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  1. Re:And the announcement will be on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Congressional Testimony on Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT 'Gag' Order (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where is the investigation into Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice's email servers?

    Not to mention that at least 3 people on the Benghazi committee flat out stated the purpose was to sabotage Clinton's campain [DISCLAIMER: I am extremely unlikely to vote for Clinton]

  3. Re:Energy in? on Carbon Dioxide From the Air Converted Into Methanol (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2
  4. Where are the Raspberry Pi Zeros? on Where Are the Raspberry Pi Zeros? (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know... Getting shot down by the Arduino P-51 Mustangs?

  5. Re:Is this really new? on Let Your Pupils Do the Typing · · Score: 1

    My late wife had an eyegaze computer made by Tobii.

    My first thought is, "How does this differ from a traditional eyegaze computer?"

  6. Re:Newbie question on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 1

    Debian GNU/HURD

  7. Re:Summaries, how do they work? on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 2

    I'm surprised, too. As was said at SCALE this year.... The first rule of Docker is that you never shut the fuck up about Docker!

  8. Re:Not a bad deal, really. on Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Man On the Moon, Dies At 85 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Go read Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon".

    Pretty much all of the moonwalkers (and CM pilots) did not experience what you are talking about.

  9. I have no idea if you're old enough to remember the "Turbo" buttons on late '80s/early '90s machines. With "Turbo" off, they'd run at 8MHz for compatibility mode. With it on, they'd run anywhere from 25MHz to a blazing 66MHz!!!!

    ObOldGuy: I once had a machine fail an install of SCO Unix (this was before they were evil) because it was ... [wait for it] ... too fast. There was a spin-delay loop in the Adaptec 1542 driver that failed on a fast machine. I was LMAO when they told me my box was too fast.

  10. Re:Oh good, a reason on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one president has ever served more than two terms, and that was FDR, and he died at the start of his fourth term, while WWII was still going on.

    Bush Sr. was a one term president.

  11. There are two kinds of people in the world... on Don't Hate Perky Morning People: It Might Be Their DNA's Fault. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are two kinds of people in the world...

    Those who are bright and cheerful in the morning,
    And those who want to take a wrench and beat the shit out of the first kind.*

    *proud member of the second category

  12. There's an XKCD for that... on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul. on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I like this one. However, I still think that identifying moderators serves no purpose.

  14. Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul. on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 2

    Remember the "IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" Guy?

    There were some pretty fun trolls back in the olden days.

    But really, I'm not sure it's necessary to post mod names. I'm not sure what it would do other than allow retaliation.

  15. Re:Nope on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'd like a nuke dropped on them?

    REACT: Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System

    And I think that Facebook will not be happy either....

  16. Re:Yeah, but who wants to run Windows? on Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Owned by MS. It's actually now Microsoft Services for Unix.

  17. Re:At work on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Testing, in the lab, when someone broke security regs and brought in an AM radio and told us, "The shuttle just blew up".

    I said, "You're shitting me."

    He turned on the radio, and nothing else got done that day.

  18. Re:Memories ... on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    As I recall, the SRBs were shipped in segments because they couldn't cure the propellant properly in a single large mass.

  19. Re:Good Egg, bad Egg on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's not our fault if the product's defective."

    Really? Damn, things have changed.

    We ordered a rackmount LCD console from them back in '04 (about $1000 or so). The vendor shipped the wrong gender cable with it. Called NewEgg. They didn't give me the "It's not our fault" line. Instead, they shipped the correct cable at their expense. Arrived two days later.

  20. Re:The solution? on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Read your dollar bill.

    "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"

    They'd damn well BETTER accept cash.

  21. Re:Stepping back.... on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    <sarcasm>
    It's been reverted by some deletionist editor.
    </sarcasm>

  22. Re:Stop these stories on Russia Forming Space Alliance With Iran, May Fly Iranian Astronaut (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    It would have been better if you'd run a story about the Russian ruble. It's dying.

    I won't believe that until Netcraft confirms it.

  23. Re:this is blackmail? on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 2

    Clearly, the blackmailers need to move to the "Other Other Operation"...

    DINSDALE!!!!

  24. Hey, Eric Barnett: Thomas Paine (remember him?) says hello, as do the authors of the Federalist Papers.

  25. Re:One kind of employee on Google Has Toughest Interview Process For Developers, But Not the Worst (getvoip.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the last time I spoke with Google about a job (I interviewed there some years ago, and get sporadic calls asking if I'm still interested), they were quite upfront about the fact that they were first and foremost an Advertising Company.

    You may not like the fact that it's their primary business, but they do tell you what you are signing up for.