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  1. Re:Oh yeah! on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What does being a monatomic gas have to do with leakage? So are xenon and krypton, and I doubt they are hard to seal.

  2. Re:Glass ceiling is a term that only originates on Ann Caracristi, Who Cracked Codes, and the Glass Ceiling At NSA, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are suggesting they can the guy right before his retirement and give her his job?

  3. Re:$30B a year for war ("defense") is cool on US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is to fix what we have first before taking on new things.

  4. Re:$30B a year for war ("defense") is cool on US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So take away medicare and replace with 'Universal Healthcare'. You really think the spending level will go down? I agree by the way the way healthcare is run in USA with government sponsored monopolies is ridiculous.

  5. Re:$30B a year for war ("defense") is cool on US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are delusional... have you even looked at spending levels? Currently medicaid spending is greater than military spending alone- Social Security and Medicaid make up half of the budget. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

  6. Re:Not sure what the issue is here on US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    None of these weapons are really relevant now- both US and Soviet have thermobaric weapons that have similar uses without the nuclear stigma. The one place thermobaric is useless is underground, which is why they are developing these penetration weapons.

  7. Re:Grease is Clogging Seattle Sewers on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I remember a episode of 'tough jobs' or something like that where he went with the sewer guy. He made it through cleaning a septic tank okay- but then they had to clean out a grease plugged sewer by a school. Guy started instantly gagging and throwing up.

  8. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't mind disagreement- so tell me why the US mint stamps coins, other than having the authority given them by the constitution.

  9. Re:But is the money worth it? on Tech Professionals' Aggravations Rise, But So Do Salaries (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I had this same line of thought years ago but with bagels- would love to have a bagel shop. Who doesn't like bagels?

  10. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought the claim that somehow the mint was losing money was simplistic or disingenuous. The purpose of money is to create tax revenue. If a penny is used 15 times it has created a penny of tax revenue if you just consider sales tax and there are many others. I don't have stats on average life-cycle but I am sure the penny makes more tax revenue than the cost to create it.

  11. I uninstalled it and sure enough it appeared the next day somehow. I have Windows Update set to automatic download but I always actually do the update. I ended up installing GWX Control Panel and it seems to work somehow....also disabled automatic download.

  12. Re:Oracle is bleeding-edge on Oracle Named Database of the Year, MongoDB Comes In Second (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They certainly do have some of the most aggressive salespeople on the planet. Maybe that is what they mean by bleeding edge?

  13. Missed the Mark Entirely on Quantifying How Much the Force Is Used In Star Wars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems obvious to me but doing this by screen time is silly- how about in terms of force in physical force terms? I would assume that levitating an x-wing fighter requires more force than hurling a pipe or choking someone. Lighting could be converted into joules etc...

  14. Reminds me of Beauty Pagent on K12CS.org: Microsoft, Google, Apple Identifying What 1st Graders Should Know · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dress your child up like an adult and make them do adult things....

  15. Re:Old? on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Age doesn't matter. Usefulness does. My top language: Perl - First appeared 1987; 29 years ago.

    The concept of hell isn't new either....

  16. It's trivial for just about the least technical person to record conversations with their phone. I don't think there is really a way to stop people from doing this if they want to.

  17. Re:And now we know... on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    I call it the the WTFITA interface 'where the f is that again'?

  18. Re:We've passed peak 3D Printing hype on The 3D Printers of CES: Extruders, Nozzles, and Metal Medium (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The true power of 3d printing won't be discovered until they become IOT devices.

  19. Re:Fucking copyright vultures on CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Under these circumstances Star Wars episode 1-3 probably never would have been made, so maybe just a matter of less bad movies.

  20. Re:Privacy Complaints on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing can ever wash away the shame of being seen on film naked. This is not an exaggeration! Men will be very interested in getting a peek at your pasty, average wife in distress instead of going to one of the thousands of adult sites....

  21. Re:Fucking copyright vultures on CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So? People should be writing books to sell books, not get lucky with a movie hit. Also people could broadcast or derivate the movie in 14 years, so what goes around comes around. We would probably get better books and movies this way.

  22. Re:Privacy Complaints on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you have a no-knock raid (a highly far fetched scenario BTW), the possibility that your wife is filmed naked is probably the last thing you would be worried about. In fact, if the raid was wrongly initiated such footage would probably be highly sympathetic in a civil lawsuit.

  23. Re:These forums were getting much too boring this on NSA Targeted 'The Two Leading' Encryption Chips (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    We are also due for SJW post.

  24. Why I Am a Conservative on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you could get us a Finland or Netherlands style government I might change my mind, but after half a life time of watching our jokers at work, no way!

  25. Re: Brazil has aggressive Mosquito control on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think microcephaly will have much impact there....