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  1. Baked Apple? on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    But will it waffle?

  2. Re:Requires that you know what you are doing on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1
    Pretty much every hockey player I know.

    Heat your skates or heat your sticks

  3. Re:Is it news because it was a MacBook? on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1
    Sometimes works. Can get anywhere from 10-30 minutes out of it. Just long enough to spin up the platters, and copy a crap load of data to a thumbdrive.

    That can be all the time you need if all the data is kept in predictable locations

  4. Next up on YouTube Russian Your Doing it Wrong on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    This will prob be his next video. Sending computer in for repairs. Your doing it wrong.

  5. Re:"My Sources"... on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    (insert MS Works joke here)

  6. Re:Start over = new bugs + old bugs on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, this is MS. Unless they explicitly disable any integration with other MS apps during development, they will just roll more of the crap features into, turning it back into the next generation of IE.

    But hey, you can connect to your Xbox Live account on it, and emulate some games that you can play on your phone and such.

  7. Re:rumor alert on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    I tried Syndicate and was dead in about 30 seconds. Mouse scroll speed was like Warp 6 with no way to slow it down.

  8. Re:"Support Extensions" is not real on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 1

    But Active-X plugins are perfectly fine and safe?

  9. Re:It's not called the Olympic Sports. on Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? · · Score: 1

    And the competitiveness of the participating nations. One reason softball and baseball were suspended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

  10. Re:NO on Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? · · Score: 1

    Is that gaming, or masturbating, or one and the same? :)

  11. Re:I'm Gonna Say "Yes" on Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? · · Score: 2
    Nope. They'll just figure out a way to inject Olympic ads and crap into your game as part of your DLC.

    So you will PAY them money to watch their ads.

  12. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    93% of all statistics are made up. The other 13% are bullshit. (ha ha ha)

  13. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    would that make you a brainialcoholic?

  14. Re:transfer the ID information to the police on In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License · · Score: 2
    Wait, how many states associates a driver's license with the vehicle registration?

    Granted, it could be loosely inferred / deduced based on other relateable elements.

    Additionally, as states are not required to share DMV records, or at least I don't think they are, lost my train of thought... Something relational data missing content, etc.

  15. Not surprised on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    They've banned violent video games in the past. Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 were banned.

  16. Re:Change your state of mind on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 1
    Tai-go-lates?

    Sounds like a drink.

    Tai chi - yoga - pilates

  17. Hollyweird called on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    They missed your script proposal. They were too amazed at how you shot the pen out of their fingers.

    Sorry, I can't get past the concept "of shoot to wound" or "Let the assailant get closer to you" fallacies. What the hell is "toughed up" even supposed to mean? Get into a physical confrontation and possibly get your weapon taken away, etc? And if it was a female cop should she have "toughed up"?

    You aim for the biggest part of the target, not the smallest that moves in unpredictable patterns.

    Like police officers are being trained to take down opponents who outweigh them by 100 lbs.

    You don't train one group of officers with one set of criteria, and another group with a different set. That creates more confusion in the deployment of force.

    And I guess that is another "what if". What if the Wilson had been a female officer? Would the expectations have been the same? Would there have been rioting?

  18. Re:corporate win fall? on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    Most likely outcome is some big shot company will develop some special super deluxe government must have for security safety reasons, that doesn't do a quarter of what it promises to do. Like you said, huge windfall, bunch of fat cats robbing from the people all in the name of "security". And 5 years down the road will prove to be a huge failure, but government will keep forcing it down our throats. In the mean time, people will prove it doesn't work, and government will counter whatever they can to shut them down because "national security / terrorism".

    Rinse / repeat. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  19. Curiosity on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    If these people were on the EPA science advisory panel, would their study have to be ignored too?

  20. And the problems with academic research on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    If the scientists are on the EPA panel, heaven forbid the research is valid or even useful and can be discussed.

  21. Re:So long as it does not autoplay. on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 0

    Except IE...

  22. An an app was just launched to solve math problems on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1
    so that kids didn't need to learn how to solve them.

    And people wonder why our higher skill jobs get outsourced to other countries...

  23. Re:as the birds go on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 4, Funny

    Depends on if it is a European or African swallow

  24. Re:He didn't deny them in the hospital. on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Oh never mind link to news article

    RTFM - in a computerized system, the nurses enter some information about the patient, but that information is not relayed back to the screen that the doctor sees.

    Brilliant.

    That also explains why we have to repeat to the doctor(s) everything we just repeated to all the attending nurses.

  25. Re:He didn't deny them in the hospital. on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 1
    I'm really wondering how this information would get recorded in a patient's notes.

    I mean its not the usual check box run of the mill question.

    The attending nurse was smart enough to ask it.

    How was it logged on the patient records?

    There is a big difference in a sticky note attached, illegible chicken scratch, or the big giant red text that says TEST FOR EBOLA