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  1. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    mod this man up!

    all you need is 1 guy with a BGA soldering machine (if that is a "thing"), and a stack of boards and we're back to where we were. possibly better due to volume discounts that 1 guy can get from Intel.

  2. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    BGA? you'll need some steady hands.

  3. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    what the hell is a skookum?

  4. Re:Quick find all the people that care on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 2

    no, the point i made was that it wasn't a viable political structure. at least in my opinion. i'm not concerned with the difference between anarchy and chaos on a theoretical level. i'd like to see it in practice, but then again i don't. unless self-interest is extinguished, no perfect system can be devised. a system's flaws might just be what keeps them viable, if not perfect.

  5. Re:Quick find all the people that care on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    you imply a practical difference.

  6. Re:Just stay out of the fast lane. on OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    simple matter of momentum.

    unless you're so fat that the force exerted by a whole car (plus very heavy battery) and a full-grown driver moving at rush-hour speed is negligible to your own inertia.

  7. Re:There's a new secure OS called... on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 1

    ah, whoops. s/red hat/gentoo/

  8. Re:Theromodynamics on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    there's more to it than that. given there's an external energy source as well (the sun), using some of this energy to transform dirt into something useful is absolutely worth doing, even at low efficiencies. if it's 10% efficient, send 10 little fuel factories up, or wait 10 times longer with just one.

  9. Re:Doesn't the Tolkien estate... on Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    they might be cunts, but i'm on their side on this one.

    pokie machines are a disgusting scourge on society.

  10. Stuxnet... on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    i hope they're not using Siemens PLCs in this Iron Dome thing.

  11. Re:Individual Song Downloads on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 1

    this is true. it's still awesome though.

    nothing gets bogans moving faster.

  12. Re:There's a new secure OS called... on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 4, Funny

    no no, read the summary. these boxes were using red hat - "A new Linux rootkit has emerged"

  13. Re:A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    not for posting short, pithy animated loops on imageboards it hasn't.

  14. Re:This sounds like a money grab on How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate · · Score: 1

    i concur, having worked tirelessly to restore a beloved series that had it's masters destroyed decades ago in a fit of lack-of-foresight. bootleggers are all we have sometimes. people who have the courage to, when presented with a reel of film and instructed to burn it, will keep the reel and say "it's burnt".

    btw, it wasn't Doctor Who.

  15. Re:status of their big rocket on Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    here here. (or Hh).

    it's inconsistent, too. apparently it's about whether the acronym is pronounced as a word or as individual letters, but i've never met anyone who pronounces ESA as "eesa".

  16. Re:Harvesting knowledge in case of society collaps on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    optical discs are actually made in a near identical process to microfiche.

    we could simply etch much much smaller using lasers on current replication hardware. you could probably write a small program that translates text files into an ISO file you could burn yourself that results in a human-readable disc.

    hell, i want to try that. that sounds amazing.

  17. Re:Harvesting knowledge in case of society collaps on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    films that old don't necessarily rot. they either get eaten by fungus or burn on their own once exposed to ambient air. Nitrates were not an ideal material for making precious archival materials from...

  18. Re:Privacy on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    it's an open design, dumbass. save yourself some time and don't build the spying part.

  19. "Singularly failed"...? on Google Develops Context-Aware Voice Search For TV · · Score: 1

    i think youtube has replaced a very large amount of TV use. it's quite plain to see. my large TV is just sitting there these days, and only gets fired up if someone on facebook says to watch something they've worked on.

  20. Re:When will they make a movie about this? on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 2

    you've got yourself an uphill battle there. anal administration isn't the last pillar to fall before all recreational drug use is suddenly socially and legally accepted...

  21. Re:With regard to color grading... on Interviews: Director Daniel Knight On Troll Bridge, Color Correction, and He-man · · Score: 1

    the way shorts are received, these guys are likely to make more money selling grading instructional videos than from the film itself.

    resolve is a doddle to use. especially if you've mastered Apple Color, which is a piece of shit, even with a control surface.

    i've never touched FCP-x before, as i left the post production world just after it's WTF launch. apparently you can get an EDL out of it now. don't know, don't care :)

    btw, i'm not affiliated with these guys, though i may have met them in my travels - the melbourne film scene is small, and i was a grader for quite some time.

  22. Re:Tools on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    as if talking to yourself and wildly gesturing were a good predictor of crazy. ever been to Italy?

  23. Re:Wow on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure you're aware, but one of those words came out bold.

  24. Re:Wow on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    you're always shooting? not much work out there. even with 10 REDs you'll only be making data when they're on and pointed at something :)

  25. Re:Primitive Cider Can Still Be Amazing on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 1

    wifey has a sulphite sensitivity. if i don't want to spend the night scratching her back, preservatives are out.

    makes things tricky - gotta be much more sanitary and also not leave things too long. fast ferments are good though (i'm trying my hand at a Caribbean rum now, as those ferment out in 3 days), but tend to limit the flavour profiles you can get.