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  1. Re:until someone hacks it on Rolls Royce Developing Drone Cargo Ships · · Score: 1

    It's not like a company with a bulls eye for the logo wouldn't possibly be chosen for malware to pull tonnes of credit card data. Didn't see that one coming either, but it happens.

    They probably have some concepts, but generally R&D loves to sell an idea so much that they sometimes forget about the immediate consequences because the benefits are so damned cool.

  2. Re:I wonder on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with this is that mistrust has already been seeded for one party and once that occurs, full blown paranoia is only a couple of steps away. We already have a culture of anti-government rhetoric building. While many are chaotic, and completely lacking organization, there might be enough just to start trouble across the board. In short, they will probably end up reaping what they sew.

  3. Re:People That Cite The Debt/Deficit on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 2

    You mean the network that spent the entire time talking about the visit from the president of France's reason for showing up single last week instead of his actual agenda for visiting? That Fox news? Oh wait... That was every American station except Al Jazeera. There is a reason why getting involved in these arguments is futile. Our major news networks spend more time covering a drag race by Justin Bieber or if Bill de Blazio ate a pizza wrong rather than in depth factual reporting about what is actually going on.

    In short, our news stations suck, so don't bother telling anyone which one they should watch unless you have an actual link with actual news to back it up because more often than not, I nor anyone will probably place any stock in what you say.

  4. I bet I know the source of this on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    If this wasn't some punk from Time Warner or Cox or even Suddenlink, I can almost best this is from someone butt hurt in Overland Park who screwed themselves out of Google Fiber because they weren't smart enough to accept Google's Terms.

    Basically negotiations went like this,
    Google) Hey we are going to give you blazing fast internet if you agree to these terms.
    OP) That's all nice and dandy, by how about you give us a few concessions?
    Google) We are Google, and giving you fast internet at low prices if you give us some specials on using your utilities.
    OP) But what about we get a Kickback?
    Google) Negotiations over, see you
    OP) Wait, wait, I love you! Come back!!
    Google) So sorry, but you waited too long.

  5. Re:See what happens when leftists are in Charge? on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't finally found this comment, I was going to say something very similar to this.

    GOP is big business in general, mostly your war profiteering. The Democrats are into Big Media. Biden is a prime example of that. They are all fighting over their own little cut and no one, not one person at all really gives two squirts about the guy without money.

  6. Re:Can someone who knows about astronomy fill me i on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    No offense, but he kept his remark short and sweet. He didn't go into some serious diatribe about how religion is tearing down society or more. Because of that, I give him a pass. I would have probably worked the system a bit more explaining the evils and blah blah blah, I am bored and think I will go get a cookie.

  7. Re:Are they the only one ? on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    Usually a bank that doesn't screw their customers properly is one that fails. Screwing customers is how banks manage to stay afloat. Occasionally banks fail when they don't screw their customers enough. Think of each bank as a species which needs to screw a certain amount to maintain the species. If they don't do enough screwing, the species will thin out and probably go extinct.

  8. Re:And they wonder why... on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you have lots of cash at your disposal, lobbyists on your payroll, and congressmen in your pocket, all things are legally possible. Even if you used an automated tool. We should use this man as our rallying cry to attack Koch Industries again. Also educate people on how to create civil disobedience and not get caught.

  9. Re:Lenovo. on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    I have a W520 at home. It is a beast of a machine for being right at 2 years old. I am up to 24 GB of RAM, looking to go to 32 as well as having 500 GB HDD with 256 Micro SATA SSD. My options include a 960 GB SSDs as well as swapping out the Optical drive for another disk drive and a battery slice for extended battery life. Being a quad core i7 with a nVidia graphics card in an optimus configuration I wasn't have any problem with going all day at a conference and not needing to plug in, but still had enough power to run VMWorkstation and spin up as many virtuals as needed. I snagged a weaker display, but the device is phenomenal and my primary workhorse.

  10. Re:FB2K FTW on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 1

    150 GB here. I still enjoy it. Sure foobar is cool, but I still enjoy breaking out Milkdrop and just letting the collection run.

  11. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    This is passing feel good legislation so that a politician can go back to his district or state and brag about how the did something, regardless of how ineffectual what they did is. Most weapons bans are just that. Restrictions on people who follow the rules. They only work as deterrent for those who weren't really motivated to cause trouble. Based on some of the current attitudes of the government, I think we are in line for some civil disobedience. So any legislation that would prevent this inspires me to take up arms. Not to be paranoid, but if they keep up these attitudes, a revolution of the people will be under way in no time.

  12. Re:Stay behind the line! on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last I checked, Sarah Palin is still roaming the Earth, so they didn't do that good of a job.

  13. Re:Origin of the term cloud on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    To me cloud isn't that fluffy thing in the sky. It's more like a cloud in some body of water. You know, the one you don't swim near, because that's some fish's attempt to propagate a new species.

  14. Sure Obama has some accomplishments, but... on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    He put some of the people responsible for the 2008 banking crisis in charge of the places were they can continue to loot the economy. He managed to put a troll in charge of Homeland Security He managed to put the company that paid 0 in taxes and took more tax credits in charge of economic development. I am certain that if he weren't chasing down the heads of terrorist groups with drones, he would probably put them in charge of the CIA. Do we have anyone charged with being a peeping tom to put in charge of the NSA, because the current guys just aren't creepy enough. I vote KY_Anonymous for being the head of the Cybercrimes division. While we are at it, let's get Bernie Madoff and get him somewhere important for heading up the SEC.

  15. Re:Might have to stop my escapades to Utah on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    That's what I get for using Fox News as a source.

  16. Might have to stop my escapades to Utah on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    They might be catching on to my sabotage to their facility. Nothing to see here, move along. Not short circuiting anything. It's not like if you supply 480V to a hard drive directly and you won't have any problems. Also, is it just me or does one hundred thousand feet of data center space seem pretty small to hold 5 zettabytes in data storage. I tried to build the same out of BackBlaze storage pods and came up with 180TB of space in a 4U pod, with 1.8PB per rack, that would still take a lot more than they are showing. I suppose they could be building into the ground, but wouldn't that show up on their calculations for square feet?

  17. Re:Gov't project on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't, but the first satellites and people launched into space by the US were on top of modified ICBMs. While we front that our space exploration programs and our military programs are completely separate, there is a lot of cross pollination between the two.

  18. Re:Lotus suite sucks on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 1

    THIS and then some. Notes can run on Windows/Linux/AIX/iSeries. Currently we are migrating to Windows from IBM iSeries, but only because we are beginning to build more on the iSeries and need the performance. Lotus Domino can take a back seat in that regard and runs just fine on the Windows platform.

  19. Re:My company changed software too on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 1

    I want to know this myself. My company built some notes applications back about 15 years ago. They still use them and don't show any sign of ditching them. Newer applications are showing up as web based apps but still use a lot of the Lotus Domino design parameters. I think corporate office even uses Notes for their purchase orders. They built in the approvals and tied them to the User IDs. Brilliant if you ask me, but the work that went into design would probably cause a lot of chaos if they should ever decide to move away from Domino.

  20. Re:Lotus suite sucks on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Ran Notes for 13 years. I don't know why anyone wants to run anything else. The biggest problem with Domino is that it's under utilized.

  21. Good for Whirlpool on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Let's just keep pushing all of our data to Google for the rest of the world to sift through. Brilliant job. I hear the same thing about managers pushing crappier software packages because of familiarity rather than the Cadillac packages. Then they run into issues trying to push forward because of limitations in the software. The flexibility of Notes is one of the reasons why my company still uses it. I don't see the Google Apps applying to the business processes as well as many people might think it does. Then again, I see many companies that focus on using third party software instead of using house developers to tool products to their business processes. I don't understand the logic in this other than some sort of short term gain through cutting software costs at the sacrifice of having to manipulate business processes to fit a mold that may or may not work for them. In the end, Go Maytag!

  22. Re:Other findings on Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences In Emails From Men and Women · · Score: 1

    Until today. K, Luv Ya!

  23. Re:The old days on The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later · · Score: 1

    I had to retire my pair of 9800 GX2s. Apparently running folding on a computer that isn't properly ventilated pisses off EVGA after about the 3rd replaced video card. In other news, I managed get about 10 million points or so before retiring them. :/

  24. Re:American Exceptionalism and Moral Superiority on Pakistan Earthquake Raises New Island · · Score: 1

    We can rule over our self and wipe out anyone who stands in our way. Just ask the Native Americans. If we get bored or feel our superiority is in question, we just go bomb another country into submission. Just ask the Philippines, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Guam, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. But if our moral imperative is in question, look at all the quality nation building we have done over the years. Just ask Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Iran, Cuba, and Columbia. We even have an outstanding relationship with the local populations where we place our military bases. Just ask Okinawa. Who cares how we treat our own people, they should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps so that they can get all of those government kickbacks and pay zero in taxes just like the top one percent. But we have had more new millionaires in the past 30 years, even though that was almost two generations ago and we figured out how to lie through statistics to make income mobility look possible when the reality is less than ever. But hey, we do just fine ruling ourselves. As long as we can exploit cheap labor and blow up a few countries from time to time, exceptional is just what we are.

  25. Re:Moo on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 1

    I thought he outsourced it to the south west corner of Asia. I know, I know, bringing truth to satire. This is more depressing than finding out wishing someone to be raped by Gorillas on angel dust is not as painful as it sounds because they are phallically challenged.