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  1. Re:I bought one on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 1

    My daily driver is from February 1988 (gray logo, 2-piece caps), still runs like new. I've got two or three others from the early '90s (blue, one-piece) and a similar one from around '01 that I think came with an RS/6000 server - guess which of the two is now more useful. :P

  2. Re:A change in the way we talk about this is neede on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    The teabillies will call it "Judeo-Christian" in an effort to appear inclusive, which (from what I've read) tends to drive Jews nuts.

  3. Re:Kentucky claimed by Union and Confederacy on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 2

    The eastern part of Kentucky near Lexington was pro-Union but ended up being occupied by the Confederates for some time. The western part was pro-southern.

  4. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Ugh. I've got a couple graphic artists whose newish iMac keyboards are already filthy. The ones they'd had for a few years prior were worse. Much worse. One's keys were largely black.

  5. Only if you're simple enough to hold that all evils are at the same level. Lots of people here think Assange did what he did for the right reasons, and he's being persecuted extra-legally for his troubles.

  6. Re:I bought one on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 2

    I'm typing on a Unicomp right now. It feels a little lighter than a classic M and there were a couple minor cosmetic issues (mainly with keycaps needing a slight trim) but it's still a solid keyboard and IMO a good buy for $79.

    I've been considering buying one for home so that I can use the Super/Windows key now that more programs are using it, and eventually the PS/2 port is going away.

  7. Re:What's available for Bitttorrent clients nowada on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an old Usenetter, fuck you.

  8. Re:Not quite true - Classic Shell allows it on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    Because then you don't have a start menu; you have to hit the windows key to get back to that start screen abomination.

  9. Not quite true - Classic Shell allows it on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, almost. I've got Classic Shell installed on the leaked version of Win8 Enterprise N. What happens is that it'll load Metro for a fraction of a second and then CS takes me back to the old "desktop" environment complete with start menu.

    So it's not a complete bypass but it's close enough for my purposes.

    If, like me, you prefer the Win7 start menu's look to the default Win98/2000 look Classic Shell provides, there's a skin to make that possible.

  10. Re:Hope Rogers loses on Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads · · Score: 1

    If Elizabeth ever withheld the Royal Assent (which has essentially never been done) then that'd be the end of the monarchy. She knows that institution's on thin ice already.

  11. Re:bcache on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 2

    Likewise I'm using a 16GB USB3 stick for Readyboost. It's certainly speeding up Saints Row the Third's otherwise atrocious loading times: something like 5 seconds to load my campaign versus a minute or so without.

  12. Don't forget on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock smoking teabaggers.

  13. Re:It's a great design on Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES? · · Score: 1

    If your NES's power LED blinks when you put in a cartridge, it's a problem with the 10NES copy-protection chip - if the chip doesn't handshake, it continually resets the CPU. If it's not blinking, you've just got a bad connection and your problem is likely with the cartridge connector.

  14. Re:Loop Around the Moon on Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't wash. Why would he capitalize "lifeboat" or "bail out" or "lunar landing" if it was simply for emphasis?

    He simply took English in the mid-20th century South, in a place and time when the average person wasn't expected to read but one book their entire life.

  15. Re:Loop Around the Moon on Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13? · · Score: 0

    Are you German? I can't think of another sane reason for you to randomly capitalize things.

  16. Re:F-16 Viper? on Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle · · Score: 1

    Also the UH-1 Iroquois: "Huey" and the CH-46 Sea Knight: "Frog".

  17. Re:Not the scanners but how they use them. on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    Holy logical fallacy of the excluded middle Batman!

    How about a nice SHOTGUN MOUTHWASH?

  18. Re:Property rights run up to "infinity" in Texas. on Congressman Releases Draft of Legislation On Domestic Drones and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Oh gods. HOAs in Texas are unbearable and malicious enough without letting them have surveillance drones.

  19. Re:Holding pattern until the election on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    If you've not been paying attention, the NRA's gone off the deep end lately.

  20. Re:Too bad on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    Knight is a market maker. Their sole purpose on NYSE to ensure liquidity and make money.

    You're the second person to post that in this discussion to defend HFT. Is this a talking point in the WSJ or somewhere else?

  21. Re:SHIELD? on Bill Would Force Patent Trolls To Pay Defendants' Legal Bills · · Score: 1

    congressweasels, shirley?

  22. Re:There's a reason... on How Much Detail Is Too Much For Games? · · Score: 1

    I suspect that another reason is people who were kids back in the day now have the ability to buy such games again. Same reason things like Transformers and My Little Pony are popular again.

  23. Re:I've met Admiral Greenert on US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms · · Score: 1

    But don't you know that there are a lot of scenarios in which the crews in the B-52s would be very grateful to have F-117s or successors flying ahead to suppress enemy air defenses?

    No, there probably weren't many (or any) of those. If you want a Buffasaurus to hit a defended target, you load it up with cruise missiles and fire from outside of the enemy's range. Maybe one BUFF hits enemy flak, then when that's accomplished another comes in and dumps a load of bombs on the actual target.

    No need for 117s.

  24. Re:Not the scanners but how they use them. on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    Forget it, he's latched onto "it's all to generate revenue" conspiracy theory. You can't reason him out of a position he wasn't reasoned into.

  25. Re:An outside perspective on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    Let me shorten that for you: "politics as a TV reality show".