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  1. Re:My PC (Personal Cooler) on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    I have four bowls or loaf pans in the freezer so I can daisy chain big ice blocks into the giant stainless steel bowl.

    My feet sting and burn from Type II, and even with good sugar control, when the temp gets > 75, life becomes miserable.

  2. Ideally on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Ideally buy your own house with an air conditioner that's overrated for your square footage.

    Then you can laugh at 65 degrees when it's 105 out. It may cost some power but you can do it.

    Sadly I am currently in a POS apartment with a BS air conditioner. Today it was 102 outside and 82 inside with it running full blast. I tracked down the outrageous heat, and it was coming from the plate glass of the sliding doorwall of the balcony. It was almost too hot to touch, basically becoming a 40 square foot surface heater.

    Tomorrow I'm gonna slap the white side of my bedcover against it to reflect, then my comforter against that for insulation, and hope I can keep it mid 70s, the minimum required for comfort with a fan on me.

  3. Yeah! on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure some aren't cheating, but he cash market is going to inhale cheating and full-blown bots like never before.

    So..."But **I'm** not cheating!" I think a scene is appropriate here.

    Agent: Here are your things Mr. powers. One crushed velvet suit. One Tom Jones album. One Swedish penis pump.

    Austin: That's not mine.

    Agent: One credit card receipt for Swedish penis pump, signed "Austin 'Danger' Powers".

    Austin: I'm telling you, baby, that's not mine.

    Agent: One Swedish penis pump warranty card, filled out and signed by Austin Powers.

    Austin: I don't even know what this stuff is. This type of thing ain't my bag, baby.

    Agent: One book, "Swedish-made Penis Enlarger Pumps And Me: This Type Of Thing Is My Bag, Baby( by Austin Powers".

  4. 'splain this to me on Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the ruling. Does the government have to get a court order or not, and if not, why the hell not?

    Do you clods in the prosecutors office not realize the larger historical context of why We The People did not authorize government to intrude without court orders?

    It's nice to fancy we are perfecting ourselves as a democracy and that such fears are old-school (see also arguments in favor of gun control) but history offers no such assurance. We prefer to not let the tools of tyrrany germinate.

    If you dig a huge, mysterious lizard tail out of the ice in Antarctica, don't put in a warm room next to a furnace.

  5. Nice on Used Software Can Be Sold, Says EU Court of Justice · · Score: 1

    First of all, I thouht software licensing was CYA defense against product liability and fitness-for-purpose laws. You got no sale, you got no problems with warrantees.

    Second, wonderful. Now software companies will abandon support for old versions even faster. Just what we need -- cheapskates buying old copies driving industry.

    Ummm...thanks, government?

  6. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well assume they can reverse-flush it on a regular basis and that it won't collapse that way, either.

  7. Re:Know this! on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    And, like a number of Hollywood famous, went on to successfully run for office as a mayor.

  8. Before we puff him too hard... on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    Well.

    Was he responsible for hiring Michael Keaton who, you young'uns don't realize, not having lived through this terrifying time, was comedic actor Beetlejuice. The horrors that arose as we feared a return to that very campy 60's. I don't know if fan outrage changed things but...

    Was he responsible for the zookeeper parade of characters after the first, oriented around a billion dollars of toy sales, the same BS which brought us Jar-Jar?

    And the 1960's Catwomen were way better, too.

  9. Re:How about... on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 3

    Also how about virtual machines for testing for all those, with all known display sizes as easy-to-configure test options and atomatic generation of binaries for each version.

    My phone is 9 months old, and has Android 2.3. It came with 2.2. It hasn't auto-upgraded yet.

  10. I don't wanna know what was before that. on ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program · · Score: 1

    > ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program

    The article continues:

    "The 'Digital Archery' program had itself replaced the earlier and even less popular 'Digital Ball Cupping' Program."

  11. Enough with the testing. on Human Stem Cell Transplants Successfully Reversed Diabetes In Mice · · Score: 1

    > Human Stem Cell Transplants Successfully Reversed Diabetes In Mice

    BRING IT, BITCH!

  12. Re:And... on Full Upgrades To Windows 8 Only From Windows 7? · · Score: 1

    Well, I have Windows 7 and have no desire to upgrade. Eventually I'll get a new computer and be forced, I suppose, but I don't want to.

    Who'd have thought old-school Windows would be the cool thing people don't wanna give up?

  13. Re:It *should* be part of the marketing on Google On-shores Manufacturing of the Nexus Q · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Keeping jobs on American soil. There's a phone for that."

    It's not about that. They needed not only a hardware reference model for third party manufacturers, but, having trouble with takers, like Microsoft, forced one into existance at the consumer level to show it was viable. As the goal is to convince Samsung and friends to make them, making them in the more-expensive US is simply a non-threatening gesture. Should a third party pick up the ball, easy to take market control via price advantage.

  14. Re:Van Art on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw the art.

    Screw the tech.

    Put a bed in the back.

    Screw.

  15. Re:C'mon on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    Hard to deal with? You presume to suggest the level of science in 100 to 300 years?

    Puhleeze. Imagine some idiots 100 years ago seeking to hobble the economy based on global warming fears. Would you be better off today with tech that was 20 years behind where it acually is?

    Hell no you wouldn't. You'd be effectively murdering tens of millions of people who won't be saved by the more advanced tech.

    100 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt worried about the coming "timber crisis". It seeme at the rate the burgeoning railroads were replacing rotting ties, they'd soon consume all lumber production.

    Then someone invented creosote. Thank god he was stuffed.

    Counterintuitively, we can indeed rely on solutions hat will keep us well ahead of any downsided.

    Meanwhile, a quick look at the world, or at history, shows that hindering free enterprise, for any reason, leads to degraded life and rates of invention.

    I typed this on my "mobile look-at device", which wouldn't exist were government planners and limiters in place he past 50 years.

  16. Re:C'mon on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    Hard to deal with? You presume to suggest the level of science in 100 to 300 years?

    Puhleeze. Imagine some idiots 100 years ago seeking to hobble the economy based on global warming fears. Would you be better off today with tech that was 20 years behind where it acually is?

    Hell no you wouldn't. You'd be effectively murdering tens of millions of people who won't be saved by the more advanced tech.

    100 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt worried about he coming

  17. Re:Scare quotes? on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry, sex with a broken condom that she thinks is intact and he knows isn't isn't rape . It may be reckless endangerment of a sort for both pregnancy and disease.

    But it isn't rape, and calling it such does a disservice to actual rape victims.

  18. Re:Hopefully... on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Even the OP, having already qualified it with "alleged", then put quotes around it, inexplicably.

    And all that is more about legally covering one's ass than some misguided attempt to play "neutral reporter".

    There's just one real question here as far as the US is concerned: Did he pay someone to leak the info?

    If so, he has a problem. If not, he has nothing to worry about.

  19. Ummm...no on Guild Wars 2 Release Date Announced · · Score: 0

    He writes, "Here's what would have gone through your mind if you were a monster in my way..."

    No. Here's what: "Why am I so weak, slow, and stupid? Why do I attack once per 10 seconds? Why am I attacking a guy with metal armor who stuck out his tongue but holds a wiffle bat when there's this naked guy who holds a flamethrower right there burning me? And why did I put a lizard gizzard in my pocker?"

  20. No foresight! on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: 0

    > carbon-14 spike in Japan in the year 775 suddenly appeared two weeks ago

    Lemme guess: Earthquake --> tsunami --> meltdown --> time portal dumping radiation "somewhere"

    Jackasses! >:-(

  21. And on Silicon Valley Values Shift To Customersploitation · · Score: 1

    So they win by offering products people flock to?

    This is bad because...?

  22. Re:Gimme some Tay-Tay! on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    "Eugene, whose butt is bigger? Kim Kardashian's or Selena Gomez'?"

    > "Trick question. Selena Gomez' butt is Justin Bieber."

    "Damn. This kid is good."

  23. Gimme some Tay-Tay! on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    > Eugene Goostman, a chatbot imbued with the personality of a 13-year-old-boy

    "Eugene, what's at 4chan?"

    Assuming the bot can figure it out, no way in hell would it answer as a 13 year old.

  24. Re:Best way to watch TV on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? · · Score: 2

    Looking at it...1/3 of the time.

    Game on one monitor (currently Tera), surf on the other (yeah,'I know, only two monitors is pathetic) and big screen TV behind them against the wall.

    Truth be told, the second, surfing monitor is often playing fullscreen TV.

    ATTENTION GAME MAKERS!!! Make sure fullscreen on one monitor is functional while it is technically backgrounded when surfing on the other monitor.

    ATTENTION VIDEO SITES AND FLASHPLAYER!!! Make sure you can run fullscreen on one monitor while technically backgrounded and a game is foreground on the other monitor.

  25. Re:So that's what was in those syringes... on Injected Proteins Protect Mice From Lethal Radiation Dose · · Score: 1

    So now we're allowing info from sci-fi shows besides Star Trek? Why wasn't I informed?