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  1. Re:2GB of RAM? on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 1

    Well, none of those are "necessary add-ons". Java necessary? Since when? Who the hell even uses java applets anymore?

    ...anyone who uses their Windows machine in a complex business environment.

  2. Re:You don't want to be in Joe Arpaio's jail on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    This is a feel-good law.

    The PPD isn't going to be out with binoculars searching for copter pilots. At best a your neighbor is going to call them on a nuisance call and make them knock on your door and ask that you quit bothering your neighbor so they can go back to not bothering you.

    I anticipate the Arizona Republic running a story in a few years about how some New Times reporter flew a copter over Arpaio's or Mark Brvinovich's back yard and how they could be impacted by this pointless and obscure law.

    That's it. It's another lasers-at-airplanes law. :/

  3. Re:drones are the problem? on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    When does amending privacy laws to say "you can't use drones instead of ladders" become a "drone law" and stop being a proper privacy law?

  4. Re:Photographic law precedence on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    And this is why as technology changes, we probably should at least consider new laws.

    Having sex in your fenced, backyard hot-tub when you live next door to a skyscraper or under a cliff is asking to be watched.
    Having sex in your fenced, backyard hot-tub when you live in a tract home in the Phoenix suburbs isn't.

    Municipal legislation that says you can't spy with camera drones seems reasonable -- provided you can draft the laws right.

    n.b. I'm a resident of Phoenix.

  5. Re:Then add... on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 1

    Virus and Malware software is free, and your decision to use Office or not is up to you.

    At least with this platform you get the option of using Office if you'd like.

  6. Re:2 GB of RAM on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 2

    Sure, less, but not when you're talking about filling up 2GB.

    My IE threads are each running about 130-150MB ea
    My Chrome threads are running 70-170MB ea

  7. Re:2GB of RAM? on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 2

    There are two practical limits in Windows 32-bit.

    2GB per process - closer to 1.75 in practice.
    3.25GB total usable.

  8. Re:Sigh on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    identical twin sisters

    They're genetics are (mostly) the same

    Mostly?

  9. Re:2GB of RAM? on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 2

    100k? 100k what? 100,000k maybe.

    I have two IE tabs open, each is using roughly 130-140MB of private space. This is normal, as the Google home page takes 127.4 megs. The IE parent process is 32 megs as well - so it's nearly half a gig to run these three tabs.

    I have only the "basic" necessary add-ons (Adobe, Silverlight, Java, Office), and no other third-party installed tools.

    Chrome tabs, for whatever it's worth, are currently running me from 50-170, so it's not much different elsewhere.

  10. Re:Useful Tip on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 1

    Again, when the ISP has blocked all your ports, how do you establish a VPN connection?

    Again, you dolt, the suggestion is to use VPN before they block your ports.

  11. Re:Useful Tip on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 2

    It would work by you using the VPN service as soon as your ISP installs the blocking plan, thus avoid ever being caught by it.

  12. Re: Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    ....and you're back to a day's pay.

  13. Re:Take the , on Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives · · Score: 2

    An early "college rock" classic (should you believe such a thing exists) by Camper Van Beethoven. Impossible to miss if you were the right age, I think.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  14. Re:Sigh on Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo · · Score: 1

    Presumptive sentencing.

    Here's Arizona's example chart - other states are similar.

    http://www.azleg.state.az.us/a...

    A class 2 felony (rape, arson, and other terrible non-murder activities) has a scary "Maximum Sentence" of 10 years, and an aggravated sentence of 12.5 years. The presumptive sentence is half that. Fraud here is a Class-3 felony, so it has a presumptive sentence of 3.5 years.

    I believe the argument that says being a public official (legislature, law enforcement, etc.) should count as an aggravating factor (not a mitigating one!), but you're right, the news never comes on and says:

    Important person was arrested for drunk driving today, they could face up to 8 hours in a holding cell and a trip to a private rehab facility where they will receive daily spa treatments, but will be denied bloody marys at breakfast.

    In Chicago, they'll drag it out forever, and someone else that they hold leverage over will accept a plea to a much, much lower crime, which will result in, at best, probation and public (and pointless) firing. Redflex will then keep them employed as a "consultant."

    Cocks.

  15. Re:Picoseconds... on World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    I was talking about wooden boards, you insensitive clod!

    [Also, thanks...]

  16. Re:Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    And if you have a hundred, it's like a whole year, man!

  17. Re:Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 2

    $500 per developer doesn't seem particularly absurd, nor have I heard of any particularly onerous restrictions on using these engines.

    What's $500 work out to? A day's pay?

  18. Re:This is just evil. on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rendering HTML isn't "executing arbitrary code" in any meaningful way.

  19. Re:Americans don't know what war really is... on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    And 1775 - 1783..

  20. Re:Does fiber containing photons have current? on Kevlar Protects Cables From Sharks, Experts Look For Protection From Shark Week · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...or it's the thousands of volts pumped into the cables to power the repeaters required every couple hundred kilometers.

  21. Re:Does fiber containing photons have current? on Kevlar Protects Cables From Sharks, Experts Look For Protection From Shark Week · · Score: 5, Informative

    Repeaters are powered by a constant direct current passed down a conductor near the center of the cable. All repeaters in a cable are powered in series. Power feed equipment (PFE) is installed at the terminal stations on the land. These PFEs inject huge voltage into the line - 3,000, 4,000, and up to 10,000 volts - to power each repeater on the cable (now you can understand why Jaws went to shark heaven after his mid-morning snack).

    http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

  22. Re:Nerval's Lobster on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 2

    Lobster needs to die.

    The humane way is a sharp knife straight down behind the eyes.

    Most research suggests they don't feel pain (as such) so submerging the head in boiling water first (as you begin to cook them) is also acceptable. [Dunking them completely in boiling water causes them to thrash, and might cause a fire on the stove, especially since you're busy clarifying butter on the other burner.]

  23. Re:I don't understand your concern on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 1

    The major benefit of Play, at least to me, is the integration with +1 actions from people in my circles.

    I know what my friends liked.

  24. Picoseconds... on World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 2

    Picosecond resolution... ....only 30 or so more zeros until we hit one frame per plank time.

  25. Re:Two things.... on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that it did or didn't benefit.

    I said it didn't cause a paradigm shift in the way the Play store works.