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  1. Re:Lots of people could do this on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 1

    It depends a lot on your parents. Aside from the possibility of home schooling (which has to bring about all sorts of problems for university admissions) they can do a lot to push you through more quickly, or not allow it.

    Or your parents can be poor and so you're stuck in a backwoods public school where what family you're from and what religion you are matter more to your academic advancement than academics.

  2. Re:Well, if they're going to generalize, I am too on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 2

    Fix themselves? I thought it was to justify that they weren't freaks, that there was thousands of people just as broken as they are.

  3. Re:Can you blame them? on When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's one of the fusions from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. Like a Hawaiian pop singer with super-powered nose hair, or something.

  4. Re:RTFA on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 2

    Even porn doesn't interest me anymore. Before I used to wank at least once a day, even more some times. Now it's down to once a week if even that. And I always cum so hard that it feels like I'm going to faint.

    Wow. Enzyte withdrawal hit Smilin' Bob worse than anyone could have imagined.

  5. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    A password vault is the only viable option.

    That's OK, where I worked it was about as bad except we were forbidden to install a password vault. Everyone used post-it notes.

    Where I was: 4 passwords.

    1) Changed once every three months. Can't match the last 5 passwords, must have at least one upper case letter, one number, one punctuation mark.

    2) Changed every 6 weeks. Can't contain a dictionary word or a previous password. Must contain one number or punctuation mark.

    3) Changed once per month. Can't contain a dictionary word. Dictionary includes two-letter words, so "7@b!iT5{" failed as a password because of "iT".

    4) Changed once per month. This was for the payroll system that only had to be logged into once per month.

  6. Re:Translation on EA To Provide Free Distribution To Kickstarter Games · · Score: 1

    As far as a "lot of truth in it", didn't Fargo say that it was all truth, except that the publisher who wanted help with Farmville refused his calls, but kept sending Farmville stuff over Facebook?

  7. Re:Yeah, Canadian democracy at its finest on Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All · · Score: 1

    Polls had them getting a solid majority, with up to 40% popularity, right up until the recent election. Fortunately for the rest of us, the 'undecideds' came out en mass and thumped them soundly, giving the PC's the province once again... hooray for reasonableness. Though I can hardly believe I just used the word 'reasonable' in describing any modern political process or outcome...

    Because it wasn't reasonable. Albertans handed the reins back to the corrupt PC party because they were petrified of the Wildrose. Hell, the PC were selling themselves as "centrists and leftists should vote for the us so the Wildrose doesn't get in". It was pure devil-you-know scare tactics and it was ALL they had.

    A reasonable alternative would have been a diminished right and a strengthened left, not the other way around. It pains me to say that as someone who's right-leaning, but they were rotten and needed to go down. Instead, the PC has a bogeyman to scare voters with for at least the next two elections. (And them they'll probably merge with it.)

  8. Re:Excellent on DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less · · Score: 1

    Depends on what fails and how. I've seen everything from a completely dead drive (no detection, no spinning of platters) to drives that SMART tripped but otherwise worked fine. As to what failure state you're gonna get, it's something of a crap shoot.

    Moral: It doesn't matter what the basket is made of, don't put all your eggs in one. Have two copies of everything even remotely important, and at least three of anything critical*, with the third somewhere far away from the first two.

    (*Examples: Stuff to run your business. Stuff the government wants to see. Baby pictures that your wife will kill you if you lose. These are the three things I have had people literally beg me to try recover off a dead drive. Well, okay, one didn't beg me, she begged Jesus to make me recover it. Jesus didn't feel like giving me a clean room and a platter reader for free, I guess.)

  9. Faster boot times? on The 30 Best Features of Windows · · Score: 1

    So, the kernel session is hibernated. Okay, here's a problem: Solid state hard drive.

    Unless they've made some big changes, HIBERFIL.SYS sits in the root of the OS partition (and is far as I know unmovable) and takes up as much space as you have RAM. On a solid state hard drive with a lot of RAM that can easily be a fifth of the drive just for that one file.

    So, have they made that file way leaner, or movable, or are they just hoping that people won't go with 16 gigs of cheap RAM and an 80 gig SSD?

  10. Re:Magnets?! How to they %#^&^@# work? on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 1

    Probably not, then he would have said that the strong magnetic caused a subspace anomaly that attracts interphasic lifeforms which make human cells devolve.

  11. Re:paranoid nanny state on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder what the odds of a misfire vs. the odds of someone actually attacking are. Sadly it wouldn't surprise me to find out the missiles are a bigger threat.

  12. Skipping Sandy Bridge on Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    In the end, those desktop users who decided to skip Sandy Bridge to hold out for Ivy Bridge, probably shouldn't have.

    Well, that rather depends on how many Ivy Bridge recalls there will be, doesn't it?

  13. Re:Bureacracy sucks but on Canadian Bureacracy Can't Answer Simple Question: What's This Study With NASA? · · Score: 1

    They've since thrown their weight behind the new "Wildrose Party" which is promising everything voters want... but of course will give the oil industry priority. They might get elected on Monday.

    If they do, I'll be horrified. The leader's damn scary and I don't know how voters can't see that. I particularly like the part where she's gonna start punishing cities when the mayors disagree with her. As much as I hate Mandel, I don't like the idea of a provincial politician who figures they can run the cities better than the guy who was voted to do it.

    And her party's not much better. Who do you like more, the anti-gay anti-secular-schooling pastor, or the guy who thinks he's better than his opponents because he's white?

  14. Re:Dear Olympics Committee on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 1

    I'm still here! Nothing bad happened.

    Wait until you see the fine you get for using profanity to refer to the Olympics. Because I'm sure the IOC would push for that if they could too.

  15. Re:Censorship on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 2

    but even common sense would say that if these issues affect kids, so will pornography.

    All three articles are discussing sexualization in the media that girls are exposed to constantly. I know porn is a big thing on the Internet, and it's certainly possible to trip over it, but porn stars don't have billboards and dolls and half-hour cartoon commercials telling girls how cool they are and how it's good to be like them. You can't compare the two just because they both convey an incorrect interpretation of female sexuality.

  16. Re:Windows RT? on The Three Flavors of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I guess after the Windows CEMeNT joke they've been trying to pick letter combos that won't easily form words. First XP and now RT. I'm waiting for Windows ZQ Ultimate 128 bit.

  17. Re:I know what you're talking about on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 0

    Where is this eye candy of which you speak?

    Simple. Just look at how moderation selections take effect right away instead of after you hit a "moderate" button so if you misclick by a few millimeters and pick the wrong option you can't fix it.

    Oh, wait, you said "eye candy" not "retardation". Sorry, my mistake.

  18. Re:Methinks a law of unintended consequences on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Well, since we're debating Chinese rote data dumps vs. teaching "God With The Serial Number Filed Off did it" it's hard to argue that logic, analysis, and critical thinking are being taught this side of the Pacific either.

    Teamwork? I suppose if everyone gets together after school and throws rocks at the faggy-looking kid. Then it's teamwork, for everyone Go^H^Hthe unnamed creation force loves, anyway.

  19. So, they're gonna make their own Internet... on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1

    ... WITHOUT blackjack and hookers?

  20. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 2

    A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective

    Now THERE is a way to piss people off. Not saying I don't think it's an idea, but it makes the returns desk into a semiregular battleground of "I never used it!" or "It didn't fit!" or "I just needed to see the color!" or "I'm in a hurry, why are you plugging it in? Just give me my money back!"

  21. Re:OK... on Intelligence Map Made From Brain Injury Data · · Score: 1

    There's the map of The Brain; is anyone working on a map of Pinky?

    I don't know, it's probably tricky to map out a peanut in any great detail.

  22. Re:Interesting on Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Film · · Score: 1

    That really is a superb movie.

    I loved it. I really should watch it again.

    (And as far as I know, very historically accurate as well!)

    IIRC Woz said at the time that the details for events he personally witnessed were generally accurate though a number of Apple employees were folded into one or two characters. That, however, isn't surprising. (It's the same cost concerns that leads to Ebert's Law of Economy of Characters.)

  23. Re:Amazing stuff on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 1

    More than most have done. More, indeed, than a billion flaming wool wangs.

  24. Re:It goes without saying on Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC · · Score: 1

    This is not Commodore, this is not the Amiga. This is a fucking bastard.

    No one cares, sadly. I complained about Escapist Magazine's managing editor abjectly fucking up the history of the Commodore 64 in an article they wrote, got no response. For those who don't want to click:

    Commodore's amazing 64-bit computer dominated the 1980s and I'd be willing to bet there's not a nerd over 30 who doesn't have fond memories of playing or even programming games on it. To capitalize on that nostalgia, Commodore has released a new version of the computer that maintains the look of the original but packs it with modern components. The stylish taupe exterior might look ultra retro, but this is a modern PC gaming machine, complete with a 3.3 GHz processor, 4GB of memory, a DVD drive, wireless n wifi, and every possible type of connection you could want. Commodore will even be releasing a new version of its classic OS Vision, which allows you to really dig into the 8-bit awesomeness that made the original system the best selling computer of all time. (...)

    It's a great item to play a spot-the-errors drinking game with. By the end of the paragraph you're too drunk to care.

  25. Re:I Can't Help But Feel on Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Conversely, I can't help but feel like this article is just designed to put the idea into millions of readers' heads that you can go into a casino with a strategy or method or system and take home millions at the blackjack table.

    Only if it ends with a guy trying to sell just such a "system". The only sure-fire get-rich-quick scheme is selling get-rich-quick schemes.