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  1. Where are the mid-American datacenters on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why aren't there more datacenters in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, etc.? Surely the threat from Tornados could be mitigated and the electrical infrastructure built out more cheaply than the losses due to coastal disasters, no?

  2. Re:That'll work fine in peacetime on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    I'm American, I'm not happy about it either. No one I know thinks that way or wants us to behave that way.

    We have two main problems in America: our education system sucks balls but we still let those people vote (way more than enough people to swing elections). And the other problem is that our "elected" representatives are career politicians who have become an uncontrollable Nobility of sorts. You think our government actually listens to us? LOL.

  3. Re:remember that raise you didn't get? on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    Filson. http://www.filson.com/ Made in the USA. Sold at big boxes like Cabela's, Bass Pro, and even small local boxes like a retailer a couple miles up the road from me.

  4. Theatrics on Congress Wants Your TSA Stories · · Score: 1

    "Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Effective Committee or Political Theatre?"

    FTFY

  5. Re:Student of American History on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    foxnews.com that is. O_o

  6. Wideband delphi on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    So, basically Iran just stumbled upon Wideband Delphi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_Delphi and thought they'd give it a go.

  7. Re:Student of American History on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    close to 0 public support for another war

    You should try skimming the comments on Fox.com sometime.

  8. Re:Framing? on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    720? What happened to the other 720 between midnight and noon?

  9. Re:Good on SFPD Breathalyzer Mistake Puts Hundreds of DUI Convictions In Doubt · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been out drinking with *me*.

  10. The worst part on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    The most frustrating and depressing part is that we're just now getting started at this Soviet-style communist repression stuff. Judging by the other countries that have endured it, we get to look forward to another 30-50 years of things getting worse until enough people get enough pissed off for the system to get un-fucked. By then "told ya so" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

  11. Re:I have an easier fix on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. That. And "properly sized ceramic bullet...without a scrap of metal in it" What are you replacing the brass case with, again?

  12. Re:The most important question: on Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope · · Score: 1

    Ah, of course. There aren't any Mexicans in the U.S. just like there aren't any Scots in Great Britain. Thanks for clearing that up and missing the joke entirely.

  13. I love new technology but... on Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope · · Score: 0

    I'll wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen iScan so they can get the bugs worked out before I get one. I can get this from the Genius Bar, right?

  14. Re:The most important question: on Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope · · Score: 0

    This is from Sheffield; the researchers are using Scottish Gaelic - looks like 'linoleum', sounds like 'floor'. In this case it's pronounced 'scatteredelectronwavereconstructor'.

  15. It's either: on Researchers Seek Help In Solving DuQu Mystery Language · · Score: 4, Funny

    Objective-Brainfuck or Brainfuck with Classes

  16. Re:Doomed on New Programming Languages Come From Designers · · Score: 1

    As an aside, .NET lacks here, and massively because there is no spirit to make libraries available to others for free causing a non-availability of free libraries.

    Gonna have to disagree with you on that point. The .Net languages, runtime, and framework libraries are all included in the .Net / Windows SDK and it's freely available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/dlx/en-us/listdetailsview.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b You can download and install the SDK and start coding right away.

    Don't confuse Visual Studio with the languages / framework.

    Even if you're referring to the availability of free-as-in-beer/speech libraries there are quite a few of those on CodePlex, GitHub, and CodeProject, depending on what you need.

  17. Cynical "yeah but..." on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 2

    I realize this is cynical but...

    According to the WHO ~7.6 million people die of cancer each year: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/ and according to the National Cancer Institute ~1.6 million of them are Americans: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html

    That's a huge revenue stream for the drug companies to just ignore because "hey, it's cured!" I just don't think the drug companies won't start looking for ways to kill this or put it out of reach of most people. They haven't exactly proven to be altruistic and wholly forthcoming thus far; they're just for-profit companies in the same old "corrupt American capitalist" system.

  18. Re:Of course on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 0

    Strictly speaking, I guess it belongs to Al Gore.

  19. Got it. Thank you.

  20. I'm not an expert on emissions, I'm genuinely curious: Towmotors have been running on LP for decades so they can run indoors at places like big box home improvement stores. Why wouldn't underground mining equipment also run on LP or natural gas? Is it just as harmful? If so, why are companies using it inside retail stores?

  21. This has been done already a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

  22. Re:I know, I know on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    That's crap. I have a Scion xA, which is a fancy Yaris. We're a family of 4 - me, my wife, and our twin boys. I'm 6' 4" 220 pounds so I have to drive it with the seat all the way back. We drove that car from NE Ohio to Myrtle Beach and back with all of our ancillaries twice with no problem at all. We regularly take trips to D.C., Chicago, and other points over 3 hours driving distance and we never have a problem packing a week's worth of ancillaries.

  23. You lost me at on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    "Government should ban..."

    What government should ban is government banning things; we could use fewer government bans.

  24. The Cloud on Sony To Delete Virtual Goods · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Precisely why I don't trust Amazon's (or Apple's, or anyone else's) cloud to store books, music, movies, or other media that I purchase.

  25. Re:When lossless isn't really lossless on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    You have your sweet cables and they're all burned in and everything but you're still feeding crappy speakers. It's an amateur mistake. You need to hook your cables right in to the instruments, man. You plug 'em in to the jacks right on the guitars and wawa pedals, man, for super high fidelity.