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  1. Re:Well... on NASA Worker Falls To His Death On Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    I just don't want to see it coming. I'd rather not have time to fear or dwell on it.

  2. Re:Well... on NASA Worker Falls To His Death On Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    It is odd that you do have that issue, yet have no issues with a sustained terminal velocity freefall. That makes me shiver just thinking about it.

  3. Re:more innocuous than a song on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 1

    OT / sig reply:

    Hey, what's the story about that craft? Was it ever reported? I can't find a report anywhere to satisfy my curiosity :P (assuming the tail number is N717T)

  4. Re:Uh, what? on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 1

    My stereo is integrated with my navigation system. The nav system is (read only I hope, come on) able to get data from the EC, such as current speed. I suppose that is one path.

  5. Re:meanwhile... on Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is pretty solid...

    I -prefer- linux, but I have no problems working with 7 either.

  6. Re:meanwhile... on Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds · · Score: 1

    Yea, with what desktop? KDE?

    Lets see. Debian for instance (and the last release is quite modern) has:
    GNOME
    KDE
    XFCE
    lxde (capitalization?)

    I'm also pretty sure enlightenment is available too. All the other tiny or specialist ones such as fluxbox or jwm are all in there too.

    You're hardly stuck with GNOME.

  7. Re:EVE is terrible. on In Isk We Trust: the EVE Online IskBank Exposed · · Score: 1

    You're also assuming said software developers are overpaid like all the others, and wouldn't stick around unless this was true. Perhaps they enjoy their work there, or the company, or the product etc.

  8. Re:WANT! on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 1

    They will start by getting very mad at you. Assuming you convince them it wasn't you that did it, they will probably replace the tag. If the tag continues to malfunction, your privileges will probably be revoked and you'll end up back in prison or on traditional parole.

  9. Re:Unacceptable on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Erm... I think we have a language misunderstanding :)

    Over here, "cubicles" mean office cubicles, only. The bathroom "sub rooms" we call stalls.

    Apologies for the confusion.

  10. Re:Whatever will the British do? on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Well then it's a good thing I wasn't talking on an interpersonal level. I was talking about The Man. ... and if you missed it, my tongue has been planted firmly in cheek for both my original comment, and this one.

  11. Re:apologists on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Hey! We don't like logic 'round these parts! We be to busy thinkin' of the chillun!

  12. Re:Unacceptable on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What kind of fucked up "school" has cubicles? That's a great way to foster teamwork...

  13. Re:easy and necessary fix. on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    They tried that bull on me. They gave my stuff back. Apparently they didn't expect a student to be able to read, understand, and apply policy.

    "Take it for the day if you must, but you are NOT taking my property from me, unless you plan on compensating me for it."

  14. Re:Whatever will the British do? on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 2

    I can't say I agree with either of your points, and that carries some weight - being a native and all. I've lived in the city, suburbs, and country, too - on both coasts and a little bit further in.

    That said, even if there was a twitch-ridden gun pointed at me all the time - I take comfort in the fact that I can/do have my own twitchy gun pointing right back at it.

    MAD is a pretty strong deterrent.

  15. Re:Sigh on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe in your system of morality. Kindly keep it to yourself, if the only alternative you find is to force it upon others.

  16. Re:Android second? on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 1

    Does it use the Linux kernel? You're answer is also the answer to the question of "is it Linux."

  17. Re:Android second? on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 0

    No. It is not Linux. You'll note that Linux has a capital L - for a reason.

  18. Re:Android second? on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Google no longer maintains the code they previously contributed to the Linux kernel as part of their Android effort, creating a separate version or fork of Linux. Android's mobile operating system is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. It is not linux.

    Specifics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Linux_compatibility

  19. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    Generated assembly, sure. I doubt most is done in raw assembler these days.

  20. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you really needed to run DOS, outside of a BIOS update? If you're one of the rare ones that has a reason - do you really have a reason, or are you just too lazy/cheap to upgrade/migrate from your early 1990s systems?

    Contiki... sounds like niche software that would be better suited to a non-PC embedded system. If you want to run that on a PC, you're probably doing something silly.

  21. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    ISA ports may not be on your board, but the ISA bus is still in use!!

    For instance, all of my server's hardware monitoring systems are talked through via ISA... and this server is very recent/modern.

  22. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    The other option I've seen is a switch or jumper on the board itself that enables the pause-n-prompt - without that set, it skips right past that.

    That sure wasted me some time when I was trying to figure what the hell was going on - but after I saw it, I thought it was ingenious.

    Wish I could remember what hardware I saw that on.

  23. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    It's all a shame. All of that just to squeeze a little bit more cash out. I fucking hate businesspeople*

    * most. there are the rare exceptions

  24. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1

    You can't watch everyone well. If they keep watching people for stupid shit like this, it means they use up resources that could have better watched a real threat.

  25. Re:That is the coolest thing I've seen in years on Asus Motherboard Box Doubles As PC Case · · Score: 1

    ... did you accidentally some oil on your computer case?