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  1. Re:What? Asteroid mining now? on The Great Meteor Grab · · Score: 1

    Lol, you have no idea how much they are worth. I bought a tiny 1in piece by half an inch, shaved from a large specimen, nearly $100. An actual verifiable asteroid meteorite. Like the one found of Vesta, would be alot more.

  2. Or...

    You can leave it open so your neighbors with kids who are broke
    and living month to month can have internet so the kids can do
    their homework and everyone else in the family can enjoy something
    that should be free anyway.

    -AI

  3. Apocalypse on Newly Spotted Comet May Shine Among Brightest In History · · Score: 0

    Something about the Mayans and December 21st, etc.

    -AI

  4. Re:FREE! on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    Amen bother. To Poster: Don't explain how much it will cost. Go get SVN, which is free and simple. GIT is more powerful, but sort of overkill if you are just two people within shouting distance.

    iPhone user?

    -AI

  5. Re:HOLY SHIT! on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 1

    the doctor told him "Bacon should come with a skull and crossbones on the label..."

    Then his doctor is a retarded monkey.

    Too much water will kill you, too much oxygen will kill you, too much sugar will kill you.

    Anyone with more than half a brain knows that TOO MUCH (of anything) is enough to kill you.

    Or perhaps the good doctor somehow believes that for millions of years the ancestors of mankind ate only fish and lean white meat?

    We NEED Water
    We NEED Oxygen

    Bacon, not so much.

    -AI

  6. Phoenix? on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending) · · Score: 1

    No party in Phoenix yet?

    Grishnakh? Time to meet up bud.

    -AI

  7. Health... on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    You must be one lucky individual to have never had a health
    care, scare or had a friend or family member that has had one.

    Breast Cancer
    Alzheimer's
    Cystic Fibrosis

    the list goes on, but gets more depressing.

    I have Alzheimer's in my family. 95% my donations go to that,
    5% goes to dog specific non-profits.

    And on top of that, I run a non-profit for disadvantaged families.

    -AI

  8. Re:Yes. on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    Provided you're using them for your OS and software, and not storage of large quantities of data.

    And games (yes, I know... "software") but I'm just sayin... Skyrim load screens take like less than 10s now.

    -AI

  9. FWIW on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    I got into SSD's when they just barely hit $1/gig on special as they came up on Techbargains.

    I would do it again at that price. The speed up was ridiculous. 3x on my old laptop, 6-8x on my
    gaming computer.

    Needless to say... I had a sniiif when I started seeing them @ .50c/gig on Techbargains.... ;(

    But I've been doing this a while, I've payed plenty of early-adopter tax.

    I was buying $600 smartphones while 98% of people were carrying stick/flip/feature phones.

    It'd be nice to have all that money back now... but meh. Yolo.

    -AI

  10. Just to prove how correct he is... on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Look at all the people copying other types of accounts of wars and slavery and homicidal killing sprees...
    oh wait they aren't...

    I'm not voting FOR the ability to do it... I'm just saying... reducing our rights further, blah, blah, it's not
    even in the US, so yay for fascism. George Orwell.

    -AI

  11. Re:Wipe and reinstall. on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Generally XP* and older versions of windows did not rewrite the boot sector. People would install linux on a machine and then try to go back to windows and LILO would still come up. There are ways to force it to do so of course.

    Ideally operating systems would ask so you could re-install a partition and not have to mess with getting everything setup.

    *for Vista and Windows 7 I think you may have to as well I have not had the issue of lately

    Vista and Win7 completely EFFs up a linux install.

    Always try to do the linux install last.

    Recovering what they do to the grub takes a bit of Live CD finagling to get back.

    -@|

  12. Re:Shifted to Brazil... on Sedo Halts Demonoid Domain Name Sale Citing "Legal Issues" · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't be surprised. Sedo always gave me the impression they are a seedy operation to begin with. Rumored domain frontrunning via sister division 1&1's whois search is one of them.

    I always heard Sedo was GoDaddy's way of selling off domains. Have some kinda proof about the 1and1 before I cancel my 100 domains and hosting with them?

  13. Will not live... on Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout · · Score: 1

    I will not live in a country where the president has more moxy than a random mop-headed stage performer.

    Oh wait, no... never mind.

    -AI

  14. Re:Revenue Stream on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    You'll pay it and like it! Now, whose your daddy? I ASKED, WHOSE YOUR DADDY?!?!?!

    I rarely see that grammar mistake. Thanks.
    Even a bad example is a good example to someone.

    -AI

  15. Scooped on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    By every other tech site on the web days ago.

  16. The hell? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What the fuck man.

    Ridiculous question.

    At no point in our evolution was it designed for us to sit a long time. Your question has no answer.
    ie, the answer is, what ever position works for you and doesn't kill you.

    I'm sure others have mentioned standing. But... once again... we weren't designed to stand either.
    We are an animal that was expected to be on the move at all times.

    Standing will give you:
    Varicose Veins
    Popped capillaries
    Edema
    and still even the chance of DVT

    Only thing that can be added, take daily aspirin, 80mg or so, to prevent the stroke you are going to get one day.

    (My wife died from too much sitting. Literally. DVT behind her knee, broke off, went into lung, Pulmonary embolism
    was a result. Upon surgery, part of the clot made its way to her brain. 3 blockages... coma. Few weeks later, and
    I'm a widow. Extenuating circumstance? None that Dr would ever admit to. My consolation prize? Nearly 100 grand
    in stuff the insurance wouldn't cover. )

    -AI

  17. Great! on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 0

    Fucking DRM on our tickers now!

    -AI

  18. Re:Choose, denialists on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    It's not just that this year was incredibly hot, it's not even that the last year was also very warm. It's that the top 10 hottest years are all since 1998 with 2012 looking like it will be the hottest.

    Obviously that's not true if we beat a record from 1936.

    -AI

  19. Whew! Thank goodness! on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    I sure am glad global warming doesn't exist, this could have been SO much worse.

    -AI

  20. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 5, Informative

    I love it.... "Take the 1936 Texas below normal temperature out of the mix and there goes your 0.2F record making difference with July 2012." Of course, if you randomly take out data points you don't like, you're going to get the result you're looking for. Not to mention that their entire post focuses on the fact that not all states all linearly increased in temperatures, which betrays a complete lack of understanding of how temperatures are come about.

    FWIW, a graph tends to be of more value if you evaluate and potentially take out outlier points.
    If you are looking for trends. Also, some toss lowest and highest as well.

    Just saying.

    -AI

  21. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    This July's record heat is only 0.2 degrees higher then the previous record. Let's not blow things out of proportion. (Unless you think the record set in the 1930s is indicative of global warming too?)

    Yeah, the new records they set in the Olympics were only milliseconds faster.
    Let's not give them a medal or anything. Cause you know.. you don't want to
    blow it out of proportion. What's a record anyway, if they are so close to each
    other. Amirite?

    -AI

  22. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    I know what a fatwa is. And one of the things it's not is a DMCA takedown notice. So I have to reiterate the question: do you have any references or other evidence supporting your original claim that "Islamists issue DCMA takedowns" in response to "people with YouTube channels who bash Islam".

    I'm in America, do you have any proof they don't?

    Yeah. Gotcha.

    -AI

  23. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Except the cops won't arrest you for a 'claimed act of murder' unless there were:

    1. a real provable murder.
    2. evidence that you committed said provable murder sufficient to get a grand jury to hand down an indictment.
    3. sufficient evidence that would lead a prosecutor to believe they would win a conviction based on said evidence.
     

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

    Wow, that was a good one.

    Evidence! Lol. Wow. I got a tear in my eye.

    -AI

  24. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    So if you're upset that no one has ever been charged with perjury for filing an inaccurate DMCA takedown notice, you should at least know that it's not because those organizations/people are above the law. Instead, it's because that's simply not what the law actually says.

    Thank you for your post. I wish posts could be promoted to the top. Would solve a lot of going around.

    -AI

  25. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    the penalty of perjury is for both sides of the claim- you can recover cost and damages in some situations.

    Perjury is a court thing. There is no court here.

    You cannot be held accountable for an affirmation that you did not sign nor was
    not witnessed to "utter".

    They use the word perjury cause most street-people have heard that word when
    watching their daily judge shows and "thinks it means they can end up in court, sued".
    Which "normal" people cannot afford. So they lay down. (Lie down?)

    -AI