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  1. Those where great processors for the money that you paid for them. I believe it used Pentium pro instructions instead of the pure Pentium. Ran Linux perfectly too. I was using in my main workstation.

  2. Just triple your price and call yourself a "luxury" service.

  3. Re:What is this kernel 4.10 ... ? on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Same here. 2.6.32.xxx something. I think of upgrading it all the time but then I'm lazy and it does the job.

  4. Can I do the math for this?

  5. Re:What's stopping the competition? on 'Google Is As Close To a Natural Monopoly As the Bell System Was In 1956' (promarket.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does on-line search need to be "regulated"?

    Because you never can know when your hobby or innocent curiosity can get you locked up and used against you.

    For instant if I want to know something I look it up, and I rarely think about the consequences. I have a strange fascination with nuclear weapons. Their history, how they are made, how they would be deployed, and under what circumstance would they be used. It's probably safe to say that outside someone with a security clearance I know almost everything that can be known.

    Does this mean I have any incantation to build a nuclear device in my basement or blow up a city with one. Not in the slightest, but you can't tell that from my search history.

    Without that protection out of context just about anything you search for can be used to hang you. Just because you google "how to excite 12 year old girls" doesn't mean you are cursing for jail bait.

  6. Re:Bad solution in search of a bad idea. on Walmart Wants To Put Sensors On Everything So It Can Automatically Order You Stuff (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Other than "expiration" or "sell by" date, how would an tag or RFID sensor/reader track when something is going bad?

    Even then how is it going to tell that I've not simply frozen it. I have a half a cow and probably a whole hen house in the deep freeze. I'm sure they are well past their "expiration" date

  7. Fuck that.

  8. Re:This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Let the fun begin.

  9. Seems the comments have de-evolved into its normal Trump bashing. I'm going to start a new thread to debate the actual scientific merits of going to Mars.

    While I'm pro space I don't see much need at this point for us to be focusing on a maned mission to Mars. I think we will eventually go to Mars but I think we should focus our time and resources on near Earth activity right now.

    By near Earth, I mean Earth and Moon. We have been tossing up crap in to near Earth orbit for decades. We should return to the moon first, build a base there, maybe a colony, and focus on getting our crap together first.

    We should get more actual space experience and pull the theoretical technology off the shelf and put it to use. I don't believe we will be ready for a manned mission to Mars till we have perfect space based building, artificial gravity, close to 100% recyclable life-support systems as we can get, magnetic radiation shielding, and nuclear propulsion.

    I don't believe we should aim for Mars till we can make flights to the moon as routine as jet travel across the world is today. Once we have mastered these technologies and routine travel to the moon then we should be ready for Mars. An as a bonus if we are ready for Mars then we should be ready to go any where in the solar system.

  10. Twenty year ago the Chinese beating us back to the moon would have seemed like a joke to me. Now I'm hoping they make it. Really we have been squatting on this moon pot for far too long. Time to shit or get off the pot, as my grandmother would say.

  11. Re: BETRAYAL on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Well pretty much the whole thing. The deficit was actually doubled under obama, more than all other presidents before him combined. So there was no massive deficit reduction but an actual increase.

    The number of unemployment did go down but the number not in the labor force actually went up by 13.5%. As for the number of actual jobs created, obama numbers are actually lower than Reagan.

    I think the health care has been covered but lets by all means drag it out again. The number on health care did go up. But since you had no choice any more it had to go up. While the numbers on health care insurance did go up, the high delectable made the insurance useless.

    As for the economy as a whole obama saw the greatest increase of 2.9%. Which is lower than Jimmy Carters 5.6% and Bush Primes of 3.8%

    So yeah, I believe we can say that under obama the economy was a disaster and his policies where a failure. Jimmy Carter even beat him for gods sake. I fact the way the numbers are looking now that all of obama's pigeons are coming home to roost, he might just go down as the worse president in the last 100 years.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-jobs-report-labor-market-participation-rate-2017-1/#since-obama-took-office-in-january-2009-the-us-economy-has-added-11250000-people-to-total-nonfarm-payrolls-1/
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/29/americas-economy-before-obama-versus-after-obama//
    http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/obamas-numbers-january-2016-update//

  12. Re:BETRAYAL on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The way I read this is you are saying, "Democrats Bad, Republicans Bad." Sounds like to me you are saying we need a third party. If that is what you are saying then I couldn't agree more.

    I honestly can't remember the last time I voted for a republican or a democrat, willingly. I've always voted for a third party. Although a lot people seem to think I'm a die hard Trump supporter because I don't want to see him fail or impeached. I don't want to see him fail because if he does we are really fucked. I don't want to see him impeached because I see what is waiting in the wings if he is, and its far worse than Trump is.

    What I am is disappointed in the third parties. What we have is a relatively unpopular president with a unpopular agenda. A republican president. Then we have the chaos that the democratic party is in. With more unpopular leadership and no set path in 2020. Plus the fact that you have loons like Maxine Waters speaking for them.

    So many young voters are democrats because they don't know any better. They are so opposed to the Trump agenda that they resist at any cost, TDS. So many older republicans see the young democrats losing their minds and think the whole democratic party is crazy, so they don't see that pulling away from the GOP is an option.

    There has never been a more perfect time for third parties out there to be campaigning their asses off. More people voted against Hillary than they did for Trump. Third parties should be out there courting these voters.

    Go on to college's and start showing these young voters that there is other options. Hand out fliers at anti trump rallies. Get the word out to the next generation that the status quo doesn't have to be maintained.

    If the third parties started now they could possible get enough voters registered that they might actually make a dent in 2020.

  13. Re:also the next time apple is asked unlock a phon on In The First Months of Trump Era, Facebook And Apple Spent More On Lobbying Than They Ever Have (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    I bet the next time Apple is asked to unlock a phone the government won't ask nicely this time.

  14. Re:Damned straight, I don't want cheap politicians on In The First Months of Trump Era, Facebook And Apple Spent More On Lobbying Than They Ever Have (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Only the best government your money can buy!

  15. Re:BETRAYAL on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    With the republicans in charge of both sessions of Congress now, a Hillary transition would have been more of train wreak than the current cluster fuck is.

  16. Re:BETRAYAL on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Please don't bring any of your TDS issues into the tread. If you wish to talk about Trump's relationship with Assange we can. But I will not indulge you any more in what Trump is or isn't, in you option.

  17. Re:BETRAYAL on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 3

    While you are wrong about the part with Trump being not very bright. He has clearly shown that he is very intelligent, just a amateur when it comes to his new position.

    I am kind of surprised at this development. I thought leaks being posted to wikileaks where a key component in his election. He was practically beating Hillary over the head with print outs from wikileaks during the campaign. It seems to me instead of trying to hang his buddy Assange, he would be better off trying to plug the leaks to start with.

  18. No felonies where committed. What was done was a pretty good hack if you think about it. Burger King managed to hack a device over a TV commercial. That was actually very clever.

    I'm glad google shut this down because there probably would have been copy cats. But again, no felonies where committed.

  19. Nice Play on Burger King Runs Ad Triggering Google Home Devices; Google Shuts It Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm glad google shut this down, but I have to admit I'm rather impressed with Burger King on this one. Nicely played.

  20. Re: Trump Advisor Carter Page - Russian Agent on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    That is "Mr. Putin" to you! :)

  21. Re:Trump Advisor Carter Page - Russian Agent on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There is no Russian control over the US government. I wish who ever kept modding this crap up would give it a rest.

  22. Re:Amazing the speed of the Russian/Trump shills on Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3

    And you act like this surprises you? But to be fair if the news was the same about the DNC or Clinton, then their supporters would be spewing crap too. A different crap, but crap still.

  23. Re: over suspected "hacking" that helped Donald Tr on Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh yes. Now this is getting interesting. Anyone care to place a wager on how hard Fox News will try to spin this?

  24. Re:Can't we all just get along?!?!? on Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really have a issue here. I really wanted to mod you up but I also want to comment on this thread. But but when it comes right down to it. I think you are spot on.

  25. Where I work we traded our laptops for surface pro 4's and everyone loves them. I personally love my surface pro 4.