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  1. Not gonna lie... on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    Totally thought this was pony related until I read it.

  2. Re:Q.E.D. on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 1

    psh. My TV has an ethernet port and streams from my PC.

    Psssh. My Tv has an HDMI port and is actually my computer monitor.

  3. Re:AT&T does suck. on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    I'm on TMO and I got the same message. No link. No extra info. So don't feel too bad about that. What you should be concerned about is the fact that you got this message a whole 14 hours after I did. I got mine VIA sms @ 8am.

    My bad. I got it at 8am on the 6th. Not the 5th.

  4. AT&T does suck. on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    I'm on TMO and I got the same message. No link. No extra info. So don't feel too bad about that. What you should be concerned about is the fact that you got this message a whole 14 hours after I did. I got mine VIA sms @ 8am.

  5. Re:Waste of weight on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 1

    The dried whale meat would still be less of a waste of stowage.

  6. Re:Wireshark on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    My intent was to only poke holes in your "anybody" statement. I completely agree with the rest of your argument. To say that capturing someones search data, without great resources and skill at your disposal, would be simple or easy is a very naive claim.

  7. Re:Wireshark on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Actually, Law enforcement and the FBI are groups within the population of the world as a whole. Anybody could literally be anyone on the planet with a chance that somebody at random is a member of law enforcement or FBI. So while 'Anybody does indeed encompass some guy sitting in a basement... it just as easily encompasses someone in law enforcement or the FBI.

  8. Great but.... on Saturn's Tidal Tugs Energize Enceladus' Icy Plumes · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with the price of water on mars?

  9. Re:Its NOT smartphones. on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    As a "normal user" leaning toward linux noob, I'd have to agree. Gnome 3 brought with it no inherent problems for me. In fact, at the time I encountered it, it was shortly after upgrading to mint 12 and, frankly, I didn't even know they had upgraded to Gnome 3. It was only after stumbling across an article online, more of a rant really, that I discovered that some people were having serious issues with 3.

  10. Re:No, still pretty invulnerable... on OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine For Viewing, Distributing Porn · · Score: 1

    No product is totally invulnerable. But it's a simple fact that an OSX user can go a long, long time before ever seeing a virus or malware.

    A user can go along time without seeing virus and malware in OSX because OSX holds 7.18% of the market as opposed to Windows 7 and XP at a combined total of 81%.

    If I were to write malicious code with the intent to prey on the gullible and make quick money which OS would I target?

  11. Re:I guess those Space Nutters were right on Spacewalk Aborted When Water Fills Astronaut's Helmet · · Score: 1

    Italian perspiration. 'Nuf said.

  12. Re:looks like copy paste fail on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 3, Informative

    Malice doesn't have to be directed. If I plant a bomb in an attempt to blow up 20 people I don't know, that is malice. If I attempt to shoot my ex girlfriend with a rifle, that is also malice. Malice is just the intent to cause harm whether its personal or not.

  13. Re:Tag all guns and owner on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    +1 I agree whole heatedly. That person is a poo-poo head.

  14. I plan to spam the fuck out of this making it entirely useless for its intended purpose.

  15. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    and how much energy does a industrial pump run on?

    They actually make artifical pumps to get you by while your wating for a replacement or if you can't find one, they can be perminant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart

    and are they self repairing?

    No, but you don't have to wait around for weeks with a failing heart while they look for a suitable heart donor.

  16. yeah... on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Got to admit... This isn't a big deal for me. IE is just terrible and no amount of Microsoft patching will fix that and Chome always tries to push sync on me when I have no intent of using and it's really rather pushy about it.

    Firefox works. It's stable. It let's me know about it's sync feature. It doesn't beat me over the head with it constantly. These are the reasons I, and probably a great majority of people, use Firefox.

  17. I'm sorry... what? on Beware the Internet · · Score: 1

    By his logic we should repeal all of the following:

    Planes: Because they can be flown in from other countries and used to drop bombs on us.

    Cars: Because people in other countries load them with explosives and turn them into mobile bombs and that could happen here.

    etc...

    Almost everything made for the betterment of mankind can be used for the exact opposite purpose with little to no ingenuity.

  18. Android X86 on Android On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    'nuf said.

  19. Re:Which is the most counterproductive act of all. on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 4, Informative

    Carriers generally are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier. The Nimitz class carriers are the largest US carrier to date http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/nimitz/. They displace somewhere around 70,000 long tons of water. They carry 82 aircraft, not to mention fuel, missiles, other ordinance. Even with all that they still have room for 6000 personnel. Take out the planes and ordinance you could probably cram 7000+ people in a Nimitz. The average number of employees a company has is roughly 16 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/279843.html. If we assume that every company on this aircraft carrier employed 100 individuals then there would be room for 700 companies. So yes, he most likely worked for a dozen companies on that one carrier alone.

  20. Re:Which is the most counterproductive act of all. on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1
    we you obviously haven't met me. I try and explain things to people in a reasonable fashion. I express my options about the configuration and types of software my managers want to push on all the employees. After doing both said things I sit back and wait for the proverbial shit to hit the fan. When it does, I step in and neatly fix the mess without so much as an "I told you so".

    However, when they come to me as if it is my fault Google has decided to change their email format and all the call center people are fuming at me like it's my fault, I promptly put them in their place by reminding them that it was never my idea to use Google as our company mail provider because some manager was too fucking cheap to pay licensing on an exchange server or what have you.

    Then I go back to my desk and them chew on what I said for a while. or not. Either way I don't care. Hell I don't even care enough to be condescending. It takes to much energy. Energy I need to put people in their place when they try to pin things that aren't my fault on me.

  21. Re:Shocking... on Video Gamers See the World Differently · · Score: 1

    In addition, I guess it depends on what game you play and whether you're stupid enough to think that that shit works IRL.

  22. Re:Shocking... on Video Gamers See the World Differently · · Score: 1

    I don't agree. I'm an avid gamer and I'm fully aware that COD tactics do not work IRL. Disregarding the fact that I have military training, when I play air-soft with the guys, we base all our tactics on Rainbow 6, a game where two shots to the leg with a pistol take you out of the game.

  23. Re:No, it's not. on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Vista was a decent OS and Win 7 wouldn't have even developed without using Vista as a stepping stone. However, the Vista migration that I stated was implemented roughly 3 months after Vista hit the shelves. The systems were loaded with an over abundance of RAM (6GB I recall) and needed every MB of it to run anywhere near as well as an XP machine with 2GB of RAM. Back when I assisted with the migration you couldn't even get Vista to run on a system with less than 2GB of RAM and a decent dual core processor. In stark contrast I was able to install Win 7 on a laptop with a 1.6GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. The installation actually ran well if not pretty. Correct me if i'm wrong but Vista still need at least 4GB of RAM to run properly.

  24. Re:No, it's not. on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Actually you'd be surprised what some of these larger companies do. Take Gallo for instance. I had a temp job with them where I took brand new out of the box windows vista machines, hooked 20 at a time to 5 KVM stations and proceeded to PXE clone an already setup machine they had to every one of them. Point being, every time I unboxed a new Vista machine and set it on the table my opinion of Gallo Winery slipped ever farther south because most companies knew better than to jump on the vista bandwagon.

  25. Re:Good model?!? on Genetic Switches Behind 'Love' Identified In Prairie Voles · · Score: 4, Funny

    The voles' pair bonding, sharing of parental roles and egalitarian nest building in couples makes them a good model for understanding the biology of monogamy and mating in humans

    A good model for ideal human behavior, sure, but actual behavior?!? One wonders if the researchers have met any actual human couples.

    Of course they haven't met actually human couples. They're researchers.