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  1. Re:Easy way.... on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 1

    I could have fixed it for them without having to change the PCB and front panel: remove the panel button, and make engineers use a PEN to push the switch. You know, like how 99.9% of all other gear is reset to defaults.

  2. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    First of all, read the box. You're probably looking at the ridiculous "1/2 cup" serving size. Yeah, unless you're eating something else with it, that's not realistic. Second, note the milk. It's probably skim. Skim is an unnecessary torture. I'll take a few fat calories in 1%.

  3. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    Muffins are bread, really.

  4. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    2. End subsidies.

    FTFY

  5. Re:Any possibility that sunscreen causes cancer? on Miami Installs Free Public Sunscreen Dispensers In Fight Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    Parts of Europe are at a lower latitude than parts of Africa.

  6. Re:SPF -vs- percentages on Miami Installs Free Public Sunscreen Dispensers In Fight Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    There is already a useful system. The SPF number is a multiplier. If you can usually stay outside for 10 minutes without burning, an SPF 30 means you can stay outside for 5 hours (assuming you reapply it if sweat/water removes it). The trick is figuring out how long you can really be fully exposed without burning. It's not something I like to determine empirically.

  7. Re:Anti-Sunscreen on Miami Installs Free Public Sunscreen Dispensers In Fight Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    That lady is so pale, she's probably experienced minor sunburn multiple times and never remembered.

    I think sunscreen should come in three easy levels: SPF 15, SPF 30, and Irish.

  8. I've never heard of, nor seen, a third degree burn from the sun.

  9. Re:One more reason we need restrictions on drones. on Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open · · Score: 1

    How is it that this jackass says something so foolish, and I'm the one who gets modded down "Troll"?

  10. Re:For starters... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    That you'd call Reagan a charlatan indicates just how ignorant you are. It's setting the bar pretty low, but Carter is still better out of office than he was in it. One of the best Presidents ever? Not in any academic's opinion.

  11. Re: For starters... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a conservative, and you're a troll.

  12. Re:For starters... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    Do I need one? I didn't say this was an ex-President contest.

  13. Re:if you are that ignorant of his work... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    then you should be reminded about how horrible you are.

    I'm not ignorant. That's my opinion, and your worthless trolling is your horrible opinion.

  14. Re:He was "found at a marina"?? on Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open · · Score: 1

    That is a good question. It makes me wonder if cops watch these people, waiting for them to crash the drone because it's more fun to arrest someone than to just kick them out with a warning.

  15. Re:My ship has finally come in! on Pioneer Looks To Laserdisc Tech For Low-Cost LIDAR · · Score: 1

    I already tried this, but my problem was that the vehicle would flip over every 30 minutes. Good luck.

  16. Re:One more reason we need restrictions on drones. on Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open · · Score: 0, Troll

    The same reason we need new gun control laws once someone breaks them to commit a crime with a gun. I guess people think when you break a law, it needs to be fixed, like your dishwasher.

  17. Re:Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    I guess because there's that small strip you can't mow, which kills off the saplings. Except for the cedars, those things keep coming back.

  18. Re:Regeneration on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    In the northeast USA, most new housing is built either on formerly commercial land or farmland. No trees.

  19. Natural causes on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    How many trees are we losing due to natural causes?

  20. Re: Heh on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I'm not buying this. Or the towing thing. Why would a company open itself to trouble like this? It's enough to escort people to the door peacefully and let them go, so why tase them and face a lawsuit? Who ever heard of towing their cars so that they can't leave?

  21. Re:Programmed behaviour is programmed behaviour. on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    Maybe your government has a bad rule. Mine (in PA, and probably in NJ and NY) has the following rules.

    1. Come to a full stop.
    2. If someone was there before you, yield to them.
    3. If you got there at the same time as someone else, yield to them if they're on the right.

  22. Re:Best solution: on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 2

    I too enjoy taking shortcuts instead of fixing things properly.

  23. Re:To be expected on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can query what is installed with Powershell. I don't know if you can enumerate the associated files.

  24. Re:Here's an obvious power saving solution... on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    Half? I kinda think it was only a small subset of your devices that was actually using all the power. My cable box has a DVR, so it basically uses almost as much power when "off" as when on. Smart TVs and blu-ray players might keep their CPUs booted up so that you don't have to wait every time you turn them on. Then we have some defective cell phone chargers that use power even when nothing is plugged into them. That's why I got a Kill-a-watt. I'd rather not unplug everything in my house.

  25. Re:And? on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    The think the more important note here is that the guy with a 707 HP Challenger Hellcat is probably not driving it to work every day. Even if he were, he's a vanishingly small portion of the vehicle fleet. The frustration of the greenies over SUVs when they were incredibly popular was well placed, but losing your shit over elite musclecars is straining out a gnat to swallow a camel.

    Gaming systems are much the same. I'm more annoyed with the knuckleheads who purposely turn off their energy saving features like screen blanking.