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  1. Re:Fail on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    Or you could get a dedicated console for less, that performs better at games, and runs a version of Windows; like, the Xbox One! Though personally, I'm into big-rig gaming so whatev.

  2. Re:Discrimination on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    Let the risks be known, including the insurance companies that foot the bill for injury. But whether or not someone plays the game is none of your business, or anyone else's for that matter. In other words, they have the liberty to be self-destructive !

  3. Re:Hiring climate on World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers · · Score: 2

    Worse. The latest *hotness* is all about community support and open forums. Have a problem with a product or service?? Go online or talk to your co-workers and neighbors. Got a billing question? E-mail us and maybe it won't get lost in our junk/spam folder.

    Phone line? Yeah, business will soon be cutting that cord real quick. It's nothing but a cost center.

  4. Re:Impressive... on World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers · · Score: 1

    You know damn well what the reason is! Your questions are rhetorical. For those that aren't aware, this is further training and conditioning of the customer base to justify the cheap call center labor in India. Because, smart people are expensive to employ.

  5. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    To control other people?? Or as a form of cultural self-governance?

  6. Re:$3.49? on New MakerBot CEO Explains Layoffs and the Company's New Vision · · Score: 2

    Considering those aforementioned products have a very high markup being that they're as much fashion as functionality. But lets assume $175. How much of that goes into R&D and factory tooling / production?

  7. Thank the maintenance light on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    The main cause of premature engine wear is oil not being changed as scheduled. I'm not talking about every 3 to 5k miles, I'm talking about people not changing until every 15 to 20! The maintenance light really helped in this regard. It forced drivers to see a nagging light on the dash. The cheapest way to "clear it" is to have the oil changed. Yes, it's trivial to clear it yourself, but for 99.9% of drivers out there, this method need not apply.

  8. Re:Deadmans Switch on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    What this devices is isn't a deadman switch, it's more like a booby trap. It's actively checking for any change in USB port activity.

  9. Re:Deadmans Switch on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. A deadman's switch is when you have a PC constantly asking for password verification ever X amount of minutes. At the time you don't respond when expected, the logic is that you're "dead", and thus commences the process of self-destruction.

  10. Re: Warp drive? on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    Blow through that limit? Are you sure about that?? Space is not a pure vacuum, so hitting very tiny spec of dust would know doubt be catastrophically distructive at those speeds!

  11. Re: This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 2

    Well in that case, I've got plenty of Comcast bills to donate. They just need to be paid in full.

  12. Re:This move is rational for a public company on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    I actually kinda feel more concerned for the H1Bs that will be tending to their fires and burning through their lives at both ends.

    Don't. It will simply crash and burn and a new site/platform will be rebuilt from the ground up. They'll justify it via overall cost savings they now have with outsourced IT.

  13. Re:Kill the entire H1B program on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Actually, anti-H1B is progressive. The problem here is that the progressive moment in government has turned fascist. The Republican party is no better in this regard, they just have a different set of economic interests.

    My prediction, the first candidate that's publicly Anti-H1B will get a huge amount of attention by the public; more so if there's a more libertarian bent. Effectively, both the Tea Party and Coffee Party are conservative and progressive offshoots, but both lean libertarian. This is where the grassroots of America is heading; libertarian with American interests first.

  14. Re: gosh on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    Your second point is valid with regards to delivery. But the first one, please see Starfish Prime. We all know fragile the NE electric grid is. Knock that offline, and it will be a very bad week, if not year. And then there's the introduction to the IC. Depending on strength, an EMP could fry gates on the chip. Now imagine what isn't controlled with circuit boards complete with CPU and RAM ICs. It's too frightening to think about the logistics involved in get all that replaced. Without running water pumps and electricity, it would make Katrina look like a walk in the park.

  15. Re: gosh on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    Or Iran could use one in space over N. America to knock out infrastructure via EMP. That would certainly cripple us with a renewed effort America from breaking down into civil war and anarchy. Iran meanwhile owns the ME.

  16. Re: Well... on Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    The Apple Watch just suffered a massive setback. There's a component failure that's traced to China. Japanese side seems just fine.

    Ok, so lives weren't directly on the line, but the livelyhood of the employees were. When you fuckup with Apple, there are no second chances. In fact, this has to anger CCP officials very much.

    Taking action after the fact means squat; especially if it's a habitual cultural attitude against excellence and quality.

  17. Re: Lets Replace Mickey on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Why not?! At the end of the day, they're all muppets anyways; and America needs more muppets. No strings attached!

  18. Re: Well... on Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    Then that will be a lot of dead taikonauts. Corruption and deceit run deep in Chinese industries. Material failure isn't an option, nor should orbiting coffins.

  19. Re: Does it matter? on TeslaCrypt Isn't All That Cryptic · · Score: 1

    Not even that complicated. If the issue is document retention against ransomware (and I've delt with the fallout from CryptoWall 2.0, it's nasty), then what's really needed is Grandfather-Father-Son for cloud based backups. Being a reseller, I'll ask Mozy about this idea. Hopefully the bite on the idea.

  20. Re: Child support on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Worse: in Texas at least, you can be married, and gets pregnant via an affair. Now the biological father is a deadbeat; always has been. The husband files for devorce and the court slaps him with child support; out of the interest of the child of course.

  21. Re: Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    The revolution in religion was monotheism; the idea of just one God.

  22. Re: Does it matter? on TeslaCrypt Isn't All That Cryptic · · Score: 1

    MozyHome - 30 days
    MozyPro - 60 days
    Mozy Enterprise or Pro purchased from a reseller - 90 days

    Those are the retention periods FYI. And yes, I work for an MSP that resells Mozy Pro. It's not cheap, but then again neither is your data.

  23. Re:Has to be worse? on ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Equally bad perhaps? Who cares, block it! The industry is already an oligopoly. Any merger of these companies is unwarranted.

  24. Re:GPS on A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System · · Score: 1

    Battery drain would be a huge issue depending on frequency and time the results collected and uploaded. Though starting with the iPhone5s, the M7 was introduced which is a dedicated co-processor specifically for monitoring and processing accelerometer based data. So, that should help. And being in California, one can assume the quick adoption of iPhone tech into the public upon release. It is silicon valley after all. Anyways, a phone laying flat on a table or desk should be helpful, though filtering out the SNR could be more troublesome with people causing the vibrations on said table in the first place.

    BTW, those sensors are pretty sensitive. Check out an app called SensorKinetics and see for yourself what they're capable. I was rather amazed myself.

  25. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    Solve the infrastructure, charging speed, and capacity (range), then we can talk about EVs. Otherwise, you're catering to the urbanite of which many can already walk and take public transportation in a densely populated city already.

    Hybrid vehicles work fine. In fact, you don't really need a large capacity for improved fuel efficiency. You just need enough capacity to capture regenerative braking and accelerate from a stop. Just trade out the battery pack for super capacitors; once they become cost effective of course.