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  1. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 2

    "a necessary counterweight to the aggressiveness of Russia and the instability of the Middle East"

    Both of which the US agitates and the UK supports.
    No, the EU is better off without the UK.
    To think otherwise shows how deep your head is buried in the sand.

  2. Re:modern gameplay renaissance? on How Cities: Skylines Beat SimCity At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    Download Zandronum. Install. Load up Doomseeker. Point it to the Zandronum executable in the config menu. Point it to your Doom and Doom 2 WAD files in another option to the left of that menu. Set your server filter to cooperative and invasion and Deathmatch servers. Enjoy some of the newest and most awesome mods for doom to come out. Brutal Doom, Shotgun Frenzy, Master of Puppets, Complex Doom, Bosses From Hell, Samsara, Survivalism, Stronghold, RGA, it's a fucking dream.

    Don't forget to use the OpenGL rendering so you can mouselook straight up and down. You can set that inside the game, but requires a restart.

  3. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Did you bother turning off AHCI as well?

  4. Re:Roll your own... on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    You must be new to this. Acetone, being 100% volatile, goes away cleanly. Perfect for whole-extract cannabinoids.

    Supercritical CO2 is not expensive. Not by any means. You can get it dirt cheap at paintball stores.

    Alcohol and water is not a problem when you still have to do far less heat-purging versus butane/propane/hexane.

    >doesn't know greentext arrows are implications of joking humor.

    Yup, really new to this.

  5. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Go into UEFI, and disable it, putting it into legacy BIOS mode.

    It will install after that. Then you may turn UEFI back on.

  6. Re:Roll your own... on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    >using propane
    >not supercritical CO2
    >not using acetone
    >not using pure-grain alcohol

  7. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 0

    Quit trying to use a shitty crack. You do know EFI doesn't really handle OEM versions of Windows. You need the Win 7 ISO directly from Technet or a retail copy.

  8. Re:Charter kinda sucks on Simple Flaw Exposed Data On Millions of Charter Internet Customers · · Score: 1

    Bah, submitted too soon - they do this so they can ding you on the extra equipment charge.

  9. Re:give us your data on Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20 · · Score: 1

    The reasonable approximation is good enough. Try again when it isn't and things ultimately fail - not happening any time soon. Man can make it, man can break or remake it. End of story. If you can't accept that, re-check your reality.

  10. Re:Charter kinda sucks on Simple Flaw Exposed Data On Millions of Charter Internet Customers · · Score: 1

    They can't do that when the modem they give you on the second run is data only with no phone equipment built-in.

  11. Re:give us your data on Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20 · · Score: 1

    That's what circuitry simulators are for.

    Next!

  12. Charter kinda sucks on Simple Flaw Exposed Data On Millions of Charter Internet Customers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a Charter customer, here's how lax they are.

    1. Order just internet and phone service, lowest-tier speeds. They come and hook you up with a combo phone/modem, stuff works, you're cruising the internet.
    2. Wait two months, call Charter and ask for an upgrade to their maximum-speed plan.
    3. They come out with ANOTHER modem (without the phone built-in,) on the claim you need that modem to attain the higher speeds.
    4. Tech hooks up the modem, gets it set, leaves.
    5. The other modem NEVER gets deprovisioned for internet.
    6. You now have two IP addresses and two maximum-speed connections for the price of one. Yes, that other modem is MORE THAN CAPABLE of handling Charter's maximum speed.
    7. Multiplex those motherfuckers together and absolutely RAPE Charter's network. They don't seem to care all that much.

    So to find out that they are so lax as to allow something like this to happen, not a surprise, at all.

  13. Re:give us your data on Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20 · · Score: 2

    "Nice to know I'm not the only one whose first thought is "Who in the hell is gonna have enough experience with 53 fricking SBCs to actually give a rating on anything other than name recognition?"."

    Any engineer able to read datasheets could give a theoretical review and rating.

    Good thing I'm competent enough for that. Are you?

  14. Re:Arrogance about a job you don't understand on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1

    "Companies like Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble and the like didn't get to the size they are because they had idiots in the sales and marketing departments."

    I can most certainly guarantee you Coca-Cola was staffed by idiots and frauds. All that medical quackery to sell their product when they first came out is a prime example.

  15. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    RICO also requires some group affiliation, like a cartel, or a group of companies colluding.

    This is just purely criminal threat with intent to extort.

  16. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't kill the crystal (assuming solid-state laser,) the next pulse will have the added power of the returned photons (minus losses due to the mirror and thermodynamics, etc.) or if no follow-up pulse, it will just re-emit as a very weak beam until it can no longer lase.

  17. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Thermal conductivity isn't exactly THAT simple.

  18. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Lasers can burn through that, or depending upon the wavelength, not be attenuated to any serious degree.

  19. Re:I never pretended it would help for a long time on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Spinning does jack shit if I can focus right on the tip of the missile.

  20. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    No more need for poppy seed bagels to cause false positives on urinalysis tests! I can just literally boil and bake opium bagels!

  21. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 2

    Actually it would probably be considered closer to laudanum than beer.

  22. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    "True, but for a large scale operation you are going to want to have a bioreactor for both efficiency and scale, not to mention reducing the dead giveaway large quantity of people to tend the more manual methods."

    No, all you need is a carboy and an airlock. Could bury that shit in the ground and make it nearly undetectable minus the emissions of CO2. Which, if you're smart, you'd plant a crop around that and take advantage of the naturally higher localized CO2 levels for a better crop, while you're at it. Weed up top, opiates underground. Two birds with one stone. Thick cannabis canopy would hide those airlocks peeping up out of the ground pretty easily. A setup like this could be quickly accomplished in states legalized/medical cannabis laws.

  23. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    Which is bullshit, because by definition a word cannot have itself in the definition for it to be a usable definition.

    So who the fuck changed that rule?

  24. Re:The paywalling of the Internet on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    Yea, it's called 'search' for a reason, you know. Automated or not.

    And good sites have an index so searching SHOULD get you what you're after.

  25. Re:The paywalling of the Internet on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    What? You don't know how to grep? Don't know how to CTRL+F to search a page/listing?

    Damn, it's like you expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter.