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  1. Re:Just buy new hardware! (NOT) on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs · · Score: 1

    With a first gen macbook pro I think your due for a new laptop......3-5 years is my max of keeping them around.

    Speak for yourself. My Mac Plus is still kicking. Though my frame rate in Starcraft 2 leaves something to be desired.

  2. Teflon on NASA Rover May Contaminate Its Samples of Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at least the samples won't get stuck.

  3. Re:Just $200 for 16GB RAM on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 2

    And thus, you confirm the OP's statement about Apple always charging unreasonable prices for RAM.

  4. first step on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stop calling it "cyber".

  5. Re:Chief Designer? on Intelsat Signs Launch Contract With SpaceX · · Score: 1

    If Elon Musk designed anything more potent than the paint scheme on the side of the rocket, then I'm the Pope.

    He has 3 physics degrees including a graduate degree from Stanford. He's not an empty suit manager type.

  6. Re:Why all this rust-orange? on Russian Satellite Takes Most Detailed 121-Megapixel Image of Earth Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article explains the color, maybe read it?

    You must be new here.

  7. Re:Looks Photoshopped on Russian Satellite Takes Most Detailed 121-Megapixel Image of Earth Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks photoshopped because it includes false color data from an infrared cam. It's not photoshopped.

  8. Of course they are! on VeriSign Could Add 220 New Top Level Domains · · Score: 2

    185k * 220 = PROFIT!!!!!!!!

  9. Re:The math is simple on Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification, so in all but 5 states.

    It's legal in the ambiguous states because there's no law against it.

  10. Re:The math is simple on Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook · · Score: 1

    If you are referring to the US, I believe gays adopting is legal in all but one state.

  11. Re:Would Lockheed's Orion be any use? on Space Junk Forced Astronauts Into ISS Escape Capsules · · Score: 1

    Actually Congress IS funding manned flights that will cost a LOT more than 450 mil on SLS/Orion.

    In fact NASA requested more funding for commercial crew recently and less for SLS/Orion and Congress did NOT like that.

    http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=a2593bd3-8859-4e7d-869d-7e670a654664&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a

  12. Of course it is on Early Exposure To Germs Has Lasting Benefits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Humanity (or human like creatures) survived for several hundred thousand years without modern medicine. If the body was not capable of developing defenses to disease we wouldn't still be here.

  13. Re:wikipedia is a collection of expert testimony on After 244 Years, the End For the Dead Tree Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 1

    +1 MOD THIS UP

  14. This is what happens... on US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when you shut down mining and manufacturing in western countries and ship it all to China just because they are cheaper.

    Other countries have these deposits, but they determined they could just buy China's for less money.

  15. Re:Causality Failure... on USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage · · Score: 1

    KHAAAAAAAAAAN!

  16. I thought this was known by now on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you find something like that, you do NOT report it.

    It doesn't matter if you obtained it, you will likely take the fall.

  17. Re:Space/X on NASA Pulling Out of ESA-led ExoMars Mission? · · Score: 0

    The cheapest and best original thinking in the space race is currently at Space/X.

    And the biggest schedule slippage.

  18. Re:Santorum on SOPA Goes Back To the Drawing Board, PIPA Postponed · · Score: 0

    I know this was marked troll, but my vote would have been insightful.

    Santorum has been so consistently wrong on every single issue imo, I don't know how you can have a worse candidate. He is for big spending government entitlement programs and social authoritarianism.

  19. Re:Is it open sourced? on Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler · · Score: 1

    or eaccelerator.

    I had stability issues with both xcache and APC on my production servers where things would go unexpectedly missing from the cache and throw nasty errors.

    No such issues with eaccelerator. very happy with that.

  20. Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I told you bitches I would prevail one day!

  21. Re:The legal system at it's finest. on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually no, the statute of limitations applies to regular citizens also.

  22. Re:First Post on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Fail: Claiming you got a first post when you didn't.

    Second Fail: It's "whip it good", no real in there.

  23. Re:Goodbye Visa & Mastercard!! on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    He should rephrase. Most stores make you specify the billing address for the card and this is checked with AVS. If that matches, you can specify a different shipping address if you want to.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    At 2PM, Skynet will become self aware.

  25. Re:Emergency Broadcast System? on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    No, the EAS has been tested plenty of times. You never have your TV interrupted with your cable/sat companies tests? They happen all the time. Just not a national cascading system test.