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  1. You extrapolating a statement about the nature of video output (my emulator runs on digital video) into some kind of knock on hobbyists? Gimme a goddamn break! I friggin' own a C64 and several Z80 machines, so don't assume you know anything about me. I just happen to also run emulators out of convenience (I'm not going to wire up my old TS to a CRT just so I can take a look at something in fuzzy) Thanks for proving the Asshole Theory of the Internet! Blow me, dickhead.

  2. Re: But is it reaslistic? on Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague · · Score: 1

    ISIS should infect some of their bravest with MSRA and then infiltrate the US, where they would spontaneously start grappling with random people on the streets, thus causing a staph epidemic. But yeah, they probably want to avoid ancient diseases that modern medicine has been able to treat.

  3. Graphics look plenty crisp on my C64 emulator. Need to check out a console emulator or two (my old C64 got as much play as a console)

  4. Re:Everything old is new again. on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 1

    Maybe we'll see a return of Bernoulli Boxes :)

  5. Re:Why not just use hard drives and then store... on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 2

    As the summary says, discs are also waterproof and can deal with greater temperature swings. They'd also be cheaper, even at the bulk HDD rate that FB would pay.

  6. Re:Tory - Brian Dunkleman on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    To this day I keep getting Tory and Kari mixed up when they talk about them. I hate to say it, but I'll be glad to see Male Tory go.

  7. Windows is vulnerable! on Researchers Hack Gmail With 92 Percent Success Rate · · Score: 1

    If I install a debugger on it, I can read passwords!!!!!

  8. He's no Hank Scorpio on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Now *that* guy means something to this world!

  9. More Shadows, less Psi's on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    Seasons 1-4....awesome. Season 5...not so much. The movies...didn't even watch them.

  10. Re:"Anything more than a runtime and a language" on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Libraries.

  11. Re:Yep. on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    "Why the popular press loves to breathlessly report on recent journal articles as "fact" only confuses the matter." I take it you don't believe that a 13 year old girl will revolutionize battery power with her science fair project?

  12. Would have already happened on Peter Hoddie Talks About His Internet of Things Construction Kit (Video) · · Score: 1

    If Bill Budge had gotten around to finishing Construction Set Construction Set. Oh, well.

  13. Re:As Flammable as Steel Wool? on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't be, which is one of the reasons that crackheads like to use Chore Boy for filters.

  14. July in Atlanta...HA! on Bad "Buss Duct" Causes Week-long Closure of 5,000 Employee Federal Complex · · Score: 2

    I worked for a company in the 2009 time frame where the AC went out regularly in the summer months in Houston. I came in after a stay in the hospital to an office that was 95 degrees. July anywhere on the Gulf Coast can be bad, but in August/September, it's even worse.

  15. Re:Why call them "engineers"? on How Stanford Engineers Created a Fictitious Compression For HBO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wasn't even aware that programmers in Cali could even legally call themselves "engineers". I worked for a company out of college HQed in California, and I was told coming in that we used the term "Programmer/Analyst" because California required "engineers" to have a true engineering degree (with the requisite certifications et al)

  16. Any UPB folks alive? on Led By Nest, 'Thread' Might Be Most Promising IoT Initiative Yet · · Score: 1

    I use UPB (kinda like X10 v2). It's still wired, but every device serves as a repeater, so signal strength shouldn't be an issue. It's pretty easy to program (I had an app turning lights on and off in about an hour).

  17. That supercomputer on How a Supercomputer Beat the Scrap Heap and Lived On To Retire In Africa · · Score: 1

    sounds like it needs to be riding into the sunset with Lorenzo Lamas, duster valiantly flapping in the wind.

  18. How to you know it's there, Kramer? on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    "Well, I just assumed!"

  19. Only a matter of time on Sand-Based Anode Triples Lithium-Ion Battery Performance · · Score: 1

    They'd already tried several different materials - meat...fowl...crawdads. But when there was no crawdads, they tried sand. "They tried sand" you ask. They tried sand.

  20. Re:dwarf fortress on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 1

    I first heard about it this morning on this site. Holy crap! I'm tempted to try it but am almost afraid to try it.

  21. Re:Lovelace? on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 2

    That's deep, man.

  22. It's "The Fifth Sense"... on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this sounds like that ep of Always Sunny where Dolph Lundgren is the voice of a dog that can smell crime, and then it wound up being a giant nose on Dolph Lundgren's body. (Doctor) Dolph Lundgren could smell the crime before it even happened, though.

  23. I dub thee on Programming On a Piano Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Loom#

  24. Good game to try on Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? · · Score: 1

    How about a Core War simulator? It's essentially writing a very, very simple operating system, so it's easier than a full OS or compiler-level project, it's graphical, so it's got visual feedback, is a game, so it's fun, has TONS of "unit tests" in the form of 30 years of programs.

  25. Re:I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    Or black holes suck in matter, hold onto part of it for more mass, and shoot the other part out along its poles as radiation.