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  1. Re: APS is right on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 1

    At least during the day, in Arizona, that shouldn't be a problem, use mirrors to focus the light and heat the aluminum. No need to waste energy converting to electricity then back to heat.

  2. Re:minute differences on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    Right, because you can actually claim that you were temporary insane ... while you pulled off a complicated string of technical accomplishments over the course of months of time.

    And you don't get 10 years the first time, but when you've done it several times, they do tend to start getting annoyed.

    This guy was clearly fully aware of his intention and thought about it. He's done this many times before. He's not a guy who accidentally beat someone to death after catching that someone raping a woman. He's just a thug who broken in with some electrons rather than a brick through window. His punishment is no worse than if he had physically broken in.

    The wrong answer only looks better because of your ignorance of the actual situation.

  3. Re:The usual things we say: on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    a) Repeat offender here, he was kicked out of school for doing it, then did it again to another company and went to jail for 2 years
    b) Except it isn't in this case, he's lucky he only got 10 years. He's repeatedly shown that he's not going to stop.
    c) You have no idea. Anonymous is a name used when the media doesn't know who to blame. Nothing more. Stop thinking its an actual group of people that work together. Its not really different than saying 'pirates'

  4. Re:so what if they are criminals? on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    Getting a blow job in a dozen states in the USA makes you a criminal, pure and simple. don't try to make excuses for your crimes.

    Dude, if I could get my wife to give me a blow job, which is illegal in this state, I'd be fucking happy to go to jail!

    Speaking of smoking ... I hear some cyprus hill calling. Fortunately, they've made it pretty much legal in my state (misdemeanor with no time served for personal use), even heard of cops just letting people go if they have tiny amounts on them.

  5. Re:Fuck off on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    So when I shoot you in the face. .. its your fault your face is too inferior to stand up to my gun?

    You're an idiot, and Hammond is a criminal. You don't understand the nature of living in a society rather than living alone on an island. You don't get to tell the rest of us we don't understand the nature of information after you do something with it we've clearly all agreed is unacceptable.

    You are just as unrepentant as Hammond is, and should you get caught for hacking, they would be right to jump straight to a more severe punishment since you seem to utterly fail to be able to get along with those around you.

  6. Re:You've missed the point entirely on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    Where I live, a first ticket in a long time will usually get you a pass, you don't even pay a fine but you do have to go to court and ask nicely.

    Second ticket, you're getting fined, even if you've got a good reason.

    Third ticket in 3 years? Hope you like driving a scooter, cause thats what you've got for the next 6 months.

    Repeaters WILL EVENTUALLY DO SOMETHING SERIOUS, even if it doesn't seem like its a big deal. That speeder may run over my kid on the way to school because he was in a hurry and the warning he got didn't sink in.

    And let me tell you, if that happens, the least of his concerns will be what the prison system does to him.

  7. Re:Sorry, but not here on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    You need medication and therapy. Theres some serious things wrong with you.

  8. Re:Sorry, but not here on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    You need your ass kicked.

    WW3: Internet Edition? Seriously ... give me a fucking break. You have no idea what war is, or hard times, or a bad government. The problem with America being on top of the food chain for so long is that idiots like you start equating things our ancestors would have died to have with the likes of war.

    You need some old soldier to come out of the woodwork and give you an ass beating and torture session like a real war, then maybe you'll get over your silly idea that life is so horrible right now.

  9. Re:Sorry, but not here on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    House Arrest, where their movements are tracts and they can only go to designated places, is one good option. Monetary fines work too, and for some people, just getting yelled at is enough.

    You've got essentially absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I suggest you spend some time at the court house in any major city and watch the repeat offenders. Watch them laugh at a stupid sentence like house arrest. You live in a fairy tale.

  10. Re:Sorry, but not here on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    Except we don't actually put the violent offenders and non-violent offenders in the same groups, so its like putting a box of lollipops in the next wing over and letting them look at the box once in a while.

  11. Re:sounds like a bloated pos to me on Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements · · Score: 1

    Yes. Its another example of change for the sake of change rather than meaningful development. Thats obnoxious and wasteful.

  12. Re:Same goes for Doctors. on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    ...

    What you should have taken from it was simply that they doctors don't know what they are talking about with cancer, which is VERY true.

    You're choice to go pick some other method that is even less likely to be accurate just shows stupidity as an example.

    What a normal person does in the AGW debate is say 'how come every time I hear about this, its way worse than last time, and we're all going to be underwater before the end of my life ... how many times can it be twice as bad while I'm still alive?'

    And then people stop listening.

    Welcome to the world as we know it. People are so tired of listening to the OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING, ITS SO MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT that any actual science on the subject has lost all respect. You can only cry wolf every month for some many years before we get tired of listening to your crap.

  13. Re:Models all the way down on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    Which can be made inaccurate by all sorts of natural environmental conditions that put it WELL beyond the margin of error thats acceptable for the numbers they're working with.

  14. Re:If all the world's ice melted... on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    That map paints a scary picture ... too bad in most cases people would just move inland a few miles to the new coast line and life would go on.

    Some regions would get obliterated, but for the most part, the world would go on, just have new maps.

  15. Re:We are looking very fucked recently on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    Its amusing how we freak out about something ... like say Jellyfish blooms ... when we start observing them ... but have no historical data to compare with ...

  16. Re:OK, enough on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    You know many deserts were once forests, right?

    Climates change, with or without humans to cause global warming. The earth is not a static place, and your temp changes are WAY to fast to go along with the uberscaryscience that get spewed, so try again.

    What you're experiencing is called change. It probably isn't all that related to AGW, could just be something as simple as larger populations in your area, creating different ground conditions that change the weather. Ask the guys and gals on Easter Island how you can change your environment rather quickly.

  17. Re:Leveraging existing infrastructure on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    So ... the inferred the temp from several hundred miles away ... tell me again how those are real measurements?

  18. Re:How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    Harder than keeping the research stations there? Seriously?

  19. Re:Amazing on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    Of course AGW is being exploited, but the change is still real,

    Yes, change happens. Thats ALL ANYONE can take away from the whole debate ... is that change is happening. No one, not even the scientists who are screaming that we'll all be dead in 20 years have a clue ... we know this because every other week they come out and tell us about how the previous data was wrong, and its way worse than we thought ...

    Its so much worse than we originally thought, scientists have calculated the Earth turned into a massive desert about 40 years ago and everyone is dead, this is all just a figment of the imagination of the last man dying.

    Denial is easy when the people speaking obviously are making shit up as they go.

  20. Its always so much worse than it was last week on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is it that EVERY SINGLE WEEK there is some new story about how AGW is WAY worse than we thought.

    You want to know why no one gives a shit about AGW? This is why? You can only tell me my life is over tomorrow for so many days before I realize you're talking out your ass ... even if I'm a stupid moron.

    EVERY FUCKING THING THAT HAPPENS IS CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING ...

    And no one gives a shit because common sense tells us that we should be dead by now ... well, 20 or 30 years ago, according to these guys and their 'OMG WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT'.

  21. You mean Massive Increase in jobs and spending on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 1

    As those companies who are avoiding Cisco are still going to buy someone else's stuff, and they'll be a whole new crew of people that have to either migrate off the cisco gear, or figure out if it really is bugged or not.

    Either way, more jobs will be created than lost, they just might not be created in America.

  22. Re:Simple: Because computers do. on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 2

    That hasn't been true for 30 freaking years. Stop repeating crap your tired old, hasn't worked with a real computer in the past 2 decades, crap professor spewed at you.

    What processor takes more than 1 cycle to test a value other than 0? Educate me, please.

  23. Re:Why do programmers start counting at zero? on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Thinking its not a programmer thing shows ignorance.

    Just because not all programmers use languages that start indexing at zero doesn't make it any less of a programming thing. And for reference, you can start your indexes at 1 in C too if you want, just adjust your base offset properly.

    I'd say if anything, you're the one showing narrow experience, but I know nothing about you ;)

  24. Re:Yeah, but you're ruining a traditional joke on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, and testing against zero is usually computationally cheaper in hardware.

    No, it doesn't. Just some shitty hardware implementations for eons ago took longer to say none 0 for some pretty stupid fucking reasons.

    Its not 1970 anymore.

  25. Re:We don't on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    0.???? number.

    A fraction of 1.

    Certainly not 0.

    This is not difficult.