Comment: Wrong name change then (Score 1) 190
Win the poll? Then you should have changed your name to "None, but I still write code."
Comment: Re:So how long... (Score 1) 83
Ah, but you're assuming videos will continue to be uploaded at a constant rate. Extrapolate future upload rates based on the past 10 years' growth history (or an estimate, if necessary), and recalculate. I'd do it myself, but I'm too lazy and I'm pretty sure somebody else here will take it as a challenge.
Comment: Re:Stop buying gear without lifetime warentee (Score 1) 156
now remembering which drives are which a few years from now should one go bad, that's a different story
You could splurge and invest another $50 in a label maker...
Comment: Why isn't the logo changed? (Score 2) 261
The Slashdot logo should be changed to Fynfuqbg.
Endangered Species Condoms 61
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samzenpus
from the make-it-growl dept.
from the make-it-growl dept.
The Center for Biological Diversity wants to help put a polar bear in your pants with their endangered species condom campaign. They hope that giving away 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms across the country will highlight how unsustainable human population growth is driving species to extinction, and instill the sexual prowess of the coquí guajón rock frog, nature's most passionate lover, in the condom users. From the article: "To help people understand the impact of overpopulation on other species, and to give them a chance to take action in their own lives, the Center is distributing free packets of Endangered Species Condoms depicting six separate species: the polar bear, snail darter, spotted owl, American burying beetle, jaguar, and coquí guajón rock frog."
Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat
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timothy
from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.
from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.
ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
Comment: Re:You are asking the wrong question. (Score 1) 564
Assuming a 1mb/s upload speed would take less than 3 hours _PER MONTH_ to upload.
... And only 92 days (solid!) to do the initial backup of the 1 Tb of data.
Oh, except that it'll fail after 4 days with an error: "You've exceeded your 50Gb storage limit." (And that's assuming you're paying the big bucks for such a large limit, rather than the 2 Gb default.)
Comment: Re:Security by obscurity (Score 1) 141
Thus obscurity, since once I know what the method is, I can break it easily.
Well, duh, because he just told you, so it's no longer obscure. The whole idea is that others DON'T know what the method is. Even if you do figure it out though, you still have more levels to get through. Password, etc.
Security through obscurity is not sufficient, but it can be an important part/em of an effective security solution.
Comment: Re:Its not rocket surgery... (Score 1) 865
A calorie is a unit of heat.
A calorie is a unit of energy. Fiber may flush chemical energy out of the system before it has a chance to be broken down and harvested by the digestive system.
Comment: Re:More likely to die. (Score 1) 383
It's been estimated that 120 billion people have ever lived on the earth. Since 6 billion of them are alive now,
Only 95% of all humans EVER have died. That means that just going by that statistic (and not its context), I have a 5% chance of never dying.
Comment: Re:No Ringtones (Score 1) 461
doesn't selling a license to a song as a ringtone imply the right to use the ring tone without paying each time? --
The problem is that it's not ASCAP who sold you the ringtone. The carrier that sold it to you has no authority to grant you rights to public performance of that ringtone.
What ASCAP wants is to get a piece of the money from the sale^H^H^H^H licensing of that ringtone.
Comment: Re:A taste of their own medicine (Score 1) 316
No, they probably can't just "back out of it", but if it really gets that bad for them, they can probably throw enough money at her to convince her to settle. Better that (for them) than to get kicked out of the courtrooms completely.
Here's hoping she and her lawyers stick it to the RIAA instead of accepting a life of luxury on their tab. But quite frankly
Comment: Re:You're lucky you use sqrt(2) sized paper (Score 1) 655
but my printer only supported A4
So make your document on A4 and print it on A3 at 141%
How do you print on A3 at 141% if your printer only supports A4?
Comment: Re:I Found a Fit! (Score 1) 509
As long as you've got the code all written ... how about running it in base 6 or something?
Comment: Re:Obvious? (Score 1) 242
Those are not free. Those are paid for by the advertisers in the yellow pages.
Well, duh. But they are free to the recipient.