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  1. Re:Attention - Young Turks on Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers · · Score: 1

    They are an ally? I remember them denying fly-over permission for the Iraq Invasion.

  2. Re:How to save your company on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's about Microsoft dying or not. It's about how many people are purchasing and using their products.

  3. Re:how short is the notice? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Modern bunker busters can penetrate 10meters of reinforced concrete. You'd be surprised how tough these things are. Some are thousands of kilograms of just metal shell and only 250 kg explosive inside. Some have counters inside that count how many floors the bomb has moved through so that it can detonate on a specific level of the bunker.

    I'd say reinforced concrete is tougher than ice too.

  4. Re:How to save your company on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    ah yes, Stock Price == Measure of Success

  5. Re:Somebody please help me on Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet · · Score: 1

    Oh, cobol is still there. We are interfacing the two systems.

  6. Re:Correction: Tesla Motors takes billion dollar f on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Selling electric cars directly from manufacturer to buyer (over the internet and be delivered?) could change the car market though. It's a very interesting start anyways. I can't afford one though : /

    You're right that 5k of one model is a very small percentage of the market. But it's certainly enough to grow a business from.

  7. Re:Correction: Tesla Motors takes billion dollar f on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 2

    Tesla sold 5,000 Model S cars in just Q1 2013 alone.

  8. Re:Electric cars are just not going to take off... on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Or rent/fly like most people do. But you're right. It would be like trying to cross the country at a time when there were no gas stations.

  9. Re:Oh, my! on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    FYI, people generally go with "gross" or "nasty" now. Also, assholes generally smell bad anyways however the smell of death should never emanate from a living person. Get that guy to the hospital.

  10. Re:Controlling infestations on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 2

    I like your solution!

    My strategy so far is vacuum them up and grab a bottle of woodglue. When you find where they are coming from, just squirt some woodglue into the hole. If they start coming out of another hole you repeat until they are gone. For big holes you can use a scrap of paper like a patch and glue it in place (like in cabinets or utility areas). If they are really bad i break out the bio-warfare traps (but that is rare).

  11. Re:"7+ days of battery life" on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    Remember when your phone had 7 days of battery life? (mine still does, but only because it's ancient)

  12. Re:Oh, my! on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    I've never heard someone under 30 years old use the word "rancid". It has really fallen out of use. That guy is probably old and sad.

  13. Re:You're right but.. on Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad · · Score: 1

    Not sure if trolling?

  14. Re:It's started... on DHS Shuts Down Dwolla Payments To and From Mt. Gox · · Score: 1

    I thought it was because Saddam owed some other countries money? If the government toppled then the debt would never be paid.

  15. Re:Basic html and css on Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me · · Score: 1

    lol, yes. Anything to format the original three lines from becoming one long one.

  16. Re:Basic html and css on Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me · · Score: 1

    missing br tags : /

  17. Re:Spectrum allocation on Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band · · Score: 1

    Very cool chart, thanks.

  18. Sorry man, i don't think you get Long Term Support (LTS). You aren't adding features to the OS. You are patching security problems. Your phone can't go from 2.2 to 4, sorry. I don't think any android phone currently has an LTS option, just like windows phones. I still have a winmo 6.2 and the marketplace literally 404's.

  19. That's news to me. I see almost every graphics device in the kernel: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.9.2/drivers/video/
    Unless you have hardware that doesn't have an opensource driver, of course. Because they can't put closed source into the kernel. You can pin that on specific gpu makers, not linux.

  20. So you ran security updates on XP for 9 years and your wifi didn't break? Glad to hear it. You can do the same with linux. Pick a distro with LTS and you'll be fine for at least 5 years.

    Also, Android still uses linux.. it's the exact same driver system. You compile it in or as a module.

  21. Re:A Passing Thought... on No New S-300 Air-Defense System To Syria Says Russia — But Maybe Old Ones · · Score: 1

    I'd say the Shiite are more "ours" than Sunni. Just look at Iraq.

  22. Re:Why bother? on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    I use SteamMover to copy over games that have loading problems to the SSD. http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
    It's "ancient" now but still works great : )

  23. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 3, Funny

    As long as you're okay with them redacting half of it.

  24. Re:USA:Israel::China:BestKorea on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 1

    That's why the US has draft registration without a draft? No, you're wrong. There is draft registration so that there can be a draft. I think you partially understand how the US Army works though. But don't think that recruits have to be strong or fit. They just have to be able to follow directions. Training will make them fit. That's why selective service is ALL 18 year old males. That's pretty selective, eh?

    Also, you are constantly an asshole on slashdot. I'm failing "words have meanings"? I believe that is typically called misunderstanding. Stop attacking anyone who disagrees with you before you end up a lonely old man.

  25. Re:USA:Israel::China:BestKorea on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 1

    lol, yes. Registration for the thing the US doesn't have, right?