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  1. Re:TRON !! on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Pretty good reason to stay there

  2. My theory on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's been kidnapped by a Gnome

  3. Every country should boycott stuff made there in protest.

    Oh wait...

  4. It's expensive, but call their bluff and escort every craft in that airspace.

  5. Re:Strange times on Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service · · Score: 1

    Why was a *production* system chosen to test the upgrade would be a better question. Why were there no fallbacks an even better one...

  6. Re:Damn, that sucks. on John Carmack Leaves id Software · · Score: 1

    My SLI Voodoo2 setup disagrees with that statement

  7. Re:Its a black ugly box. on Xbox One Released · · Score: 1

    THIS

    One of the reasons I love old A/V equipment is they were standard size. Besides, 1970s Marantz/Luxman audio stuff looks and sounds really nice (besides being nearly indestructible). Bring back silver brushed metal with knobs and analog vu meters.

  8. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Wut?

    I've never had to use antibiotics in maybe the last 15 years. If you always use them, your body won't build up its immune system and the critters will grow resistance.

  9. NO! on FCC To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes · · Score: 0

    There's *no* reason for using a cell phone on a plane. Besides, some of those birds are pretty old and were designed before cell phones existed.

  10. In Montreal on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    It's quite common to see 3 or 4 cars in Centre D'achats Forest's parking lot at night doing nothing instead of patrolling (which they are paid to do).

  11. stupid on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 1

    The average guy will never earn that kind of money (with a legal job that is). Next year, he missed it and crashed and burned ?

  12. Re:first post from the road! on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    That's some really nice extension cord there

  13. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    As a smoker , hell yes. It's a whole lot harder to stop smoking than drinking

  14. My experience on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With my limited sample of hard drives (around 50 around the years), what I've found so far. The drives range from 1.2GB to 1TB models, SCSI/IDE/SATA

    *ALL* but 1 or 2 of my Maxtors either died or sounded like a bandsaw pretty soon

    My Seagates are all dead save 1 or 2

    My WD seem fine, albeit some are noisy, but my two 1TB green pulled from external cases are pretty much about dead.

    I've had only 1 out of 10 SCSI drive die so far.

    So my experience so is Maxtor was crap, when Seagate bought them it lowered Seagate's reliability. And since *ALL* the drives I've pulled from enclosures are dead, I'm guessing they are selling their crappiest drives to other manufacturers.

    The problem is they are not trying to make better drives, they are trying to make *bigger* drives. Fuck a 4TB drive, gimme a reliable 1TB.

    All my obsolete hard drives were dismantled and recycled, and from what I saw, the more recent the drive, the cheaper it's made (and less reliable)

    I should've kept statistics while dismantling them.

  15. Both my 1TB have developed a *LOT* of BS, they are about 4 years old. But thay are the only two WD that failed.

  16. Re:Already Exists on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 4, Informative
  17. Waste of time on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 2

    Teach kids how to read and write properly. Teach them to do math without a calculator. Geography, general culture, the works.

    Your / You're
    Would of
    Its / It's

    Heck, it's not even my native langage and it hurts my brain the way people write today...

  18. Re:Oh, the irony... on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 1

    You *DO* know Iron Sky was just a movie, right ?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  19. Do as I say, not as I do on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I or any /. reader were to do the same, a pretty harsh sentence would await us.

  20. Re:Kunta Kinta Speaks His Thougts and the World + on LeVar Burton On Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Damn... I missed 3 seasons

  21. Re:Nice car... on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    with a production of only 7, it's not like they can cut it for spare parts

  22. Re:Such degrading fuel sources! on Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots · · Score: 1

    Budweiser ?

  23. Re:Google could just on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 2

    They could also fax it :)

  24. Pathetic on Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for Trademark Action Against Fix Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    He should really go into politics. They acted like dicks, and now he's doing damage control...

  25. Not the solution on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's probably a better way to research gravity than randomly throwing satellites at the earth...