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  1. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't forget the new coal fired power plants to run the towers.

    Electrostatic stack scrubbers are exactly the same thing, but fitted to the smokestacks.

  2. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Complications: Some reaving reported.

  3. When I was a kid, we ran an entire small business on one server with a 460 MB drive and 50 diskless workstations. And we liked it.

    First hard drive I saw was 10 MB.

  4. Re:Can't They Get Better at Lying? on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    SOP

    I worked at a place that answered a subpoena with 9 track tapes. Because they figured the opposition would have all sorts of trouble deciphering the record layout and EBCDIC data. If we could have found a 7 track tape drive, we would have used that. IIRC we wrote the tapes at a half obsolete data rate. If the record sets had been bigger we would have printed them on greenbar with almost dead ribbons. The calculus was that the computer work would cost much more than the data entry.

  5. Re:Two types of laws on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    She can declare something classified with the stroke of a pen.

    Declassifying something is a lot more involved.

  6. I actually used punched cards. Taking a Fortran class at a local Jr College in HS. Late 70s.

  7. Even a switch makes bandwidth per user. The links that really matter are server to switch.

    Real world bandwidth varies widely. You can fuck with coworkers by kinking their patch cable when they aren't looking. All you have to do is distort a few of the twists on a pair or three.

  8. Re:Private industry doing it better than governmen on As We Speak, Teen Social Site Is Leaking Millions Of Plaintext Passwords (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your SIG:

    Are you saying Frankenferter is not a transexual?

  9. Re:Let's see, I have 3TB of music files... on Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you catalog and play from that?

    I've got less than half of that, it chokes all the 'media players' I've tried.

  10. Re:I live not too far from a major highway on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If this were true the fags would have their exhaust tips pointed up and forward. They don't because the fags don't want the full noise of their own sybians either.

  11. Re:This simply means we're succeeding. on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    90% of statistics are made up on the spot. This is one.

    It might be true, if you could wrangle a ride in a SR-71 vs a Geo Metro (and not the 'peppy' 4 cylinder version).

  12. Re:How else to learn? on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid we had things rough...

    I remember boot tracing Apple ][ games to crack the disk encryption. Copy the read boot sector code, mod to drop to monitor rather than running boot sector. Disassemble boot sector, mod read boot sector code to write jump to monitor instruction over 'start game' or 'start secondary loader' instruction. If 'secondary loader' repeat: (disassemble, and add more 'self' modifying code) until 'file system' is working. Copy files over serial port to another computer with unencrypted file system.

    One game even had the next eight levels available for undelete once at a monitor prompt.

  13. Re:"Marijuana is a gateway drug" on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I wasn't born with my contempt for the law. It's a million pointless and/or unenforced laws that grew it over time.

    My life's ambition continues to be 'invent a new crime'....it will be made illegal after I do it. Harder than it sounds. Damn 'Computer Fraud and Abuse Act' makes anything a federal judge doesn't like illegal, after the fact. Ips post facto, shmipspostfacto.

    I realize that getting some bendejo judge to make something illegal after the fact technically completes my life's ambition. There is an implied 'get away with it' and a strongly preferred 'make a bunch of money'.

  14. Re:Think of the children! on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Dew is a gateway drug, it leads to Max, which leads to strong coffee.

    Every person that owns a french press, with an attached IV tube, started out with soft drinks.

  15. Re:clickbait article from Vice on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I miss Vice looking for whorehouses in Liberia and N Korea. They were cool back then.

  16. Re:Valuable skills on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    'low level' is the problem. I've always thought getting busted for a petty crime would be particularly embarrassing.

    I was a good kid, I never got caught doing anything.

  17. Re:How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In general; you will get a better offer if you dress nicer.

    It makes little sense. But $60 t-shirts aren't about anything but 'tribe'.

  18. Re:How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Same thing happens in many fortune 500s. Reward for the corporate CEO that collects the most is a turn at the United Way president tit.

    Terrible pass through % for a corrupt racket that does nothing.

    You can use it to your advantage. Checking if a prospective employer is a 'united way partner' is a quick and easy way to filter out political hell holes. Fish rot from the head down, if the CEO is participating in that racket, (s)he is rotten. So is the rest of the org chart and almost certainly the board.

  19. Re:So that's where the trolls came from? on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Was true in Vietnam.

    How many years have we been at war now?

  20. Re:No one likes on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    See also: The Iran/Iraq war. Which was managed by a state department very similar to Bush's.

    Sunni/Shia stalemate is the obvious strategy. It has worked for something like 1000 years. Kicks the Saudis and Iranians right in their weak spot. Bleed them of cash and young men.

    Balance is the key, every crazy muslim going into Syria is a victory. they would be much more dangerous if they stayed in the west.

    The problem for western politicians is they have to pretend to be 'against it', which means they have to pretend to be incompetent, which makes it hard to get reelected.

  21. Re: Double your storage by making a hole. on People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' (craveonline.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the 5.25 drives back then used the optical position sensor hole (maybe Compucolor, it has been a LONG time). That was a holdover from 8 inch floppies.

  22. Re:The posts show intent and timeline on Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    He got caught. Don't get caught.

  23. 'Considering every argument' is antithetical to safe spaces. Some arguments are 'triggering' or some such nonsense.

  24. If Chelsea's dad hadn't died in prison, Hillary would be disbarred and likely still in jail over whitewater.

    The original investigation was about Bill, Hillary got a pass.

  25. Re:Incoming liberal asspain on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    When you cross the age line where those tests are commonly given, your insurance rates jump by substantially more than the cost of the procedures.

    How much would an oil change cost you if your car insurance covered it?