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  1. Re:Repo in AZ on Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars · · Score: 1

    If a car loses that much value as soon as it is driven off the lot, then perhaps it is over priced?

  2. Re:No surprise here on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are a jerk.
      You are insulting your sister because she is bad at mental math? It is a skill; one not required for extensive knowledge of the social sciences. Additionally, maybe if sales tax is simple in your state like 10%, but where I live it is 4.5% which is not always easy to get exactly right in your head.

    I had a roommate who was brilliant,funny, a singer and an artist, and yet, he couldn't calculate tip to save his life, but I don't certainly hold that against him.

  3. Re:HTML5 Video on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I agree, parent's problem isn't the video itself, it is some link in his decoding chain.

  4. Soo much space required. on Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm going to need a bigger screen.

  5. Re:Ebay on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 1

    Can you get in trouble for selling Fraudulent "Fraud Intel core i7"s?

  6. When I had this problem on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    I did a reverse lookup on the ip addresses that were trying to randomly guess user/pass on my machine and found that the majority were from: China, Korea, india, and Japan. I then filled the hosts.deny file with the subnets from those countries and cut back on 97% of the break-in attempts.

    I also told my boss noone from those countries was ever going to be able to see our website let alone login w/o bouncing it through a different computer first. I also block root login and users that can login have to be in the sshd group and don't have simple login names like "fred",

    I believe something fail2ban-like to be a better solution in the long run, but this was faster for me to setup and understand exactly what was going on.

  7. Re:Happiness on Lessons of a $618,616 Death · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it is extremely hard to determine how "miserable" a patient is. When they are in pain, they are prescribed pain killers which can put people in a chemically induced "happy" state. And then because of the sickness and the drugs they sleep/nap 18 hours a day anyways.

  8. Re:bzip2 on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    sadly, even assuming submitter has an army of slaves to print/scan this stuff at his disposal. This storage medium runs into data loss when the storage requirements get to ~20GB. At 2-3TB, this is a technically poor solution.

  9. Re:EP 3 W00T W00T! on Portal Update Hints At New Game · · Score: 1

    If you are willing to go that far for your coffee bisque (which admittedly had some marketing potential), you could potentially grind up some caffeine pills, dissolve them or emulsify them in butter, and then inject them into the lobster, or put it in the sauce on top.

  10. Re:Oxygen + Beer on Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover · · Score: 1

    I know it will spoil your bear if you keep it that way, but what if you oxygenate it right before it comes out of the tap, like a soda fountain. It doesn't go bad instantly does it? If you have a chance, I'ld be interested to what your brewer has to say.

  11. I agree, its ability to be used as a poetic device is always my reason for using a one measurement or another.

  12. Re:kdawson sucks on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    Dear Nimey,
          While many here agree with the basic argument you made, the way you presented has led the overwhelming majority of us to the same conclusion: You need to switch to decaf.
    csm

  13. Re:100MB? on Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    video will always be compressed, even if it is non-destructively so. It would irresponsible to implement a system otherwise.

  14. Re:Options on Space Junk Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    If you have enough energy to 'boil' the surface of the object (low pressure makes this easier but not trivial), then the local pressure difference is a differential force on the object. In this way, the laser appears to push an object in space.

  15. Re:Cue the teabaggers. on Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    I really didn't like the answers people gave, so here is mine from a lecture I gave to a 5th grade science class-
    -=-
    Bacteria are from he Monera kingdom and have no nucleus, DNA is in a ring, and no organelles (specialized internal structures) Most have a cell wall and move with flagella
    -=-
    Fungae live by absorbing energy around them (none make their own [detritovores]), while associated with plants they are more evolutionarily related to animals.
    -Made up of a different material than plants (chitin, not cellulose) reproduce by spores
    -Common Examples are: yeast, mushrooms

  16. Re:Slipperly slope on Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because I want to blow shit up...

  17. Re:Dear WD, Could You Help Us End an EMF Debate? on A Look Under Western Digital's Hood · · Score: 1

    I understand that potential problem. And clearly they should seek to try and get everyone's data. But from my point of view: if I am having any medical problem, and someone offers to check me up, and other in my environment to try and correlate if the environment might be a factor...I would welcome it.

  18. Re:Dear WD, Could You Help Us End an EMF Debate? on A Look Under Western Digital's Hood · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, but because this is a small sample size, and people are definitely interested in this data, someone might be willing to compensate them financially/free medical checkups in exchange for the potential problems of their medical history being known.

  19. Re:Set 32 sectors per track on Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives · · Score: 1

    Clearly you are not making this up, but I can't remember having this problem. Thanks for the link.

  20. Re:Interesting on Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives · · Score: 1

    It is not a distro problem. On top of that, you run the same distro TFA does.

    Evaluation setup and methodology:

            * Gentoo ~amd64 system with 2.6.31-gentoo-r5 kernel
            * fdisk version: fdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17)
            * The drives are identical, but I did not try swapping configurations to make sure that one drive isn't fundamentally slower than the other.
            * Core 2 Quad at 2.33GHz (Q9450), 8GiB of RAM
            * MSI X48 Platinum motherboard -- Intel X48 Express + ICH9R

  21. Re:Set 32 sectors per track on Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives · · Score: 1

    In window's defense, they recognize thumbdrives just fine for almost a decade; it is the manufacturers who bottle their own autostart and drivers and non-standard thumbdrives so they can include backup software, encryption, or flat out spyware.

  22. Re:Welp, that's it on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    The planes that carry tanks are not the same planes that carry Kevin Smith. Unless he is on a USO tour.

  23. Re:And they didn't try other politicians? on Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal · · Score: 1

    How is this political trolling? Making fun or Rush Limbaugh? He is not a politician. Or are you the troll? I noticed you kindly included the word 'fag' did you imply that mod-points are like piles of sticks? Or did you carelessly use homophobic slurs because you are afraid of what the rest of the world thinks?

  24. Re:11 minutes on Superbowl Tech Ads, 1976–Present · · Score: 1

    That's true, and I don't go to live football games for that reason.

    Live- my favorite game to watch is hockey (can't really explain)

  25. Re:11 minutes on Superbowl Tech Ads, 1976–Present · · Score: 1

    I look at it a completely different way. I don't just want minutes on field, I want actual enjoyment out of the game. I am a stereotypical geek who finds most sports boring; I won't even go to a basketball game if I have free tickets. But I like football because something interesting can happen on each play, and it has its own strategy, beginning and ending. While other sports (hockey, socket, basket ball) tend to just slowly flow as everyone passes the ball around to position them selves and I'm never exited at any point. Baseball is all about pitching and if you don't like watching that it is the most boring sport of all time.

    I mean, there are hours of play in a bike race, but watching the entire tour-de-france would be a test of will.