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  1. Re:Yet in the USA.... on UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they sell it does not mean you get it. I strongly suggest you learn about the subject first.

  2. Yet in the USA.... on UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people cant get more than 25mbps. Even if Comcast is selling you more, you CANT GET more than that in most places.

    Honestly, the govt needs to force those assholes to spend money on their backbone.

  3. Re:Yup, I "invested" on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's easy to see if you take the time to learn about it first and put in effort, why people refuse to take the time to research things before making a decision I'll never understand.

    Never ever believe a kickstarter promises without researching what they say first if they dont deliver proof already. The ones I back gladly will reveal sources and other information by just asking. If they wont tell you, they are scammers.

  4. Re:Follow the money on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They had a clever bit of video that even then people were calling out as staged, faked, or possibly CG.

  5. Re:Kickstarter = inherent risk on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Here are some facts.

    1 - ENRON executives all got jobs as executives. their scumbaggery did not hurt them in any way, in fact all of them profited from it.
    2 - Even after that mess and then the most recent Bernie Madoff Scam mess, people are still idiots and "investing" in shakey BS all the time. People in general are stupid, this will never ever change.
    3 - Everyone laughs to the bank with their commissions. What do you think makes the stock market the richest bag of assholes on the planet? The traders and banks are who is getting disgustingly rich, not the investors.

  6. Re:Yup, I "invested" on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    All of that is 100% bullshit out of their mouths unless they were making them out of strange space materials. and if these were all custom carbon fiber and titanium , everyone should have walked away understanding that it was 100% BS for the price point.

    Absolutely NO plastic injection company requires a 12 month lead time for ABS supplies, that is complete horse shit. Circuit boards even auto placed and tested have a MAX 3 month lead, and these jokers should have had the board design done and the files ready before the first kickstarter order came in.

    They were bullshitting everyone and they knew it.

  7. Re:Follow the money on Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just follow the money. They had NOTHING but a napkin idea at the start, that is how you end up with a guaranteed failure.
    Back projects that have real prototypes and real ideas on how to scale up to delivering thousands or tens of thousands. Honestly if any of the people running it was getting more than 100K a year in income from this then they are dirty thieves that need to have their pants set of fire.

  8. Re:Can't play, gotta build more turrets on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have had gun nut 2 by level 9. but then I also started out with agility of 10 and by level 6 I had 2 ranks of sneak so mines and traps dont matter so I could easily snipe all the big bad guys way over my level.

  9. Re:Not touching this one on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 2

    Rainbow 6 due to release soon utterly kicks the crap out of this. I also beta tested that and it requires tactics and thought. No bunny hopping and blasting away randomly like this star wars battlefront is like.

  10. It's meh. on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    It is basically Unreal tournament with a star wars theme. I was on the beta test and even then it was filled with bunny hopping 13 year olds making it annoying.

  11. Re:Sad it's missing.... on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    $229? The chromebox for meetings START at $999. where are you getting them for $229?

  12. Re:HDMI really needs the ability to source power.. on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep. Problem is 99% of all TV manufacturers don't supply more than 0.5A of power there. Every stinking time we try to use a stick powered via the HDMI and it fails, we have to plug in the USB as well. and on some sets an external USB power as they cant supply any real power out their USB jacks.

  13. Sad it's missing.... on Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The ability to add a USB webcam and USB Microphone. This device would be the PERFECT way to get Google Hangouts into the corperate world of small "Huddle" type meeting rooms.

    Why is it that Apple and Google never ever thinks of the corporate and company uses for their products?

  14. Which only works if everyone huddles around their PC. Setting up a cart with a table and a real VC client so that 4 players can be IRL and add remote players don't work with their video chat. so you use Skype or Google hangouts and Roll20 for the map if you really need a map.

    Cheap 42" TV's are plentiful, get a small laptop or better yet a mini PC (I use a chrome-box), webcam and a cart and you have Enterprise level telepresence at your game table.

  15. Re:amazing no ground scale or even strain gauges on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that 747's and 777's have them as an option when being ordered means that it's a good idea, engineering wise.
    but then the stupidity of taking off at less than 100% throttle to save a little bit of fuel at the expense of increasing risk is also a pretty dumb thing to do, engineering wise.

  16. Honestly standard VC software and RollD20 does a far better job than this ever will.

  17. Re:amazing no ground scale or even strain gauges on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And they could by putting load cells on the landing gear so the system knows exactly how much it weighs.

  18. Why not 100% on takeoff? on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly flooring it is always the best option.

  19. Re:Politicians... The epitome of Stupid. on Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I studied congress. All of them are stupid except for 2 of them, therefore it is easy to extrapolate out.

  20. Now bring back the Fucking 17" Macbook Pro.

    Stupidest thing to remove from their lineup in decades.

  21. Yes you can, because they are the same base elements after you launched so they made their decision 14 generations ago. That carbon in their Great Great Great Great Grandmother could have stayed home.

  22. Re:Heinlein quote. on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Anything outside the planet is instant death unless we build it. and oops a small fire kills everyone, we should install HALON.... oops we killed everyone...

  23. Politicians... The epitome of Stupid. on Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' (startribune.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Honestly all this does is serve to prove that the people running for any office are some of the absolute dumbest people in our society. Because smart people don't want to have anything at all to do with it because you have to deal with the general population and that is the largest collection of dumb there is.

  24. Dear Anonymous... on Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One thing you can do is screw with their social media, make it look as if ISIS hates Allah and Mohammed, not in big ways that are obvious, but smaller that makes recruits stand back and second guess. Undermine their ability to recruit anyone and recruit money and they will crumble faster than 10,000 bombs can hurt them.

    Sever their income, destroy their ability to recruit and communicate. and please do it decently instead of carpet bombing that gets a lot of innocents as well. redirect their bank accounts to supporting Israel or other groups they hate.

    Reveal all their financial supporters, and feel free to drain their accounts as well.

  25. Re:Correction... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    You move the jumper and flash the update just like you always have done in well designed professional devices.