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  1. Not a real surprise on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber · · Score: 1

    We've had the same problem in Southern Ontario before, where 80k people lost internet access for nearly a day on Rogers, back in the early 2000's. A lot of companies now put "fibre" on their above ground lines to stop them from cutting it, it works, kinda.

  2. Hardly. Oil and NG isn't gong anywhere, and both are far cheaper than electricity for heating.

  3. Re:Then Fire Him on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yep profiling does work, the problem is the people who see it as "racist" whine and cry about it. It's the same type of people who whine and complain when police profile a known group, because they're the main instigators of specific types of crimes. In Canada we use profiling in police work, at the airports, and at border checkpoints. It's not perfect, but it does a much better job then "just a hunch."

  4. Re:earth quake? on NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Depends on the design. But if it's anything based on the CANDU designs, no coolent is no problem. It just stops on it's own.

  5. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1

    If Fox news had to issue corrections for every time it published an inaccuracy, they'd have to set up an entirely new channel just for issuing corrections.

    Odd how it's "always about fox news" as well. And yet, you nary hear liberals complaining about all the "inaccuracies" that left leaning sites would have to do if held to the same standards.

  6. Re:I'm there!!! on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 1

    half that is $650, still more than a PS4 or Xbox One.

    Yeah they're $600ish plus or minus a bit where I live.

    Not on memory bandwidth, and most $650 dollar machines are dual or quad-core.

    Not on memory bandwidth, but at $650 the machines are quad or six core.

  7. Re:I'm there!!! on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 1

    Really? Talk about getting ripped off hard and fast. I guess that's what you call "I can't spend a few hours, and figure out what I want on my own."

  8. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that's because right-wing points are always - and I mean *always* - have a grain of racism, or sexism, or something along those lines in it.

    Why is it that liberals and leftists almost always find "racism, sexism or something along those lines" even when it doesn't exist. Boggles the mind. If I said dogs eat their own vomit, I'm sure somewhere some liberal is flipping out because of it.

  9. Re:global warming is not the issue on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 1

    The problem is overpopulation. The solution to which is pretty simple: stop shitting out kids.

    Yeah except that with our current farming methods and land use, we have plenty of room. And if we use some of the more fertile places in the world just for food production instead of turning food into fuel, we could easily support another 3 billion, and upwards of 7 billion people.

    Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that you're also an ardent environmentalist? And with that, you have strong Malthusian leanings.

  10. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1

    Did you just mention "Rush" that senile, racist, sexist?

    Your opinion is completely irrelevant go back to your confederate flag draped tent...

    How funny that it's the left who always, and I mean *always* bring up some form of racism, or sexism, or who knows what else in order to try and attack a person, or a point. Really now, I guess when that's all your views and talking points centre around--that's all you can say.

    Useful protip: We don't have confederate flag draped tents in Canada.

  11. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This, this, a thousand times this! Why the fuck do the the talk radio assholes blather on ad nauseum excoriating Obama for Obamacare when they could be calling him a totalitarian traitor to the Constitution instead?

    Plenty of them do, you're just not listening to the right ones. Boortz, and Rush do, so do several other smaller hosts that are on a smaller number of stations(under 20). Oh and the tea party does, but obviously they're racists for doing so(because that's what the flappy headed fools in the media say).

  12. Re:Wild bees not disappearing on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 2

    We've had the same problems in Ontario(pretty damn far north from Florida). The heavily domesticated bees are suffering colony collapse, wild bees are thriving, in the last 5 years I've had 4 new hives pop up on my property in different areas. And my property isn't big, 38x120ft. Each time, I got my cousins boyfriend to come and collect the hives. These hives are doing fine, with only a normal 10-30% winter die off. While his heavily domesticated bees are suffering upwards of 50% or collapsing unless a new queen is transplanted from another hive.

  13. Re:I'm there!!! on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No offense but that "rig" is hardly a gaming one. As a PC and console gamer, spending more less than 800~1000 dollars on a gaming PC, specially if you're only gaming on a PC, feels like you're building a machine that with the worse of both worlds

    Yeah you should just stop right about now. Here's some fun facts, a 3 year top of the line PC is more powerful than the current generation of consoles. My 2 year old PC, which I build for $600 was ranked 3rd fastest in the world in the Phenom II X4 965/560ti category with WHQL drivers for roughly two weeks, without any baseline tweaks. I haven't benched out my current one, but that one ran me right around $500. And with that $500, I'm playing at 1080p, getting a nice steady 40-60fps, on a AMD X6 FX-6300 w/ Sapphire 7950.

    Now, if you're dropping $800-1k on something, and not beating the current generation of consoles you are: Buying from the wrong places, or live in a part of the world with massive import tariffs.

  14. Re:I'm there!!! on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 2

    Most of the PC enthusiast/gaming magazines have what they call their "baseline" or "minimal" machines at around the $1300 level.

    Try about half of that. Or right around the cost of the "next gen" consoles, and will still be more powerful.

  15. Re:I'm there!!! on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 2

    Pft filthly lies. Everyone knows that it costs $4000 to build a gaming rig. /console fanboys

  16. Re:corruption on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 4, Informative

    Having worked for a company a decade ago, where the Indian government tried to blackmail them for "back taxes" I'm going to hazard out on a line that it's probably not on Nokia's end.

  17. Re: Corrupt City of London on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, Emperor Bloomberg was replaced by God Emperor De Blasio.

  18. Re:Old News on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 1

    If I had asserted it in public prior to the Snowdon leaks, anonymous apologists would have popped up saying: 'Where is your proof'.
    Now we have that proof the same anonymous apologists are saying it was: 'Common knowledge'.
    Hummm.

    Then, I'd say the people you know are pretty much ignorant of the world around them. In Canada, this has been known since the 50's, my great uncle worked in Ottawa as a liaison between the Federal Government and the Canadian Intelligence Services. I got to meet some interesting folks before he died, and at his funeral when he was laid in Beechwood. Which is the Canadian equivalent of Arlington. But I grew up in a small town of ~20k people in the Southern part of Ontario, and people knew this was going on, they knew that the government had constructed bunkers in Ottawa and Hull to protect themselves in the event of nuclear war, they knew that the Canadian Intelligence apparatus worked very closely with US letter agencies. It wasn't until the Charter came into being that it quieted down, and wasn't quite so visible to the public.

  19. Re:Well, of course. on NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life · · Score: 1

    Based on what I have seen of WoW players, it seems to be able to suck hours from them whether they find is satisfying or not, so it might actually both decrease satisfaction and increase retention; possibly sapping from them even the motivation to look for a new job.

    The reality is, your statement could be applied to anyone with a hobby of anykind. Including: People who code for fun(lot of us here), people who collect crossword puzzle books, gearheads, techheads, gamers in general, PnP gamers, people who enjoy woodcraft, and people who knit.

  20. Re:Nuclear: only interim solution, permanent waste on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Really? They're not importing a significant part from it's neighbors?

    And prices are pretty close to what I said.

  21. Re:Nuclear: only interim solution, permanent waste on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Meanwhile, Germany is implementing soloar and energy efficiency and is AHEAD of its targets.

    And buying nuclear power from France, Poland, and the Czech Republic. All the while, that solar energy is driving millions to make the choice between roof over head, food on table, or electricity. As prices start climbing towards of 40c/kWh.

  22. Re:TL;DR on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey nuclear advocates, how about you fix the waste issue first, then we'll talk.

    Gee, 300 years of storage for a small segment of the waste. The rest of which can be reprocessed into fuel, unless of course you're in the US and have this boogyman fear of plutonium.

  23. Re:Priorities.... on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 1, Informative

    but the wind-farms are a question of survival of the human civilization.

    Hardly. If windfarms dropped off the face of the earth, you might need to find 1-3% from somewhere else, like hydro plants sitting idle, or from nuclear reactors which have been shutdown or furloughed for maintenance. Hell, in Ontario we produce so much electricity that we sell it at a 75% loss to the US, and we're not even at peak generating capacity. In fact, these "green energy" programs are going to drive up our electricity prices by 42% in the next 5 years.

    Do you hear that sounds? It's the death of manufacturing and industry where I live.

  24. Re:don't forget to check those old SSDs on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I hope you're checking those drives periodically and have some good monitoring. SSDs from five years ago had an expected lifespan of what, about five years in your application?

    8 years give or take 6 months. Since they're in a raid array, redundancy does help.

  25. Re:Where's the kaboom? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's earth shattering kaboom, you insensitive clod. Now where's my illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator.