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  1. Re:A waste of money, and irresponsible. on Draper Labs Develops Low Cost Probe To Orbit, Land On Europa For NASA · · Score: 1

    " instead of plummeting to the group of those countries that mostly serve as factories for the more advanced."

    Uh, have you seen our outsourcing numbers recently?

  2. Re:Magazines still exist? on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    "They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article"

    Uh, have you seen magazines these days? You've got half a column of story/review, and the rest of the two pages ends up being advertisements.

  3. Re:Magazines still exist? on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    "Must say that even though I work in IT I don't like the major reliance on screens for everything"

    As opposed to what, beaming it directly to your brain?

  4. Re:Magazines still exist? on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    "so there isn't even an easy way to seek to the continuation."

    So you're incapable of counting the sides of pages, is that what you're saying?

  5. Re:Been an advert fest for as long as I remember on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    " Wikipedia is 100x larger and with web links allows people to more successfully research far more topics than Britannica ever could."

    All paid off, most likely, with maybe 2% of paid contributors actually disclosing their affiliation.

  6. Re:Been an advert fest for as long as I remember on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    DirtCheapDrives.com baby. Fuck yea CS was one thing I looked forward to 18 years ago.

  7. I cared. on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    Good unchangeable hard-copy print publications with typically far more reliable information. Pretty damned good vs the internet for a leisurely search if you keep shit organized.

  8. Re:This is why I quit using PNY products years ago on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 2

    Had the same issue with Jaton during that generation of nVidia GPUs.

    Pretty much made me only go with ATi/AMD from now on.

  9. Re:DVD still have use. on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I still buy physical DVDs - primarily because they are passively archival and don't depend on me a) having connectivity or b) having my server nearby."

    Uh, yes, you do You're a fool.

  10. more bullshit on Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia · · Score: 1

    "Scientists from the University of Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia in later life, than those who have more faith in other people."

    In other words, they're trying to pin the blame on someone other than dealing with the same issues they have in the first place like any other country on it's way to first-world status.

    Yea, good fucking luck, assholes.

  11. You can't do standards, you can't do real science, all Microsoft can do is pollute the code stream.

    No fucking thanks. I'll stick with ASM and non-Visual C++.

  12. Send him first on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 0

    Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer on the NASA JPL's Curiosity rover mission, believes that to send humans to distant planets, we may need to do one of two things: look for ways to game space-time—traveling through wormholes and whatnot—or rethink the fundamental idea of 'ourselves

    If he's that confident, then he should send himself first. If not, then he should shut the fuck up.

  13. Useless metrics on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not including the power used by DRM enforcement
    Not including the power used to burn a disc, let alone harvest the material to make it
    Not including the power of the people involved in making such a thing happen
    Not including the money used to lobby Congress
    Not including the money used to lobby the EPA
    Not including the money to lobby the FCC

    If you're this fucking stupid, you deserve what you get.

  14. Re:Time to become a better shopper on Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To "Get a Better Deal" · · Score: 1

    "Except Wal-Mart's prices are damn low over time."

    Funny you should say that. More than half of their stuff instore can be bought for cheaper at smaller places, quite often.

    I saw a guitar, clearly labeled as $129 on the package (First Act guitar) and Wal-Mart had a $169 price tag on it.

    No, the $129 was NOT labeled as MSRP.

  15. Class-Action Lawsuit Time! on Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks · · Score: 1

    Well, if the PULP lawyers see this, why the fuck aren't they filing suit for the American People?

  16. Re:Classic joke.. on Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype · · Score: 1

    I was just joking, partially. The same vulnerability that allows repeated posts also happens to be linked to the username registration filters. The first L in his name is actually a capital i.

  17. Re:Classic joke.. on Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype · · Score: 1

    The exact same vulnerability.

  18. Re:Apple has now jumped the shark on Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion · · Score: 0

    You must be new to the planet, because Google overtook Apple as the most valuable brand a week or so ago.

  19. Re:Classic joke.. on Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Also, how the fuck did that fuckhead spammer BillTheEngineer get to post zillions of copies of his spam, all at 16:04, while us regular users have to wait 5 minutes?"

    A vulnerability in Slashdot's beta code that I fond and sold for $250. Fuck responsible disclosure, you force this shit upon us, we force some shit right back.

    This vulnerability is also present in the last released version of slashcode, so it will work on other sites.

    Gotta thank the SoyentNews crew for making that VM. Made my bughunting life so much easier.

  20. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 1

    Both not very challenging to any suspension on the planet.

  21. Re:are the people still running XP on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    XP and 2000 have been around long enough that if you don't know how to modify/hack it by now, you should give up.

  22. Re:Are you kidding me? on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    "That someone thought making a cash register run WindowsXP was a good idea scares me, though."

    I've had no problems with the four XP-based machines I've used as POS systems.

    Never needed to reboot, hardware issues got left to me to fix since I typically lived right around the corner so could grab a spare piece of XP-compatible hardware and toss it in and be back in business within a smoke break.

  23. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 1

    "Or it could be be you know more about suspension setups then Honda, who won the Indy 500 yesterday."

    Considering it's all turns in one direction, uh, no. Honda still knows jack shit about suspension setups. Their FIT is top-heavy and will roll on a whim. Their old 4x4 WAGON had one of the most horrible suspensions I've ever dealt with. The old CRX was like trying to ride a fixie on a garden gravel road. Even their motorcycles (like the older shadow 500) had shit suspensions and shocks.

  24. Re:Real-world conditions on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 1

    If you need a negative camber for stability and you're not on a race track, you've fucked up design somewhere.

    I've been working on vehicles for roughly 15 years and I've got roughly 400+K miles flawless driving record. The idiots with cambered tires tend to perform very poorly on drag race strips and drifting tracks, and lose control because of the reduced contact between the road and tires. It's the dumbest thing to do and the PROPER way to alleviate this is an a-frame sway bar with MacPherson (or similar) struts attached.

  25. Re:Descent VR on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about the lenses being square. Just rotate them 90 degrees one way or another to get the proper polarization. Anything else is a secondary concern.