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  1. Re:Got this wrong.. on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    That's an explanation you'll never hear on Fox Propaganda.

  2. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    You are not the average pickup/SUV driver. You have a legitimate need for the extra capabilities.

    You're reasonably safe as long as you're not one of those selfish jackasses who put lift kits on their trucks and then don't lower the bumpers back down to a safe level. Great way to decapitate car occupants in a wreck.

  3. Re:Refill Your Own on Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market · · Score: 2

    Brother carts are /slightly/ more complex than that. The ones I've seen have a gear on it that gets moved slightly every time you print, and when it reaches a certain position the printer knows the cart's about out of toner.

    IIRC with a proper refill kit you get toner plus a new gear or some way to reset it without breaking it.

  4. Re:How close? on Stanford Researchers Discover the 'Anternet' · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  5. Re:NSA likely already built one on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 2

    Nah, they just have to act "correctly" on the intel without it being statistically obvious.

  6. Re:Strong enough plastics? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    On the Mosin-Nagant series, it's apparently the barrel that's considered the gun, or at least that's where the Soviets put their serials.

  7. Re:What does this have to do with slashdot? on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    Like Ohio?

  8. Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    The pity is that he and those like him will probably never recognize this.

  9. Re:What does this have to do with slashdot? on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    ...or they could have the convention somewhere that doesn't get hurricanes?

    Crazy, I know.

  10. Re:Just watch... on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    No, the Republicans in general want government so small that it'll fit in a woman's vagina.

  11. Re:And if a hurricane wipes out the GOP... on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    Absolutely true. There's some teabilly in my town that's got American and Israeli flags on his front fence, but judging by his bumper stickers he's definitel /not/ Jewish. Some sort of Christian extremist who's probably looking for the End of Days in his lifetime.

  12. Re:time for upgrade? on CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All · · Score: 1

    Nah, I've got a TSR[1] that emulates an 8087. It totally speeds up Doom! ...actually, it really did on my 486SX-25, maybe 2-4 FPS. No, I don't know why; maybe without a co-pro present Doom would use emulated 387 instructions that were less efficient than emulating a simpler 8087.

    [1] it was called EM87.

  13. Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    And speaking of stupid, here's another tmosley special.

  14. Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    And he's not full of crap because you agree with him, amirite?

    That's Libertarian Rhetoric 101 stuff, kiddo. I've heard it all before.

  15. Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 0

    Not even wrong, but stupid too. Poorly done.

  16. Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have successfully captured the paranoia of the stereotypical American gun nut. Nicely done.

  17. Re:Strong enough plastics? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 3

    That's the lower receiver on an AR which is legally the gun. The lower doesn't have the chamber (the upper receiver does), so it doesn't have to be particularly strong.

  18. Re:Attention Distros on Kmscon Project Seeks To Replace Linux Virtual Terminal · · Score: 1

    Not often enough to rely on that. Mine can't, for instance.

  19. Re:is any of this needed? on Kmscon Project Seeks To Replace Linux Virtual Terminal · · Score: 2

    It was, but if you had a TSR, device driver, or possibly a memory manager that expected things to be a certain way then you could cause trouble by not going through the proper channels.

    IIRC one of the reasons why WordPerfect was so popular was its speed, and it got this way by getting keyboard input straight from the 8042 keyboard controller. If you had too many programs in memory (EMM386, maybe one or two other types) that also read keyboard input directly and then passed it through, you'd get random characters in your WP document. Other word processors that went through DOS or BIOS didn't have that problem, but weren't as fast.

  20. Re:is any of this needed? on Kmscon Project Seeks To Replace Linux Virtual Terminal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hah. Going straight to BIOS was actually faster than using the DOS API. What you'd do for speed was use something like ANSI.SYS (or NNANSI.COM) or just write your own video driver, but that last wasn't exactly being a good neighbor.

  21. Re:Attention Distros on Kmscon Project Seeks To Replace Linux Virtual Terminal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have you ever used 80x24 on a 22" monitor with 1680x1050 native res? The letters are so huge as to be unreadable. Ubuntu et al handle it correctly by letting the X driver do KMS to the native res, which carries over to the console.

    I'd be happy with defaulting to whatever the video hardware can handle and then having an easy way to configure it for other resolutions.

  22. Re:Free (as in beer)? on Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs · · Score: 1

    Not really. They'd just need to drop the price to something like $30. That was cheap enough to convince me to buy a legit Win7 license back when they were doing that promotion for people with a .edu email address.

  23. Re:You've really never heard of VNC? on Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then you need to have put that information into the original request instead of expecting us to read your mind.

  24. Re:You've really never heard of VNC? on Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? · · Score: 1

    *Your* firewall. The one that you control on /your/ end. Not the remote user's firewall.

  25. You've really never heard of VNC? on Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because that's what you want.