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  1. Re:if 1 drive full, raid. Dual read write armature on Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Like this one?

    In a nutshell, the smaller production runs make this type of drive more than twice as expensive as two regular drives, with similar performance for independent workloads. (But if you have a particular workload, you may benefit.)

  2. Re:16% Improvement! on Future Hack: New Cybersecurity Tool Predicts Breaches Before They Happen · · Score: 0

    No, it's up to 16% of a quarter flip.

  3. Re:not big in UK on Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK · · Score: 1

    'Renewable' fuels are a misnomer. The sun will run out of fuel too sometime.

    But the sun is renewable. Where do you think our current Sun came from? Recycled stars.

  4. Re:The Relativity of Wrong on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Clearly mountain climbing bends straight edges; because the horizon is flat* at the bottom. Maybe it's a property of wood at high altitude? B-)

    * Well, bumpy. With trees and (probably) mountains too.

  5. Re:Astronomy, and general poor night-time results. on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Don't use a black background. I find bright cyan (#00FFFF) background with black foreground works well for my eyes. Other people think I'm crazy though. (My eyes have intra occular lenses in, due to early cataracts. I told my son I got robot eyes. 8-)

  6. Re:They have a great fab process on Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? · · Score: 1

    You have to wonder why they couldn't push the S/N from an awkward 19.49dB to a nice round 20dB improvement.

  7. Re:Cost on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 2

    In order to see a real change you really need a few "killer apps".

    You're right: this would be the perfect oven for the budding serial killer. Set dial to "cremate" and you're done!

  8. Re:Complexity on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 2

    Have you researched an Aga? It's always on—solves both your problems.*

    * You didn't list cost and controllability. B-)

  9. Here's another good reason to use joe (jmacs for me).

    $ ls -lF --si /usr/bin/emacs23-nox /usr/bin/joe
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11M Sep 8 2012 /usr/bin/emacs23-nox*
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 462k Oct 6 2011 /usr/bin/joe*

  10. Re:I still love Joe on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I snidely disparage your use of joe. I use jmacs! Much better*. B-)

    * In the sense that my fingers are not lost when I come across a system that only has emacs installed. Otherwise joe's great.

  11. Re:main two on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    C: jmacs

  12. DSO Nano on Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? · · Score: 1

    The series of Seeed oscilloscopes are a bit clunky, but otherwise reasonable.

  13. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? · · Score: 1

    Nobody needs to learn to drive any more. We can teleconference everywhere. If you need your body to be somewhere, just rent a taxi! It's all virtual these days.

  14. Intentional misprints? on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book. That way, if the text pops up on a torrent stream, you can expect a knockin'-at-the-door.

  15. Re:To me, this is a step backwards on Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists · · Score: 1

    But I bet the "mostly guys" in your office don't steal your pink stuff.

  16. Re:How do you make a lego character female? on Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists · · Score: 1

    I am continually surprised at how many different things my small kids can build out of even sub-100-piece sets. In the past, Lego kits came with pictures of alternate things to build, and maybe that's what you were thinking of. My kids (and friends') don't seem to need encouragement to use their imagination when it comes to building castles, spaceships, cars, monsters, robots, blaster platforms, robo-grandma, SuperPantsMan, and Frank Rock/Iron Man hybrids.

  17. Re:I don't believe in relativity on Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity · · Score: 1

    God could also have a really well defined momentum, and therefore the uncertainty inequality makes Him omnipresent.

  18. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 2

    "Reconnect the network or the milk gets it."

  19. Re:113 bits on eBay Compromised · · Score: 1

    Just post your new password on /. and we'll figure this out for you. B-)

  20. Re:Correction: Password length NOT shown on eBay Compromised · · Score: 1

    My password is 8 asterisks. Are they showing you my password? What gives with these clowns!

  21. AT&T land line on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I want to know how come my telephone line has gone from $7/month in 1997 to $32/month today, with no change in service.

  22. Re:K&R on Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? · · Score: 1

    K&R was an excellent introduction (short, expensive, valuable). However, I think I learned more about the why of C from reading Harbison & Steele, "C, A Reference Manual". It was a book for compiler implementers and programmers, and went into some of the design decisions, which really helped my comprehension.

  23. Re:That's some crazy shenanigians right there. on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As I read it*, the argument is over the 37 verbatim copied headers that define the API. That's like Oracle making a beautiful (ahem), elaborate sign explaining how to ring their doorbell. Google made their own doorbell but copied the sign, embellishments included. While the content of the sign is "fact", the decorations are arguably product of a creative process.

    While I'll have to wait for better analyses of the ruling, I think we can take away that if you're reimplementing a library, you might want to reimplement the headers too.

    * IANAL, and I'm not speaking for my employer. I only scanned the ruling.

  24. Send Jack Bauer on The Struggle To Ban Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone was curious about the protestors in the new season of "24", and started Googling!

  25. Re:Hey Tim on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 2

    And if guns are decriminalized, then de criminals will get de guns.