development _is_ slow on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 2

    I respectfully suggest you read the second link in The Fine Summary. All Will Be Revealed (TM).

  11. Re:The Apache Way on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 1

    The Apache Way (TM) is to hack 'em to bits.

  12. Re:Smell test on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why don't you quit your Jive Talkin'?

    WANdisco is simply focusing on Stayin' Alive in these difficult times.

    So instead of making snide remarks, You Should Be Dancing in their Boogie Shoes!

    And--did you ever think of this?--maybe their CEO Dave Richards has Night Fever from working in a Disco Inferno!

    So if you're More Than a Woman, I ask: How Deep is Your Love for open source?

    Now, my friend, is the time to step down from your Manhattan Skyline and spend a Night on Disco Mountain before you have a Calypso Breakdown!

    (And maybe savor A Fifth of Beethoven while you're at it.)

    And I do apologize for my ranting--I blame a relapse from Saturday Night Fever

  13. Re:Smell test on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 2

    This just in: due to negative publicity surrounding his comments, WANdisco CEO David Richards has announced plans to rename the company WANkers.

  14. Re:Smell test on Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real · · Score: 2

    If you take any organization called "WANdisco" seriously, you have bigger issues than where exactly your open source software came from :P

    Yeah, they really should have choosen a more professional name, such as WANdiscotheque.

  15. Re:Packaging for ESD protection? on Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips · · Score: 1

    As I recall, having a quartz window will necessitate a ceramic package instead of plastic, so the manufacturing cost and also the mass of the device just considerably increased.

  16. Bypass Gizmag, direct URL on Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips · · Score: 4, Informative
  17. Re:Amazing... on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    This would not have mattered because he did something really stupid: he sent a personal email to his work account.

  18. Re:Amazing... on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1
    The amount of restitution is yet to be determined and could include:
    1. Infringer pays the actual dollar amount of damages and profits
    2. The law provides a range from $200 to $150,000 for each work infringed
    3. Infringer pays for all attorneys fees and court costs

    So the sum total may exceed the penalty for "making available" 24 songs. We will just have to wait to find out.

  19. Re:Good! on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    The police don't have jurisdiction for mail fraud and copyright infringement crimes. (And I'm not sure about aggravated identity theft. Anyone?)

  20. Re:He should be glad that he wasn't in China. on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    And then the Chi Comms would send a bill to the man's family for the cost of the bullet.

  21. Re:Misplaced focus on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 2
    And there is also this:

    He will also be required to make restitution to the companies who created the games. The amount of restitution is yet to be determined.

    Assuming it's the retail price, 35,000 games @ $20 amounts to $700,000

  22. Re:Amazing... on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 2
    And also this:

    He will also be required to make restitution to the companies who created the games. The amount of restitution is yet to be determined.

  23. Re:Misplaced focus on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 4, Informative
    Not just 30 months; there's also this:

    Bi also forfeited $367,669 in cash, representing the proceeds of the crimes, as well as his house, a 2006 Lexus SUV and computer and electronic equipment.

  24. Re:Amazing... on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 2
    Dunno. However there's this:

    Bi also forfeited $367,669 in cash, representing the proceeds of the crimes, as well as his house, a 2006 Lexus SUV and computer and electronic equipment.

  25. Ratted out by company email software on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 4, Informative
    According to the story in TFS,

    Agents and officers with the FBI Cybercrime Task Force, and U.S. Postal Inspectors are credited with the success of the case.

    Er, no--credit monitoring software at the company he worked for!:

    New monitoring software at Nationwide Insurance spelled the beginning of the end for an employee who had been counterfeiting and selling computer games for five years. The software alerted Nationwide officials to a spreadsheet that Qiang "Michael" Bi had sent from his personal e-mail account to his Nationwide e-mail account. The spreadsheet listed eBay accounts, credit-card numbers and false identity information that Bi used in a lucrative counterfeiting scheme.

    The spreadsheet listed more than 50 eBay and PayPal accounts, all with different names. Bi told investigators he used other people's information on the accounts because eBay and PayPal had suspended his accounts and do not allow a new account with the same name and address as a suspended account.