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  1. It's a swamp cooler. Big deal. on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    So it's 3D printed. I'm not seeing how it's superior to any previous evaporative cooling approach.

    There is an outfit I've read about that uses evaporation in adjacent tubes to produce a stream of cool, DRY air that you can send into a building. You can find them on YouTube if you search for "Coolerado".

    -jcr

  2. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 2

    Why are they still shipping the same CPU core that was in the iPhone 2G?

    Probably because they're selling it for $35. Get over yourself.

    -jcr

  3. Bitch should be disbarred. on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 0

    Her contempt for our right to privacy makes her morally unfit to practice law in the United States.

    -jcr

  4. Re:You nerds need to get over yourselves on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 1

    I don't have to be a great human being to be better than you, snowflake.

    -jcr

  5. Not covered by the WaPo or the NYT? on Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' · · Score: 1

    The guy must have something to hold over the heads of some media bigshots. I can't see any other reason why the two top Democratic party media properties would pass on giving the Republicans a black eye like this.

    -jcr

  6. Re:Ken Thompson on C++ on Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize · · Score: 1

    C++ wasn't designed, it was accreted.

    -jcr

  7. Well, there's another bullshit award, then. on Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize · · Score: 3, Insightful

    C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.

    -jcr

  8. Re:And ... on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 1

    Something of value was lost, but it was lost a couple of years ago.

    -jcr

  9. Re:Wait a minute on SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's terrible. They should pour it on PETA members.

    -jcr

  10. Re:Nevada on Elon Musk Plans To Build Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on learning to type. Now, go away and work on coming up with something worth saying.

    -jcr

  11. Re:"plenty of flat land to go around on Elon Musk Plans To Build Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1, Insightful

    where exactly would a five mile test loop do some good?

    Anywhere it's built, since the purpose of a TEST LOOP is to develop the technology.

    Did you really not know this?

    -jcr

  12. I know he's popular and all... on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 0

    But sometimes I think Frankie da Pope should just go shit in the woods.

    -jcr

  13. Abolish them both. on FBI Access To NSA Surveillance Data Expands In Recent Years · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The FBI and the NSA routinely commit felonies by the billions.

    When an entire organization violates the oath of office that all of its employees must swear to, it can't be fixed.

    -jcr

  14. Fuck that noise. on Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Hey, let's put tags on all the kids and make them think it's normal for government officials to know where they are at all times! What could possibly go wrong?"

    -jcr

  15. Re:Stop trying to win this politically on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    Oops, forgot to add:

    talk to someone that wins. Talk to Bill Clinton.

    Bubba torpedoed Hillary's last campaign. He's not a winner anymore.

    -jcr

  16. Re:Stop trying to win this politically on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 0

    he blew it by thinking that attacking guns in the middle of a presidential election was a good idea.

    I'd say that Bubba blew that election for him, frankly. After the Clinton regime, Bush was able to play "Mr. Clean", and Al didn't dare denounce Bubba the Slut for fear of pissing off the Democrats.

    -jcr

  17. Be careful what you wish for. on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 1

    Federal regulation of the internet? What could possibly go wrong?

    The problem of the Comcasts and the TWCs of the world can be solved by abolishing government-granted cable monopolies. "Net neutrality" is a misguided attempt at trying to make a right out of two wrongs.

    -jcr

  18. There is no such thing as a "lie detector". on European Researchers Develop More Accurate Full-Body Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Polygraphs are voodoo.

    -jcr

  19. Re:Neville Chamberlin was not available for commen on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    he increased military spending significantly.

    The parliament increased spending. The prime minister doesn't have the power to decide how taxes are spent.

    -jcr

  20. Neville Chamberlin was not available for comment. on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Seems to me that complying with the demands of a dictatorship is an ill-advised policy.

    -jcr

  21. Re:Sounds like they should ban the cabbies on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's what they would do if they had a functioning police department or legal system in France, but they haven't had that for many years. You might remember that they had a plague of thugs setting cars on fire a year or so ago, and the cops didn't even try to arrest any of them.

    -jcr

  22. Fuck them. on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 2

    Uber exists because cabs suck.

    Customers aren't property. If cabbies want fares, they should start behaving like it.

    -jcr

  23. Re:Despicable Greenpeace on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 0

    trying to save the earth from the likes of BP, which is the motive that drives Greenpeace.

    You're what's known in marketing circles as a sucker.

    -jcr

  24. That has always been the case. on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    Greenpeace is not, and has NEVER been an environmental organization. From the very beginning, they have been a marketing organization abusing the public's sympathy to environmental concerns to suck up contributions that would otherwise have gone to people doing real work to improve the environment.

    If you care about pollution, deforestation, preserving wildlife, etc, contribute to Ducks Unlimited, the Nature Conservancy, the Audubon Society, and your local environmental organizations.

    -jcr

  25. Watch it with the broad brush there.. on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    At the most, some dozen people or so were involved in this latest Greenpeace vandalism stunt, and you're using that to blame tens of millions of people. There have been obnoxious people in every generation since mankind evolved, and they have always been vastly outnumbered by decent people.

    -jcr