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  1. Re:Free market! on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    This problem didn't exist back in the dial-up days.

    AHAHAHA you mean back when the telco charged you 4x as much for a "data" line as they did for your daughter's second phone line?

  2. Please explain your Constitutional justification.

  3. Re:Soon to be hacked on Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically · · Score: 1

    Or just steal someone else's chip. Less fishy than driving around in an "invisible" car.

  4. Re:While... on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    which would have been equally attacked had the environmentalist movement been around when they were invented.

    Unfortunately the movement wasn't, so now we taxpayers get to pay for fixing it.

  5. Re:Real Time Protocol on Lenovo Building Manufacturing Plant in North Carolina · · Score: 2
  6. Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen... on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes sense to me. After all, if you want to send a message to the FBI you use 4chan, therefore it's entirely reasonable that if you want to talk to the CIA, you use Something Awful.

  7. Re:Just pay for proper spectrum already! on LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE · · Score: 1

    What frequency are you going to talk to the drones on?

  8. Re:Suicide happens, on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because just about everyone thinks suicide is evil, selfish, wrong, etc. Unless you're a pedophile, then do everyone a favor and go shoot yourself.

  9. Re:Umm, I don't get it on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    as long as there is a reasonable amount of time between advocating lawless action and its implementation, it's fully legal.

    So as long as I schedule mobs a week in advance, the law's cool with that?

    I suspect that the legal term "imminent" doesn't mean what most human beings think it means. Sort of like how the meaning of "expectation of privacy" and pretty much every other term that gets bandied about has little to do with what you'll find if you look those words up in a dictionary.

  10. Re:My sentiments exactly... on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 2

    "Normal" difficulty seemed like Easy Mode

    Yeah, that seems to be about right. I can't even imagine what Casual mode must be like. I started my first character on Normal, got through a few dungeons, hit level 12 and realized I had never invested a single skill point. I was still playing an outlander with the original one point in that throwing skill, doing just fine. On top of that, everything short of boss battles couldn't even injure my pet. I'd watch my ferret run around, on fire, taking hits from all sorts of skeletons or whatever, and not even see a pixel of black in his bar.

    I'm thinking of just writing off the 2-3 hours I put in and starting over on Veteran, because honestly on Normal you really can just stand there and mash one button through all of the normal battles, or just not mash any buttons and let the pet take care of it (though it would take a while, pet damage output seems really low compared to defense, and both the pet and the enemy AI has ADD when it comes to attacking each other).

  11. Re:Ignorant Agricultural Question on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 1

    Why can't farmers just heavily irrigate their fields?

    That's what rain is supposed to do.

    Don't we have the tech to get it where we need it to be?

    We have the technology, we can build it. For billions and billions of dollars.

  12. Re:misleading headline on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 1

    So basically, there's going to be a reduced supply that will cause prices to increase until demand is reduced to match. Got it. No shortage, it's just a shortage.

  13. Re:2 million second exposure? on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not saying it can't be done, only that this seems a bit off.

    It would have been longer but the guy with the finger on the shutter button had a sudden nose itch, and well, you know how it goes.

  14. Re:"How did he know I'm gay?" on Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters · · Score: 1

    Remember, you have a choice not to support private business intrusion, you don't have a choice not to support government intrusion.

    The government didn't ask you, they asked the private businesses you supported.

  15. Re:Why ban? on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    It's not like these light bulbs contain toxic substances that require careful disposal, or expensive clean-up - should they break, by the public at large. Something like that, I could see perhaps regulating the market a little bit, for public safety and overall health and well-being.

    Spoken like someone who played light sabers with the kitchen florescents as a kid.

  16. Re:Cue the hippies on Accelerator Driven Treatment of Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Now, now, they don't just let coal ash scatter to the wind, they keep it in big ponds in your living room.

  17. Re:by comparison on Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . · · Score: 2

    Gizmodo has it:

    The best feature may be its price which is surprisingly low. Each [mobiUS] unit costs $7,495 which is slightly less than GE's mobile ultrasound machine, the GE Vscan which costs $7,900. And now after eight months of regulatory testing, the mobiUS is finally available for purchase.

  18. Re:USA is sitting on top of a natural gas goldmine on Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout · · Score: 1

    The exact number is 5,800 cubic feet of natural gas

    . You seem to have a decimal WAY off, though, that's only 43387 gallons.

  19. Re:It's a practicality issue on Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout · · Score: 1

    Really, it's just a price issue. There are plenty of people that don't want or need to drive long distances with 4 adults and their stuff 90-95% of the time.

    The problem is that they don't want to spend a ton of money on a car, either.

  20. Re:Lovely. on How Internet Data Centers Waste Power · · Score: 2

    That's ok, in my experience with just about all forms of shared hosting, you can't get a Porsche either, you just end up with the equivalent of a Yugo.

  21. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. on Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 · · Score: 1

    It seems to work fine for us.

    As far as switching, Etckeeper can integrate with package managers to commit configuration changes automatically when a package is installed or upgraded, but other than that, it's probably doing whatever you're already doing with cvs. You can read more about it here.

  22. Re:Actually it is a problem on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    I'm not the one who thinks data travels in cars

    As opposed to tubes? It's called an analogy, something that someone whose strongest arguments are calling people idiots and declaring that things are so because they say so may want to learn about.

    The extra weight of a second person in the car causes it to burn more gas to travel the same distance. The driver currently pays more by buying more gasoline, which is analogous to wireless users buying more bandwidth. On top of buying more bandwidth to cover whatever "extra usage" you imagine, you are arguing that wireless users should pay extra for having a second device. Why should wireless users pay extra per unit bandwidth on top of buying more bandwidth and drivers not pay extra per unit gasoline on top of buying more gasoline?

    putting more devices on a network doesn't use more bandwidth.

    So you are claiming that reading slashdot from my laptop uses more bandwidth than reading slashdot on my phone? I assume this is so because you say so?

  23. Re:That's nothing; think how they store the passwo on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Or possibly they've been trimming the password all along, ala unix-style 8-character crypt.

  24. Re:reading comprehension? on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine having to re-analyze everything. I want to touch type, so I'm expected to review the keyboard layout before typing?

    Except that according to this study, should the keyboard layout be changed, you'll insist that it really IS spelled qxmvbx.

  25. Re:Maybe it was random on The Man Who Hacked the Bank of France · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty big number to have been chosen by a fair dice roll