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  1. My Packard Bell was invaluable on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 5, Funny

    It taught me to never go cheap again.

  2. Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dell and HP have enterprise staying power, Panasonic Toughbooks are basically an industry standard.

  3. Re:Disgusting. on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    Whose basement will you live in then?

  4. Not quite accurate on POS Vendor Uses Same Short, Numeric Password Non-Stop Since 1990 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The vendor recently updated the default password to "166832".

  5. Re:Why do people like these things? on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    Because they are awesome!

  6. 'Merica! on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    F yeah!

  7. Re:Isn't weird? on Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Ha! So it would seem! When I thought about it at all I thought Tor Project was a bunch of civvies out of MA who were Stallmanesque EFF types.

  8. Re:Trus but verify... not on Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA · · Score: 0

    Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble, but both DARPA and NSA are components of the Department of Defense.

  9. Re:Isn't weird? on Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA · · Score: 1

    Google the following statement: "selling out."

  10. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 4, Informative

    I, for one, will NEVER stop sprinkling shaved almonds on my Romaine lettuce!

  11. Cheaper to desalinate I bet on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    Lots of micro desalination plants powered by solar perhaps?

  12. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    Or, we east coasters could stop eat so much lettuce.

  13. Re:It's sucks but.. on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 1

    >> Simple, The graphics card GPU is faster than the main CPU can shovel data for it to process

    So, basically to use a common example, the GPU is kicking out bitcoin so fast that the CPU can't keep it saturated? Would you care to rethink your claim?

  14. Re:Bobbing in ocean on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 1

    Ever see that video of drones playing catch with a broomstick?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Balls on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    I thought that the lottery used bouncing ping pong balls live on TV.

  16. Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It! on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 1

    It always disappointing to me when inexperienced software developers confuse the meanings of "refactoring" and "rewriting."

  17. Why? Why God why????? on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple has somehow tapped into the lemming instinct.

  18. The important words here are... on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 2

    ..."over tens of thousands of years".

  19. Re:Strictly speaking... on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    It is splitting words, but note that the ocean itself is not acidic (ie the ph of the ocean is still > 7).

  20. Re:history repeats on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 1

    Something similar happened during the Irish Potato famine IIRC.

  21. We need more coolies! on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 2

    Amounts to nothing more than that.

  22. Re:And this is why corporations don't trust the GP on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    What's not to trust? Either you use the GPL code knowing full well the ramifications of doings so... or you Write It Yourself.

  23. Re:I'm just waiting on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    Welcome to France.

  24. Polar routes on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Having supported NASA Global Hawk missions over the poles, I can tell you that high bandwidth satellite communications becomes dicey over the poles. We would fallback to Iridium... which was less than ideal and totally unsuitable for command and control. This was not a huge issue, should the plane have lost C2 comms it would simply return to base.