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  1. Re:Price of data on Disc-Free Xbox One S Could Land on May 7 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    With a modern console you end up downloading multi gig updates when you install from a disk so your still stuffed

  2. and remove the French language pack from your Linux install rm -fr

  3. What's with this "naval sense?" The military defines terms only for the military. Want to get into a discussion of what a "gun" is?

    This is my rifle and this is my gun,
    this is for shooting and this is for fun

  4. Re:Stiff the creditors on Puerto Rico is Experiencing an Island-Wide Blackout (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You idea works well in practice for a company with working valuable assets. That's not the case here.

    How does any company have more working valuable assets than a territory of the USA? It has all the land a guaranteed tax base. Where as a company will probably has lest physical assets and they have to sell things in order to make money.

  5. Re: I never saw the purpose of these on Apple To Release a Cheaper MacBook Air Later This Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a special rhodium-tellurium buttplug?

    Fuck no for the proper warming of the signal you need a synthetic material for you buttplug like Polychlorotrifluoroethylene.

  6. Re:Does it matter? on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... on Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen · · Score: 1

    If you only run AMD how do you know how they compare to an Intel solution?

  8. Re:federal employees, taxpayers, Congress on Air Force Budget Reveals How Much SpaceX Undercuts Launch Prices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have seen all of this in the private sector, empire building is a problem with managers not the sector.

  9. Re:Reminding me that DoD (USA) have 13 of those!! on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    I've heard that the UK MoD 25/8 addresses aren't even connected to the routeable internet.

    I don't know if they are or not but LogMeIn Hamachi use the 25/8 space for their VPN address space.

  10. Re:"Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap" on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Costco are already paying the lawyers, they don't save any money by not going to court. They were sent a threatening letter by someone who totally failed to see what was coming.

  11. Re:"Historic thaw"? on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The embargo was a reaction to Fidel's involvement with the Kennedy assassination, that's the reason all Presidents until Obama maintained it. Perhaps now the truth can come out. ;-)

    That's quite a claim as JFK was the president who signed the embargo into law

    President John F. Kennedy secured for himself 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before enacting the Cuban trade embargo in 1962. Before signing the embargo, Kennedy requested his head of press, Pierre Salinger, to get him “1,000 Petit Upmanns.”

    Salinger first made the revelation to Cigar Aficiando magazine in 1992.

    Salinger recalled Kennedy summoning him into his office to see if he could provide "some help" in securing "a lot of cigars" by the following morning. In hindsight, it is evident that Kennedy wanted to stockpile the Cuban products before he banned their import.

    http://www.irishcentral.com/ro...

  12. Re:easy on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Rat = Rat
    Pigeon = Flying Rat
    Squirrel = Rat with good PR

  13. Re:Productivity not Security on Singapore To Cut Off Internet Access For Government Workers From 2017 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If government workers actually spent all day working, we would need about half the number of them. This would cause mass lay-offs from the public sector, flooding the jobs market with unemployed people. This would cause a spiral of wage deflation, reduced spending power, declining tax receipts, spending cuts, leading to civil unrest, and ultimately the collapse of government and social order.

    Let them have their cat videos.

    To be fair I work in the private sector and I can't see much difference between your example and all of my work places.

  14. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1
    I often see this as an excuse for poor US broad band but the low population density is because 80% of the population live in urban areas leaving the about 18% in the Mid West and 1% in Alaska which is approx 10% of the whole USA more if you discount the 7% of area which is water.

    http://www.getuwired.us/Small-Business-Web-Marketing/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Time-pop.-map.jpg

    The USA has the 182nd greatest population density out of 244 which is low but Sweden is 196th, Finland 201st and Norway 209th. Why don't you have good broad band in the conurbations?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_population_density

    By the way the Pitcairn Islands are the 240th most densely populated country with a density of 3.09/sq mi vs 90.6/sq mi for the US

  15. Re:former government facility on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Woosh....

  16. Re:WTF UK? on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    Luis Suarez left Liverpool because he kept biting people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/f...

  17. Re:fight it out in court on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    I agree totally however when you are being held at gun point by a police officer without recording equipment and a system that believes the police over the public what should you do?

  18. Re:It's more of a statement about NYC on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    London is the only place in the world that is comparable to NYC

  19. Re:It's more of a statement about NYC on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    To be fair, South Africa is now the rape capital of the world.

    Which is not to say that a system of racial oppression was to thank for keeping rape down, but rather to point out that strict policing can be associated with safer streets.

    I am not sure that reports of rape on non whites would have been recorded during apartheid

  20. Re:It's an observation, not an argument on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1
    New York is directly comparable with London they are the worlds "first" and "second" cities both are very multi-cultural and have the widest possible spread of class and income.

    Whilst the Metropolitan police are not the most beloved organisation especially with the poor and the black they can police the city without "means that are either quasi or outright intrinsically immoral"

    London metro area pop 13 614 409 murders in 2012 89 Number of police 48,661 (31,400 police officers) NYC Metro area pop 19,950,000 murders 2012 419 Number of police 49,526 (34,450 police officers)

  21. Re:Not only in Finland. on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 1

    You can pay your parking tickets in pennies.

    In the UK you can't there are maximum amounts you can pay in coins http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

  22. Re:This is ridiculous. on Researchers Find Security Flaws In Backscatter X-ray Scanners · · Score: 1

    To say that you should forfeit that right simply to board an airplane because airplanes didn't exist at the time of the Constitution is like saying I also forfeit that right when I walk out my front door because the type of concrete mixture in my sidewalk and the breed of grass grown on my lawn didn't exist at the time of the Constitution either. Perhaps I can't even get protection in my house either if I'm wearing shoes or socks, since I'm using the novel rubber-blend sole shoes and the nylon socks to "travel" around my house.

    Shh don't give them any ideas

  23. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    So, expect more events like this one until somebody decides to go back to firing squads and hanging.

    The states will not go back to shooting or hanging because they can't get people to shoot or hang people. The move to lethal injection happened because it is easier on the executioner.

  24. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    and God actually said 'Thou shalt not kill'.

    The correct interpretation is 'Thou shalt not murder'. A very significant difference. Besides, the Bible is full of tales of God telling people to kill someone, wipe out entire villages, towns and cities so obviously killing someone who has wronged society is not against Biblical doctrine (for whatever that is worth).

    Are you suggesting that you have the same understanding of these situations as God?

  25. Re:Where do you draw the line? on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1
    Sorry I fat fingered a one word answer

    Apple have a monopoly on Apple goods which can tie you into their ecosystem as easily as the Wintel ecosystem and they discontinue much earlier and less transparently.

    Capita have a monopoly on school management systems and discontinued their original SIMS product in the mid 00s and forced an upgrade to SIMS.net

    Nokia dropped symbian like a rock in 2011.

    Cisco EoL IOS releases after 48 months from release or 12 months from last sale.