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  1. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 2

    Oh bullshit. The world's largest economy could afford to basically arm its allies in a world war. The world's largest economy could fund a pointless decade in Iraq.

    Don't blame the "liberals" (who are hardly the only ones responsible for the debt), and don't act like the United States, if it had the will to do it, could make significant strides. After all, whatever the economy is being banged about with now, in a hundred years will seem laughable.

  2. Re:What I'd love to see on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm going to be blunt. I don't believe you. I don't think you have read the science.

  3. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 2

    Unless they're unlucky enough to live next to nicer areas where the locals won't let them in, or where desertification is picking up the pace.

    You really are a simpleton.

  4. Re:What I'd love to see on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then go read the fucking science. Jeezus, what you, a fucking infant?

    I haven't read anything by the likes of Al Gore or Green Peace in the better part of a decade. I go to the research, and so can you, if you'll just spend the five fucking minutes it takes to find it.

  5. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see. So your solution is to simply ignore the ecological catastrophe, fuck future generations (and even some current populations) and live with the consequences of a perfectly avoidable disaster.

    In a way, you're even worse than the denialists. You have adopted an ideological position and have decided that maintaining it should trump any change in human behavior.

  6. Re:Freeman Dyson on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's a physicist, not a climatologist. He certainly would be better in some respects at assessing the models, but nowhere near as competent as, oh, I dunno, a climatologist. On the flipside, if a climatologist starts making grand declarations about quantum electroydnamics, I'm sure I'd be turning to Dyson for a rebuttal.

  7. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you got a solution that doesn't involve regulation?

  8. Re:Excellent! on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Nothing has fallen apart. The WSJ article was pure spin. The world is still warming.

  9. Re:Excellent! on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 0

    Translation: I'm a whiny little bitch boy who doesn't want to face up to what we're all doing to the planet, so I'll use words like "Nazi" and "anti-business", because I lack honor, adult coping skills and jeezus christ basic intellectual capacity,.

    Look, you fucking moron, do you think that the universe gives one flying fuck about your fucking ideology? Do you think AGW hinges on whether it feeds into your notion of ccapitalism, you fucking halfwitted toad excrement?

  10. Re:No change in number, just different wording on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks for that. It goes to show that if it's about climate change and it's in the WSJ, you'd be better served using it as shitpaper.

  11. Re:No change in number, just different wording on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Once again, the psuedo-skeptics will play a clever etymological and semantics game to try to make it sound as if science is saying one thing, when it's actually saying something else. It's so typical of the pseudo-skeptic movement to simultaneously declare climatologists morally bankrupt communists out to destroy poor whttle oil companies while they take every word uttered by climatologists out of context to try to declare that climatology now rejects AGW.

  12. Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 1

    I learned a long time ago that it's just a lot bloody easier to have a Windows Server machine (physical or virtual) hanging around that you can quickly promote to a DC if the need arises. It can be a slight pain in a WAN like we have because updating FSMO roles and other AD objects can take some time, but really, at the end of the day, using your other DCs as your "backup" is a lot easier than rebuilding from backup.

    While I still religiously back up AD on a nightly basis, I haven't actually rebuilt a DC from such a backup in nearly a decade, and it's more a kind of religious obligation than because I believe I'll ever use the backup. A new Server install and DCPROMO is faster, more reliable and far less error prone than taking a day or two old backup of an AD DC.

  13. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    Indeed. It's literally the 1950s and early 1960s all over again. There was a day and an age when the 45 single was the backbone of the music industry, and it looks like download services have returned it to that era.

  14. Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 2

    About the only way I can see you safely making a backup image before applying updates to an AD domain controller is to make the image, then download the updates, and then most importantly disconnect the DC from the network, or at least sever all links from any other DCs in the forest before applying the updates. That way if things do go south you can always restore the backup without having mucked up the rest of the forest.

    I've done it on my forest, but each network segment is connected by a VPN or VLAN and there is only one DC per segment, so it would be relatively easy to segregate a DC during updates. Having more than one DC in the same AD site on the same segment would be a pain.

  15. Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 2

    Restoring domain controllers from images is a dangerous game. Nothing like'a'split brain AD network to make your day.

  16. Re:Use TrueCrypt on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    If AWS gave you a console session, I'm presuming someone (like, say, the NSA) already has a backdoor and can happily grab your password.

  17. Re:Not a new problem on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 2

    Not sure what the surprise here is. I had a Server 2003 guest go nuts on my KVM server and become pretty much unbootable. I mounted the raw image file via loop back and ntfs3g and happily copied all the data off of the virtual hd. I've done the same thing with Linux and BSD raw images, partitions and physical drives.

    If I wanted real security I would use disk encryption like TrueCrypt on the vm volume, so that even if someone could gain access to the VM host, they would be confronted with an encrypted volume, and without the pass code or key, they're hooped. Mind you, because I'm using some cloud service, if they are nefarious (or the NSA has backdoor access), they've already got my key and/or password, in which case whether or not the volume on the cloud VM is encrypted or not, they've been happily vacuuming up my data anyways.

    The moral here is that unless you have custody of your data, you ought to presume the worst.

  18. Re:Now.. on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 1

    And you can identify them easily. They're the display units with the thick layer of dust.

  19. Re:Now.. on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 1

    How could anything that sold so few units have any kind of legacy, other than purely negative terms?

  20. Re:Free Market? LoL on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to be a corrupt crony, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:who cares? on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because we all know that's how you tell that something's better.

    I'm taking my Betamax tapes and going home! And get off my lawn!

  22. Re:Should have done it on MTV on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    So let's get this straight. You're stereotypical feminist (which does not reflect reality, merely your biases) picks on your stereotypical male (which does not exist either, save to be used to confirm your biases).

  23. Re:Power trip and nothing more. on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    How about we just behave like civilized human beings in public spaces. What you can get away with your pals in your basement may not translate well into a professional arena.

    If you haven't figured out that tit jokes have no place in a professional conference, then you're parents failed you badly.

  24. Re:Should have done it on MTV on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    You do realize, I trust, that there is more than one kind of feminist, and not all a bra-burning lesbians out to eliminate the Y chromosome.

  25. Re:Should have done it on MTV on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    I guess the message we should send is "Many guys in IT are either Aspies or just plain socially inept morons, so please expect some boorish behavior that, if they were to occur in, say, an accountants convention, would lead to these kind of people being hauled off stage and tossed out the nearest exit."