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  1. Re:That's because we have a big US Defense Drones on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 2

    One of the most important parts of emergency response is to be flexible to developments. FEMA has repeatedly demonstrated that they lack this ability.

  2. Re:Dukes of hazzard, yeaha, shoot the drones on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    Have you ever met or talked with someone from a rural area? They may not understand the finer points of technology, but they aren't stupid. Unless it's Alabama.

  3. Re:Well... on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    My new favorite animation. That ones getting archived away...

  4. Re:USENET? on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    I think you might be underestimating how much of a liability this could be on a child in 10-15 years. Think about those folks who "don't know nothing about those computers" - it's only going to get worse. Would you want to force that on your progeny just to make your job as a parent easier?

    Now I'm not trying to trivialize physical or emotional abuse - don't get me wrong. I would argue this is intellectual abuse however, and it all falls under the same "abuse" umbrella.

  5. Re:You're a pretentius douche on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    It's not abuse, but it's still a stupid thing to do. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions...

  6. Re:they are doing it wrong on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    Might as well say "one didst catch a fish."

  7. Re:A few things need to happen first on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    Damn! You turned my opinion around! I'm so sorry for ever doubting your position!

  8. Re:Get me a steambox and ill start gaming. on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    So the majority should lose out to make things easier for the minority?

  9. Re:B effing S on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 1

    but it's impossible for you to actually show it happening

    That's because it takes orders of magnitude than a human being lives, dumbass! Would you deny continental drift because you can't see it happening? Grass grows too slowly to be seen by the naked eye, so while we're at it you can deny that grass grows, too.

  10. Re:No, it wouldn't be treason on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? A person is a person, and in English the default gender for words that still manage to have a gender is male.

  11. Re:Garage Door Terrorist! on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    The difference is you actually maintained/repaired it. Usually that would have been thrown out.

  12. Re:Wipe the gravy from your face. on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 1

    Or you could just hide them, then it stops trying. You can unhide later if you want.

  13. Re:maintenance on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    Either that or I got unlucky. But it's there, and has a beneficial use. My condition still stands.

  14. Re:Fertilizer... on Space Food From Space Farms · · Score: 1

    Then why is/was NASA the one doing all those aeroponics experiments (successfully) in orbit?

  15. Re:Fertilizer... on Space Food From Space Farms · · Score: 1

    The "kitty-litter like" substance sounded like (to me) just material to hold the plant in place, since you don't have gravity to do it for you. However, it seems they would go with aeroponics instead?

  16. Re:maintenance on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    "Don't normally" means that it's usually done correctly during write but not always. That it is even an option (and yes I've had to use it) means the filesystem does benefit from it. This has been around since ext2 and remains in ext4, so I don't understand what that has to do with it either.

  17. Re:maintenance on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    You mean like everyone running Windows, as well as anything using an ext filesystem?

    From e2fsck:
                  -D Optimize directories in filesystem. This option causes e2fsck
                        to try to optimize all directories, either by reindexing them if
                        the filesystem supports directory indexing, or by sorting and
                        compressing directories for smaller directories, or for filesys-
                        tems using traditional linear directories.

                        Even without the -D option, e2fsck may sometimes optimize a few
                        directories --- for example, if directory indexing is enabled
                        and a directory is not indexed and would benefit from being
                        indexed, or if the index structures are corrupted and need to be
                        rebuilt. The -D option forces all directories in the filesystem
                        to be optimized. This can sometimes make them a little smaller
                        and slightly faster to search, but in practice, you should
                        rarely need to use this option.

                        The -D option will detect directory entries with duplicate names
                        in a single directory, which e2fsck normally does not enforce
                        for performance reasons.

  18. Re:clearly I don't understand something... on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    DRAM refreshes and rewriting data are two different things.

  19. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    How is a tiny square of black tape on black plastic in a dark room ugly?

  20. (Video) Content? on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Sorry, Dice, I do not come here for multimedia. But I will come and bitch about it in the comments (wasting resources is my revenge).

  21. Re: Sounds promising on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 1

    Personally, I prefer Bush and Shrub.

  22. Re: What do you mean by "can"? on How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you could find someone to say anything, for the right price.

  23. Re:Of course it's a PR stunt on German Federal Police Helicopter Circles US Consulate · · Score: 1

    You're not even interfering with the photon, your antenna just happens to resonate with it as it passes by.

  24. Re:Why fix it? on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 1

    Examining the patch would make it stupid-easy for them to go and fix it, without actually applying the patch.

  25. Re:Whoops.... on Instagram Rolls Out Plan For In-Feed Advertisments · · Score: 1

    What ads? I don't know what you're talking about.

    Of course, my device is rooted - and I claim it's irresponsible for carriers to try to prevent users from doing such.