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How the fuck was it easier to write a comment than to fucking Google it? And how is there always some asshat who does this every single story?

You can always buy more helicopters

No, you can't. I couldn't buy 1,000,000 chinooks to move generators tomorrow, no matter how much money I had. you can always buy one more helicopter from somewhere, but in the middle of a crisis like that, is that really the right time to break out a purchase order and call the factory to determine the lead time and hope they can get you your order within 6 hours?

Plus, Chinooks would be a bad choice for picking people out of the water.

Having some experience with rescue, I'd say you are wrong. But rather than argue with you about it as personal opinions, try looking it up:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chinook+water+rescue

Sounds like the gateway drug theory, and it has already been proven that the 'gateway' drug is actually tobacco/nicotine. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gateway+drug+nicotine

By the same criteria, breathing and eating food is also 'associated with addiction'.

Learn to deal with life without nicotine, to coin a phrase.

I have never heard of someone's hair turning white as a result of being scared.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hair+suddenly+turning+white

Spontaneous in this case is generally taken to mean quickly or instantly. Evolution on the other hand is generally defined as a slow change over time (as opposed to revolution).

I've never seen "slow" being a requirement in biological evolution until you posted it. I always thought of it as a description, not a requirement. I understand the word "evolution" requires slow, but the technical term of biological evolution was named for one thing, but vernacular word definition doesn't change a technical definition. "Broadband" is defined by the FCC in a manner directly contradictory to the technical definition use by electrical engineers for years before the FCC started getting seriously involved in 1996. Most fiber is not broadband, despite the FCC's definition to the contrary. Pretty much all wireless (including screaming-fast 9.6 kbps GSM modems) is EE "broadband", despite the FCC disagreeing. The FCC adopted a definition more close to the vernacular, and no matter how many people agree what speeds make "broadband", the EE definition will not change. The fact that the dictionary definition touches on biological evolution doesn't change the fact that it has no bearing on the actual biological evolution definition. And I think that's where you are getting tripped up. Biological evolution doesn't require "slow." But the dictionary definition one would use to contrast with "revolution" does require slow.

Spontaneous evolution is simple if you just think about it. The actual evolution could have taken 1,000,000,000,000 years or more. But the sudden act that culls the non-evolved is immediate and instant, thus "evolving" the species suddenly (and in a real manner, as the genetic makeup in the species changes instantly and broadly).

Catching Up with Math
Suddenly, in a matter of weeks I think, McCarthy found his theoretical exercise transformed into an actual programming language-- and a more powerful one than he had intended.
...
So the short explanation of why this 1950s language [Lisp] is not obsolete is that it was not technology but math, and math doesn't get stale. The right thing to compare Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but, say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was discovered in 1960 and is still the fastest general-purpose sort.

Excerpt from: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
Emphasis added. See the "Catching Up With Math" section.
The link is a pretty cool read, but for the "tl;dr crowd" - don't even bother, just go back to twitter :-)
For the rest of you, it covers some interesting language differences - worth the read if you have even a casual interest in theory.

uh, hmm was the question "do any 802.11n routers support DD-WRT? Or was he asking for recommendations for specific routers?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=reading+comprehension

why is my Sprint Samsung Epic 4g locked??

It's not. It and all other Samsung phones can be easily flashed with a program called ODIN. Just tar up the filesystem images, modem, and kernel and flash away.

Google: ODIN samsung

Anyone knowledgeable about the conflict is 2.5GHZ that led the US FCC to limit wifi from using channel 14 (2.484 GHz)?

According to the FCC spectrum chart the top of the 2.4 wifi band abuts the "Standard Frequency and Time Signal" Band at 2.5 GHz. What is that used for?

Let me Google that for you

tons.

Sigh, is using the Internet REALLY that freaking hard?

Google informed you of your account conflict the first time you signed in to the website after the change, but you were in too big of a hurry to bother reading the message.

You also seem to be too lazy to search for yourself which indicates that you don't deserve help in the first place, but ...

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=conflicting+accounts

Your old account is still there and 100% usable, it just requires that the user have half a clue, so you're probably SOL.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+reader

The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would stem from Paul’s plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.

I wonder why you didn't just google the reason.

To put $832 billion in perspective, that's roughly 83% of of Dr. Paul proposed $1T cuts.

Here's a link. It even lists porn stars over 50.

iOS continue to outsell Android as well as bring in far more money

I don't think so.

Here, let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+facebook+track+you

Short answer: mostly by setting cookies in your browser, but with several other tricks as well.

Did you really have to ask?

Sorry, but here is a concise explanation that I think you will find helpful. Couldn't put it in the summery now, but you should get the idea.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=virtualbox&l=1

China and India think it is a problem.

Would we be talking about this China?

You're wrong. They didn't encourage anything.

And you would know this how. What I know is that this wouldn't be the first time that yes, they HAVE encouraged exactly these sort of people in exactly these sort of cases. Go watch the Better this World documentary and note the undercover informant who first regales the suspects with his own history of aggressive protesting and then challenges them to do the same.

Citation needed. I don't find it at all hard to believe that he could have obtained real weapons had the FBI not been involved from the beginning.

Sure thing:

NY Times
In what seems an elaborate operation, undercover F.B.I. agents who had been talking to Mr. Ferdaus for months provided him with some of the necessary components for his planned attack, including six assault rifles, three grenades, 25 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives and even an F-86 remote-controlled aircraft. The explosives and guns were provided on Wednesday just before his arrest, law enforcement officials said.

En. Trap. Ment. Without the FBI, this "case" simply would not have happened, deal with it. If this guy had actually come up with an actual plan and actually tried to carry it out on his own, than go ahead and bust him for that plan. Not one written, directed, and produced by the FBI.

Not create a criminal to justify the continued military-industrial-congressional-contractor-surveillance complex.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=excoriates

If you watched the clip he linked to you might have picked that up from context clues, even if you weren't aware of the word.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=doom9
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=doom10

That's not even wrong. The Infrastructure Bank isn't subject to investment, it's a way to reserve infrastructure budgets protected from the general fund. The general fund that you Republicans have robbed at every step, except when it's not in a "lockbox".

I suggest you check into what the Infrastructure Bank is really all about. "Isn't subject to investment" is 180 degrees wrong! Should be easy to see what the proposals for this thing looks like.

Solyndra? You're a wind-up Republican blabberer. Goodbye.

I'm not a Republican at all (I mean, they eat puppies, right? and Democrats sing with Angels?), although you are obviously a douchebag - and an ignorant one at that. So pointing out rampant corruption in the administration of government is "blabbering". Got it.

Here, let me Google that for your lazy ass.

... to fans at a Star Trek convention. He was right.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=plastic+spiral+cable+wrap
Used to group sets of cables, relatively discretely.

I've got an idea: Since the sum total of ideas expressed on Slashdot comments have probably already been expressed elsewhere, and are available on Google, it's probably superfluous to post comments on Slashdot.

Also, since all of the articles posted on Slashdot are (obviously) available elsewhere on the Web, and hence, also via Google, it would make sense to also not post articles on /., being redundant.

In fact, to the logical geek mind, the thing that would make the most sense is for slashdot.org to simply be turned into a DNS redirect for google.com.

Why didn't anyone think of that before? In fact, I think CmdrTaco did indeed realize that the very existence of Slashdot is futile in the face of Google, and voluntary stepped down for that reason.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+the+purpose+of+a+meme%3F

It's a mystery.

Hm...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=are+subprime+loans+subject+to+the+CRA

Also: http://consumerist.com/2009/06/affidavits-on-how-wells-fargo-gave-ghetto-loans-to-mud-people.html

Yes, I think we can safely say that the current global economic slowdown was caused by the government forcing everyone to be nice to black people.

You do realize there are hard drives with this technology built into them and require no OS awareness, right?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=seagate+hybrid+drive

As pointed out above, this is an Internet discussion, not a research paper... it is expected that people debating on the Internet have at least some basic ability to find things for themselves. But, if you insist:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vet+shot+police

Now, I get 14.8m hits on that - obviously not all are going to be about the same story. However, the first result does seem to refer to the story mentioned, and still on the first page there is a slightly more detailed version of the story from later on, after some more details had emerged. Ok, so the OP may have got some of the numbers incorrect (70 to 100, 60 to 80), but the substance seems to be true.

Happy now?

I can't tell if you're trolling or just stupid. You're given a scientific publication and you're asking for citations? Fine, then take a look at this diagram titled "vertebrate evolution", which shows that Aves (birds) are a divergent branch of Archosauria (prime lizards), which evolved from diapsida. Wikipedia will tell you that Diapsida are reptiles. That diagram is contained in the 2nd reference in TFA, quoted as "Hillier, L. W. et al. Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution. Nature 432, 695–716 (2004) ". It took me all of two mouseclicks to find it.

How about asking the 'net: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=are+dinosaurs+reptiles?

Still not good enough? Maybe the authority of Berkeley will do then? Read the entire first paragraph of both, not only the title.

I'm not going to do any more spoonfeeding for you. If you want more citations I suggest you go find them yourself. The references list in TFA should be a good starting point. And before you go and try sophistry: "dinosaurs may have evolved from reptiles but they are not reptiles" is as true as "humans may have evolved from apes but they are not apes". If you want to go that route, please also explain why humans are not mammals.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ca+ssl
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mitm+ssl

WOW! This newfangled google thingie is SOOOO COOL!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ca+ssl
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mitm+ssl

WOW! This newfangled google thingie is SOOOO COOL!

If only there were some easy way to find out what time it was in New York.

What research?

Link.

This might be informative.

Here you go.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sunrise+clock

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=motorola+patent+frand

Not exactly conclusive evidence, but on balance, you're the one with more shit.

Congrats on reading the article though. Next time try a bit harder before randomly insulting people.

because you clearly haven't looked

Oh hey, look, let me Google this one for you too:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hyper-V

See, this is part of Windows Server, which you install on your own hardware, just like XenServer, or VMware, or well, any other operating system. It's not a hosted platform that you can't control that runs somewhere else.

While I have you here, I really would like to know two things:
1. What the fuck are you smoking?
2. Can I have some? Must be some good shit.

Uhhhhh?

To put it very clearly: No. They're not flipping from one guest to another. The same guest, moving from one physical piece of hardware to another, without any interruption at all. Why this is mind boggling to you is beyond me - it's fairly simple, actually, once you realize that we have shared storage (y'know, logical volumes you can access from more than one machine - is that equally incredible?) and very fast network links...

Since you're so lazy: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=live+migration

When you're talking about units, the plural of "stone" is "stone." Since a stone is 14lb, 50 lbs is 3 and 4/7 stone.

Your apples taste like chicken?

Isn't it considered common knowledge that everything tastes like chicken?

Several things

Airplanes are private property. If you don't like what they do, don't set foot on their property.

Airports that deal with commercial travel, are public property. Those public airports may be owned by the state or other municipalities, and make up the largest percentage of airports. These public airports are where the constitutional rights are being surrendered by US citizens to US government officials, whom the citizens are supposed to be expressly protected from in their constitutionally granted rights. There are privatized airports and chartered commercial flights, that is not what we're talking about.

The airlines are not suing the government to stop the TSA, so by implication they are happy with the arrangement.

The airlines are not the victims. The state of Texas tried to do something about it, and the Department of Justice threatened to make Texas a federal "no-fly" zone (See: TSA vs Texas).

You don't HAVE to fly. There are other means of transportation.

Its the most reasonable form of long distance inter-state and international travel. Certain people who travel for work may only be able to travel in a reasonable amount of time by flight, not because it is a matter of personal choice.

When you board an airplane, you trade your constitutional rights away in exchange for the convenience.

There is no provision or asterisk, in the letter of the law, that one shall only have their constitutional rights some of the time, or when its deemed convenient.

You do the same thing when you drive a car, you trade away many constitutional rights when you climb behind the wheel and go out on the public roadway. Again we do it out of convenience, the loss of rights has much lower value than the utility of transportation. For example, the police can ask you to get out of your car and take a sobriety test. There is no way that the police could do this to you if your were in your own home.

Probable cause does not mean you waive your constitutional rights upon entering/operating a car, its a reasonable discretionary stipulation in the law. Many states even have laws in place to pre-announce holiday sobriety checkpoints to the public, so as to not egregiously violate constitutional rights.

A citation for (A) is here and a quick search reveals that this vulnerability was known at least 5 years ago yet is still unpatched.

I'll see your LMGTFY and raise you a "simply click a link on the same fucking page" to read "Vendor updates are available." And it has been available the very day this citation was written. And if you actually read the results instead of just looking at dates: that's a completely unrelated vulnerability, also long been fixed.

Apparently there is a Router/Modem Botnet that you are fucking clueless about.

Clueless people should not open their mouths about the very subjects that they are clueless about.

We know for certain that OS/X is not secure, that there are in fact (A) unpatched local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, and (B) Safari is vulnerable to drive by code execution initiated by simply loading a web page.

Combine these two, and the conclusion that "Macs are only secure because they are less popular" is most certainly true.

Going further, Apple is also incapable of protecting iOS in spite of their extensive efforts to lock it down, that it too is vulnerable to drive-byes that will entirely root the thing (considered a feature by many, since they hate the Apple lock-down)

A citation for (A) is here and a quick search reveals that this vulnerability was known at least 5 years ago yet is still unpatched.
A citation for (B) isnt needed. The latest patch for Safari fixed 47 known drive-by remote code execution exploits, the patch before that fixed 57 known drive-by remote code execution exploits.