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  1. Re:Keep 'em Coming on AMD Introduces New Opterons · · Score: 2

    AMDs advantage is lots of CPUs for cheap.
    For some workloads, that is worth it. I am using some for a VDI deployment. RAM is the limiting factor on how many desktops I can host not CPU and not disk, because I went all SSD.

  2. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    I am sure there is a way to make a gun with flakey electronics and that leaks oil.

    I bet lucas can do the first for a nominal fee.

  3. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    Arrange by population density not total population.

    Please list these other various measures.

    Before you get too defensive, I am a gun owner in a state with very restrictive laws that came about because we had very high crime rates in the city that hold most of the states population. Even compared to most of the world that city has a very high population density.

  4. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    The only thing your correlation shows is that low population density means low crime.

    Places with low population have high gun ownership and few gun laws. Places with high population had high crime so they instated tough gun laws.

  5. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    Are there no machinists?

    Cutting a rifled barrel and building a simple firearm are not exactly complicated.

  6. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it is more that this is a new place for ARM to be in. They were not prepared for something like Android. They were used to be used on one off SOCs for embedded devices that never saw any updates and very little user interaction.

    ARM needs something like PCI, it needs standards it needs something like BIOS/EFI. Sadly right now it lacks all that and it really destroys any chance of a standardized installer for the platform.

  7. Re:Android Dominance? on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or that people who did not have to pay for iDevices had enough money left to buy computers :)

  8. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 2

    It drives me crazy that folks like you have no idea how ARM SOCs work.

    There can't be a reference install. ARM does not even have PCI or anything like it so you can't figure out what hardware it has to even load drivers at boot.

    It is impossible to do what we have been doing with PCs.

  9. Re:Preference on Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this where the people smart enough to not get it on Verizon laugh at you?

  10. Re:Why 5.7x28? on Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle · · Score: 1

    The p90 is not a rifle, it is a pdw/submachine gun.

    No the FiveseveN is using a pdw round.

    Bullshit, it is an overhyped pistol round.

  11. Re:Generation Gap? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    Surveys and other later data collection.

  12. Re:An almost unbelievable breakthrough if true on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    No we don't.
    There is no indication that this project has such a goal.

  13. Re:"800MHz 8-core version would"... on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    Which is not what I said.

    Basically anything anyone would ever want to run on a server will benefit from more cpus. Add in much of what power users and developers will do.

    These tasks range from hosting databases to transcoding video, to compiling code, or just using many programs at once.

  14. Re:"800MHz 8-core version would"... on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself.
    Lots of different types of workloads are very parallel.

    Just because whatever kinds of games you play are not does not mean this is commonly the case.

  15. Re:And no proprietary software either on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1

    Why would that be the case?
    Do you just like spouting gibberish?

  16. Re:Why 5.7x28? on Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle · · Score: 1

    Niether of those is are rifles.
    Nor is it a rifle round.

  17. Re:Just to point out Glocks are plastic on Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle · · Score: 1

    It is not armor piercing anymore than 22 magnum.
    It is just a high velocity tiny calibre round.

    It is just a more expensive overhyped 22 magnum.

  18. Re:Generation Gap? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 2

    Try more recent data slick.
    2010 4.8
    http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl01.xls

    Not sure how one would measure moral decay. My guess is it would include a bunch of things I do not find immoral.

  19. Re:Generation Gap? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    Your first sentence is nonsense so I will ignore it.

    The point was that those kinds of assaults were not reported in 1950s and 60s.

  20. Re:Generation Gap? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    At the same time getting information about what is a scam is also much easier. Even if no one in your family knows, surely one of them can use google.

  21. Re:Perhaps trust in cable tv news too? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 1

    No need to ask Nielson, I caught a few minutes of that network waiting for a doctor, all commercials were for gold, seniors insurance, medicines and mobility scooters.

  22. Re:Generation Gap? on A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If anything people were less honest. In the 1950s lots of crimes went totally unreported and still their crime rates where rather high. Physical, mental or sexual abuse of family members was very often unreported. In most states a wife could not even report a rape by her husband as no such crime existed.

    The homicide rate today for the USA is lower than it was in 1960.

  23. Re:Just the facts bro! on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    There was no argument. I asked questions that is all.

    I did not want rebuttals I wanted answers to questions. Instead you posted nonsense rebuttals.

  24. Re:Abandon $50 and $100 bills! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Take 4 adults to any decent/normal restaurant.
    2 Appetizers $30 + 4 meals (4 * 20) + 4 drinks (4 * 10) = $150

    So even if you have two people you are talking ~$70 for a pretty normal meal. Are you eating only at mcdonalds?

  25. Re:Abandon $50 and $100 bills! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    The $100 bill is far more useful for everyday transactions. Try to buy dinner with a bunch of ones, a hundred or two generally covers that and the bar tab. If you got rid of 50s how many 20s am I going to have to carry?

    The $1 is near totally useless, you can buy nearly nothing with it.