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Comment: hmmmm (Score 3) 343

by INeededALogin (#40155183) Attached to: Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion
Why would Google need to screen every bit of content? A trust system with the uploader, user feedback(they already get), random sampling, and some automatic processes should cover this for a lot less than 37 billion.

btw... worst job in the world would be one where you had to watch non-stop youTube. I would hate to be the guy who got stuck looking at bot fly removals all day.

Comment: Re:Is Iran really such a threat? (Score 2, Informative) 532

by INeededALogin (#40125991) Attached to: Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter

If they ever try anything like Pearl Harbor again they should be summarily eliminated from existence.

... So they poorly attack a military outpost and that gives us a reason to kill women, children, and old people. You are shit excuse of a human being.

Say the warcrimes in China and Korea that the Japanese committed, but Pearl Harbor...

Comment: Re:Please moderate parent UP to offst moderator ab (Score 1) 532

by INeededALogin (#40125869) Attached to: Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter

Some moderator keeps moderating down as "Troll" everything I post

Slashdot could fix this. I'm guilty of being pissed off with modpoints (years ago) and it is too easy for a moderator to target an individual. Simply gauging moderator behaviors and applying some limits(max 1 mod per individual) would take care of this problem.

Comment: Re:Is Iran really such a threat? (Score 1) 532

by INeededALogin (#40125779) Attached to: Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter

The devestation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't really much different than the firebombings of Tokyo by the U.S. or Dresden by the British, excepting for radiation sickness and long term cancers, but fire bombing led to burns that were pretty much as bad. The nukes just required fewer air planes to do the damage, but they were still massively expensive to make.

They are totally different.
The rivers don't boil with firebombing.
The moisture isn't sucked out of people that they are so thirsty that they jump into the boiling rivers.
Firebombs don't irradiate people.
Firebombs don't kill people weeks, months, years, decades later.

Visit Hiroshima and be humbled. They have a memorial that is a huge mound of human ashes.

Comment: What we did (Score 1) 302

by INeededALogin (#40006915) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room?
Wife's parents are in Japan. MacBooks on both ends. We ended up just using an end-table and placed the laptop on the top. When they can't move... it is easy to just point the screen at the baby. Those early years are more for the grandparents anyways. As they start to move, we kept the same setup and just used it as a lesson for the kid. "We don't push the buttons, we talk to grandma". It has been a challenge, but he quickly learned that that laptop doesn't yield anything useful.

Bonus: The laptop is agile so you can move it around the room, house as the kid moves. This interactive experience for the other side definitely makes it awesome.

Comment: Re:two RJ-45 per room (Score 1) 402

by INeededALogin (#39854351) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home?

If your backups to the server need gig-e, you're doing it wrong. Using rsync, I was able to backup 5GB of e-mail over an ADSL connection (12mbit) in 14 minutes, because it compresses everything.

Are you serious or just being funny? Text compresses well. Video does not. 5GB is nothing. I have more than 10 TB of video from favorite shows/movies, almost another TB in photos, and about 300 GB of ripped music.

And that data is completely new everyday? You can't steal, rip or buy movies faster than a Wi-Fi connection could back it up. The grandparent has it correct... Wi-Fi fits be bill for most home needs.

Comment: Re:Portable half-rack (Score 1) 402

by INeededALogin (#39854315) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home?

Portable is key when you want to resell your house. Unless you can find a like-minded nerd, anything screwed in to the walls is going to turn off buyers.

I think it depends on how it is installed. I used a rack in my old house for Audio/Video Equipment for the theater room. The door of the rack was framed so it acted like a cabinet. Perhaps this is why it took so long to sell my house:-P

Comment: Re:This really is a bizare course of action for Or (Score 3, Informative) 175

by INeededALogin (#39700935) Attached to: Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oracle Java isn't open source.

Straight from wikipedia:

On November 13, 2006, Sun released much of Java as free and open source software, (FOSS), under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). On May 8, 2007, Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core code available under free software/open-source distribution terms, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did not hold the copyright.

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