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  1. gender minority? on Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches · · Score: 1

    Gender minority? Since there's 2 genders and the minority is very slightly men (49/51-ish) that would be minority not minorities. Also nobody considers it one.
    Anyway, do they have an inline word-destroying filter like some awful 90's filter instead of a point system with an all or nothing blocker? What cheap ass software suite are they even running?
    Although, uncompressed and unencrypted plain text in patch file that contain vulgar words is a bit dumb on the developers' part. They shouldn't have allowed something like that to go out because it damn sure wasn't on accident.

  2. morons on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So they're being too eco-friendly with the bus rides? Or everyone's jealous about the benefits? Or public transportation isn't crowded enough? I don't get it but I have the sneaking suspicion that these people are morons.

  3. Re:too bad it's HP on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I wasn't saying Windows 7 magically fixes HP's crappy hardware, I was saying it's a shame the worst hardware manufacturer is the one to bring back Windows 7. Since I and every intelligent person would never buy an HP computer under any circumstances, this is a complete non-story and a complete shame. ASUS, MSI, Samsung, Toshiba, and Sony all need to bring back Windows 7 completely on all models. They're the top 5 in reliability. Luckily #1 in reliability vs initial purchase price, Toshiba, has almost any Intel-based laptop with a Windows 7 option.

  4. I don't remember the constitution saying anyone's protected for being so stupid as to bring a wearable video recording device into a theater. What an idiot. He needs to leave fantasy land and come back to reality ASAP.

  5. too bad it's HP on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    So someone brought back Windows 7 and it just happens to be the one with the lowest quality laptops with the highest failure rate since numbers were kept. They also are in the bottom 3 worst rated support quality. So to me, this is absolutely nothing. By the way, if you want a computer that doesn't suck, my shop has sold about 20 toshiba laptops from Toshiba Direct. They still have some systems with Windows 7 Home Premium that are built at the factory to order for around $400 with free shipping. They're quite nice too and fully featured. Why is there no "Toshiba brings back Windows 7" headline? Because they never actually stopped shipping it in the first place.

  6. Re:link to video? on Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except that you can see it clearly start at high energy level on the spectrograph then drop in energy level to lower wavelengths of light closer to red like a mega-hot star quickly burning out. I thought that was fascinating and obvious proof that it's ball lightning.

  7. the real reason on The Whole Story Behind Low AP CS Exam Stats · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Almost no colleges offer credit for taking AP tests regardless of score so high schoolers have absolutely no reason whatsoever to take those tests. You can either study for just your real final exams that actually go into your grades or you can add in an even harder test that benefits you in no way. Hmm, tough one. Oh and they typically charge money to take the tests as well.

  8. idiotic on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 1

    "tests set by the scientists were not the kinds of problems where quantum computers offered any advantage over classical types"
    My cell phone isn't very good at editing 1080p videos or hosting Exchange 2013 and my toaster isn't good at cooking eggs either. The headline should read "quantum computer not good at calculations they weren't designed to do." What a useless story.

  9. welcome to nothing on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 1

    So it's a mix of bullshit and nothing. Fake oversight with "input" and everything stays the same.

  10. apples to oranges to pineapples on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    ...and there are 6 Android devices for every 1 mobile Apple device as of late 2013. So what? They're not computers and there's crossover.

  11. holy fucking nut balls on Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did not see this coming. I'm CIO and for the last 2 years I've warned the bosses about the problem @ about 95% XP and so far in those 2 years we've replaced negative 2. We added 2 seats and replaced zero lol. Every 100 days (the pattern I developed) they kicked it to the next period. Time to spend the $20 we do have in the IT budget to get a cake tomorrow and I'll announce it to the bosses!
    But seriously, our shared and internet surfer and PoS computers are just fine with a socket 775 HT Pentium chip and 2GB of RAM. Why pull them just for XP?

  12. Here's the problem on Khosla, Romm Fire Back At '60 Minutes' Cleantech Exposé · · Score: 1

    Journalism != let's make a story about _______, go find evidence to support it. Journalism = let's find out what's actually going on with _____ and report about it.

  13. everyone's on the same page here on Oracle Seeking Community Feedback on Java 8 EE Plans · · Score: 1

    Don't make a Java web plugin with it. That's everyone everywhere's advice.

  14. idiotic on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 1

    Indian = someone living in India regardless of genetic. $50,000 is good = economic scale statement based on average income in the country. Total racism = 0.

  15. just a reminder on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Prior to around 2-3 years ago in Wisconsin, the only people that could carry concealed guns were retired police officers. Thankfully now just about anyone can have one so they can defend the public against retired police officers.

  16. is it that hard? on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the year like 3000 BC. What the hell? Give the customer what they want and they'll buy it. I think the Greeks knew that. Hell, let's back it up because I bet Sumerian shop owners knew that. Get rid of that awful interface and release Windows 7 with some fancy new modern features that work. Stop mentioning "Xbox" on corporate desktops, get rid of the mobile-y app store garbage, and give people a normal computer that works like a computer.

  17. Re:Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain he's being sarcastic but at the same time clueless since they do catch viruses constantly from 3rd party plugin-based attacks.

  18. not showing up? Really? on Security Experts Call For Boycott of RSA Conference In NSA Protest · · Score: 1

    No way, go there and freaking trash the place. Go all "occupy" on them or plan silly string attacks or flash mob protests in the middle of presentations. THAT would send them more of a message than slightly lower than average attendance.

  19. really?! on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Hmm, contractors lie about it and do a crap job and the government lies about it and does a crap job. That's what my simulation of a Japanese nuclear meltdown resulted in.

  20. wrong on China Tops Europe In R&D Intensity · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually it's called stealing and stealing since that's all they do. They just hack and steal and reverse engineer and clone everyone else's tech.

  21. can someone explain this? on Stellar Trio Could Put Einstein's Theory of Gravity To the Test · · Score: 1

    The article suggests that E=MC^2 does not solely mean antimatter and matter collide and tada you get energy or that a hadron collide can convert energy into matter. They claim that mass that is moving contains energy and thus generates more mass/gravity. I certainly don't remember learning THAT in school. I know if you're heavy and moving fast, more time will occur throughout the mass but they didn't say gravity would increase. Then they refer to "self gravitation" as in the object pulling in on itself as in the expected gravitational field of anything with mass larger than a singularity, which IS inline with normal physics. Can anyone verify that they're actually correct on that other point or is it as nonsensical as it sounds?

  22. not fair on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    I wish I could have just written "Dark Matter" as the answer every time my math homework didn't add up to the correct number due to math errors. Obviously nobody knows precisely how much the Earth weighs...or the entire universe. In fact, how are they counting stars' mass from 10 million light years away by viewing 10 million year out of date light from it? And how are they counting mass that's already inside black holes from a not so viewer friendly distance away? Dark Matter is a myth.

  23. Re:Nonsense on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. Big, scary wind chill numbers go away when you factor in the thermal conductivity vs surface area vs actual temperature difference of the inside and outside of my winter jacket. The wind chill effectively becomes closer to 1 degree difference from real temps. In other words, it's not really -50 and people should just put a good jacket on.

  24. Re: 'If you're under 40, you've not seen this stuf on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    It was also approximately the same temperature and wind speed the day after 5 days ago in my area. They must mean 40 metric years or space years or ant years or something.

  25. Re:The plural of vortex is vortices on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    According to dictionary.com, both are correct, but I'm not buying it!