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  1. Re:Moral of the story on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    you have ten seconds to comply.

  2. Then it needs to go up RIGHT FREAKING NOW. HOOOOOOOly Diiiiivvah, you've been gone too long in the midnight seEEEAAAAAA...

  3. Re:The really sad thing is vaccines improving on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Indeed, while TDAP is a once-only shot, you still need Td boosters.

  4. Re:What are they being used for? on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    cites or search terms for this? Sounds like fascinating reading.

  5. Re:armor on the struck ship was disappointing on Two Sailors Injured When Drone Crashes Into US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser · · Score: 1

    While that may be true, the groups that make these decisions are the same folks who decided F-4s didn't need guns, because the day of the dogfight was over. If F-4s had been used under the conditions that these people envisioned, they would have been right. However, the rules of engagement during Vietnam precluded use of the F-4 as designed, so you had pilots get into some deep doo-doo because they didn't have a means to retaliate against enemy fighers after launching all of their missiles. I can easily think of at least one reason to have at least limited armor (which i have no idea if this vessel has or not:) to prevent an attack similar to what happened to USS Cole. You certainly aren't going to protect yourself from a speedboat bomb, while in dock, with a phalanx.

  6. Re:Well... on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 1

    sigh, it was NOT MacArthur. It was Field Marshal Montgomery, addressing parliament in the 1960s, "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein It is widely speculated that it IS the inspiration behind Vincini's quip about land war in asia, though.

  7. Re:No more nukes from this generation on Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive · · Score: 1

    yea, I'm going to have to disagree with you about the navy having had no significant releases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents just the 60s is more than a page long.

  8. Re:Generalization on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "lineal" as in: patrilineal and matrilineal. Generational would be something that changed between generations, like "the children of conservatives are liberals" or "the parents of thrifty people were fiscally irresponsible."

  9. Re:Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!! on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    ARE. YOU. IN. SANE. The motion sickness is a movie that they had to write around the special effects shots... because they'd filmed them before the finished the script. It's like saying you should start watching Alien movies with Alien 3.

  10. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Singulair, basic allergy medication: $158 per month, all from the deductible. please insurance company, tell me more about how you've negotiated lower prices for me. Thank god it goes generic in august.

  11. Re:Yay Comcast. on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Century link? don't you mean Quest? or Qwest? or USWest? or maybe southern pacific telco? or maybe Sprint? Yea, WTF, the name change so we won't remember how crappy they were is getting a little stupid. The only time I've ever had service from them, they charged me for 6 months of DSL that i never ordered or received.

  12. Re:An analysis could be interesting on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    either A: you've never been to San Fran or some of the weird little towns in the west like Joshua Tree, Sedona, Albequrque, etc. or B: this is subjective crazy: to you, all the places i just referenced seem normal.

  13. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    actually, EA killed the last Madden's servers before the new version was even out.

  14. Re:No, no, no! on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    Probably not, seeing as the most recent talks about cutting defense budget involves mothballing all that we have left. Their upfront cost is nothing compared with how much they cost to keep in the air.

  15. Re:PROFILED on TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening · · Score: 1

    His basis would be the news story today about a 8-year old girl being forced to be a suicide bomber. Just tried to post it, but I'm not apparently savy to the correct tags.

  16. Re:You can't use oddjob. That's cheating! on China Building World's Biggest Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    no it was "the dish thingy from X-Files." GET IT RIGHT!

  17. Re:meanwhile on George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons · · Score: 1

    If it's a race, Jim Butcher has pumped out 13 Dresden novels (Look, they're KINDA fantasy) in 11 years, plus 6 Codex Alera books. and Dresden novels, while not Wheel of Time long, have gotten pretty lengthy these days...

  18. Re:They've got a point on WB To Appeal Australia's Effective Ban on Mortal Kombat · · Score: 1

    First thing that popped in my head. But, to be fair, I'd be surprised if anybody involved in the first game has anything to do with this one. too many different companies have owned (or published) MK.

  19. Re:Farscape on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Wait 'til season 2.

  20. Re:All this, and never the music we really wanted on Activision Axes Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    There is a Dire Straits song in Rock Band 3. I understand that's not what you were asking for, but worth pointing out.

  21. Re:Microsoft Security Essentuals on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    What i changed over to last night when AVG broke my machine, lol.

  22. Re:Why directors shouldn't resist... on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 1

    He's not so much talking about supertrendyshakycam, as much as he is talking about a director not being able to, for instance: put a cameraman in a passanger seat for a shot in a car. pan through a window to the people talking inside. look at a set, decide that he'd rather shoot from a different angle, and move everything in a reasonable amount of time. oh, I'm pretty sure you could do supertrendyshakycam with 3D, too.

  23. Re:The internet says "Prince is over" on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 1

    Lemmy says the best stuff on stage. last time i saw him, he walked out on stage, said "we're Motorhead. we play rock and roll." and started playing.

  24. Re:First Picher, then Treece on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    I believe your're missing his point. i think he means you should buy a bunch of people out of their homes in Cardin at dirt cheap prices, then clean up when the EPA pays you Fair Market Value for all those houses.

  25. Re:Catering to SMEs on VMware Releases Open Source Virtualization Client · · Score: 1

    in reply to your bullet points:
    1. I've already done this a few times. there is a proccessor flag that has to be mokeyed with if you insist of moving it while the Guest is online, otherwise, just like any other move.
    2. not sure what you're asking here.
    3. Part of ESX. VMs can reside on all flavors of SAN, including iSCSI. Openfiler works great for this, and runs standard SMB shares as well.
    4.One of the main features of VMWare View, which is what this client supports. you can turn on this functionality in standard VirtualCenter setups, to get this functionality for servers, but View is where it all comes together. imagine doing the same thing to your clients. when all the people log off at the end of the day, all their desktop VMs go idle, and VMware dynamically moves them to consolidate to a few servers, then shuts off the rest.
    Cool stuff. just found out about the Sun solution for Desktop virtualization from this thread, though, and plan to do some research to see how it stacks up.