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  1. Re:You didn't notice the problem? on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I was SUPER weird to see the Fox reported hesitate and fumble around actually saying Syed Rizwan Farook's name. He even "placed responsibility of publishing this" on some newspaper...and then talked about how many people who are descendants of recent immigrants have more than three word names...Normally Fox is quite "grrr, Muslims BAD" but this time (at least this particular reporter) was quite reluctant to tie Islam to the attack. I guess I'm just used to O'Reilly Limbaugh, etc, making wild and unsubstantiated claims all the time...yet it was quite uncharacteristic of Fox News.

  2. Re:So we're not going to over-react this time, rig on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One of this countries first treaties was the Treaty of Tripoli. A little known fact is this states that it states that ""the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." If I had the $$$, I would personally pay for ads in newspapers and on billboards all across the country, especially in the "South" and near Evangelical churches, with Article 11. Possibly across the street from Huckabee's and Carson's house too. I even made a facebook page about it, with a list of the "Founding Fathers" that voted for it; but I can't really talk about it in public because I live in Oklahoma and don't want to get dragged out of my house and lynched.

  3. Re:Always ask on Disease Threatens 99% of the Banana Market (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "did it have sexual reproduction" they reproduce via immaculate conception via the grace of the Banana God.

  4. Re:More than that actually. The bananas are better on Disease Threatens 99% of the Banana Market (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "Cavendish has been cultivated for well over a century" perhaps the parent is comparing this to rice, which has been cultivated by man for over 10,000+ years. I have no idea what he means by "surviving a plane crash", since since bananas don't really have a survival rate once their off the tree...

  5. Too true, I had to use a screwdriver on my last Intel heatsink because the peg had popped and locked while still inside the retail box.

  6. Re:Well, stop requiring such high pressures on Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I think after 16 years "functional" is highly subjective lol. That's the Pentium III era, or the very first Athlons. Personally I wouldn't take a 16 year old laptop even if it was free...I have found far newer hardware dumpster diving.

  7. Re:Well, stop requiring such high pressures on Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    "unlocked" not "overclocked"...it has the potential to be overclocked. Per Intel's own page

  8. Re:Well, stop requiring such high pressures on Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The K's can be overclocked, they don't ship that way though. I just bought an I7-2600K retail, and it was the blue box and also included the standard Intel fan. Intel's page here describes what all their codes mean.

  9. Re:Well, stop requiring such high pressures on Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually they DO ship with them, but usually only with the "retail box" versions. The OEM versions are just a chip usually, but almost all the blue box retails have the chip in a plastic holder sitting on top of a fan. Personally I've never needed a third-party fan, but I also don't overclock my CPUs.

  10. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    "setting off a nuclear weapon would destroy the atmosphere " it actually would, giving a sufficiently powerful weapon lol. Starfish Prime was only 1.4 megatons and caused damage almost 900 miles away. It would probably take something far larger than even the Tsar bomb at 50MT, and is (hopefully) still outside our technical capabilities. But it IS possible...

  11. Re:saner summary. on IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out (ajc.com) · · Score: 2

    Seeing that this is all over the news, and Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has made multiple public statements about the firing, absolute proof in this specific incident shouldn't be too difficult.

  12. Re:cars are unsafe too on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1

    meh, it's not "do not understand" it's "understand but don't care". This is the Libertarians dream come true...capitalism with no government regs! Because we consumers will be able to just "blacklist" all these "bad actors" before anyone dies, and someone magically just know when they switch company names.

  13. Re:cars are unsafe too on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1

    All the Libertarians in my country think this is a bad idea. They really want to remove all these regulations and "let the market decide". I often wish there was a way to allow JUST them to do this, since it wouldn't take too long before they would all be dead from some faulty cheap stuff like this.

  14. mostly because physics doesn't work like that. You can't just add metal to an antenna; to get specific frequencies you have to have specific lengths. There's quite a bit of math that goes into antenna design...you can read up on it here if your interested. Modern antenna use fractal math to bend the required length into a tiny package.

  15. Re:I hate the name Orion on NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    One would think that we would do a better job now 53 years later. Using nuclear pulse to get into orbit is probably a bad idea, but as a system for exploration craft once beyond Earth there is nothing comparable. Safely and successfully getting the various dangerous materials actually into orbit first though...but a drive based around the ideas of Daedalus is what we need for manned exploration.

  16. And yet the acronym JBB is in widespread use..."Jew by birth". If your a convert you might not hear it, but the JBBs will be talking about it (and you) behind your back. I'm not being racist, that's just what my various Jewish JBB friends have admitted to. Their holy book might dictate no differential treatment, but it happens every day.

  17. And it's not like Google=the entire internet. Just because a single search engine and a single video site censors something doesn't stop publication of videos. They are only used the most at this moment...censor them and the Palestinians will quickly move on to some other sites. News orgs will get these videos from the newer, non-censored sites. This idea will be just as effective as the RIAA / MPAA and their DCMA requests in stopping piracy.

  18. Re:I hate the name Orion on NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, nuclear rocket engines are "banned" under the Partial Test Treaty. We really should have that tech exempted...China is free to build one though since they never signed it. Theoretically an exemption could be made for "peaceful purposes".

  19. Re:Delaware corporations pay taxes in other states on With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious about this...my corp IS the Pfizer help desk, it's one of our many clients. We've probably got a couple dozen people on that desk, and this office is in Oklahoma. It's a subcontract of course, and my corp also does the "tax dodge" crap too. I'll not say what giant corp it is exactly, but the clues are we just split off and our new logo is a hollow rectangle. Does this count as a footprint?

  20. John Dee on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    I first read about this when researching John Dee...red mercury was part of his alchemy work on the Philosopher's Stone. That was over 400 years ago, far older than the NYT's claims of "around the time of the Cold War".

  21. Re:Common pattern on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, it's really the idea chemical weapons require some complex master plan is vastly over-stated. One doesn't need a full lab to make WWI level chemicals, just a few ingredients many have in their house already.

  22. Re:We're at "holistic" on Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy (darkreading.com) · · Score: 1

    well, we've got Prism, which IRL is a triangular crystal...

  23. For several years now I've jokingly referred to myself as a "holistic IT troubleshooter", partially as a shout-out to Dirk Gently. Now I'll probably get a cease-and-desist letter from M$...

  24. Re:Ha this is how my company makes all it's money on Windows 3.1 Glitch Causes Problems At French Airport -- Wait, 3.1? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Normally, each system has it's own scheduled maintenance window. We've even waited a few minutes so an app crash could be considered in that window so we didn't have to log an outage ticket.

  25. LOL, not for an airline. We have racks of machines just running a single DB, blade servers for redundancy...this isn't some small business you buy off-the-shelf systems and stick it in a closet.