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  1. "Atlas Shrugged" isn't a how-to manual on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    And yet, here's the "Anti-Dog-eat-dog rule" come to life.

  2. with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up, sharks.

  3. Re:Your problem has already been solved. on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 0

    And good luck recovering when a Gentoo update hoses a library needed by GCC. In my case, it was "libffi.so". That was the end of Gentoo on my system.

  4. Re:Really? on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 2

    Then you might like Slackware's absence of dependency tracking.

  5. Re:sigh on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their job can be dangerous, and they're only human.

    Which is all the more reason to allow citizen recording. When some flaming asshole decides he's going to accuse the police of excessive force, brutality, what have you, third-party record of the incident will be the police officer's best friend.

  6. Re:What about threats to conservatives? on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 3, Informative

    You only need to do a Google search for "new civility" (include the quotes) to see the hypocrisy behind HelloThereRacists. But don't expect to see Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, or Scott Pelley saying anything about the threats of violence and murder against Romney and Ryan. The "objective" news sources were silent this time around, just like they were four years ago.

  7. Re:The End on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 2

    An ACPI command sequence which either sends a reset signal to the CPU or puts the hardware into ACPI G2/S5/D3 state.

  8. kudos to TFA's author on Atari Turns 40 Today · · Score: 1

    Meeting the #1 influence on your childhood aspirations is indeed an amazing experience. Been there, done that, in my case with Jack Tramiel.

  9. Re:Employer could always be nice on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 2

    Twelve US states are all-party consent states:
    California
    Connecticut
    Florida
    Illinois
    Maryland
    Massachusetts
    Michigan
    Montana
    Nevada
    New Hampshire
    Pennsylvania
    Washington

  10. Re:WTF woudl Apple Do? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Another possibility is that the store had seen "incidents" recently, and a bit of stepped-up security was in order (more than the mall rent-a-cop could provide). Four years ago, a local grocery store had a couple customer assaults in less than a week, and there was a city cop there from sundown to close for the next week, on the city's dime. I'm a city taxpayer, and I have no problem with that.

  11. the first related video is good, too on Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    After watching the first link, talking about "why," I found Mr. Rogers at the top of the related videos, demonstrating "how" to dream big, in the "Garden of your Mind." It dovetails with Neil deGrasse Tyson surprisingly well.

  12. Re:Real Time Clock Question on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    Given the near-omnipresence of time services (via cell tower signals, GPS, or pool.ntp.org), obtaining time as part of the system boot is trivial. The simple reason the Raspberry Pi has no RTC, is that the chip and battery would have doubled both the PCB size, and the price.

  13. Re:Different markets on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would like to build a custom-soldered board with LED's. I know that I may do something wrong, and overload the GPIO pins on the Pi. Who knows, I might hack up something on the display to go with it, although 1080p might be a bit beyond my needs. ;-)

    So, you ask "what kind of project do you need a cheap system and 1080p video for?" Believe me, if I fry the hardware, I'll be glad it's built cheap. I'd rather fry a Pi than an Arduino. That's the whole point of the Raspberry Pi: a system that won't set back an experimenter (or a kid's parents) big money if somebody's voltage calculations were wrong.

    As someone below points out, it also makes better sense for schools: for a student taking an electronics course, having parents pay a $35 deposit on an RPi (refunded at the end of the year) makes for a lower entry barrier than a >$150 deposit on (name your other device).

  14. oh the hypocrisy on Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone was (accused of) making a bunch of copies of something, without permission.

    The accuser's lackey hands over information, before the Court decides if it's appropriate to enter it into evidence. The Court decides it isn't (yet) appropriate, and orders all copies of the evidence destroyed.

    IOW, the accuser is now accused of making a bunch of copies of something, without permission. They just got a taste of their own medicine, at the hands of an unhappy judge.

  15. Re:MIT Eh? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    One doesn't defend stupid beliefs with firearms. One defends, with firearms if necessary, the right to hold those stupid beliefs.

    To paraphrase Jefferson, does it twist your arm or pick your pocket if your neighbor's beliefs are (in your view) stupid? Your neighbor probably thinks the same of your beliefs. So what? It's that little thing called the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of conscience and dissent. If you have a problem with that, then I suggest you work to rescind it. Just remember, once you take away your neighbor's freedoms, you've also lost those same freedoms for yourself.

  16. Re:MIT Eh? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    He didn't just attend; he graduated with a Bachelor's and a Master's in engineering.

    Maybe his beliefs are ignorant, but it's a safe bet he knows how to defend them.

  17. Case in point: on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    Stephen Chu, the whiz kid who's now being named as a "person of interest" in the mis-management of the Dept. of Energy loans to so-called "green" companies.

  18. Re:New features on Objective-C Comes of Age · · Score: 2

    Sadly, given the fact that Oracle has sued Google over nine lines of standard library code for the Java language (developed by Sun, bought out by Oracle), it wouldn't shock me at all to hear that Apple has sued over Objective-C.

    I know, the parent comment is funny, but the best humor has a grain of truth. In this case, it's a grain of sand in a shoe.

  19. Re:metres != miles on Scientists Solve Mystery of Ireland's Moving Boulders · · Score: 1

    That makes about as much sense as measuring the slope of a sidewalk wheelchair ramp as centimeters of rise per feet of run.

  20. good thing Intel also does fab for ARM on Why Intel Leads the World In Semiconductor Manufacturing · · Score: 0

    ARM-based CPU's are out-selling x86 by a fairly hefty margin, thanks to the mobile/embedded market, while the desktop x86 kingdom has been nearly saturated for, well, forever as these things go. And until Intel gets a clue and makes a chipset that renders on-screen for less than 5 times the mA-h required by a comparable ARM, it's going to stay that way.

    Based on that, it's only good business sense that Intel brings in ARM business for their fabs.

  21. Re:Hear That Wakefield, You Murdering Piece Of Tra on Researchers Identify Genetic Systems Disrupted In Autistic Brain · · Score: -1, Troll

    Boo fucking hoo. Then don't click it, and forever wonder what's there.

  22. Re:Hear That Wakefield, You Murdering Piece Of Tra on Researchers Identify Genetic Systems Disrupted In Autistic Brain · · Score: -1, Troll
  23. Re:Nicely expandable. on Intel Unveils Tiny Next Unit of Computing To Match Raspberry Pi · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've followed the news about RPi development and manufacturing, and I've seen NOTHING saying the Model A was scrapped. The Model B was developed and manufactured first, because it's easier to take things out than to wedge them in. The Model A's supplied memory was doubled, as they found it was cheaper to omit components between models, than to use different components between the models.

  24. how about the NSA instead of the FDA? on Should the FDA Assess Medical Device Defenses Against Hackers? · · Score: 1

    If a medical device can be made available to heads-of-state, why not task the NSA with proving that it won't be a vector for carrying out a political assassination?

  25. Re:Raspberry Pi on Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver Published · · Score: 1

    Whoosh....

    (joke flies over head, smashed into wall, leaves giant grease spot in paint)