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  1. You'll get a huge bill from the IRS for trying. 7 years for servers, 3 for desktops/laptops.

  2. Re:Why does it need to be deep? on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    At the Orkneys?

    I'll take a WAG and suggest it's about getting below the weather.

  3. Re:Show me the man, I'll find you the crime on US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Anything that puts 'fear of losing their fun' into cops heads is a good thing.

  4. The left is no more monolithic than the right, plenty of 'pearl clutchers' on both sides.

  5. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Most common category of 'unvaccinatable': Parent is a moron that wants to freeload on herd immunity.

  6. Dude, 'assault rifles' are effectively banned, along with all full autos.

    A semi-auto AK-74 is not an assault rifle. You can get an AR for less.

    You apparently know you're ignorant, but post anyhow.

  7. GGP is trying to use 'loopholes' to take away an explicitly permitted thing. Which was legal until about 10 years ago, when the SC slapped down DC.

    Had Hillary won, we effectively wouldn't have a 2nd amendment anymore, via bad SC justices. It was that close.

  8. Same as 'all your sides'...Politicians lie and are bad, Duh. Otherwise they'd have honest jobs.

  9. Re:Transparent Aluminum on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Fancy watches have had 'transparent aluminum' crystals for 100+ years.

  10. Re:Well that's just depressing on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    Goto the smoking gun to see what will happen once you add the hot slutty virtual PSA stew to your VR experience...Remember in the 'good old days', they got bonused for fucking first class passengers between flights.

    It will only work once VR sickness is not an issue. So everyone stays in VR, fapping away.

  11. Re:Still failing to prove... on Why a Group of Physicists Watched a Clock Tick For 14 Years Straight (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Science has made no progress _disproving_ the hypothesis that the laws of physics stay constant over vast timescales.

    The only 'evidence' anybody has against that hypothesis is 'the bible' (and other traditional beliefs of illiterate shepherds). Which routinely gets laughed out of the room. But young earth creationists have two choices: Admit they're wrong, or the laws of physics _must_ change with time and distance.

  12. Re:Show me the man, I'll find you the crime on US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the flip side I know a CA shyster, one of his most lucrative fields is 'uncopping' a cop. If you have high five figures to spend, he will just go at the cop administratively and legally until his is unbondable (claiming he is working 'pro bono' for all people that fill out a complaint against said cop).

    Then his employer will fire him and he will be a mall cop. Then whichever rich person this cop helped convict gets a new trial. All during this process the cop doesn't even know who is paying the bills to end his fun.

    As corrupt as that process is, it's about the only check left on cops power.

  13. Re:Lying to FBI: one reason you Never Talk to Poli on US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    England also has a 'right to remain silent'. But they can hold your silence against you, if you later claim a defense you didn't speak about during initial interrogation.

    Not an English shyster, but silence is still your best bet. England also has volumes of unenforced laws, they all commit 3 felonies/day, same as Americans.

  14. Re:Still failing to prove... on Why a Group of Physicists Watched a Clock Tick For 14 Years Straight (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Science NEVER proves anything true. You are thinking of math.

  15. Re:Waiting for Godot on Why a Group of Physicists Watched a Clock Tick For 14 Years Straight (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Richard Feynman famously dropped his pencil as part of his quantum mechanics lectures.

    Would look up, explain: There is a chance the pencil will fall up. When it did, he didn't want to miss it.

  16. Re:this is why... on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of moron goes to a dealership for a windshield? Seriously, dealerships do _warranty_work_, that is all. If you act like a chump, they will treat you like a 'dealership service customer' AKA chump. 'Fat of the land', to be milked for all they are worth. That is a general fact, not brand specific.

    Bet you could have got it for half that at a glass shop on 'junkyard row'...I've been through the airport, all I know about Brisbane. All cities have a 'junkyard row' in my experience.

  17. Re:License engineers have the power to tell thereb on Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux is not a RTOS. Don't put it in 'human life critical' applications. There is such a thing as a PE in 'software'.

    No doubt Linus could build a RTOS, if he wasn't busy. But he hasn't yet. Likely wouldn't want to deal with the highly formal development process bullshit involved. Code checkin is like a square dance, no step of which involves 'cuss your partner'.

    There are stripped down distros that make the RTOS claim. But 'kernel mode drivers'.

  18. Re:License engineers have the power to tell thereb on Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

    Punchline: Whore: 'That's not my navel, that's my colostomy.'

    Sorry, again. /Canadian

  19. Re:In other not surprising news... on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Even 15 years ago, that was an unusual shop.

    If it takes you 10 hours to do a 1 hour job, you're simply fired.

    No work and they're simply sent home or called and told not to come.

    The guy that 'rage quits' on occasion, my kid brother. The dealers have gotten better at fucking _everyone_ over. You just have to wonder how long the chumps will keep coming back for the financial sodomy.

    The independent shops aren't thriving for some reason. I think it's simply lack of daylight in the market, if there existed something like Yelp, but trustworthy...

  20. Re:Odd Coincidence on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You can cut gears with a lathe. Broach with a cutter in the toolholder, using hand power, with the brake on. Have to put index marks on your chuck.

    Youtube has videos that show the tricks.

  21. Re:VR... would it be a bad idea? on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    What? The key to good VR is keeping up, up.

    Car sims work pretty good, helicopter sims too. Fixed wing less so. Space sims worst of all, by far. 3d shooters/sneakers, devil is details, can be terrible.

    I own a rift and owned a VFX-1 decades ago.

  22. Re:VR... would it be a bad idea? on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    Been there done that. With Descent 2 and a VFX-1.

    The _pukiest_ game in VR history. Descent Underground is supposed to support VR. I'm not going to bother.

  23. Re:320x200 or 240 and inner ear disorientation. on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC the VFX-3D was 800x600. But way too late and way too expensive, also company was on a shoestring. IIRC they were just highly modified VFX-1s.

    There was also a decent hacking community. But, by the time you replaced the screens and tracking on your VFX-1, all you had left was the shell and headphones. I never bothered, no software anyhow.

    I will say, for the record, Decent2 on the VFX-1 was the most instant puke inducing VR experience I've ever played.

  24. Re:Please stop on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    So you just ram the car in front of you, to prevent a tailgater behind you from possibly having an accident?

  25. Re: Please stop on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    By who? I own one of the first cars with CC, has some silly 1960 name (IIRC something -matic), not going to dig out the owners manual.

    It pushes up from under the gas pedal. You keep your foot on it or it slows.