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  1. Re:As a Patriots fan... on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the NFL provides the balls to the team. The team is then allowed to prepare the balls ( ie scuff them up ) the way they like.

    BTW MLB lets players bring their own bats.

  2. Re:You mean, ensures detection on Self-Destructing Virus Kills Off PCs · · Score: 1

    The Linux TestDisk utility will scan your hd and make an attempt to repair your HD.

    Most people I know, when they see the missing MBR call a techie friend.

  3. Re:Snowball effect on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    Or Coherent by mark WIlliams? Or did that predate Linux?

  4. The main branch of the Seatle public library? on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1

    Does the Seatle public library offer free WiFi without a login?
    If so then I would bet a lot of people go there to activate Windows illegally, to avoid getting caught.
    If not then a Starbucks in the urban center.

    In any case I am curious exactly what it is.

  5. Ellen Pao --Death of Silicon Valley on How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule · · Score: 0

    There is one reason that Silicon Valley will not survive.

    The PC/SJW crowd is targeting high tech. now. I can see eventually a case like Ellen Pao where a bad choice of some San Fransisco jury is going to a company in a case that is not even good enough to be borderline.

    At that point several startups and established tech firms are going to realize that it is safer to have their facilities in Topeka or Toledo or Peoria etc than it is in the second liberal armpit of America.

    You'll get less antagonistic juries and even when guilty won't see such large judgements.

  6. Good! Show us the results! on NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since ther days of Apollo NASA's principle task has been the exploration of space and the development of means to travel to space. After Apollo, it's capabilities have been degrading more and more till now the US has to pay Russia to put our stuff on their "trampolines".

    TIme to take away their climate toys until they get their primary mission right.

  7. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    After reading many many inane comments in this particular thread, my mind comes up with only one thing to say:
    She may have a point, but Lena has two.

  8. Re:You need to research that? on Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? · · Score: 1

    It's harder to riot when you have a job.

  9. Re:You need to research that? on Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? · · Score: 1

    Well it's their own fault for voting for a guy who draged us through the gutter for the last eight years.

    Enjoying your Obamaphones?

  10. Shoddy work by Ars. on Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials · · Score: 1

    The title of this story would have been better as Ars writes a poor researched story to bash Texas judge.

    hell the writer couldn't be bothered to find out the judge's first name or or the name of the fathe in the 'boy in the box' case.

    The remarks she made online were basically innoucous, and the judges she was sanctioned on were all probably from Austin.

  11. Re:Reason for not talking to people on Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials · · Score: 2

    It's partially that, it's partially that jurors are not supposed make up their mind till the end of the trial and talking to others tend to make you form opinions.

    A judge is expected to be more disciplined when receiving evidence. For example, in a bench trial a judge will hear all evidence including inadmissible evidence. After all it's not inadmissible until the judge rules it so. The judge is then supposed to be able to ignore the inadmissible evidence when reaching his decision.

    You are also wrong about the mistrial. The judge was remove mainly because of her remarks on the web site. A new judge ruled that changing judges in the middle was grounds for a mistrial. They then had a second trial where the man was acquitted.

    He was acquitted for many reason, the biggest is that it wasn't Harry Potter being kept in the cupboard under the stairs. The kid seems to have had mental problems and a tendency to violence. So the box was the best that his parents could do, and most of the time the door was open.

  12. Re:Guilty of violating the laws of physics on Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials · · Score: 1

    The actual box was 8'x6'x7'.
    Presumably 8'x6' is the floor size.

  13. Re:Twitter please on Texas Admonishes Judge For Posting Facebook Updates About Her Trials · · Score: 1

    You do realize that that is a "chamber of commerce" type website? That it is slow to update, and the law firms website is now down. Presumably it was put up before she became a judge.

  14. Re:Shit happens. on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does that include keeping Middle Easterners out?

  15. Re:c++ 14 eh? on GCC 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    So as someone who more used to C++98, is there something that will take me, not just to the constructs of C++14, but also to the style and idioms of C++14?

  16. Re:Legal Schmegal on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Until an appeals court rules otherwise. Hell, other courts don't even have to give credence to the precedent.

  17. Re:Catch 22 on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Actually I believe that it was observed in those experiments that chimps actually start to teach each other sign language.

  18. Posing for a selfie imitating Janeway... on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 1

    is like a female CEO posing for a selfie as Carlie Fiorina.

  19. Re:Epic? on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 0

    Not when it's a character from Voyager.

  20. Re:I had this 24 years ago with GO and EO on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 1

    Until Microsoft decided to go after GO and cut off their airsupply with Pen for Windows.

  21. Re:TGIF on Scientists Close To Solving the Mystery of Where Dogs Came From · · Score: 1

    They don't need to figure out how to get into space, because they know we will take them along.

  22. I waste a ton of time ... on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    trying to correct bad impressions that my mother gets from this guy.

    I mentioned it to my internist and he told me most doctors he knows consider him a quack.

    Amazing how some people will sell their soul for money and television appearances.

  23. Accepting a story from Florian Meuller? on Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cause that is about the only person who was praising Microsoft Open Tech when it started.

    Microsoft has a long way to convince me that they are committed to OSS. So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..

  24. I thought... on Google Helps Homeless Street Vendors Get Paid By Cashless Consumers · · Score: 1

    Google was supposed to "Do No Evil".

  25. Kate Upton on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind if the agent doing the pat down was Kate Upton.