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  1. Re:Cost vs injury on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 1

    What about a kind of beacon or reflector that could be issued to drivers?

  2. Re:Cost vs injury on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 1

    Left-turns should always be yields, not stops, when through-traffic has a green.

    Fucking bastards. Not a car in sight but you aren't going anywhere!

  3. Re:Death becomes acceptable, doesn't it? on What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    This is why laser weapons would be so nice to have.

    Point and zap. Minimal collateral.

  4. Re:Death becomes acceptable, doesn't it? on What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with Islam itself. The problem is jackasses trying to push Shariah or Islamic Law on others.

    You make laws with morality, not morality with laws.

  5. Re:Death becomes acceptable, doesn't it? on What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    It's not DR705's fault JTAC is a dickbag.

  6. Re:Death becomes acceptable, doesn't it? on What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    "War is not nice."

    Period. Dancing around the particulars doesn't change this fact.

  7. Re:Thoughts on What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These were designed to look down. Of course they have something better now. If you don't think they can't read the headlines on your newspapers from space you're mistaken.

    I don't see anything wrong with this. When you have other superpowers threatening to glass your country, seeing where they are putting those munitions and such is mandatory.

    The world is not a utopia. We need espionage, if only to try to see it coming.

  8. Re:FAIL INTERNAL SERVER ERROR !! on Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail · · Score: 1

    Hey! Let the Guru meditate in peace.

  9. Re:Not "rob", burglarize on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 1

    Tense mismatch was my point, not conjugation.

  10. Re:Not "rob", burglarize on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 1

    verb tense, do you have it?

  11. Re:Do both... on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    I've got W7 on my first disk, linux on the second. Bootloaders are in their respective MBRs.

    I have W7's BCD bootloading a 'grub for windows' if desired, which has a single item in it which chainloads the MBR on the second disk. Windows gets it's playpen, Linux gets it's, and there's no fighting.

    Used to be I'd just install grub on the first disk MBR, but W7 SP1 wouldn't install because it failed to update the BCD or some silly nonsense like that. Took a reinstall to fix, all the twiddling in the world with the bcd and bootloader wouldn't 'fix' it.

  12. Re:Been headed this way for while on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    Solder wick? Not exactly user friendly... but not the end of the world if you've need of it.

    Never seen whats under the little balls on a BGA, but there must be pads for that BGA solder to bond to under there...

  13. Re:LGA vs. BGA on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    Couldn't one just remove the BGA with a solder-wick or such and end up with just tinned pads on the underside of the CPU?

  14. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say your test system isn't going to have the load of the production system. You could very well get away with cheap hardware on that side. After all, if your test system breaks it doesn't really hurt anything.

    As you say, if you go this route you have to make sure it's done right. You have to verify the mirroring is actually working.

  15. Re:ehh... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    i'm picturing a bunch of tiny cups or pins on a spring, and a clasp that pushes the CPU down on it. Depending on if you get a BGA or just some pads on the CPU.

  16. Re:Soldering Machine on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    1. Good luck doing that with a BGA
    2. I'm confused as to how AC expects to hand-solder a BGA

  17. Re:I just can't live without a ZIF socket. on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    So... have you not ever seen the CPUs that just have pads on them, and the socket itself is like a bed of nails? Pinless CPU... I don't see what's weird about that. You could even design a socket to mate with a CPU intended to be BGA soldered.

  18. Re:Been headed this way for while on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Erm, am I missing something? I've seen plenty of CPUs that just had pads on them. The socket had the pins - the clasp pushed the CPU down onto them.

    No pins, and still user-replacable.

  19. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever want to run testing on production equipment? Mirror production, and test in test.

    If you want to test on production anyways you'll find that a silly mistake can result in disaster.

  20. Re:Nonsense on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    I think we should all start setting fire to billboards and bombing advertising agencies.

    Then when they have the gall to point fingers at adblockers as damaging we can point the finger right back at something that is actually damaging.

  21. Re:Hardware level adblocking is the future. on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    Or trust "third-party" certs for actual MITM attacks. It's a bad idea. I'll admit they are trying to solve a legitimate problem, but the way they are doing it is wrong and dangerous.

  22. Re:Hardware level adblocking is the future. on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    That's a nice way to MITM yourself...

  23. Re:Short answer: on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    The moment they go through that bother I will stop going there for content.

    Currently: fucks the advertisers and those who depend on them

    What you propose: fucks everyone except me

    Go ahead. Pull that trigger.

  24. Re:Simple Science on Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag · · Score: 1

    I'm confused how a sheath of foil causes any kind of damage?

  25. Re:No! on Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity · · Score: 1