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  1. Re:the winter dragon is coming, on Something Resembling 'The Wheel of Time' Aired Last Night On FXX · · Score: 4, Funny

    The audience sniffed while tugging on their braids.

  2. Re:Sad to see him go... on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    Death to Smoochy.

  3. Re:the winter dragon is coming, on Something Resembling 'The Wheel of Time' Aired Last Night On FXX · · Score: 2

    The director then excused himself to go to the bathroom.

  4. Re:No, he's not on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    It's either this year (2015) in which cast the number of donations increased by just under 300 over these first 6 days of February. If it's this year (past 365 days) then it means that over the past year, excluding January, there were a bit under 300 donations totalling to just under 10,000.

  5. Re:Latest update on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    So basically.... the Linux Foundation gave him $60,000 to keep working on the project and told him to shut up and not disclose it until after the pity article to trick people into donating when they otherwise wouldn't have.

  6. Re:Lasers are easy to stop on The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder · · Score: 1

    Which you could just use cruise missiles against.

  7. Re:Totally Worthless on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for mentioning this. Revenue is a pretty useless figure and no one pays attention to it for determining the health or success of a company. Metrics like profit, net profit, or cash flow are far better indicators.

  8. Re:They brought it on themselves on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    Wheeler's statement contains very few things to be positive about. They're not going to do last-mile unbundling which means the monopolies are secured. There won't be any rate regulation so without the competition there's nothing to stop them from raising rates without improving service. End user throttling has been the majority of throttling issues while the big published ones alleged to be throttling are actually congested routes so this statement doesn't address that. I just don't see very much that's positive.

  9. Re:Well damn on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    There has been throttling to individual users that are high bandwidth users but that's about the extent of throttling. Everything else I've heard that has been blamed on throttling has turned out to be congested routes, something which the FCC statement does not address.

  10. Re:Well damn on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    They're not putting in rate regulation or doing any last-mile unbundling so they don't have to open their networks to competitors. That's a fun combo for insanity. Comcast can still throttle Netflix while having their competing service at lightning speed by just simply allowing the connection through which 95+% of Netflix traffic passes get congested. A more nuanced version of rules would need to be seen but I see very little positive changes in the proposal and more that entrenches the status quo.

  11. Re:Cue the libertarian fucktards on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything he made a declaration of addressing any real problem that exists, at least not any wide scale or high public problem. For example, the Netflix/Comcast or Netflix/Verizon spat that seems to be the darling child of why net neutrality is needed. In order for regulation to address that problem they would need to either prohibit direct connection between networks, which essentially breaks the Internet without highly nuanced rules on top of only preventing the direct connect arrangement between Netflix and Comcast from ever being established, or they have to mandate minimum bandwidth being necessary at interconnects unless you want to get into the assinine statement that an oversaturated link is throttling.

  12. Re:Is it low T? on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 1

    I don't want a plot of land. I want HUGE TRACTS of land.

  13. Re:It's not the gas... on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    Yet the Colts didn't deserve to be in it. The balls they played with on offense weren't altered or deflated and the still only scored 7 points to the eventual 45 that the patriots scored. The Colts offense was shut down by the Pats defence and that's that. Would valid balls or the Pats have changed the outcome? The answer is it is unlikely the box score for the Pats was 14-3-21-7 and the possible issue with the balls was cause before halftime and corrected. So even giving the Pats a score of 0 for the first half would still yield a Pats victory of 28-7. You'd have to successfully argue that the Colts could have reasonably got three defensive touchdowns to send the game into overtime.

    Don't get me wrong. The Pats deserve an asterisk for the AFC championship and the Superbowl because of the cheating but I won't say that they didn't deserve to win it.

  14. Re: Not really. on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 0

    And 1-10 deaths is really not much, for such a large project. 10 or so people have died working at the launch sites for the US space program, which has launched ... maybe 5,000 tonnes to date? Orion could put more than that mass into space in a single launch, with less deaths.

    Fuck off,tool. There's a league of difference between the accidental deaths you cited and 1-10 unavoidable deaths per launch.

  15. Re:USA invading Canada? on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it was native americans invading a viking settlement in Canada... or something.

  16. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    Unless you're unfrying four fried chickens, I'm not interested.

  17. Re:He'll win in a landslide on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 1

    An ID card is free in some states.

  18. Re:Could be useful in certain rare cases on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    It's a destructive scanner which isn't entirely a bad thing if it permits a far more accurate scan.

  19. Re:Prototyping security? on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    If someone is a courier taking a locked object from point A to point B then having the key with courier isn't a good idea. Transporting the key independent of the goods help prevent people from getting access. This would just be a another method of transporting a key from point A to point B.

  20. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    I can't find a citation but I seem to recall that most of these organizations seeking tax-exempt status eventually got their 501(c)(4) status.

    They did but it's not relevant to the controvery because the timing is the issue. Had the organizations not been targeted they would have received the status sooner. Now, whether you agree or disagree about whether running ads about various civic issues in a leadup to an election in which they matter should or should not qualify for tax-exempt status it is hard to argue against the fact that the targeting prevented these organizations from engaging in the election in any way shape or form. To suggest that they still got the status and so everything is alright is to pretty much deny the elephant in the room when it comes to suppressing expression.

  21. Re:Bye_bye, Blackberry on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 1

    The black version, of course, cost an extra $200 for the coolness factor. Considering that my MacBook lasted for eight years, it was a worthwhile investment.

    Did you just claim that paying $200 more for a coolness factor was a worthwhile investment?

  22. Re:Let's hope on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY. As long as the tax code is ridiculously complicated, we're going to need ridiculously complicated bureaucracy and IT systems to manage and enforce that complexity. Let's see how well our new GOP overlords in Congress manage to legislate an actual reduction in tax code complexity, now that they have the gavel all to themselves in both the house and the senate.

    It will be nice to see Obama have to veto bills instead of being able to rely on Harry Reid stopping them.

  23. Re:This is incredibly exciting on Interior of Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Read For First Time · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    The narrow range for that fragment is 117 to 138 CE although it could be from prior to 100 CE or after 150 CE. Jesus's death was between 30 - 36 CE is the generally accepted range for the death. Within a 100 years of the event is not an unreasonable statement to make when it comes to the Gospels.

  24. Re:WHO forced them? on Iran Forced To Cancel Its Space Program · · Score: 1

    Why did you have to remind me of that film?

  25. Re:oh the humanity on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    That is brilliant.