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  1. Re:Only if Puerto Rico gets statehood, too on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your memory is off:

    "Those who voted overwhelmingly chose statehood by 97%; turnout, however, was 23%, a historically low figure."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. I've been reporting issues of my phones crashing in cold temperatures for the last 3 years to Apple. They tried replacing the phone, but it still crashed.

    To reproduce, take a phone at 50% or less charge to a location that is below freezing, and then go take a bunch of pictures. Make sure the phone is outside and not put back against your warm skin. The phone will shut off, and won't turn back on again until it's warm. Once you warm it up, it'll power on and say it has 30-50% battery remaining, and so long as you don't do anything taxing, it'll still last a long time.

  3. Re:Offtopic on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Worse than just that, the subject is "You may like to read" ... "10 Confirmed Dead."

    Even if these articles were related, I certainly would not like to read that 10 people were confirmed dead.

  4. *The* Quickest, Not *Its* Quickest on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While true that the P100D will be Tesla's quickest production car, the news is that it is *the* quickest production car that is currently made and available to purchase new. That one little word makes a difference.

  5. Re:Ob on England To Test "Electric Motorways" · · Score: 1

    Replying to remove wrong moderation; I meant to say this was Funny!

  6. Re:wordpress.com? on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Yes, but typically wordpress blogs don't need to store local content for a fancy HTML5 app.

  7. Re:sales for 6 figures and not interested?? on Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Nice to meet you, Buckaroo

  8. Dumb on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because there's never a reason that a passenger would want to take a phone call. Or for a driver to call 911 for any reason...

  9. Naughty Boas on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    And apparently female boa constrictors are able to be born without original sin too (what Immaculate Conception really talked about; Virgin Birth is a separate idea).

  10. Re:"net neutrality" is control play on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quality of Service is not what "Net Neutrality" is about. You've described a QoS system, which, while some people may not like, is not the fundamental threat of a non-neutral net. In the world of the non-neutral net, AT&T wants Google to pay them money for the right to be viewed by their customers. In a non-neutral net, Yahoo could partner with AT&T and together say that AT&T customers cannot access Google search, but rather only Yahoo search. Or if they're not so evil as to block Google search, they will just purposefully send Google queries over a slower pipe than Yahoo queries, making people think that Google is slow, when in reality it's an artificial speed degradation meant to line AT&T's pockets by blackmailing content providers to pay them more.

    Throttling on the application layer (BitTorrent packets can arrive out of order, or arrive later, than Skype packets since P2P doesn't need real-time access) is one thing. But the big ISPs want to throttle on the end-point, in order to extract money from Google, Hulu, Netflix or any random new web service that provides cool new content.

  11. Re:Holy cow on Intel Buys McAfee · · Score: 1

    They also got a list of names of people who are willing to buy magic beans. That might be worth a lot...

  12. Re:Very stupid question, but... on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The students did detect this. They saw the light blinking on and off, and reported it. These claims were dismissed as something wrong with the light. Of course, the fact that the claims were dismissed by the very group of people who could be taking the pictures should have made it seem a bit suspicious...

  13. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 1

    They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason.

    I think they left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 because he's kind of busy being the governor of California right now...

  14. Re:AirPort Extreme? on Yellow Dog Linux v4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, thanks to some clever reverse engineering, it is up to Yellow Dog now. The folks at http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ have released an open source driver for Airport Extreme. In fact, I'm using it now to submit this post on Gentoo running on a 12" Powerbook. Instructions can be found here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html

  15. Re:You know on Linux Desktop Deployment Postmortems? · · Score: 1

    I can get there just fine, but that's because the name (and the link) points to Versora, not Verasora.

  16. Trouble installing .NET Framework on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's the RPM for "Windows Update" again?

  17. Mac port? on Preview Of Halo For PC Finally Sighted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmm... the article was pretty decent in coverage, but has MS officially dropped the Mac port, or will it be another 8 month wait for the followers of Steve?

    Especially given Bungie's solid Mac support, it truly is a shame they sold out...

  18. Re:Technically pointless on Server In A Fly · · Score: 1

    You're new here, aren't you?

  19. My experiences on Girls not Going into CS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just graduated from a small Christian school wish a CS degree. The school is about 65% women, but out of 50 CS students, there's only 2 females. Our main professor is female, and she's talked with us about these sorts of things. One thing that we found out was that the majority of the guys got into CS because they played computer games as kids, and then wanted to learn how to make them. Both of the girls (and the prof) got into CS for love of math and logic. So the moral of the story is if we can get young girls hooked on computer games (ex. The Sims), then we've got a good inroad to get more into CS.

  20. Check the registry on Removing Burstabit Spyware? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd use BHO Cop as suggested in a previous post, but more than likely it's just in one of the Run keys in the registry. You can either launch regedit and browse to the run keys, or use msconfig's startup tab to delete all the unneccessary crap.

  21. Actually an Improvement on Visual J# .NET Released · · Score: 1

    Despite the average bias here against Microsoft, the whole .NET thing could be a great thing if/when Mono and other projects come out for more support. The biggest feature I see for J# comes with speed. The Java VM for Linux & Windows is horribly slow, only the Mac OS X VM is anywhere near a full program. From all the tests I've done comparing C# and Java, C# apps have blown Java out of the water in speed. Microsoft simply did a better VM implementation than Sun. If this means my Java apps will run fast on Windows machines, and with a standard UI set (instead of the ugly Swing or almost-implemented-ok AWT), then more power to them. Sun got complacent with their VMs, hopefully this will force them to spend more time flushing out Java... Prolly not though...

  22. Drug for Shyness on The Future of Mind Control · · Score: 1

    Why bother with the drug to combat shyness? We've had it around for years. It's called Alcohol!

  23. To paraphrase MST3K on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Amster-Damn that's fast!

  24. Re:Virtual Reality on Augmented Reality Quake · · Score: 1

    Scour online for Sony Glasstrons. I bought mine for $500 2 years ago, and they were 640x480, interlaced. Horrible for work, but great for gaming.

  25. Re:speculation on More News And Links On Yesterday's Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was even less than 1/5th of the Pentagon. If you look at the vids, you'll see that the Pentagon is frickin' huge, and is standing well.

    As for the WTC Towers, I believe Americans are stubborn enough to rebuild, but I don't know if they'll be able to fill the rooms as easily as before. Would you want to work in the WTC Towers now that this has happened?