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  1. Re:Wohoo! Windows blew on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    We had a Radeon HD 7850 but couldn't get drivers, so we had to run Windows. I got a gtx 660 card that someone has deigned to write a driver for, and its running on Ubuntu now but I'm gonna try it on Slackware next time I get to California.
    If anyone knows about a working Linux driver for the HD 7850 I would like to be hepped to it.

  2. Re: Bogus UI on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    I have been suggesting a switch to Linux for about a decade, but all it took was the new interface to make the sale.
    There was a bit of gratuitous vituperation, but worth it.
    Thank you, Microsoft.

  3. Re:Meh. on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    I had enough of Vista on the ol' lady's P.O.S., and installed Windows 8. I got a lot of grief for that faux pas.
    Suddenly, Slackware became a viable option, woot! So she is going to Linux, and since she has cheap instincts, she'll probably never go back. Hahaha. Haha.

  4. Re:Wohoo! Windows blew on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    I had to switch from Radeon to Invidia cards so that I could get a working, modern driver for the kid to game with,
    but, yeah.

  5. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    I can scarcely choke down crabs and frogs and such, but lobster tails and escargot are the best kind of meat.
    Damn shame it's illegal to raise snails here.

  6. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    I tend to notice the grub poop smell when I'm cooking it.
    I air out the house after I bin the stuff.

  7. send in the trolls on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    We really don't bother with labels like "organic", but we did just discard a load of manure because those horses had been given vermicide. We do go all boron on the ants, like teaspoons of the stuff.
    I am looking for plans for a solar charcoal kiln, for once google has failed.

  8. Re:Win modem on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    As a noob, my previous experience was Win 98 on a Pentium board, and Win 2k on a PIII. After formatting and installing the instant BSOD three times, I just added Me to my collection of AOL drink coasters and moved on with my life. I think starting out with Win 2k was bad as it did not properly inure me to the level of tolerance required for a Microsoft administrator.

  9. Re:It is a huge problem (for free software) on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    Linux/FOSS is always under attack. It gets fucking tiring to always be considered the wastebasket of support from vendors. Windows is ultimately less stress. Just give up.

    After 15 years of integrating computers with Radeon cards, I just switched over to GeForce so I could get working drivers for Linux. I've been running WD ever since IBM quit making HDDs; I have no use for a hybrid drive but do I want to switch vendors as a statement to WD?
    Windows 8 was the final straw, far less stress to run a controllable OS.

  10. Re:Win modem on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your brother-in-law got Windows Me to run 30 minutes before it blue-screened? Amazing.

  11. Re:I have become.... on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1

    I would caution though, that while normal humans have an enormous amount of extra functional reserve in their livers, this may not be true for chronic alcohol users. Even if the absolute pharmacological toxicity is identical (or even modestly lessened), the same overdose that a non-alcoholic recovers from, could be fatal to someone with pre-existing damage. In addition, the cognitive and psychological impairment produced by alcohol could make both accidental and deliberate mis-use of other drugs more likely.

    Proper prophylactic treatment of existential troubles with cannabinoids can generally preclude manifestation of pain or want of opioids, nsaids, or alcohol, with all attendant toxicicity.

  12. Re:Well regulated militia: article 1 on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    I am a natural-born citizen of the People's Republic of California, where our fearless leaders have decided that I can't be trusted with a 20-round magazine for my Thompson Carbine, but as an American citizen, I am specifically deprived of the privilege of a gun that fires from an open bolt, which would be safe and beneficial in a firefight.
    I lived in Los Angeles in 1992, so I have a reason for considering these factors. If you refer to the arguments cited above, you'll see that shady elements were already propagandising in the eighteenth century about how we surely could control, if not necessarily trust, our Federal government. (yeah, sure.)
    I'm pretty sure I can count on the Federal government to disregard my interests in favor of a broad agenda to usurp the People's authority and violate the supreme law of my country as they've done for the past one and a half centuries.

  13. Re:NRA sedition on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    They didn't really teach history at my school, either. Do some reading.

  14. Re:Worthlessness on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1

    I think geologically, I wish I could laugh it off like George Carlin, but biospheric annihilation just doesn't amuse me that much.

  15. Re:I have become.... on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 2

    I get queasy from Tylenol, maybe I don't have that immunity. All the rest of you, don't mix it with alcohol or take it for a hangover. The toxicity is cumulative. If your MD won't prescribe unadulterated opioids, get some oil of bergamot to take with it for the "grapefruit effect". It will metabolize two or three times as much therapeutic chemical and allow the proper relief without excessive toxicity.
    I have migraines, and alternate between ergotamine tartrate and hydrocodone so that neither causes problems.

  16. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    They've been in the news.

  17. Re:I have become.... on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer treating my cannabinoid receptors with less toxic chemicals, in case I ever want to use my liver for anything.

  18. Re:News For Nerds? on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 2

    Anyone who wants to fight against criminality in our government, and doesn't think Osama's plan is still working, should remember "Wasp" by Eric Frank Russell.
    We don't have far to go.

  19. Re:NRA sedition on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    The second amendment of the Constitution was supposed to prevent us from maintaining a standing army in peacetime, and particularly an army of Empire repressing freedom at home and abroad. They fixed that a long time ago.

  20. Re:NRA sedition^H^H^H patriotism on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 2

    Whilst it is true that "rogue elements" have usurped control of our government, the only last ditch defence possible will be peaceful civil disobedience. Anyone retarded enough to fantasize about armed rebellion has not been paying attention.
    Eventually, this Homeland Security horseshit will become so intolerable that even the average citizen will realize that it is un-American. This, OTOH, appears to me to be a bit beyond the pale, and outside of our protected speech. I am all about unpopular opinions, I happen to hold a great many myself, and reckon I'd get arrested or beaten if I shared some of them, but this chump is not Lenny Bruce.

  21. Re:Probably not just about facts on The RFP and IT Logistics For Washington's "Pot Czar" · · Score: 1

    Wow. You've cornered the market on information, evidently. My brother has been living in Arnhem for a couple decades, and I asked him recently about that failure in Amsterdam to which you refer. Apparently not so well-publicised in the Netherlands as he had not heard anything.
    I have to say, banning tourists from a coffeeshop sounds deranged, but then it is tourists we're talking about.

  22. Nazi analogy on The RFP and IT Logistics For Washington's "Pot Czar" · · Score: 1

    Did Halliburton submit an RFP?

  23. Re:Warning! Security hole in ROT-13 and ROT-26! on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 2

    Wow, I had never heard about the security hole in ROT-26.

    It's not a bug, it's a feature!

  24. Re:West Virginia is the butt... on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1

    I really do not understand how a chickenshit law infringing on the rights of tweakers to screw themselves up justifies targeted infringement of voter's rights.

  25. Private property rights are a system of privilege on The Real Purpose of DRM · · Score: 1

    And you try and tell the young people of today that... They won't believe you.