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  1. Re:New Character on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: 1

    You joke but there's a gay character of Jabba's species in the Star Wars universe...but he's like the gay equivalent of a blackface character. >_>

  2. Re:Acceptable on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: 1

    Prepare for a mind-blowing: People who call themselves tolerant don't tolerate intolerance, because that promotes intolerance!

    I'll give you a few minutes.

  3. Re:Maybe it's a better example of true worth on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 2

    To be honest I'm surprised the users reacted at all, good to see that people still have some fight left in 'em.

  4. Re:Data Center vs Water Feature on New Data Center Modeled After a Space Station · · Score: 1

    Hey here's an idea, use the fountain to add extra cooling power by running the fountain water and server coolant through a heat exchanger. Water coming out of the exchanger is sprayed into the air losing lots of heat.

    Of course a hybrid evaporative cooler would be much more efficient with power and water, but if you gotta have a fountain...

  5. Re:Why is anyone there to see it on New Data Center Modeled After a Space Station · · Score: 1

    I jest you not, I worked in a center where they spent days aligining all the screw heads to the same direction in every rack.

    Wow I thought only the craziest show car guys did that (fun fact: This tends to cause every torque setting to be wrong, and on cars, torque settings are generally important.)

  6. Re:More seeders on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1
  7. More seeders on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    Seeders on the JSTOR file went from 55 to 395 since he killed himself.

    Now force-seeding to help grow the swarm.

  8. Re:Big bang theory? on Telepresence Robot Rundown · · Score: 0

    It's not just you.

    And telepresence robots were around before the show launched.

  9. Re:Have some shame on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    landed a crazy gig making 60K in a different state by meeting someone at a conference when I was 18.

    I hope you know that this is all that separates you from all your minimum-wage friends, this is where your fates diverged. A stroke of luck, a "networking" connection.

  10. Got arrested with $100M? on Alleged ZeuS Botmaster Arrested For Stealing $100M From US Banks · · Score: 1

    That's worse than getting caught in a police chase on a literbike. With $100M it's possible to make yourself impossible to arrest, worst case scenario you get yourself a nice mansion in the Mexican countryside and hire some ex-military gangsters to run your security.

  11. Re:Ownership AND storage on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Well that was informative, but I was looking for something that shows how vastly different US and Swiss gun laws are. US gun owners would probably consider Swiss-style gun controls reason for revolt. They include a government gun registry, regulated private sales, safe storage requirements and a total ban on concealed carry and full-auto weapons.

    Some good articles I found, but I want something well-referenced since so much bullshit flies from both sides in the debate:

    http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/

    http://www.ibtimes.com/us-gun-control-debate-what-can-we-learn-switzerland-732104

  12. Re:Stating the obvious on FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 2

    Corporate spokespeople would be among the easiest to replace with a small shellscript. In fact I'll start right now with this piece based on part of a disk status checking script I use on my home server:

    DANGER=`echo -n "$1" | grep -i 'break\|broke\|caught fire\|failure\|fell off\|no signal'`
    if [ -n "$DANGER" ]
    then
    echo "We are absolutely confident in the reliability and performance of the $PRODUCT"
    fi

  13. Re:Not good enough. on FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 2

    2 inches of legroom? Oh Mr. Fancy-pants business class has come to brag about his legroom.

  14. Re:Not good enough. on FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 1

    LOL wow. There's what looks like a "small aircraft junkyard" at the airport nearest me. You can't see it from the terminal but you can drive by it or see it if you look out the right of the plane during takeoff.

  15. Re:Ownership AND storage on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of a good page that lists, in large letter point form, why the Switzerland vs. US gun ownership argument is total bullshit?

    I want to link to it every time some idiot brings it up.

  16. Re:But the U.S. is still #1 in the world! on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    During the dust bowl the richies cried that it would be socialist to distribute drinking water to the victims.

    Also compare: Civil war era secessionist rants, modern right-wing talking points.

  17. Re:Well... on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    He's punishing everyone so obviously nobody has figured him/her out yet.

  18. Re:I estimate it will be about a week on The Science Behind Building a Space Gun · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Skeumorphism on crack on Canadian Researchers Debut PaperTab, the Paper-Thin Tablet · · Score: 1

    For that purpose it could make sense to have these paper-tablets linked together and able to fold and unfold like a map to allow for more screen area for one multitasking computer, but having a bunch of separate, single-tasking tablets is just simulating the limitations of paper.

  20. Re:First posting? on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use Samba at home for my media file shares, and probably still would have even if Windows interoperability wasn't an issue, it's widely supported by most non-Windows OSes (except iOS, the first OS where you need to pay to add on a Samba client. Progress!)

  21. Re:samba - racist on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 0

    Samba is just a form of dance AFAIK...now change that last A to an O, and that's something different...

  22. First posting? on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Still important :-P

  23. Re:Data transfer kits on Crucial M500 SSD Promises 960GB For $600 · · Score: 1

    Actually I just got an idea. If the linking can be done from the CLI (and most things can be on Vista and later), it should be possible from the recovery console. Configure disks, copy data, shut down computer, delete and link moved directories. Looks like the mklink command is what I need.

  24. Re:The Linux Kernel is *NOT* "free for all". on Early Pirate Bay Server Immortalized In Museum · · Score: 1

    And before Tivoization was discovered, that really meant something too!

  25. Re:This is not book burning on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 2

    I got the impression that they were trying to get parents to turn in their kids' video games, which isn't such a clear-cut case of consent.