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  1. Re:Editorial on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that people are not educated about how to use the internets?

  2. Re:Yet Vinyl still endures on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    I used to do this. If I really liked the LP, it went on a better tape like Maxell XL-II. Some record companies used to cheap out on the liner notes on cassette, so buying the LP guaranteed the full experience.

  3. Re:Yet Vinyl still endures on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    LOL... of course, I doubt it was actually wax unless it was a studio master. But old 78s (the kind that shatter when you drop one) were made of shellac. Shellac dissolves in alcohol. Maybe someone had a little drinking accident at his last house party and forgot to tell the host?

  4. Re:So in other words, it will be just like Firewir on Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are a few things wrong.

    I haven't checked lately, but PS/2 wasn't designed as a universal port. Keyboard and mouse had dedicated ports, although the connector was the same and easily confused. Most servers corrected this issue electronically in the mid 2000s, but I still ran into it on desktops where the user couldn't figure out why their mouse didn't work.

    A keystroke logger can be attached to a PS/2 cable and be entirely transparent to the OS.

    PS/2 connectors have pins that can bend, and are more difficult to orient correctly.

  5. Re:It is God. on Supermassive Black Hole At the Centre of Galaxy May Be Wormhole In Disguise · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hopefully, in the hands of someone who DOESN'T mod up trolls.

  6. Re:It is God. on Supermassive Black Hole At the Centre of Galaxy May Be Wormhole In Disguise · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice straw man you've built there.

  7. Re:It is God. on Supermassive Black Hole At the Centre of Galaxy May Be Wormhole In Disguise · · Score: 3

    In the Celestial Temple?

  8. Re:Breaking news on Zuckerberg's $100 Million Education Gift Solved Little · · Score: 1

    The child is not going to the public school, and you're complaining that the money that would have paid for their education is going to the institution that is actually teaching them?

  9. Re:The Cloud on Flaws In Popular Solar Power Management Platform Could Crash the Grid · · Score: 1

    He forgot to calculate about $500-1000 to add a few off-grid receptacles to your house. That is, unless you want to put every low-power device in your house in one room.

  10. Re:The Cloud on Flaws In Popular Solar Power Management Platform Could Crash the Grid · · Score: 1

    Because what everyone wants to do is install separate receptacles in every room for low-draw devices.

    Copper wiring is expensive.

  11. Less malicious explanation on McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database · · Score: 1

    I'm no McAfee advocate by any means, but the span of time between the initial sales consultation and the unauthorized scraping indicates that the person involved with the scraping might not have been involved with the sales process and was ignorant of the need for a PO. The clumsy way they scraped without even trying to conceal their user agent indicates incompetence, rather than malice. Of course, McAfee's size and influence holds them to a higher standard that should preclude anyone running rogue like this.

  12. Re:selling firearms state-to-state (was Re: Hey Ti on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 2

    And of course, that means undergoing a background check.

  13. Re:Hurray for Japan on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's because their police treat the people in their community like patrons, and build courteous relationships with them?

    Maybe it's because Japanese culture is ingrained with a respect for authority?

    Maybe it's the tentacle porn?

  14. Re:A cat on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    What hit him? A Plymouth Road Runner?

  15. Re:well on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 0

    Of course, some dumbshit modded up the GP post without even bothering to read the article.

  16. Re:WTF Is "Dead"? on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    No. Blackberries aren't even good at making calls.

  17. Re:But, but, but⦠autism!!1!11! on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 0

    [citation needed]

    Always a conspiracy theory with the anti-nutter nutters.

  18. Re:But, but, but⦠autism!!1!11! on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    Because I'm sure that villagers in Sudan go to former Playboy Playmates for their medical advice.

  19. Re:Lamepocalypse on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Funny

    You obviously haven't been in a room with seven trumpet players.

    Disclaimer: I'm a trumpet player.

  20. Re:Three Weeks in ISP Hell on Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion · · Score: 0

    ^ This post is certified 100% content free.

  21. Re:stumbling over progress on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 2

    You should have tried OS/2 with the 486DX. The SX laptop would have been slow with anything but DOS; no local bus and a glacial hard disk is killer. I had OS/2 on a 486DX-40 with 8 MB RAM and it was great.

  22. Re:Constitutional on Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect In Our Search Data · · Score: 1

    That's because they can't spell it.

  23. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't hold it long enough and now my Chevrolet went into hibernation instead. It got really dicey when the windshield went blank.

  24. Let me be clear, I'm on the right side of history, unlike my opponents, who should get in back and let me drive. Period.

  25. Re:Sure, I guess I agree on Kerry Says US Is On the "Right Side of History" When It Comes To Online Freedom · · Score: 1

    If there are a few people (and there are FEW) who oppose the President's policies because he's half-black, that isn't really a problem any more than people who oppose his policies because he drinks beer, or likes his thermostat at 74 in the winter, or wastes taxpayer money on his wife's vacations, or smokes. They're really of no consequence.

    People who try to commit crimes against the President because he's half-black would be a problem.