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  1. Gartner?! on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, those coke-snorting peons at Gartner still have a pulse? (I remember trying to explain the importance of - and future prospects for - 3D accelerators... to some of their analysts back in '95 or '96... they didn't get it and damn were they sure I didn't!) ROFL...

  2. Re:Thats why your #1 priority in an interview is: on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    It's "flout the law", not flaunt.

    We flout it; cops and prosecutors flaunt it. :p

  3. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Pun intended? :p

  4. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Cimarron country? Some of the strangest people live up there. And, I've met strange, all over the world, so yes, I know strange!

    Eastern Oklahoma, about 45min SE of Tulsa. I live pretty much right on the edge of the southernmost Great Plains to the west (can you say inhospitable and ugly?) and the Ozarks to the east (where the landscape tends to be pretty and the people anything but... or should I say "butt"). :p

  5. lol on Air Force Looking To Beef Up Spacecraft Network Security · · Score: 1

    How is spacecraft development â" from the space parts supply chain to actual space operations â" protected from those who would try to penetrate or disrupt the networks involved in that process?

    Well, I'd start by asking Gary McKinnon... :p

  6. lol on 'Blue Waters' Supercomputer Lucky To Exist · · Score: 1

    One could argue that the University of Illinois' "Blue Waters" supercomputer... is lucky to be alive.

    What are they saying, exactly? Are the rest of us about to be extremely unlucky to be alive or something? :p

  7. Re:3 fans on the 7990 is stupid on AMD Reveals Radeon Sky Series For Cloud Gaming, Previews Radeon HD 7990 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know its just a reference design but putting three fans, even two fans, on a video card is stupid. In all likelyhood, that more than doubles the failure rate vs a single fan cooling setup...

    All other things being equal, sure. However, which do you think would be more reliable, three fans at X rpm or one fan at 3X rpm? :)

  8. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1
    In other words, the social mechanisms for the weirdness are not, in themselves, weird... the result, however, is some really screwed-up people (a.k.a. weirdos).

    This comes to mind (I'm being unfair to Gonzo; he's hardly the ignorant, hypocritical, toddler-buggering youth pastor type) :p

  9. Re:Alleged attempts to enter the bunker by force. on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 0

    Say? lol...

  10. Re:Alleged attempts to enter the bunker by force. on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 0

    Why would you turn the lights off? It's very apparent visually, and confirms people are there. I'd leave them alone, people leave some lights on in their house... or bunker, even when absent.

    You know what they about people who live in glass bunkers...

  11. Huh on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    ...Dutch company Cyberbunker... Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force.

    Perhaps I'm not understanding this quite right; from the sound of it, it would seem the cops might be running the wrong client... :p

  12. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 0

    You'd think so. However, it' has finally begun to dawn to on me that this inherent weirdness is simply the phenomenon known as "The Bible Belt."

  13. Re:Any communication channel on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    'Cause you tap out out morse code on them and hear it further down the pipe in other rooms.

    I thought that was just the beans. :)

  14. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    makes those losing the packages pretty lousy christians though. USPS should run a sting on them.

    I realize it might seem that these packages are simply getting tossed in the trash bins but let's not rule out the possibility* that these so-called "Christian" postal workers are stealing these packages, taking them home and doing... strange things with their contents.

    *I've lived in rural Oklahoma for nearly seven years and I have never met more maladjusted, sexually-closeted weirdos in my entire life...

  15. Re:Hmm... on Fantastic js1k Submissions · · Score: 1

    I'll check those out; thanks!

  16. Hmm... on Fantastic js1k Submissions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No luck with the demo #1451 (it errors out) but the "mine cart" is unbelievable. Never having "programmed" in javascript, I hadn't realized it was so versatile and powerful and certainly had no idea that 9,000 zeros and ones could go so far, even in such obviously skilled hands...

  17. Re:never understood the appeal on DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Is DOOM now a form of punishment?

    I remember the days of having to shrink Doom and Wolfenstein3D down to the size of a postage stamp (no support for hardware-accelerated scaling under DOS) to get smooth frame-rates... yeah, punishment just about describes it. :p

  18. Re:Maybe I'm crazy on PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones · · Score: 1

    I find it a testament to our fractured society that we collectively feel "privatizing" things is good. The public loses 100% of oversight over the use, has to place 100% trust in the private entity (regardless of their track record), and becomes beholden to a private entity who can manipulate that data at will without us knowing, and the EULA that must be signed before using the "service" strips away your right to affirm that the data is even correct.

    In other words, pretty much the same things that are happening to public resources as well.

    Public or private, let's face it: we're fucked.

  19. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the toddlers, or the magnets. The problem is the parents.

    True enough but sometimes things are more complicated than they appear on paper. For example... have you ever tried to be a parent in a household with both toddlers... as well as stupid teenagers?

  20. Re:Just what we need on Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am sure that when we will have effective robots, they will not be used to do anything you think they can do, but rather walk in the streets, tap your shoulder and when you look, they say "Hey mister, did you hear about this great new product

    This is why the time to create ad-blocking solutions is now, not later. For hardware, the bigger the caliber, the better... for software, I recommend fully-jacketed over hollowpoints (maximum penetration). :)

  21. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    we'll find out our answers the hard way.

    Oh, we already know what happens to actual crime (not bullshit statistics) when you make it a crime to defend yourself, or even just be prepared to do so; look at the U.K.

  22. how to process the mining products in the ocean

    Oh, that? By polluting a lot. :p

  23. Re:What? on Florida House Passes Bill To Ban "Internet Cafes" · · Score: 2

    There is a simpler solution, though. Ban the Florida legislature.

    Band them (so they can't reproduce).

    TTFY ;)

  24. Re:Um..., on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    I doubt you're really an American if you use the word "petrol."

    Who knows; the word "petrol" might be hipster-slang for gas... Anyway, he might have used the word if he thought he was addressing a european audience...

  25. Re:Life is unsafe on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 1

    In a similar report, we've found that 100% of lighters, knives, crampons and Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifles are outside tolerable limits for safety.

    However, the researcher studying the safety of lawn darts was unavailable for comment; reports indicate he was last seen being loaded into an ambulance...