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  1. Re: No backups on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Did you cut off the programmers' heads and stick them up on pikes as a warning to the next ten generations of programmers and managers that some convenience comes with too high a price?

    Then did you wave ::like this:: ?

  2. Re:Even if its electricity from fossil fuel... on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Not sure, I think somewhere in the $3k to $4k range if at the dealership, maybe half that if I do it myself and buy a third-party pack.

    You'd about have to modify it because the different battery chemistries give different output voltages.

  3. Re:Yah lets not account for on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    How much stock in Exxon do you own?

  4. Re:Even if its electricity from fossil fuel... on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Yep. My '05 Civic Hybrid still has its original NiMH battery pack 150kmiles later. The pack has definitely partially ossified, but it's still there & still provides boost.

  5. Re:Star cloning controversy on Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it gets out that he's a cloned Hitler (or Boston Strangler, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or whatever) the kid could never have a normal life - he'd be in the fishbowl forever, because of a choice somebody else made. That right there makes it unethical.

  6. Re:In rememberance of the Antiquarium on Nook Failure, Lack of Foot Traffic Could Spell Doom For Barnes & Noble · · Score: 1

    Ashtray? ASHTRAY?! Dear Cthulhu, are you one of those uncircumcised Philistines who smokes around innocent books?

    Do you know how long it takes to get the smell out of a used book that a smoker owned?

  7. Re:Are people reading fewer paper books? on Nook Failure, Lack of Foot Traffic Could Spell Doom For Barnes & Noble · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's actually a pretty terrible author who's been getting by on name recognition and PR. Have you actually read the Old Testament? Utter repetitive dreck and the main character is a bloodthirsty sociopathic asshole who'll kill people for burning the wrong incense.

  8. Are people reading fewer paper books? on Nook Failure, Lack of Foot Traffic Could Spell Doom For Barnes & Noble · · Score: 2

    I just got done with a garage sale and almost none of my (cheaply priced!) books sold, lots fewer than when I had a garage sale about five years ago.

    I'd suppose more people who actually read are transitioning to e-readers. This might also account in general for why there are fewer visitors to B&N stores.

  9. Re:Do any of you actually eat Twinkies? on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I haven't eaten one for at least ten years, and probably another ten before that time.

    Fruit Roll-Ups were always my vice.

  10. Re:A great win for FreeBSD on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Maybe. Maybe they'll do as they did for PS2 Linux and never update it after the initial release. That was, IIRC, 2.2.1, although it looks like the enthusiast community has released an update to at least 2.4.17.

  11. Re:hmmm on Surgeon Uses Google Glass and iPad To Capture Live Procedure and Stream It · · Score: 1, Funny

    Watch out, guys, we've got a badass over here.

  12. Re: No on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    There's a huge difference in the amount of power a standard WAP emits versus how much you'd need to span 1.5 km at 5 GHz.

  13. Re:Where do they buy these PDP-11s? on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    You buy them used, of course. Maybe someone's decommissioning one and puts it up for sale, so it gets bought for the value of its parts and stored against future need.

  14. Re:why not just publish them? on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what THEY want you to believe! Wake up sheeple!

  15. Re:I've actually used an RT on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    RT won't work at all for us because there's no Cisco SSL VPN client for it, unlike Android and iOS.

  16. Re:The word "limited" on Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Arguably the current copyright system doesn't promote progress of science or useful arts, and there's no indication that copyrights will ever be for a limited time since Disney buys a new law whenever Steamboat Willie is about to leave copyright.

  17. Re:Film It In Binary on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 1

    That'd make a fantastic fanfilm.

  18. Re:Aging Robot? on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 1

    Brent Spiner was definitely aging by the time the TNG movies were done with.

  19. Re:Problem is not the technology but antique plane on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I expect the authorities would make exceptions for warbirds... I'd hope so, at least.

  20. Re:6-Cyl will be an issue on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Why, do 6-cyl aero engines typically have higher compression?

  21. "Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too."

    Truer words were never spoken.

  22. Re:The Free Staters chose my town as the test bed on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 0

    And fuck the people WHO ALREADY LIVE THERE AND DON'T WANT IT TO CHANGE THAT WAY.

    You people really have no idea what elitist dicks you are, do you?

  23. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Ah, I'd heard that the "Californicators moving in" was the given excuse why the larger cities are turning purple rather than red.

    It's really that city people have a fundamentally different outlook than rural people do.

  24. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    He won't, because in his tiny little mind being a victim gives him power.

  25. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. The ones who scream the loudest about having to pay taxes and deal with food-safety regulations generally don't have any rational response to "well, we want to live this way, who are you to tell us that we have to live like you want us to?"