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Intel processors have had a problem with math in the past, too.

O RLY?

Forget all that, this is the internet. These planets are all probably going to be named something akin to "Hitler was right". Mountain Dew Competion

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There are genetic hints of a fourth yet unidentified subspecies?

Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea

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I like memes and this one really shines here

Can't resist.

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That's way too simple, reasonable and straightforward for Slashdot, but I heartily agree anyway.

Ahhh. Well then, let me counter with a *golf clap*.

Is this guy running the NSA:

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(Apologies to William Shatner)

Could you give a citation for that "lowered solar output?" Because wikipedia disagrees with you.

Nasa http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml
(And just so you dont have to read that long complicated article here is a link to a nice picture)
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/ssn_predict_l.gif

That is a graph of sunspot number. The question was about "lowered solar output."

This is amazingly typical of internet arguments, especially by the greenhouse-effect denying community. When asked to show data supporting their assertion, they show something else entirely, but since it's a graph with numbers and such, it looks scientific. It's a win-win argument for the deniers: readers who aren't familar with the field say "oh, they have data: they must be right." And for people who do understand that the data is irrelevant, in the worst case, it sidetracks the argument onto a completely irrelevant discussion of what the connection between sunspot number is to solar output.

This data addresses your argument.

Abrams? The guy who who can't properly resolve a story without going full retard, if his life depended on it??

I have yet to see that idiot finish anyting without a gigantic anticlimactic FAIL of makes-no-fucking-sense-at-all total McGuffin nonsense.
His own tombstone will probably just have a giant "WAT?" on it.

OK then. Try 4chan.

I seriously wish there was technology to travel to another planet to get away from all this stupidity.

A.K.A. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Isn't that the whole point of Apple? Special toys for "special" people. Why do you think they call it the Genius bar ? ;)

Obviously Bloomberg is going to fund the installation of a Personal Rapid Transit system with 100% coverage of the metro area, plus extensions to commuter parking lots upstate and in New Jersey. PRT proponents rejoice! Bloomberg will prove once and for all that PRT works!

Or...

Bloomberg is an entitled asshole rich kid who can vent whenever he wants because he's too rich for anybody around him to tell him to STFU.

Gee. I wonder which is more likely...

Brought to you by the same team from China that gave you the floating government officials!

...I have an advanced hard core science degree...

Watch out, we got a badass over here.

50 billion is a really big number. In fact, there are less than 10 million US patents. Now quick math. By many percent were you off?

In his defense, he did say " 50 billion moar patents".

Who knows what that might actually mean.

Well, that escalated quickly

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Not sure if trolling or just bad at spelling...

you and Slashdot made a scientific discovery. Here's your prize!

There is an 'Anonymous Cyber Constitution.'

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So now we are not able to criticize women because that's sexist? You remind me of this: http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/352/749/e44.gif

erm

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While you only cracked open the book, I have read them. In fact many.

Watch out, we got a badass over here.

And as I was saying, you sound pretty stupid right now. Because the US successfully used two nuclear weapons to kill at least 150,000 people over a few days, the US didn't have a case to defend again such terribly effective nuclear weapon attacks, especially attacks that could be delivered within the hour? Idiotic.

Do you still have that bandana? We detonated two nukes on Russia's eastern doorstep. Can you say with a straight face that that did not give the Russians an immediate desire to develop their own nuclear weapons ASAP? How about testing ICBM missiles capable of dropping said nukes on Russian soil in half an hour?

Similarly, we have a remarkably successful cyberattack, presumably by the US and perhaps Israel, and somehow as a result the US can only "pretend" to need defense against yet another effective weapon? Here's a dunce cap for you.

Were you dropped on the head as a child? Serious question. The entire point here is the fact that the U.S. has a long history of whining about how we need to be able to defend ourselves from Scary Weapon XYZ when were the first to develop and sometimes use Scary Weapon XYZ.

Yesterday, it was nukes and ICBM's. Today, it's "cyber-warfare" and drone attacks. And we're giving other nations an immediate and obvious incentive to obtain the same sort of weapons for themselves.

Then we hear politicians on TV whining about how we need to increase defense spending to defend ourselves from "cyber-warfare", never mentioning who let the cat out of the bag in the first place.

That's bribery. If you've got money to spend, use it to help candidates who will do the right thing without receiving kickbacks.

Relevant

Just a wild guess, but I'm thinking you're not their target market.

Not quite. Microsoft isn't using surgical precision to target scattered customers hiding in the wilderness. If nothing else, Microsoft's flagship product —which is merely the latest rehash of the operating system developed by and unwittingly freely donated by Digital Equipment Corporation, i.e. NT— is a swiss army knife of desktop operating systems (and fully recognizing this is a tremendously generous characterization of it, boy do I wish that's all it were). Microsoft wants it to be everything to everyone. They want everyone to pay and repay for many many licenses of Windows.

Now... I must digress. I had an emotional reaction to this summary that is epitomized in either some Jackie Chan meme I can't quite articulate, or an as yet unknown Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. meme. I had a similar reaction when Defender was announced. I realize that many of us work with Windows intimately, and need the hostile environment Windows creates in the sense that the unacceptable state a Windows installation inevitably degrades to puts food on the table: Windows is our work, and if it were perfect, we wouldn't have jobs.

But it just seems anathema to me that instead of fixing the product before they sell it to us and our clients, i.e. adjusting Windows such that crapware becomes extinct, Microsoft instead turns around and recognizes that there is this new market here created by a deficit in their flawed product, and now that this market is being exploited by the enterprising individuals that support their flawed product, Microsoft can now step in and directly compete with them. If I didn't know better, and I certainly do, I'd say Microsoft's target market was moronic lemmings.

It just occurred to me that what you meant was GP couldn't be the target market for this "product," the un-OEMing cleansing, because GP no longer uses Windows. And so I apologize to you because ... you are seriously hilarious and I missed it because I am mildly emotional about the announcement of this new "product," and well, look again at those pictures I linked to and try to figure out just what meme belongs.

Car analogy time! Lets imagine that the vehicles coming off Ford's assembly line are immaculate, and pass any white glove test. But (allow me to invent hypothetical) evil Ford OEM distributors for some reason feel it's necessary to cover the cars in a fine dusting of filth that is quite tricky to completely get rid of... the yuk seems to multiply. Oddly, it slows the car down and kills its gas miliage while doing it. And now Ford customers have been complaining that by the time they get their new vehicle, its covered in filth and grime. Enterprising Ford dealers build car washes next to their dealerships to not only satisfy the customer as best they can, but also to make an extra buck. So... when is Ford going to start building signature car washes to compete with the Ford dealers and get into this newly recognized car washing market? While the GP is saying "screw cars! I can't take the filth they attract," I'm (please find the meme for me, I'm tired) saying "Dammit, Ford... you've been selling these filth magnets for ages... when are you going to fix your cars so they can't get dirty??!"

Well... although my metaphor seems to weaken my own argument, because we all know that in reality, cars really do attract dirt and there's nothing anyone can do about it, operating systems are not cars and absolutely can be engineered to not allow OEM CrapWare® (and to a large extent, can be engineered to be self-secure against malware, viruses and the like).

No, only one avatar is available.

It is decidedly suitable.

I think this image is apt as a response to your comment (I know, I know, memes, we hate them).

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http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/007/508/watch-out-we-got-a-badass-over-here-meme.png

Not sure if serious or parody

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/026/futuramafry.jpg

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/210/119/+_2acc5a8841f8752904d37f90a8014829.png I think this is related to the biggest problem in science, i.e, the HUGE NUMBER of persons working in this field and consequently, the total number of publications.

More specific? sure.
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When exactly did Neil deGrasse Tyson become the world's official representative on all things astronomical? Was it the the pluto thing? It's just really weird that every media outlet seems to go to him for everything these days. He's really articulate and informed, but so are a lot of people. I don't get it.

Watch out, we're dealing with a badass over here!

O.O

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I was going to write out a very long response to your criticism describing how my minimalist approach is actually quite insightful, particularly in the ways in which it evokes the zen-like qualities of haiku. Then I decided that this would be a better response...

**FACEPALM**

This is actually reassuring in a sick sorta way - I always thought that people working for dating sites combed random sites and osmosed peoples pictures, without consent, as a basis for building fake profiles.

Now, as it turns out, they just keep the pictures from all the people who uploaded to their site and left a day later after they figured it was bullshit.

In my next life months from now, I am making 80K a year, driving an M3, and I'm looking for a woman who knows how to initiate and hold conversations.

My name will be Bryce Johnson, and my occupation will be engineer who loves wine, cheese, and long walks on the beach.

Oh, yeah, Agile. I was taught by a guy who was a certified SCRUM master and he informed us all about the joy of agile development.

He shit his pants when I called him on Dijkstra's algorithm and he didn't know, so I had to go to the whiteboard and draw it out to the class because he couldn't.

It was a software engineering class, and I was the only one who turned in an actual project, and not some Microsoft Paint mockup.

Could you post a link to your resume? I'd like to make sure that you are put on that "VIP list" they have in HR, where the resume of people who are better than the rest of the class and make teachers shit their pants receive a special treatment. My company is very mature and we know exactly what is the value of such candidates.

I think there is a bright future for you in IT; after a few false starts in companies having a suboptimal hiring process, the BestBuy branch where you'll end up working will be lucky to have you.

Oh, yeah, Agile. I was taught by a guy who was a certified SCRUM master and he informed us all about the joy of agile development.

He shit his pants when I called him on Dijkstra's algorithm and he didn't know, so I had to go to the whiteboard and draw it out to the class because he couldn't.

It was a software engineering class, and I was the only one who turned in an actual project, and not some Microsoft Paint mockup.

Worse than speeding.

if this would happen to me, it would go down like this:
"This is the USB stick with the encryption key. Which was itself encrypted. The password I know, was only usable to decrypt the encryption key, which would then have then be used to decrypt the hard drive. You can have that password. It is 'hunter2'.
As you can clearly see, the stick is destroyed beyond recoverability, preventing cold forensics Since the moment you came through my door, to be precise.
My computer automatically overwrote its RAM and cache and crashed on removal detection, preventing hot forensics.
In other words: Go fuck yourselves, faggots!" ;)

Of course, then again, I'd not be dumb enough to get caught in the first place.

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P.S.: SLASHDOT, Y U NO ALLOW PICTURES??

(Or yelling. Lorem ipsum this text is dum cuz eet kant spel.)