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  1. Re:Tell me that we're not on SpaceX Testing Passenger Escape System Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    We're not on this particular test.

  2. Intel's profit methods on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Intel has been doing this for a long time. They know how to make money off of it. Dice Holdings on the other hand only seems to know how to ignore their readers and create a "BETA" website that is flat out painful to read.

  3. Fracking *not* the water shortage cause on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it a coincidence that the water shortages started with the whiteboarding of Slashdot Beta? I think not.

  4. Re:Hazard on Volvo Developing Nano-Battery Tech Built Into Car Body Panels · · Score: 1

    For the portion of the population that has a habit of stabbing a screwdriver into their car body panels, this is not the car for them. I'd hazard to guess that very few people have that habit.

  5. Re:Your priorities are NOT all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, here in the real world, we have DR plans based upon the suggestions of the trade journals and then we have the actual implementation of the DR plan based upon the budget cuts of the past X years. Guess which one includes multiple redundant datacenters in locations of a significant distance away from each other and which one doesn't include those datacenters.

  6. 2d today, 3d tomorrow on Virtual Nanoscopy Allows Scientists To Capture High Res Cell Map · · Score: 1

    Awesome, I'd love to see what they can do eventually turning this into a 3d map. 1mm^3 at nanometer resolution would be a huge data set though. The possibilities of seeing the processes interact from different POV would be very cool though. Throw full motion into the mix and you've got yourself a nice base to create a near perfect replica of life.

  7. Re:So, remind me again, on ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we're back to AOL keywords is it?

  8. Re:For the two people who don't already know on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 5, Informative

    Simple answer, if "a guy like this" just took donations for his own personal gain, then he would not be "a guy like this" and would instead be an a-hole douchebag. As has been already stated, if you want to directly support him, buy his stuff.

  9. Re:I2 on Groups Launch $200M Gigabit-per-second Broadband Project · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I2 is meant for transmitting huge amounts of research data like black hole simulations between universities and other research institutions. GigU is meant to connect residential communities in the areas surrounding the member universities so they have access to fast broadband.

  10. Re:The best option on Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Putting classes online doesn't necessarily mean that the class is held online. I would have loved it if all of my classes had been archived online. It would free me to concentrate on what the professor was staying instead of concentrating on writing down notes as fast as possible. I could also go back to the lectures at a later time while studying for a test or even after I've finished the class and want to review a concept that is built upon in a class that follows.

  11. Matterhorn or Camtasia Relay on Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're looking for something that won't have a direct cost to the school district to implement, take a look at Matterhorn ( http://opencast.org/matterhorn/ ). Camtasia Relay by Techsmith is also a product built for this purpose.

  12. Prevention on Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Granted, it could be a simple ROT13 but the mere fact that the passwords were "encrypted" and that the data didn't contain the entire credit card number indicates that the company or somebody inside the company at least put a little bit of effort into securing the data. Unfortunately, securing data is hard and it only takes one oversight to make it vulnerable. The true test will be what the company does now that the breach has occurred.

  13. Re:Have they addressed the meltdown?? on Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, they haven't addressed the meltdown. TEPCO decided early on that they would completely ignore the meltdown while they worked on getting the bathroom facilities working again.

  14. Re:Nuclear cover-ups again on Why Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant Survived March · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure what news stories you were reading but the fact that multiple power stations were shut down was widely reported. Here's a quick link that took me all of 10 seconds to find on Google: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12711707

    Also, if you bothered to read the article linked in the summary, you'd see that only one out of three pumps failed at Tokai leaving the power station safe enough to do a controlled shutdown.

  15. Re:Seriously? on Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released · · Score: 1

    Quick, you need to tell Google because there is no doubt that they didn't think about this workaround already!

    Of course, that'll be one of the first things that I test out when I get ICS. :)

  16. Re:Ice Cream Sandwich? Really? on Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released · · Score: 0

    Who wants to go to a meeting and tell their bosses that they're thinking of: "Replacing Honeycomb with Ice Cream Sandwich on all our android devices"?

    Just about anybody that isn't a complete and total prude.

  17. Re:It's not a barrier it's an assistance on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Amen, there's way too many accountants already. No need to create a need for more by having to contend with computing sales tax data for 50+ different regions.

  18. Memory usage? Crashing? on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are people still bitching about that? Since I'm usually putting my computers in sleep mode or connecting to VMs that are running 24/7 I am having Firefox running for over a month straight on a regular basis. Both on Windows and Linux. About the only time I have to restart Firefox is to apply a version update. I can't even remember the last time that I had it crash on me that wasn't the fault of something like Java or Flash. I would definitely catch all sorts of hell from my immediate family if Firefox was crashing often or causing slowdowns due to memory bloat and they don't even use NoScript. I'm not sure what people are doing to make Firefox bloat or crash but I'm willing to bet that the cause is add-ons and extensions that they've installed and not Firefox itself.

  19. Re:Plastic? on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    graphene? production level carbon fiber composites do not currently have graphene in them.

  20. Re:Linux client on Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Haha, no they wouldn't. A good portion of Linux users would bitch about how the client isn't completely open source. Netflix may get a couple thousand extra subscribers if they made a linux client but nowhere near enough to cover the 1 million they are estimated to lose due to the price increase.

  21. Re:I signed up right away.... on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 2

    The ease of circle management in G+ compared to facebook and not having to deal with the constantly moving target of facebook's UI is making me move away from facebook as quickly as my friends will join G+.

  22. Re:Why I don't use NoScript on NoScript Awarded $10,000 · · Score: 1

    As far as trust goes - I trust the developer of NoScript over the entirety of the javascript code injected by advertising and tracking agencies out there.

    That is a very very good point.

  23. Re:Why I don't use NoScript on NoScript Awarded $10,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even though the author recognized his mistake, backed out the changes, and apologized profusely in a very public manner you still don't trust him? Harsh man, harsh.
    http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/
    I'd rather not blacklist somebody over a single incident. However, if you happen to know of other instances where he did something sketchy, please let us know.

  24. Re:Picard Facepalm on Has the Second Dotcom Bubble Started? · · Score: 1

    Part of that $50 billion valuation is based on the infrastructure, both software and hardware. Not to mention the employees. Sure you've got to pay them so in a way they are a liability but they are also the ones that are coming up with ideas to move the company forward.

  25. Re:Clean air anyone? Traffic jams? on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 1

    But what if you'd rather pay in cash?

    When the bill arrives in the mail, put cash in the reply envelope.

    What if you're a visitor with an out of state car,

    States have access to the license plate data from other states. The bill will be sent to the owner of the license plate.

    or a rental car?

    The rental car companies will deal with this the same way that they deal with parking tickets and red light tickets. Forward the bill/ticket to the person who had rented the vehicle on that particular day.