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  1. wait a minute on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    Fertilizer by itself doesn't tend to explode. If you have a nitrate-heavy fertilizer that's the oxygen source but if you want to make it explosive, you typically add carbon (charcoal or coal) and sulfur. I'm preeeeetty sure OSHA or whatever doesn't let those 2 be stored next to each other. So I'm really wondering how this would blow up. The last 2 major explosions I can think of were a propane storage facility and a rocket fuel manufacturing plant so those made sense. Fertilizer, not so much. They must have epically mixed up what was stored where or something.

  2. this happened before on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what happened to the other major exchange based in California about 2 years ago. Their bank accounts were closed due to banking secrecy act violations when they just barely reached the volume limit that the US gov set for that law. Obviously the feds were waiting for that to happen and gave them zero warning.

  3. Re:Awesome on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's distracting, causes ADD, causes eye strain, will get you mugged, people will use it while driving, induces battery phobia to the max, looks idiotic, causes memory degradation in your brain, and the controls are significantly less fast than a PC, laptop, tablet, or cell phone. Is that a good start?

  4. Re: your dumbass strategy on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised how annoying HDCP can be. You absolutely have to be running analog to do that which drops the quality a hair.

  5. Re:That doesn't mean it wasnt jammed on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure big corporations and stores were running jammers in the area too. I think I heard something about that on the slashes of dots lol.

  6. wait, what? on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    How is it even possible to unauthorizedly purchase stock? That sounds almost as impossible as me R-ing TFA lol. Stock either is for sale or isn't and it's all checked by computers. You can't just go to ebay and buy something that's not there and I thought stocks were the same.

  7. does this count? on FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies · · Score: 1

    This is a 67 year old solid metal building I work in. Does that count? Actually I have US Cellular so I get signal and nobody else does, lol. I don't know if CDMA has better error correction or the tower is just closer but I do find it comical since I don't really like GSM.

  8. Re:Microsoft is like "Biff" from Back to the Futur on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Well it's not like he said always-on computing is fine or released a game with bad DRM that barely worked. Now THAT would be unforgivable, lol.

  9. Re:Oh look! on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they want money and inbound links but I think someone somewhere knows that if people like them put enough pressure on Microsoft, they'll delay and alter Windows 9 or at least design a decent Windows 10. That's the traditional MS cycle. If it's just sales numbers, they'll blame vendors and sun spots and terrorists before they blame crappy product design. But, if people everywhere are saying their products are unusable crap and not turning things around would bankrupt them, that's more motivating.

  10. Re:The baffling thing... on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 0

    They don't need anything to stop them. Tablet rage is on the rise. You can't type on them, can't easily work with office-related filetypes, they freeze and crash, overheat, cause battery-phobia, wear out faster than a laptop, have massive compatibility problems with apps, are completely locked down, have no DVD or BluRay drive, have pathetic levels of storage, have inferior cameras, and crappy speakers. Oh and they shatter like a wine glass if you drop them. They're still an overpriced, flashy toy for rich people who can buy a new one every year. They will kill themselves. Remember netbooks? The future of all laptops and the end of all other computing? It turns out people realized they were as crappy as they were and now they're $75 at the pawn shop. Tablets are netbooks with no keyboard and no copy of Windows so good luck.

  11. Re:Whats the alternative? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's actually Windows 6.3 by the way. XP was 5.0, Vista was 6.0, Windows 7 was 6.1, Windows 8 was 6.2.

  12. Re:But does Netcraft confirm it? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Why bother when it's all over Geocities and Angelfire too?

  13. Re: your dumbass strategy on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 2

    You went with Silverlight. Now have fun being stuck with Silverlight. The end.

  14. Why this is idiotic on Passthoughts, Not Passwords: Authentication Via Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    So first we had passwords. Then they invented fingerprint readers so now everyone can log in with either a fingerprint or a password as a backup in case the fingerprint reader doesn't work. Obviously 2 ways of getting into a system is MUCH more secure. Same here. I bet this will be backed by a password.

  15. still limited on Construction of World's Largest Optical Telescope Approved · · Score: 0

    No matter how big and awesome it is, it still has to view everything through the atmosphere so it's very limited in what it can do compared to one in orbit.

  16. Complete and utter nonsense on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 2

    Outdated bullshit. The new ASIC mining chips run a 2 watts and are 12x faster than my 220W graphics card. This is a non-issue.

  17. Re:I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Um, actually I'm one of the best technicians in existence and my side job is head IT manager at a medium sized company so go fuck yourself. I almost never have to Google anything because I've seen it all.

  18. Re:I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    I believe Avast, CCleaner, some torrent clients, and other popular freeware puts it as a tiny checkbox that most people buzz past in their installers. They get like $0.05 - $0.50 typically per install. That's why Java pushes the Ask Toolbar. If they have like 500 million clients, that's potentially $40 million!

  19. Re:I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    You're hired, lol.

  20. does it matter? on Mystery Meteorite May Not Be From Mercury After All · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure if the ebay description just says "it's a green rock and it's from space," that'll be sufficient. Knowing specifically its potential history probably would only drive up the price from approximately 1 metric ass-ton of money to 1.1 metric ass-tons of money.

  21. Re:I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Well, it by default takes over url and html link handling so it'll open eventually. It also overrides the start menu's "internet" entry and Windows XP - 8 all don't have a shortcut to IE itself on the desktop by default. So for someone that dumb, IE is gone.

  22. I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone stupid enough to fall for browser advertising or co-installers has Chrome. Those people would NOT be allowed at my company. At my repair shop, 99% of people with Chrome claim they don't know how they got it. They usually also have a ton of malicious plugins in all browsers.

  23. Re:Easy to achieve on Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware · · Score: 1

    So, they crawled as IE potentially and indexed the malware a lot better, lol.

  24. Re:Oooh gravity experiment on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Here you go, you stupid, ignorant troll hiding behind anonymity: science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/24/2031211/quantum-experiment-shows-effect-before-cause
    science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/04/010223/quantum-measurements-leave-schrdingers-cat-alive "Physicists have managed to probe a delicate quantum state without destroying it – the equivalent of taking a peek at Schrodinger's metaphorical cat without killing it. The result should make it easier to handle systems such as quantum computers that exploit the exotic properties of the quantum world."

    So don't forget to shut the fuck up.

  25. Re:I know what it's for. on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 0

    Well don't leave out massive privacy invasions like nonstop tracking of everything you see and everywhere you go.