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  1. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I'll help you get that legal the second you can get cartoons of Mohammed legal."

    Start working, show me a law (outside of Muslim/Islamic countries) that makes it illegal to draw Mohammed.

  2. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 1

    And just what do you know about guns? My Colt AR-15 was a damned-fine hunting rifle. And when it comes to stopping tough game, like wild boar, an AK is almost EXACTLY what you want (Take off full-automatic fire mode.)

  3. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 1

    "Handguns (with some exceptions, of course) are not typically used for either of those things."

    There are plenty of ranges that only allow small-caliber weapons on the hunting premises.

  4. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 1

    Never traveled around the world, have you? We have this thing called customs declarations.

  5. Re:Playstation, ask the Xbox how this one turned o on Sony To Detail "Premium PSN" Plans At E3 · · Score: 1

    Trust me, it was easier working on the units themselves at Solectron than dealing with full-on customer support.

  6. Re:Playstation, ask the Xbox how this one turned o on Sony To Detail "Premium PSN" Plans At E3 · · Score: 1

    Umm, games that already required a monthly fee were playable online for free under a Silver account. Microsoft didn't have the balls to try double-charging.

  7. Re:Playstation, ask the Xbox how this one turned o on Sony To Detail "Premium PSN" Plans At E3 · · Score: 1

    "You're full of shit. When Live first launched, there was no Silver and Gold, only subscribers."

    Hi! You're full of shit. There were MANY games which were playable online under a silver subscription for free.

    I was a support tech, want me to start breaking down the list of games Silver subscription users could play BEFORE 2008?

    Starting in 2008 Silver and Gold accounts lost distinction and Silver accounts were allowed to play all games online free.

  8. engine placement at the rear of the plane on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 1

    Duh, pushing is always better than pulling. RWD FTW.

  9. Re:Willing to bet that 60% figure is bunk on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Frostwire identifies as LimeWire Pro. It's one single freaking flag that needed to be changed in source.

  10. Re:Think critically--and READ critically on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    "Especially in Texas, home to Ft. Hood, Ft. Sam Houston, Lackland AFB, and most U.S. Air Force pilot training."

    So we replace science with history, and rather biased at that? Even my Tennessee history classes weren't that biased, and my Texas Elementary classes weren't, either. My god how things have changed since the Era of Bush.

  11. Willing to bet that 60% figure is bunk on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Considering FrostWire exists, I'll bet the actual limewire usage is nowhere near what is projected there. Frostwire = Limewire Pro for free. This is what happens when you open-source your stuff! :)

  12. Re:Nothing new here. on Quantum Entanglement and Photosynthesis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's actually quantum reactions between different wavelengths of light to trigger certain things inside of the plants. The actual Emerson Effect happens when 660-670nm light is paired with 700-720nm light, however due to figuring out there is some entanglement involved, we've also found a new pair of wavelengths that do this as well, in the blue range. What we've noticed is with these specific pairings, certain photosynthetic and photomorphogenic processes increase DRAMATICALLY.

    These guys are pretty much confirming something we've already figured out, though it's only been a couple of years since we've figured this out, and the technology to make it worthwhile is so expensive thanks to, well, Sony. 400-420nm diodes of any sort are hard to find because everyone's focused on Blu-Ray production. A 420nm diode is twice as expensive as any other diode right now because of this, thus making efficient LED horticultural panels very expensive to produce.

  13. Nothing new here. on Quantum Entanglement and Photosynthesis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, not to me. I've known about this action for a couple of years. It's highly linked to visible-wavelength irradiation at 420nm and 460nm, it's like an Emerson Effect for the blue wavelengths.

  14. Re:eSATA on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    Really what I'd love to see is an eSATA LAN. For just gaming around the table, 2 meters eSATA limitation is just fine. That would be perfect for even the most bandwidth-demanding games.

  15. Re:eSATA on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    True, but in my case, it's also nice to have the external ports. A combo card would serve better, I'd suppose.

    And they make I-to-L SATA cables, pretty cheap for a 24 inch one, which is big enough for most typical-size PC cases.

    Hell, my laptop has eSATA built-in. I wish I could network over that to my desktop with an eSATA card.

  16. In prison... on Facebook Throws Privacy Advocates a Bone · · Score: 1

    I had more privacy than Facebook.

    Glad I wiped my FB.

  17. Re:COTS = COST on US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update · · Score: 1

    Umm, the PS2 didn't have 'OtherOS' you just had a plain signed Linux Kit.

    I still have it PLUS the keyboard and mouse that went to the PS2.

  18. Re:eSATA on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    GPU with added heatsink blocking most of the ports on any internal SATA card. eSATA works just as well considering it's for storage and streaming of 1080p compressed movies and storing RAW data.

  19. Re:Oh, I understand on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    "A4 processor,"

    A8, modified. Renaming it does not a new processor make.

  20. Re:Oh, I understand on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    "So let me understand this correctly, you'd rather not have the police investigate a crime even though there is a high degree of possibility that evidence is being destroyed, even though this may fall under a felony, even though facts are publicly documented because . . . murders are happening or children are missing?"

    When my house was robbed, the cops came and did nothing, even though there were fingerprints visible in surfaces we'd never touch, but robbers would while taking our stuff.

    The fact they wouldn't deal with 100,000 bucks of stolen equipment but they'll work their asses off for this piece of shit prototype pisses me the fuck off and I really wish I could beat some goddamned sense into them. People are dying AND YOU'RE ADVOCATING WE WASTE RESOURCES ON A COMPANY THAT HASN'T BEEN INNOVATIVE NOR THOUGHT DIFFERENTLY FOR YEARS.

    Think different - let's move to intel, be like everyone else, and allow people to run Windows!

    GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK, YOU FOOL.

  21. Re:Public acknowledgement? on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    To which Apple denied. Huh, and you were asking for a source earlier - should've read your own source.

  22. Re:It's not ours. Now give it back NOW! on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Please supply the quote."

    Quit being lazy and read the filed court documents yourself, fool. You've got a brain, fucking use it or STFU.

  23. Re:Hrmm on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    Too bad you don't understand a trade secret isn't a secret once it's out.

    Guess where the iPad was 'found?' Out in public view. Too late it's no longer a secret.

  24. Re:The cop committed perjury or he's very bad at m on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    "People go into police work cause they want to see the world a better place, not cause they want to become rich."

    Nah, that hasn't been my experience. Given that police have no legal requirement to protect people (as ruled by about 10 different level courts,) you basically join up to serve as armed money-makers for the government.

  25. eSATA on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    You've filled your bays, now it's time to fill your motherboard slots with eSATA cards, and start hooking up externals.

    My case is big enough that I ran out of internal connectors, and so I slapped an eSATA card in, cut a hole in the computer case, and routed the cable from the outside port to inside the case where I still had three bays open.