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  1. Re:Irreversible? on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1

    My post never suggested an answer is 'presently' available...

  2. Re:Does it self-update to 64-bit? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    Now I'm running Chrome version 37.0.2062.94 m. Is this the 64 bit version?

    The 64-bit version says "64-bit" in parenthesis after the version number.

    If you just updated your 32-bit version, it's likely that you will stay in the 32-bit channel.

    Thanks, to you and the above AC. Guess I'll update it again.

  3. Re:Irreversible? on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1
    Touche', Sir. Unless...,

    I unmount it and throw it to the ground. Or, insult it. :*)

  4. Re:Does it self-update to 64-bit? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    Question: In Chrome, I just clicked on the triple bars to the right of the search bar, clicked on 'About Google Chrome', and updated from there. Now I'm running Chrome version 37.0.2062.94 m. Is this the 64 bit version?

  5. Irreversible? on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 3, Interesting
    --- “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

    Shel Silverstein

    The 'impossible' is just something that hasn't been done yet.

  6. Re:Flip the switch on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    Hang on. I'll find out.

    Computer, end program....

    Nope.

    You first need to get the 'arch' to show itself. ;^)

  7. Re:What next on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so let's say experiment confirms that we live in holographic universe. And then what?

    Apple will instantly begin legal proceedings against God for copyright infringement.

  8. Re:End Program. on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    Siri, end program.

    "Sorry, I didn't get that."

    "Did you say, "Delete program"?"

    "No Siri! Do NOT DELETE PROGRAM!!"

    "Thank you. You will be deleted from the hologram."

    "NO-O-ooo...."

  9. Re: Does gas go bad? on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1
    Yes it does go bad, gets sludgy, then clogs fuel filters. It's best to run seasonal equipment dry before storing. More information on gas fresh here...

    http://blog.gasbuddy.com/posts...

  10. Re:Predicted casualties / damage 70+ injured on Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages · · Score: 2
    http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

    A long, rolling temblor pegged at 6.0 by the U.S. Geological Survey shook a wide swath of the Bay Area awake early Sunday, causing damage to buildings and sending at least 70 people to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

    Centered about nine miles south of wine country's Napa at 3:20 a.m., the quake was felt as far south as Santa Cruz and into Sonoma County. It was the largest earthquake to strike the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta temblor of 1989, the USGS said.

    A little more than two hours after the quake, a shallow magnitude 3.6 tremor was reported by the USGS. The aftershock occurred at 5:47 a.m. at a depth of 5.0 miles.

    Residents reported power outages in Napa and beyond, and fire departments in several counties, along with the California Highway Patrol, were on the lookout for damage to bridges. There were reports of gas leaks, downed power lines and at least one fire. Pictures flooding in from Twitter show damage within homes.

    Napa County Fire Department confirms they are swamped with calls, including reports of injuries. It is unclear how severe the injuries are because units are still responding.

    A spokeswoman at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa said most of its injured 70 patients had cuts, bumps and bruises. Many are being treated and released, but some have been admitted.

    According to PG&E, more than 42,000 customers are without power across the northern Bay Area, including American Canyon, Napa, Saint Helena, Santa Rosa and Sonoma, according to an outage map.

  11. Re:Casual Vs Hardcore on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 0

    Today it is 5"+ screens in mobile, use a 7" or 10"+ tablet, the game has changed, deny it all you wish to, the game has changed. Pc's are less and less relevant. Wait another year, gameplay is moving away from PCs, shifting to mobile devices I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news for you.

  12. Re:They're not gamers. on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    If you are a game developer, you are missing out on an untapped market. Women deal with true, real life concerning issues. To not include women in your target audience could well mean you are missing the real target. The men will follow...

  13. Time to relocate? on Western US Drought Has Made Earth's Crust Rise · · Score: 1
    The Earth is in a constant flux of change and evolving. Not exactly new news. How the human animal will adapt to these ever constant changes will be the 'news'.

    Earthquakes and volcanoes erupting are a constant in the Earth's progression. Our impact on the enviornment is what is actually changing the game. Are we impacting (at least temporarily) the weather that we rely upon? Are we intelligent enough to create solutions to the problems we have/are creating?

    The real question is, can we survive ourselves?

  14. Re:Casual Vs Hardcore on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    Mobile gaming is progressing, and encroaching into the PC game turf, due to the better bluetooth enabled controllers that are available today, plus the increased sophistication of the games being created for mobile devices. PC gaming may have seen it's time in the Sun. A new generation is maturing, and it is a 'mobile' one.

  15. Re:They're not gamers. on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1
    Back in the day of early video games, women did not play the 'shooter' type games that were offered then (Asteroids, Missile Defense, etc.). It wasn't until Ms. Pac Man came out that women had a game that appealed to them.

    Ms. Pac Man evoked an idea in women that, (A) it was non-violent, and (B) it had a tied story to the game play. The cut-scenes in Ms. Pac Man were something to aspire to getting to.

    Cut to today's modern games. There's more diversity in gameplay, more emotional involvement, more reason to 'care' about the involved characters. So there is much more reason for the female mind to 'want' to play modern games. This makes sense to me. Women's brains are more in touch with the 'human' side of life. So it doesn't surprise me to hear studies showing that there are more women engaiging in modern gaming.

    Of course, the risk is the female populace will join in to the males who have 'disconnected' themselves from 'real life', opting for a secure, safe place to go to when real life becomes too much for them to handle.

  16. Re:How dare you infidels spy on Islam? on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 1

    You gotta start somewhere, with some people....

  17. Re:"Fan favorites"? on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kari was indeed 'eye candy' for the male audience, that's not to be underestimated in the TV ratings game. She also pulled her weight when it came to creating/assembling some of the mythbuster's creations. She is a lovely mix of beauty and intelligence, and that's not a force not to be underestimated. Her loyalty to the show goes a long way, and her life acts seem to show a deeper persona. With TV, you need to have to strike a certain balance twixt the nerdy type and the everyperson. Time and fate will tell where each person goes from this parting of the ways. This trio of castoffs might just end up with their own version of Mythbusters, or singly prove their own mettle. Time will tell the tale.....

  18. Re:How dare you infidels spy on Islam? on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 1

    I wish Peace, to you, fellow traveler. :^)

  19. Re:How dare you infidels spy on Islam? on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 1

    It has to do with Obama having more respect for Islam than he does for Americans, you fucking Obama shill.

    I've learned to smell out an obnoxious troll post on /. Try to make it into the political. If you had a real argument, you would have presented one. Ta ta...

  20. Re:How dare you infidels spy on Islam? on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 0

    Nice try. Your link goes to a Saturday Night Live Robert Smigal cartoon that has nothing to do with the discussion at hand here.

  21. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1
    Laws do need to be enacted to protect an entity that protect that entities investment in a project that has some form of value. Whether or not we agree that a movie the caliber of 'Fast and Furious 6' has value or not is not being debated, though personally I have my own viewpoint.

    If uploading someone else's work of 'art' means that they were financially deprived, the person putting the 'artwork' out in the public, available for free internet downloads, should be held financially responsible. That's the only way it would be possible to come close to 'justice' for the aggrieved party.

    Community service is all well and good, and a lesser form of punishment. However, the injured party has not in any way been made 'whole' by the offender performing community service.

  22. What is Justice? on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1
    When we speak of justice as a virtue, we are usually referring to a trait of individuals, even if we conceive the justice of individuals as having some (grounding) reference to social justice. But Rawls and others regard justice as “the first virtue of social institutions” (1971, p. 3), so “justice as a virtue” is actually ambiguous as between individual and social applications. This essay will reflect and explore that ambiguity, though the principal focus will understandably be on the justice of individuals.

    However, even the idea of individual justice seems ambiguous in regard to scope. Plato in the Republic treats justice as an overarching virtue of individuals (and of societies), meaning that almost every issue he (or we) would regard as ethical comes in under the notion of justice (dikaosoune). But in modern usages justice covers only part of individual morality, and we don't readily think of someone as unjust if they lie or neglect their children--other epithets more readily spring to mind. What individual justice most naturally refers to are moral issues having to do with goods or property. It is, we say, unjust for someone to steal from people or not to give them what he owes them, and it is also unjust if someone called upon to distribute something good (or bad or both) among members of a group uses an arbitrary or unjustified basis for making the distribution (this last aspect of individual justice obviously has reference to social or at least group justice). Discussion of justice as an individual virtue standardly (at least) centers on questions, therefore, about property and other distributable goods.

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entr...

  23. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    You want justice? Ha ha ha. Keep on wanting. That's a rare thing in this life. The best we can hope for is some measure of punishment. But to expect it to happen, much less expect justice, is a fools errand.

  24. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And what benefit does jail time give the public? Jail time for non-violent offenders is the stupidest, most useless thing we could do with these people. There are all sorts of public services that are in dire need of manpower. A shit ton of community service as a punishment is far far far more useful than just incarcerating people. I find it astonishing how primitive and archaic peoples' thinking is when it comes to punishments for crimes. Just like we don't spank kids anymore because it's pointless and counterproductive, we should also stop "spanking" non-violent offenders but put them to good use instead.

    Agreed, though this sentence is meant to dissuade other would be uploaders from copyright infringement. That is the point of the sentence, for others to think twice before uploading. Much like not all tax evaders in the U.S. are caught, the IRS will make an example of high profile celebrities.

  25. Re:moth balls on Scientists Developing Remote-Control Cyborg Moths · · Score: 1

    ya, but moth balls will always bring them down.

    Not to mention patio lights.