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  1. Re:thickness on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    Less? Yeah. Generally the rule of thumb for thermal paste is 'pea sized' unless it's a large die. But since this is a thermal sheet it doesn't matter too much since it's acting as a thermal conductor between the two objects. The real question though is, what are they using as a filler for the air between the die, and the heatsink. That's the real problem.

  2. Re:Nothing is every secure on Yahoo! Closes Security Hole That Led To Breach · · Score: 1

    Anyone however believes in 100% security will always be a victim of a hack. Always store personal information knowing that somebody can get to it.

    Filthy lies.

    I dare you to get the information from this machine. It's locked in a steel cage, unplugged from the internet. Unpowered, been encased in 3ft of concrete, and dumped in the Mariana's Trench. And the person who dumped it there has been put on a deserted island, buried up to his neck, and left to the animals.

    I'm pretty sure we've got the security though obscurity covered here. Though, those pesky animals might have some weird form of osmosis, and might know the location now...

  3. Re:I guess they are milking it here on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what you mean. I have el-cheapo kobo referb($34 can't beat it), and I just got a new smartphone(samsung galaxy gravity smart) basically one of the el-cheapo basement jobs. It only took me 10 years, and I needed one for work. But, such is life. It does give me two ways to read books, and when I'm at the airport it lets me do the same thing. Grab either the paper, or simply read a book on either one. Since I found a good ebook reader for the phone(Aldiko) I've been using my phone more often while I'm on the road.

    And at the very worst, and I don't feel like reading. A lot of airlines like Westjet and Air Canada both have rear-mount LCD TV's now.

  4. Re:I guess they are milking it here on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 1

    Tell me why I should care if these papers die. As far as I'm concerned it can't happen soon enough.

    I'm pretty much of the same opinion. I'm in Ontario, a few hours south of Toronto right now, and all of the papers are owned by two companies. They all have the same stories. They all have the same types of articles with the same types of spin. They all have pretty much the same content, with the same opinions.

    Someone tell me why I should read them? The Toronto star has been giving away papers at the local grocery stores for months on end trying to drive up subscription numbers. I don't think it's working. Our "local" paper is usually 3 days behind the actual news, the next nearest city paper is usually a day or two behind. Yeah, if I want actual news on events here, I look for local bloggers, or I ask around. Or I go get chummy with gas bar attendants who know the police(usually the same places that have restaurants where they also stop and eat at). Everything trickles down to those guys, and they do know what's happening.

  5. Re:Bollocks on Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Detecting a trend?

    Note to self, use this post as a reference the next time that someone uses huffpo as a story basis on /. again.

  6. Re:Groupthink? on Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped? · · Score: 1

    I find this amusing.

    Here i am, prone to motion sickness, yet 3D movies don't make me cry like a little girl and start puking. Like many people who aren't prone to motion sickness would say to me, I now say to you. "Man the fuck up, you stupid little bitch and grow some balls."

    Justice is served.

    I guess you need some new friends, or perhaps a new social circle then. Then again, maybe I should just pity you. It sounds like you need it more than I do, especially by the bitter self-loathing that you gave in your post.

  7. Ahhh... on EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games · · Score: 1

    This is the same EA who recently said that they were going to a full-on digital company too, and cutting out the middleman(aka retail boxed stores) eventually. Well, isn't that interesting. You'd think, maybe, just possibly, they'd take the reasonable approach and sell something for less and in turn make more money by selling more copies. Instead of charging more money, and selling one copy.

  8. Re:Vigilante circus. on NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1-what crime?

    2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

    Despite that I'll be modded into oblivion for this. This isn't any different that what OWS protesters have been doing for months on end, and it hasn't been any different than what the student protesters have been doing in Quebec have been doing for months on end. In both cases they've been going off the deep end and getting more violent, believing that "corporations" or "schools" or "wall street" need to be brought to justice for crimes against who knows what. I'm sure the grievances are very valid in their minds, and whatever they tell themselves, or are being told by whatever professor or community organizer or handler is telling them to believe, but that doesn't make it so.

    As for the question of "who died and made them the long arm of the law?" Well that's obvious, they made themselves the long arm of the law. This is the pure anti-corporatism of the left.

  9. Re:Groupthink? on Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, this isn't groupthink. There's some of us who simply can't stand "3D" because it's a terrible technology that gives us splitting headaches and migraines. I just happen to be part of that crowd. Then again, the longer I watch it the close I move from headache to migraine, to: "Why am I on the floor and throwing up."

    Great stuff.

  10. Re:Simple is not ugly. on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? · · Score: 1

    Well, if it looks really good with the my little pony theme. Just think what would happen if we went with My Little Brony theme. Flaming skulls everywhere, fist bumps on every page. It would be epicness, and testosterone everywhere.

    My god...the page hits and ad revenue we could generate. QUICK SOMEONE GET ME SQUEEGEE! Maybe they actually should do this for April 1st next year.

  11. Re:For Xbox 360 users ... on The Ugly, Profitable Details About Xbox Live Advertising · · Score: 1

    Hardly, the previous thread about pc vs consoles that was on here /. was chock full of people still on consoles because they couldn't be bothered, and they wanted "console exclusive" titles.

  12. Re:Shame that Mozilla gave up on thunderbird on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones · · Score: 1

    Could be a good chance for them to shift back some of their team if by some weird streak of fate, Win8 is actually popular. I mean, it *is* Friday the 13th after all. Weirder shit has happened, like Apple becoming popular again and rising from the grave.

    Next thing we know, a temporal vortex will open up and WinMe will be a fantastic OS.

  13. Re:For Xbox 360 users ... on The Ugly, Profitable Details About Xbox Live Advertising · · Score: 1

    I've got a better idea. Switch to PC gaming, and say screw you to consoles. You can indeed hook a PC up via HDMI without a problem.

  14. Re:Melting currency on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 1

    Yeah ... why do I get the feeling that this is from some crackpot taking a lighter to the bill because they don't like the plastic money? A few weeks ago when we had that heat wave here in Southern Ontario, I was on an offsite job, and the storage locker on my truck hit 144C, the bills in it were fine. Including the 100's and 50's which were both the new plastic notes.

  15. Re:A life without Coke? on Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year · · Score: 1

    I have to ask, did he do the same or did he ever do the same about Chiquita Banana's? There are far worse companies than Coca Cola, and at the top is Chiquita. Hell, the term Banana Republic comes from them and what they did taking over government in South America.

  16. Re:easy answer. on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 2

    Ah if we're going to hell, let's just write it in Java and Pascal while we're at it.

  17. Re:There must be a winner on What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? · · Score: 2

    In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure.

    Think you're missing something there, everyone in the last 25 years has been taught that "everyone is a winner" no matter if they fail here in the west, everyone is a winner. That crack head? Yeah they're a winner. The idiot, yep they're a winner. That soccer team who won by 7 more goals, well we need to take 3 of them away so the other team doesn't feel so bad(Happened in Ottawa and Toronto), then one of the teams who refused to follow the rules of "not scoring so much" was banned from playing for the rest of the season. Both teams were winners too though.

    Success should be celebrated. You don't get anywhere in life by celebrating the person who's doping up in an alleyway, or do you? Well I guess they're a hero to someone. Look, I know what you're saying, but it's not that they're celebrating that these guys were winners, but that they lost, and that they took their lumps, had fun, and kept going, rather than getting into a huff and throwing a temprtantrum like so many other people do. Japan does have a winner-first mentality too, and it's even worse than the US.

  18. Re:Misleading on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 0

    Real Climate is about as trustworthy as World Daily News, then again considering WDN is at least trying to prove whether or not Sasquatches exist. They maybe more trust worthy.

  19. Re:Article is flamebait on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently reading is hard, it includes temperatures since the industrial revolution. The data, is in the paper. Did you read the paper? And oddly, they seem to mirror the MEP. Well isn't that odd, and yet there's still a downward trend. over the period. Couldn't be that we still don't have a full understanding of everything. Now jokingly, this must have been all those early humans driving cars, and pumping out electronics 2000 years ago. This is just a delayed reaction.

  20. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Thanks for noticing. I didn't even bother to read any more of it, I knew that kind of clause would be somewhere within it.

    You just proved the point.

    That's nice. Too bad you didn't read the the preamble which supersedes s.22. Get back to me when you do okay? I don't want you do look anymore of an ass, if that's possible. Remember, in law. S1 can never be superseded by s.2, and the highest law of the land is always the charter.

  21. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Delusional would imply that I didn't know what I was talking about. Let's not forget that those of us in "socialized medicine" countries get to pay lower drug and medicine costs, because we pay a locked healthcare rate, and those get passed on to the US. Which is unlocked as well. Let's also not forget that because those rates are unlocked that it becomes a "shop around system."

    The reality is, the Obamacare would depress the US economy, as the only way to pay for the 2-4T in costs, would be to tax everything into the ground. Now tell me, where do you come up for the money on that? And mediamatters is not a reliable source for anything, it's on-par with "world weekly news" and other tabloid services.

  22. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 0

    Wait. So let me get this straight, in some broken universe in the US, stripping states of power and handing it over to the federal government. Than ensuring the continuity of power, and ensuring it rests with the people? And ensuring that they have a voice in the decisions on which their healthcare would be made. Okay, no wonder things are so broken down in the US. You'd rather have someone you'd never see making important decisions for you.

    And actually yes we do, they're called the maritimes.

  23. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really? So, let's compare. You take the choice of a massive power grab which is going to more than likely collapse the economy when businesses fall under due the taxes. Or you do it right, and let states decide what, when and how they should do it. Instead of faceless bureaucrats in washington.

    Tough one indeed. You're trading depressed economy with no healthcare, for no healthcare. Especially when that more recent poll says 83% of doctors have considered quitting over obamacare. Yeah, good luck finding a doctor. Well maybe there won't be a doctor shortage in Canada anymore.

  24. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 0

    So you can specify a minimum level of health care on one 8x11? Bullshit. You are a liar.

    Yes, you can. You're just an idiot. And the entire bill is a power grab. Oh here's the "entire " of the CHA. Or the Canada Health act. This is the entire legal framework which all healthcare in Canada is based on for "socialized medicine."

    The person who wrote the law was brilliant, and was able to condense the entire act simply and fill in everything fully. Ensuring that the provinces were fully responsible. While the federal government provided a fully hands-off approach to the entire system. So, now don't be so naive.

    http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-6/FullText.html

    Short title

    1. This Act may be cited as the Canada Health Act.

    1984, c. 6, s. 1.

    INTERPRETATION
    Marginal note:Definitions

    2. In this Act,

    âoeAct of 1977â

    âoeAct of 1977â[Repealed, 1995, c. 17, s. 34]

    âoecash contributionâ

     contribution pécuniaire Â

    âoecash contributionâ means the cash contribution in respect of the Canada Health and Social Transfer that may be provided to a province under subsections 15(1) and (4) of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act;
    âoecontributionâ

    âoecontributionâ[Repealed, 1995, c. 17, s. 34]

    âoedentistâ

    Â dentiste Â

    âoedentistâ means a person lawfully entitled to practise dentistry in the place in which the practice is carried on by that person;

    âoeextended health care servicesâ

     services complémentaires de santé Â

    âoeextended health care servicesâ means the following services, as more particularly defined in the regulations, provided for residents of a province, namely,

    (a) nursing home intermediate care service,

    (b) adult residential care service,

    (c) home care service, and

    (d) ambulatory health care service;

    âoeextra-billingâ

    Â surfacturation Â

    âoeextra-billingâ means the billing for an insured health service rendered to an insured person by a medical practitioner or a dentist in an amount in addition to any amount paid or to be paid for that service by the health care insurance plan of a province;

    âoehealth care insurance planâ

     régime dâ(TM)assurance-santé Â

    âoehealth care insurance planâ means, in relation to a province, a plan or plans established by the law of the province to provide for insured health services;

    âoehealth care practitionerâ

     professionnel de la santé Â

    âoehealth care practitionerâ means a person lawfully entitled under the law of a province to provide health services in the place in which the services are provided by that person;

    âoehospitalâ

    Â hÃpital Â

    âoehospitalâ includes any facility or portion thereof that provides hospital care, including acute, rehabilitative or chronic care, but does not include

    (a) a hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered, or

  25. Re:I'm going to overlook a large portion of your b on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    He's not wrong. You're looking through rose coloured glasses, even up here in "socialized medicine canada" we're having a hell of a problem dealing with drug resistant TB because immigrants refuse to undergo TB diagnostic testing. Guess what's happening? We're seeing large numbers of drug resistant TB popping out in the immigrant communities, and it's spreading into the homeless communities. Police and EMS have had a policy in place of "in all unknown cases, drive with windows down, and with surgical masks on" then you go for weekly screenings for the next year. Fun huh?

    We're going to have to see the return of the old quarantine system because that's one of the sure fire ways to contain it.

    As for obamacare? You guy's are just idiots, and anyone who supports it is an idiot. Yep, I ad-hom'd you. Know why? Because any massive power grab at the federal level in terms of healthcare is a bad idea. Know how we do it in Canada? It's at the provincial level(equivalent to state). The Federal healthcare act in Canada fits on 1 8x11" sheet of paper. That's it folks. And in brief it says: The provinces shall cover healthcare. There shall be minimum level of healthcare. The federal government shall appoint a neutral auditor to ensure said care is equal across all provinces(some provinces have better care(those with more money). Those provinces who have less money, will receive money from the general revenue fun(aka income tax and GST--nationwide sales tax). In cases where there is no province(aka territories, or natives, or military, the federal government shall provide said care.

    And that's it. Yep. Massive power grab, with a massive tax grab, and you liberals support it? Idiots.