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  1. Re:Guess it's just your lucky day on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/1053

    Yay. Today I'm one of the 10,000.

  2. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Sure. Such as a series of the most legendary games in history.

    I put the original Choplifter at the top.

    I have a grandchild that plays it on my 35 year old Apple 2. Awesome game.

  3. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    I believe it's actually the fourth one in the Four series series, following Saints Row IV, GTA 4, and FarCry 4, so if you liked the other fours you should love Fallout 4.

    I haven't done Saint's Row IV yet. I see toil ahead.

  4. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Congrats, so you have heard of Fallout.

    (Yes the original is that old).

    Oh. OK. I assumed it was a different Fallout.

  5. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    I've been into computer games since the late 70s. Something was bound to slip through the cracks.

  6. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Well I'm done with FarCry 4. So maybe that's next.

  7. Re:4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Well there was a game called Fallout on the apple ][. I have that.

  8. 4? on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: -1, Troll

    How did it get to version 4 before I heard of it?

    Maybe it's because Steam is too busy trying to push Manga visual novels at me instead of games.

  9. Re:You might want to check that data again... on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Where there's one anti-vaxxer, there's more anti-vaxxer.

    Just like infectious diseases.

    And rats.

  10. Re:Project should use trademark defense on nmap Maintainer Warns He Doesn't Control nmap SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 1

    The project's being 'mirrored' should just use trademark defense and force SF to not use the same trademark/project name for the altered binaries they are peddling. SF actions are obviously harming the brand that those projects have worked hard to establish.

    This. Trademark GIMP, NMAP or whatever. Take it with you. SF can fork the code, but they need to put a different name on it so users are led into thinking the code has a provenance other that what it actually has.

  11. Re:Love it on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 1

    Who wants the supernatant? It's just the useless liquid on top. Pour it away so you can get at the crystals below.

  12. Re:What am I missing?? on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. These are slower and a downgrade from other 2013 cpus for socket 1150. So why would I upgrade from what I have? Did I miss something special? If you can't afford an x99 it would make more sense to get a 2 year old i7 4770

    The slowest [new gen] cpu is slower than the fastest [last gen] cpu. This is normal. The bazillion core global warming Broadwell will presumably come out later. It's faster per core and lower power.

  13. Re:A couple of things on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    "keep every email"

    That's a good one.

    Yeah, it's good for a laugh, when you realize your email policies prohibit any employee from saving any email older than 5 years, and they auto-delete from the system.

    Used to keep legal discovery in check. I'll let you decide if it's for your benefit or not...

    Just get yourself named in a lawsuit against the company. Then they have to hold onto your emails.

  14. Is that in the claims or the preamble?
    My hardware patents all contain pages of boilerplate defining what a computer is.

  15. Re:epigenetics on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    You mean a force fed goose. The realities of the meat supply are harsh enough. Force feeding geese is cruel.

    The best fois gras is from happy free range geese that voluntarily eat grain. I don't eat fois gras from force fed geese.

  16. Re:epigenetics on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    Apples are a bit carby, but yes. Be careful with sausages of any form, they often put breadcrumbs in. Kefir is easier that yoghurt because you can grow it at room temperature and use heavy cream instead of milk.

    If I'm doing it properly, I'm doing all these things. But I don't do it properly all the time because life gets in the way. Traveling gets in the way also and I travel a lot.

    So after loosing a bunch of weight, it's now a maintainence thing. If the pants don't fit, go back on the plant 100%. If they fit, don't be too dogmatic.

  17. Re:epigenetics on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not try an all meat diet? Smarter people than you do: http://www.jbc.org/content/87/...

    200mg of liver every day for dinner is not my idea of enjoyable eating. Anyway, have you tried it? Has it worked out for you?

    That's not my idea of a fun diet. Liver is ok. It's excellent when if it's from a well fed goose. Escargot are awesome. It worked out well. Steaks, eggs, roasts, chicken livers cooked in milk, much bacon. It's not expensive since you don't eat as much. It's energy and nutrient dense. I lost a lot of weight, all blood markers improved dramatically. It's hard to keep it up because it's simply hard to do when you aren't cooking all your own meals. My workplace canteen has no non-carb food offerings. Rice, potatoes and wheat is cheap. So I go back on it hard core when I need to recover the ability to fit into the skinnier jeans. But I'm too lazy to cook and pack a lunch every day, year after year. You need to keep in mind that it's a high fat diet, not a high protein diet. No one can eat a predominantly protein diet. It's not possible. Mostly fat, some meat, no carbs.

  18. Re:epigenetics on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    They don't get selected as such at all. Selection is not a positive process - there's no intent. It's just a side effect.

    Yes. I wasn't trying to convey intent, quite the opposite.

  19. Re:epigenetics on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you break this down for me sesame street style? 31 year old alcoholic idiot here...

    If we lived too long, evolution to adapt to the changing environment would be impacted.
    We evolved mechanisms to kill us off in a timely manner so we don't compete with our better adapted children too much.

    The processes of evolution aren't for your benefit. They're just things that get selected for for maximum propagation. This is bad. If we find the mechanism and can stop it, there will be some really old farts about, arguing about how their Cherry M keyboards are superior to the direct brain interface.

  20. Re:Computers Kill Trees on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the highest amount of CO2 sequestration you need the plant matter to fall into an anaerobic bog and slowly sink into the ground as new stuff lands on top. After a few hundred million years, an advanced society then digs it as coal and oil and burns it, dumping all the carbon back into the atmosphere.

    There's a huge amount of stored carbon in the ground. It's only a problem when you burn it. Burn current plant matter and and you're only returning the carbon that came from the air recently, not the carbon that's been saved up for millions of years.

  21. Re:Finally! on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    I have been suffering browsing the web with only one audio channel per ear for literally decades.

    What to them so long, this is embarrassing. When I go to the movies I get to smell expensive popcorn and experience 6 to 16 channels of high-def audio. Why not on my windows smart phone and my tablet?

    The packaging of a phone would need to get larger to accommodate 14 additional ears with each phone. Not good for the environment. This won't happen until you can download the ears from the internet after receiving the phone.

  22. Re:a microscopic black hole won't hurt you on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 2

    That's fun. A 1 meter radius blackhole would have a mass of around 673500000000000000000000000 Kg

    You could put it in the back of a minivan and drive it around advanced societies, giving the less advanced places time to catch up.

  23. Re:Love it on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be part of the solution - not part of the problem.

    No, be part of the precipitate.

  24. Re:Do most of the work? on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    I think I don't do it often because I usually set out with a naming scheme and architecture before I start coding. A name is used because it's the right name under the naming scheme.

    It's nothing to do with the editor.

    Then again, I'm not often incorporating my code with other people's code. I'm usually creating original code to implement some crypto protocol or algorithm I'm developing, or to analyze data. If I was bringing in multiple name spaces from other places, I can see why I might want to prefix them to keep them separate. If I'm using python, it's not a problem. It does namespace separation well. If I'm using C, it's for performance or reference code, so again, it's not an issue.

  25. Re:Do most of the work? on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If you've never renamed a function in your life - then go ahead and code with an 'editor' alone. Otherwise pick a good IDE and enjoy the time you're not spending doing a search and replace.

    I don't remember globally renaming a function in recent years. I often split or merge functions - two functions into one more general one, or one function into two more specific ones. This tends to require examining each case. So the search/replace activity isn't a large part of the whole.