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  1. Re:I have a feeling.... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    My install of Vista Ultimate 64 bit has been up for over 100 days on my media center. If I did not mostly use it to watch netflix I would use another DVR interface but thems the brakes.

  2. Re:Of course on Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    String theory to me is like those search algorithms that you run into that are utterly unique yet confounding to parse but get the job done somehow and no one feels smart enough to question half the time. A modified standard model works for me, with some of the new phenomenologies emerging based on it.

  3. Re:Cut off the money supply on Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA · · Score: 1

    TPB allows people in the US to download BBC and people in the UK to download um PBS? It is the library of Alexandria of the day and should be protected against the upstart Christian hordes!

  4. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No our police are just as stupid as yours are. Police are mostly recruited from the ranks of those sadistic bullies that you grew up with, not exactly the best and brightest.

  5. Re:When everyone is special, no one is special on Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College · · Score: 1

    A few of them we have hired had Aspereger's and low GPAs. We knew their weaknesses when we hired them and although we do not expect either of them to ever do lead engineering work one of them is the best damn software test engineer we have and the other left to find a startup.

    Some of the other low GPAs we hired had some less than obvious mental health issues which popped up after some time. We had to let some of them go.

    I did a 3.8 through my undergrad but I am working now and doing grad school and it is hard to even pull above a 3.5.

  6. Re:economics and variability on Computer-Controlled Cargo Sailing Vessels Go Slow, Frugal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not just go nuclear? We could eliminate CO2 and increase the speed by 2x over diesel.

  7. Re:When everyone is special, no one is special on Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College · · Score: 1

    In mechanical and electrical engineering at least it is more important the projects you have seen to completion, your internships and professional references than your GPA. GPA for people graduating in the past 10 years or so is way inflated and companies I have worked for know it and we use it as a metric of last resort. Any asshole can get a 3.5 GPA nowadays, it is built into people choosing some schools over others but what is lacking is real world experience and initiative on doing your own projects. Want to know what we look for first when hiring? Patent applications and research papers and how often those are cited but we do not hire undergrads typically because they are too much of an unknown.

    Do companies really care what your GPA is when they are hiring for CS?

  8. Re:120% efficiency! on Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    You gather the requisite ~290k Earth's mass of Hydrogen and than we will talk.

  9. Re:Apples and Oranges? on Dell Adamo Review — Macho Outside, Sissy Inside · · Score: 1

    Never buy anything with an Intel graphics chip, they are junk.

  10. Re:Sci-Fi scope is more difficult to manage on The State of Sci-Fi MMOs · · Score: 1

    Earth and Beyond did space MMORPG right in 2002. Eve Online feels like a full time job compared to E&B too bad they canceled it, it was my first and last mmorpg I paid for.

  11. This is bullshit on Conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens Is Thrown Out · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Procedural mistakes should not overturn convictions that are this overwhelming. The practice of law used to require one book, when we found this nation maybe a 100 now there are 10's of thousands of books involving the law in various aspects and it has gotten to be too much. We need to reboot the justice department by rewriting the laws so they are prudent, consistent and concise.

  12. Re:Eight Cups?!? on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would be like the gay professor on Gilligan's island till I built a zeppelin out of tanned dolphin leather and sewn together with their dried/cured intestines and left that cursed place. No Wifi and a bunch of chicks who will probably synchronize their menses cycles within months, lol. If that is your idea of paradise you have never tried to turn a three way into a relationship.

  13. Re:Their country, their loss! on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 1

    No, this is what religion means. You are using an argument that was popular in the McCarthy era when fighting the godless commies wasn't enough they insinuated that socialists revered Marx as like a God and worshiped Lenin in some perverse personality cult. Yes, some of the top people carrying out the orders in Russia worshiped Lenin but most of the country hated him but were afraid to speak their minds.

    Socialism != Totalitarianism or Religion

  14. Re:earth sciences, who needs them? on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    How about you pay for Hurricanes, Droughts, Earthquakes, Irrigation or whatever public project makes where you live feasible first?

  15. Re:nah. on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    I am keeping Microsoft Bob. Nothing even remotely compares to its crappiness, imagine a UI that relied almost completely on clippy like interactions.

  16. Re:NAH on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is the vulgar comedy of the day. It is fun to watch but just because they have people on their like Stewie and Brian on there waxing intellectual does not mean it is.

  17. Re:other potential things on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like my dragons to shoot lasers out of their frigging heads too!

  18. Re:earth sciences, who needs them? on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    Yeah me and the 10 million or so people on the west coast who live near active volcanoes will get right on that. Maybe we can all move to Florida in trailer parks, that should be safe.

  19. Re:In other news: on 97 of Top 100 Classified Sites Are Craigslist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah and this is the problem as I see it.

    Craigslist made the economics of prostitution more decentralized so cops were busting fewer hookers even though the sex industry in a lot of towns was thriving with Craigslist. So the cops started to take notice when their revenue dropped off. In some towns over 50% of the revenue comes from fines levied against the citizens for non-violent crimes and anything that disrupts that will make politicians poke their local county sheriffs and police departments to do something about it. Look at your county coffers and see how much comes in from traffic tickets and criminal fines for my county it is nearly 30% of the revenue. Making so much of county and city budgets dependent on vice and traffic crimes has made it profitable to exacerbate problems that will encourage it while not directly encouraging it. -- See drug war, cheap alcohol and 1 second yellow lights.

    We also had a massive decrease in violence against prostitutes and charges filed for pimping because craigslist made it far easier to go solo and be safe from crazies by filtering out them by email and phone before meeting. Sort of like speed dating, now these women are back out working for pimps and working the streets. This sort of action by the police community against sex workers is abhorrent and is bringing back old problems that were going away with Craigslist being used by escorts.

  20. Re:earth sciences, who needs them? on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    As someone who lives near an active volcano Mt St Helens I would like more monitoring any way we can get it.

  21. Re:Their country, their loss! on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why, is this some form of etiquette? All kings and queens should be beheaded in this day and age, be them British or Thai.

  22. The Thai King is a... on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 0

    The son of a malodorous hairy cunt and a mentally ill dog...

    Top that

  23. Build yourself on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Zeroth is of course fans, they are the only moving part so the only thing I use is dual ball bearing fans.

    First thing is quality of motherboard I would go with Solid Caps, heatsinks (NO FANS) on the S and N bridges and look for an 8 layer PCB design they tend to be more robustly engineered.

    Second is to underclock and undervolt the CPU and memory which will increase the lifetime. I have an Athlon 5000+ running at ~1 volt that runs at 24c in an almost fanless case. He is not going to be using it for anything that requires a lot of clockcycles so pare them down as much as the CPU/Memory will allow while being stable. It will increase the lifetime dramatically.

    Third you need an all metal computer case for durability. Everything that is plastic in 10-15 years will become brittle and stuff will start breaking like around the power switch and other heavily used areas.

         

  24. Re:We need to start passing laws... on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department · · Score: 1

    That's how they did it in ancient Rome and they had a Republic for 100 years longer than the US has.

  25. Re:Phoenix has done screwed up. on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department · · Score: 1

    Menacing is a criminal charge. They give the charge to the one they think is guilty.