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  1. Re:National Interest? on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They would counter that they've been engaged in the *best* defense.

  2. Re:The network says no on Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know... most of our RDP users where I work just do the same thing over and over... you could probably buffer their actions.

  3. Re:Too costly on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Those are sunk costs and should not be considered when comparing the cost of replacing the canopies to not doing it. However, they could still be used to extrapolate *future* costs of wrecked aircraft and killed airmen.

  4. Re:Who flipped the bird on the US of A? on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Nothing he said indicated Siberia was not a part of Russia. He just believes that only Siberian cranes are at fault, whereas the swallows hail from all over the country. Personally, I think it was a loon.

  5. Re:No worries on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 2

    Somewhat ironically, the poster boy for bird extinction, the Dodo, would not have been affected by mid-air collisions with planes.

  6. Re:Are PC gamers benefiting ? on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    I've been pretty impressed with how well Intel's integrated graphics have been doing... with the HD 3000, I can play many modern games on intermediate settings with no problem at 1920x1080, which I imagine is good enough for a majority of users.

  7. Entrapment is inducing someone to do something they would not normally do. Setting up bait is fair and legal and it should be. Forcing people to take that bait is neither fair nor legal (nor should it be). If an undercover cop poses as a drug dealer and busts people who buys from him, that's not creating crime - those people would have found a dealer to buy from anyway. The crime would have happened anyway.

  8. Entrapment is being induced to do something you would not normally do. Just approaching you on the street and asking if you want to buy cocaine isn't enough by a long shot. The only time you could claim entrapment in that case is if the subject was the kind of person who buys from every mail-order catalog and door-to-door salesman he comes across.

  9. I don't think you know what entrapment means in a legal capacity.

    Not Entrapment: An undercover cop selling cocaine, then busting people that buy it.
    Entrapment: Cops busting into your house and destroying stuff until you agree to buy cocaine, then arresting you for it.

  10. Re:I can relate... on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 2

    IE incompatibilities is the only reason we use XP Mode on any of our work PCs - some websites require 6, some requires 8 or newer. For us, it's mostly healthcare/insurance companies that we have to interface with that have the strictest (worst) compatibility requirements.

  11. Re:Timmay! on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 5, Funny

    His spellcheck is an ActiveX plug-in

  12. Re:does it work through walls? on Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts · · Score: 1

    So how is it different than infrared, which has been in use for quite some time?

  13. Re:Wrong source on The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers · · Score: 1

    He must be a pretty smart dipstick if he's posting on the Internet. My dipstick just sort of sits in my car all day until I want to check my oil.

  14. Re:uhh... on The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like much of the tech sector, they keep costs down by replacing most students with robots and outsourcing the rest to India.

  15. Version 5 is made of liquid metal

  16. Re:What the helium actually does on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 2

    Just means we need to strap tiny rockets to our hard drive heads.

  17. Re:"A few pixels incorrectly decoded"... on New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that the pixels are alive, and growing! I smell a SyFy movie of the week in the works.

  18. Re:viewers probably won't notice? on New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips · · Score: 1

    You must have gone through a lot of monitors before realizing this has nothing to do with dead pixels on a display.

  19. Re:Huh? on New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips · · Score: 1

    It's not so much about skipping error correction as it is saying when you can skip error correction. If 5 pixels are decoded improperly, fuck it, just keep going. However, if 500 pixels are decoded improperly, then maybe it's time to fix that.

  20. Re:in the U.S. on Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" · · Score: 4, Funny

    But would they spy on the call to themselves to let them know they're spying? And would they know they were spying on the call about spying on the call about spying on the call about spying on the call...

    This has been another edition of Meta Monday.

  21. Re:Sunrise on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 1

    As mentioned in the summary, schedules are already poorly coordinated with sunrise and sunset. Electric lights got that ball rolling and television continued it. Unless you're one of those people who still use sundials instead of mechanical or electric clocks?

  22. Re:Daylight Saving Time on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 5, Funny

    But we do deposit an hour in the spring and withdraw it in the fall. The 0% interest rate just really sucks.

  23. Re:Teaching Software Development on Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's approximately ten billion* startups being launched every day, and each startup benefits from a couple decent coders. The individual startups might not all be viable in the long term, but if anyone is going to be willing to jump from opportunity to opportunity, I'd think it would be an ex-con.

    *May include other galactic civilizations

  24. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We don't know when, we don't know where, but we know you did it!" doesn't hold up very well in court.

  25. Re:Insurance on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like a guy who really goes all out to prepare for the worst. He did as much as he could to mitigate every likely risk (excepting only those that would have defeated the purpose of doing it)