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  1. Re:Metric Ruler? on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 1

    I've never needed to know the diameter of a coin, and it honestly wouldn't have occurred to me to search for that. There's also no denomination on the coin that I can see, so if I hadn't handled one in the past I probably wouldn't even know what to search for. That said, it seems like most folks in the US plop down a quarter next to something for scale, so I'd assume a similarly sized coin anywhere else.

  2. Re: Extinction event on We Stopped At Two Nuclear Bombs; We Can Stop At Two Degrees. · · Score: 1

    Get your stupid ass off of my global communications network. I suggest hiding in the goddamned woods until your prepper jackoff fantasy comes a-knockin'.

  3. Re:What's ITSM? on What's the Future of Corporate IT and ITSM? (Video) · · Score: 1

    So make sure you're the one designing the process. Keep bullshit out of it. I do ITSM-based infrastructure change management. On paper my job is to bust the admins' balls. In reality I ask them what they're trying to do, make sure they write up a rollback plan (even if it is just 'restore from backup'), and make sure the server guys aren't planning to do something that needs the network on the same day that the network team is planning an outage. That generally takes about a half hour of everyone's time once a week at my mid-sized shop. Oh yeah, then I send an email to the people that are going to care if something goes down. This isn't even my full-time job - we don't need someone making work for everyone else because they're bored.

    It doesn't need to be a bureaucratic nightmare, it just needs to show what the hell you're doing and that you thought about how and why you're doing it (or undoing it when shit blows up.)

  4. Bullshit on 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers · · Score: 4, Funny

    This place reads like a combination of Penthouse Letters, Soldier of Fortune, and Byte magazine.

  5. Re:Probably not on Orion Capsule Safely Recovered, Complete With 12-Year-Old Computer Guts · · Score: 1

    They learned that the design was sound for the mission they simulated. It seems like a good idea to get one of those under your belt and then STOP DESIGNING.

  6. Re:This is the voice of world control. on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1

    Well, since this is slashdot we may as well assume that the people who designed the things completely overlooked the obvious.

  7. Re:Is minecraft really 'creative'? on The Minecraft Parent · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous that no one invites you to the circlejerk.

  8. Re:I hope they can do better on drivers on PowerVR To Make Mobile Graphics, GPU Compute a Three-Way Race Again · · Score: 1

    AMD sucks butt on Linux despite them releasing specs, whereas nVidia is as close to "just works" as is practicable using their binaries. You know, the exact opposite of what you are claiming.

  9. Re:I hope they can do better on drivers on PowerVR To Make Mobile Graphics, GPU Compute a Three-Way Race Again · · Score: 1

    Just like AMD?

  10. Re:Safely? in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on After Trip to ISS, SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Returns Safely To Earth · · Score: 2

    Cheese would have either melted or been mashed to bits if the landing was all that bad. It really is just delicious ballistics gelatin.

  11. Re:Not worth it. on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    Or you could buy a new disk the size of everything you're going to connect to this IDE controller for $10 more, use less juice, and be less prone to failure.

  12. Re:Thank Dr. Sherry Rogers on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    I'm not hearing a no.

  13. Re:That was some goood corn! on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Nah, no worries. They've developed a petrochemical-derived replacement tamale wrapper that should be on the market in a few months.

  14. Re:How about glass on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Possibly. But they'll be the same plasticizers that are in PET already. Different source of hydrocarbons, same plastic.

  15. Re:Thank Dr. Sherry Rogers on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Does she pay you to search for "plastic" and related terms and then sing her praises?

  16. Re:Just one problem... on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be great to make plastic after we run out of oil?

  17. Re:That was some goood corn! on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    The article specifically says they use corn husks. Do you eat the husk?

  18. Re:One tiny little flaw on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    And? Instead of letting the agricultural byproducts go to waste or composting them or whatever, they are recycling them as packaging that they were going to use oil for. Now that oil can stay safely tucked away under the sand... or get burned by a bitchin Camero.

  19. Re:How about glass on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Glass is heavy and fragile and bulky and I would bet uses more energy to produce and to recycle than PET. Nothing is going to leach that isn't already. PET is PET. It's the same chemical produced from a different feedstock.

  20. Re:Does the average user even notice? on Investigating the Performance of Firefox 4 and IE9 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My benchmark is pretty simple: Can I plan Entanglement without the fan spinning up? IE9 and Chrome don't spin the fan up, FF4 does.

  21. Re:Thank goodness for NOAA on Tsunami Warnings Now Faster, More Accurate · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they will if trends continue the way they have been. No more socialized oceanography! No more Marxist weather!

  22. That's great... on Tsunami Warnings Now Faster, More Accurate · · Score: 0

    Until some stupid fucker uses them as an AWESOME PHOTO EARLY WARNING SYSTEM!1!!!1

  23. Re:As a developer using in app purchase ... on Game Maker Says 40% of iTunes In-App Buys Are Fraud · · Score: 0

    Not sure how familiar you are with the Android market, but it's pretty common to see add-on modules for apps there. Put a link in the app that hits the module's market item directly or just supply a link with a market search term that is designed to hit your modules.

  24. Re:I'll wait for Chrome 11... on First Look At Chrome 10 · · Score: 0

    Jam a few more cliches in there, you haven't quite convinced me.

  25. Re:No I won't on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Would you please sign in so I can add you to my hate list? That's where everyone who feels the need to be "special" and use a different font for no apparent reason goes.