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  1. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 2

    if someone even bumps the back of your car gently, your foot is going to come off the brake

    You sure have some strange reflexes. I've been bumped once, and my foot went on the brake harder.

  2. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile it feels like 75% of the drivers with Gwinnett tags don't have working lights, insurance, etc. Or just don't have tags at all (yea!) and they let them drive around. Fuck you, Jessie Myers, and your supervisor. I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

  3. Gnome user-base? Not for long on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Are they trying to bleed their user-base dry?

  4. Re:Not just lizards on New Species of Legless Lizard Discovered Near LAX Runway · · Score: 1

    Yikes. That sounds like FOD-city to me.

  5. Re:Eh... on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    In which case why don't you start with the one closer to what you want?

    I'd rather install Mint and rip out the, well, three things or so I don't want, then try to do the same thing with Ubuntu and find out that "ubuntu-desktop" DEPENDS on $RANDOM_BULLSHIT_I_DONT_WANT and has no reason for being an absolute dependency instead of a suggestion or recommendation.

    That I have to use equivs or remove the metapackage and stay on top of updates manually is... dumb. Incredibly, ridiculously dumb.

  6. Re:Eh... on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    First, I would choose Ubuntu over any other desktop "out-of-the-box" distributions because Canonical with Ubuntu is the only one that is trying a new design.

    I don't use Ubuntu. I don't use Windows 8. Why? Because they are doing that, and I want no part of it.

    Do not want.

  7. Re:is it that fucking hard... on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    I ask: why don't you just use slackware? You'd probably be happier, there.

  8. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    No, quite sure it was deuterium. I had read about it mucking up metabolic processes, but the concentrations required for that apparently had flown over my head back then.

  9. Re:d20? on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    "Before trapezohedral dice became available, players used twenty-sided dice to get random digits, either by dividing by two or by discarding the tens digit." (from wikipedia on "Pentagonal trapezohedron")

  10. Re:Not that hard to believe, actually on Angry Brazilian Whacks NASA To Put a Stop To ... Er, the NSA · · Score: 1

    I think you overestimate the education required for script kiddies to run their scripts.

  11. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 2

    I was going to bring up concerns about deuterium leaking into the water table, but on further research it seems you'd have to replace 25% to 50% of your body's water content (eg drink nothing but it for days on end) with it for ill effects. Far safer than I had (for some reason) thought it was.

  12. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid I don't understand how this compares at all.

  13. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    How much earth do you need to move to find an ore like pitchblende, though? So long as the difference isn't made up here...

  14. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    wires up the larynx via the heart?

    That sounds like some interesting reading/wiki-surfing/time-wasting. What's that nerve called so I can commence?

  15. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 2

    Devil's (yes, that was intentional) advocate: that was supposedly included to provide an illusion of free will.

    In my (not so) humble opinion: if there is a deity in charge, free will cannot exist - so the whole thing is pointless and falls apart anyway.

  16. Re:Anonymous & Unpopular on Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy · · Score: 1

    Basically you are stating (correctly, IMO) that there's a big difference between mere observation, and active searching.

  17. Re:Here's a contract for you on Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy · · Score: 1

    You forgot:
    4) Aggressive denial; physically damaging, vandalizing, or disabling recording devices/systems.

    Which brings me to think about those red-light cameras. How many replacements/cleanings would they go through before they just give up? Assuming the vandal was intelligent enough to not get caught.

  18. Re:Linksys or Netgear on Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Build Graph of Offline Social Networks · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I understand how a webserver is supposed to know what your SSID is, or even that you're using wifi.

  19. Re:Yeah right on Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Build Graph of Offline Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: people still use the accounts they registered when they were teens or children.

  20. Re:Impressive... on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    The ultimate anvil.

  21. Re:You're Not Making Sense on A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    That's called a proxy, and no - keep your hands out of my bits.

  22. Re:Service is meh... on Hulu "Kicking Back Into Action" Says CEO, Adding New Content · · Score: 1

    I'd rather pay $20/m (or even $30) and not have to watch those ads.

    Hulu can step up all it wants, but until they give me a way to not see those ads (or the "please don't block us" whine) I'm not coming back.

  23. Who? What? Huh? on 'Alien Life' Story of Dubious Provenance Goes Viral · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "By now you have likely read about the 'alien life forms' discovered in the upper atmosphere over Yorkshire, via the mass media reprinting a press release from the University of Sheffield.

    The what from the who now? Shitty writing. "Oh, by now I'm sure you've heard about the $TRIVIAL_EVENT that occurred 4,000 miles from where I reside 99.999% of my life.

  24. Re:Future filetypes? on GitHub Adds Support For Diffing 3D Files · · Score: 1

    Not sure how .blend would work unless you disable compression. I don't know enough about other formats to say anything about them though (isn't .obj just point cloud data with connections?)

  25. Re:It helps AMD fanboys feel better about themselv on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 1

    I have tried a small handful of ATI/AMD cards over the years and have never had good results. Performance in Windows was always mediocre and I had massive stability or features not working on Linux. I will admit my last attempt was several years ago (less than 4 though). I'm not talking about embedded or mobile chipsets either, but dedicated AGP or PCIe.

    (before you go all AMD fanboy on me (I'm hoping you wouldn't but just in case), I should mention I've been using AMD processors since I abandoned my old Pentium 3 back in the day, and my first few processors were cyrix)