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  1. Re:the right thing on Cisco Looking To Make Things Right With West Virginia · · Score: 2

    It's best to check before correcting someone in public.

    Why? In case 'anonymous coward' does harm to his reputation?

  2. Re:Worth more than any car? on Cisco Looking To Make Things Right With West Virginia · · Score: 1

    what, tftp a second image to flash, select the boot, and reboot is too hard for you? Or are you talking about logging into CCO? CCO has screwed me many times. I've had 3 IDs, all deactivated because I'd move from a company where I was a user, to a reseller, then back to a user.

    Maybe he's talking about money?

  3. Re:They would make their own bullets on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    Tax on primers.

  4. Re:It's honestly slightly astonishing... on West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally · · Score: 1

    I am willing to bet that the redundant power supplies, that the spec. required, are both plugged into the same circuit, if not the same receptacle.

    They're probably on the same powerstrip bought from Staples or Walmart.

  5. Re:Just so I get this straight... on Pirate Bay Shifts Connections From Sweden To Ease Heat on Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    You have to realize that that political party has messed with one of the primal forces of nature.

  6. Re:No on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    From the perspective of a nationstate, it's own people are more valuable than people of another political group. Killing 100 enemies to save 1 of its own is preferable to killing 25 enemies if it takes 10 of its own people.

    Whether this is moral or good from an individual perspective is another debate. Although I should remind readers that if one can condemn a corporation for being a 'faceless, soulless monster with no self', the same can be said of governments.

  7. Re:No on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Patterns of Force was rough, but I don't know if any TOS was as heavy handed as Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

  8. Re:Maybe I'm missing something... on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    Now, I have to admit I don't know TOO much about Apple gadgets,

    Judging by 90% of the comments to any Apple story, that makes you the perfect person to take part in the discussion. In fact, it may be mandatory.

  9. Re:If you wanted to know about humans, on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    As someone who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, I'll happily confirm this. A lot of the state is pure redneck territory.

    Was it James Carville who said of Pennsylvania "Pittsburgh in the west, Philly in the east, and Kentucky in the middle"?

  10. Re:LG is not just Alive on LG Acquires WebOS Source Code and Patents From HP · · Score: 1

    ...and the Nexus 4 I believe has been [too] sold out since launch.

    I foresee that here will be quite some trouble when they finally release the Nexus-6...

    Damn, I could use a Pris model.

  11. Re:Cue the "Keith's owned by big oil!!" accusation on Study Suggests Generating Capacity of Wind Farms At Large Scales Overestimated · · Score: 2

    new-mexico-utility-agrees-to-purchase-solar-power-at-a-lower-price-than-coal

    Mexico doesn't have a Feinstein to wreck their solar build outs. For purposes of this discussion Mexico isn't in "the environment" either. It's just another destination for refugee industries evacuating the US.

    Mexico =/= New Mexico. NM has the exact same Feinstein as CA, given that she isn't a state legislator.

  12. Re:False Takedown Notice? on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 1

    A NASCAR spokesman has issued a clarification, saying that the takedown request was done out of respect for those injured.

    Wow. So doing things under false pretenses is now a legitimate form of showing respect to someone. I'll try to remember that, it might come in handy!

    What the heck, the usual sob sisters (and brothers) are doing it for Newtown, CT.

  13. Re: Nascar .. cha ching on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    while races attract all types,

    Yeah, and they like both types of music at the bars near NASCAR tracks: country and western.

  14. Re:Sound familiar? on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 1

    Don't know how it will play on home video, but I saw the latest Lawrence last fall in the theatre. Looked pretty damned good to me. They had some before any cleanup, after the cleanup ~20 years ago, and current cleanup comparisons. Was pretty impressive.

  15. Re:Pirate a pirate on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    It's hoist them with their own petard. A petard is a device similar to a hand grenade so the explosion could propel the bearer into the air if the bearer dropped it or the target threw it back at the original bearer.

    Old school rocket jumping. Got it.

  16. Re:Not what you think on Google Looks To Cut Funds To Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    Not sure, but I think this might be a troll.

  17. Re:Once free of microsoft on Halo Developer Bungie Reveals Destiny and Its Vision of MMO Gaming · · Score: 1

    Again, as I said. Get the facts before spewing shit.

    It seems you are new here...

  18. Re:Not in the present crop of browsers, tho on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    That's because the added information in the 3rd dimension is useful, but in a movie or a picture, I don't need to see what's behind the tree. I don't care.

    Actually, I think you've gotten it backwards. Imagine a murder mystery in 3D. People on the left side of the theater can see behind one person's back and "know" who the killer is much earlier than people in the center or right. Yet, people on the right side of the theater can see behind yet another person's back and "know" who the killer is much earlier than people in the center or left. Meanwhile, the people in the center may be just well left clueless if the end of the movie is left ambiguous.

    It doesn't matter, because communism was a red herring all along.

  19. Re:Where is Puerto Rico, USVI and others in this m on The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States · · Score: 1

    When I lived in Allegheny, Charles, or St. Mary's counties, you could call me a liberal. Now that I live in MoCo, I believe I'm a reactionary right winger by MD standards.

  20. Re:Anyone else feel small in the presence of natur on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: 1

    You may think of yourself as the cupcake, but some of us have an outsized ego.

  21. Re:Where is Puerto Rico, USVI and others in this m on The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States · · Score: 1

    Why should Maryland have to babysit the few square miles that is our national disgrace? No thanks. It's bad enough dealing with Baltimore. Let VA have it. Hell, we can make them a good deal on PG County as well.

  22. Re:Where is Puerto Rico, USVI and others in this m on The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States · · Score: 1

    Fuck you and fuck retrocession. We have enough trouble dealing with the modern shithole that is Baltimore, I'd be very pleased if my tax dollars didn't also have to subsidize DC.

  23. Re:Dog on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring? · · Score: 2

    And to be really honest, they're not much against a steady nerve and a hefty crowbar either.

    Dogs or headcrabs?

  24. Re:Impressive! on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 3, Interesting

    you sir, have summed up everything in a very eloquent manner. remember when /. was edited by people with a brain?

    Somebody worked on slashdot prior to CmdrTaco?

  25. Re:Lock them both up on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Just by existing the innocent one is providing a false alibi for the guilty one. A sufficiently creative prosecutor could make an obstruction charge out of that.

    Unfortunately, I wouldn't put it past some of our US prosecutors to try that one.

    The unfortunate thing isn't the prosecutors who try it, it's the judges who let them try it.