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  1. Re:Oh great on Seagate Reveals 'World's Largest' 60TB SSD (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the RAM needs for this?

    1GB per TB is the general rule. So a 60TB drive would demand 60GB of RAM. 100TB drive would need 100GB.

    Anyone currently running with 100GB of RAM?

  2. Re:Troubled Geniuses on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Right. For example: Omarosa. Now try and name another person from any of the 14 seasons of The Apprentice.

  3. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 2

    I'm saying that a cell phone is a commodity. Which is disaster for Apple of all companies.

    As to comparing a whole category to one product, again we can look at old style phones. They were all the same, for decades at a time. When other companies were allowed to make and sell them, consumers didn't much care. Commodity item. Yawn.

    One could argue that the Smartphone is the Calculator watch of cell phones. Just a passing fad, with basic functionality being all most care about. Again this is a disaster for Apple.

  4. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    A cell phone is not a product. It is a component of a product.

    How many of the old analog phones were in use in the previous system? Did anyone care or talk about it?

    What about the road system? Surely that is the most popular man-made product ever. Two-tenths of one percent of the Earth is covered by roads/parking lots.

  5. Re:That's 129.2F if you're interested. on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's 129.2F if you're interested.

    Or 327.15 K if you care.

    Or 588.9 R if you like show horses.

  6. What is the problem? Someone could read the source code for...a six-second video system? What am I missing here? I didn't see any mention of him being to modify and reupload code. Are any credit cards involved? What is the absolute worst thing that could happen? Someone else hosts six-second videos? je ne comprends pas...

  7. Summary is jacked on Once Valued at $125B, Yahoo's Web Assets To Be Sold To Verizon For $4.83B, Companies Confirm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Current Yahoo shareholders will keep the company's lucrative investments in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. They will be spun into a separate, yet-to-be-named, publicly traded company. The deal also excludes some patents and Yahoo's cash.

    In short, the deal doesn't include Alibaba shares, which are the lion's share of Yahoo!'s value. So, mentioning the $125B value in the summary, not clarifying what the deal is, but saying the deal is for $5B, is ...pretty typical for a Slashdot summary.

  8. Re:Limit Police Use of Bullets on New Illinois Law Limits Police Use Of Cellphone-Tracking Stingray (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Limit Police Use of Bullets

    Like in Norway.

  9. 2H2 + O2 = 2H20
    CH4 + 3O2 = CO2 + 2H2O
    C2H6 + 4O2 = 2CO2 + 3H2O
    C3H8 + 5O2 = 3CO2 + 4H2O

    Interestingly on a "volume of air used per volume of gas" (i.e. molar) basis, one mole of methane uses six times the amount of air as one mole of hydrogen gas.

  10. Re: So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. "Malware" like TinyURL.com, Bit.ly...need I go on?

  11. Re: This is a great loss on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    My father committed suicide because he had an inoperable brain tumor and there was at the time no medical
    solution for his problems.

    What he did made sense to me.

    So much for basing opinions on personal experience.

  12. I do not believe that you can have a web filter that is both effective and not a PITA for normal daily use of things that really are no relation to what's intended to be blocked

    100% secure = 0% accessible
      0% secure = 100% accessible

    So what has happened here is a loss of access. An ISP with potentially millions of customers has downgraded everyone's service.

    The temperature of the water the frog is in will be increased. The frog either moves out of that water (if there is other water to move to) or gets boiled (eventually).

  13. Re:At least it's good to know FB has priorities on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is all pretty straightforward.

    (1) Media make money when they hide nudity.
    (2) Media make money when they show violence.

    These two rules are used over and over again because...

    (3) Companies want to maximize profit and have not the slightest care nor concern for human beings

  14. at some point people will look at the 10 64GB SD cards they already have and decide they're good, thanks anyway.

    at some point people will look at the 1 256GB, 2 128GB, 3 64GB, 5 32GB, 12 16GB, 7 8GB, 3 4GB and 4 1GB SD cards they already have and decide they're good, thanks anyway.

  15. I think the salesman handles the 'additional cores' question when they ask "What will you be using your computer for?" (while they size up the mark and frankly work on Internal Problem #1 "How much can I upsell to this sucker?")

  16. Yup

  17. Re:To be fair... on Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they really need someone dry and British.

    Jimmy Carr it is then.

  18. Yes, three in Aussieland on Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% (vrtalk.com) · · Score: 1

    But B.C.'s is spelled Sidney.

  19. Re:Wow. on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    Whatever happened to the simple principle of labelling things?

    We have to list ingredients, unless they are only used to "process" the item. So, we could literally dip the item in Agent Orange, as long as we then washed the item afterward. Never mind that things have membranes that are porous -- we washed it off!

    We preserve nuts with sulfuryl fluoride, a product used to fumigate houses. A product that have caused serious and permanent damage when people went back into the house too soon. But none of that product remains on the nuts? Who says? Who tests? Why no mention on that bag of almonds?

    We have to list ingredients, except with bottled water, where we helpfully list the calories and grams of carbohydrates. Why don't we list the amount of dissolved solids, and/or calcium, etc.?

    We worry about mercury in our drinking water, but not in our flu shots, even when the amount present is 25,000 times higher than what we would allow in drinking water. Why?

    Companies introduce new pharma or pesticides/herbacides, and the EPA trusts the company's tests. Until enough people die, etc. to prompt a sufficient hue and cry that the EPA feels bad enough to take the company rep out for a good tongue lashing at an all-you-can-eat lobster fest.

  20. While we're at it, let's change "abdicate" to "abrogate"

  21. to fo through in couple

    Foggier words were never spoken.

  22. Re:dialing. on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 1

    Not I. Got me a VCR Plus right off the bat.

  23. s/admittedly//

  24. If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    If they pay the license fee, what does it matter what version they use? XP should be available along side 10.

  25. This will lead to a massive increase in number of cameras.

    Likely scenario: Bob finds out that a camera watches him steal strawberries, so he puts up a very specific blocking thingy. Feds want to catch the strawberry thief and so put up more cameras to get around the blocking thingy. Bob finds a way to steal more strawberries. Feds install more cameras. Kodak wishes they were film cameras. Kingston gets the storage contract. Bob buys a used tank, then crafts a removable floor in it...