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  1. Re:What about the Mac Pro? on That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    not being owned by malware/spyware (zero cases of that here at work in last five years on Mac OSX, don't ask about windows)

    device support, and no bloatware with "device support disks"

    battery life

    updating means large periods of time when machine is unusable while waiting on windows (INSTALLING 3453 OUT OF 10,343)

    Apple doesn't deactivate my OSX because I upgraded a disk or other hardware, Microsoft has done that to my family members three times in the past year alone

    no need to edit a registry for some basic functionality or to unscrew a microsoft screwup

    can remotely log into my machine several times simultaneously either graphically or via ssh, no remote terminal limits

    full set of tools for dealing with data transfer and sharing with other windows, mac, linux, bsd, unix machines built in and ready to go.

    full set of tools for scripting and batch jobs in mulitple languages, built in. Powershell? pfffttt.

    well I could go on but the short version is that microsoft sells a program loader that is missing basic things all other general purpose OS include.

    oh yes, we have to use some microsoft software at work too but those run fine on Mac.

  2. Re:oh boy, time to make money on Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    you make an assertion without a shred of proof and without knowledge of either the structures of the data nor the tools they currently use on it. are you a Big Data marketing wank? you reason like one.

  3. so when I retire on Computer Use Could Help Predict Early-Stage Alzheimer's (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    when I'm retired and reading books on my kindle or whatever ereader a lot, does that count as computer use ?

  4. oh boy, time to make money on Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's give them the "Big Data!" and "Analytics!" spiel that all the marketing wanks are cramming down our throats. Sounds bites and spending huge bucks on them is the solution!

  5. Re:now divide by 4 on China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ha that coal number should have GW not MW after it of course. 1.5 terrawatts!

  6. now divide by 4 on China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    divide those numbers by about four to compare to the world's combined nuclear capacity of 384GW. or coal's 1500+MW.

    I'm actually for paving over desert with solar panels and storage systems and UHVDC to carry it around continents, could actually power the world. But this piecemeal approach isn't aggressive enough

  7. that only works if you have a spaceship that goes c or a transporter that converts or scans humans to rest-mass zero particles for reassembly or duplication at that place. Then when you get there, 6001 years from now, you ask them what they saw 6001 years ago from the light that left earth 12,0002 years before.

  8. Re:What about the Mac Pro? on That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    most mac users don't care about "power"

    there is good reason I chose mac at work over the windows IT also offered

  9. wait, you have evidence of Hinduism before 5500 B.C.? do tell

  10. Re:Islam is a Problem on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    oh, would you rather we talk about how children and women are treated in over half the muslim countries?

  11. Re:Then release the raw temperature numbers! on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The raw they have there is from July 1996 to December 2004, other sets have quality control procedures which is interesting topic.

  12. Re:Dumb, expensive fad on Apple Pay Has a Siri Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    paying by phone very popular in Japan and they've been doing it for 12 years now. it's what smart places do.

    easier to pull out phone than pull out wallet then card out of wallet.

  13. Re:This is simply wrong on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    your reading comprehension seems bad. Sure you can update later manually, but the device will not be connected to the Amazon network for book loading. That's hardly "just fine" for most kindle users unless you load free books one of the alternative ways, which most non-geeks don't

  14. Re:Carbon footprint of a Sasquatch on Boom Aerospace Company Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Civilian Travel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sasquatch would be carbon neutral. Apologize to all non-human bipeds.

    I'd rather see work on train that goes 500 MPH in bedrock in tunnel, pushed by air pressure differential. That could be very energy efficient, moreso than surface diesel rail

  15. Re:Then release the raw temperature numbers! on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    no, not for NOAA links there, and they even explain their data is not raw but preprocessed for v2x and v3. they have no intent to deceive, not saying that, but only that the data is not raw.

  16. Re:Then release the raw temperature numbers! on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    do you fucking read before you link?, the data is not raw. you are the troll

    From your link:

    Methods for removing inhomogeneities from the data record associated with non-climatic influences such as changes in instrumentation, station environment, and observing practices that occur over time were also included in the version 2 release (Peterson and Easterling, 1994; Easterling and Peterson 1995). Since that time efforts have focused on continued improvements in dataset development methods including new quality control processes and advanced techniques for removing data inhomogeneities

  17. Re:Then release the raw temperature numbers! on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    those really are not raw temperature data though. Those are all the products of analysis. You really are spewing in ignorance

  18. Re:While we're all bemoaning wretched Guantanamo on Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and Mexico is zero miles and have horrific prison conditions and has government complicit in religious discrimination against non-catholic groups, and we do a third of a trillion dollars in trade with them. Do you even have a point?

  19. The people who were kind enough to provide them refuge in Florida now want to go to Cuba on vacation and drink Cuban rum and watch babes on the beach. They should not be asses.

  20. 6000 years, and they won't need any pay to say it. Get it straight, Mr. Human from Chimps.

    Obviously God created with the world with a record of comparable CO2 66 million years ago to fool the weak minded unbelievers such as yourself.

  21. Re:Cruz isn't a fan on Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the countries we do billions of dollars of business with a year do far, far worse than Cuba and no one gives a shit. why make Cuba special, I don't get it.

  22. Re:While we're all bemoaning wretched Guantanamo on Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As opposed to say what Saudis do, or the Chinese? I don't understand why people get fixated on the problems with Cuba when other nations that do far, far worse are our best pals and we do billions of dollars of business with those dirtbags.

  23. Re:some good things about insecure on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Forces To Create New Encrypted Email Protocol · · Score: 1

    big problem is that email is now the replacement for the fax machine for many legal purposes

  24. unwanted on The Internet of Things Is a Surveillance Nightmare (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want my fridge or my car hooked to the web at all, totally unnecessary. shit headed kid engineers and marketers are causing huge problems

  25. Re:Oops... on N. Korea Launches Ballistic Missile · · Score: 1

    portable versions of those exist for anything lost in the fraction of an hour before the N.K. artillery batties are annihilated. the USN will deliver any that S. Korea itself is lacking. Also large ships themselves can even help. On related note, let Jong Un bomb or shell one of Uncle Sam's big boats that is helping and see what he gets