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  1. Re:Must've been the "Beef Jerky Lobby" on High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Can Lead To Cognitive Decline · · Score: 1

    And you can put enough Sriracha on it that it jerks itself...

  2. Re:Unhealthy food is tasty. Healthy food is boring on High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Can Lead To Cognitive Decline · · Score: 1

    Buy the book Flour Water Salt Yeast and make your own.

    It is easy and tastes better than anything you can get at a store. (but maybe not if you live near a real bakery)

    Oh, and it is geeky fun... Stoichiometry, cooking by weight not volume, temps, growing yeast cultures in your spare time!

    I spend about 2 to 2.5 hrs a week to make enough bread for a week, most of which I do while on conference/support calls.

  3. Re:It is no longer a "free" WiFi project on Google Takes Over NYC's Free WiFi Project · · Score: 1

    All your base belong to us!

  4. Re:Wrong question. on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    I use CrashPlan to a FreeBSD machine running the server instance. Every machine in the house does near full back ups to that. They dump an image of C: drive to the same server via NAS once a week.

    Critical files get backed up to CrashPlan Central.

    This combo has saved my ass a number of times, allowing me to restore files quickly locally and even pull them down from the web when I am remote.

  5. Re:Always backup your data to a different machine! on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, the whole article came off as "Look how stupid I am even though I am supposed be writing about IT."

  6. Re:Hey Assholes on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Thermonuclear chess?

  7. Re:Windows XP? on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 2

    2008 IBM was banned from bidding on government contracts with the EPA, and it took until last year before we started seeing significant contracts come back in.

    One of which was to do Application Rationalization for SPAWAR, funny enough.

    http://www.federalnewsradio.co...

  8. Re:Hey Assholes on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the only way to win is to not play the game.

  9. Re:A more accurate summary might be: on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I could say a lot about what happened at SPAWAR and why it is going the way it is going but I can't.

    I might say that there was no technical reason and it was all just internal politics, but I could not say that either.

  10. Re:Coincidence? on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    A poll of polls?

  11. "Dewey Defeats Truman"

    We are just on the other side of that equation now. Landlines have become rare enough again that they skew results.

  12. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come on guys, everyone knows the CCTVs are really there for CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN

  13. Re:Yes! on Droning For Sharks · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are going to need a bigger drone.

  14. Re:Germany should start on Germany Abandons Investigation Into NSA Spying on Chancellor Merkel · · Score: 1

    Putin.

    Pfft.

    Andropov, now HE was a KGB officer.

  15. Re:Germany should start on Germany Abandons Investigation Into NSA Spying on Chancellor Merkel · · Score: 1

    Here, let me explain why no one will sell them oil in Euros:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  16. Re:Lack of evidence? on Germany Abandons Investigation Into NSA Spying on Chancellor Merkel · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they just bought the information from the Chinese.
    They have all our spy information now anyway, probably cheaper and definitely more reliable.

  17. Basically on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a Clippy Key?

  18. Re:Black nail polish? on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 5, Funny

    The emaciated boyfriends could be a plus, less likely to pull a muscle while dragging the body to the trunk.

  19. That they found on the ground in the parking lot.

    "I wonder what is on this?" - Famous last words.

  20. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    You have your rose colored glasses on if you think reviews and the like were more honest in the past.

    You are just getting lied to in more forms than in the past.

  21. Re:Fluidics was very big some 25 years ago on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the bikes in your area, but my BMW has a cat converter just like any car, and the emissions are just as clean.

    I get 55 to 65 mph off the freeways, 45 to 50 on the freeways.

    Gravel can be an issue, mainly because drivers drag it from the shoulder onto the road because they can't stay on the road. Having a dual sport with ABS, ASC and tires made for road and off road means I can generally ignore gravel that would send a streetbike spinning.

    As for being able to beat them on the road... it is not a race. Slow down. YMMV

  22. Re:Fluidics was very big some 25 years ago on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    I know. Dangerous with all of you driving around with no idea what is going on around you.

    Or hunting us down and running us over.

  23. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Well done?

  24. Re:Math on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    SIN() and COS()

  25. Re:Fluidics was very big some 25 years ago on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    Motorcycle

    Porche performance, Prius gas milage.