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  1. Re:$100,000? on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    I could see him taking out 100k in servers if he hit the rack at the right angle. Even lower end Servers can easily cost 5k per U. And I bet a bullet could go through most or all of a 40U rack.

  2. I consider myself a radical athiest... on Nuns Donate Their Brains to Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But seriously guys, you are going way, way out there in this nun hate.

  3. He makes a false assertion. on Collage, and the Challenge of "Deniability" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The false assertion is that because gmail and other email can be fully encrypted that the CCCP/"surveillance state of choice" will have no information upon which to demand information. This is false as long as gmail and others track IP addresses, and they do for data-mining and advertising purposes.

  4. Re:Its not just the internet on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    I thought the point of tying the tubes was so that you COULD connect anything to them?

  5. Re:Why has no one taken this thread seriously... on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    I agree this is something that could be handled with a few rolls of color coded sticky tape, a dorky 15 minute training video and a reference card for each nurse.

  6. Re:The 10-year-rule on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    I actually liked true lies. Its a silly little action flick with a bit of comedy on the side. Its pretty good if you don't take it seriously.

  7. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    I prefer to call it Blue Pocahontas: Dances with flying lizards.

  8. Re:Voluptuous woman falls over heavy chest on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know, I kinda miss the days when my spam folder would be filled with messages that end in a quixotic paragraph that resembles nonsensical poetry.

  9. Re:Richest? on Richest Planetary System Discovered With 7 Planets · · Score: 1

    Are they not already called dwarf planets.

    Just like our sun is a dwarf star.

  10. Re:Hemp eh? on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 1

    You are waiting for me? It doesn't take an entire planet for this conspiracy.

    It only took a powerful corporation with its fingers in the government pie to pay for inflammatory campaigns to take advantage of racial and puritan public opinion to remove a competing product from the market.

    Just look at the facts. You can google for them, or read the links provided above.

    Every ship in the world uses miles of hemp ropes because it was cheap, resistant to wear and safe for all weather use.
    Dupont creates nylon.
    Dupont pays for advertising that sows disinformation and demonizes hemp.
    Dupont influences government officials.
    1 year later, hemp is banned and every ship that wishes to dock in the US must buy miles of new rope, the only alternative material that meets wear and weatherproof requirements of the shipping industry is nylon.

  11. Thats a nice constitution you have there... on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    *cracks knuckles*

    It would be a shame if something were to happen to it...

  12. Re:AMD's stagnant? on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 1

    Not always the case. Intels on chip and motherboard integrated graphics are horrible.

    But ATI's HD 3300 motherboard integrated line of CPU's will actually run games up to about 2 years old fairly well.

    You will always be able to get better discrete GPU's, but it is no longer the case that integrated can not be used for gaming at all unless you need the latest and greatest.

  13. Re:Sweeeeet nectar on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    paying 1/3 as much for more than 1/3 the computing power is a viable strategy known as "value based judgment".

    At any given price point where there exists an AMD processor, there are few if any intel CPU's with equal or better performance.

    The i5 750 and i7 920 are among the very, very few intel chips that compete with AMD on value (performance / price).

  14. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 1

    He was referencing part of the non-nuclear option I mentioned for ending the war, thinking that it somehow supported his flawed idea that a blockade would have been possible and effective.

    Our only real option would have been to firebomb the cities to oblivion and then scour the islands with a million soldiers or more. From previous experience it as been known that the Japanese preferred to commit suicide or die fighting rather than surrender, even the women and children. Invading the main islands would have likely resulted in the death of the majority of the Japanese people.

  15. Re:Video card speed metaphors on The Misleading World of Atari 2600 Box Art · · Score: 1

    Is that any different than the buxom chick in a skin tight body suit and carrying a sword that is so common these days?

  16. Re:Hemp eh? on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shame really, a variety has useful fibers that are cheaper and just as durable as the newly invented nylon by Dupont. One year later, all hemp is banned. Don't kid yourself, hemp is illegal for monetary reasons, its use as a recreational drug was leveraged to make banning it all the more palpable to the American people.

  17. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 1

    Churchill, Stalin, Truman, Eisenhower, etc were all from my grandparents generation and were in power near that time.

    The first US president of my grandparents generation was JFK.

  18. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 1

    I am fully aware of the crap that has happened to the US. We are a theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveillance state. But not nearly as bad as Iran.

    Iran doesn't have millions of people in jail for non-violent "crimes" because people that deviate from the norm are executed instead of harassed or jailed.

    I utterly despise the perversion of government that has usurped control over the US, but I still greatly prefer it to the perversion of government that has usurped control over Iran. What makes you think I am not a persecuted minority?

  19. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 1

    Erecting a permanent military occupation of the sea surrounding Japan:

    A: does not end the war.

    B: is technically impossible.

    C: does not allow Japan to reform, rebuild and become one of the better nations on earth. Look at what happened when this same said tactic was used against North Korea. Its military dictatorship turned upon and subjugated its own people to slavery and starvation.

  20. Re:I sympathize but I think he'll lose. on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 1

    ON the other hand, if someone (someone all over the news and wanted for attempted hanging) walks into your rope store and says they need help selecting rope and tying nooses because he is having trouble hanging people to death, and you knowingly provide that rope and knotting skill, then you have also committed a crime of conspiracy to murder. aiding and abetting and possibly a few other crimes as well.

  21. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 2, Informative

    1: Again, it was our grandparents and great grandparents generation that did that.

    2: Dropping nukes on Japan was the more moral option for ending that war. Our other option was to firebomb every city and mount an invasion that would have killed tens of millions of Japanese instead of tens of thousands.

  22. Re:Law? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its not even that. Our great grandparents made a bonehead mistake 60 years ago by overthrowing Iran.

    The US has some shitty policy and has for a long time, but we are not as much of theocratic, totalitarian, oppressive, surveilance state as Iran is.

    We need to do way better than we are, but on no measure can I say that Iran has any moral superiority.

  23. Re:It gets sillier all the time. on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    If the earth emitted as much em radiation as the sun, we would be at least a few million degrees based on the difference in surface area.

  24. Re:What's the difference... on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    A lot of the matter at the center of a galaxy is in black holes, while present, that does not make it easily accessible. The most easily accessible matter is matter that has condensed, but doesn't have all that strong of a gravity well. I would assume that asteroids would be the best place for AI to grow.

  25. Re:Dual boot on Steam Not Coming To Linux · · Score: 0

    I would. I dual boot windows and linux. Windows is for gaming, linux is for every thing else. If steam came to linux with their top line games and a decent selection of independent titles (I would have assumed so because the rumor also stated that the toolkit used for publishing steam games was also being made cross platform), they could make thousands of dollars off of me that they are not right now (I do not have steam).