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  1. Re:Lets use Anthropo-sedatives instead .. on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Honestly, the idea of passing out and waking up at the destination would be appealing (to me anyway).

    The idea of "trained" airline staff administering custom dosages of sedatives powerful enough to put someone out is, however, not.

  2. Re:CS2 on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    No, but I've done processing on 80gb RAW images in it without a problem.

  3. Re:Reminds me of a Stargate in-joke on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 1

    My favorite is when it (randomly, as far as I can tell) kicks you into maintenance mode, whining that a restart is required to ensure boot archive is consistent.

    Fucking thing... it's also a complete pain in the ass to use 4096-aligned storage when you've a Sol10 ZFS-root installation. You simply -cannot- align the fucker and it trashes your storage with 8x the I/O.

    Agh! So much anger.

  4. Re:Troll much? on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    systemd reminds me of Solaris' svcs, and I DO NOT WANT.

  5. What are you smoking? Russia has been the aggressor here from the beginning.

  6. Re:Client or Server side? on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 2

    Sounds like a perfect use case of HTTP headers. Why would a new HTTP method be required?

    Get the headers? Great! Use them. Don't recognize them? Oh well, ignore them. Don't get them? Use sane defaults.

  7. Re:GUI technology has regressed since the 90s on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 1

    Things are a bit more complicated than they used to be...

  8. Re:It still sucks. on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    and stable UIs (like, buttons and icons don't change for decades)

    Why does this matter?

  9. Re:Trolling much ? on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    I don't really understand why the software cares about the media?

  10. Re:CS2 on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 0
  11. Re:What about Lightworks? on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Fucking crippleware, that's all that bullshit is...

  12. Re:I'm not understanding "missing DNA"... on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    But you're not just working around the damage, either... you're averaging traits. What you get out of this process might not actually be what you were trying to get? (as far as coloring, and such)

  13. Then he obviously couldn't see the "deer" properly and never should have taken the shot.

  14. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    My neighbors had one of those things on their roof.

    It was hilarious to me whenever a pigeon would sit on top of it.

  15. Re:Trapezoidal shape? on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 1

    Looks like an extruded triangle with bevels. Don't make it more complicated :P

  16. Re:Ineffective advertising on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 1

    Or a trash bin.

    It's certainly.. unique looking.

  17. Re: Ineffective advertising on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 2

    Mine's got the PSU on bottom, but it does have the intake (with a removable hair screen) on the bottom, raised pegs, and the exhaust on back. Meaning that the PSU doesn't blow hot air anywhere inside the case.

    Tons of airflow on this case, even with the fans on the lowest setting my CPU fan hardly ever needs to spin fast.

  18. Re:Most are ill-prepared on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    Get a fuel-distillation permit and make/buy yourself a copper still. Have fun. If it's not for drinking, you're good.

  19. Re:Most are ill-prepared on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    Sorry to reply to myself, but here's a great example radio. In particular note it's submersible, and with some programmer work (or solder bridging if you want permanence) will let you transmit outside of band (just be super careful with that - you can get yourself into big trouble by accidentally transmitting that way without cause)

  20. Re:Most are ill-prepared on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    If you can, swap that radio out for one that can also do 70cm - especially if you can get it to work out of HAM bands. Remember, if there's threat to life/property and there are no other means, you are allowed to break rules.

    The 70cm stuff might work better for you when there's crap all around - lower frequency stuff might not make it through the rebar but 70cm just might.

    Also, you might want to put that in something sturdier than a rubbermaid. You can get surplus ammo containers easily for example, and a falling beam is much less likely to shatter that solar charger if it's in something a bit tougher than thin plastic.

    Don't get rid of the rechargeable AAs, but do keep some of those AA/AAA compatible lithiums others have mentioned. They have a longer shelf life and a much wider operable temperature range.

  21. Re:Proves point on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes.

    It's better for the vehicle to terminate the flight, than to just give it it's best shot.

  22. Re:My wife will miss Grant. on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 2
  23. Re:My wife will miss Grant. on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 2

    Nope. Engineering is the application of the results of Science.

    The scientists and mathematicians figure out how a principle works, and the engineer figures out how to put it to use.

  24. Re:My wife will miss Grant. on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    one of Discoveries smarter shows

    See, you're just interpreting the name of the channels incorrectly!

  25. Re:I've learned the hard way on Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back · · Score: 1

    I've never seen that happen, even when accidentally installing the wrong drivers back in Windows 98, when shit could actually catch fire instead of just crashing!