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  1. Re:Update the review with AuYou responses on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not first, just another company jumping on a product line.

    They certainly paid more attention to their case molding then they did to their software.

  2. Re:Cry me a fucking river on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should post that as an Amazon review of the product.

  3. Re:Couldn't have happened to a nicer company on Oracle Ordered To Pay $3B Damages To HP (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There has to be consideration...that doesn't in any way guarantee things will work out profitably for anybody involved.

  4. Re:Couldn't have happened to a nicer company on Oracle Ordered To Pay $3B Damages To HP (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is however Oracle's fault they signed a contract to support Itanium then didn't.

    HP is done. Dividend out the 3 billion, sell the server business, drive a stake through the heart of what's left of EDS and close.

  5. Re:Couldn't have happened to a nicer company on Oracle Ordered To Pay $3B Damages To HP (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The fact you're not going to make any money, doesn't get you out of contracts.

    Oracle should have just continued supporting it badly and let performance whack Itanium on the head.

  6. Re: A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing left.

    No M1 carbines, no 1903, no 1917, cheapest garand in decent condition is 3k$, but it's a sniper version so not insane.

    Only the auction site has any activity, which is at full tilt market price.

    There are no $600 Garands left.

  7. Re:All hot air? on 'Healing' Detected In Antarctic Ozone Hole, Says Study (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Be fair, the new style pressurized tank low flow toilets flush OK.

    When they don't blow up that is.

  8. Re:Christian God stronger than atheists' god on 'Healing' Detected In Antarctic Ozone Hole, Says Study (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The comic book science I was fed in middle school was about that simplistic.

    But that wasn't adult level propaganda. It was perpetrated by ex-hippy teachers operating on their own limited understanding of science.

    Just like now, kids were being indoctrinated.

    Watch this: The number one source of stratospheric ozone is UV light hitting oxygen. Which explains why 'holes' only form in polar winters. Everywhere else there is an equilibrium process going on as ozone is steadily created and destroyed.

    Someone will be along to call me a liar and shill any second.

  9. Dysfunction is rarely a long term gravy train.

  10. Re:How Much More For The Movies on IMAX Will Build You a Home Theater -- Starting at $400K (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people don't want a listening room that's acoustically dead. You generally want the corners pretty dead.

    Even music studios often hang hard panels on the walls to 'brighten' the room.

    Also I don't want my walls covered in acoustic foam. I hang a mixture of Indian blankets (some over medium thickness blankets as extra damper) and framed art. Let the amp tune itself with pink noise and a microphone. Reaches my level of 'good enough'. Little more than 2k in the sound though. Not crazy more, but I met a few genuine 'audiophiles' and bought from their discard pile. The trick is don't buy from rock and roll fans. Jazz and Classical people baby their gear.

  11. Re:Of course the AutoPilot would see the truck on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never hit the brakes. Saw the trailer, thought it was a sign. Forward radar is aimed at road level, didn't detect trailer and apparently thought the tractor was clear.

  12. Divided highway driving is relatively safe. Autopilot is basically highway driving.

    They compare their highway fatality rate to others total worldwide fatality rate.

    How many Teslas have been sold in places like India, Africa, S. America? Where driving death statistics are insane.

  13. Change jobs. Seriously, your current employer has lost sight of all important things and is going down sooner or later.

  14. You really think you can change a fact by 'kill the stupid meme'?

  15. There are many things you just can't be any good at unless you, at least, start off with a passion for the subject.

    Being 'not interested' is the same as 'unable'. I'm 'not interested' in ballet, guess what?

  16. Re:Parody is Fine on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They start by intimidating, usually they are claiming a space.

    Idiot isn't required, anything less then cringing away will set them off.

  17. Implication? No, a direct statement and obvious to anybody who's ever hired in tech.

    Women had a lower average technical score.

  18. Re:Saturday Night Live VS. the internet on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It would only take one patriotic secret service agent to end it. Don't think that hasn't curbed politicians behavior in the past.

  19. Re:A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the federal judge that disbarred him for those very answers.

  20. Re: A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The CMP doesn't give guns away for free, it does sell them.

    But fucking bill clinton had the remaining stock dumped in the ocean rather than let the program work. Last I looked, they had nothing left.

  21. Re:Money Shots on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait a second,10k/year is large number, but 116k/year (low end of the range) isn't?

    Your problem is, you're not intellectually honest with yourself.

  22. Re:Parody is Fine on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know how to deal with a bully.

    If I call someone and idiot and they take a swing at me, I don't call the cops and try to get them arrested. I give them a righteous beatdown.

  23. Re:the white elephant in the room on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The competition to cheap labor is automation.

    Europe has a huge lead on automated harvesting equipment because America has Mexican and Central American workers.

    There is no such thing as 'slave wages', slaves don't get wages. Stop watering down words.

  24. Re:Yep - impersonation on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to feed anybody any answers. Just start them thinking critically about the simple minded propaganda being repeated by our 'progressive' twits.

    The cool aid drinkers aren't going to be affected, to them it's just NRA = evil. No point in wasting time arguing with a rock.

  25. Re:Remeber the name for the program on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy an electric drill for $20. That and some black pipe is all you need to make a zip gun.