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  1. STRIKE! on Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll go on strike over this.

    Oh, hang on - it's in Montreuil - nobody has a job there anyway.

  2. Re:hence the old joke... on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why aren't you using the A and B scales?

  3. Re:Oh noes!! on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They said something similar when Ian Smith was in charge.

  4. Re:Black boxes ? on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    One would think that the data of those black boxes would reveal what was going on.

    I wouldn't, but then I'm not labouring under the misapprehension that they record 360x180 degree HD video.

    They capture basic flight parameters like speed, altitude, angle, control positions etc. If the tail was blown off by a bomb, bitten off by a dragon or fell off of its own accord because some vodka-sozzled dunderhead used chewing gum instead of rivets the trace would be pretty similar.

    Voice? There might be the first syllable of whatever the Russian is for "Shit!". If you're lucky.

    Not that there's aren't other ways to tell. Residues, shrapnel, distortion, teeth marks. But the recorder? Nah.

  5. Re:Maybe they're playing a different RPG than I am on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a hoot at parties, aren't you? Hypothetically speaking.

  6. Re:Sheesh Dice... on Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" · · Score: 1

    In my case, the fact that it attracts stupid comments from idiots like you.

  7. Re:I wouldn't put it past Putin on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    And what would he have to gain from that exactly?

    Justification for escalation. Full scale ground invasion, tactical nukes, who knows what he's planning?

    because Russia has been going out of their way to deny it was a bombing. Pretty sure that's not consistent with the actions of a government that had intentionally staged a bombing.

    If you'd think for a moment, that's exactly what they would do.

  8. Re:Global Touble-Makers Vote: Yes on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Where have the past 2 years major data breaches that we know about occurred: Off-Cloud.

    FTFY.

  9. Re:Maybe they're playing a different RPG than I am on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1

    But every time I played it, it broke down with inevitable real life fights and arguments.

    You got off lightly. I had fatalities once. Mind you, it turns out I got the wrong kind of RPG. Could happen to anyone.

  10. Re:And yet every idiot claiming it causes violence on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1

    That takes me back. I remember all that crap in the papers from around 1990.

    There was something in White Dwarf[1] about it along the lines of "So such and such serial killer played RPGs. Well nearly every murderer or rapist has played football at some time".

    Five years before that it was heavy metal music and Kerrrrrrrrrang!!!!!!.

    [1] This was before GW went all shite.

  11. Re:They're oversimplifying the problem on Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    True. But on the other hand, a full size helicopter is much easier to detect and shoot.

  12. Re:MS approach IS Swiss Army knife, not scalpel on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't say I've faced that specific situation, but if the font colour is based on a thing (like how overdue a bill is) then I'd have thought the obvious thing was to sort on that thing.

  13. Re:Maybe they're playing a different RPG than I am on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    She was trying to open up enough of a gap that she could stop & reload it. Doing it on the move would incur a -2 dexterity modifier.

  14. Is there a transcript? on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Is there a transcript? I don't have time to watch the video as I'm getting my hair cut on my barber's advice.

  15. Re:M$ and Redhat? on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Systemd wants to be rundll32.exe, so in a way it makes perfect sense.

  16. Re:replaced by digital on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Garbage. Antikythera mechanism, admiralty fire control table, a slide rule.

    A gear, cam or rod can move by less than the thickness of a red cunt hair. Mechanical is inherently analog unless you really go out of your way to make it digital.

  17. When Britain first aro-o-o-o-ose on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from the colour of the aforementioned main, what's an Azure and why would I want one?

  18. Re: M$ and Redhat? on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 2

    It can also stand for Multiple Sclerosis.

    It's not like anyone would get them confused. One wears you down gradually and destroys your physical faculties until instead of fearing death you're longing for it. The other is an incurable disease of the nervous system.

  19. Seems like a waste of ingenuity on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I reckon a similar device could be used for calculating the trajectories of artillery shells. This might come in useful if an Asian nation launches a sneak attack on a US naval base.

    Unlikely, I know.

  20. Re:Even if it is correct on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 1

    He's probably one of the numerous fat idiots who think truth isn't a defence under UK law because they read something on the internet written by a fat idiot.

    For the benefit of him and any other DeVry alumni.

  21. frisyt on Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No doubt the actual article says something completely different, but I can't be arsed to read it.

  22. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not necessarily that you're a bad risk, it could be that you have low profit potential because you'll probably pay it off in time, not roll it over, etc.

    Somebody's bonus depends on you getting stung for fees & extra interest, you heartless bastard!

  23. Terror suspects claim they were picking mushrooms on What Your Photos Know About You (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody must have had the same idea. Have you thought of uploading your own, but with the location data frigged? Sewage farm, middle of an airport runway, army practice range ...

    If I see it on the news I'll know it was you.

  24. Frosty on Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon (minix3.org) · · Score: 1

    Tanenbaum: Do you think I should hire a limo?

    Mrs Tanenbaum: To shuttle them to the conference, dear?

    Tanenbaum: No, to hold it in.

  25. Re:The browser wars are over on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    The mere fact that it's not Firefox, which seems to get more annoying with every release, is reason enough to give it a try.