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  1. Re:Goodbye USPS on Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service · · Score: 1

    Actually when I bought a large entertainment unit through Walmarts ship to store it in fact had UPS Ground stickers on it. I was surprised since I had picked Walmart not because the item was any cheaper than at other stores but because everyone else was charging $150 for the same shipping method Walmart ended up using.

  2. Where are the consumer passive cards? on AMD Reveals Radeon Sky Series For Cloud Gaming, Previews Radeon HD 7990 · · Score: 1

    Why is it that the fastest AMD based passive cards are based on the 7770 and yet for the "cloud" market they've got the equivalent of 7950 available? My recent build used a 650ti with super quiet fans because there is no current generation passively cooled card capable of 1080p gaming.

  3. Re:Seriously? 6-3??? on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    No, because the US is a signatory to the Berne convention the author would still retain all rights, it's the same reason the GPL works, if you don't have an explicit license to the work you have no rights to the work at all since those rights are retained by the author.

  4. Re:Externalities Rule on Sewage Plants Struggle To Treat Fracking Wastewater · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or make them put it in deep injection wells like we do in Ohio, it's probably the ONLY part of Ohio's approach I agree with (does not apply in geologically active areas since it can set off earthquakes).

  5. Re:When will this apply to medicines? on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    legislators had a knee-jerk "for the kids" reaction

    It was hardly a knee-jerk reaction, if we had effective border control it would have been a very effective strategy. Meth is some seriously bad stuff, worse than Crack and about as bad as PCP but MUCH more common than PCP ever was.

  6. Re:If you want updates, buy Nexus on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 2

    T-Mobile offers a significant discount off-contract and most of the prepaid offerings with the same/similar services for significantly less money. There's also the MVNO's where you can get great deals, my wife's currently on Virgin mobile @$25/month for 300 voice minutes, 2.5GB of data and unlimited texting, we're looking at republic wireless @$19/month for unlimited everything but are waiting for them to get new phones this summer.

  7. Re:You'll be giving money to someone on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    Bryant preferred series 110,000 Btu 2 stage 95% efficient: About $1,725

    Bryant Preferred 80 115,000 Btu 374RAN oil furnace, 83.5% efficient: $1,779

    Same quality unit from the same manufacturer, same input BTU, MORE expensive for the oil and you have to add a fuel tank to the cost of the oil unit. He's simply wrong.

  8. Re:Energy Comparison on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Did you miss this page or something?

  9. Re:You'll be giving money to someone on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Oh, and the natural gas price includes delivery but the fuel oil price does not so the discrepancy is even larger.

  10. Re:You'll be giving money to someone on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 3, Informative

    so natural gas costs 30% more per BTU input than fuel oil.

    What planet do you live on?

    heating oil $4.058/gallon, 138,700 BTU/gallon = $29.26 per million BTU
    natural gas $ 0.55143 per hundred cubic feet (ccf), 102,000 BTU's per ccf = $5.41 per million BTU

  11. Re:6 teens killed in Ohio SUV crash on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Yep =)

  12. Re:6 teens killed in Ohio SUV crash on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sorry but going 27-29 after you exit a 55 highway down a short ramp is NOT reckless driving, that's what the majority of the tickets this system issued were for and it's a crock. I don't even live in the area and I think it's a pure revenue grab. We had a little village near here that did the same sort of thing, nailing people for doing 2 over on the highway, the state legislature finally shut them down by raising the number of residents required to operate a mayors court.

  13. Re:Internet connected on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    You can actually do this with serial cables, I know of one application where they attached a line printer via serial connection for totally secure logging.

  14. Re:Fucking sleazebags on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Uh, Office 2007 was basically a complete rewrite, there's some of the old code included to translate XLS binary format into native 2007 XLSX format, but other than that very little legacy code is left.

  15. Re:If you're in a place with lots of H1B on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 1

    Yes, I created this account well over a decade ago just to astroturf this article....
    Or, you know I could be someone who looks at facts and reality and not hype or hyperbole.

  16. Re:Terrible move by a dying entity on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 1

    IMAP works fine for that....

  17. Re:Terrible move by a dying entity on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes

  18. Re:ARM Processors on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    Intel holds an ARM license, they retained rights when they sold XScale to Marvell.

  19. Re: find another job? Wut?!?! on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 2

    IT unemployment is at 3.5%, for highly skilled workers (what H1B's are supposed to be) it's even lower. If you're begging for a job and making major concessions you're negotiating from a position of ignorance.

  20. Re:Youtube link on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    Still a pathetic 360p, I mean what idiot at Canon thought it would be a good idea to make a video showing off their new 1080p camera and upload it at 360p?!?!

  21. Re:No matter what it costs to build... on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed, putting PHI (which is what disabilities should be classified as) into a database open to corporate fishing is just asking for problems. It's not like this data is going to ever go away, so it's likely these children will have their disability brought up during an interview 20 years from now (or not, they'll likely just be dropped into the round file as not worth interviewing). I can't believe that the US doesn't have some type of data privacy law beyond HIPAA, I wonder what type of incident it will take before people will wake up and demand that this kind of idiocy is shut down?

  22. Re:Really? on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Texas bill is specifically in response to a hobbyist model plane with video camera catching this slaughterhouse polluting a Texas river. I find it infuriating that the response of a politician to a polluter being caught isn't to ask the local EPA to more tightly monitor likely offenders but to criminalize the act of reporting the pollution!

  23. Re:Problem is on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    If you don't build a new fighter for a generation there will be nobody left who knows how to build one. Heck sometimes it takes a lot less than a generation, the facility where the M1 is built was going to be shut down for a couple years between making the Abrams and the followon main battle tank, do they think those workers are going to just sit around without a paycheck waiting for the next contract? Wisely the Army is now going to pay them to rehab M1's coming back from Iraq, it keeps skilled workers employed and it gives us spares in case the followon program is delayed or cancelled. The cost to restart a main battle tank program from scratch would have been a hell of a lot more than the spare change they're spending on the rehab programs.

  24. Re:the drone will be flying straight and level on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    Why would the loss of GPS cause a drone to crash? The tomahawk is a drone that can fly 1,500+ miles without any satellite input and it was designed in the 1970's when computer power was expensive and not very compact.

  25. Re:I don't understand on Barnes & Noble Founder Wants to Take Retail Division Private · · Score: 1

    They are, they have 689 stores and they're top 5 landlords (the big retail REITS) hold fewer than 100 of those properties, unless BN is very atypical and has some huge percentage of their stores owned by regional REITS they own most of their locations. I know that realestate is one of the big aces that Sears and Pennies both have, since there's been basically zero new development since 2007 in commercial realestate if the economy ever really recovers there's going to be a LOT of redevelopment of old property that's already zoned for large commercial spaces.