Slashdot Mirror


User: TheThiefMaster

TheThiefMaster's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,625
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,625

  1. Re:Context on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Oh LOL it's got to be this.

    That's quite an oversight on their part.

  2. Re:So do I... on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was actually implying that I'd found such a person, and extrapolating it to mean that anyone could. That's probably flawed.

  3. Re:So do I... on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 3, Funny

    Somewhere out there is a woman who loves you for who you are, regardless of the D&D figurines (or warhammer, or computers, or model railway...).

  4. Re:Safe? on Car Produced With a 3D Printer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strangely, some people judge safety on actual collision tests instead of the size of a car. e.g. The Smart ForTwo is one of the smallest cars available, yet is also one of the safest.

  5. Re:Anonymous Coward on Self-Building Chips — As Easy As Microwave Meals · · Score: 1

    Dry? Isn't the normal problem with microwaved food "soggy" ?

  6. Re:Am I missing something? on Who Invented the Linux-Based Wireless Router? · · Score: 1

    The 2.4GHz band used by wifi doesn't go through water (i.e. rain) very well. Therefore they could be described as not being weather-proof. I think the 5GHz band doesn't have this problem, and so could be described as being weatherproof.

    What?

  7. Re:We need a hybrid system maybe ipv6 outside ipv4 on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2, Informative

    Private IPv6 IP ranges have been designated:

    Link local addresses: fe80::* - automatically self-assigned by an IPv6 device, exist even if the device has a global address
    Unique local addresses: fc00::* / fd00::* - manually assigned, globally unique but not routable on the internet

  8. Re:Why the space? on WD Launches 3 Terabyte HD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Define the drive as 20 partitions and raid-1 them all together.

  9. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, missed the + i^2 case. The end result is:
    +/- i or +/- 1 = +/- 1 or +/- i

  10. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    So it should be:
    sqrt(i^4) = sqrt(1)
    +/- i^2 = +/- 1
    sqrt(+/- i^2) = sqrt(+/- 1)
    what's sqrt( - i^2) ? I'm guessing: sqrt( - i^2 ) = sqrt( -1 ) * sqrt( i^2 ) = +/- i * +/- i = +/- 1?
    And sqrt(+/- 1) is either +/- 1 or +/- i
    so you get:
    +/- 1 = +/- 1 or +/- i?

    Now I'm confused.

  11. Re:Really? on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    On my phone I just choose the "planet 3" option, then the "check my usage" option, and it both tells me my remaining minutes/texts/data allowance, and tells me the cost of any out-of-allowance stuff so far that month.
    They also send me a (free) text when I'm near each limit, or go over each limit.

    This is in the UK of course, where things are sensible.

  12. Re:You wanna tackle Bill Shock???? on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    Or everything.

    In the UK, you must be able to pay the advertised price for anything. No compulsory fees allowed, unless they're already included in the advertised price. Tax must always be included. etc etc.
    More info: http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/your-rights-pricing-disputes/your-rights/

  13. Re:I want one! on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    Make it a geocaching travel bug.

  14. Re:Actually, you would be wrong on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    'course the extra power is there. It's in the batteries.

    But even ignoring those, constantly running the ICE at its optimum revs to extract the most power from it will mean that you have as much power available as if you shifted to the right gear to be in that same power band in a traditional car. But without having to shift gears (or wait for an automatic gearbox to shift for you).

  15. Re:U have to be a fool to buy a volt on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    Which is one reason why most diesel trains are actually diesel-electrics. That and not needing a clutch that can start a thousand-ton train moving...

  16. Re:Decent competitor? on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    Or Tesla Roadster, for a more practical but still OMGWTFBBQ-NOTSLOW electric car.

  17. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Hear hear!

    It's the same with our health service. Paid by taxes, so it doesn't cost me jack shit to go see a doctor if I need to, it's effectively already paid for.

    Can you imagine if an ambulance wouldn't come because you hadn't paid your ambulance cover?

    One of my friends' brothers has cancer. Would he be covered in the US? Would he be able to afford treatment if not?

  18. Re:Why? on Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    You have to be really careful where you work, but there ARE some good companies to work for.

  19. Re:IANAGD on Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    Why a CS degree? If they're after doing computer game programming, they should do a computer game programming degree. Seems to have worked for me.

    Experience with the Unreal engine (or UDK) or other game engine would be a massive help too, but if someone wants to be a programmer they should focus on programming the engine, not using the editor. i.e. make mods, not levels.

  20. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    6to4 works perfectly fine with a NAT if it's the NAT itself doing the 6to4.

    I'm not sure what you mean about two complete parallel networks either. IPv6 is being deployed on the existing internet. It's also being admin'd by the same group (both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are allocated by IANA). As for addressing, that's the whole point of the change...

  21. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    You'd still need to upgrade all clients to understand long ips before you gave even one server a long ip, or some clients wouldn't be able to connect.

    You'd also need to upgrade all servers to understand long ips before you gave even one client a long ip, or the server wouldn't be able to reply to them.

    So basically... you couldn't give out any long ips. Assuming you didn't give machines both a long and short ip, which is how the IPv6 transition is planned to happen anyway.

    Regardless, what you're proposing for the long ips is fairly similar to 6to4, i.e. it's an IPv4 packet with some extra data for an extended address, which is routed as IPv4 by legacy equipment but provides an IPv6 connection. It's one of the many transition mechanisms.

  22. Re:old hardware, probably on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    2000 was only really shipped on corporate systems. You'd get Me or 98 in 2000.

  23. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything innovative there. You still have the situation where you can't give someone *only* a new kind of address, because people without support for them won't be able to talk to them at all. You'd still end up running out of IPv4 addresses because everyone would still need one.

  24. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    All user software would need to understand long IPs, otherwise no server could ever have a long IP, because some software wouldn't know how to connect to it.

    All core routers would need updating, because they work through peering and defined routes, not by having a "default gateway".

    All user hardware that deals with IPs directly (routers, NATs, firewalls, even perhaps modems) would need replacing too, else they wouldn't understand their own IP and give bad source addresses in their data.

    Some hardware/software that could normally get away with routing to the default gateway would need replacing due to mangling extension headers it didn't understand.

    So what's left that wouldn't need replacing?

  25. Re:Science writing at its finest on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 1

    Oh, this internet sarcasm thing. Sorry, I just thought you were stupid.