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  1. Re:Cutting up all your meat? on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    The only thing wrong with skirt steak is toughness, which doesn't matter if you're going to cut it up anyhow. I'd rather have one of the most flavorful cuts of the cow than some tender bland mush meat. (And it's true, I really don't care for steak. The only time I eat it is when someone else has chosen to have it.) Second would be a good BBQ brisket, especially the "burnt ends". But if you've never been to Texas, you wouldn't understand.

  2. Re:Cutting up all your meat? on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 2

    It's much more efficient to have your steak pre-cut when served anyhow. Prefereably on a sizzling skillet, which keeps it at high temperature for a longer time.

  3. Apparently Caltech doesn't on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I give an example of what happens because Caltech doesn't have similar classes.

  4. Re:Finger food etiquette on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    The skin in that area, however, tends to be a bit moist, has lots of folds

    Maybe for the uncircumcised. Those who are circumcised can just zip it, whip it, and zip it back in with minimal contact, if any. Not that you shouldn't still wash your hands a few times a day because of incidental contact with stuff in general.

    And then there's the story of the early days of Fairchild when they had trouble getting good yields for transistors. It turned out that the urea on people's hands after going to the bathroom had a bad effect on the silicon chemistry.

  5. Re:Other uses for phone books on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Camp toilet paper. Okay, so they're no Charmin, but they ought to be about as good as the Sears catalog was famous for.

  6. Re:I can't believe no one has asked yet, on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    does it blend?

    FTFY.

  7. Re:Capable of hitting the ISS on SpaceX Pressure Hammers Stuck Valves; Dragon's ISS Mission Back On Track · · Score: 2

    That's "could hit" as in a small chance of coming anywhere near ISS. But then you're just a hateboi who can't be arsed to log in, so your opinion is about as useful as lipstick on a pig.

  8. Re:In other words .... ANOTHER failure .... on SpaceX Pressure Hammers Stuck Valves; Dragon's ISS Mission Back On Track · · Score: 1

    The "failure to reach target orbit" was because NASA wouldn't let them try. The satellite was along a path that could intersect ISS, and NASA required a 99% confidence. Because of the engine problem, there was only a 95% confidence, so they had to let it fall. It was known ahead of time that this could be a problem, and the satellite was only there as an opportunistic hitchhiker.

    Also, how many failures were since the first Falcon 9 launch? F1 had problems, but so far every F9 has reached orbit. The aborted launch isn't a "failure", it's a success. The spacecraft successfully detected that there was a mechanical problem and that it should not launch, rather than becoming a toasty fireball. (Tell that to the last crew of Challenger and Columbia. Oh wait, you can't.) There has been no loss of cargo other than one secondary mission satellite that wasn't allowed to try to reach its intended orbit because of a 5% chance of getting near (probably as in 1km or so) ISS.

  9. Re:Titan on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 2

    You forgot to mention Chinese New Year, which is apparently a whole week during which the Chinese abandon their factories, as the one billion population suddenly disappears from the face of the earth.

    Unexpectedly ran out of a particular molded plastic part at the end of January? Too bad, you'll have to wait until some time in March, because not only is nobody there to run the mold machine, nobody will even take your order until they get back!

  10. Re:Update? on NASA Loses Contact With Space Station Over Software Update · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, update is to Windows YOU!

  11. Re:Windows 8 on NASA Loses Contact With Space Station Over Software Update · · Score: 5, Funny

    They had to do something to compete with the Genius Bar at Apple stores!

    I hear Ubuntu is going to introduce a Granola Bar to compete with both of them.

  12. Re:duke nuken on Duke Nukem 3D Code Review · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was just a case of really bad keming.

  13. Re:How much of their business is used games? on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    Maybe the pre-order people are more likely to sell back their games earlier, providing GS with used copies sooner to sell at ${RETAIL}-5? Especially when it's an annual sports title, which has a limited shelf life to begin with.

  14. Re:AKA Google drives Bitcoin Into Mainstream use on Google Looks To Cut Funds To Illegal Sites · · Score: 2

    So they tried to bribe them with Canadian Tire Money?

  15. Re:Buy local honey on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 1

    I sure don't want honey that was sitting in one of those Tiananmen square tanks!

  16. Re:Almost? on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, apparently they couldn't have sent a missle to intercept it because they never saw it in the first place. The early warning systems are designed to see things coming in on a ballistic trajectory, not things coming in from outer space.

  17. Re:Security by obscurity ... on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    We might be interested in your web site.

    Then why are you complaining about IP range blocks on SSH?

    And I've put lots of port blocks for SMTP on my own server, so I know how badly laid out APNIC addresses are if you just want to block, say, China and Korea. The 220/8 block is particularly fun.

  18. Re:The speed difference between them is huge... on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    If he wanted to say that the car died right in the parking lot that badly, wouldn't he have devoted more than 5 minutes to it?

    Because he was a moron and thought that "0 miles remaining" really meant exactly that. After five minutes of the car not dying, he got bored and gave up. It wouldn't have been as good of a made-up story if he tried to drive around the block multiple times, and it died while he was on the street just past the charging station and pointing away from it. He may have been an idiot, but he wasn't that stupid.

  19. Re:Wow on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dashcams are apparently because their courts are such that they need that kind of evidence if someone hits them.

    The fact that they occasionally catch cool videos of other things going on is a bonus. For instance, the crew-only Aeroflot flight back in December that overshot the runway and ran over the fence into a highway. The guy with the camera had to swerve to dodge a passenger seat that bounced in front of him.

  20. Re:Almost? on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not likely. DA14 is a few hours away and moving very fast... which means that it's still very far away.

    I think the most interesting part of this incident is that there are reports a missile was sent up to intercept it, and hit it. I'm still not convinced that it wasn't just the meteor breaking up like so many of them do, but it would be amusing if that somehow made the ground damage worse.

    And in Soviet Russia, dashcam watch meteor hit YOU!

  21. Re:1 Hour of Recharging every 200 miles? on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, that's one hour of high-power recharging. The equipment for that is not really cheap enough to put in your home, unless you're a zillionaire. Using a wall plug to charge it takes more like 8 hours, less if you have a 220V outlet.

  22. Re:Musk isn't doing himself any favors here on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded?

    Correction: you can't charge the car to 25% and then drive off for more miles than the display shows as "available range" without having to worry about getting stranded. The guy was deliberately undercharging the car to intentionally get stranded. Because we need to sell more newspapers, dammit!

  23. Re:Theory on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 2

    Theory: Broder didn't realize the logging capabilities of the car, and when the Model S' software ui initially supported his internal baises he took liberties with the truth.

    How does you "theory" account for him driving the car around a parking lot for five minutes when it was on reserve power? There's taking "liberties with the truth", and then there's outright deliberate sabotage.

  24. "journalistic integrity" on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We assumed that the reporter would be fair and impartial, as has been our experience with The New York Times, an organization that prides itself on journalistic integrity.

    AHAHAHAHAAAA that's a good one! They think they're better than everyone else and certainly haven't had any journalistic integrity regarding politics (being clearly biased for years now), so why would you expect it for a vehicle review?

    In his own words in an article published last year, this is how Broder felt about electric cars before even seeing the Model S:

    "Yet the state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate.”

    Too bad about that, but at least you zinged him back real good. Orbital high-five good.

  25. Re:Pascal ? on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually it's pretty close (UCSD dialect) until you get to the OBJECT keyword. Apple made full use of their Memory Manager for Object Pascal, which had a linear address space and supported relocatable objects, while Borland had a horrible memory allocator and was stuck with the 80x86 real-mode memory model and 640k limit. So they implemented "Object Pascal" as some kind of horrible C++ish hack. It was really and truly awful compared to the Object Pascal that Apple had already produced, though I hear they filed down some of the worst warts by the time of Delphi.

    Oddly, this code didn't make use of the Pascal UNIT system for its own code, instead using multiple levels of include files, with the main code for a unit in "foo.inc1.p". This was probably done to make it work well with makefiles. Back in the day it took long enough to compile that you really didn't want to re-compile anything you didn't have to, and if you did things the "proper" way, code and headers would be in the same file, causing a lot of unnecessary recompilation.