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  1. Re:Still no deal on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    dual inverter ups that isolates your PC from the grid. Make sure it's something that doesn't just switch over to dual inverter when the power is out. If I knew what to suggest, I'd say to check the electric supply for noise and voltage drops, since these can harm your PSU and cause disk failures at an accelerated rate.

  2. Re:Still no deal on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    What sort of PSU is in your PC? I bet it's cheap crap or else your power is crappy in other ways.

  3. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    ID doesn't make any real predictions and it can't be tested, therefore, it's not a theory. It's barely a hypothesis.

    What do you think is more likely, A meteor that strikes the earth carrying the first bacteria, or heritability arising from natural chemical reactions? Is the meteor theory valid as a theory?

    That's an origins theory and has sod all to do with evolution.

  4. Re:Your Stupidity at Work. on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    How about the fact that the agency that regulates PIs has said that this law applies to generic computer tech activities? That is part of the lawsuit over this law.

  5. Re:ugh on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    He sent the letter to the lawyer's wife indirectly because he'd been barred from contacting the lawyer's client. Crazy stalker loony, he is.

  6. Re:Good riddance to bad advocate on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    Sure, the position is reasonable, but that's for parents to decide, not legislators. It's not like movies are similarly restricted.

  7. Re:No Shit? on Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights · · Score: 1

    I'm okay with nationalizing the last mile - it was largely paid for by uncle sam, and it really does count as essential infrastructure. Of course, it'd more likely be owned by each state, and the only real change is that everybody would be on an even footing for selling access, while the maintenance would be done by the city.

  8. Re:Cue the Reaganites.. on Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights · · Score: 1

    Objection: there's no such thing as a truly free market. It's an abstract concept only.

  9. Re:Cue the Reaganites.. on Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dude, the kid in the pic was smoking a cigarette, not a pole.

  10. Re:Fudgepackers. on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1, Informative

    as horrible and disgusting as what Lori Drew did was, it does not make her responsible for Megan Meier's suicide.

    Yes it does. Pretending to be someone else in order to exploit known suicidal tendencies and driving someone to suicide does make you responsible. That's why it's despicable: you're exploiting someone's state of mind to do them harm.

    Violating Myspace's TOS is not a fucking felony, and it is NOT okay for DAs to decide to come up with some dubious legal strategy just to make someone pay.

    I actually agree on this. Hopefully, Lori will show up dead one day and nobody will care, but in the meantime, it's only illegal to impersonate someone specific. Pseudonyms are protected.

  11. Re:The language of engineers on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Meh, you just have to realize that English has habits, not rules. Learning to recognize whence a particular English word was stolen will help with rules and such. French is the main one, followed by german.

    Oh yeah, Japanese, where you can pronounce the samoe word 2 ways and have 6 separate words (written differently) pronounced Kanji.

  12. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    The kanas are easy; kanji is hard, and you'll need to be good to get any respect (as a gaijin, it'll be hard). The main challenge is their stupid obsession with rank and keeping you in your place.

    Agreed in indian women, but lots of japanese And other asian) women have a sexy sotto voice.

  13. Re:That's the point on Telecoms Suing Municipalities That Plan Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    Can you be more specific? Are they just contracting the job out or paying a telco to build and operate lines? Who owns these lines? What business is it of other telcos, provided that the bidding process is open to all?

  14. Re:F5 IRule on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    why would the site owner care? It's traffic that mostly isn't initiated by the user.

  15. Re:A Wise Man on No-Fail Identity Theft – Live and In Person · · Score: 1

    the Germans would've beaten us to it had a few Jewish boys not defected and stolen a LOT of research and given it to the third entrant.

    Might have something to do with those ovens the nazis were so fond of.

    Technically the dupes were the German people, who were left with MORE bills to pay, and demonized by education systems worldwide, including their own, for something that they were no worse off for doing than the English or French or any other colonial tyrannies of their day

    I don't recall any extermination campaigns in europe, save for the recent mess in bosnia. Sure, the British were bastards in their day, but the nazis took things to a whole new level.

  16. Re:A change in your CV on No-Fail Identity Theft – Live and In Person · · Score: 1

    Great, now the PenTesters will be trying to pitch scripts to me...

  17. Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. on FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 · · Score: 1

    It's better than it used to be. Emmett Till isn't quite as likely these days.

  18. Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. on FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 · · Score: 1

    The good thing about this was that people didn't look for loopholes. Flexible laws have none. When you're tried, you end up in front of a judge and those people COULD definitly see through your plot. When they smelled you trying to tiptoe around some legal definition, they'd whip out some obscure legal detour to jail you. At the same time, they let you off the hook when they noticed that, yes, you broke the law, but it was accidental.

    The bad thing being that if you're a black man, then you're just fucked. We still have flexible laws - you can get a DUI just because, and you can get your house legally stolen because somebody found a joint inside it.

  19. Re:Cost of Living? on Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    heh. Bill pays way more property tax each year than my place is worth.

  20. Re:The worste? on Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    A down poor at 80 degrees with extreme humidity in June

    ... is called shorts weather

  21. Re:Cost of Living? on Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You can? What are they paying you? I'm struggling to do that, even with $50k+ of equity.

  22. Re:If those are your requirements.. on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    If you want real RAID, you'll probably be getting something from 3ware. most onboard stuff is software based crap.

  23. Re:FreeNAS on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    forget coolermaster - get a supermicro case with the 8 sata drive bays. Much better construction from a company specializing in server hardware. Combine with a 3ware card to do RAID and you're set.

  24. Re:Not really on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    I don't recall them ever teaching facts as being the result of a proven theory (which you can't really do). Facts are things you observe, like 'apples fall as fast as cannonballs'.

  25. Re:Science does search for the truth on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    The whole aim of science is to find the truth of how the Universe works.

    No, the goal is to explain how things work in a way that works as often as possible. Truth is beyond us, and lies in the realm of philosophy.