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  1. Re:TCO on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 1

    You can use your Puppet/Chef tool to generate DSC information for Server 2012+. Was it hard 10 years ago? Sure. These days? Not so much. There's just the problem that Linux admins are so inherently afraid of Windows that they'd never dare keep up with what's going on with it, out of fear of being rejected by their *NIX peers, and Windows people have a disturbing tendency to stop learning as soon as they figure out they can open up GUI interfaces.

  2. Re:WayBackMachine.org on 'Hidden From Google' Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced To Forget · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they don't. They remove plenty of sites from their archive. It even makes /. headlines occasionally.

  3. Re:It's been more than a decade on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    Not until we take care of serious problems like this.

    We should get started then.

  4. Re:charger on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    As in people will have to use the officially TSA-provided charger cable. Of course. Reaching into your backpack while three humongous, and absurdly inconsiderate TSA footmen are looking over your shoulder might be considered offensive, outright dangerous, criminally insane, HE'S GOT A GUN! SHOOT HIM!

  5. Re:charger on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 2

    Sure they will. How else will NSA hot-drop spyware on every single device that leaves/enters the country?

  6. Re:Transcendence on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Oh that's a good one too.

  7. Re:A little behind the times on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    They went to a FedEx hub and found tons of discs, though no counterfeits. BUT! When they went to a pirate DVD factory, they found TONS OF PIRATED DVDS! Conclusion: Dogs can smell pirated DVDs.

  8. Re:Transcendence on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    And by booboo I naturally mean something along the lines of

    if(target->ThreatRating == ThreatRating::American) { target->Kill(); } // booboo

    if(target->ThreatRating != ThreatRating::American) { target->Kill(); } // what it should have been

  9. There's a new movie out, with Johnny Depp in it, called Transcendence. If machines ever take over the world, it'll be like in that movie. What these self-proclaimed naysayers don't seem to comprehend is that AI doesn't just magick itself up a reason to destroy humans. It takes a human to think like that. We still don't understand free will, emotion or consciousness, let alone how to replicate it in a machine. So until we give machines a reason to destroy us, they won't.

    Then again with killer drones and whatnot that the military is building, perhaps it won't take long before some overworked, underpaid programmer makes a booboo.

  10. Re:Calling it iFind on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't own iNames.

  11. Re:Prediction: de-anonymization considered "hackin on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 2

    A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

  12. Re:Moore's Law on Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip · · Score: 1

    Liquid Nitrogen/Helium cooling is great... while it lasts. When it's used up however, you've got to pay for another bottle of cooling. I have no idea how long a $200 CPU can run at 8GHz on a bottle of Nitrogen, or how much a bottle of Nitrogen costs, but I can't imagine it's a good long term solution.

  13. Hm... on US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA · · Score: 2

    Clearly people want to be monitored at all times, they just haven't been convinced properly yet. And as a result of the monitoring that NSA done up to now, they already have a list of all the people who don't want to be monitored. They could just pay those people a visit. You know? Convince them properly. Or make them go away.

  14. Re:Man uses Twitter for original purpose... on Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors · · Score: 1

    He used his work related twitter account for posting personal messages and opinions to tons of people who only follow him for his work.

    Of course they're going to yell at him.

  15. Re:remember when Walmart was all "Buy American!" ? on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, you don't like the Fn key being pressed by default so half your keyboard doesn't work? Tough buddy.

  16. Bill Gates on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates, who became one of the world's richest men by ruthlessly making Microsoft one of the word's most profitable companies

    Bill Gates has also had 58 years and countless billions of dollars to figure out why money doesn't always work.

  17. Re:You want machine learning? You want IBM's Watso on Microsoft To Launch Machine Learning Service · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you have to ask it questions in the form of an answer? But I suppose that's what diagnosticians do now I think about it.

    Six patients, one of which presents with a big hole in the head.

    What is russian roulette?

  18. Re:I wonder if this applies on Dell Exec Calls HP's New 'Machine' Architecture 'Laughable' · · Score: 1

    Last I read they were throwing a lot of people and a lot of money at it, so maybe they see something in it you don't.

  19. I wonder if this applies on Dell Exec Calls HP's New 'Machine' Architecture 'Laughable' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder if this applies: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

  20. Re:Initial Offer on US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road · · Score: 1

    But say you buy one bitcoin and then sell it later at twice the value, and then you wait for the value to drop again so you buy two bitcoins for the money you made off of one bitcoin. It's genius! Patent pending.

  21. Re:Eat healthy anyone? on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Eating healthy doesn't make you thin. Consuming fewer calories than you burn every day for an extended period of time makes you thin.

  22. Re:Priuses? on Toyota Investigating Hovercars · · Score: 2

    But this isn't Latin. This.. is.. English!

  23. Re:Good on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 2

    I think your original line is correct. It implies there's a can of whoop-ass waiting when she brings it.

  24. Re:LibReSSL on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    But ultimately irrelevant?

  25. Didn't someone do this? on Google To Spend $1 Billion On Fleet of Satellites · · Score: 1

    I recall reading a while back about a project like this. They wanted to put satellites in orbit that would be continously streaming a pre-selected amount of internet (wikipedia and other such actually useful websites) so that you wouldn't necessarily get two-way communication, but you'd get access to all the latest and greatest from online resources.