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  1. Re:Yes but... on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's the "-1, Bad Pun" mod when you need it? :-)

  2. Isn't AZ too hot? Do you really want a data center where the temperature quite often approaches 110 degrees?

    Las Vegas isn't much cooler than Phoenix (maybe 10 degrees most of the time), yet Switch is doing booming business here with datacenters popping up all over town. The temperature outside hasn't been much of an impediment for them.

  3. Re:Solved on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    a package values more than a life?!?!?

    A thief's life is of no value to me, or to society in general. If anything, a thief imposes a negative value on society: he contributes nothing useful, but takes what he wants from those who have earned what they have.

  4. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    They're nowhere near as common on this side of the border. This article explains why:

    https://infogalactic.com/info/United_States_two-dollar_bill

  5. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    What else do you call a two dollar bill?

    Rare, because you rarely come across them.

  6. Re:wifi jamming on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    you are charged based on the downloaded amount

    Are you sure of that? Last time I flew Southwest (just weeks ago), it was $8 per device per day, with no cap, though it's slow enough that you're not going to download huge amounts of data anyway.

  7. Re:HP Envy x360 15 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I won't buy a laptop *without* a number pad.

    How often do you actually use the keypad, and is it worth the annoyance of having the entire keyboard shifted to the left? You can also forget about anything with a 13- or 14-inch screen if you insist on a built-in keypad.

    For the few occasions where I might need to enter lots of numeric data, there are USB keypads.

  8. Re:same as it ever was on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    To be fair the machines with soldered on RAM are often that way because they already have the maximum that the chipset supports.

    The thinnest notebooks out there use soldered-on RAM more than likely because sockets would make them thicker. It's not just Apple that's following this approach, either; I have a Dell Latitude 7370 that's fixed at 8 GB RAM. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of other "ultrabook" models took the same approach.

    (Apparently the entire bottom panel is still removable with some screws, and the SSD is an M.2 (?) unit that can be replaced with something of larger capacity. Nobody's figured out a sufficiently low-profile method for accomodating RAM upgrades, though.)

  9. Re:It's OVH on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're paying less than $20/mo for a VPS, you're shafted.

    I'm paying less than $20 per quarter (actual rate is €15.12 IIRC) for Gentoo running on Xen. emerge -auND --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world works the same on it as it does on my desktop at home.

  10. Re:teeny little screens on Netflix Finally Gets Download Option (netflix.com) · · Score: 2

    The point on a mobile device is pretty dubious, actually. Who in the world would like to watch a move on the tiny little screen?

    When it's hanging off the seat in front of you, the average cellphone or tablet screen is big enough. Pop it into an Airhook and it'll just about be at eyeball height. I caught up on a couple of shows that way flying home this past weekend.

  11. Where do you live and for what are you shopping that the average new car costs $33k? The midsize crossover I'm driving now was $27k four years ago, and I think the only options it doesn't have are AWD and leather (and it doesn't have those because we didn't want them). That's the most I've ever spent on a car, and my wife and I were making about $120k-ish between us at the time.

  12. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...and yet it was the Democrat Party that gave us the brain donor currently occupying the Resolute Desk. How do you explain that?

  13. Re:As an older programmer... on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    nobody wants to supervise someone with more experience than they have.

    My sister's first job out of college was at a public university in the southwest where she hoped to pick up her master's while she worked. Her boss didn't have a degree, and set out to make her life miserable. Skip forward just a few months...mission accomplished. :-P

  14. Re:Wikileaks = terrorism on Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack (dyn.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as people shooting others, get rid of guns as much as possible and the number of shootings and deaths as well as crime in general will go down drastically.

    Like it did in Australia? Oh, wait.

    GFY, you gun-grabbing fascist.

  15. It's weird. I remember when a sitting president was sued for sexual assault, and at the time Democrats didn't seem to find the allegations credible. Nor the rape allegations. Well, I'm sure they had their reasons beyond just, you know, rank hypocrisy.

    If Democrats didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all. :-P

  16. Has it now gotten to the point where I am more likely to be lynched for being like Hugh Hefner than Bruce Jenner?

    The way they're going, you're more likely to be lynched for continuing to refer to Bruce Jenner by the name his parents gave him at birth.

    Of course, the bastards will then come after me for this post because IDGAF about Bruce's delusions...or theirs.

  17. But with all that Trump has said or promoted, I've not seen yet where he came out to promote the agenda that is against equality in matters of gender and race.

    You haven't seen him say it because he hasn't said it. The extreme-left noise machine has thrown out all of these...um...trumped-up charges, and their stenographers in the "mainstream" media have reliably parroted it far and wide.

  18. Re:I've come to dread these events... on Report: Apple To Unveil New Macs At An October 27th Event In Cupertino (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Woot recently had the Latitude 7370 available, starting under $600 for a refurb. Near as I can tell, it's the same basic design as the XPS 13, but with Win10 Pro instead of Home and some more business-oriented features. (On closer examination, it also looks like it has a second Thunderbolt port instead of a second USB port.) I've not gotten around to installing Linux on it yet, but once secure boot was switched off, it ran SystemRescueCD and the latest Gentoo LiveDVD from a USB stick without any issues. Nice little machine. It's small enough that you can use it on a plane even if you're not in first class or an exit row...most other notebooks are so large that either the screen will be at an uncomfortable viewing angle or the front edge will be poking you in the chest. Already took a look at the manual. Except for RAM (soldered on), everything's upgradable once you unscrew the bottom cover. Mine has a 128GB M.2 SSD; if anything's a candidate for an upgrade, that is, especially if I'm going to have it dual-boot.

  19. And I'm sure there's some FAA regulation about littering on the runway from an open hatch on a fucking 737.

    "FOD is bad...m'kay?"
    -- if Mr. Mackey were a maintainer, not a counselor

  20. Re:Seriously...music off YouTube...? on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, when I was about 12yrs, I went into a high end audio shop at the time, and heard my first pair of Klipschorns hooked to a McIntosh tube amp...and was hooked.

    When I was 12, I was doing well enough just to hit "record" on the boombox when BBC Radio 1 started playing something I wanted to keep.

    (Two years later: substitute "AFN Kaiserslautern" for "BBC Radio 1," but since they were both on AM, audio quality on either of them would've been dismal by modern standards.)

  21. Re:Liberals and their insults on Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Eight successful years as Secretary of State.

    Chris Stevens was not available for comment.

    What has Trump ever done that benefited the American people?

    Created who knows how many jobs, which puts money in the hands of those who earned it. People like Trump sign the fronts of checks. People like Hillary have only ever signed the backs of checks.

  22. Re:Pretty cool on Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In California, it's almost $50 a month for a 380W server.

    Your server most likely isn't pulling 380W 24/7 unless it's running on an ancient power hog like a Pentium 4 and/or has a shit-ton more disks than usual. Mine uses an AMD A4-3300 and has four hard drives (a Seagate Barracuda LP, two WD Greens, and one 5400-rpm WD Blue...10.5 TB total) for media storage. I haven't measured it lately, but I would be surprised if it pulled as much as 100W at idle (CPU idle, drives still spinning). Even at full tilt, the CPU's only going to add another 60-65W at most.

  23. Re:Pretty cool on Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That ties up your phone while it's playing video, though. I bring a Chromecast with me, pre-configured for the travel router I also bring. Plug it in, connect the router to the local WiFi, fire up Plex, get access to everything I have at home. A 5-port USB charger runs everything off of one outlet (though the Chromecast can often steal power from the TV) and can still charge my phone and tablet.

  24. Re:Not sure you have a lot of options? on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    If you do a fresh install of Windows 7 these days? The update process is PAINFUL! You'll literally need to leave the PC downloading updates for a good 8-10 hours or more before it finally starts doing anything obvious.

    That's why you slipstream updates into your installation image. Slipstreaming the various post-SP1 patch rollups as they're released will slash your installation time significantly, and there are only a relative handful of them at this point.

    The only thing slipstreaming doesn't cover is updates to the .NET Framework. For whatever reason, they're not provided in a compatible format, but only as installer .exes. RT Seven Lite, however, will create an image that will run these installers (or others) in a post-Win7-installation step. It also facilitates slipstreaming the other updates, so it's useful to have on hand.

  25. Re:Are you smarter than a Trump supporter? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What I don't understand is why Clinton supporters always resort to insults.

    It's all they have. They can't run on her record or her predecessor's record, they have to know their policy prescriptions stink on ice and would be about as popular with the public as pralines-and-dick ice cream...so out come the insults.