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  1. Sometimes, a urinal is a trough. Urinals are also single person things hung on the wall.

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    Google image search agrees with me, as there were only two trough styles there that I saw.

  2. I identify as a cucumber and demand that you respect my sexual identity/preferences!

  3. How would you classify them the same? Transgender means you want to be a different sex than you were born (and possibly already, or are in the process of changing), gay means a man that has sex with/is attracted to men. Not all transgender m to f are interested in men, they can just as likely be attracted to women as they are becoming a woman.

  4. Re:8GB RAM max? on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 1

    That looks like a woosh to me...

    but for just 200g more, I bought the MBpro and put 16GB in it.

    And since the better model only cost $200,000 more, it's cheaper than most MacBook models.

  5. Re:Hinges look weak and brittle on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he intends to have it in his pickup truck?

  6. Re:RAM on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you even pair up those two technologies? 66 MHz SDRAM was something you paired up with Pentium 1 processors...I can't see any way you could hook up any SSD to an IDE interface, and they didn't have USB 1.0 even back then.

  7. Re:not a good idea on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 1

    My new "gaming" ASUS laptop has a 10 hour battery life, I suppose you could add more, but what is the point?

    http://smile.amazon.com/ASUS-Z...

    Granted, I don't ever expect to get that kind of battery life out of it when gaming, but I also don't generally expect to game without being plugged in.

  8. Re:Now We Know Why Drivers Suck on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    SLI is an acronym, it stands for Scan Line Interleave. What this means, is that each GPU does half the screen worth of work by running a line at a time on each GPU. I am not sure what the OP's issue with drivers is, but my assumption would be the age of the hardware, 6xx is pretty old, and might not be enough to support modern games anymore. I highly doubt the OP's issue is with the driver having parallelization problems.

  9. Re:Why not on FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft stores those conversations because that is the way Skype has always worked. It is what allows you to see the history of all your skype calls on any device you install Skype on. Of course the data is there.

    The phone companies have to store the metadata in order to be able to bill you. The CALEA thing is about the content of the phone calls, the phone company doesn't store that, and it requires a recording device provided by law enforcement.

  10. Re:Nice try on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the government will totally talk about things marked as TOP SECRET in the news media. If the leaks led to deaths, it would be hushed up, not screamed about in the news media.

    You know, kind of like in mission impossible, they will disavow you if you are captured. The US government doesn't talk about these things as it could lead to the outing of other projects and methods.

  11. You could probably train the AI to play Quake 1 pretty effectively.

  12. Re:Resilient by design on Cyber Commander Says It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    How would that effect the sat connections, or even wifi connection that could be setup to route around the damaged undersea cables? I have worked with people doing 25 mile 802.11 hops using a pizza box antenna, it is quite doable. So, unless the country is Australia, I think it won't be an issue getting linkups through your blockade.

  13. You could also reference Demolition man. Much the same reaction from the other characters while Stallone's character eats a rat burger after shrugging.

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

  14. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because woosh maybe woosh he was looking to buy woosh

    God, it is windy in here...

  15. When they wear white armor and can't hit a barn with their rifle, you know they are a clone.

  16. We do genetic engineering because without it millions will starve.

    But you know what, we as a species can do more than one thing at a time. Biologists aren't really great working with robotics, instead with have roboticists for that.

  17. Mitocondria is also an example like that. Mitocondria are a beneficial parasite that we picked up way back when. They increase our energy production, but are entirely a foreign body.

  18. Re:Why not on FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    The DC Circuit Court has no jurisdiction outside of the USA.

    Moot, who cares, doesn't have any impact on the discussion we are having.

    Accepting that a court once said something as gospel to stop fighting for change makes you ....

    I'm not the one bitching in an online forum. I see nothing wrong with what the FBI is doing, as it is how things are supposed to work. If you care so much about it, call a constitutional convention and submit an amendment to the fourth amendment. But instead, I think you will just bitch on an online forum about how evil the FBI is for doing what the US citizens pay them to do.

  19. Re:Great summary on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean it isn't a development environment?

  20. Re: This is a big deal on China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But what would they do with all those bear arms? Would they be panda bear arms? What about the poor bears?

  21. Re:Hmmm.... on China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to slam the AC for this one, then Googled it myself:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com...

    Though I doubt Hillary had anything to do with this issue, it does make her look bad as the ultimate manager of the department.

  22. Re:What we need on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I would also add, wasn't there a study done that came out with males and females preferring to take directions from a female, even a digital one?

    I know I prefer it, it is just like having a wife in the seat next to you...

  23. Re:ITT is definitely worthless... on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    It should be pretty easy to prove.

  24. Re:Electrons?? on New State of Matter Detected in a Two-Dimensional Material (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It has been a little while for me, but wasn't the dual slot experiment used to show that photons acted like a wave, not electrons?

  25. Re:Windows... on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    And so it goes, right now any Windows machine is vulnerable to booting from cdrom or thumb drive and cracking passwords via a rainbow table,

    So, but a computer with a TPM and encrypt the hard drive, or use an encrypting hard drive? Set the BIOS to be password protected and not allow boot except from hard drive on the SATA/SAS/RAID card.

    STILL has the user interface too tightly coupled to system space

    Not sure what you mean to even be able to address your concern.

    and is not inclined to allow gt 3GB assigned to a process, like you would see on any DB server where you allocate many tens of GB to the applications

    I run Windows 10 Pro on my home desktop, and Windows 10 Home on my laptop, both of them don't have this issue, because Windows went 64bit since Windows XP (which didn't work very well, but worked great in 7). If you are running into a 3GB limit, it is because the application is not 64bit, or you are running 32bit Windows, as this is NOT and issue with Windows 64bit.