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  1. You're fixated on a method of warfare as though it's the cause. In reality, groups like ISIS are founded and spread via religious ideology. They rape and pillage the local with zeal. They don't protest and cry about a bunch of drones saying to the effect "no fair, bad America is not letting us voice our relative morality"

    I say fuck um and use napalm, nukes, robots, and guidance missiles. I'm sure all those could be powered by a cheap smartphone to boot. Oh, and spider mines!. And tech that seeks and blows up is nifty!

    I DO NOT CARE!

  2. Re:It all depends on the workload... on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Booting from PCIe is not well supported at this point

    -_- The *act* of booting from PCIe is well understood and in fact supported; please see RAID cards and other HBAs (Host Bus Adapters). From that statement of yours, I can only conclude you be speaking of native device drivers for current OS builds (without having to rely on supplemental media for device driver loading). That I can at least understand.

  3. Re:SATA Slots. on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    FYI That's called RAID 10 (aka RAID 1+0). Requires a minimum of four disks in the array.

  4. Re:SSDs on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 2

    840 EVO by chance? There's a confirmed bug (with firmware update and reconditioning process) that will slow an 840 EVP to a crawl. I've personally seen it happen with several laptops recently upgraded. Once I applied the update, performance resumed back to original spec. And, these were full from anywhere from 60% to 80%; didn't matter much. Link below for update

    Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software

  5. It's certainly not cost; executing someone costs far more than life does.

    Ok, morality and ethics aside for a moment...BULLSHIT! As the other poster pointed out, the cost of legal proceedings, food, shelter, and correctional facility staff get expensive. However, the cost of the actual materials involved in execution and cremation (burial and funeral paid by family if they wish) is far less.

    Me? If members of ISIS are going to continue down a path of heinous activities then I vote we drop them where they stand. In fact, there's no honor in killing. Lets me honest about this. No, just drone strike them from above. The idea of a moral high-ground is a bunch of feel-good BS. If they remain a threat, just eliminate said threat.

    Judge me how you wish, but I'm all about results. And if I had my druthers, you would get solid results! Just know full well you wouldn't agree with how I could achieve them.

    War is hell, and we're all hypocrites. So be it.

  6. Re: Execute the fastest way possible on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    And if they have titanium implants that could jam the machine?? No, bad idea all around.

  7. Re: Execute the fastest way possible on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    Without the pumping of a beating heart, that oxygen is quickly depleted by the neurons closest to the red blood cells.

    A full heart attack (not partial, but zero pumping action) will quickly drop someone.

  8. Re: Idiotic on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Killing terrorists isn't so much as judgement as it is a confirmed method of neutralizing a threat that poses a clear a present danger. Otherwise, we wouldn't be incarcerating them in the first place. I'm sure many soldiers would be better off not capturing them in the first place as it puts their own lives in danger to do so.

  9. Re:Godzirra!!! on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 0

    Good

  10. Re: They're called trees. on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not cutting down the trees is a useful step, because mature growth fixes more CO2 than new growth.

    You're not thinking long-term. Eventually the trees will die, decompose, and go back into the system as CO2. No, what you want to be doing is cutting down trees after their maximum growth rate has been achieved, then sequester the logs someplace. Clearing old growth makes room for newer faster growing trees that will soak up more CO2 than if you left old growth in its place. The only advantage of that (leaving old growth behind) is a more stable ecosystem as it would render that area less disturbed.

  11. Re:The root problem is the body shop mentality on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    That is why I work for a MSP (Managed Service Provider) that handles outsourced IT solutions for small and medium businesses. The SMB market is huge in numbers, so the opportunity exists both locally and for local IT shops. And being that we're not having to deal with Enterprise, we don't get caught up in the bureaucrat BS of the decision makers being hamstrung. Plus, the communication is more direct, frank, and professional in person. The downside?? Benefits sucks, and pay is capped. Also the service level sucks more the larger the MSP grows. In effect, the nature of the industry is self-regulating on a sliding scale of body count to quality provided ratio.

  12. Re:Isn't Cheaper, the American Dream? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    ...apply only to "certain banks and other financial institutions."

    Translation: Only the banks and financial institutions that greased the palms of congress!!!

  13. Re: Shocked he survived on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 2

    You're thinking logically. Politicians don't however. As such, it would have been perceived beneficial to shoot it down to send a message "don't fucking do that!".

  14. Re:Rival? on Chinese Ninebot Buys US Rival Segway · · Score: 1
  15. Re:maybe they should put the money into cleaner ai on Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools · · Score: 1

    With billions of Chinese that can't be regulated sans an iron fist (otherwise that takes too much effort to keep cracking the whip), it only makes sense to make them self-sufficent much in the same way farmers are today. Basically, stay in your own community, STFU, and make your own shit. That's the Chinese mantra inside the mainland.

  16. Re:Note to the terminology-impaired on Chinese Hacker Group Targets Air-Gapped Networks · · Score: 1

    Depends on what side of the network you're on. If some fucking moron picks up a bright lime green USB thumb drive laying in the drive way, brings it inside, and plugs it in out of curiosity, what are you going to do after the fact? Yeah, you now fired that individual. Meanwhile, a trojan virus (in the true sense of the world) has been introduced inside the network.

  17. Re:Disturbing this is even being openly discussed on The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    I told all you bitches! PRISM compliant hardware; the velvet gloves come off the feds. In fact, they might audit your data just so all you fucking sheep can get used to the "new normal" of security.

  18. Re:No Bad management is causing the drought on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 2

    Well being that it shouldn't have happened in the first place, coming back down to reality from a life of a 'high' is a real bitch, ant it?

  19. Re:UAC is for idiots on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Cryptowall 3.0 will hit your box via drive-by download if UAC is turn off. Unless you value your data (and that of the network drive you're mapped too), you really should leave UAC enabled!

  20. Re:Awesome job guys! on US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects · · Score: 1

    AC, just to clarify to you and everyone else: I'm *NOT* a nuclear physicist or weapons expert. My only (basic) knowledge of the subject is based on publicly available read material over time.

  21. Re:Awesome job guys! on US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects · · Score: 2

    If I recall, as plutonium ages, helium builds up in the crystal lattice. This might have a performance impact on the weapon yield. I'm not sure if the cores are ever smelted back down and reformed to deal with this problem; if it's even a problem in fact. Haven't a clue. Other than old stockpile simulation testing, I'm not sure what else could be the point in all this.

  22. Re:Time to stop considering individual components. on Intel's Core M Performance Is Erratic Between Devices · · Score: 1

    In real-world usage, nothing tangible worth pursuing in OCed or low latency memory. The delta in expense is better put to use in purchasing the next CPU clock up in SKU. Unless you're a benchmark queen or need uber low transaction (HFT servers for stock market usage), you're just pissing in the wind.

  23. Re: And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 2

    what we have now is a 'grab, take, return home' situation

    It's called 'remittance', and it's a huge massive BFD that hardly anyone is talking about. Please take a look at this map and stats in the following link. THAT is where US dollars are flowing.

    http://www.pewsocialtrends.org...

  24. HFT on FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" · · Score: 1

    So will Wall Street be forced to disclose their trading algorithms as well?

  25. Re: wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    You think you're having to pay for it now?! Man, just you wait until the price per Kilowatt rises! Once the coal plants shutdown, you will surely pay for it then!!!