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  1. Re:No idea on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only that, he wasted a liver that could have been used for a lifetime by a person who should have gotten it

  2. Re:If you can't measure it, you can't manage it on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

    So all of us crazies are hopeless and should throw in the towel?

  3. Re:Easy enough on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 2

    A LONG time ago (think SQL Server 6.5 era), you COULD back up a live DB server, but if it was large enough, an online copy could take longer than a day, where an offline file copy of the DB was as fast as your system could read/write it.

  4. Re:MICROSOFT SQL Server on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Oracle doesn't call their DB software "Oracle SQL Server". As a matter of fact, I think you would be hard pressed to find any product named "*companynamehere* SQL Server". Just like "Windows" means "Microsoft Windows", and not "X Windowing System"

  5. I use on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    I personally have Thinstall/Thinapp installs of Visual Studio 6, up to 2005, as well as a slew of Borland originating products. It was really no hassle and it just seems to work.

  6. Mere speculation on Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong" · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm guessing he was actually at a strip club in which he was writing off as a "business meeting". Eric had to come up with some ambiguous bullshit, because no one actually knew where or what the hell Larry was doing until after he got back.

  7. Re:No autoplay on YouTube? on The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    you're not asking for "I'm a banana" repeating in the background

    But an important question is, if I was searching for such, how would I do so?

  8. Re:Cool for Interviewers, Card Players on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 1

    A perfect example: Jimmy Kimmel used a fake lie detector on a child

    The results are predictable, but exactly what the parent is talking about

  9. Re:Cool for Interviewers, Card Players on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 1

    I've been saying this about professional wrestling for years. Let them `roid up and actually beat the shit out of one another. The same would work for NASCAR or similar. Let them strap rocket boosters and time shifters to the bastards and bask in the entertainment.

  10. Re:Cool for Interviewers, Card Players on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 1

    I also can fake such a reaction by thinking of my mother trying to go down on me. This may seem like a troll, but it is fact

  11. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 1

    Walmart

  12. Re:"consistent" experience? on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I did not, however, it makes sense. They also don't want to show you all of the software voodoo they have in the driver that runs on your CPU, but should be running on your video card

  13. Re:How stupid, and useless on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    You must be young. Too many of us ripped our cd's to ogg, only to find that no sub-$100 mp3 player seems to play them. Then you have the fun of re-ripping your multitudes of cds, or transcoding them all to mp3, losing even more quality.

  14. Re:Funny block... on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    Why should I "figure it out" when I can just copy and paste a URL, then click the "download mp3" link?

  15. Re:Funny block... on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    I use(d) these sites when a family member says "can you get me this song on my mp3 player?". I felt, honestly, since the service was out there, especially for so long, that they had some sort of deal worked out and this was a legitimate way to grab popular music (figuring advertising kickback).

  16. Re:I wouldn't on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 1

    torrent + trust based. That way, I.am.awesome will resolve differently for the shady Russian crowd vs. say the snobby French crowd (blatant stereotypes are for illustration).

  17. Re:Good luck. on How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not all operating systems need to be, nor should be, multiuser, memory/resource protected, desktop publishing Goliaths. The OS I work on in my spare time is single user, no permissions, no memory protection simple piece of usefulness. I use it to run diagnostics and fix problems and I am proud of how well it does that. I believe your view of what a "useful OS" should be is skewed.

  18. Re:No source? on Unity 4 Adds Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Trying to do a RTS is idtech3 would be harder than unity.

    I'm not sure how it is hard at all. The game dll module is meant to be replaced... many modify it, but it doesn't need to be you, the single player, on a team, or vs. everyone else in a many player arena. The model/texture loading, collision detection, physics, camera manipulation, etc. should make it more than possible to do such. To me, that is most of the hard work.

  19. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It really wasn't a dead mouse. It was a bag of pot he hid under a bush so his wife wouldn't find it. You can't really tell that to the folks at the hospital.

  20. Re:Old business doesn't want new business on Why VCs Really Reject Startups · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Capitalism at work

  21. Re:Buggars! on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    Tell me this... how can she NOT tell that he isn't wearing a condom the instant he penetrates her. Do all penises feel smooth and rubbery to her?

  22. Re:First, antivirus authors used generic tools to. on Antivirus Firms Out of Their League With Stuxnet, Flame · · Score: 1

    But anti-virus software just started detecting the packers and obfuscators, which no legitimate code would have...

    You mean like they detect UPX'd apps as a "potential threat"?

  23. Re:Legalize it all. on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The "blizzard" bath salts are not like anything that can be described. I have never taken the stuff myself, however, being in the psych ward over many occasions, these bath salts are the purpose of MORE THAN HALF of the people there.

    The situation comes from people using this stuff like cocaine. The first initial buzz is very much like cocaine. But unlike cocaine, you don't do a line every 5 or 10 minutes, because the bath salts have a half-life of possibly from 8 hours to DAYS. After enough consumption, you WILL have a psychotic episode ranging anywhere from schizo tendencies to what you can classically attribute to PCP.

    The doctor, Amy Metzger, who is usually the doctor on said psych ward has written a paper about its effects http://altoonaregional.org/news_archived2011.htm#06-03-11d

  24. Re:And also on Ask Candidate Jeremy Hansen About Direct Democracy in Vermont · · Score: 1

    We've done the "representative democracy", and as far as I see, it doesn't work. Instead of throwing good money at bad, shake the bottle up/administer a lobotomy, and see what happens. It can't be worse than we are now

  25. Re:FAQs /.ed on Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think it is both a matter of money and resources. A "nation-state" has as much money as anyone can, and they also can place moles/agents in a lot of places where your average, even "smart", hacker would shit his pants. Not only that, a lone man can only do so much