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  1. I thought the "good cop" was the one who offered you coffee and a cigarette while ultimately suggesting that you confess in order to get a lesser prison sentence.

  2. I prefer to carry around a bottle of homemade chili liquid. You can put it in a little plastic bottle similar to what is used for eye drops (just don't mix them up!) and squirt it at your assailant's face.

    It's even better paired with, "and unless you find the commonly available antidote within 15 minutes, you'll lose all vision permanently."

  3. Re:The Mechanical Turk may be faster... on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    And none of them match the FBI's person of interest description.

    What about the two guys, one with the black backpack, the other with a shoulder type bag, who are later seen heading in the direction of where the second bomb went off, one of them no longer with a bag?

  4. Re:Good thing it's dead on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind also that XML is intended to describe documents... it was never intended to be used in a manner that is now currently being shoe-horned into since there is nothing particularly better.

    JSON, on the other hand, is intended to describe objects... sure, these objects might possibly be document objects, but that is not always the case.

    While they do similar things, they are not, nor are they intended to be, the same thing.

  5. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that if someone intended to fire the "First Shot", Boston is an iconic choice.

    If there is a group of people responsible for this, I dislike them.

  6. Re:don't hurt the terrorists on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Violence only produces one result: more violence.

    (at least up until the point when everyone is already dead)

  7. Re:why are snowflakes symmetric? on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 1

    If you go in winter, access by snowshoe, snowmobile, or skis... there's no other options.

  8. Re:Seems like..... on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 1

    Doesn't WP allow you to change the admin login URL as well?

  9. Re:why are snowflakes symmetric? on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 2

    Ah, Devil's Den cave. Note, you'll probably not find much info online about it... there is a popular cave in Arkansas with the same name.

  10. Re:why are snowflakes symmetric? on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 3

    Can't remember the name specifically, it is almost exactly at 39.518712, -106.629701

    There are some yurts just to the west about a 1/4 mile. I suggest staying there (Hidden Treasure Yurts) and reading the great binder full of information on local caves. I read the article about this specific cave, and it's quite fascinating.

    If caving in Colorado, please educate yourself on White Nose Syndrome. It is not prevalent here, and people would like to keep it that way.

  11. Re:why are snowflakes symmetric? on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 2

    Just to add to this, there is a cave in Colorado that I found last summer (it is known of, but it sees very little visitors... maybe a dozen a year) that apparently develops very rare ice crystal shapes in the winter near the entrance. What I read is that it is one of only a handful of places in the world where this is known to occur.

  12. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 2

    For my part, I've always liked the idea of "rice-bombing"

    Two phases... phase one, release a statement that "rice-bombing" will occur and to prepare the boiling water because food is coming... Then, just bomb the shit out of the authorities who come to confiscate the food.

    Phase two... the actual "rice-bombing".

  13. Re:Google on Judge Slams Apple-Motorola Suit As 'Business Strategy' · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about the case really, and I don't care much about it either...

    But my impression at this point is that Motorola filed suit over their existing hardware patents. Apple then counter sued based on their own "patents".

    In my last 8 or so years on this earth, one thing I have learned about the legal system is that, when faced with a law suit you are certainly guilty of, it is standard procedure to counter-sue based on whatever random shit you can come up with, valid or not. Several years ago I had an employer withhold pay that was already earned (along with about 25 other coworkers). After we filed suit on what should have been an open-shut case (at least based on the Colorado Wage Act), we were counter-sued for so many frivolous claims (I was named as a "co-conspirator" to an event that happened before I even worked there... or even lived within 200 miles of the facility) that the end result is that we have been stymied, the law has been broken, and without money or an interested DA, these people (who are incredibly wealthy... ie having libraries at major universities named after their family) end up in the black since all the payroll they refused to pay was likely much much less than their legal fees.

    I agree with the judge in this case, but I wonder if it would have been easier and more effective to hire some thugs to break the knees of the lawyers defending the guilty parties.

  14. Re:How about Python or something? on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    I would argue that it's probably more beneficial to teach children some completely fictional programming language. Let the intelligent ones figure out theoretical improvements.

  15. Re:Yacht? on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    this is the perfect boat for them

    Sounds useful to future serial killer sailor who is finally fed up with the increasing % of fat chicks.

    "Hey baby... wanna go out to sea?"

  16. Re:ugly on Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! · · Score: 1

    "beer taste on champagne budget"

    Forgive me, I'm from Denver, but I don't understand this phrase... Is this to infer that champagne is actually more expensive than beer?

    Huh... go figure.

  17. WTF is the link to? on Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls · · Score: 5, Informative

    It might as well be spam in my inbox.

    Why not just link the damn blog post by Rackspace itself? link

  18. Re:I approve. on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    ...non-existant WMD's...

    Non-existent in the same way the cat in the box with the poison is still alive... or is it dead... do the WMD's still exist... or do they not...

    Unless you can provide observation, uncertainty makes both existence and non-existence true.

  19. Re:Cool story bro. on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    And what if you were a musician in a band called "The Terrorists"... and you were on tour with a bag full of CDs of your first album titled "Bombs"?

  20. Re:Not available internationally? on Digital Bolex Gives You a Classic Film Look in a Digital Package (Video) · · Score: 1

    You may be interested in emailing them about shipping to Canada.

    When it comes to shipping, many businesses don't consider Canada as international since the shipping isn't that much more expensive (and is even cheaper at times).

  21. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ on Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which is exactly why CSS preprocessors were invented (ok, at least part of the reason).

    Anyone that is using prefixes all over their style sheets is doing it wrong. It's so much simpler to simply use `border-radius: 5px` than to have to deal with `-webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px;` .... etc.

    Just stick whatever prefixes you think you're going to need this month inside the mixin for `border-radius` and let the preprocessor handle all that prefix garbage.

    Of course, you could always just be an asshole like me and completely ignore the fact that prefixes even exist.

  22. Re:Probably not just about pot on The RFP and IT Logistics For Washington's "Pot Czar" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed. A friend of mine interviewed with a local dispensary (Colorado) a couple of weeks ago, she would be doing the books.

    Granted, this is a medial dispensary, and not the type of "pot shop" that would come as the result of legalization, but I imagine the two won't be far off...

    So, as I was saying, she interviewed and, since she's smart, she was asking specific questions about how they operate. Apparently, part of her job would involved making cash deposits to the bank via an ATM at the mall. Yes. That's how they are doing it right now... cash deposits to an ATM at the mall.

    The ATM in this case belongs to Bank of America, and they are chosen for the account precisely because they do not have a presence in Colorado (other than ATMs). I'm not really sure the rest of the details, but it is clear that there are plenty of methods, especially in regards to how dispensaries run their finances, that need to be refined.

  23. Re:Great! on Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 2

    I own a Galaxy Player 5", and it's getting to the point where I'd love to update and get something newer. Unfortunately, nobody sees the market for a phone sized device that isn't actually a phone.

    I don't have a cell phone... don't really want one. I'd much rather just have my mini-tablet that I can connect to my wifi-hotspot pretty much anywhere in most cities.

  24. Re:why not just use postgres? on MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Magento is most certainly NOT MySQL only (since 1.6)

    Of course, it definitely IS MySQL only if the developer plastered module setup scripts with SQL code instead of using the ORM that is provided.

    If a module is developed with bad practices, how can you come back and say "Even if Magento did work with Postgres, the module doesn't work with it" when it's the module's fault entirely?

    We spent a good 30-45 minutes discussing non-MySQL options during MagentoU training (the training book specifically mentions MSSQL and Oracle, but there are others),

  25. Re:stirring the pot on MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Except when it comes to names. MySQL is clearly the better name.