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  1. Re:Lanted Ale.. on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    You mean the time during which the Black Plague devastated the population?

  2. Re:They're just avoiding liability on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    It's portland. Most of the populace is already tripping so I don't think they would notice a few tons of LSD poured into the water. ;)

  3. Re:As usual, xkcd beat them to it. on For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I have got to try this sometime :)

  4. Devops is not killing the developer on How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer · · Score: 1

    Devops is not killing off developers. What it is doing is combining the jobs of a traditional Release Engineer and a traditional Linux System Administrator. It's right up my alley, actually, so I am looking to move on for exactly such a position.

  5. how accurate will it be? on Reviving a Commodore 64 Computer Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Will it require you to SMACK the restore key to get it to register?
    Will it take 1.5 seconds to boot up?
    If you press reset will you be able to switch the last bitmap in video RAM onto the screen (easier to do on the C=128 with included reset button and GRAPHICS command)?
    Will the power supply be prone to overheating?
    Will I/O be painfully slow?

    All that said I miss my Commodore, despite all its faults. :-(

  6. Re:McCarthy the Playmate? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 2

    Prove that statement, please. ;)

  7. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 0

    If it weren't for those vaccines, Jenny would be sporting every STD in existence.

  8. Re:Apple Products never play nice with WIFI on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    PocketPCs had them before the T42 laptop you linked to.

    http://www.mobiletechreview.co...
    http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow...

    No difference, except "$PRIOR_ART, but with a cellular transceiver"

  9. Re:Level of public funding ? on Nat Geo Writer: Science Is Running Out of "Great" Things To Discover · · Score: 1

    > Turns out they have a huge market value after all, once the idea was out for a while and people came up with ways to use the phenomenon.

    Absolutely.which raises the question of who was the first person with a laser to think "I wonder if the cat will chase the dot?"

  10. Re:i was so wrong on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's "How to be a BOFH"

  11. More likely it's the result of the infinite improbability drive. I just hope that the Universe and Arthur Dent never meet.

  12. Re:Gonna go with "no" on this one. on Under the Chassis: A Look At Tesla's Battery Shield · · Score: 1

    The L88 isn't hard to beat. Solid lifters that need constant adjustment, hot-running engine in a car with the heat and defroster deleted, with a poor unstreetable idle in a car whose performance is matched by today's family sedans, all that and only 7mpg city, 10mpg highway - if you can find the fuel to keep the 12.5:1 compression engine running happily.

  13. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    But where would pointy heads fit in the two hours of pointless disorganized required attendance meetings per day? Engineers will then be down to about 3.5 hours (you cannot include required break time) to get actual work done. ;)

  14. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    He jacks off while watching porn on his smartphone of course. Stupid question. Sheesh!!

  15. Re:Seems pretty different, not a gesture on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 1

    Because of innovations such as:

    "$foo, on an electronic computer. Pay up, fools!! "

    and then more brilliant innovation:

    "$foo as like on an electronic computer, but on one in a wireless communications device form factor which makes it different so nyeah!! Gimme mah money, biznatch!!"

  16. Re:Something From Nothing. on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    It is overly simplistic on the surface but it is the correct answer, although the reason is far more complex and students are free to read up on it further in the library, or online.

  17. Re:Something From Nothing. on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    The reason for the seasons is a fourth or fifth grade science subject. Of course astronomy graduates ought to be able to answer such simple questions.

  18. Re:Ah, antimatter on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not quite. It's because god squeezed the tube from the middle rather than neatly from the bottom up, leaving a lot left in the tube. So much for omnipotence.

  19. Re:user profile location on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's fine if you've got the standard OEM with the system builder kit installed, but for the typical system Joe Sixpack buys that option is not present, nor is it documented, nor is it accessible once the system has been activated.

  20. Re:user profile location on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    . . . or you can use NTFS junctions (Windows' equivalent of hard links), which cannot be done via the Windows UI.

  21. user profile location on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 2

    Yes, because Windows makes it oh so easy to move user profiles to other volumes.

    For Linux users, it's really easy:

    mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp
    mv /home/. /mnt/tmp/home
    ls -lh /home #to make sure everything moved.
    mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /home (ideally, add ,acl to enable access control lists)

    . . . then add it to fstab to make it permanent.

    On Windows, each user has to go to each individual folder and move it - and only lets you move certain folders. To do it globally it requires registry edits, which Joe Sixpack will inevitably screw up.

  22. Re:13 deaths? on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 1

    That may be true but how much $$ is lost in damages due to asshats parking via the braille method? Backup cameras should reduce or hopefully prevent that as well.

  23. Re:It is a crude marketing trick on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Right - I remember when they took away the blog/journal feature, and then removed all links to the forums and quit moderating the forums allowing spammers to get away in some cases with posting hundreds of pages of crap - all that and they slowed down and eventually stopped updating the OKCupid blog (OKTrends I think it was called?) They were slowly but surely dismantling everything that made the site great ever since Match acquired them.

  24. Re:Wait... wha? on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 2

    Jobs also bought a brand-new Ferrari every few months in order to exploit loopholes in CA law allowing new cars to be driven without registration tags.

  25. Prior art on Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses · · Score: 1

    "$PriorArt, on a phone."

    Innovation worthy of a patent, indeed. >_>