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  1. Re:Nothing to see here on Go R, Young Man · · Score: 2

    So if I just hold the sack open all night, the snipe will run into it?

  2. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 2

    If Nye is "one of the foremost science educators in the United States" and the US gets an F, what does that say about him?

  3. Re:Yes meanwhile.. on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 1
    I have the same device (N7 2012) and the 5.0.2 OTA update from 4.4.4 was a huge mistake. Updating Facebook helped a lot, but still had occasional 10 ~ 20 second freezes. No unexpected reboots after that.

    Yesterday I wiped the cache partition as recommended and so far no problems of any kind.

  4. Re:Betteridge on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    I re-read and see you DID write "61+", so I fail at reading comprehension.

  5. Re:Betteridge on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    I'm 61 right now. I'll be 62 when (if) it happens. Do I need to add, "you insensitive clod"?

  6. Re:why google keeps microsoft away on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 2
    See: "Hyperbole"

    noun: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

  7. Re:What Can Cuba Trade? on Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution · · Score: 1
    From Wikipedia, who references CNN, Cuba derives $200 million a year from cigar sales.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Cuba#Tobacco/

  8. Re:Come on guys on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 0
    College might require some effort, so "F" THAT!

    The world may burn but I got a free cell phone! /sarc

  9. Re:She is an advisor on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 2, Funny
    Tell me more of these dancing pigs.

    I am intrigued.

  10. Re:Can't DRM or Root Kit Vinyl on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1
    I remember, when I was a child, my Mom had a collection of 78 rpm recordings. Those were made of a hard material, shellac lacquer I think. You could break them, but they didn't hardly warp.

    Then came the soft vinyl 33 rpm albums, followed by even softer vinyl ones. DRM was inherent in that they didn't last unless you were obsessive in the care and handling.

    I hate record companies.

  11. Re:Decompiled the app? on Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band · · Score: 2

    his firstborn daughter's virginity

    Cosby already stole that.

  12. Shakedown on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give Jackson money and he'll go away.

  13. Re:Okay, this is a great idea on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be 80 column, text only?

  14. Re:Cynical of promises.... on Lunar Mission One Proposes To Take Core Sample, Plant Time Capsule On the Moon · · Score: 1
    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130709-dallas-rep.-eddie-bernice-johnson-proposes-national-park-designation-to-protect-moon-artifacts.ece

    Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson proposes national park designation to protect moon artifacts

    I wish I could say this satire . . .

  15. Re:Wat? on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Yes, don't they always blame the victim?

  16. Re:Will Microsoft ever learn? on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I do. Especially the terminal window.

  17. Memo to White House: how about tending to our Ebola problem for right now, okay?

  18. Re:What's wrong with you people?!? on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Punch cards! on Hacking USB Firmware · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Boom in the EU = Boom in Redmond on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Windows XP as much as I can. I have a lighhouse puppy 4.1.2rc1 with Mariner(KDE 3.5) linux boot disk when I really have to get shit done - like erase recycled or system volume information, or other locked files, also resizing partitions with windows on it - but I use windows because it's more user friendly and faster on a lot of things, plus I don't want Windows to end up like BeOS or Solaris, something that might be really on the horizon given the major fuck ups with Windows Vista and 8 (7 was tolerably decent, though still a massive decay from Windows XP, which itself is like a decay from Windows 2000), and the onslaught of cheap laptoppy-like things at Micro Center from Arm based systems and Chrome OS based x86 systems, neither Microsoft based, back in April, when I last looked around to see if I can find another laptop with a better battery life than this HP Mini 200 Intel Atom thing with 9 hr battery life, and like a 7 Watt chipset+cpu, which is like unheard-of-ly energy efficient, unfortunately it needs XP and can't run Windows 7 well, and even in XP it's a constant constant constant struggle to keep it down, somebody from Microsoft always logs on and restarts services when I kill and keep almost everything disabled, run none of the dotnet/silverlight/new C runtimes/windows live/office crap from microsoft, run the last non-dotnet version of zonealarm to kill every program possible - lsa (export) shell , lsass, Nt Session manager, smss, and the like are not killable, which is bullshit, so I thoroughly hate Windows for the constant struggle I have to put up to kill every useless fucking snooping thing wasting my CPU on it to get decent speed, with the 500 or so services out of which I constantly have to kill 495 and 15 I have to leave up and running simply because the computer won't work without them, when Ideally, I'd like to kill those too, and even then, once in a while the harddrive goes into this churning mode, like somebody from Microsoft or the NSA logged on and set off something, when I have Indexing service and System Restore Service killed, remote assistance killed, windows update service killed, and absolutely nothing should be moving on the computer, but it does, you can see it from the CPU use in task manager, and even that one lies sometimes saying it's 0% when the harddrive is going absolutely crazy.

    That was a very long sentence . . .

  21. I got that when I hired on to the signal department as an assistant signalman on the BN Railway in 1981. A signal inspector told me to get a "Kearney" out of the work van. I told him I'd be glad to as soon as he told me what the hell a Kearney was.

    It was a split bolt connector and it was not made by Kearney.

  22. Re:Not just one mobo on Some Core I7 5960X + X99 Motherboards Mysteriously Burning Up · · Score: 2

    You can't just dig around in the RMA'd parts bin and ship some other broken piece of crap back to me.

    Well, they obviously can so. Companies like that need to go bankrupt.

  23. Re:Not worth it on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong, but I thought non-Chinese drive manufacturers already pay the royalties (@ $15) on each DVD unit.

  24. Re:Get the popcorn on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 2
    From this article: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/26/us/houston-s-great-thirst-is-sucking-city-down-into-the-ground.html/,

    Subsidence, as geologists call the phenomenon, is just one of the unanticipated consequences of rapid growth that have come to plague Houstonians. The city's roads, services, and even the very land beneath it, have been unable to sustain it all.

    and: Moreover, downtown Houston is sinking fast, too. A recent computer simulation of the process suggested that it could sink 14 feet more by the year 2020 if nothing but ground water was used to satisfy future demand.

  25. Big Brother on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He is a nosy bastard.