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  1. Re:How in the hell is this a DEBATE? on The Data Center Density Debate: Generational Change Brings Higher Densities (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How reliable is it, really? What happens if a pump breaks down in a high-density liquid cooled rack versus a breaking fan in a low-density air cooled rack?
    How likely are those breakages? At the every least they are less than 100% reliable; they WILL break at some point. It might be perfectly fine, but a single PC at home does not scale to an entire datacenter of racks.

  2. And somehow the honor system will make sure the athletes in the "unenhanced" category will not use drugs?

  3. Re:Replacement?? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to which RFC is it forbidden to send HTML-only emails?

  4. Re:it makes sense. on Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 2

    The country as a whole loses money though, as the datacenter would have been build somewhere without tax breaks if it couldn't get tax breaks anywhere.

  5. Re:Yes on Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This.

    Datacenters are profitable companies and are not a necessity of life for the citizens.
    I see no reason why they would deserve a tax break.
    The only reason they do is because they push states (or other local governments) into bidding wars.

    If you could decide country-wide on which types of companies would get what type of tax incentive under what conditions, you'd save a lot of tax money.

  6. Re:If this is debunked in the summary, why post it on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the righteous vegetarian who likely called you out also happened to have the evidence, charts, and fancy infographics on their side—not to mention the moral high ground. (Disclaimer: I am a vegetarian.)

    So basically she claims that (A) vegetarians have the moral high ground, (B) she is a vegetarian.
    Therefore she indirectly claims that she has the moral high ground.

    You can disagree with me but I would like to point out that people with username "mwvdlee" are always correct (disclosure; my username is "mwvdlee").

  7. Re:If this is debunked in the summary, why post it on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article "debunking" it also claims moral high ground for it's author. Not ironically, the author actually claims that. The author actually uses the argument that she is right because she is better than other people.

  8. Re:Late to the game: Swift on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    The only reason people use Swift (or Objective-C) is because they're the only options supported by Apple.
    You could go with C or C++, but you'd be on your own.

  9. Re:If the question really is "biggest" not "favori on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    If the question really is "biggest" then I'll be sure to win next year.
    As soon as I figure out a way to generated massive amounts of random code.

  10. Re:God isn't just "anything" on Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    That's why god is a strawman. The Spaghetti Monster can't be just "anything", or he wouldn't be the Spaghetti Monster. The Spaghetti Monster is a very precisely defined concept, not some bearded guy or any "creature" for that matter.

    Neither christian or islamic art has portrayed a Spaghetti Monster; ever wonder why that might be?
    Is your concept of your god so feeble that he could not take on the form of a Spaghetti Monster?

  11. Re:Thankyou you Cocksucking Envirowackos on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Now head back outside and tell the kids to stay off your lawn.

    I would, but it's dark outside and my old $1 lightbulb isn't bright enough to see the kids.
    I could probably buy a higher Watt $1 lightbulb, but that would burn the grass off my lawn.

  12. Re:Why did the system store passwords? on European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I already use your username as my password.

    If it is ever found on an unhashed password list, they'll simply think my password isn't on the list.

  13. Re:Three characters? on European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should atleast require some special characters like numbers and upper case to make it extra safe.
    Nobody will ever guess "E5a".

  14. All the young people are going to move out on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All the young people are going to move out

    Of course, that could not possibly have anything to do with the town being ruled by a bunch of retired retards.

  15. Re:Can you lock the IP address? on Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? · · Score: 2

    How well does that withstand IP spoofing?

  16. Re:American companies on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Federal Agencies should just accept that they are supposed to be bound by the US Constitution.

    Federal Agencies accept that they are supposed to be bound by the US Constitution the same way whores accept they are supposed to decent.

  17. American companies on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He also says tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less secure products.

    LMFTFY

    He also says American tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less desirable products than their non-American competitors.

  18. Well... on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell's temperature has become a lot more tolerable lately, but now we've got to crouch all the time to avoid the pigs.

  19. The wrong way around on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "Devops" is what you call developers if you can't afford to have dedicated operational staff.
    I just don't see why anybody would actually want a single person to take on conflicting roles.

  20. It's an actual word in Dutch (I'm a native speaker myself).

  21. If he is, he deserves an Emmy.

  22. Re:Talk to Bill Gates? on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Bill Gates has many years of experience in trying to ignore, downplay, take over and, finally, destroy the internet.

    More likely though, Trump probably just likes the idea of renaming the Internet "Trump Gates".

  23. Re:Destination on Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The dead whales are intended to be used as some sort of alternative medicine.
    So remember that for next time somebody tells you that atleast alternative medicine can't hurt.

  24. Can we please stop using the "uhhhhh" sound to replace the word "you"?

  25. Re:What did you expect. on Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    You forgot to write "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft".