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  1. Re:Sony should return to its roots on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    Their roots or their rootkits? Just so we're clear here...

  2. Re:fast lane for AT&T on AT&T Patents System To "Fast-Lane" File-Sharing Traffic · · Score: 2

    I would think it's the opposite. If they can get you enough peers on AT&T itself, they can solve 2 problems.

    1. They don't have to clog their peering agreement pipes. So the bittorrent traffic stays completely local, making it faster because of less latency.

    2. The MAFIAA never finds out about their users pirating everything so they save money not playing copyright cop.

  3. Re:Not even close. on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    Research seems to be indicating that lack of mother's milk (especially the colostrum) is the factor in many children's allergies. While not building up your immune system can make you sickly, that is germ-related, not a lack of protein receptors for certain foods or airborne pollens.

  4. Re:Tip of a wave of prosecutions against devs? on Kim Dotcom's Lawyer Plays Down Megaupload Worker's Guilty Plea · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that they took everything down except for, as you mentioned, 1. duplicates (because you don't know that a DVD copy is being used illegally, maybe they have permission) and 2. Files that the US Government asked them NOT to take down as part of a criminal investigation.

  5. Re:Not an American, not doing business in America. on Kim Dotcom's Lawyer Plays Down Megaupload Worker's Guilty Plea · · Score: 1

    And Legally Speaking, you are not supposed to seize the assets and destroy the business of a presumed-innocent man. Legally Speaking, he should be able to use those assets to hire a defense team. And by "Legally Speaking", I mean the 4th Amendment.

  6. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is basically digital cash.

    Would you hand that VPN provider cash? If not, then you probably shouldn't be handing them bitcoins.

    I don't understand what pot-smoking in the Netherlands has to do with anything.

    Cash doesn't provide charge-back service either. Look, Bitcoin is just like cash again!

  7. Re:Shadenfreude on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    So, anything the press tells you is a negative you believe without question. There are many, many positive bitcoin developments, but you choose to read the mainstream media.

  8. Re:10% of all bitcoins on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 2

    This is exactly the case. Bitcoin is cash. Whenever you see a story about a Bitcoin scam, replace the word Bitcoin with "cash".

  9. Re:Okay, so... on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Figure out what to cut out of that. If I could figure out a way of inverting it and eat the big meal in the morning I might be better off but the timing sucks.

    Easy. The carbs.

    Toast = carbs. Milk = carbs. Snack bar = carbs. Yogurt = carbs. For two meals every day, your protein to carbs ratio sucks. Eat 125g of carbs per day or less. Count it out. Then, eat as much protein and vegetables as you like. Meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, carrots, celery, pickles, etc.

    Here's what I ate on my way to losing 70 pounds in 9 months:

    Breakfast: Bacon, eggs fried in butter, hot or iced tea. Limit myself to one slice of toast, one piece of fruit or a half cup of juice (about 4 ounces), if at all

    Lunch: This is where I eat most of my carbs. As a programmer, I must have one Coke (40g carbs) in the middle of the day to function properly. Beyond that I would eat something with only about 30g-40g of carbs.

    Dinner. Again, eat about 30-40g of carbs max, depending on what I ate the rest of the day. If I need to snack after dinner, it's meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, carrots, celery, pickles, etc.

    The weight dropped off effortlessly, despite me eating as much as I wanted. The problem is that our modern society has shifted food to where our balance is completely off compared to how we were designed.

  10. Google on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    Google should just buy Frontier and get access to all that fiber. Change out the hardware on the ends and they have instant Google Fiber.

  11. Re:Don't get too excited on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    This was my first reaction as well. The correct solution would be to split all home providers into 2 companies, one that ones the lines and one that owns the content. And then open up the lines to any of the other content providers at the same price.

  12. Re:.NET applications on Linux? on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: 4, Informative

    WinForms has worked fine on Linux for a long time. WinForms in Mono. Even better if you declare a folder named "C:" and then declare 5-6 folders named "Program Files", "Program Files (x86)", "Users", "AppData", etc. under that. If you declare the right folder scheme, a large percentage of Windows applications will run perfectly on Mono as is.

  13. Re:Minnesota - No Tech Job? Huh? on Study Predicts 9% Drop In Salaries of New CS Grads This Year · · Score: 1

    The summary conflates "tech jobs" with programming jobs. They aren't the same. The map does nothing to show programming jobs. Only those at "high-tech" companies.

  14. Re:Who ISN'T on a terror watch list these days on FBI Put Hactivist Jeremy Hammond On a Terrorist Watchlist · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points? This is funny.

  15. Re: tl;dr on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would anyone use anything else from the guy that created PulseAudio?

  16. Re:Maybe it's because the music industry has adapt on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

    And ten years ago, I argued on TechDirt that people would pay $10 a month for an unlimited streaming service with everything and piracy would drop off the face of the earth. And an industry shill jumped on and told me I was full of crap, they wouldn't make any money that way and pirates would still pirate everything.

  17. Re:They need more QA staff on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    Stable in a VM on fake hardware is easy. But Windows 10 is FAR from stable on real machines. That said, I do like it.

  18. Re:The thing about this... on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    And you could probably do this with consumer instead of enterprise drives if you have that many spares (and avoid Seagate like the plague).

  19. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    The problem with Hitachi drives is that the performance is VERY uneven. I would buy WD instead.

  20. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Also, drives are prone to "bad batches". It's easy to get a case of drives where 50% are bad. And then follow that up with 10 cases with 0 or 1 bad drives.

    It doesn't matter how many extra drives you have if they all came from the same bad batch.

  21. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    I've never seen an IT project at a medium to large company take less than 4 hours. Because in addition to changing the drive (1 hour max), you have to write up paperwork and track it (3 hours of organizational time).

  22. Re:No Kidding on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    And in Visual Studio, I hit Ctrl+K Ctrl+D all the time, which puts my code into "Standard" Microsoft format. If everyone did this, I imagine the analyzer would drop to 50% or lower.

  23. Re:Butt FUCKING UGLY on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    How is 10 ugly? Except for the live tiles in the Start Menu (which you can easily remove), it looks EXACTLY like Windows 7. (And believe me, I hated Windows 8's Fisher Price color scheme.)

  24. Re:Have some! on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    Thanks for this. I couldn't find any way to remove it. I never thought to look in the in-retrospect-obviously-named Search option.

  25. Re:Have some! on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 2

    I upgraded from Windows 7 and I didn't put cloud info in at all and it's working just fine.